"Wh… why are there women here?!"
The group saw several women with slender figures, sitting on the ground with their legs in an internal angle, their bodies twitching with the sobbing sounds.
They seemed oblivious to the presence of the men behind them. Under the intense light of the searchlights, their skin looked so pale that the veins beneath were faintly visible.
"Are they zombies or humans?! Why aren't they afraid of the strong light?!"
One mercenary, unable to endure the eerie atmosphere, prepared to approach for a closer look, but was stopped by Captain Gilbert.
"They're zombies. You can see that their skin is undergoing decay under ultraviolet light, but it's happening more slowly than with other zombies…"
Upon hearing the captain, the group noticed this abnormality. The faces of these women, which were not fully visible, began to peel away under the strong light, revealing the crimson muscle tissue inside, and their sobbing grew more distressing!
"Damn it! Whether they're human or monster, in a place like this, no matter how beautiful they are, they shouldn't be spared!"
Philip, with his bad temper, didn't care about any further contemplation. He grabbed a submachine gun from one of his subordinates and began to fire wildly at the women's backs on the stairs.
"Ah!!!!"
In an instant, the alluring figures were riddled with bullet holes, thick green blood splattered, and their screams became even more agonizing!
Finally, their heads turned almost 180 degrees, revealing their true faces: eyes glowing with bloody red light, rotting faces, and long tongues hanging down to their chests.
The feeling of pity for these women vanished instantly.
The attacked female zombies immediately tried to charge down the stairs to attack the group, but the mercenaries had already aimed their guns at them and hesitated not to pull the trigger!
Bang! Bang! Bang!!
With a series of gunshots, the heads of the female zombies were blasted into a sieve, falling to the ground, while their bodies continued to twitch reflexively.
"Alright, continue moving forward."
Captain Gilbert issued the command again, but he also felt uneasy because these female zombies seemed to have some immunity to the searchlights. They did not avoid the light like other zombies. Was this a sign of their evolution?
After this minor interruption, the group proceeded more cautiously, as they didn't know what new type of zombie might appear.
As the two mercenaries carrying the searchlights were about to step over the bodies of the headless female zombies, they suddenly noticed a movement at their feet!
When they looked closer, there was no movement. Could it be that their nerves were getting the better of them?
"Hey! What are you two dawdling for? If you're tired, switch with someone else. Don't waste the whole team's time!"
Captain Philip's loud voice startled the two mercenaries, prompting them to move quickly. As they stepped over the bodies of the female zombies, a screeching sound suddenly reached their ears, and the headless female zombies began to move again!
And this time, everyone saw it!
"Quick, fall back…"
Gilbert noticed the anomaly and prepared to have them retreat quickly, but it was too late. A dark shadow suddenly emerged from under a headless female corpse and darted toward one of the mercenaries with incredible speed, so fast that no one could clearly see what it was!
Squeak~~
The small shadow, accompanied by a spine-chilling high-pitched laugh, pounced on the mercenary's leg in the blink of an eye, viciously biting at his leg and causing him to scream in agony!
At the same time, the group finally saw what the shadow was: a tiny, naked zombie baby, only slightly larger than a hand!
The zombie baby still had an umbilical cord attached, its skin as pale as the female zombies, but its eyes were pitch black with no whites visible!
As it made squeaking noises, it opened its mouth full of sharp teeth and bit into the mercenary's ankle, quickly gnawing off his entire right foot!
The mercenary, in excruciating pain from the sudden loss of his limb, lost his balance and was about to fall. The zombie baby was poised to leap onto his neck to bite through his throat!
Bang!!!
At that moment, Captain Philip suddenly raised his right foot, clad in hard leather boots, and kicked the creature away with strong disgust. It slammed into the wall with a dull thud and exploded into a bloody mess splattered across the wall.
"This damn thing is so disgusting. Where did it come from?!"
The burly Philip grabbed the still-screaming mercenary with the severed leg and tossed him to the medics behind, then had another mercenary take over the searchlight.
Soon, the answer he sought presented itself again.
Other female zombie corpses started to wriggle as well!
No, it was their swollen bellies dragging their bodies around!
These zombie fetuses were indeed birthed by the female zombies!
It wasn't unusual for zombies to engage in such acts, and many had witnessed it. The scene was too disgusting to describe, but the fact that female zombies still had reproductive functions and could "give birth" to zombie babies was unheard of!
The group watched as the bellies of the female zombies grew more distended, the zombie fetuses within about to burst out.
Bang! Bang! Bang!!!
Captain Gilbert immediately raised his powerful anti-material sniper rifle and fired repeatedly at the swollen bellies, turning the zombie fetuses into a mass of goo before they could be born.
"Don't just stand around in such abnormal situations. Open fire immediately!"
He coldly tossed the sniper rifle back to his subordinate, clearly frustrated with the situation.
In such a place, there's no way anything normal could exist. Spot an anomaly and just shoot—it's never wrong!
As Gilbert prepared to lead the team upward, Xia Leng suddenly turned his head, frowning as he looked into the dark depths.
"What's wrong? Did you see something?"
Gilbert noticed Xia Leng's unusual behavior and asked. It was the first time he saw any expression other than coldness on Xia Leng's face.
"This floor is filled with those kinds of zombies!"
As soon as Xia Leng's words fell, the entire tenth floor was filled with the eerie sound of women crying!
When the searchlight was directed back, hundreds of big-bellied female zombies lurking on the floor immediately rushed towards the team, claws outstretched!
Above the floor, similar mournful cries and chaotic footsteps approached from the upper levels!
The entire team was trapped in an encirclement from both above and below…