"Become stronger?"

Grizzly murmured, looking at the syringe in his hand. Then, he looked at Leopard, Li Yunshan behind him, and his own teammates. A hint of killing intent flashed in his eyes. He lowered his head, bit off the protective cap of the syringe, and plunged it into his arm.

At the same time, Li Chenzhou received a message from the Slaughter System: Grizzly had become his follower! His personal panel also changed:

Followers: 3/5

1: Duan Lei, Loyalty: 100, Combat Power: 40.

2: Zhang Hu, Loyalty: 92, Combat Power: 18.

3: Wang Fusheng, Loyalty: 75, Combat Power: 8.

So Grizzly's real name was Wang Fusheng. He had never mentioned it, and the Slaughter System naturally wouldn't record his codename as his name.

However… how did the system know Grizzly's name? This puzzled Li Chenzhou, but considering the system's very existence was unscientific, he decided to ignore it!

However, Grizzly was still standing at the armored vehicle's sunroof. Clearly, he didn't know that it took time to complete the strengthening process after using the enhancement injection.

And he acted so quickly that Li Chenzhou couldn't stop him. Seeing him inject the syringe, he rushed over, shoved him back into the vehicle through the sunroof, and then closed it!

"What was that?"

Seeing Grizzly inject himself with the evolutionary drug, Leopard seemed intrigued. He didn't immediately order the zombie horde to attack. Instead, he looked at Li Chenzhou and asked.

Since Leopard wasn't launching an attack immediately, Li Chenzhou wasn't in a hurry either, although he could see that the entire zombie horde was slowly moving, trying to completely surround them.

But with the elevated highway behind them, the terrain made it impossible for the zombie horde to completely encircle them. So, Li Chenzhou ignored the zombie horde and, instead, looked at Leopard, answering his question:

"That's called an evolutionary drug. After using it, humans can become evolutionaries, possessing greater power—like the enhanced zombies among you!"

"Evolutionary drug? How did you get it? I've never heard of this before."

Leopard asked again. After all, they were special forces, and any drug that could make people stronger would definitely be seized by the state, with soldiers being the first to benefit. But he had never heard of this evolutionary drug!

"It only appeared after the world descended!"

Li Chenzhou said:

"Maybe, to prevent this world from becoming a zombie's paradise, this drug appeared!"

"How long does it take him to complete the strengthening?"

Leopard asked, looking at the armored vehicle.

"A few minutes, maybe! Want to see how much he can be strengthened?"

Li Chenzhou said with a smile.

"Indeed, I'm very interested!"

Leopard nodded.

In his view, with more than twenty thousand zombies on his side, there was no way Li Chenzhou and his group could escape. Although Li Chenzhou had cleanly killed one of his enhanced zombies before, there were more than just that one in the zombie horde.

In fact, including Li Yunshan, all the special operations team members had now become enhanced zombies. This was a special ability Leopard had gained from… a bead he had found in the ramen shop!

Leopard himself was already a Level 2 Zombie Lord. Li Chenzhou's previous guess was correct. Being able to become a Level 2 Zombie Lord was thanks not only to the bead's power but also to the female zombie lord's and Gao Lin's corpses.

After obtaining the bead, Leopard learned its functions. However, these functions could only be used after he became a zombie.

After getting this information, Leopard hesitated. After all, it meant turning himself into a zombie. Although he could still maintain his human consciousness, a zombie was still a zombie.

But he quickly made up his mind, because he remembered what Li Chenzhou had said before. So, Leopard pulled over a zombie corpse and shoved his hand into its mouth.

Then, Leopard became a zombie, and a Level 1 Zombie Lord at that.

As soon as he became a Zombie Lord, Leopard felt something attracting him from under the collapsed small building. So, he dug out the two corpses buried there and ate them, actually becoming a Level 2 Zombie Lord!

Then, Leopard began using his ability to summon the zombie horde, which Li Chenzhou and his group had seen before. And because this building was the tallest in the area, Leopard chose it.

As for Li Yunshan and his team, Leopard only went to find them after summoning the zombie horde. Because of his control, although the zombie horde was gathering in large numbers, not a single zombie tried to enter the Qin Ting Hotel.

And after seeing the zombies gathering in large numbers, Li Yunshan, as expected, didn't abandon the survivors, choosing not to lead a breakout but instead reinforcing the defenses of the hotel lobby, using chairs, beds, and other items to build defensive positions.

However, all of this was destined to fail, because Leopard knew Li Yunshan well. He directly used zombies to surround the entire hotel, and then he went to talk to Li Yunshan himself.

What Leopard said was very simple: if Li Yunshan and his team put down their weapons and came out, he would let all the survivors leave safely. Otherwise, he would have the zombie horde attack the hotel with all its might and kill everyone!

To prove what he said, he even agreed to let the survivors leave first.

Looking at the thirty-plus survivors behind him, Li Yunshan agreed. Then, they went to the hotel rooftop and watched as the survivors walked out through a path cleared by the zombie horde, eventually disappearing.

Afterward, Leopard bit Li Yunshan and his team. Perhaps because of their past friendship, Leopard spared no energy to turn them all into enhanced zombies. However, for his own safety, he didn't preserve their consciousness.

So, Li Yunshan and his team were now true zombies, unlike Leopard, who still retained all his human consciousness and memories!

For Leopard, keeping Li Yunshan and his team by his side was partly a remembrance of the past, and partly because he wanted them to witness his rise in this world, even standing at the peak of this world.

And now, Li Chenzhou's evolutionary drug gave Leopard a strange sense of crisis. He was now a zombie, and he naturally didn't want to see humans become stronger.

So, he would rather wait and see how much this drug could strengthen a person. Also… did only Li Chenzhou have this drug, or could others obtain it too? And how was it obtained?

While Leopard was desperately guessing, three minutes passed. The door of the armored vehicle suddenly opened, and Grizzly walked out…