Chapter 38 Old Friends

"Leopard? And the captain and the others!!!"

Grizzly grabbed the binoculars and looked at the rooftop of the building, then exclaimed in surprise!

Indeed, standing on the rooftop of that building were Leopard, who had been driven away by Li Chenzhou, and Li Yunshan's team. However... they probably couldn't be called human anymore...

Although Leopard and the others didn't seem to have any injuries on the outside and were still wearing the same standard military uniforms as Grizzly, they were very different from the ragged zombies being torn apart around them.

But looking at their pale faces, scarlet eyes, and the exposed indigo skin, everything proved their current identity—zombies!!!

"How... how could they..."

Grizzly's hands began to tremble violently. He desperately gripped the binoculars, looking at the brothers who had fought alongside him, sharing life and death, and hissed.

Although he had been somewhat mentally prepared, the shock of suddenly seeing his entire team turned into zombies almost broke Grizzly.

He suddenly felt his body weaken, leaning helplessly against the edge of the armored vehicle's sunroof, staring at those familiar faces through the binoculars, repeating, "How could this be? How is this possible? How could this be..."

Li Chenzhou snatched the binoculars from Grizzly and looked at the rooftop, frowning.

"That's not right! Their clothes are intact, and there are no visible wounds on their exposed skin. This..."

At that moment, Li Chenzhou suddenly saw Leopard, standing at the front of the group, actually point at Li Chenzhou, then flip his hand and beckon him over, with a sinister smile on his face, slowly mouthing the words:

"Come here!"

"Damn it! It's him!"

Li Chenzhou instantly felt a chill down his spine. Leopard was actually an intelligent zombie, and the zombies transformed from his team members were also strange, because they were all standing neatly behind Leopard, standing straight and still.

This was unlikely for zombies, because they had unlimited stamina and were always wandering around, like the zombies around Leopard, who were constantly moving and walking around the rooftop.

"Boss! Behind you!"

Just then, Duan Lei's voice suddenly came. Li Chenzhou turned around and saw a large group of zombies appearing behind them, and they were all climbing up from under the bridge—many ropes were tied to the edges of the bridge on both sides of the overpass, and these zombies were climbing up those ropes.

Seeing this scene, Li Chenzhou had no more doubts. He immediately shouted at Duan Lei,

"Reverse the car immediately, break through, and wait for me over there!"

"Okay!"

Duan Lei nodded, then immediately stepped on the accelerator to reverse, charging towards the zombies rushing towards them.

And just as Duan Lei started to reverse, the zombies all dodged to the sides, clearing the way. Duan Lei easily broke through the zombie blockade, then slammed on the brakes, turned the car around, and charged onto the road they had come from!

The zombies showed no intention of chasing Duan Lei, instead gathering again, blocking the entire road, and slowly approaching Li Chenzhou and Grizzly.

"As expected, they're coming for us?"

Seeing this situation, Li Chenzhou looked up at the rooftop of the building and muttered, then opened the car door, sat in the driver's seat of Grizzly's armored vehicle, and drove towards the building where Leopard was.

This building was much taller than the Qin Ting Hotel, about fourteen or fifteen stories high. This might be the reason why Leopard and the others weren't at the Qin Ting Hotel but here.

Li Chenzhou had already guessed that the previous zombie horde was summoned by Leopard. He had now become a powerful corpse king.

However, Li Chenzhou couldn't understand how zombies strengthened themselves by absorbing enough Hell Wisps, which meant they had to rely on devouring human or mutated beast corpses.

But he had expelled Leopard from that residential area before going to the hotel. At most, only an hour or two had passed in between.

Even if Leopard was bitten and turned into a zombie after they left, it was impossible for him to become a powerful corpse king in such a short time, unless...

Thinking of this, a figure suddenly flashed in Li Chenzhou's mind, and he gasped—the female corpse king!!!

Although the female corpse king had dug out her crystal nucleus and allowed Xiao Ya to become an ability user because of it, the female corpse king's body was still there. If Leopard devoured her body, then he would naturally be able to obtain the huge amount of energy remaining in her body.

Zombies are not interested in their own kind, that only applies to low-level zombies, because the bodies of such zombies also contain the energy of Hell Wisps, but in small quantities.

But for high-level zombies, the bodies of their own kind can become a source of their strengthening. However, because of their nature, zombies, even strengthened zombies, will not kill each other. Instead, after their companions are killed, they will start fighting over the corpses, which is similar to wild wolves!!!

Grizzly also saw the group of zombies blocking their retreat behind them. Although he was still immersed in the grief of his entire team's demise, this also made him extremely hate the zombies.

He gritted his teeth ferociously, his eyes red, and he picked up his rifle and started扫射 at the zombies, roaring loudly,

"Go to hell, damn bastards, I will kill you all! Ah~~!!!"

Under the rifle's 扫射, the zombies behind were thrown backward, limbs flying outward from time to time, and black blood splattered everywhere.

But the zombies didn't dodge at all, nor did they use their speed to突击 forward. They were still blocking the entire road behind them, slowly逼近 forward!

"Click! Click!"

Soon, the bullets in Grizzly's rifle ran out, making the sound of the empty gun机撞. Grizzly immediately pulled out the magazine and pulled out a new one from his body, inserting it into the rifle.

"Don't shoot! Grizzly, these zombies are here to pick us up to see those old friends!"

Just as Grizzly was about to continue shooting, Li Chenzhou suddenly spoke loudly.

Grizzly still ignored him, raised his gun and pulled the trigger, but after firing only three bullets, he suddenly froze, stopped shooting, and shrank back into the armored vehicle, staring at Li Chenzhou and asking,

"What did you say? What old friends?"

"It's... Leopard, and your captain and the others. These zombies are controlled by them!"

Li Chenzhou turned back to look at Leopard, his eyes calm, and pointed to the rooftop of the building...