pjbooks Chapter 074 Encounter with Infected Individuals!!
Chapter 074 Encounter with Infected Individuals!!
Under dim street lights.
Lin Fan ran wildly, his bare feet making a "slap slap" sound on the asphalt road.
Behind him, a dozen or so "fellow villagers" with bloodshot eyes and festering skin were sprinting after him at top speed, their throats emitting roars of craving for fresh meat.
"Stop chasing them!!"
Lin Fan kept looking back as he ran.
These guys are ridiculously fast. They're nothing like the slow-moving infected in the movies; they're more like a group of drug-addled sprinters.
The middle-aged man in the tattered suit at the front was running in an extremely contorted manner, on all fours like a giant toad, and was about to pounce on Lin Fan's butt.
"roar!"
The infected man in the suit kicked off with his hind legs, leaping into the air and opening his large mouth full of fangs to bite down on the back of Lin Fan's neck.
The wind howled.
Lin Fan instinctively wanted to crouch down and cover his head in defense.
This is a conditioned reflex left by ordinary people.
But in that instant, a thought suddenly popped into his mind—
and many more.
That's not right.
Why should I run?
who am I?
I am Lin Fan, the man of the King of Monsters!
They're the kind of people who even eat nuclear bombs like snacks...
I'm afraid of a few infected people who don't even brush their teeth?
Shame!
That's so damn embarrassing!
If those two squid underlings find out, how will they lead the team in the future?
"Grass!"
Lin Fan suddenly stopped in his tracks.
I'm not pretending anymore, I'm coming clean.
In mid-air, the infected man in the suit couldn't stop his momentum at all. Looking at the human who suddenly stopped, the red light in his eyes intensified, thinking that the other person was scared out of his wits.
It immediately opened its mouth wide with excitement and bit down hard on the neck of the human in front of it.
"Snap!"
A crisp sound of bone cracking pierced the silent night.
Followed by.
"collapse--"
It was like the faint echo of a few pebbles falling to the ground.
The infected man in the suit, hanging on Lin Fan's back, suddenly looked confused, and even a little bit... pained.
It was horrified to discover that its proud teeth, which could even bite through iron, had broken off at the root.
Blood flowed down its mouth.
It's not Lin Fan's blood.
It was blood from its own cracked gums.
Lin Fan slowly turned around, reached out and grabbed the infected man in the suit by the neck, lifting him up in front of him like a chick.
At this moment, there wasn't even a red mark on Lin Fan's neck.
At the same time, a layer of black keratinized skin was attached to his body.
"Damn it, I just logged in, and this is how you bunch of little kimchi treat your guests?"
Lin Fan grinned as he looked at the still bewildered infected person in his hand.
That smile, in the infected's remaining instinctive perception, was a thousand times more terrifying than that of their leader.
That look in his eyes was as if he were at the top of the food chain, looking down on ants.
"Your teeth aren't very good, sir. You need to take calcium supplements."
Before he could finish speaking...
Lin Fan applied slight pressure with his five fingers.
"Pfft!"
It was simple and crude, like squeezing a rotten tomato, directly crushing the neck of the infected person in the suit.
He tossed aside the limp corpse in his hand, then looked at the remaining dozen or so infected that had rushed towards him.
These infected individuals did not flinch in the slightest despite the death of their companions.
In their red eyes, there was no fear, only a thirst for flesh and blood.
"roar!"
The remaining infected swarmed forward, attacking Lin Fan from all directions.
Some clawed at his eyes, some bit his thighs, and two even managed to get behind him, trying to grab Lin Fan's arms to restrict his movements.
"Heh, that's interesting."
Lin Fan raised an eyebrow.
These things actually know how to cooperate?
Unfortunately, they met the wrong people today!
"Buzz—"
Lin Fan's mind stirred.
The black stratum corneum on his skin instantly deepened, faintly revealing a metallic sheen.
Lin Fan looked at the changes in his body with satisfaction.
He called this newly evolved ability "Black Scale Armor".
Although he didn't transform into Godzilla directly, his defenses were still comparable to those of a human weapon.
"Since you're all so enthusiastic, I'll reciprocate!"
Lin Fan stopped dodging.
He raised his leg and kicked out with a simple and brutal motion.
This kick didn't use any fancy techniques; it was pure power.
"boom!"
Even so.
The infected creature that came straight at him was still kicked so hard that its chest caved in.
And he was like a cannonball, flying dozens of meters backward, crashing into two lampposts and finally sticking to a wall, impossible to remove.
"hiss--"
"Have I become this brutal now?"
Seeing the enhancements the Black Scale Battle Suit brought him, Lin Fan was completely stunned.
He had already realized that this skin was quite remarkable when he tried it on the seabed.
But it wasn't until we actually used it that we discovered...
This isn't just extraordinary, it's downright inhuman!
Just as he was surprised, he suddenly felt an infected person attacking from behind.
Without even looking, he instinctively raised his hand, turned around, and slapped her hard across the face.
