Dr. Max, in his excitement, recounted his masterpiece to himself.
The people in the car listened to his enthusiastic narration, watching the desolate and vast scenery outside, and their mood was unexpectedly relaxed and relieved.
Ahead, more and more artificial structures gradually appeared: billboards by the road, abandoned cars, a distant iron tower, and windmills on a mountain further away.
Even further, the outline of Shandar City had already emerged on the horizon.
Shandar City, the largest human settlement on this continent, carried the hopes of survival for hundreds of thousands of people.
After several days of travel, their destination was finally within reach.
Everyone's spirits lifted.
An hour later, various buildings gradually became dense. The towns on the outskirts of Shandar City, once scattered in twos and threes, were now long abandoned, with only a few zombies aimlessly wandering.
The car began to slow down as more and more obstacles appeared on the road. There was little impatience in everyone's hearts; once past the town, Shandar City would be right before them, with no more obstructions.
This was what everyone thought and what they wished to believe.
Alas, hope was ultimately just hope, and this was a plot world.
Reincarnators could never avoid the battles that were meant to come.
The car slowly drove out of the town, and Shandar City's tall walls were right before them. These had been built by humans to defend against zombies after the zombie virus outbreak.
It was hard to imagine how they could have built such walls in those difficult and arduous times. They were tall and majestic, as if nothing could shake them, truly a miracle.
Perhaps, humans are such a species, adept at creating miracles.
However, now, on the road leading to that city of miracles, in front of the speeding car, and in the sight of the Reincarnators, a figure descended from the sky, blocking their path.
The car continuously decelerated, stopping twenty meters away from the figure.
The car door opened, and everyone got out, quietly looking at the lone figure standing opposite them, whose Aura was as profound as an abyss and as towering as a mountain.
A wind blew.
The wind stopped in mid-air, and everything within a hundred meters seemed to fall into suspended animation, utterly silent.
The wind, suspended in mid-air, transformed into solid-like wind blades, hovering around the Reincarnators, poised to strike.
"You guys take the Dr. and leave," Zhou Ming suddenly said.
"I'll stay," Whale Shark took a step forward, two electric glows lighting up in his eyes.
"You leave too; they can't block its attacks."
Whale Shark's gaze swept over the wind blades surrounding them, and he said no more.
In Gong He's hands, two yellow talismans quietly appeared. With a slight flick of his fingers, the talismans clamped between them suddenly ignited.
A shimmering, almost translucent light membrane instantly enveloped the group.
The Ultimate Mutant standing opposite them suddenly bared its sharp, bone-white teeth, a chilling smile appearing on its granite-hard face.
Countless wind blades in the air suddenly descended at the same moment.
"Retreat!"
Whale Shark let out a loud shout, grabbing Uncle Gong with one hand and Dr. Max with the other, his body rapidly retreating. Qin Wumeng and Xiang Zenan followed closely behind.
The countless descending wind blades were blocked by that fragile-looking light membrane, which resembled a soap bubble.
The price was that the slowly burning yellow talismans suddenly accelerated their combustion, burning out into specks of black ash in a mere two or three seconds, scattering from Gong He's fingertips.
Fortunately, this time was enough for the group to escape the range of the falling wind blades.
The countless swirling wind blades immediately dissipated, clearing the hundred-meter radius and turning back into a gentle breeze.
The five people got off the road, preparing to bypass this area and continue towards Shandar City.
At this moment, Qin Wumeng suddenly turned her head and shouted, "Captain, we'll wait for you in Shandar City!"
Zhou Ming didn't respond, and the Ultimate Mutant opposite him also didn't move, just coldly watching them.
It understood that it could never bypass the person in front of it; to take revenge, it had to eliminate him first.
But it would also never just let the other party leave.
Rumble!
A massive monster, over five meters tall, rapidly ran towards them from a distance. Its body was fat like a ball of flesh, its skin a bluish-green, and a foolish smile played on its chubby face. Its two small eyes were almost squeezed shut by the fat on its face, and a bright red tongue dangled outside its gaping maw, dripping disgusting mucus.
On the shoulder of that fat mountain of flesh, however, sat a dwarf less than a meter tall, with short, thin limbs like dry wood, but a head almost half the size of its body. Its skin was wrinkled and old like tree bark, making it look comically eerie.
At the same time, another mutant with a pair of wings on its back flew over from the horizon. Its limbs had completely deformed into eagle claws, its head was pointed and flat, and its two eyes darted quickly, looking left and right.
Three Super Mutants!
The five people's go ahead was forced to stop, their expressions grim, and they subconsciously looked at Zhou Ming.
The Ultimate Mutant suddenly lifted its foot and walked step by step towards Zhou Ming.
"You... all must die!"
Its voice was hoarse, its tone strange and disjointed, as if it had just learned to speak. But the killing intent in its words transcended language, chilling and severe.
Zhou Ming sighed, a helpless smile appearing on his face.
"There were so many easy ways to complete the mission, why did I choose such a difficult one?"
"Has my Heart-Nature become weak?"
He extended his right hand, and a slender, emerald vine grew from his palm.
