Lan Xing.
The Great Xia livestream was once again in an uproar.
Not only netizens from Great Xia but also from all over the world were pouring in, their curses unending.
In the current Great Xia, its international reputation was divided.
It had produced heroes like Qin Feng, envied by enemy nations.
And it had also produced a scoundrel like Zhang Tianbao.
whom millions spat upon!
"That beast Zhang Tianbao has come up with another rotten idea!"
"He actually incited zombies to eat humans!"
Before,
it was the zombies who wanted to eat humans, and he was forced to lure survivors.
Now,
he was actively giving smart zombies ideas.
Actively urging them to eat people.
He was getting worse!
Increasingly wicked and utterly devoid of conscience!
"I really want to flay him alive a thousand times!"
"+10086 times!"
"Zhang Tianbao's direction... is Yan Mountain! He wouldn't run into Brother Feng's base, would he?"
"Brother Feng has reached Chengde!"
...
Southwest of Chengde.
A large-scale unfinished construction site was densely packed with zombies.
Over two thousand zombies had surrounded the entire development!
There were actually two leading zombies!
One was nearly 2.3 meters tall.
The other was also 2.2 meters tall.
Height was not the only indicator of strength.
After all,
zombies were once humans.
Their base heights before death varied.
In reality, the strength of these two zombies was equal.
Both were Level 4 Mutants!
Crucially!
They were a male and a female!
Level 4 Mutants possessed a certain level of intelligence. Upon meeting, they were drawn to each other and had formed a deadly duo, the "Male and Female Twin Fiends."
And so,
the two Level 4 Mutants, working together, quickly amassed an army.
Larger in scale than most zombie legions.
The male zombie held the female zombie.
They truly looked like a couple.
It was just that...
the stench of the corpse was rather strong.
"Roar!"
Suddenly!
The male zombie let out a thunderous roar, and the army surrounding the unfinished construction site began to gradually contract.
Some humans had been chased here and were trapped.
But,
the development was quite large.
There were unfinished residential buildings and piles of construction materials.
Every inch of land had to be searched.
She must not be allowed to escape!
Three hundred meters away.
On a middle floor of one of the unfinished buildings.
A pair of eyes peered out from a crack in the window towards the distance.
The zombie horde began its search, forming a complete encirclement, leaving almost no possibility of escape.
"Is this where I die?" Tang Xiaoying gave a self-deprecating smile.
The smile,
pulled at her wounds, causing a sharp, piercing pain.
She had a massive gash on her right arm.
Blood had soaked through half her body, and the gleaming bone of her arm was faintly visible.
"Wuwu..."
A furry large head poked through.
Gently nudging her.
Astonishingly!
It was a giant panda!
Much larger than ordinary pandas, its body at least half a ton!
"Tongtong, you should go."
Tang Xiaoying smiled mournfully. "You alone might still have a chance to escape."
"Wuwu..." The giant panda, Tongtong, shook its head.
It could understand human speech!
Before the nuclear explosion.
Tang Xiaoying worked in Shangjing, as a zookeeper.
She was responsible for Tongtong's feeding and training.
A deep bond had formed between the human and the panda.
After the nuclear explosion.
Tongtong refused to leave her side, so she had no choice but to bring it along to Chengde.
Her family was there.
She couldn't drive.
She encountered a cold snap before even reaching Chengde.
Then came the reanimation of the dead.
On one occasion, while being pursued by zombies.
In desperation.
Tongtong had bitten through a zombie's head, saving Tang Xiaoying's life.
It was during that incident!
Tongtong had accidentally ingested a crystal from the zombie's head, awakening its abilities.
It could be said.
She was one of the first people to learn of the secret of the crystals!
From Shangjing to Chengde, a journey of over two hundred kilometers, the human and panda traveled, returning home while hunting zombies.
Growing stronger with each passing day.
But!
When she returned to her former home, she found her parents gone.
She and Tongtong continued to hunt zombies.
While searching for her family.
