Chapter 226 - 210: My Son Ate a Lot of Zombies

Chapter 226: Chapter 210: My Son Ate a Lot of Zombies

In this moment of extreme crisis, Yu Chengfei took a shallow breath and raised his Liuhe Great Spear.

His eyes were fixed on a single target...

In that instant, fifty years of practice were channeled into a single, perfect trajectory.

"Azure Dragon’s Grasp!"

The great spear, in his hand just a moment before, shot out like a bolt of lightning with a deafening WHOOSH. It grazed past Yan Yikai’s ear and stabbed straight toward the hulking zombie’s head!

Under Yu Chengfei’s exquisite control, the spear tip threaded the needle-thin gap between the charging zombie’s fingers and struck its eyeball dead-on!

It was as if the creature, while covering its face, had intentionally impaled its own eye on the spear tip.

SQUELCH!!!

The hulking zombie’s eyeball was instantly obliterated by the great spear!

In a flash, the hulking zombie staggered and collapsed, while the immense recoil sent Yu Chengfei flying backward.

Yu Chengfei rolled with the impact, getting back to his feet unharmed.

With a 3.3-meter spear embedded in its head—far deeper than any bullet could penetrate—the hulking zombie was pinned to the ground. This bought Yan Yikai, who had been moments from death, a precious window to breathe.

"Get over here, Kai!" Yu Dong shouted.

Yan Yikai scrambled to his feet and sprinted back as fast as he could.

Meanwhile, the soldiers had reacted.

"Switch to armor-piercing rounds!"

Instantly, four soldiers in the rear, armed with Type 95 assault rifles, swapped in special magazines loaded with tungsten-alloy armor-piercing rounds.

While the mutated zombie was down, they opened fire, raking its body with bullets!

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

The hail of bullets slammed into the hulking zombie, causing blood to spurt from all over its body!

Its tough skull was blasted apart!

The powerful, crimson muscles were violently ripped apart by the armor-piercing rounds, which chewed straight through to the bone, sending fragments flying!

The army didn’t care what kind of special zombie this was; armor-piercing rounds make no exceptions for carbon-based life.

Just as it tried to rise, a few rounds shattered its leg bones, forcing it back down to its knees.

The hulking zombie, so berserk just moments before, could only roar in fury from the ground. But four Type 95s loaded with AP rounds weren’t playing games. The soldiers advanced, ready to empty a magazine into its head and finish the job.

At that moment, Liu Yang, who was squatting on the ground waiting for the show to unfold, was completely stunned.

"How... How is this possible!?"

"Get up!"

A soldier hauled him to his feet, pressed a gun to his head, and waited only for Qiao Yunliang’s order to execute him on the spot.

Qiao Yunliang’s face was livid.

He never imagined he’d be so thoroughly blindsided, that this goddamn doctor would get two of his soldiers killed!

And that zombie was terrifying.

Its muscles were actually bulletproof; only armor-piercing rounds could do any real damage.

If a zombie like this got out... a single one could wipe out every settlement along an entire road!

Furthermore, according to the documents from HQ, mutated zombies could infect regular ones!

If zombies like this started popping up everywhere... humanity’s future would be doomed!

They had to eliminate mutated zombies preemptively to stop them from infecting each other!

"Take out that zombie!" he ordered viciously.

Liu Yang heard this and screamed, "No! Don’t kill my son!"

"It’s a zombie, you idiot!" Qiao Yunliang cursed.

It wasn’t the first time he had seen people treat zombies like family, but for a doctor to be this foolish was beyond his expectations.

The four soldiers took aim at the struggling, hulking zombie’s head.

"Wait!" Yu Dong shouted.

Qiao Yunliang raised a hand slightly, halting the four soldiers, and looked at Yu Dong quizzically.

"This new type of mutant... We can send it to the lab. Professor Meng needs specimens like this."

"Can’t we just catch some climbing zombies for her?"

"It’s not the same... She said she wants more varied mutated specimens. Let’s capture it and send it to her."

