In the zombies’ eyes, these were “people”—flesh and blood.
Even though they were wearing “pen holders” on their heads, the zombies still swarmed out in full force.
Many were 1.8-meter-tall athlete students—whoosh, running past; whoosh, running back.
You couldn’t even see them.
At first, there weren’t many.
The humans in the pen holders released weak currents, but no matter how they zapped, they couldn’t hit the lightning-fast athlete students.
After a moment, the zombies suddenly multiplied.
They all came out.
Sure enough, something had been watching from the shadows.
Those zombies even toyed with the humans. They ran at incredible speeds, deliberately ramming the “pen holders” and sending them sliding everywhere.
The whole field was nothing but countless shadows.
One of the pen holders contained Gao Yuxuan. He roared: “Now!”
Suddenly, the humans who could only emit weak currents began violent output—
Blue and purple currents crackled through the air.
The electric-type superpower users had deliberately spread out, and now their currents intertwined and converged, forming an electrical net across the entire area!
The speed zombies seemed to hit a pause button—twisting, struggling, or dropping straight to the ground.
Moli had been lurking on the wall the whole time.
Finally, it was his turn to appear.
The black cat leaped into the air and transformed into a black panther mid-flight, landing inside the electrical net—
He got zapped.
His fur puffed up.
Moli: “…”
You could tell just how hard Gao Yuxuan and the other electric-types were pushing themselves this time!
Moli transformed! His body grew massive!
Alright—as long as his hide was tough enough and his flesh thick enough, the shock didn’t bother him anymore.
It was just that he was too big to use his mouth effectively.
So he started using his paws—one swipe could kill several zombies at once. It was just that the zombies’ deaths were gruesome.
Everyone had been briefed in advance about Moli’s situation and was mentally prepared for his transformation.
Though the gigantification exceeded expectations, he was on their side—the other districts’ electric-types could only manage a “holy shit.”
But swatting zombies to death—especially swatting still-standing zombies to death—was a bit beyond what people could psychologically accept.
Mainly because it wasn’t just visually horrifying—it splattered!
Liquids! Solids! Bits and pieces! Everywhere!
The pen holders had ventilation holes. The debris clattering against them was one thing, but liquid could penetrate through the ventilation holes, okay?!
That was enough to drive a person insane!
The zombies on the periphery started to flee.
Collective fleeing—no need to guess. You could tell just by looking that there was a commander.
The electrical net retracted, and everyone gave chase.
Each “pen holder” had four office chair wheels underneath.
Inside the pen holder, there were handles to prevent falling when bumped.
Everyone chased the zombies in their pen holders—and as they chased, they discovered… run a bit first, then grab the handles and lift your feet, and you could glide!
The superpower users: “…” This is actually fun!
The main force outside received Gao Yuxuan’s message from inside and began entering the campus.
They found the electric-type superpower users in front of a building.
Cui Haiyang went over to help Gao Yuxuan open his “pen holder.” Gao Yuxuan came out cursing: “They’re pretty afraid of dying—they hid inside and won’t come out! The door’s shut! And barricaded! A bunch of things that were already dead to begin with!”
The electric-type superpower users were all underneath their pen holders—they couldn’t get out on their own. They were quite heavy.
They had to wait for a metal-type superpower user to come “open” them.
Once the electric-types were all released, the superpower users surrounded the building—it looked like some kind of gymnasium. The school had several gymnasiums; no one knew what this one was for.
In any case, after studying it for a while, they spotted a water faucet and a rubber hose nearby.
Gao Yuxuan: “Jiangbing! Come!”
So they started running water.
The tap water flowing on the ground, under Li Jiangbing’s control, moved as if alive, seeping through the gap under the main door.
Gao Yuxuan stood beside him: “More, more!”
Once the water spread across the entire building’s floor—then they’d discharge electricity. That would kill them for sure!
But from inside the building, a hoarse, desperate shout suddenly rang out: “Don’t discharge! Don’t discharge! There are living people! Don’t discharge! I’m in here!”
Everyone was stunned.
When they recovered, they all said: “Open the door! Hurry, save him!”
Weren’t zombies hiding inside? How could there be a living person?
But Jiang Cheng shouted: “Everyone fall back!”
Jiang Cheng had always commanded respect. When she said fall back, even though everyone was anxious to save the person, they still retreated.
Jiang Cheng had Li Jiangbing go up and shout: “Can you come out? We’re about to discharge electricity!”
The door opened from the inside, and a middle-aged man stumbled out: “Help, help—it’s all zombies!”
But Jiang Cheng shouted: “Haiyang!”
Cui Haiyang flicked his fingers, and the chainsaw chains shot through the air like snakes, wrapping around the man and binding him tightly.
The man fell to the ground.
Everyone aimed their weapons at the open door, but no zombies came out.
Jiang Cheng walked over and asked the man on the ground: “Where are the zombies?”
Someone helped the man up. Everyone could see he was middle-aged and looked fairly sturdy.
The man said: “In-inside?”
