Chapter 172

In the eyes of the zombies, these were all “people”—flesh and blood.

Though each of them was wearing a “pen holder,” the zombies still poured out in force.

Many of them were six-foot-plus athletes. They shot over one way, then shot back the other.

They were too fast to see.

At first, there weren’t many of them.

The humans wearing pen holders released only weak currents. They sent electricity back and forth, but couldn’t hit the athletes who were moving at lightning speed.

After a while, the zombies suddenly began to multiply.

They all came out.

Sure enough, something had been watching from the shadows.

Some of the zombies even toyed with the humans. They darted around at high speed, deliberately ramming into the “pen holders” and sending them skidding all over the place.

The entire field was filled with countless blurs.

One of the people inside a “pen holder” was Gao Yuxuan. He roared, “Now!”

Suddenly, the humans who had only been able to produce weak currents began unleashing their full power—

Blue and purple electricity crackled through the air.

The electric-type superpowered people had deliberately spread themselves out. Now, their currents intertwined and converged, forming an entire electrical grid across the area!

The speed zombies seemed to have been hit with a pause button. They writhed and struggled, or simply collapsed to the ground.

Mo Li had been lying in wait on top of the wall.

At last, it was time for him to make his entrance.

The black cat leaped into the air. In an instant, he transformed into a black panther and sprang into the electrical grid—

He went numb.

Every hair on his body stood on end.

Mo Li: “...”

That was how hard Gao Yuxuan and the other electric-type superpowered people had pushed themselves this time!

Mo Li shook himself and transformed!

His body began to grow enormously!

There. As long as his hide was thick enough and his flesh tough enough, he wouldn’t get numb anymore.

The only problem was that he was too big to use his mouth properly.

So he started swatting with his paws. Each swipe could kill several zombies at once.

The only issue was that the zombies died in extremely unpleasant ways.

Everyone had been informed about Mo Li’s situation beforehand, so they were mentally prepared for his transformation.

Although his enlargement had gone beyond their expectations, he was still an ally’s fighting strength. The electric-type superpowered people from the other districts could do little more than exclaim, “Holy crap!”

But watching him swat zombies to death—especially zombies that were still standing—was a little beyond what ordinary people could handle psychologically.

Mostly because it was awful not only to look at, but also because the remains went everywhere!

Liquid! Solid chunks! Bits and pieces! Everything was flying!

The pen holders had ventilation holes. It would have been one thing if the debris had merely smacked against them with a series of rapid thuds, but liquid could pass through the ventilation holes!

That was enough to drive anyone insane!

The zombies on the outskirts began to flee.

They fled as a group. There was no need to guess—even a glance was enough to tell that someone was directing them.

The electrical grid was withdrawn, and everyone gave chase.

Each “pen holder” had four casters underneath.

There were also handles inside the “pen holders” to keep the occupants from falling when they were hit.

As everyone chased the zombies while wearing their “pen holders,” they soon discovered that if they ran for a short distance first, then grabbed the handles and lifted their feet off the ground, they could glide along.

The superpowered people: “...”

This was fun!

The main force outside received the message Gao Yuxuan sent from within and began entering the campus as well.

They found the electric-type superpowered people in front of a building.

It looked like some kind of gymnasium. There were several gymnasiums on the school grounds, and nobody knew what this particular one was used for.

In any case, after studying it for quite a while, they spotted a faucet and a length of hose nearby.

Gao Yuxuan called out, “Jiangbing! Come here!”

And so they began spraying water everywhere.

Under Li Jiangbing’s control, the tap water flowing across the ground moved as if it were alive, worming its way through the gap beneath the main entrance.

Gao Yuxuan urged him from the side, “More! Put in more!”

Once the water had spread across the entire floor of the building, they would release the electricity and finish off the zombies inside!

But just then, a hoarse, desperate voice rang out from within the building:

“Don’t use electricity! Don’t use electricity! There are living people in here! Don’t use electricity! I’m inside!”

Everyone was stunned.

When they came to their senses, they began shouting, “Open the door! We have to save him!”

Hadn’t the zombies hidden inside? How could there be a living person in there?

Jiang Cheng suddenly shouted, “Everyone, back away!”

Jiang Cheng had always commanded great respect. When she told them to retreat, everyone did so despite their eagerness to rescue the person.

Jiang Cheng had Li Jiangbing call out, “Can you come out? We’re about to release the electricity!”

The door opened from the inside, and a middle-aged man staggered out.

“Help! Help! They’re all zombies!”

Jiang Cheng immediately shouted, “Haiyang!”

Cui Haiyang flicked his fingers. The chains shot through the air like a snake and wrapped around the man, binding him tightly from head to toe.

The man fell to the ground.

Everyone raised their weapons toward the open entrance, but no zombies came out.

Jiang Cheng walked over and asked the man lying on the ground, “Where are the zombies?”

Someone helped the man to his feet. Everyone could now see that he was a middle-aged man who looked fairly strong.

The man said, “In—in there?”

He was still racking his brains for some lie with which to deceive them, but Jiang Cheng had already seen through him.

“You’re the one controlling the zombies?”

