Chapter 1 That Sigh

That was clearly not a sound derived from any language of the Xuanxing, ancient or modern, Eastern or Western, echoing between the snow-capped peaks, unaffected by the howling hurricane and swirling snow.

A calm yet mighty presence descended upon the mountain peak.

For a moment, even the void seemed to freeze.

The reacting special forces, Qiu Niu with his gun already drawn, Yang Guanglin who was almost knocked unconscious, and Wang Zhixuan with her shimmering blade and exposed killing intent,

All paused for a moment at that sigh.

Roar~~~

Then, the blade fell to the ground, and amidst the howling wind and snow, a series of angry roars echoed one after another throughout the temporary camp.

The screams sounded like cows, tigers, wolves, and ghosts, but none of them sounded like voices that humans could produce.

"Not good..."

Wang Zhixuan, who was closest to the source, felt an unprecedented sense of crisis at this moment. Her heart was pounding, and her blood was boiling.

In her eyes, the girl Geng Yingying, who had torn off the talisman from the golden coffin, had already undergone the enormous transformation she had seen more than once.

Large patches of purplish-blue corpse spots appeared on her fair skin, her ten fingers grew nails like sharp blades, her pretty face became ferocious, and her fangs protruded outwards.

In an instant, she had turned into a zombie!

The Zombie King was about to break free!

A vast, tidal wave of eerie power entered her ears with the sound, and the stench blowing out from the cracks in the golden coffin assaulted her nostrils.

Wang Zhixuan felt a splitting headache as if someone had forcibly pried open her skull and poured boiling oil into it!

Even more unprecedentedly fierce auras exploded in her heart.

Even Wang Zhixuan, who had rolled through mountains of knives and seas of fire, could not hold the blade in her hand under this unprecedented pain.

The long knife slipped from her grasp and plunged into the snow.

But she didn't have time to draw it again. In the last moment of clarity, she reached out and slapped her chest, and as a ray of red light lit up, she issued a final warning to the communicator:

"It's breaking free..."

"Dan Huang~~~ Roar~~~"

Those three short words had exhausted all her strength. She didn't even have the strength to activate the 'Glory Bomb.' Choosing between sending a warning and self-destruction, she chose the former without hesitation.

Then, amidst the angry roar of Qiu Niu transforming into a zombie behind her, the last wisp of clarity was submerged by the boundless tidal wave of darkness.

In the last moment, on the golden coffin with its mirror-like surface, she also saw a hideous and terrifying monster with violent eyes that filled people with disgust and fear!

That monster was her!

Whoosh~

Even now, the words of Zhu Shang still echoed in the wind and snow.

And this temporary camp had been completely wiped out!

Turned into zombies and monsters roaring at the sky.

Crack~

In the whistling wind, a deep crack appeared on the inverted golden coffin. Then, a pale, swollen hand, still dripping with foul-smelling blood, pierced out from the crack.

Bang!

The entire golden coffin lid shattered as if shattered into tiny dust by an invisible force, and scattered into the snow with a gust of wind.

"What a tenacious woman..."

From the dark depths of the coffin, Zhu Shang's calm voice containing endless resentment sounded:

"You are just what I needed to lure that damn ant here..."

The provocations and insults of the past month would be cleansed with the blood of the entire world, but the first thing to do was to extract the soul of that ant and burn it in fierce flames for thousands of years!

What I, Zhu Shang, promised, I will definitely do!

Accompanied by the roars of many zombies, the golden coffin was visibly dyed scarlet.

Then it was distorted and folded by the blood, transforming into a scarlet throne.

Only then, under the faint sunlight, did the cold face of the Zombie King Zhu Shang appear.

Zhu Shang sat on the blood-colored throne, his eyes filled with a cold, eerie light, gazing into the distant void:

"Ant..."

.......

Northwest Mountains.

In the silver-white base hall, accompanied by the sudden flashing red light, were continuous, ear-piercing alarms.

"Alert! Alert! Level Zero alert, Level Zero alert!!!"

"What?"

"Level Zero alert?! Where is the Level Zero alert? How could it be a Level Zero alert?!"

"Is it the Zombie King?!"

All the Special Affairs Bureau members busy in the base hall were stunned, followed by an uproar.

In Da Xuan, alerts were divided into levels one, two, three, and four according to the degree of harm, scope of impact, and urgency, which were especially serious, serious, relatively large, and general, respectively.

The Special Affairs Bureau was different from Da Xuan. They were a secret organization and did not use national-level alerts.

But they had one more level than that: a Level Zero alert!

As the name suggested, a Level Zero alert meant that even if the entire Special Affairs Bureau was dispatched, they would still have a high probability of being wiped out and might not be able to resolve the major event!

And at this moment, the most dangerous source of disaster that could erupt worldwide was the culprit they called the Zombie King incident!

Whoosh!

Outside the base hall, Qinglong, who had not closed his eyes for who knows how many days, strode in like the wind and rushed into the hall.

"Immediately seal off the entire base hall, no, the entire base, issue an order to recall all members and experts performing tasks, then cut off everyone's communication equipment and do not allow any information to be transmitted!"

