Virus King - Chapter 38

Chapter 38: A Terrifying Massacre! A Mutant Ignoring Firepower!

TL: YYang

On the streets of Jiangcheng, with each passing day, the number of people walking outside visibly dwindled.

People sought to avoid infection from the rumored zombie virus crisis.

Unfortunately, if the infection were only as it currently appeared, indeed, under strict isolation, one could protect oneself and one’s safety to a large extent.

However, once the apocalypse erupted, and the magnetic field triggered the virus that had already entered many people’s bodies through their breath, it would fully activate!

By that time, the cries for help would fall on deaf ears—no one would answer, and no place would provide refuge.

In an area on the outskirts of Jiangcheng, not exactly remote but still on the city’s fringe—

A massive factory stood there.

At this moment, the factory entrance had unknowingly become tightly surrounded, impenetrable!

Guards wielding real, loaded firearms watched the factory gates nervously as ominous sounds echoed from within.

In their hands were no longer the mere handguns used by Song Ziqiong’s previous bodyguards, but genuine submachine guns.

Such weaponry was beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Yet, despite being experienced fighters, and widely knowledgeable in their respective posts, these guards could not help but tremble slightly as they gripped their weapons.

They were terrified, gripped by fear!

Even the life-reaping machines in their hands, capable of spraying bullets wildly, could not provide them a shred of safety!

The source of their fear was that enormous figure, slowly emerging from the factory, each step shaking the ground like an earthquake!

A mountain of flesh!

In that instant, this was the only name that surfaced in everyone’s minds!

If this giant zombie before them had a name, it could only be called the Flesh Mountain!

Standing a full six meters tall, it smashed through the factory’s gates, shattering the barrier blocking its head.

Its body, nearly as wide as its height, stretched across like a wall of flesh!

Over six meters tall, over six meters wide.

If they hadn’t seen it with their own eyes, no one would have believed such a creature existed.

Yet, this wasn’t even the most horrifying part.

The most horrifying aspect lay in the massive creature’s body, where, amid its swaying mass, other human body parts occasionally appeared!

Pale faces, arms squirming over its bulk, and even small torsos.

This monstrous body looked like a patchwork creation, stitched together from various human remains.

Its terror was unimaginable.

For the average person, even a single glance would evoke not only dread but likely an overwhelming sense of revulsion!

The leader of the group, staring at this colossal being, displayed fear on his face. But when it fully emerged, he raised his hand and gave the signal!

In an instant, everyone, who had long been waiting for the order, pressed the triggers on their guns!

The sounds of gunfire exploded like firecrackers, as bullets—like the scythe of death—whizzed through the air, descending in a barrage upon that immense figure!

The creature’s thick fat absorbed the bullets like a punching bag, as if offering no resistance whatsoever!

‘Rat-a-tat-tat-tat…’

Each magazine in the submachine guns held only thirty rounds.

In this torrent of gunfire, lasting merely over ten seconds, the forty-man armed squad had poured over a thousand rounds of metal bullets into that enormous body.

Empty shell casings clattered to the ground in a continuous stream!

The gunfire ceased, but almost everyone instinctively forgot to reload their magazines, staring in shocked silence at the scene before them!

That firepower, dense enough to shred a mammoth into pieces, was embedded in the creature’s thick fat!

Torn chunks of flesh frenziedly churned and writhed.

However, in the next instant, that sunken fat rebounded with unimaginable speed, bouncing back almost as quickly as it had been compressed, just a tad slower!

“Everyone, cover!”

The commander’s shout had barely faded when a ricocheting bullet pierced straight through his forehead. Immediately, countless bullets followed, turning his body into a sieve!

Not only him, but nearly half of the forty-man squad was wiped out in the first round of fire!

Paralyzed in fear…

In that moment, the remaining guards, whose hands had already been trembling, froze on the spot.

They didn’t know what to do!

This was overwhelming power.

Human courage and willpower remain unbreakable only when there’s hope. Without hope, so-called willpower is no more than fluff blowing in the wind.

Hope, no matter the circumstances, was always the most crucial thing.

And now, hope was shattered.

It wasn’t just the guards who felt this; on a small hillside not far from the factory, a group of figures with cameras trained on the scene watched with their mouths agape in disbelief.

One of them, holding a camera, glanced nervously and fearfully at the ambitious female host by his side, who was rapidly rising to fame at the station.

“Sister Lu, should we keep going?!”

This person was none other than the host who had appeared on Jiangcheng TV earlier that morning!

Lu Li’s face was pale.

She was a woman deeply driven by ambition!

After joining the station, she had risen from a junior reporter to her current position in just over a year—a testament to her ability, and, admittedly, a bit of “small” assistance from her background.

But clearly, Lu Li wasn’t satisfied yet.

This mysterious zombie virus incident, though heavily covered up by the authorities to prevent extensive reporting, struck her as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

As a media professional—and one who recognized the rare potential of this event—Lu Li had seized any chance she could find, pushing her way here the moment she caught word of something happening in Jiangcheng.

Of course, she had come in secret.

Jiangcheng TV strictly prohibited any in-depth reporting on this subject.

Besides Xiao Zhou, a fresh graduate intern from Jiangcheng University with a bit of a crush on her, she didn’t trust anyone else to accompany her here.

But what Lu Li hadn’t anticipated was that the creature appearing on her screen this time would be such a monstrous abomination!

Lu Li bit her red lips tightly, unsure of what exactly she was trying to accomplish by staying.

Then, in the next moment, a sudden explosion rang out, vibrating the ground beneath their feet.

Lu Li turned her head blankly, while Xiao Zhou, who had been watching closely, spoke up:

“They’re using grenades!”

Grenades!

Lu Li quickly turned her gaze back to the scene, where smoke and dust now filled the air!

For a moment, she couldn’t see anything!

However, within that thick smoke, a bone-chilling, blood-curdling scream echoed throughout the entire factory area on the outskirts.

It sent shivers down everyone’s spine!

Lu Li felt a chill grip her heart.

Because she could see, through the smoke, that enormous figure still standing there. Though fragments from the explosion had embedded themselves in its body, they left only a few small wounds, trickling dark blood.

Not even a minor injury—barely a scratch on its skin!

But what made her blood run cold was the sight of that giant Flesh Mountain’s head. As it devoured a gun-wielding guard, its malevolent, piercing gaze turned directly towards her from across the distance!

It was over!

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