Chapter 1036: with translation of chapter title

Lin Dui, these guys are looking for you all over the world.

I saw in the chat channel, lots of women want to have your babies~

Hehe, if they knew it was still you, wouldn't they be shocked enough to drop their jaws?

Xiong Hanzi casually slapped to death a licker in front of him, while scrolling through the wildly spamming battle zone channel, clicking his tongue in amazement.

As the news spread, many survivors in the Soviet battle zone already called Lin An 'hope' and 'hero', and he felt an inexplicable sense of satisfaction. Damn it, if these people knew their hero was Lin An, they'd probably be dumbfounded.

For some reason, he always felt Lin Dui was like a stirring stick, wherever he went, that battle zone would be thrown into chaos.

Ignoring the gleefully spamming Xiong Hanzi, Lin An turned and with a single sword strike split the incoming Second Level tank in half.

He wasn't the slightest bit surprised by the tremors in the Soviet battle zone.

As the Apocalypse's difficulty rises, survivors worldwide' pursuit and longing for the strong will gradually climb to an unparalleled extent.

There's no way around it—strength means survival, it means an imperishable guarantee for the battle zone! Who wouldn't want their zone to have a superpowerful expert to resolve the crisis?

Without bothering to check these messages, Lin An glanced quickly at a piece of blue Equipment dropped by the tank, then tossed it into his ring like trash.

Seven hours had already passed, and they had reached the next target point.

The Third Level mutant here is only preliminary, but as a monster in the city, the numbers of surrounding zombies and mutants are enough to make your scalp tingle.

Don't waste time, prepare to charge in!

Gazing at the opera house where the Third Level mutant resided, Lin An furrowed his brows, directly signaling Zhang Tie to launch a charge, blasting a bloody path and rushing in.

Since lacking mental power, he indeed felt a bit of discomfort.

Back then, a simple mental power scan would let him launch an attack from midair and instantly kill the mutants in the building.

And with his supersonic flight, he was like a low-altitude fighter jet, wherever he looked, everything was scorched earth.

But now, he can only charge in headfirst like an ordinary Awakened One.

Got it!

Hearing Lin An's words, Zhang Tie gave a hehe laugh, quickly turned off the chat channel, then lowered his head and stopped, his whole body bursting with a red light.

Charge!

Boom!

In an instant, he was like a high-speed artillery shell, with the acceleration effect from the charge, he plunged straight into the zombie horde, carving out a bloody road.

At the same time, the Third Level mutant inside the theater seemed to sense the attack, letting out a piercing shriek that tore through the night sky in an instant.

Ten minutes later.

Bang...!!

Amidst the sky‑filled dust, the once splendid opera house collapsed like rotten wood in the smoke and debris.

Amidst the ruins, Lin An dragged a huge rat‑person corpse seven or eight meters tall, expressionless, slowly walking out of the half‑collapsed revolving door.

The battle lasted a total of three seconds, the pursuit nine minutes.

This half‑human, half‑rat Third Level mutant was extremely agile, having dug a winding, complex burrow beneath the theater. Whether or not it was infected by some rodent gene, though clearly a mutant, upon sensing Lin An's strength it went berserk and fled.

Examining the equipment dropped by the monster, Lin An's face showed little joy of gain, instead growing solemn.

Behind him, Zhang Tie dragged a massive rat tail as thick as a python, his expression grim as he followed.

"Lin Dui, this rat is actually storing corpses.."

His face pale, Xiong Hanzi felt his stomach churn as he spoke, a faint fermented odor drifting from the theater.

Even though he was used to bloody scenes, the sight inside the theater made him nauseous to the point of being unable to bear it.

It was similar to the ruler he had encountered in the grain warehouse before.

This rat‑person mutant stored the human corpses it couldn't finish eating in a "cellar".

As the two charged in, they saw strings of dried human legs hanging like sausages inside the theater.

In the underground pit, human corpses were neatly stacked. Under severe decay and liquefaction, the melted corpse fluid re‑processed the bodies, turning them into bloated corpses.

Feces, corpse fluid, and pus‑filled flesh mixed into an extremely nauseating sight.

Moreover, in the newly opened pit, Xiong Hanzi even saw male and female bodies reduced to half, tossed together.

These humans captured by the mutant appear to be survivors from the city.

No one knows how long they've been kept fresh here, but after having their limbs broken, the survivors, driven by hunger, began to gnaw on each other's limbs.

When Lin An drew near, he saw these maggot‑like humans gathering beside their dead companions in a pupal state, numbly chewing on each other's facial skin.

It's hard to imagine what nightmare these survivors endured during the time they were captured.

He let out a silent sigh.

Lin An's heart had little emotional fluctuation; he merely patted Xiong Hanzi on the shoulder, signaling him not to dwell on it.

Just like humans, to mutants, people are tasty food, so naturally they have all kinds of ways to eat them.

After glancing around at the surrounding decayed cityscape, Lin An slightly shook his head and prepared to leave.

He doesn't much like cities.

In the city, he always feels it's like a gigantic concrete coffin. Anyone trapped inside is like meat in a can—sooner or later the mutants will find and eat them.

As he turned to leave, Lin An seemed to think of something, hesitated a moment, then threw some high‑explosive charges into the theater.

Although he lacked mental power to scout, during the chase he also saw many humans hidden in underground holes.

These humans imprisoned here basically had their limbs broken by the mutant using clever methods.

And after long‑term imprisonment, most of them had also suffered mental collapse, leaving only empty shells.

Rescue—he cannot save them.

All he can do is help these people escape sooner.

He flew aloft.

Under the night sky, as Lin An departed, a pillar of fire shot up, illuminating the heavens like gorgeous fireworks rising behind him.

As the violent explosion rang out, the theater ruins, swaying and on the verge of collapse, finally collapsed completely after a mournful wail.

Four hours later.

After a blood-colored hammer shadow fiercely smashed down, a human-head monster with octopus-like tentacles had its head blown apart by the hammer.

With a flash of white light, Zhang Tie swept away the previous gloom and shouted excitedly:

"Lin Dui, I leveled up! Haha, want to check my panel?"

Standing in mid-air, Lin An nodded slightly, smiling as he congratulated Xiong Hanzi on finally reaching third Fourth Rank intermediate.

But unlike usual, he immediately prepared to check Zhang Tie's attributes.

He could only see him deep in thought, as if he had sensed something unusual.

Just seconds before Zhang Tie killed the last third Fourth Rank Mutant, Lin An unexpectedly sensed that the Mechanical Compass he had left beside Mo Ling had been triggered.

Was someone approaching, or... had Mo Ling awakened?

Seeing Mo Ling's unanswered message, Lin An's gaze turned cold, and he directly said to Xiong Hanzi:

"Go! Let's head back first!"

In an instant, Zhang Tie, realizing something was off, put away his smile, hurriedly followed behind Lin An, and rushed straight to the place where Mo Ling was staying.