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Ira let out a painful groan.

The veins on her forehead bulged like earthworms, and two streams of bright red blood gushed from her nose, dripping down her pale chin onto her protective suit.

But her mental strength ultimately transformed into an invisible net, forcefully catching the spiky boar's territory.

boom!
The charging spiky boar seemed to have suddenly crashed into an invisible rubber wall.

Its massive body was tripped by an unseen force less than five meters from Kyle.

The immense inertia caused it to roll twice on the ground, its back full of bone spurs scraping against the ground and sending up a shower of sparks.

In the brief moment when the spiny pig rolled over belly up, revealing its soft underbelly, it was captured.

"go to hell!"

Kyle threw away the rifle with its empty magazine and pulled out an exaggeratedly designed, large-caliber double-barreled shotgun from his waist.

He lunged forward, pressing the gun barrel firmly against the spiky boar's unprotected chin, and pulled both triggers simultaneously.

boom!
A dull, explosive sound.

The spiky boar's jaw, along with half of its throat, was blasted into a mangled mess by the ferocious shot.

Dark blood splattered all over Kyle like a fountain.

The enormous mutated wild boar convulsed violently a few times, its thick limbs kicking wildly in the air.

Finally, it collapsed heavily to the ground, completely losing its life.

"Phew... Well done!"

Loken, who was not far away, ran over with his gun and excitedly kicked the wild boar carcass.

Kyle, panting heavily, wiped the blood off his mask and quickly turned to help the swaying Ira.

"Are you alright, Ira?"

Ira weakly shook her head and wiped away the blood seeping from her nose with her sleeve.

"You won't die."

Then, she put the gas mask back on her face and urged:
"Quickly, cut the meat off. The smell of blood here is too strong and will soon attract other animals."

Pike, who had been keeping watch in the distance, also deactivated his invisibility and ran over excitedly.

Looking at the enormous prey, the four men, even through their masks, let out a deliberately suppressed cheer.

"There's enough meat for the children in the tribe to eat for a week!"

Parker excitedly pulled out a gleaming boning knife and impatiently squatted down next to the pig's leg, ready to get to work.

Kyle also drew his iron knife from his waist and forcefully slashed open the wild boar's soft belly.

Loken quickly changed the magazine on his rifle, picked it up, and walked to the edge of the collapsed pit, cautiously scanning the surrounding darkness.

Fang Cheng stood on high ground, quietly watching the thrilling hunt below.

They work in perfect harmony, employ sharp tactics, and have an extremely precise grasp of timing.

Although his level of power was insignificant, his survival instinct, honed on the brink of life and death, was worthy of respect.

Just as Fang Cheng withdrew his gaze, considering whether he should show himself and make contact with the group of natives.

hum-

A dull resonance suddenly came from the load-bearing column beneath their feet.

At first, the tremor was very slight, like the creaking of train tracks before a subway arrives at a station.

But in less than two breaths, the tremors increased exponentially.

The pebbles on the ground began to tremble restlessly, and a suffocating, fishy wind swept through the air.

With his keen senses, Fang Cheng immediately realized something was wrong.

This was definitely not an earthquake, nor could it be caused by one or two mutated beasts.

Such a dense frequency and terrifying momentum.

It was as if thousands of enormous beasts, each with an astonishing weight, were stamping to the same beat, madly trampling this wasteland!

Fang Cheng's pupils contracted sharply, and he abruptly turned his head to look in the far north direction of the city ruins.
The hunter squad below also felt the ground and instantly froze.

Kyle's hand trembled, and the iron knife he was using to cut meat clattered to the ground.

He suddenly stood up, and the eyes behind the mask widened instantly.

The once burly and robust man trembled slightly at this moment, appearing extremely frightened.

Awooo—Moo Om—

Countless mournful and frenzied roars rolled in from the horizon, like a tsunami sweeping across the entire wasteland.

In Fang Cheng's view, a black sandstorm hundreds of meters high rose from the dark red sky in the distance.

Tens of thousands of mutated beasts surged forth like a black torrent bursting its banks.

Among them are multi-legged, scaly, flying, and even behemoths the size of heavy trucks.

These monsters trampled through the ruins of buildings along their path, rushing southward recklessly.

They did not fight each other, nor did they form any formations.

They are running for their lives!

An indescribable sense of immense oppression, along with the sky-covering sandstorm, almost enveloped the entire city.

