11: Chapter 11 You have already chosen your own death!
Lin Xiao had anticipated this and sidestepped, immediately delivering a fierce kick to the abdomen of the zombie at the doorway!
The zombie stumbled backward, colliding with the small horde of zombies that were preparing to swarm him.
He seized the opportunity to slip out and shut the iron door behind him.
The zombies before him were no different from yesterday's; they were still Level 1 Gluttons.
Lin Xiao's movements were concise and ruthless: side-step, swing the axe, diagonal slash!
Heads, resembling flower buds covered in spore sacs, rolled onto the corridor floor.
γ Wood * 7, Glass * 1, Scrap Iron * 2 γ
γ stardust * 60 γ
Just as he finished collecting all the light orbs and stardust, two more staggering figures appeared in his peripheral vision.
In the second round of the calamity, two zombies would spawn each time.
Furthermore, there was a new face among those two figures.
It was more robust, and the organ at its head, which should have been a flower bud, had fully bloomed into a massive oral cavity lined with sharp teeth. In the center of the oral cavity, several tentacle-like stamens could be vaguely seen extending and writhing.
γ Glutton, Level 2 Zombie γ
γ The flower bud on its head has fully bloomed into a dangerous oral cavity, capable of shooting out several tentacle-like stamens that quickly complete spore parasitism upon contact with prey. γ
The Glutton swayed as it approached. It aimed its oral cavity at Lin Xiao and suddenly contracted, shooting out several grey-white tentacles with astonishing speed.
Lin Xiao's current constitution attribute was not high, but the combat instincts from his past life were already deeply engraved into his soul.
At the critical moment, he did not retreat; instead, he kicked up the corpse near his feet that was about to vanish, using it as a shield!
Pfft, pfft, pfft! The tentacles sank entirely into the corpse.
The corpse rapidly shriveled, and the tentacles hung down limply.
"So you're a one-second man!"
Lin Xiao lunged from the side, axe in hand, dodging the lunge of the other Level 1 zombie. The axe flashed with a cold light as he struck the Glutton's head hard.
The bloomed oral cavity was difficult to strike; the thick, petal-like sepals at the edges occupied a large area, completely shielding the vulnerable neck.
The Glutton twisted its oral cavity in anger.
Lin Xiao did not give it another chance to shoot; he brought his axe down frantically, targeting the weak point where the sepals connected to the neck!
He struck many times, and thick, black, filthy blood splattered everywhere, pooling on the floor.
Finally, the Glutton's entire hideous oral cavity was hacked to pieces, and the central nervous system hidden within was completely destroyed.
γ Wood * 3, Rubber * 1 γ
γ stardust * 10 γ
The drops were not much different from the Level 1 zombies.
Lin Xiao shook the filthy blood off his axe and finished off the remaining Level 1 zombie.
However, at this moment, his brow furrowed.
He saw that at the spawn point opening in Compartment 7, three figures had gathered without him noticing!
They were people from Compartment 6.
They had passed through the connecting corridor and arrived at the door to Compartment 7.
Two passengers, one fat and one thin, stood in front holding crude wooden sticks, barely holding off the scratching of a Level 1 zombie.
Another man wearing glasses circled to the side and used a wrench to strike the back of the zombie's head.
"Dare to steal my mob? You have already courted death!"
"Quick, hit it in the head!"
"I'm hitting it, I'm hitting it! Why are you rushing me? Can't you see it's about to die?"
Just as the man with glasses was about to land the final blow, a figure suddenly darted out from behind them.
A flash of cold light! The fire axe struck the zombie's occiput with pinpoint precision, burying itself up to the handle.
The zombie's body stiffened and immediately went limp.
The light orb and a few points of stardust flew rapidly toward that figure.
It was none other than Lin Xiao.
"F***, you stole our f***ing mob! Do you even know the rules?"
"Damn, it's Lin Xiao! No wonder he could kill so many zombies by himself; it turns out all his points were stolen!"
"What are you staring at? Take him down! We have three people, why are you scared?"
The three passengers, seeing the zombie they had worked so hard to fight for ages get snatched away, felt their blood boil and rushed toward Lin Xiao, brandishing their weapons.