Until this morning.
She had inadvertently found her father!
Her father was already rotting all over from radiation sickness, half-dead.
She knew it was radiation sickness, but she didn't know that radiation sickness could be resisted by absorbing crystals.
She planned to take her father to a safe place and then find someone to treat him.
As a result...
they encountered a massive zombie horde halfway there.
The Level 4 mutants were too fast!
It was difficult to escape by car.
Ultimately, she made a decision.
To lure the zombies away, allowing her father to escape along the road into the depths of Yan Mountain.
She was strong.
Tongtong was also strong.
But...
their speed couldn't match the zombies', and they had no way to escape, eventually being surrounded here.
"Following me will mean death!"
Tang Xiaoying's face was grim.
She had lost too much blood.
Although the bleeding had stopped, her body was growing weaker.
No food, no water.
Facing thousands of zombies, and worst of all, being completely surrounded.
A dead end!
"Wuwu..."
Tongtong lowered its body, lying down in front of her.
Then, it nudged its head in a certain direction.
"Breakout together?!" Tang Xiaoying exclaimed in surprise.
"Wuwu..."
Tongtong nodded.
"Alright!"
Tang Xiaoying gritted her teeth. "It's death either way, might as well give it a shot!"
The zombie horde's encirclement was continuously shrinking.
Wherever they went.
They checked all possible hiding spots.
The tighter the encirclement, the more zombies in a single area, making a breakout even more difficult.
Might as well go for broke!
Two minutes later.
The encirclement had shrunk to a diameter of over two hundred meters.
Suddenly!
A deafening roar echoed.
Tongtong, weighing over half a ton, charged out of the main entrance of the unfinished building, with Tang Xiaoying riding on its back.
Heading northwest!
Away from the zombies' leaders.
Charge!
"Roar!"
The zombie leaders, the male and female, roared.
Countless zombies converged in that direction, a dense mass.
"Roar!"
Tongtong also roared.
With the roar, layers of transparent, magical ripples appeared in front of it.
Like sound waves!
Like ocean waves!
The closest few zombies were directly torn apart by the ripples.
The power was astonishing.
It was a pity,
that there were too many zombies. The ripples tore apart the zombies in the front, and their power was greatly reduced after being blocked, with more zombies swarming forward.
Not just head-on?
From the flanks, countless zombies charged.
"Die!"
Tang Xiaoying roared hoarsely.
A colossal sword materialized out of thin air.
Five to six meters long, composed of pure white light, as if manipulated by an unseen hand.
Sweep!
Slash!
Seven or eight zombies that had been flanking were directly torn apart.
There was no blood.
No internal organs were visible.
The wounds were completely charred!
It was a heat more terrifying than fire.
It was the ability that would later allow Tang Xiaoying to sweep across the globe.
Unfortunately...
she was not strong enough yet.
Both she and Tongtong were at the peak of Level 2.
If they could hold on until tomorrow and consume one last crystal, they might reach Level 3 and be able to deal with this crisis.
But!
There were no "ifs"!
The zombie horde would not wait for her for a day!
Both Tang Xiaoying and Tongtong possessed extremely formidable combat power.
With a single strike,
ten zombies were killed.
However, the mental energy expenditure was also immense. Crucially, there were over two thousand zombies in total.
The most fatal blow was...
Thump!
Thump!
Thump!
The ground seemed to be shaking.
Before she could break through the encirclement, the two zombie leaders charged.
Their speed was too fast!
Without Tongtong's physical abilities, it would be impossible to escape their pursuit.
Moreover, with countless Level 2 zombies surrounding them?
In an instant.
The Male and Female Twin Fiends reached them.
"Die!"
Tang Xiaoying manipulated the light sword, unleashing a full-force strike.
Bang!
The male zombie directly grabbed the light sword.
Upon contact, its palm emitted a faint sizzling sound, like butter placed on a hot pan.
However, it only left a slight scorch mark.
It could not break through the defense!
The female zombie lunged with a claw.