26: Chapter 26 Puppet Demoness

Chen Ye leaned against the back of the unit door, his expression calm, showing no intention of stepping forward to help.

He and Zhang Lei were only temporary partners who had met by chance; if these two groups fought until they were both crippled, he would be able to reap the benefits.

He could take the beast core and eliminate a potential threat at the same time.

But just then, a strange, noisy commotion suddenly erupted from deep within the Residential Community!

It was not the roar of a Mutated Beast, but the roar of humans.

Yet it carried an inhuman, frenzied, and rigid quality—piercing and terrifying, enough to make one's scalp tingle.

"They're here! Her people are here!" Zhang Lei's expression changed drastically.

His previous smugness vanished instantly, his chubby face turning as pale as paper.

As if he had seen the God of Plague, he instantly retracted his Superpower and turned to sprint toward Chen Ye.

His voice was laced with a sob: "Run! It's the berserkers controlled by that Puppet Enchantress!"

Before he could finish speaking, a dense crowd of figures came rushing frantically out of the thick fog deep within the Residential Community!

They were wielding kitchen knives, steel pipes, and clubs, their eyes bloodshot, expressions twisted, and limbs moving stiffly as they sprinted.

Their roars pierced through the thick fog.

A chilling sense of crisis instantly enveloped everyone.

Chen Ye's footsteps came to an abrupt halt, an indescribable sense of stagnation welling up in his heart.

These seemingly bloodthirsty and berserk figures were, in essence, ordinary living people controlled by mental powers.

The memories of his past life were incredibly clear.

With the mental-type Puppet Superpower, they could regain their sanity once the control was lifted; they were not hopeless monsters.

Having experienced a miserable death in his past life, his temperament had long since hardened.

Yet even so, he could not bring himself to slaughter dozens of innocent people.

Killing them in seconds would be easy, but he did not want to bear the sin of being stained with the blood of the innocent.

"Retreat this way!"

The panicked roars behind them pierced through the fog, as a middle-aged man frantically dragged a girl while fleeing.

The archer who had fallen behind was already submerged by the swarm of puppets, his shrill screams instantly swallowed by the roars.

His ability was originally a long-range single-target attack; facing a large number of berserkers with surging strength rushing at him, he was clearly overwhelmed.

The girl's willow-leaf eyebrows furrowed tightly, and a soft, pale green light appeared on her slender fingertips.

She wanted to deploy a shield to rescue him.

But she was abruptly pulled back by Zhao Tieshan, who growled sternly: "Don't waste your Superpower! That trash was just dead weight, he can serve as a shield for us!"

"It's just a pity about the beast core of the Diamond Beast; it's been wasted for nothing!"

The pale green halo instantly dissipated, and the girl bit her pink lips, glancing at the direction where the archer had disappeared, a trace of reluctance flashing in her eyes.

But she had no choice but to follow the middle-aged man and flee for her life.

Chen Ye retreated while glancing back, his gaze sweeping over the surging swarm of puppets, his brows knitting tightly.

An extremely strange detail made his heart jolt.

This group of controlled berserkers was entirely male; there wasn't a single woman!

"Zhang Lei, you've seen the controller before. Among this group, have you ever seen any women?" Chen Ye asked in a deep voice, his pace swift.

Zhang Lei's chubby face was as pale as paper; he was panting heavily, his fat jiggling uncontrollably.

While sprinting, he struggled to recall: "I... I don't think so! There really aren't any! It's all grown men; I haven't even seen a single strand of a woman's hair!"

"All male?" Doubts surged in Chen Ye's eyes. "You said she has a charm-type Superpower? She specifically targets males to control?"

"How would I know!" Zhang Lei said with a mournful face, his voice trembling. "Last time I saw the crowd, I just lay on the ground and played dead. I didn't even dare to open my eyes, how would I dare to take a close look!"

Before they could finish speaking, a cold, enchanting, and bone-chilling female laugh suddenly drifted out from a dark corner ahead.

