Chapter 113: Chapter 112: HP Lock?
Wang Yuanhua swung his crowbar, bringing it down hard on the zombie’s basketball-sized fist!
The next instant, the crowbar scraped past his cheek and was sent flying behind him...
His fingers, palm, elbow—his entire arm—went instantly numb, as if it had simply ceased to exist!
The fist slammed into his shoulder, and the immense force sent him flying...
After crashing to the ground, Wang Yuanhua tried to push himself up with his left hand, only to collapse again. A violent, twisting pain wracked his insides, as if his organs were being sliced to ribbons!
In a daze, he saw his right arm. It hung from his shoulder like a tattered rag, twisted into an indescribable ruin of mangled flesh...
Even his legs and left arm, which looked unharmed, were completely devoid of strength!
"...What kind of zombie is this..."
He had killed five Mutated Zombies, but none of them had this kind of power.
’This... This is a monster no human can fight!’
"Impossible... Just one punch, how could it..."
Blood streamed from Wang Yuanhua’s mouth and nose, his life ebbing away with each hot gush.
He watched the monster emerge from a first-floor balcony, hauling its body forward with its arms. In his peripheral vision, other zombies were closing in. The scene reminded Wang Yuanhua of the first time he’d faced a zombie with such freakish strength...
Suddenly, a strange thrum started in his chest. Wang Yuanhua’s eyes shot open as his vision filled with an endless, blood-red mist. A chaotic emotion he couldn’t comprehend, one born from the depths of his soul, erupted like a volcano...
The surging torrent of thoughts instantly washed over his consciousness, but his body suddenly activated some kind of ability!
The bleeding from his mouth and nose stopped, and strength seemed to flow back into his body.
Like a wild animal, "Wang Yuanhua" scrambled to his feet. He hunched his back, clenched his remaining left fist, and fixed his blood-red eyes on the Giant-Armed Zombie!
The Giant-Armed Zombie, however, was unfazed, continuing its step-by-step advance.
Its energy seemingly restored, the Giant-Armed Zombie raised an arm and swung it down at "Wang Yuanhua," who was now in range!
As if sensing the fatal danger in the attack, "Wang Yuanhua" kicked off the ground and shot to the side, dodging the deadly blow.
The Giant-Armed Zombie’s fist smashed into the ground, the tiles letting out a series of muffled thuds!
THUD! THUD! THUD!
Several rings of cracks spiderwebbed out, reaching "Wang Yuanhua’s" feet. He snapped his gaze to the ground, but he was a step too late!
The foot caught in the shockwave instantly twisted and shattered, revealing the stark white bone inside his shoe!
But strangely, not a single drop of blood flowed from the horrific wound!
"Haaa—"
"Wang Yuanhua" let out a hoarse cry and leaped back, putting more distance between himself and the Giant-Armed Zombie. His blood-red eyes hesitated for a moment before he turned decisively and bolted in a specific direction!
It was as if he’d lost all sense of pain, letting his ruined foot slam into the ground with each step. Despite having lost an arm and a foot, and his organs feeling like they’d been shredded, some powerful life force within him propelled him forward!
Even if all he had left was a beast’s intuition, he vaguely knew that in that direction lay his only hope of survival!
...
"Haaa—!"
A strange roar, sounding less like a zombie and more like some kind of wild animal, echoed from the distance.
"Be ready for anything. If a Mutated Zombie shows up, keep your distance..."
With that, Lin Fan drew his spear and headed toward the sound.
He hadn’t gone far when a strange figure shot out from behind a distant building!
[62/350]...
A yellow health bar with a purplish-red border. It was Wang Yuanhua!
But his Energy Value bar was already down by half, showing only [22/70], and it was still dropping at a rate of one point per second!
And as his Energy Value fell, his Life Value was actually increasing by one point per second!
’How is he down to sixty-something health?’
Lin Fan frowned, watching the distant figure. Even from afar, the way he ran was instinctively unsettling...
’Is this... his ability?’
It was like a human body trying to imitate a wild animal.
The distant "Wang Yuanhua" was running toward him in a completely unnatural way. If his health bar hadn’t been yellow, Lin Fan would have thought he’d turned into a zombie.
"What happe—"
Lin Fan had barely spoken when another, larger figure rounded the corner of the distant building!
’This one looks even more familiar than the last...’
A Mutated Zombie over two meters tall, its arms dragging on the ground. A [1998/2000] floated prominently above its head!
It was the Giant-Armed Zombie, the one with the devastating charge!
’What a prize... No, wait, what a powerful enemy!’
Seeing the regular zombies swarming around the Giant-Armed Zombie, Lin Fan instantly pieced together what had happened.
’Wang Yuanhua must have been kiting the zombies and somehow ran into this Giant-Armed Zombie.’
’He probably even tried to fight it.’
’But judging by the drop in their respective Life Values, Wang Yuanhua had clearly almost gotten himself killed for nothing...’
"What kind of ability is that?"
Lin Fan called out to the approaching Wang Yuanhua, but as he got closer, Lin Fan noticed something wasn’t right.
One of Wang Yuanhua’s arms was flung behind him, flopping unnaturally with each step—it was clearly shattered. His shoe on one foot was split open, and with every pained step, Lin Fan could see the bone within.
He didn’t react to Lin Fan’s words at all. It was as if he didn’t even see him, just charged straight at him!
’What is he, half-zombie?’
Watching Wang Yuanhua run toward him with vacant eyes, a blank expression on his face, Lin Fan frowned. He held his spear horizontally and equipped a strength crystal.
’God only knew if this was his ability or the prelude to him turning into another Mutated Zombie. And right behind him were Su Qing and the others.’
’So, no matter what this "Wang Yuanhua" was, neither he nor the Giant-Armed Zombie would get past him!’
As Lin Fan settled into a ready stance, the oncoming Wang Yuanhua seemed to sense something. His energy bar instantly depleted, converting into Life Value. His legs gave out, and his momentum carried him forward, tumbling right to Lin Fan’s feet. His eyes rolled back in his head, and he passed out.
At that moment, his Life Value had recovered to [84/350].
"Holy shit, you’ve gotta be kidding me! Don’t try to pull an insurance scam on me!"
Lin Fan stared at Wang Yuanhua, who had fainted right in front of him, and was utterly dumbfounded.
’What the hell? Was that really an ability?’
’A death-defying ability? Was the whole point of that skill just to run to me?’
Watching the Giant-Armed Zombie get closer, Lin Fan knew he had no time to hesitate. Wang Yuanhua’s energy was depleted; if he just lay there, he was a dead man!
The spear in his hand vanished. He grabbed Wang Yuanhua’s good arm with both hands, spun around, and—without any concern for injuring him further—flung him onto a thick branch of a large, nearby willow tree!
"You’re so lucky," Lin Fan muttered, "so let’s hope your ancestors are watching over you and you don’t fall!"
With a thought, the "Unnamed" spear reappeared in Lin Fan’s hands. He took his stance, and the bladed tip of the spear began to vibrate faintly, emitting a barely audible hum.
When the energy infused into it reached its peak, the spearhead’s vibration became visible to the naked eye, as if it were about to shatter. Lin Fan suddenly charged forward a few steps. Ignoring the zombies pouncing at him from the side, he swung the spear in a massive arc and smashed it directly against the incoming fist of the Giant-Armed Zombie!
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