Zayn's entourage arrived in a town a few miles from New Jersey, but no one could tell where their exact location because there was no GPS, and the signposts had disappeared from the streets.
They decided to stop because they saw a swarm of zombies roaming freely in front, indicating they had entered a dangerous zone with many threats.
"We've arrived at the zombies and monsters zone. How are you going to do your field test this time, boss?" Rick took his modified high-caliber rifle.
"I need to get closer to the zombies crowd and conduct a direct test on test subjects. Avoid any unnecessary encounters or clashes. We will approach them without them noticing." Zayn got off his hummer with two longswords. He also carried several small bags containing various vials of serum, poison, and so on.
"..." Angie also got out of the car, carrying her dual daggers.
She looked at the zombies under the overpass but soon lost interest as she couldn't spot any possible targets to hunt.
"Roger. We'll keep your back with these big guns." Steven immediately divided his squad into two teams. One would go with Zayn, and the other would safeguard the entire situation.
Rico and Steven's team was also divided, so there would be no disputes or trust issues.
"Let's go." Zayn gestured to Angie, and she immediately followed him.
"..." Angie held her hand towards Zayn because they always held hands when exploring a place, but Zayn's hands were full. He was holding a sword and a bag containing anti-zombie formulas.
Angie then retracted her hand and followed Zayn silently to an empty building.
"Third floor is safe. Let's go." Tom gave a gesture after checking upstairs.
Zayn and everyone immediately went upstairs. He went to the broken window, and the other soldiers guarded the room.
*Squawk* *Squawk* *Rumble*
A commotion sounded from far away, drawing everyone's attention toward the source of the sound.
"What the-" Rick gasped as he looked at the situation at the end of the street below with his binoculars.
He could see five ten-foot-tall chickens feasting on the smaller monsters and zombies as their food.
Those giant birds possessed pick-axe-like beaks, but their force was enough to crunch the smaller monsters and zombies like their simple snacks.
"Wow..." Zayn mumbled but wasn't surprised at all. He had met the more scary monsters in that dungeon, and those big chickens were still considered ordinary monsters.
"If chickens can mutate that much, maybe we can turn them into giant grilled chickens? Are mutated animals edible?" A soldier asked while wiping his saliva. The grilled chicken was his favorite food, and he could already see those monsters walking around the street as grilled chickens.
"The mutated beasts are monsters that have been indirectly affected by the zombies virus. Although some of them don't look like rotting zombies in general, they contain flesh with dangerous contamination like rank two zombies. That is the result of a study conducted three days ago." Zayn rolled his eyes. It was the first time he heard that humans were interested in eating mutated animals.
"Well, go ahead and eat that giant grilled chicken if you want to be a zombie. However, we won't be joining your banquet, Ron." Rick also rolled his eyes.
"Well, I was just talking." Ron straightened his back.
"They're approaching here. It seems, those giant birds are the predators in the area around here. Let's make one of them our test subject. Since they look scary, let's call them terror birds." Zayn took out a vial of dark pink liquid.
*Gulp*
The soldiers gulped their saliva nervously and tensely. Those big chickens are approaching, but that's not the source of their worry.
This event was the second time they escorted Zayn for a field test. Every time Zayn took out a vial of liquid, it always ended up terrifyingly affecting those poor monsters or zombies.
One thing that still confused everyone was Zayn had not officially released anything after the anti-zombification serum type I. But, it was an open secret that Zayn already had many formulas in stock.
Zayn waited for the right opportunity when one of the terror birds was hunting a zombie near their hideout. When that monster was devouring that zombie, he immediately threw a dark pink liquid vial into its wide open beak.
*Splatter*
The vial shattered, and the dark pink liquid entered the monster's throat.
"Hmm, it should have a confusing-like effect. That monster won't be able to distinguish friend or foe and attack everyone indiscriminately till death." Zayn nodded and muttered under his breath. He waited for the formula to take effect and observed the changes in that monster's behaviors.
"!!!" All the soldiers gasped in shock. This time, they would witness a poison to make the monster rampage to death!?
"???" Angie was also curious about what kind of stunning effect Zayn's discoveries had this time.
She contributed to Zayn's formulas by helping him with this and that, so it was also her products.
"!!!" The terror bird was confused for a moment. After that, it swallowed a fat zombie.
Its body heated up, and some hormones spiked drastically. A priority command was sent to its brain shortly after.
"Squawk!" The terror bird's giant torpedo went erect. It instantly lunged at whatever was nearby and pounded them one by one.
Unfortunately, the low-tier zombies couldn't satisfy the terror bird's passion. Disgruntled, the crazed terror bird rushed towards its kindred and pounded the closest one on the ground. It couldn't distinguish the male or female. All were attacked as the terror bird in heat wanted to breed.
The terror bird in heat attacked, and the other retaliated against its strange kindred. However, the terror bird in the heat received a tremendous physical force due to its insane desire to sow its seeds to all creatures around it.
*Squawk!* *Rumble!* *Rumble!*
A great commotion broke out, and a chase ensued. The terror bird in heat couldn't be stopped.
"..." The soldiers went speechless. It wasn't a poison formula to make monsters rampage and attack blindly to death.
That dark pink liquid was literally a potent aphrodisiac that made even a terrifying monster subject to lustful desires.
"Wonderful. This is a big success, Angie! Look at that monster, attacking all monsters around it. It even has a unique fighting technique to conquer to others. That monster capable to push its kindred into fear and submission even if it's one on four!" Zayn was feeling happy. He clapped his hands on Angie's.
"!~" Angie also felt happy, but she felt something strange about that terror bird.
"Ugh, how do we tell him?" Tom scratched his head as he asked the others' opinions.
"I don't know if he was just joking or just pretending not to know. However, that pink poison can indeed make a scary monster attack everything indiscriminately, but in a different sense."
"He's literally right. I believe he's no stranger to that situation because he probably does that thing to his girlfriend almost every day."
"Tsk, I'm so jealous. They are a happy couple."
"Yeah, we're all made of seeds. Are we going to let those monsters to breed?"
"I don't know, friend."
The soldiers discussed briefly in a whisper-like voice.
Zayn then watched the terror bird in heat's assaults for another few minutes, but that monster wouldn't stop attacking. Its four kindreds were already limp on the ground. However, that one was still vigorous and pounded other creatures without being picky. As long as there was a hole, there was a way.
"I think that's enough for here. Let's find another place to conduct a new research." Zayn wrote a few things in his notebook, then stood up. He offered his hand to Angie, and she accepted it.
"We have to get out of here now quickly through the back lane, or we could also be attacked by that crazed terror bird." Zayn ran away, hand-in-hand with Angie.
"!!!" The soldiers immediately followed Zayn to escape from the vicinity as they didn't want to be a victim of a terror bird in heat.