He was still racking his brains trying to come up with lies to fool these people, but Jiang Cheng had already seen through him: “You’re the one controlling the zombies?”
So many zombies had run inside—how could a single living person survive in there?
Though they’d never encountered this before, logic led to the obvious conclusion: he was the one controlling the zombies.
Seeing he’d been exposed, the man’s eyes turned vicious.
Suddenly, the roar of zombies erupted from the gymnasium—the zombies that had hidden inside began charging out.
Gao Yuxuan roared: “Jiangbing!”
The water on the ground rushed toward the gymnasium at incredible speed!
Gao Yuxuan twisted his shoulder, swept his right hand in a circular arc from behind him forward, and slapped it down onto the water on the ground—the electric current snaked upward and raced along the water!
So cool!
The speed zombies were slowed, and Moli let out a roar and charged into the gymnasium, slaughtering everything in his path!
Director Yu quietly told President Xu: “Do you know how many times he’s practiced that?”
That move—right arm twisting, sweeping a circle, slapping down onto the ground while dropping to one knee, left arm swinging back and up in a cool pose—Director Yu had seen Gao Yuxuan practice it many times.
But Director Yu didn’t mention that he’d secretly practiced it too.
—
When all the speed zombies were eliminated, Changxing District and the Tech District held a joint trial.
Someone found a photo on the school’s bulletin board—this man had actually been the sports school’s principal.
Zhao Yi said: “It’s a mental-type superpower.”
The sports school principal’s superpower was the ability to control zombies.
When he discovered this, he was ecstatic—he thought he could use it to become a king, a warlord.
What limited him was the range of his mental power. No ability was perfect—the biggest limitation was distance. Too far away, and it didn’t work.
So the principal made the school his base.
First, he sacrificed all the surviving teachers and students to the zombies, turning them all into zombies.
Living people wouldn’t obey him—only zombies would.
That way, the entire school became zombies.
He had considered keeping a few girls, but the zombie control range was limited and too difficult to manage—so he’d just turned them all into zombies.
He was probably the first man in the world to have enjoyed a zombie.
He’d originally been demoted and transferred to the sports school as principal because he’d molested female athletes.
A person’s desires in this lifetime boil down to eating, drinking, shitting, pissing, and that one sordid business.
Even evolving superpowers hadn’t evolved their souls.
The principal’s crimes constituted crimes against humanity.
The two districts carried out a joint execution, broadcasting the process live on TV.
Death penalty.
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On October 2nd, Yang Xinyan came running to find Jiang Cheng: “You need to see this text message.”
It had been a long time since they’d received a distress message.
Pretty much everyone who could be rescued from the urban districts had been rescued, and many had saved themselves.
The development zone’s industrial area had also been cleared, and the scattered survivors had all been rescued.
The rest had probably died.
Yang Xinyan was in charge of the contact phones, and it had been days since they’d received a distress message.
Jiang Cheng took the phone and read—
[Save us! Jitou Village, Taiping Town! They call themselves a government, □□ women, seize food, burn villagers alive! They even keep zombies and release them to bite people! Save us! Don’t call! I’ll delete this message soon! Absolutely don’t call!]
No one knew where Taiping Town was—they’d never even heard of it.
Several people grabbed several maps and searched together, practically going blind.
Finally, Su Yu found it: “Here! Here!”
It was almost off the map—a far suburb, very far away.
Taiping Town had two villages: Jitou Village and Jijiao Village.
After this zombie outbreak, some people had gained superpowers.
Unfortunately, several of the people who gained superpowers were the village’s thugs and local bullies.
At first, everyone coexisted peacefully, fighting zombies together.
After three or four days, people started murmuring: “Why hasn’t the government done anything?”
Last time, the government had responded by the third day.
They waited and waited, until September 4th, when a girl named Jiang Cheng announced on TV that the S City government had been completely wiped out.
Their XX District had established its own provisional government.
Two days later, OO District also established a government.
The government was wiped out, so they made themselves the government.
The thugs and ruffians, as if suddenly enlightened, discovered a new world.
There was no government anymore, humans had evolved superpowers—so from now on, shouldn’t people with superpowers rule over people without?
There was no government anymore, so they’d make themselves the government.
The thugs declared themselves the government on the spot.
Of course, some villagers refused. They were set on fire by a fire-type superpower.
The villagers desperately put out the fire and saved the person, but his body was already extensively burned.
The town clinic’s staff had turned into zombies—there was no one to treat him. The man died quickly.
When the thugs watched TV, they’d already noticed that the people in the development zone who’d first established a government seemed to be busybodies who liked to meddle—they’d even published a rescue hotline.
After burning the man, the thugs went door to door cutting all the TV cables.
They confiscated all the phones.
From then on, in this remote rural village far from the city, they lived out their days terrorizing men and preying on women.
They hadn’t been law-abiding citizens to begin with—they’d even gotten blood on their hands during the last zombie disaster. But they’d silenced everyone then, so no one knew, and no one reported them.
Murderers had simply continued living in peace.
By the second zombie disaster, the murderers had become the village’s local tyrants.
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