Just a single glance at the direction was enough to instill an unprecedented sense of danger in Xia Leng!
What kind of formidable monster could be hiding inside that building?
Moreover, those zombies transporting food were likely heading straight for that location!
Had the zombies here evolved a leadership-based social system?
Is it possible that there's a "Zombie King" leading these zombies, planning and orchestrating their attacks, using them as bait to encircle and hunt enemies?
Everything was still a mystery.
In this bizarre apocalyptic world, anything strange and unusual was possible.
This reminded Xia Leng of something he had heard from a wandering wasteland merchant.
The merchant had once witnessed a strong zombie with relatively intact skin and a straight back, standing on a mountain peak with an object similar to a telescope, seemingly observing a temporary refugee settlement below. It was accompanied by two lean zombies acting like bodyguards.
The most eerie part was that the next day, the merchant heard that the temporary refugee settlement had been ravaged by an extremely brutal force during the night. Almost no survivors were left, and the entire camp was littered with bodies and fragmented flesh.
Despite having guards on duty at night, they had mysteriously become ineffective, as if the enemy had already mapped out their positions and eliminated them first.
The merchant had linked this massacre with the zombie he saw and had started spreading the rumor that zombies were evolving intelligence.
But people had laughed it off, dismissing it as the merchant's imagination mistaking deformed refugees for zombies.
Now, it seemed the merchant might not have been wrong. These zombies had evolved to a point where they had their own social system...
The intense and dangerous aura emanating from the building ahead put tremendous pressure on Xia Leng.
His subconscious told him that he wasn't a match for whatever was inside, but also hinted that the mysterious powerful being in the building could greatly enhance his own abilities!
This conflicting thought was warring in Xia Leng's mind!
But in the end, his cautious rationality prevailed.
After all, the densely packed zombies in the center of the plaza could easily tear him to pieces.
Perhaps he could use the heavily armed mercenaries in the fortress to solve this problem.
Previously, Xia Leng had seen not only heavy weapons set up at the entrance but also noticed several old-era armored vehicles and even tanks parked inside.
Under the modification of these mercenaries, these vehicles had mostly regained their mobility.
Although zombies had fierce biting power, trying to devour a tank weighing dozens of tons was akin to a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
As for why the Komodo Mercenary Company didn't simply send a large team to eliminate these zombies occupying the commercial street, it was because ammunition and fuel were also scarce in the apocalypse. It was better to conserve resources for fighting other hostile mercenary companies and shelters.
However, the Komodo Company would definitely be interested in the evolution of mutated creatures.
Every organization was spending vast amounts of resources to study the sudden collapse of the world and find ways to enhance humanity.
They tried everything possible to transform their ordinary mercenaries into powerful "baptizers" to conquer this broken world, leading to various human experimentation.
For instance, fusing mutated creature genes with human genes or forcibly embedding their crystals into the brains of mercenaries.
Although all such experiments ended in brutal failures, research departments of major organizations still hadn't given up on creating artificial baptizers.
Especially for newly discovered mutated creatures, organizations were willing to spend heavily to purchase relevant clues.
Thus, bounty hunters existed in the wasteland, specializing in hunting new types of mutated creatures or unrecorded baptizers to achieve wealth and glory.
So, Xia Leng decided to let the mercenaries be his pawns and use them to penetrate the dangerous building ahead. The Komodo Mercenary Company would definitely not miss the opportunity to study these zombies' strange behavior.
As he turned to head back for now, a sharp gaze, like a cold arrow, suddenly shot from behind towards his back, making Xia Leng feel another wave of danger!
He quickly turned around!
In a certain floor of the building ahead, a pair of deep purple eyes with a cold and violent aura were fixed on his location!
Were these the eyes of the mysterious creature? Had he been discovered?
Roar!!!!!
At the moment Xia Leng's gaze met the pair of purple eyes, the massive group of zombies in the plaza suddenly let out deafening roars and all turned to look towards his hidden position!
The crimson glow of the zombies' eyes made Xia Leng's vision turn dark red!
"Damn it!"
The instant he was detected by the enemy, Xia Leng's leg muscles surged, his knees slightly bent, and all the Blacklight Virus in his body began to concentrate in his legs. Then he shot forward like an arrow!
This single leap took him dozens of meters away, leaving everything behind, as he sprinted towards the exit of the Dead Man's Street!
The zombies in the plaza, reacting almost as if given a mysterious command, surged forward like ants discovering food, charging at the human intruder!
At this moment, Xia Leng concentrated all his strength in his legs, achieving a running speed of nearly a hundred meters in six seconds, far exceeding a Tier 1 agile apocalypse hunter and even reaching or surpassing Tier 2!
Thus, he left the zombie horde far behind, hearing their furious and unwilling roars!
However, Xia Leng didn't let his guard down. While maintaining his high speed, he remained vigilant of his surroundings.
Crash~
His caution proved correct. Just as he was about to cross an intersection ahead, windows of the surrounding buildings suddenly shattered, and a large number of terrifying zombies jumped down like raindrops!
The zombies lying in ambush in the buildings fell to the ground and roared as they charged towards Xia Leng, forming a pincer attack with the zombies coming from behind!
The deafening roars of the zombies almost shattered the windows of the buildings!
Thousands of zombies were enough to overwhelm any enemy with a sea of corpses!
And Xia Leng, amidst this sea of zombies, was like the filling of a dumpling about to be surrounded!