175: Chapter 175 The Truth About the Sleep List

Liu Qing's voice exploded from the communicator.

In the sewer, everyone's expression changed.

The black flesh membrane on the walls began to contract.

Thump.

Thump.

It was as if the entire underground pipe network had come alive.

Commander Wei Guangjun raised his hand.

The guards immediately scattered, aiming their weapons toward the surroundings.

"Establish firing points."

"Rear guard, seal the wellhead."

"Prepare to fight and retreat."

His voice was still steady.

But there was sweat on his forehead.

Lin Yuan did not retreat.

He stared at the bulging blood sacs one by one.

"It is anxious."

Commander Wei Guangjun turned his head: "What?"

Lin Yuan said: "The real birthing chamber wouldn't be in the first passageway."

"It is too severely injured."

"It is hatching them early because it is afraid we will find its true body."

As soon as he finished speaking.

The nearest blood sac bulged.

Pfft.

Black water sprayed out.

A small hand reached out from inside.

It was a child.

Its neck was crooked, and a rusty iron tag hung on its chest.

[ 014 ]

In the guard unit, someone's muzzle shook.

"That is…"

"Old Huang's child."

No one answered.

The second blood sac split open.

[ 026 ]

The third one.

[ 009 ]

One child after another crawled out of the blood sacs.

Their skin was cyan, their eyes were empty, and undigested black threads still hung from the corners of their mouths.

Wang Ya's breath hitched for a moment.

A guard suddenly shouted: "Don't shoot! I know that child!"

The next second.

Number 014 lunged out violently.

Its speed was far faster than an ordinary zombie.

The guard had just raised his hand when his throat was bitten open.

Blood sprayed onto the flesh membrane.

The flesh membrane immediately absorbed it.

"Open fire!"

Commander Wei Guangjun roared.

Gunshots erupted.

But the first round of shooting was chaotic.

Some didn't dare to aim.

Some missed.

Some pulled the trigger while crying.

The zombie-fied children slipped into the formation like a pack of released blades.

Two guards were tackled.

One person's face was gnawed open.

Another, just about to use his Superpower, had a flicker of flame in his palm, but his throat had already been bitten through.

In a place like this, hesitation means death.

From deep in the darkness, the Zombie King's Mental Energy wave arrived.

Carrying a laugh.

"Thank you all."

"Humans are very sensible."

"The food will line up on its own."

Commander Wei Guangjun's face crumbled for the first time.

He looked at those iron tags.

He looked at those identification numbers he had once signed off on to send away.

The Zombie King laughed even harder.

"The materials you sent are very fresh."

Commander Wei Guangjun's white light flickered for a moment.

Lin Yuan said coldly: "Don't space out."

Commander Wei Guangjun looked at him.

Lin Yuan only said four words.

"If you can move, open fire."

This sentence jolted everyone awake.

Wang Ya raised her hand.

The sewage in the sewer was drawn into thin threads, cutting across along the base of the wall.

Pfft, pfft, pfft.

Several flesh membranes connecting the blood sacs were severed.

The blood sacs that hadn't split yet immediately deflated.

Lin Motong closed her eyes.

Red light spread out.

The lunging zombie-fied children paused, their knees buckling.

But it only held for half a second.

The Mental Energy within them had already been bitten to shreds.

What remained were not humans. Nor were they complete zombies.

They were vessels created by the Zombie King.

Lin Motong's small face turned a bit paler.

The hand holding Wang Ya's was trembling.

"They are crying."

Wang Ya turned her head: "Tongtong?"

Lin Motong's voice was very soft.

"But they can't be put back together."

In the darkness, another batch of blood sacs split open.

The children that crawled out this time were faster.

The iron tags on their chests clattered.

Their bodies ran along the walls, and when bullets hit them, they only left black pits that were filled back in by the flesh membrane in seconds.

"Ordinary bullets are useless!"

"Aim for the joints! Aim for the head!"

A young soldier cursed while fighting.

"We didn't send sacrifices."

"We were feeding it materials!"

The old orders were shattered.

A new hatred took its place.

The Zombie King's Mental Energy wave pressed down violently.

