Chapter 48: Chapter 48: No One Can Escape

Translator: 549690339

Xiao Mao, full of grief and anger, held a long sword in both hands. With a great roar, he charged towards the glass door once again.

The moment he stepped into the glass entrance, as if triggering a switch, all the mutant zombies in the lobby, except the ones soaking in the Blood Pool, let out a furious roar. Like a tidal wave, they swarmed towards the door.

“Go, he can’t hold them off alone!” Li Dong kicked the blue-haired boy’s butt and whispered sharply.

“Yes, boss, you’re so kindhearted!” The blue-haired boy had a look of fear as he faced the oncoming horde of mutant zombies, but he had no choice but to raise his little round shield and charge forward.

Li Dong took the opportunity to collect the items dropped by the previous zombies into his bag, before calmly teaming up with another man to attack a single mutant zombie.

These common level one zombies, veiled in a layer of thin gray mist, seemed to be clad in sturdy leather armor. Originally, a single blow could cause thirty or forty points of damage. Now, however, a single hit could only deal about twenty points of damage. This mist alone was enough to make Xiao Mao, who was on the front line, suffer immensely.

There was plenty of debris in the hall – dilapidated sofas, counters, coffee tables, and the like, strewn about with skeletal corpses that filled the room. Xiao Mao used these obstacles to barely hold off the zombies’ onslaught.

At each turn, Xiao Mao only had to face three or four mutant zombies. To reach him, the other zombies had to navigate around obstacles. For this reason, Xiao Mao could only stay in one place for ten to twenty seconds. He had to keep moving, otherwise, he might get surrounded, and he wouldn’t even have the chance to escape.

Li Dong, on the other hand, was standing far away, and could retreat at any time. He was perfectly safe.

“I can’t do this anymore, boss. I only have twenty-six vitality points left!” Xiao Mao shouted, retreating as he did so.

Li Dong furrowed his brows, then sighed as he glanced at the zombie leader in the Blood Pool. If he had known this slow-and-steady method earlier, they wouldn’t have lost so many people the first time.

“Retreat, we’re giving up on this BOSS!” Li Dong shouted.

At this moment, the zombie leader, who had remained still in the Blood Pool, slowly opened his eyes, grabbed a handful of rolling blood water, and raised it high.

Boom-

With a loud noise, the blood water in the zombie leader’s hand exploded like a High Explosive, obliterating the whole arm.

The zombie leader let out a painful roar, followed by a rain of blood that resembled a meteor shower, filling the entire first-floor lobby.

The zombie leader, who had initially recovered to about 60% vitality, took a severe hit, his vitality dropped below 40% instantly.

The raining blood splashed everywhere. Anything the blood rain touched started to corrode rapidly, soon forming small pits and giving off a burning smell. The corrosiveness of the blood rain was even stronger than concentrated sulfuric acid. Very soon, the first-floor lobby became more dilapidated with pits everywhere.

A basin-sized group of blood twisted and changed shape in the air, seemingly conscious of its surroundings.

Before long, this group of blood took the shape of a large insect and bounced forward, heading straight towards the glass door in the hall.

Splat-

The clump of blood was very viscous. It stuck to the upper wall of the door, slowly dripping down. Countless thick strands of blood started to wiggle and spread out in every direction. From a distance, it looked like a massive blood web, completely enveloping the entire door.

“Be careful, this blood rain is poisonous. Damn, it’s highly corrosive. It penetrated through my leather armor!”

“Boss, boss, save me, save me-”

“Boss, boss, our way out is blocked, we can’t get out-”

The four people still in the hall were terrified immediately. Xiao Mao’s vitality was down to just over ten points. He was dizzy and could feel a frosty energy spreading through his body, making him feel as if he was about to be frozen.

“Why didn’t they buy me a Detox Elixir, why didn’t they buy me a Detox Elixir…” Xiao Mao mumbled to himself, his eyes emitting a crimson glow.

A mutated zombie lunged at Xiao Mao, who was feeling faint from exhaustion and had given up resisting. The long sword slipped out of his hands with a clatter, his body swaying dangerously, on the verge of collapsing onto the ground.

Just when the zombie was about to reach Xiao Mao, it halted. Instead of attacking, it turned and howled at Xiao Mao. Seeing Xiao Mao in his weakened state, the zombie inexplicably turned its attention to a blue-haired youth nearby and pounced on him instead.

“Bloody hell, what’s going on?” The youth was stunned. He had two zombies on his tail, and now with Xiao Mao no longer resisting, all the pressure suddenly landed on him. He was also frightened by the preceding events. Why didn’t the zombie attack Xiao Mao?

“Boss, I can’t hold them off, 1 can’t…” The blue-haired youth shouted, backing away. His retreat led to more mutated zombies rushing forward, causing Li Dong’s face to turn pale.

“Stand your ground, stand your ground, if we can’t hold them off, we’re all going to die!” Li Dong was ashen-faced, watching helplessly as three or four dozen mutated zombies swarmed towards them.

“Boss, let’s run, run!” Another man shouted, charging directly towards the glass door. He lifted his long spear and stabbed it against the blood web covering the entrance.

After a couple of stabs, despair washed over the man’s face. Each strand of the blood web, though only as thick as a finger, was incredibly tough. His spear bounced back with even greater force when it struck, unable to sever even a single strand.

“Boss, boss, save me, save me-” The blue-haired youth hadn’t gotten far before he was tackled by two mutated zombies. Then more zombies swarmed him, quickly submerging him under their mass.

“Why didn’t you buy me the detox elixir, why didn’t you buy me the detox…” Xiao Mao, his skin taking on a metallic sheen, his eyes blood-red, turned around and began to stagger towards Li Dong. He looked no different from a mutated zombie.

“Don’t come closer, stay away!” Li Dong shouted out in fear, taking out a white-quality rifle from his bag and aiming it at the closest mutated zombie.

Bang-

A deafening gunshot rang out, as the force of the bullet easily tore through the gray mist enveloping the zombie, hitting it squarely in the head.

“Splatter” The zombie’s brain burst open as if it was a watermelon.

Click-

Li Dong ejected a bullet casing and reloaded a new bullet, continuing his aim.

Bang-

Another gunshot, this time missing the zombie’s head but instead hit its chest. A fist-sized hole appeared on its chest, reducing it to a mere shred of its former self, the bullet passed through its body and lodged itself in another zombie behind.

Click-

Another shell casing ejected. Li Dong reloaded quickly, expertly handling the gun as if he was a decades-long veteran soldier.

Bang-

Another zombie was shot in the brain, killed instantly.

While attacking, Li Dong slowly retreated, but the zombies were getting closer.

Seven meters…

Six meters…

Five meters…