So many zombies had run inside. How could a living person have survived in there?

They had never encountered anything like this before, but simple logic was enough to reach the conclusion: he was the one controlling the zombies.

Upon realizing that he had been exposed, the man’s eyes flashed viciously.

The zombies hiding inside the gymnasium suddenly began roaring. They charged toward the entrance.

Gao Yuxuan shouted, “Jiangbing!”

The water on the ground surged rapidly into the gymnasium!

Gao Yuxuan twisted his shoulder. His right hand traced a circular arc from behind him to the front, then slapped down onto the water with a sharp crack.

Electricity shot forward like a snake, traveling along the water!

It looked incredibly cool!

The speed zombies slowed down. With a howl, Mo Li sprang into the gymnasium and began slaughtering them!

Director Yu quietly told Mr. Xu, “Do you know how many times he practiced that?”

The move where Gao Yuxuan twisted his right arm, swung it around in a circle, slapped his palm onto the ground, dropped onto one knee, and swept his left arm up and back in an absurdly cool pose—Director Yu had seen Gao Yuxuan practice it countless times.

But Director Yu didn’t mention that he had secretly practiced it himself as well.

Once all the speed zombies had been eliminated, Changxing District and the Science and Technology New District held a joint trial.

Someone spotted a photograph on the school’s bulletin board. The man turned out to be the sports school principal.

Zhao Yi said, “It’s a mental-type superpower.”

The sports school principal’s ability was to control zombies.

When he first discovered this, he had been ecstatic, believing that he could use it to become a tyrant.

What ultimately limited him was the range of his mental power. There was no such thing as a perfect ability. The greatest limitation of this one was distance. Once he was too far away, it became difficult to use.

So the principal made the school his base.

First, he sacrificed all the teachers and students who had survived, turning them into zombies.

Living people would not obey him. Zombies would.

That way, the entire school became a world of zombies.

It wasn’t that he had never considered keeping a few of the girls alive. It was simply that the limited control range made them too troublesome to manage.

In the end, he turned them all into zombies.

He was probably the first man in the world to enjoy the company of zombies.

He had already been demoted and sent to work as the principal of a sports school after molesting a female athlete.

A person’s desires, all his life, came down to eating, drinking, relieving himself, and that one other thing.

Even after evolving supernatural abilities, humanity had failed to evolve its soul.

What the principal had done amounted to a crime against humanity.

The two districts carried out a joint execution, broadcasting the entire process live on television.

The death penalty.

On October 2, Yang Xinyan came jogging over to Jiang Cheng. “You need to look at this text message.”

It had been a long time since they had received a distress message.

By now, nearly everyone who could be rescued from the urban districts had been brought out, while many others had managed to save themselves.

The industrial area in the development zone had also been cleared, and the scattered survivors had all been rescued.

As for the rest, most of them had probably died.

Yang Xinyan was in charge of several communication phones, and they had not received a single distress message for several days.

Jiang Cheng took the phone and looked at the message—

[Help us! Jitou Village, Taiping Town! They claim to be the government, □□ women, seize the food, and burn villagers alive! They’re also raising zombies and releasing them to bite people! Help us! Don’t call! I’ll delete this message later! Whatever you do, don’t call!]

No one knew where Taiping Town was. No one had even heard of it.

Several people took out several maps and searched separately and together until their eyes nearly went blind.

Finally, Su Yu found it. “Here! Here!”

It was practically off the map, in a remote suburban area, and very far away.

Taiping Town consisted of two villages: Jitou Village and Jijiao Village.

After the zombie virus outbreak, some people gained supernatural abilities.

Unfortunately, many of those who acquired such abilities were local thugs and village tyrants.

At first, everyone managed to get along peacefully and worked together to fight the zombies.

But after three or four days, people began muttering, “Why hasn’t the government done anything yet?”

The last time, the government had taken action on the third day.

They kept waiting and waiting, until September 4, when a girl named Jiang Cheng announced on television that the S City government had been completely wiped out.

The people of their xx District established a provisional government of their own.

Two days later, oo District established a government as well.

The government had been wiped out, so they would become the government themselves.

The thugs and gangsters announced on the spot that they were the government.

Naturally, some of the villagers refused to accept it. They were set alight by someone with fire-based supernatural abilities.

The villagers desperately fought the flames and managed to rescue the victim, but most of his body had already suffered severe burns.

The people at the township clinic had all turned into zombies too, so there was no one who could treat him. The man soon died.

When the thugs watched television, they had already noticed that the people in the development zone—the ones who had established the earliest government—seemed rather fond of meddling in other people’s affairs. They had even publicized a rescue hotline.

After burning the man alive, the thugs went from house to house and cut the wires to every television.

They confiscated all the phones.

From then on, they lived in that remote rural area far from the city, bullying men and abusing women as they pleased.

They had never been law-abiding citizens to begin with. During the previous zombie disaster, they had even gotten blood on their hands. They had simply silenced the witnesses, so no one knew what they had done, and no one reported them.

The murderers continued living peacefully.

When the second zombie disaster struck, the murderers became the local emperors of their villages.