Ordinary people without military training didn't even know how to hold a stick properly.
Their movements were chaotic, their footing was unsteady, and their so-called attacks were full of openings.
Lin Xiao didn't even look at them; his gaze was locked on the spawn point nearby.
There, another Glutton was slowly crawling out of the opening.
A cold sneer curled the corners of his mouth.
Don't let the bespectacled man's refined appearance fool you; when he gets ruthless, he's more so than the other two.
Lin Xiao sidestepped, easily dodging the incoming wrench, and simultaneously raised his right foot, delivering a fierce kick to the side of the opponent's knee!
"Crack!" A crisp sound echoed.
"Ah!" The bespectacled man screamed and fell to his knees, clutching his twisted knee, instantly losing his ability to fight.
Lin Xiao didn't even look at him; he retreated rapidly, quickly moving back into the corridor of Compartment 7, just out of the Glutton's initial line of sight.
"F***, Old Liang, that brat ran away. Turns out he's a coward!"
"Forget him, let's fight first... Ah..."
The shouting stopped abruptly, turning into a shrill scream.
Lin Xiao hid in the shadows of the corridor.
In his line of sight, the Glutton that had just crawled out of the opening aimed its oral cavity at the nearest targetβthe bespectacled man, who was kneeling on the ground clutching his knee, his face the color of liver.
Several tentacles shot out!
The bespectacled man had no time to react; his forehead and cheeks were instantly pierced by the tentacles.
The hollow tentacles writhed violently, frantically injecting clumps of gelatinous substance into his cranial cavity.
"Old Liang!" The fat man beside him shouted, instinctively using the wooden stick in his hand to strike at the tentacles.
The tentacles were very fragile and immediately snapped, leaking foul-smelling liquid.
But it was too late.
The bespectacled man clutched his head with both hands, making "hng, hng" strange noises, his body convulsing violently.
"Save me... save..."
In just a few seconds, his head began to swell visibly, as if being inflated.
His skin stretched until it shone, purple-black veins bulged hideously, and his features were squeezed out of shape.
His throat was constricted by the swollen tissue, and he could only emit indistinct gurgling sounds.
"Save, save mβurgh, ah..."
γ Mutant, Level 2 Zombie (Special) γ
γ A creature parasitized by spores and having entered the spore incubation period; the parasitized area is abnormally swollen, possessing an extremely strong predatory instinct. γ
Lin Xiao, who was watching the battle from not far away, curled the corner of his mouth.
Not bad, not bad. I've earned one more Level 2 zombie.
"Old Liang, you..." The fat man was so scared that he retreated repeatedly.
But in his panic, he happened to retreat right to the spawn point opening.
Just then, another Level 1 zombie crawled out, tore open its rotting mouth, and bit hard onto his thigh!
"F***!" The fat man cried out in pain.
Stimulated by the loud sound, the Glutton turned its oral cavity, and another cluster of tentacles shot out.
This time, they precisely drilled into the fat man's mouth, which was wide open from screaming.
"Mmph... mmph!"
The fat man's eyes bulged, his body shuddered violently, and then his abdomen swelled rapidly as if he were pregnant.
His organs writhed frantically, as if something were growing madly inside.
As for the thin man standing at the back, he had escaped disaster, but he had already been scared out of his wits and turned to run.
However, "Old Liang," who had turned into a zombie, turned back and lunged at him. Even with a crippled leg, his speed was exceptionally swift.
Old Liang grabbed the thin man's clothes.
The immense force caused both the man and the zombie to tumble into the corridor.
"Get away, monster!"
The thin man, terrified out of his mind, instinctively kicked at that horrifying, swollen head.
Splat! Unexpectedly, his foot crushed the skull, sinking deep into it.
The shattered skull sliced the skin of his lower leg, and slender, grey-white fungal hyphae quickly and quietly burrowed into his living flesh through the wound.
"Let me go, let go!"
The screaming echoed through the train carriage connection.
Lin Xiao watched this scene with a cold sneer.
Only then did he calmly step forward, brandishing his axe.
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