Chapter 130 - 129: Any Later and Your Head Would Be Gone
Chapter 130: Chapter 129: Any Later and Your Head Would Be Gone
"Something’s not right." Lu Feng’s brows furrowed.
No experience notification appeared.
When he killed the Hexagonal Beast before, he had received a full 3,000 experience points.
This one was clearly tougher and should have been stronger, but no experience notification appeared at all.
That means the Hexagonal Beast isn’t dead!
At this thought, Lu Feng quickly vaulted off the building. He shot out an arm to grip the wall, using the power of his mecha’s weaponry to land on the ground.
Seeing him, the surrounding zombies swarmed him, attacking madly.
But their attacks merely glanced off his mecha with a series of CLANGS, completely unable to harm him!
Not wanting to waste energy on laser fire, Lu Feng took out the steel blade from his inventory. With a fierce swing, he sent the heads of the surrounding zombies rolling across the ground.
[Congratulations, you have killed a zombie and received 5 experience points!]
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[Congratulations, you have killed a zombie and received 5 experience points!]
As the notifications echoed in his mind, Lu Feng continued to cut down zombie after zombie. Soon, the ground at his feet was littered with their corpses.
Lu Feng could now get a clear look inside the gate, where he saw the Hexagonal Beast’s corpse.
But besides the body being mangled by the laser cannon, there seemed to be a hole torn in the corpse’s back, as if something had burst out from within.
Lu Feng frowned. Having seen his share of sci-fi movies, he had a pretty good idea of what had happened.
Either the beast had been carrying its young, or it had some other way to save itself.
The controlled Hexagonal Beast couldn’t use such a method, but this one, which was clearly not under anyone’s control, could.
’It hides when injured and makes a comeback after it recovers?’ Lu Feng suddenly recalled the description of the Hexagonal Beast from the game’s lore!
’Injured... hiding?’
’Damn it!’
’Even though the "Origin" anime never explained why, it seemed like this was his fault now!’
’He was the one who had injured it.’
’If I had known, I would have just fired one more laser blast. That would have solved everything.’
Zombies surged toward Lu Feng again, and he cut down another wave with a swing of his blade.
Looking around, he saw that zombies were already pouring into Red Leaf Base!
He wanted to close the main gate, since he still planned on winning over the survivors in this base.
But to his dismay, the main gate was already bent out of shape, clearly the work of the bloated zombies.
It was impossible to close the gate now.
Lu Feng frowned. There was nothing he could do. He retreated through the gateway, activated his speed ability, and broke into a sprint. Once he’d built up enough momentum, he ran up the wall toward the main building’s rooftop again, leaving a trail of mecha-sized footprints in his wake.
He had to admit, this feature of his speed ability was incredibly useful.
...
Inside Red Leaf Base, panicked screams and bursts of gunfire erupted.
The battle between humans and zombies had begun.
After "killing" Lin Nan, Guo Qi went downstairs in high spirits. The sight that greeted him was a swarm of zombies and the chaotic sound of gunfire.
"Damn it, what’s going on? How did zombies get in?" Guo Qi frowned deeply.
But then, he drew the short blade from his waist and charged toward a few zombies.
’A crisis like this is the perfect opportunity. I can lead the guards, deal with these zombies, and earn some prestige in the process.’
’Now that I’ve killed Lin Nan, I can use this incident to completely usurp his prestige and position in the base.’
’Besides, I’m not worried about the zombies at all. Teacher Hu still has the Hexagonal Beast to control them.’
’Maybe Teacher Hu did this on purpose. Otherwise, it would be hard to explain away Lin Nan’s death!’
...
「On the rooftop.」
Lin Nan had finally caught his breath. He was bent over, coughing nonstop. The earlier encounter had brought him to the brink of death, and a wave of fear washed over him. He was so shaken he didn’t even notice the wound on his back that had split open.
Lu Feng opened his mecha’s faceplate and looked at Lin Nan with a grin. "Lin Nan, looks like you owe me one for saving your life. Otherwise, you’d be thinking about what you want to be in your next life right about now."
Lin Nan said gratefully, "Mr. Lu, I really owe you. I would’ve been a goner without you. What are you doing here?"
Lu Feng spun a tale. "Your bald friend ambushed us. My team and I defeated them, and I chased him here. He also had a strange, six-tentacled monster with him. That monster can control zombies, which means they’re the reason the zombies went berserk."
"Guo Qi!" Lin Nan gritted his teeth.
A moment ago, he hadn’t understood why Guo Qi wanted to kill him, but now he did. He had been investigating the cause of the last zombie outbreak because his girlfriend had died in it.
’Now that I know Guo Qi was behind it, I will kill him.’
Just then, Lin Nan heard the gunfire from within the base, and his brow furrowed. "What’s going on? What’s happening in the base?"
Lu Feng frowned. "I saw the Hexagonal Beast make the zombies open your main gate. I guess one of your people’s experiments went wrong and caused this disaster."
"Damn it, I knew something was wrong from the start." Lin Nan’s expression darkened, as if recalling something from the past. He rushed toward the stairs. "This won’t do. I have to go organize everyone to defend the base. And as for that bastard Guo Qi... I’m going to kill him."
Seeing this, Lu Feng took out a flare gun and fired it into the sky. A moment later, the flare exploded, bathing the sky in multicolored light. A glowing image of a gun formed within the light.
This scene reminded Lu Feng of the movie *Kung Fu Hustle*. The Axe Gang’s signal arrow also formed a phantom image of an axe.
’Whoever made these flares must have had a twisted sense of humor.’
Of course, the flare was just something the members of Qingfeng Base had scavenged. The fact that it worked at all was a bonus.
Not far away, Lin Jiao and her team were already assembled. The moment she saw the flare, she led them toward the alleyways between the buildings of Red Leaf Base.
At the same time, Lu Feng walked to the edge of the rooftop and looked down.
Lin Nan quickly made it downstairs and headed deeper into the base, picking up a long blade from a nearby corpse.
No sooner had he picked up the blade than the corpse began to stir. It had obviously zombified. For a body to turn that quickly, it must have been killed by a mutated zombie.
The bodies of those killed by ordinary zombies wouldn’t turn this fast.
Seeing this, Lu Feng also leaped from the building. He once again used his arm to brace against the wall, controlling his descent with his mecha’s weaponry and landing beside Lin Nan.
The surrounding zombies pounced madly toward the two of them.
In response, Lu Feng activated his mecha’s weapon systems. Laser emitters popped open all over the suit, instantly firing a dense web of beams that struck the attacking zombies.
In an instant, all the zombies fell to the ground, each one killed by a single shot through the head.
Lin Nan, who had been about to strike, froze in astonishment. He had his blade raised, but all the zombies were already gone.
On the roof, the squad of guards from before had reappeared. They stared down at the scene below, their faces filled with horror.
"Captain, you really surrendered at the perfect time," a guard immediately said.
"Yeah," another guard agreed, subconsciously touching his own head.
If they had been even a second late in surrendering, their heads would have ended up just like those zombies’.