Boomer.
This type of Special Infected possessed an especially obese and cumbersome body, while also having terrifying corrosive abilities.
Its body was covered in pustules, and it could vomit bile onto humans, attracting ordinary infected to surround and attack the victim.
The Boomer’s bloated body did not move quickly.
It was like a balloon filled with rotten fluid, its semi-transparent skin wrapping around the writhing organs inside.
Yellow-green mucus continuously dripped from the corners of its mouth.
When it landed on the ground, it corroded black marks with a sizzling sound.
It moved its short, thick limbs, a nauseating gurgling sound building in its throat.
Then it suddenly raised its head and let out a disgusting retching noise.
The next instant…
A foul-smelling stream of yellow-green mucus shot out like an arrow, abruptly crossing a distance of more than thirty meters and spraying toward Suzuki, who was just about to step onto the bus stairs.
“Ah!!!!”
A heart-rending scream rang out.
Under everyone’s terrified gazes, Suzuki’s entire upper body was struck by the pus-like fluid.
The fabric of her clothes was instantly corroded, leaving large holes.
A burning, searing pain came from her skin.
Immediately afterward, the highly concentrated pus continued to seep through.
Almost in an instant, it burned through the girl’s abdomen.
Her still-wriggling crimson internal organs were exposed.
“Save me, save me…
I don’t want to die…
I don’t want to die!”
Her pupils gradually lost focus.
Her breathing fell into disorder.
A huge hole had been directly corroded through Suzuki’s entire waist and abdomen.
Blood mixed with pus flowed onto the ground, making strange sizzling sounds.
She stretched out her hand, screaming, desperately hoping someone would save her.
But the people around her avoided her like a plague, retreating in terror nonstop.
“Pshk!”
Yukino took a deep breath and gripped her military knife tightly, stepped forward decisively, and stabbed it into Suzuki’s brain.
“What are you all standing there for?
Get on the bus!”
Only then did everyone awaken as if from a dream.
Ignoring the crowding, they shoved and pushed each other as they desperately squeezed toward the bus door.
“I’m sorry…”
Yukino’s hands trembled as she glanced at the girl who had lost all signs of life.
She had no other choice.
She could only quickly pick up Suzuki’s gun, turn around, and swiftly rush forward.
At this moment…
Because of the bile contamination, the zombie horde had completely fallen into a riot.
“Shoot!
Shoot now!” someone screamed, pulling the trigger in panic.
“Bang!
Bang!”
Gunshots exploded across the empty parking lot.
It was like poking a hornet’s nest.
Dense black shadows surged from all directions like a tide.
Rotten hands clawed wildly in the air, and the roaring sounds merged into a noise powerful enough to tear eardrums apart. Visit g.com for the full chapter.
Amid the chaos…
The Charger had already rushed to the side of the team.
Its thick arm swung like a moving battering ram, casually smashing a member of the baseball club and sending him flying.
“Ah!!!!”
That person flew backward as if riding the clouds, then slammed hard into the side of the bus with a thud.
The crisp sound of bones shattering spread together with his scream.
Clearly, he would not live much longer.
“Get the hell away from me!!”
Tobe Kakeru reacted quickly.
He raised his baseball bat and smashed it toward the back of the Charger’s head, but the other party grabbed him with a backhand and lifted him into the air.
Its rotten palm clamped tightly around Kakeru’s lower leg.
Then it opened its bloody maw and bit down viciously.
“Ah—!”
Its sharp gums actually bit through Kakeru’s pant leg in an instant, sinking deep into his flesh.
A large patch of fresh red tendons was violently torn open, revealing pale-white bone stubble.
Blood rapidly gushed out like a fountain, dyeing the Charger’s huge mouth scarlet.
Tobe Kakeru was in so much pain that his entire body kept convulsing.
On the stark-white bone, the torn skin and rotten flesh swayed faintly like a flag, making everyone who saw it shudder.
“Damn it, shoot!
Hurry up and shoot!!!!” Hayato roared anxiously, his eyes nearly splitting with rage after seeing his friend’s misery.
Everyone opened fire together.
A dense barrage of bullets continuously erupted, bombarding the Charger’s deformed body and bursting into dazzling flashes of fire.
Bright flowers of blood kept exploding across its strong body, and it let out painful roars like a raging bull.
