Chapter 299: Is It Human or Zombie?

"Holy crap!"

Just as Zhang Su was puzzled by the abnormal behavior of his companions, Zhao Dezhu in front let out an exclamation and looked back: "The pit is four or five meters deep, there's really something going on down there!"

"Of course there is. The Edge Squad's laboratory is right under here, and that modified zombie was released from inside here, tearing down half the building on the spot!"

Pan Guoliang smacked his lips with lingering fear. The countless scenes from the night before last would follow him for the rest of his life, impossible to forget until he died.

Zhang Su stepped over a broken wall half a person's height and stood by the pit to look inside. Some bent steel bars were exposed in the middle of the cement slab, and a few clusters of flames were burning on unknown objects, with wisps of black smoke permeating the air, accompanied by various burnt smells.

The most striking were some human body fragments; blood and minced meat were everywhere. No need to guess, they were the people who had hidden here before. One could imagine how desperate they must have been, thinking they had escaped a disaster, only to be unable to escape the fate of death in the end.

A rather thick metal door lay in the ruins, slightly twisted. If nothing went wrong, it should be the security door leading to the laboratory, with a drop of four or five meters from the ground.

"How could there be such a high-yield explosive inside this laboratory? Was it for self-destruction?"

Zhang Su looked at Xin Qi curiously.

"There's no Captain Pan anymore, I'm Pan Guoliang now, Lishan's Pan Guoliang!"

Zhang Su looked at the ruins with some surprise. The people hiding in the laboratory should have been desperate to live; it was unlikely they would have pressed the detonation button. As for accidental triggering, that was even more impossible; such critical trigger buttons usually had protective measures, making accidental triggering basically impossible.

Zheng Xin said thoughtfully.

Zhao Dezhu curled his lips and said: "Is it possible they felt there was no hope of survival and just gave up on themselves?"

Xin Qi waved his hands awkwardly and said: "Boss, I'm not qualified to know such questions, you have to ask Captain Pan..."

"Regardless of whether there was a spirit of sacrifice, this explosion... it was definitely detonated by someone, right? Why?"

"Could it be that there was more than one person hiding here, and they had an internal conflict?"

"Uh, Brother Su, it's blown up into such a state, should we still go down and look?"

Pan Guoliang sneered and said: "This was the explosive Ma Juguang had our Squad 2 secretly install. There were only two detonation remote controls, one in the hands of the Edge Squad captain, and the other with Ma Juguang. It seems Li Zhaohua was hiding in here before, just don't know why he wanted to detonate the explosives. Oh, right, Li Zhaohua is the captain of the Edge Squad."

Zhang Su was talking when his ears suddenly moved. With the recovery of his hearing, he heard a slightly unusual sound.

"Then I don't know."

"They don't have a shred of the spirit of sacrifice..."

Zhang Su nodded knowingly: "This kind of preventive measure is very necessary. The Edge Squad actually has quite a spirit of sacrifice."

"I was afraid the building would collapse before, so I didn't enter the lab. Now that it's like this, I feel it could collapse a second time at any moment, so I won't... Hmm? Wait a minute..."

Zhang Su looked at Zheng Xin with a strange expression, wondering if this good luck could even take care of her when she was reasoning?

His thoughts were similar to Zheng Xin's, but he knew because of the prompt from the subtitles in his mind that an explosion happened after one person died, and he made a reasonable deduction based on that. Zheng Xin didn't know anything.

Pan Guoliang shrugged; besides the parties involved, no one could explain such things.

Lu Yu looked at the ruins with disgust; there was blood and human tissue everywhere, and he felt there was nothing of value.

"On the surface, most of the corps members only knew about 000 to 003. Actually, not only was there the hidden 004, but there were also many modified zombies with short lifespans. Those things were especially dangerous. It wasn't because they were afraid they would create some monster they couldn't handle, so they installed explosives, similar to the self-destruct devices installed in some high-risk laboratories to prevent leakage risks. If a monster really went out of control, they could directly detonate the explosives, so as not to cause a major disaster."

Pan Guoliang didn't want Zhang Su to misunderstand anything, so he hurriedly explained, then continued: "Brother Zhang, you might not know, but the Green Dragon Corps scientific department has an Edge Squad, and they study all sorts of crooked things, like human modification, zombie modification, this and that!"

