"The security System won't hold for long. Let's go out."
Listening to the increasingly dense, rain-like pounding outside, Zhou Ming said in a deep voice.
"I'll clear the way." Whale Shark took a deep breath, pulled out two knuckle dusters and put them on his hands, and faint, flickering electric lights gradually lit up on his body.
Qin Wumeng took down the box he had been carrying on his back, opened it, and inside was an exaggerated, sci-fi-style sniper rifle.
"My close-combat ability isn't good. I can provide you with fire support."
She said indifferently, taking out a magazine and carefully pressing it into the sniper rifle.
The gun body lit up with a silver-white glow, and countless runes flowed, appeared, and then disappeared with the light.
Seeing that both his teammates were ready for battle, Zhou Ming nodded and opened the security System's door.
"Bang bang bang!" The fragile door immediately suffered an impact it shouldn't have, and within a few seconds, it began to twist and deform, as shriveled zombie arms stretched in.
Whale Shark clenched his fists, and electric sparks flickered and jumped, creating a bright light.
As soon as the door was broken, Whale Shark, with an indomitable and powerful Aura, charged straight into the frenzied tide of zombies that were madly squeezing in, his entire body enveloped in dazzling electric light!
"Break! Break! Break! Break! Break! Break!"
Whale Shark was like a heavy tank, rampaging through the zombie horde. Wherever he went, muscles snapped, bones fractured, and flesh flew. Not a single zombie could stop him for an instant.
Soon, a large open space was cleared at the entrance, and Zhou Ming and Qin Wumeng seized the opportunity to rush out.
Then Zhou Ming lowered the security steel plate at the door, blocking this only gap again.
Zhou Ming used the Ghost Eye Gu to look into the distance, only to see dense masses of zombies everywhere, roughly numbering four to five thousand.
More zombies were continuously converging from afar, occasionally mixed with a few tall figures, or monstrously twisted mutated creatures.
"An astonishing number." Zhou Ming exclaimed, then sneered: "You're the only one who can call for reinforcements? Can't I?"
As he raised one hand, large numbers of zombies suddenly surged out from the buildings surrounding Dr. Max's villa, hopping and jumping like a rushing waterfall, instantly scattering the massive zombie horde.
In less than a minute, there were actually six thousand zombies that rushed out from the buildings in all directions!
This was the massive zombie army that Zhou Ming had accumulated through diligent work, working 25 hours a day (not literally) for the past three days!
The zombie horde was segmented by the sudden rush of the zombie army, forming one small battlefield after another. Both sides used their most primitive hands, feet, and teeth as attack methods, engaging in fierce close-quarters combat. Every single second, either a zombie or a zombie fell.
Zhou Ming moved quickly across this meat grinder-like bloody battlefield, constantly throwing out Corpse Refining Gu with both hands.
One by one, zombies were enveloped by the black light exploding from the Corpse Refining Gu. Some were refined into zombies and immediately turned to attack their former zombie comrades, while others didn't survive long enough to become zombies and fell under attacks from all sides.
Zhou Ming didn't care how many zombies failed to turn into zombies; he just repeated the action of moving quickly and wildly scattering Corpse Refining Gu.
Whenever he had time these past few days, he would activate the Corpse Heart Gu to produce Corpse Refining Gu, and a massive amount of Corpse Refining Gu had already accumulated in his Pouch Gu.
Without a food supply, the Corpse Refining Gu would all starve to death in a few days, so Zhou Ming had no intention of storing them; he used as many as he had.
"Hoo…" After circling half of the battlefield, Zhou Ming jumped onto a tall building and caught his breath, holding a primeval stone in each hand, frantically replenishing his true essence.
Using so many Corpse Refining Gu in one go, even if the Corpse Refining Gu consumed very little true essence, and even if the Ten Extreme Physique's Aperture's true essence recovered quickly, it couldn't keep up with such a consumption rate.
While rapidly recovering his true essence, Zhou Ming looked down at the entire battlefield from above.
The zombie army and the zombie army were already locked in a fierce battle. Under Zhou Ming's conscious control, the zombies continuously converged towards Dr. Max's villa, forming a thick "corpse wall" with their bodies to prevent the zombies from continuing to attack the villa.
Whale Shark was still rampant in the horde of corpses. He didn't waste his stamina and time on ordinary zombies, focusing on smashing Advanced mutated bodies.
Whale Shark's strength was roughly 60/40 in his favor against most Advanced mutated bodies, meaning he had the advantage, but it would take some effort to kill an Advanced mutated body.
Such strength was already comparable to Yang Zhisheng, whom Zhou Ming encountered during his first mission—perhaps even stronger. In the entire team, his strength was also the second strongest, second only to himself. Among Reincarnators in their third mission, his strength could be said to be outstanding.
From this, it was clear how far Zhou Ming had left behind Reincarnators at the same stage.
It was a distance of complete, one-sided crushing.
"Boom!"
A deafening gunshot, almost covering half the battlefield, instantly blew off half the head of the Advanced mutated body that was fighting Whale Shark.
On the rooftop of Dr. Max's villa, Qin Wumeng skillfully ejected the casing and re-aimed at the next target.
"Well done!"
Zhou Ming's eyes lit up, and he immediately rushed towards Whale Shark's direction.
