Beginning with the Ubume Bird-Chapter 289 - 15: Return to Shuishu Park
Chapter 289: Chapter 15: Return to Shuishu Park
“Roar~”
The fishy wind and the sound of drums hit Li Yan’s face all at once, the sudden surge of noise even made the loose soil on the ground jump.
Li Yan didn’t even lift his eyelids, his five fingers holding the recorder remained steady. He casually stepped back with his left foot, and his right calf shot up from the ground, suddenly raising high.
The attacking zombie brushed past Li Yan’s shoulder and lunged into empty space. Half of its body was now exposed under Li Yan’s foot, and the eagle-eyed Li Yan even noticed a green boat-shaped cap on the zombie’s shoulder, adorned with a lusterless Armed Forces Badge.
“It was a soldier when alive.”
Without any hesitation, Li Yan’s foot came chopping down with the ferocity of a battle-axe. His toe jabbed into the zombie’s kidney area, and a crisp, scalp-tingling snap could be heard. Li Yan didn’t hold back and directly crushed the zombie’s spine.
In the recorder, the rousing military music still continued as Li Yan withdrew his foot from the waist of the now bisected zombie and took two steps back.
The face of this zombie was mostly rotten away, its ghastly white gums were exposed, and its hair was withered and sparse. Its finger joints were the size of ping-pong balls, with sharp nails and teeth. The khaki military uniform on its body was faded and ragged, and the buttons, oxidized and turned black, were engraved with sunflowers.
[Gamma-class radioactive zombie]
Originally, survivors of a nuclear disaster, infected by intense radiation, they became ordinary zombies with low-level intelligence and a hunting instinct. They were sensitive in all five senses and agile in movement.
Note: According to incomplete records found by Kuang Zhuoma, this is the lowest-level and most prevalent zombie monster in Great Demon Lake. It was categorized as “gamma” by institutional authorities before and after the harsh winter. Its activity level was comparable to that of an adult hunting dog. Ordinary people could potentially kill them with firearms. However, the blood of gamma-class zombies contained high radiation, and since they usually lived in groups, they still posed a significant risk.
Standing on the head of the zombie, Li Yan’s brow started to furrow gradually.
The situation seemed different from his anticipated “Zombie Unmatched.”
Judging from the performance of this zombie just now, it could sense Li Yan’s movements in advance, set up an ambush, and swiftly leap to attack, a far cry from the clumsy zombie hordes in Li Yan’s memory, more like a cruel wild wolf.
Moreover…
Li Yan glanced at the recording machine that was rumbling in his hand and the bubbling cauldron not far away.
Eating cooked food, and understanding music.
Is this considered low-level intelligence?
Even though Li Yan had crushed the spine of the zombie, it was still wildly struggling, even trying to gnaw at Li Yan’s ankle with its teeth, and its lower limbs twitched as if they had a will of their own.
For no apparent reason, Li Yan was reminded of the “welcome gift” Mo had when they met for the first time.
The frightening image of the zombie that had scared Li Yan back then was virtually identical to this zombie before him, even the way it struggled on the ground after its vertebrae were broken. This made Li Yan suspect that Mo had encountered this sort of fruit and witnessed the so-called zombies.
“Looks like I stumbled into your home, huh. Well, sorry about that,”
As he spoke, Li Yan, with an expressionless face, drew his Ring Dragon Sword and plunged it fiercely into the back of the zombie’s head. Blood sprayed up high, nearly flying into Li Yan’s eyes.
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A disgusting stench almost made Li Yan fall over, the blood of the zombie was exceptionally viscous. That unbearably foul odor was precisely the blood of the zombie.
Li Yan pulled out the Ring Dragon with a look of disgust, allowing the blood on the blade to slide off.
The gummy blood from the zombie’s head wound bubbled out, and in no time, it spread into a large puddle. The zombie stopped struggling and was dead for good.
As Li Yan killed this zombie, a hoarse voice reached his ears.
[You have triggered an additional Yan Fu event: Torrents of the Old Days.]
[Event Requirements: Investigate the experimental subjects of the Great Demon Lake Research Center from the old days and acquire at least three different supergene samples.]
[This Yan Fu event is initiated by Qiong Qi; in principle, Yan Fu will not intervene. For specific rewards, please bring the required gene samples to Shuishu Park and exchange them with Qiong Qi for your reward.]
Almost the moment this living corpse died, frenzied footsteps came from downstairs, their hoarse roars filled with anger and bloodlust.
Li Yan didn’t have time to ponder the contents of the Yan Fu event; he swiftly went to the stairwell, where at least two dozen living corpses clad in khaki military uniforms clamored to be the first, their eyes red and saliva dripping from their mouths as they pounced toward the upstairs!
Without thinking, Li Yan pulled out his newly acquired “Crazy Shocker,” aiming its exaggerated and brutal muzzle at the horde of living corpses!
Suddenly, Li Yan remembered the note about the living corpses’ bodily fluids containing potent radioactive toxins, and involuntarily lowered the barrel of his gun.
“Boom!!!!”
Violently, wildly, to the fullest extent.
The conical flames dazzled past each zombie’s eyes, the violent dust engulfed the entire building, and the old walls cracked like centipedes, fissures stretching as far as the eye could see. Li Yan’s shot seemed to blow the entire small building apart.
Li Yan wasn’t aiming at the horde of living corpses, but at the concrete stairs.
With a gun, blood would splatter everywhere. With a sword, Li Yan was confident he could avoid getting too much on him. But when Li Yan took a look at the shiny blade, he suddenly felt a bit reluctant to use it.
The living corpses below couldn’t come up, circling Li Yan like starving hunting dogs, faces raised, staring incessantly, their sinister and terrifying faces faintly recognizable from when they were alive.
These living corpses didn’t pose a significant threat to Li Yan, but the stench of their radioactive toxic blood was a real headache.
Li Yan had also considered using Wu Zhiqi’s Ice Knife to deal with them, but if the water touched the poisoned blood, Li Yan wouldn’t be able to recycle it like before, plus he had to ensure he hit them in the head. Who knew how many living corpses he might encounter on this journey; it was best to conserve where he could.
With this thought, Li Yan simply put away both the Ring Dragon Sword and the shotgun, and from the bottom of a corroded drawer, he pulled out a head of a hammer.
This hammer’s head was even larger than a can, and its wooden handle was almost completely decayed. Li Yan simply pulled off the handle, found a few iron wires, and tore off a nylon rope, securing the hammer head with the iron wires and threading the rope through it. Then he tied the other end of the nylon rope around his wrist.
“The force can’t be too strong, this thing is all about technique.”
Muttering to himself, Li Yan strapped on his makeshift Meteor Hammer, and without another word, jumped down from the upstairs.
The living corpses swarmed up like cats smelling fish!
Thud!
A dull, yet forceful squelch sounded as one living corpse’s skull collapsed and it fell to the ground.
Hardly any blood was spilled.
Li Yan held the nylon rope in hand, with the dark hammer stained with a speck of blood, swinging it back and forth with the rope.
“This thing is just right.”
Thud!