Then, it soared upwards!
Wood Charm Gu!
Zhou Ming's eyes quickly turned emerald green. At the same time, he completely released his suppression of the Aperture. The True Essence Sea surged, and Wood Path Gu worms became agitated and restless!
Under the dual amplification of the Forest Sea Reincarnation Body and the Wood Charm Gu, the power of all Zhou Ming's Wood Path Gu worms was amplified to a terrifying degree.
The Bloodsucking Vine Gu shot into the sky, its speed like an emerald lightning bolt across the sky, wrapping around the right ankle of the Super Mutant flying in the air.
A tremendous force erupted from the vine, forcefully pulling the Super Mutant down from the sky and slamming it hard onto the ground.
The wind roared, and countless wind blades instantly condensed around the Ultimate Mutant, covering Zhou Ming like an overwhelming deluge.
Iron Vine Gu!
Zhou Ming raised his other hand, and countless thick, dark green vines drilled out from underground, intertwining with each other, instantly forming an indestructible, solid wooden wall in front of Zhou Ming!
The dense wind blades struck the wooden wall, actually emitting a crisp clang of metal, as dense as pouring rain, incessant for a time.
Activating the Grass-Flying Gu, Zhou Ming lightly tapped his foot, his body leaping up, his speed immediately maxed out. Then, he activated the Elusive Gu, his figure flickering several times in mid-air, crossing hundreds of meters in a few breaths, directly charging towards the large, flesh-ball-like Advanced Mutant!
"Heh..." The dwarf mutant on the flesh-ball's shoulder suddenly grinned, its wrinkled face bunching up, emitting an eerie laugh.
The laugh instantly amplified, carrying special vibrational frequency infrasound waves. Ordinary people, just by being affected, could be in life-threatening danger or even die instantly.
Zhou Ming's face was expressionless. He activated the Ghost Divination Robe Gu, filtering out different frequency sound waves, enduring all damage. Then, he activated the Ghost Wail Gu, and a sharp shriek, like a vengeful ghost crying, erupted from his mouth.
The dwarf mutant screamed, clutching its head and flipping over, falling off the fat mutant's shoulder.
Below, countless vines rushed out from the soil, quickly entangling the dwarf mutant. Among the dark green vines, emerald vines grew interspersed, and sharp thorns pierced into the dwarf mutant's flesh, frantically sucking blood.
More vines rapidly climbed and grew along the fat mutant's feet. The fat mutant struggled continuously, grabbing at the vines with both hands, trying to tear them off, but found the dark green vines were both hard and tough, and grew incredibly fast. For every one torn off, two or three would entwine, growing more and more, gradually enveloping the entire fat mutant.
Countless vines, like pythons strangling their prey, wrapped the fat mutant into a giant ball. The vines continuously creeping, tightening more and more. Sharp thorns constantly churned within the fat mutant's body, and the proliferating Bloodsucking Vine Gu absorbed a large amount of blood nutrients, with layers of alluring black flowers blooming on the vines.
On the other side, the Super Mutant with wings on its back was severely slammed to the ground, entangled by the Bloodsucking Vine Gu around its claws. While it was disoriented, countless vines rapidly spread over, completely submerging it, meeting the same fate as the other two Super Mutants.
In less than half a minute, all three Super Mutants were controlled!
On the ground, countless thick vines grew and churned wildly, like ten thousand snakes emerging from their holes, rapidly covering the earth, soaring into the sky, intertwining with each other, forming a single mass, blocking the sky. Green Bloodsucking Vines were interspersed among the dark green vines, and Bewitching Nectar Flower Gu grew wildly by absorbing the blood from the Bloodsucking Vine Gu. Black flowers bloomed in patches, pollen filled the air, petals danced across the sky, and between heaven and earth, the air was filled with a sweet, cloying fragrance and vibrant green!
"This, this is his true strength?"
"Aba, aba aba..."
In the completely sealed battlefield, spanning several hundred meters, the five specially protected individuals stared blankly at this magnificent scene, temporarily losing the ability to form coherent thoughts, their minds a blank slate.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Layers of thick vine-wood walls were cut open by the Ultimate Mutant with wind blades. All the violent winds surrounding its body condensed into a human-height wind blade in its hand, like an indestructible Sharp Weapon. The Iron Vine, which even Super Mutants couldn't do anything about, simply couldn't withstand a single slash from the wind blade.
However, when it cut through the layers of obstruction between itself and Zhou Ming, what it saw was its three summoned Super Mutants suppressed, and the entire area of several hundred meters sealed off, trapping it like a bird in a cage.
Zhou Ming held a leaf-blade sword formed by the Sawtooth Grass Gu in his hand. He cut off the dwarf mutant's head, held it in his hand, and smiled crookedly at the Ultimate Mutant.
Bloodsucking Vine Gu drilled into the dwarf mutant's head and body from its severed neck. Black, alluring flowers directly grew out from under its skin, sprouting from its seven orifices, spewing thick Bewitching Nectar pollen, making the fragrance in this world even more intense.
The floral scent was intoxicating, causing Divine Souls to be disoriented.