A sniper is a relatively extreme profession. If Qin Wumeng were face-to-face with Whale Shark, he might not even be able to withstand one of Whale Shark's punches. But as long as he maintained distance, he was the grim reaper harvesting lives!
A Corpse Refining Gu flew out of Zhou Ming's hand, its black light enveloping the Advanced mutated body with half a head gone.
"Let's cooperate!" Zhou Ming shouted towards Whale Shark, who was furious because his prey had been snatched.
"My reward points!" Whale Shark roared.
"I'll compensate you with a Super Mutated Body!" Zhou Ming continued to scatter Corpse Refining Gu, saying urgently.
"Advanced mutated bodies have strong explosive power and are too fast, making it difficult for Qin Wumeng to aim. He needs your restriction to make precise snipes!"
"If you want to fight to your heart's content, there will be plenty of opportunities later. What we need now is efficiency!"
As he spoke, the Advanced mutated body that had just been killed had already turned into a black zombie, suddenly jumping up and charging into the zombie horde.
"Hmph! You said you'd compensate me! I don't read much, don't lie to me!"
Under Zhou Ming's persuasion, even though Whale Shark was displeased, he didn't flare up again and fiercely pounced to another part of the battlefield.
"Qin Wumeng, did you hear what I just said? Cooperation!"
Zhou Ming manipulated the black zombie to rush in other directions, while also shouting into the communicator.
"...Understood." Qin Wumeng's cold voice came through the communicator.
Among Zhou Ming's zombie army, ninety-nine percent were white zombies, there were only eight black zombies, and only one green zombie.
This was partly because time was too short for Zhou Ming to kill more mutated bodies, and also because compared to the massive zombie horde, the number of mutated bodies was simply too small, and Advanced mutated bodies were even rarer.
Now, for some unknown reason, all the zombies in the entire city were converging here. One by one, strangely shaped Advanced mutated bodies were incredibly conspicuous even within the zombie horde, so Zhou Ming no longer needed to scour the entire city to find them.
Thus, Zhou Ming began to work at a more compact, fast pace, simultaneously casting a wide net to convert white zombies—their success depending entirely on their own efforts—while focusing on converting black zombies, with another black zombie standing guard beside each one during the conversion process until it was complete.
Whale Shark and Qin Wumeng's cooperation was quite smooth: lock on target, one restricts its movement, the other shoots it in the head, then Zhou Ming immediately follows up with Corpse Refining, and the number of black zombies on the battlefield rapidly increases.
Throughout this process, Zhou Ming consistently restrained himself from taking action, merely continuously using Corpse Refining Gu and utilizing all available resources on the field to bolster his side's strength, not even sparing corpses.
Even corpses, as long as they were relatively intact, could be refined into zombies. Even the most ordinary white-haired zombies could serve to wear down the enemy!
Whether zombies or zombies, they were consumed like cannon fodder in this great battle, and then rapidly replenished. Zombies came from all directions, and zombies came from zombies.
But overall, Zhou Ming and his team still held the upper hand. The increase in black-haired zombies gradually reduced their pressure, and the speed of slaughtering zombies became faster and faster. The speed of converting them into zombies only depended on how fast Zhou Ming scattered the Corpse Refining Gu.
The advantage is mine—provided there are no surprises!
But surprises were inevitable. An endless stream of zombies still surged from all directions, one after another, as if there was something here that held a fatal attraction for them, even making one suspect that all the zombies in the entire city were converging here.
Until an unusually tall figure slowly stepped onto the battlefield with heavy footsteps.
Wherever it passed, the ignorant and oblivious zombies seemed to feel fear, retreating one after another, clearing a path for the tall figure.
An invisible sense of oppression gradually covered the entire chaotic and complex battlefield. Both zombies and zombies experienced delayed movements, as if burdened by an invisible immense pressure, each movement requiring immense effort.
Swish!
Whale Shark, like a beast targeted by a natural predator, suddenly leaped high and landed beside Zhou Ming.
"What kind of monster is that?!"
"The Super Mutated Body you wanted." Zhou Ming smiled and handed him his edelman alloy blade: "Go on, take it down!"
"Wha—what? Are you kidding?"
Whale Shark stared intently at the approaching giant monster, his voice filled with extreme surprise, as if Zhou Ming hadn't told him "Go fight!" but rather "Go die!"
"Are you scared, Whale Shark?" Zhou Ming's voice was cold, yet his words carried a strange, alluring magic.
"Do you want to give up, the dignity of a strong person, the confidence of a strong person, the... challenge of a strong person?"
"Shut up!" Whale Shark roared, "If we're going to fight, then let's fight! Even if I'm alone, I'll fight, fight to the peak, fight until I'm f***ing crazy!"
He said this with his own emotions mixed in, blaming Zhou Ming for only sending him to fight, thus saying he would fight even if he was alone, but in reality, he was questioning why Zhou Ming wasn't taking action.
Zhou Ming laughed heartily: "I said I'd compensate you with a Super Mutated Body, and I will compensate you with a Super Mutated Body!"
With a thunderous explosion, a sturdy, tall green figure burst out from a building, carrying an indomitable Aura and massive kinetic energy, and was the first to violently crash into the Super Mutated Body on the battlefield!