Under the intense pain, it suddenly flung its hand and violently threw Tobe Kakeru away.
“Kakeru!”
Under everyone’s cover, Hayato desperately rushed into the zombie horde.
In a panic, he reached out, carried Kakeru on his back, and charged back to the bus again.
“Don’t blame me!!”
Looking at the latter’s torn, bleeding thigh, Hayato knew that Kakeru’s leg was doomed to be unsalvageable.
Better short pain than long pain.
Losing one thigh was still better than being corroded by the virus and turning into a zombie.
Hayato gritted his teeth hard.
The sharp dagger flashed with cold light as he decisively chopped toward his friend’s bitten thigh!
“Shhk—!”
The sound of the blade cutting into flesh was ear-piercing.
Blood instantly gushed out like a fountain.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!”
Tobe let out a heart-rending scream and directly fainted from the pain.
Just then…
The Boomer sprayed mucus again, attacking the bus.
“Move!”
Without the slightest hesitation, Yuto directly pulled the grenade’s safety ring.
His arm swung in a powerful arc as he hurled the fragmentation grenade fiercely toward the zombie horde!
“Boom—!!!”
The instant the grenade exploded in midair, orange-red firelight tore through the gloom like the rising sun.
A scorching wave of air swept outward in a fan shape, carrying shrapnel with it!
The yellow-green mucus in midair was directly evaporated by the high temperature, turning into wisps of foul-smelling white smoke.
The zombies lunging around them were instantly blasted away.
A shallow crater was blown into the ground, and the charred edges still emitted green smoke.
The violent shockwave pushed everyone into stumbling backward.
Even the Boomer’s bloated body was shaken until it staggered, a pained growl coming from its throat.
But the brief opening had only just appeared before it was instantly filled again by the tide-like zombie horde…
Even worse, a massive black shadow that blotted out the sky had already pounced close!
“It’s the Charger!”
Yuto’s pupils suddenly shrank.
Before the Charger could hit him directly, he abruptly turned sideways to divert the force.
At the same time, he raised his hand and grabbed the other party’s thick arm.
Borrowing the momentum of the charge, he flipped backward with the force.
Not only was he not sent flying, he instead stepped onto the Charger’s shoulder and soared into the air!
In midair…
Lightning arcs crackled and exploded in his left palm.
Mana and stamina flowed rapidly, yet there was not the slightest trace of panic on him.
He quickly took out a Stamina Potion and drank it down.
“Magic · Lightning Arc Arrow!”
The next moment…
Four arrows wreathed in lightning rapidly condensed and erupted one after another, piercing straight into the center of the zombie horde below.
With a boom, they exploded!
Boom!
Boom!
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!!
Pale-blue electric currents spread out like a spiderweb, instantly entangling most of the zombies around him.
The paralysis effect froze them in place, and their skin instantly charred black and smoked.
Bang, bang, bang!!!
Yuto seized the opportunity to keep firing.
A furious torrent of firepower accurately shot toward the joints at the back of the Charger’s neck.
The moment flowers of blood burst open, the Charger’s movements paused, and it let out a painful roar.
Its movements instantly slowed.
For the time being, it was actually unable to catch up.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yuto, whose bullets had run out, launched a fierce counterattack.
Within the zombie horde…
He shifted and weaved without the slightest stagnation.
Sometimes he flipped over and crushed a zombie’s knee.
Sometimes he reversed his grip and broke an arm.
Even when more than a dozen zombies surrounded him from all directions, they could not even touch the corner of his clothes.
Rotten flesh and shattered bones splattered around him, only making his movements appear even sharper, like a blade tearing through the black tide!
“Is…
is he still human?”
Everyone stared dumbfounded, shaken by the astonishing combat power Yuto displayed.
Hayato’s eyes widened, and cold sweat faintly appeared on his palms.
At this moment, a huge sense of relief rose in his heart.
He felt that choosing to follow Yuto had truly been the wisest decision he had ever made.
“…”
Yukino was similarly stunned.
She stared blankly at that figure moving unhindered across the battlefield.
Her mouth was so wide that it looked as if an egg could fit inside.
The hand that had been about to raise her gun in support suddenly froze in midair.
Wasn’t this person’s strength improving far too quickly!?