Ch 118: TGCIR

Chen Jie had already led people towards Li Weilan’s direction, but although reinforcements were on the way, both Shen Cheng and Li Weilan felt that the situation was extremely unfavorable. The giant flesh mountain still bore the marks of the explosion, with blackened areas and wounds of various sizes from the shards that burst on its body. However, the scars, even those deep enough to reveal bone, were rapidly healing, almost within a matter of seconds. The areas that had been bleeding black just moments ago had returned to their original state.

This flesh mountain definitely possessed extremely high regenerative abilities.

The explosion in the gas reservoir just now didn’t kill it, as Li Weilan had expected.

However, the original estimate was that although this explosion might not kill this high-level monster, it would at least cause significant wounds, slowing down its speed. But who could have expected that in just a few seconds, its wounds would stop bleeding and close up?

From Li Weilan’s perspective, this flesh mountain was at least five or six meters tall. He looked like a cat in front of it. As the smoke cleared slightly, the monster accurately turned its gaze towards Li Weilan, its white eyes staring intently at him.

It was about to pounce, but encountered some unexpected trouble when lifting its feet. Its feet were stuck below the ground. Apparently, when Li Weilan had cut open the basement just now, it had coincidentally stepped into one of the holes. Its other foot was stuck in another hole. It tried several times but couldn’t pull its feet out.

Shen Cheng watched this scene with her heart pounding. This monster had a long health bar, indicating it was not an easy-to-beat low-level monster. Moreover, it was a problem for Base J, for the research institute, for Chen Jie’s Storm team. Since they had temporarily restricted the monster’s movement, they could just leave. Why should they solve this problem for Base J?

Even if this zombie targeted them, he could just run into some corner of Base J to hide. Did this monster have the ability to turn the entire base upside down?

Why wasn’t he running?

Suddenly, Li Weilan said to her, “ChengCheng, look at its feet.”

The blurry flesh and blood feet caused the ground to tremble. At this moment, they finally saw why the zombie couldn’t move. There was a huge steel rod pierced through its foot, completely penetrating that area. Even though it had no sense of pain and no intelligence, it couldn’t pull its foot out without wisdom.

But the zombie’s reaction was extremely strange.

At first, it did indeed wildly shake its legs, but after shaking four or five times without success, it seemed to realize that the enemy in front of it was getting closer and the threat was increasing. Astonishingly, the zombie tilted its head and made a gesture of thinking.

Then, it suddenly lowered its head and struck down heavily on its own leg.

Below the knee, it was severed in one blow.

Shen Cheng gasped softly. She didn’t expect a zombie to make such a decisive move of self-amputation, even showing such ruthless and decisive action.

Chen Jie had already rushed out of the building towards their battlefield position. Li Weilan turned his head for a moment, but heard Shen Cheng’s exclamation.

The zombie, dragging its severed leg, began to pick up pieces of other zombies lying on the ground and stuff them into its mouth.

Its mouth was like a huge bottomless pit, stuffing in as many pieces as it could find. And the severed part, the rot squirmed, as if there were signs of it growing back on its own.

Zombies could regenerate?

How could that be possible?

Everyone knew that zombies were dead things. Although they seemed to be walking, whether it was the hollow brain or the dead cells, they had no self-healing or regenerative abilities.

Once a zombie’s limbs were cut off, it usually meant that the limb would be permanently disabled.

This was also why many high-level zombies didn’t look like humans. If they were gnawed on by other zombies before they died, even if they advanced later, they wouldn’t be able to grow back. If inconspicuous parts were bitten off, it would be better, but if prominent parts of the face were bitten off, it would be instantly recognizable as not human.

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But the wriggling muscles on this zombie’s leg were clearly the masterpiece of its regenerative ability.

It could eat its own kind to replenish the missing parts and cells on its body.

Li Weilan almost instantly guessed how this monster had grown so tall and huge. It must have eaten so many of its kind to piece together such a massive body.

What is the Institute trying to do?

Do they want to use zombies to eliminate zombies?

Seeing this scene, Li Weilan’s intention to leave immediately when Chen Jie arrived to take over was extinguished.

He was sure that this illogical zombie was definitely the new creation of the Institute.

And Chen Jie’s team was the one cleaning up for the Institute.

Involving the Institute, if he left now, and if Chen Jie’s team died here today, he would have no way to know the truth he wanted to know.

Chen Jie at this moment, she had already seen the situation here. At the moment when she saw the muscles of the zombie’s legs wriggling, her face changed drastically. She suddenly stopped her steps, helpless as she glanced at Li Weilan. In her eyes, one could read a sense of despair, confusion, and being at a loss.

“Bang!” Both of them were stunned, but the flesh mountain didn’t stop.