"Traitors."

Flesh membranes drilled out from behind the guards.

Like a row of black spikes.

Pfft!

The back of the shield formation was pierced.

Three people were hoisted into mid-air, their guns still firing.

Commander Wei Guangjun's eyes flared with white light.

His Mental Energy pierced deep into the passageway.

"The true body is not here."

"All the flesh membranes are heading downward."

"There is another layer underground."

Lin Yuan said: "Location."

Commander Wei Guangjun gritted his teeth: "Give me ten more seconds."

The zombie-fied children lunged again.

Lin Motong raised her hand, wanting to grab their fragmented dreams.

The next second, her body swayed.

The thread on the bear's chest snapped open a bit more.

She saw fragments.

A boy sitting by the dining table, waiting for his mom to come home.

A girl holding a torn schoolbag, saying she didn't want to sleep.

And another child in the darkness repeatedly asking if Daddy didn't want them anymore.

The dreams were too fragmented.

Every time she touched one, it pierced into her brain.

For the first time, she couldn't issue an order immediately.

Lin Yuan pressed down on her shoulder.

"If you can't save them, let them be at peace."

Lin Motong looked up at him.

Lin Yuan watched the lunging zombie-fied children.

"This is not your fault."

The red light in Lin Motong's eyes calmed down.

She hugged the bear tightly.

"Come in."

Outside the wellhead.

The Zombie Horde kneeling in the Amusement Park looked up simultaneously.

The next second.

Hundreds and thousands of ordinary zombies swarmed into the maintenance well.

They broke their legs and smashed their heads, yet they still squeezed down along the pipes.

The Zombie King used children as hostages.

Lin Yuan used the Zombie Horde to fill the line.

The first batch of zombies rushed into the passageway, forcefully blocking the zombie-fied children.

The zombie-fied children tore the ordinary zombies to shreds.

The ordinary zombies used their bodies to block the flesh membranes.

Black blood covered the sewer.

Wang Ya took the opportunity to sever more flesh membranes.

The blood sacs deflated one by one.

Commander Wei Guangjun's Mental Energy white light finally locked onto something deeper.

His voice was heavy.

"Found it."

"Below the old rainwater pumping station."

"There is a giant egg."

"All the flesh membranes are connected to it."

Lin Yuan said: "The Zombie King's true body?"

Commander Wei Guangjun shook his head.

"More than that."

"It is piecing something together."

Lin Motong suddenly spoke: "A crown."

Everyone looked at her.

Lin Motong stared deep into the passageway.

"It bites the children's dreams to pieces."

"Then it pieces the fragments together into a crown."

"After wearing it, it will become something higher."

Liu Qing's voice cut in.

"Master, judging by the energy curve, once the giant egg completes its closure, the Zombie King may advance to SSS-rank."

The passageway was quiet for half a second.

SSS-rank.

In the current Zhe City, even one severely injured Zombie King makes 100,000 people unable to breathe.

If it completes its evolution.

The entire southeast will become a zombie nest.

Bang.

The giant egg's heartbeat came from underground.

All the flesh membranes contracted simultaneously.

The water line in Wang Ya's hand broke by thirty percent.

Commander Wei Guangjun groaned, blood flowing from the corner of his eye.

Bang.

The second heartbeat.

All the zombie-fied children stopped.

Then they all turned their heads simultaneously to look at Commander Wei Guangjun.

The Zombie King's voice rang out.

"You have come."

"The delivery man."

Commander Wei Guangjun's white light shook violently.

He seemed to have seen something.

His lips moved twice.

"001…"

Lin Yuan's eyes darkened.

The sound of the keyboard also stopped on Liu Qing's end.

Number 001.

The first child Commander Wei Guangjun personally sent away.

Young Master Wei Mingan.

In the deepest part of the sewer, the flesh membranes slowly separated.

A giant egg floated in the black water.

The surface of the eggshell was densely embedded with iron tags.

In the very center, was 001.

The next second.

An eight-year-old boy's face bulged on the surface of the giant egg.

He opened his eyes.

His eyes were pitch black.

Yet he used a child's voice to softly call out.

"Daddy."