Snapped--
The infected person who tried to sneak up on the back of his head had his head rotate 360 degrees from the force of the blow, and his neck was twisted into a pretzel.
"Too slow."
"Too weak."
"Didn't you eat?"
Lin Fan strolled leisurely through the horde of corpses.
I felt incredibly happy.
This kind of brutal, hand-to-hand combat is much more exciting than being a monster.
My basic attack has a built-in critical hit, I wonder which is more powerful, this one or the one from South Korea?
Lin Fan strolled around with ease, seemingly unfazed by the siege of a group of infected individuals.
The claws that the infected were so proud of could only send up sparks when they gripped the black scales, leaving not even a white mark.
On the contrary, every time Lin Fan made a move, he would take away a "life".
Less than half a minute.
The ground was covered with corpses.
And none of them are complete.
Lin Fan clapped his hands, looking at the last infected person he had stepped on.
The infected person was a woman wearing a nurse's uniform with a huge bite mark on her face, revealing what was underneath.
Being stepped on by Lin Fan, it didn't struggle, but instead let out a low whimper, as if begging for mercy, or perhaps... conveying a message?
"what?"
Lin Fan squatted down and examined it with great interest.
"You know fear? And you can still communicate?"
He reached out and tapped the infected person on the head.
"Clang clang."
The sound was crisp; the skull was very hard.
"This looks kind of familiar."
Lin Fan stroked his chin, his mind racing through the movies he had seen.
In typical films about infected people, the infected are portrayed as mindless zombies who die instantly from a headshot and have no intelligence whatsoever.
But what's in front of us...
Strong, fast, can feel pain, knows how to cooperate...
"Holy crap!!! Could this be Night Stalker from I Am Legend?"
Lin Fan seemed to realize something and suddenly understood.
If you're not afraid of sunlight, then you're a super-powered Night Demon.
If you're afraid of sunlight, then you're a typical night owl.
"Where did this thing come from?"
Lin Fan stomped his foot, and with a "crack," ended the infected person's suffering.
He stood up and looked at the distant, brightly lit yet deathly silent city skyline.
That's Busan city.
If these things are indeed advanced mutants similar to Night Demons, then there must be a "King" or "Mother" controlling them.
Otherwise, these dozen or so infected individuals wouldn't have been able to coordinate so well.
"Never mind, we're already here."
Lin Fan glanced at the still naked body.
Then he looked at the tattered clothes on the corpses on the ground.
"Let's find a place to beautify it first!"
He strode off, swaggering towards downtown Busan.
The feeling wasn't like stumbling into an infected area; it was more like strolling through the streets.
……
at the same time.
Lotte Department Store in downtown Busan.
What was once a bustling shopping paradise has now become a battlefield.
Everywhere there were dried bloodstains and severed limbs.
Inside the luxurious atrium on the top floor of the mall.
A burly, mutated infected man is pinning down a well-proportioned female infected man on an expensive leather sofa, engaging in a primitive and savage act of creation.
He is Jack.
The current King of Busan.
It has undergone more than twenty hours of genetic mutation and evolution.
His skin evolved to be grayish-white, his muscles bulged all over his body, and his blood vessels bulged out like black earthworms.
His eyes were no longer a murky red, but an eerie pure gold, a sign of evolution.
"roar……"
The infected woman beneath him let out a painful yet submissive scream.
Jack wasn't venting his desires.
He is procreating.
He is creating a more perfect offspring, creating an absolutely loyal and absolutely powerful legion.
Just as he was about to reach his peak.
Sudden.
Jack suddenly stopped.
His granite-like muscles tensed instantly, his golden pupils contracted sharply, and he stared intently at the eastern part of the city—the direction of the port.
An unprecedented sense of dread shot up his spine and straight to the top of his head.
That's an instinct that comes from deep within our genes.
It's like a tiger that reigns supreme in the jungle, suddenly smelling... the scent of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
"roar!!!"
Jack shoved the infected woman beneath him aside and stood up naked.
He walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window, placed his hands on the glass, and looked towards the harbor.
fear?
Yes, there is fear.
But more than anything, I felt...excited!
Perhaps this is the opportunity for it to evolve again!
Eat it!
Eat that suddenly appearing guy and evolve into a true god!
"roar--!!!"
Jack roared to the sky.
The sound, like an air raid siren, instantly pierced through the mall's glass and resounded throughout the night sky of Busan.
next second.
The entire city of Busan was in an uproar.
In dark alleys, inside abandoned cars, in the shadows of tall buildings, deep in the sewers...
Countless pairs of scarlet eyes suddenly opened.
Tens of thousands of mutated infected people abandoned their own affairs after hearing this roar.
Like soldiers responding to their king's command, they surged out of their hiding places, converging into torrents of black energy.
There is only one goal.
Follow the King!
Tear the intruders apart!
Jack turned around, naked, because that felt like a constraint to him.
"My lords!"
"Dinner's ready!"
Although no one could understand his roars, the violent brainwaves had already been transmitted to the minds of every infected person...