It didn’t feel fear or pain at all. After being fed a few chunks of meat, it immediately used a swaying body, like a tank clearing the way, rushing towards Li Weilan’s direction. With each step it took, Li Weilan and the others could clearly see bones gradually growing beneath its knees.

This brutal growth made its body unstable.

Gritting her teeth, Chen Jie made the ground instantly become as smooth as a mirror.

This was her ice-type ability, freezing the earth.

Li Weilan glanced around, immediately confirming in his mind that he couldn’t fight here.

If Chen Jie saw his abilities, his identity and danger would still be within a manageable range. But in this position, once the people on the rooftop came to their senses, everything would be clear. At that time, no matter what he wanted to ask Chen Jie, it would be hard to conceal.

He lowered his voice and asked Shen Cheng, “The nearest cover?”

Shen Cheng quickly scanned the map and replied, “There’s a bridge tunnel 60 meters to your left.”

At that location, the sight from above was blocked by the dried-up riverbed on both sides. Fighting there wouldn’t be easily visible to the people above, and the tall grass on both sides of the riverbed perfectly obscured their fighting figures and blocked the view from above.

Chen Jie was still struggling against the flesh mountain, but she didn’t expect that the man who had just detonated the gas reservoir without getting hurt turned around and ran. She cursed inwardly at the coward, but the flesh mountain, just stunned for a moment, abandoned her, who was fighting with it, and charged straight towards the man’s back.

It didn’t even care about its limping and slow speed, just relentlessly chasing after that figure.

Damn it.

At this moment, Chen Jie suddenly had a flash of realization in her mind. She wasn’t the target of that flesh mountain, nor were the others. The reason why the flesh mountain appeared so quickly this time, and even looked foolishly blasted in the face by an oil bomb, was all because it had its own target.

It was the man who had just crossed paths with it.

Chen Jie gritted her teeth and followed. She didn’t know why, even though the fight was over, according to the Institute’s requirements, why did she still follow.

Li Weilan stood on the muddy riverbed, and beside his ear, Shen Cheng reported the distance of the approaching zombie.

“Still forty meters.”

“Twenty meters.”

“Ten meters.”

Shen Cheng watched the scene of the flesh mountain getting closer and closer, tightly closing her eyes, unable to look at the screen. Why is the cub standing there motionless?

Even targets don’t behave like this.

At the moment she dared not to look, the giant zombie had already rushed to Li Weilan. Li Weilan was low, and it was high. The eager zombie prey leaped high, jumping down from the high embankment nearby.

At this moment, it suddenly saw a faint blue light in front of it.

If it were its usual self, it would stop, turn, or look back. But at this moment, it had exhausted its strength from the high jump. Its ankles, just healed, couldn’t support such a huge weight. It couldn’t turn or evade; there was no time for that.

Its chaotic mind wasn’t very afraid.

It had shattered countless ice shields.

It could instantly recover from being burned.

What could break it?

How could mere collisions affect it?

A sudden black rain swept over, the foul smell intensified abruptly. Li Weilan looked at Chen Jie, who had just run over but could only watch the pile of internal organs and limbs on the ground along with the black water, with a slight smile. He clapped his hands. “Sorry, it seems your mission is about to fail.”

All that remained in Chen Jie’s sight was a fallen flesh mountain.

Its body was neatly cut in half from the middle, the wound so neat it didn’t seem like a human’s handiwork but more like something cut directly by a machine.

Chen Jie had never imagined that such a monster could be killed in just one attack.

There was even a hint of horror in her eyes, looking at Li Weilan as if she was looking at some monster. She heard her own hoarse voice, “Who are you?”

“That’s what I should ask you,” Li Weilan approached. “Are you Chen Jie of the Storm Team, or just a dog of the Institute?”

Chen Jie’s gaze suddenly tightened.

After a while, even in the other’s smiling eyes, she bowed her head in despair. “I…”

He gritted his teeth.

“Your team, suffered quite a loss, didn’t it?” Li Weilan said softly.

“Is it shameful to be alive like this now?” Chen Jie seemed like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, her voice hoarse. “You know what, even with losses, at least we’re still alive.”

“Yes, alive,” Li Weilan chuckled. “Living on top of the deaths of teammates. Every mission, fewer people come back. Send one off today, another tomorrow, until one day, everyone around you seems to have turned into zombies. Do you call that living?”

He had seen the members of the Storm Team before, including Chen Jie.

But the Storm Team had too much turnover. Why could they even snatch bait ahead?

Perhaps it wasn’t necessarily because of the Storm Team’s fame and ability, but because they were working for the Institute.

Being a dog of the Institute wasn’t easy.

Chen Jie’s lips tightened into a thin line.

After a while, she asked Li Weilan hoarsely, “What do you want to say?”

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