*Rustle, rustle*, sometimes like skin rubbing against cement, sometimes like crushing eggshells.

"Wait, there's movement down there, did you guys hear it..."

Zhang Su's gaze focused, he bent over slightly and tilted his head, wanting to listen more carefully.

"No... who's so awesome?"

Everyone looked at each other. They didn't doubt Zhang Su's deduction; as long as he said there was something, there definitely was. But to be able to survive an explosion of that level was a miracle!

"It's not human!"

Zhang Su suddenly frowned, took half a step back, held his rifle to his chest, and said: "There's the sound of a zombie down there!"

Even through some broken walls, he could hear the unique cry; the *ao-ao-ah-woo* sound was clearly a zombie.

If it were anywhere else, a single zombie wouldn't attract Zhang Su's attention. There were more than a dozen elite soldiers at the scene; let alone one zombie, they could take out a hundred by using the terrain. But right now, he didn't dare to be careless because below the pit in front of him was the Green Dragon Corps Edge Squad's laboratory!

The most critical point was that Zhang Su heard a hint of something unusual from the low roar; that sound had subtle differences from the roar of ordinary zombies, which made him alert.

The rest of the people were slightly puzzled by Zhang Su's look of facing a great enemy, but they also alerted themselves, ready to attack at any time.

In an instant, the scene became completely quiet, with only the sound of feet stepping on gravel. Everyone stared at the pit, and the scene seemed to turn into a painting, letting the cold wind slap their cheeks, and no one dared to slack off.

*Ao-woo-woo-woo! *

Suddenly, a muffled zombie roar came from under the ruins deep in the pit. This time everyone heard it clearly, and their faces changed in unison.

"Damn, there really is a zombie. Could it be that the person who was just blown to death has turned into a zombie?"

Zhao Dezhu held his gun with one hand, tilted his head to look down, his eyes filled with vigilance.

"Could it be like what Old Pan said, that there are other modified zombies hidden below?"

"Back off, back off first..."

Zhang Su became increasingly nervous after hearing that roar. Others didn't hear the clues, but that sound was different in his ears.

He heard something different. The roar of a normal zombie had no consciousness or emotion at all, and listening to it too much would make one feel stupid. But the roar just now was different; the sound was full of satisfaction, like sitting in a cool place after being in the sun all afternoon and gulping down half a bottle of ice beer, and at the same time, there was a strong desire for slaughter.

Zhang Su could be sure that this was definitely not his own imagination, but the true emotional expression within that sound.

*Swish, swish. *

The Lishan people had strong execution. The moment Zhang Su gave the order, they began to retreat slowly, but the terrain was complex, so the speed wasn't fast. And precisely because there were stones everywhere, they could hide by finding any cover.

However, just at this moment, a *whoosh* sound came from the pit, and a broken wall the size of a mahjong table was flipped out of the pit, just like a movie special effect, spinning and smashing to the side.

"Holy crap!"

Qi Xiaoshuai jumped with his butt stuck out. Fortunately, he was agile and barely dodged the broken wall; otherwise, if he had been hit, it would have hurt!

*Ao-woo-ao-woo-uh-uh... *

However, no one paid attention to Qi Xiaoshuai, because after the broken wall flew out, a figure appeared in the pit. Calling him a human was fine because he had too many human characteristics, but calling him a zombie was also fine because he possessed the same zombie traits!

"This damn..."

Zhao Dezhu's pupils contracted when he saw the half-human, half-zombie guy, and he was speechless for a moment.

One look at the guy standing in the pit was enough to determine he was definitely not an ordinary zombie. He was thin and tall, about two meters tall. His clothes were torn for some reason, and coupled with the destruction of the explosion, they hung on his body in tatters, which could be said to be barely covering his body.

From the exposed parts, one could see that the zombie was bright red all over, like a steamed big shrimp. Looking closely, one would find that it was red because it had no skin at all, and the muscle tissue was directly exposed. Those strips and strands, mixed with white fascia in between, gave a sense of a retreating dwarf!

Precisely because of these characteristics, it didn't look like a zombie, but more like a human!

Don't know if it was because of the explosion, but the zombie was emitting white mist all over. It could be seen that its body temperature was very high. Its eyes were pure white, with only a black bean-sized pupil embedded in the middle of the eyeball. Looking at it alone, it was very funny, but growing on a face with exposed muscles, it was very terrifying.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 300 =====