It was like a cold snake's tongue, licking at everyone's necks.

"Giggle... why are you running? Stay and play with me, wouldn't that be nice?"

The four of them froze in their tracks instantly, their hair standing on end, their muscles tensed to the limit.

They saw an incredibly enchanting figure slowly emerge from the shadows of the building's hallway ahead.

The woman was wearing a white silk nightgown as thin as a cicada's wing, hanging loosely on her body.

The neckline was wide open, the full, snow-white curves of her chest almost bursting through the thin gauze.

It formed an extreme contrast with her slender, willow-like waist, so dazzling that one couldn't look away.

A breeze blew, and the thin gauze nightgown clung quietly to her body, revealing her fair, long legs.

On her delicate skin spread gradient black keratinized patterns.

They wound from her collarbone down to her waist and abdomen, hard and cold yet eerily enchanting.

A thin, long tail emitting a cold light protruded from behind her, swaying gently, adding a touch of sinister beauty.

Her eyes were curved, and her red lips were luscious.

The pure yet seductive gauze nightgown wrapped around her hot figure; although she smiled gently, a bone-chilling, cold intent to kill radiated from her entire being.

It was precisely the Puppet Enchantress with the exaggeratedly good figure that Zhang Lei had mentioned.

Behind her followed another group of berserk male puppets.

There were also over a dozen cat and dog Mutated Beasts, their fur standing on end and fangs bared.

They were pets from the Residential Community that had mutated, baring their teeth and ready to pounce.

"That's her!" Zhang Lei immediately shrank behind Chen Ye.

He poked out half of his chubby head, his voice trembling but unable to resist peeking. "I didn't lie to you, did I? This figure is amazing!"

Chen Ye glanced at him sideways, his tone laced with sarcasm: "Since you're so tempted, why don't you go talk to her? Sleep with her for a night and get her to let us go?"

"No, no, no! I was just joking!" Zhang Lei shook his head like a rattle-drum.

His chubby face instantly fell. "This woman is a ruthless killer who doesn't blink an eye; even if you gave me a hundred times the courage, I wouldn't dare flirt with her! Thinking about how to survive is what really matters!"

Chen Ye withdrew his gaze and turned to Zhao Tieshan and Lin Qingqing beside him, his tone steady and powerful: "You've been in the Residential Community for quite some time; you must have witnessed the power of these puppets."

Zhao Tieshan's expression was grave, his gigantic right arm tensing slightly.

It gleamed with a dark, metallic luster. "Of course! Once these people are controlled, they don't feel pain and aren't afraid of death. Once they go on a killing spree, they just charge forward; unless you kill them with a single blow, they are impossible to stop!"

"The key is that they are all ordinary people. If we really kill them, and since The Authorities haven't completely collapsed yet, if they investigate us, we'll definitely be in big trouble!"

He appeared rough, but he was meticulous, understanding that in the early stages of the apocalypse, order had not yet collapsed, and one could not brazenly slaughter civilians.

"Put aside our previous grievances for now," Chen Ye said in a deep voice. "Let's join forces and survive first."

Zhao Tieshan nodded heavily and pointed to the girl beside him. "My name is Zhao Tieshan, and this is my niece, Lin Qingqing. She has a defensive Superpower and can deploy shields."

Lin Qingqing nodded slightly, her long hair blowing gently in the wind.

Her voice was soft but firm. "We must stick together; fighting alone, none of us will survive."

Just as Chen Ye was about to speak, the Enchantress ahead parted her red lips, let out an alluring giggle, and flicked her tail tip violently!

"My darlings, it's time to enjoy yourselves—kill them!"

"Boom!"

Berserk roars instantly erupted!

The dense crowd of male puppets and the Mutated Beasts with bared fangs charged frantically toward the four of them like mad demons.

A foul, fishy stench mixed with the smell of blood rushed toward their faces!

A chilling murderous intent completely enveloped this death zone shrouded in thick fog.