Qinglong strode into the hall, his voice already exploding like thunder, issuing orders:

"Immediately, everyone get out, Baihu stay!"

"Yes!"

Many high-level officials of the Special Affairs Bureau all looked serious and acted swiftly.

In just over ten seconds, only Qinglong and Baihu were left in the entire hall.

At the same time, Yinglong issued an analysis of the alert:

"Doctor Wang sent out a final message. After sixty-seven layers of processing, isolation, and analysis, she is dead. The cause of death is the Zombie King breaking free!"

The Zombie King has broken free!

"Doctor Wang is dead?!"

Baihu's expression changed drastically. Even though he had already guessed it, he still couldn't help but feel terrified. A monster king who had already caused the entire Special Affairs Bureau to be exhausted even before breaking free, what would happen when it truly broke free?

Qinglong's expression was grim and murderous. He was equally shocked, but immediately ordered:

"Immediately analyze the plan, authorize you to occupy all computing resources, including all existing weapons, experimental and unexperimental, in the country, no, the world, and provide the most successful plan as quickly as possible!"

"Be sure to cut off this source of disaster as quickly as possible!"

Qinglong's heart was boiling, but his expression became even colder:

"Baihu, you lead all members of the seven special forces teams to the Xi Ya Mountains, do not consider casualties, and be sure to find out the intelligence at all costs!"

"I understand!"

Baihu took a deep breath and bowed as he retreated.

Just as he was about to step out the door, Qinglong spoke again:

"Contact several Metaphysical Martial Artists, explain the stakes, we are not as convenient as them in the mountains and forests, remember, do not hide anything, tell them everything as it is!"

Baihu paused for a moment, then stepped out of the hall.

From the sounding of the alarm to the issuing of all orders, it took just over a minute.

In front of others, Qinglong was as steady as a mountain. Now that the hall was empty, his body swayed. With his mastery of Gangjin, he couldn't even control his Qi and blood and fell into the chair.

He covered his face with his hands, his voice calm:

"Yinglong, connect me to that number after nine locks in the address book..."

.......

Whoosh~~~

On a desolate mountain, An Qisheng looked into the distance at the center of what was originally Mufeng, now a swirling snowstorm, his eyes slightly moving: "It actually broke free..."

With his current eyesight, there were already few things on Xuanxing that could escape his notice.

At this moment, in that swirling snowstorm camp, faint figures could be seen moving, but he knew that there was no one in that camp anymore.

There were only zombies!

Zhu Shang had broken free...

"This is a bit strange..."

An Qisheng was lost in thought.

The nine talismans should only truly lose their effect after thirty days. Before that, even the peak Huangtian Shi Li could not break free from the prison, let alone the Zombie King Zhu Shang who was suppressed at birth.

Although, he could guess that this Zombie King had the potential to surpass his predecessors and become the head of the Huangtian Shi Li, he was ultimately suppressed as soon as he was born.

He should not, and could not, break free from the prison at this time.

After the talismans had undergone the baptism of thunder, he couldn't even reveal a trace of aura, and couldn't affect anyone at all.

That zombie ghost was just a fish that slipped through the net in that disaster half a year ago.

But he would not be mistaken, nor would he sense wrong.

In the very center of that snowstorm vortex, within that endless storm, there was a tyrannical aura like a volcano that had been accumulating for thousands of years, about to erupt.

"Could it be from there..."

An Qisheng took a deep look at the high dome of the sky. The blue sky could not block his gaze. Faintly, he seemed to be able to see that star that shone like a meteor.

Although it had only been a month since the Martian mutation, he was wary of this monster, which consumed five times as much Dao power as the Zombie King.

A month was very short, however, it could not stop it from exploring the outside world after arriving in an unfamiliar place.

There were only a few planets in the solar system, and only Earth had the conditions for life to be nurtured. Hiding was impossible.

Whoosh~~~

The ripples in his heart calmed down, and An Qisheng stepped down the mountain, moving with the wind and snow. In an instant, he was tens of feet away, and before long, he arrived in front of the temporary camp.

Upon arriving here, there was no more hiding.

A voice with a chilling contempt had already wiped out all concealment:

"Ant, have you thought about how you want to die?"

Under the wind and snow, the temporary camp no longer had any vitality. In the low hissing sounds, rays of scarlet and violent gazes were cast over.

Bloodthirsty, brutal, greedy...

These zombies, wearing their original camouflage but now hideous and without intelligence, were originally special forces members...

Qiu Niu, Huo Shu, Geng Yingying, Yang Guanglin, and Wang Zhixuan.

Who would have thought that the female zombie wearing a windbreaker with a hideous face, was Wang Zhixuan who paid the most attention to her appearance, and even wore sunglasses when performing tasks...

In front of him, the zombie closest to him, wriggling and hissing on the ground, seemed to have broken its own spine at the last moment. Wasn't it Qiu Niu?

And at this moment, these zombies were all hissing at him, but none of them pounced on him.

The reason, of course, was the owner of that cold and violent voice.

"Ant?"

An Qisheng raised his eyebrows, his indifferent gaze fixed on the Zombie King Zhu Shang sitting on the scarlet throne:

"How do you want to die?"