Zayn took his iron rod and held it with both hands. He had to do something, so this skeleton zombie wouldn't chase him.
*Slash*
The skeleton zombie swung its big clawed hand, and Zayn tried to deflect it off with his iron rod. Unfortunately, his weapon could not deflect the sharpness of the monster's claws.
"What?" Zayn gasped when he found his iron rod was split in two. He then glanced at his jet-black hands and used them to deflect the claw attack before it tore him apart.
"!?" Zayn was pushed back a few meters. He was surprised to see his hands were still intact when they came into direct contact with the blade-sharp claws. Did he receive a superpower now? The super hands?
He then defended against another attack then punched the skeleton zombie's head before taking some distance.
That skeleton zombie's head was unbelievably hard, and that punch meant nothing, only adding to the ferocious fury.
Zayn tried his best not to get torn apart by the zombie skeleton attacks. He couldn't keep up with his opponent's godly speed. Still, the itching and heat from the previous orange liquid affected the skeleton zombie's movements.
Therefore, Zayn could dodge in time, defend, take the distance, and flee to keep the danger away from Angie. He tried to find an opportunity to salvage their situation on the sidelines. For some reason, he could read this zombie's attack patterns despite its incredible speed.
"Roar!" The skeleton zombie roared and growled as every attack failed to tear its opponent.
*Clang!* *Clang!* *Swoosh*
Zayn continued being pushed back and cornered by the skeleton zombie's barrage of blind attacks. Then, his opponent suddenly disappeared from before him.
"!!!" Zayn gasped and felt danger from behind. He turned around and warded off the claw attacks by shifting them aside to avoid direct contact with the blade-sharp claws.
At that moment, Angie felt angry. She could see Zayn was injured by that skeleton zombie. Zayn was her human, her masterpiece, her property, and also her caretaker. She would never let anyone hurt him, but that ugly-looking creature dared to do that? That creature must be destroyed.
Angie stretched out her hand towards that ugly-looking creature. She would do something, but she hesitated to do it because it could hit Zayn too.
"Now, I'm here ugly crocodile!" Zayn shouted loudly, trying to get the attention of the black estuarine crocodile monster not far away.
"Grr!" The giant black estuarine crocodile noticed the loud scream not far away. It immediately chased the sound source, feeling the previous target was there.
"!?" The skeleton zombie could sense the sudden tremor from behind. The ground seemed to tremble, and another high-rank zombie was approaching.
"Hey." Zayn smirked when he saw the opening. He took out a vial of blue liquid and spilled it onto the skeleton zombie's body.
After that, he threw the vial in another direction and immediately fled back toward Angie.
"We're running away now." Zayn grabbed Angie's hand and ran away.
"Roar!" The giant black estuarine crocodile opened its mouth full of sharp sawtooth and bit into the location of the source of the sound.
*Bam!*
The skeleton zombie dodged the giant monster's bite. It then looked at the running humans and was about to give chase with its godly speed.
"!!!" The giant black estuarine crocodile wagged its tail like a deadly whip at the skeleton zombie. For so many reasons, that skeleton zombie looked absolutely delicious. It must devour that tasty prey at all cost
*Bang!*
The skeleton zombie crashed into a boulder, creating a cobweb-cracking effect.
"Grrr!" The skeleton zombie was unbelievably angry and annoyed right now. But, its focus was only on the giant black estuarine crocodile now.
The furious skeleton zombie sped up to attack its opponent. The giant black estuarine crocodile retaliated with another deadly attack like it had gone berserk.
The scent emitted by the blue liquid also caused the skeleton zombie to go crazy. The delicious scent immediately attracted several monsters around the battle site and rushed over there.
Zayn took the opportunity to run and keep running. He looked back once and found no one was after him, but a commotion broke out in the distance.
However, he ignored the monsters rushing towards the battlefield back there because it was none of his business. He just needed to get out of the monster's lair with Angie safely.
Some feelings of relief flowed from inside Zayn's mind, making the other entities inside Zayn feel that the danger was no longer there. His jet-black hands gradually returned to normal, and the wound on his back slowly healed.
Angie ran to match Zayn's pace. She then looked back once to check something. After that, she lost interest and looked at Zayn's hands.
It had become like the Zayn's hands she remembered. The ultimate lifeform that she helped merge with Zayn's body did a great job of saving Zayn. She nodded in satisfaction as it didn't disappoint her.
The two of them ran and kept running until they came out of the forest area of the dangerous monster's lair. However, the sight that greeted the eyes after that was the area of the dead city filled with zombies.
"We came out of the monster's lair, but came to the territory of the humanoid zombies now?" Zayn widened his eyes in disbelief.
However, he soon calmed down because he could see those zombies were not as scary as the monsters in the forest and dungeons. He always ran and refused to face one, but it seemed he could feel safer surviving in this territory.
"We're going there." Zayn chose the route that had the fewest zombies and rushed there.
After walking a few dozen meters, Zayn felt his subconscious being pulled into a ruined dwelling. He felt a little confused, but he still came there nevertheless.
Zayn took a peek into an open underground garage and found nothing there. There were only the remains of shattered shelves and scattered tools. For some mysterious reason, he was relieved.
"Hmm..." Zayn scratched his head. He didn't understand why he was relieved to find nothing in that underground garage.
Zayn looked at his hands in amazement. He felt his strength rise in the grim situation earlier. "My hands are back to normal?"
He tried to use his super hands again, but he could no longer use that mysterious power. Therefore, he took a metal bat from the open garage for self-defense.
"We made it out of that monster's lair, Angie. Here, please take this for self-defense. Don't throw away your weapon like that iron rod." Zayn handed over another metal bat to Angie.
"???" Angie accepted it and swung it a few times. It was pretty heavy but within reasonable length, unlike the previous iron rod. She would bring this thing because Zayn asked her nicely.
"It's getting late. Let's find a place that has clothes for us." Zayn looked up at the evening sky.
"..." Angie only answered by holding out her hand. She already felt it was their custom to travel hand in hand. She would feel Zayn was always nearby because of it.
"All right. Since you're holding one of my hands, you have to help me smash those zombie's heads then. We need to find a place to spend the night too." Zayn smiled faintly. He felt that they didn't need to hold hands while traveling like in that dungeon, but he couldn't possibly refuse his comrade's request.