Qiao Yunliang frowned slightly.

"If a zombie like this gets out and infects others... just think of the consequences. All of Yanhai City couldn’t bear the price!"

"We’ll keep it under control. We’ll break its arms and legs, shatter its spine, and render it completely immobile. We’ll only leave the body for study. Scientific research... that’s our future."

Yu Dong believed that researching a vaccine was just as important as culling the zombies.

If the remaining humans could be inoculated against infection, their chances of defeating the zombies would increase dramatically.

Qiao Yunliang took a deep breath and waved his hand.

"Secure this thing, tie it up, and take Liu Yang and the other two upstairs."

The soldiers rushed forward, firing several more shots to shatter the bones in the zombie’s limbs. They then covered its head with a metal helmet and bound it securely with steel cables...

They trussed the zombie up, making absolutely sure it couldn’t break free.

Then they hauled the three of them—the soul-crushed doctor Liu Yang and his companions—upstairs.

The sudden encounter had cost the army two lives, while Yu Dong’s group had—by the skin of their teeth—escaped without any casualties.

Yan Yikai was over by the side, clinging to Yu Chengfei and practically calling him his father.

If Yu Chengfei had been a second late, or if the tip of his spear had been off by even a fraction, Yan Yikai would have been a dead man.

He was always charging too far ahead.

He had even put Zhao Youcai and Yu Dong in danger.

Thankfully, Uncle Yu had turned the tide, buying the soldiers behind him just enough time to switch to armor-piercing rounds and finally suppress the creature.

The reason Yu Dong had insisted on keeping the zombie alive for the lab wasn’t just because Meng Dongqing needed the specimen. It was because... he had never seen anything like it before.

Something felt very wrong to him.

’I never saw this kind of zombie... not even in the massive horde that’s coming in a month. Why is it showing up now? Is this a butterfly effect I caused?’

He had to get to the bottom of this.

The idea that he might have inadvertently introduced a new species of zombie to Yanhai City was terrifying.

Besides, he needed to study the zombie’s weaknesses. If they ever encountered another one, they had to know how to deal with it.

Furthermore, how had Liu Yang managed to control such a creature?

Everything about this was a first. It was too abnormal!

After what had just transpired, Liu Yang had no leverage left. He and his two companions confessed everything.

"That’s our son. On the day of the outbreak, he was playing in the hospital and somehow wandered into the morgue."

"We thought for sure he was dead. But later, after most of the zombies upstairs were cleared out, we were taking the corpses down to the morgue... and we saw him."

"He’d eaten all the corpses in the morgue. He was strong, much stronger than a typical zombie. And... he wasn’t rotting. His muscles were perfectly preserved, almost like he’d been working out. Back then, he looked almost alive, and I think he still recognized us."

"Isn’t that a miracle? We started throwing zombie corpses in there, and he ate them."

"After that, whenever we found zombies, we’d use pitchforks to force them into the basement to feed our son. He grew stronger and stronger, and he gradually began to understand my simple commands. And he never attacked me!"

"His intelligence... it’s returning! He’s definitely not a zombie!"

"Later, some of the others in the hospital didn’t believe it... They thought we should kill my son, or lock him up and starve him to death. Heh..."

"My son tasted living flesh. He developed even better after that."

"Slowly, he ate every last zombie and living person in the hospital. He became stronger and stronger, learned how to hide and cooperate, and even hunted other zombies to protect me... Isn’t that intelligence? If you people hadn’t come... he would have recovered eventually! He would have learned to talk and laugh again, and he would have remembered everything about us!"

"My son ate lots of zombies! So what if he’s a zombie? He’s a good zombie!"

"I never wanted to hurt anyone! I told you to leave! You’re the ones who pushed me, again and again! We just wanted him to live, to witness a miracle! What’s so wrong with that!?"

Liu Yang screamed until he was hoarse, while the two women sobbed uncontrollably.

Now Yu Dong understood why he’d never seen this type of zombie in the future horde... It had been privately cultivated.