"Beasts...beast tide..."

The gun in Roken's hand clattered to the ground, his legs went weak, and he almost collapsed into a pool of blood.

Ira stared blankly into the distance, muttering to herself:
"Have they gone mad...? What on earth happened in the north? How could there be such a massive beast tide?!"

"Run! Abandon the prey, get into the subway station!"

Ignoring the blood on his hands, Kyle turned and roared.

"But the meat! Uncle, our meat!"

Parker gripped the boning knife tightly, his eyes bloodshot as he stared at the spiky boar on the ground, his feet rooted to the spot.

This is the lifeline for the tribe's survival.

"What's the point of eating meat if we're dead! Let's hide first!"

Kyle doesn't waste words.

He stepped forward, hoisted the weakened Ira onto his back with his left hand, and grabbed Pike by the back of his collar with his right, dragging him away from his prey.

Loken snapped out of his daze, scrambling to grab the rifle from the ground and following Kyle into the dark subway station entrance.

Fang Cheng remained standing in the same spot on the load-bearing column.

His deep gaze passed over the surging black torrent and landed at the very back of the beast tide army.

At the far horizon, a strange darkness, seemingly capable of swallowing even light, crawled and spread forward like a living thing.

Even from a great distance, Fang Cheng still felt a chill run down his spine.

"What on earth could scare these bloodthirsty monsters like this?"

Before he could think it through, a gust of wind blew in his face.

The wind carried an extremely pungent smell of blood and stench.

The concrete beneath Fang Cheng's feet was vibrating wildly at a frequency that made one's teeth ache.

Pebbles fell down the pillar with a soft patter.

The vanguard of the beast tide has already stormed into this neighborhood.

Using the dim light, Fang Cheng could see the scene below.

Countless mutated beasts seemed to have completely lost their minds.

They surged through the narrow, ruined streets like a mudslide, crashing and scrambling.

Smaller, slower beasts didn't even have time to dodge before being slammed against the broken wall by the enormous creature behind them.

Then, it was trampled into minced meat mixed with mud by countless hooves.

call--

Suddenly, a piercing sound of air being torn apart came from above.

Several featherless, strange birds with wingspans of up to three meters were skimming low in the air.

One of them, while trying to avoid its kind, suddenly flapped its wings and turned in a different direction.

Those scarlet eyes instantly locked onto Fang Cheng at the top of the pillar.

It opened its beak, which was covered in barbs, and, following its downward momentum, pecked fiercely at Fang Cheng's body like a heavy glider.

Fang Cheng didn't even lift his eyelids.

With his toes just touching the edge of the pillar, his waist muscles suddenly engaged.

Under twice the force of gravity, the person forcibly completed a mid-air twist that defied the laws of physics.

His right leg, like a swung steel whip, struck the strange bird's jawbone precisely from bottom to top.

boom!
A cloud of blood mist, mixed with broken bones and internal organs, exploded in mid-air.

The strange bird's head vanished instantly.

The headless corpse spun backward and crashed heavily into the horde of beasts below, where it was instantly swallowed up by the raging torrent.

Almost at the same instant the blood mist exploded, "Roar—"

A grayish-brown monitor lizard, over five meters long, was forced off the main road by the charging herd of beasts behind it.

In its panic, it smashed through half of the low wall and headed straight for the load-bearing pillar where Fang Cheng was.

Boom—

The monitor lizard slammed its head heavily against the base of the pillar.

The solid concrete column, half a meter in diameter, emitted a dull thud under the terrifying impact of this several-ton weight.

Large chunks of gravel crumbled and fell away, and several of the twisted steel bars inside were torn apart.

The entire pillar let out a mournful cry and began to tilt violently to one side.

Fang Cheng lowered his gaze, looking at the massive horde of beasts continuously pouring into the street below, and chose not to stay in place and fight them off.

He slightly bent his knees, and his thigh muscles tensed instantly.

Just before the load-bearing column completely collapsed, it leaped out diagonally like a cannonball.

hula-

The wind whistled in my ears.

Fang Cheng stretched his limbs in mid-air, traversing a distance of nearly thirty meters.

Then, it landed steadily on the second floor of a shopping mall ruin where only half of the frame remained.

Click.

His feet crushed the weathered tiles on the ground, dissipating all the impact of the fall.

After regaining his footing, Fang Cheng turned around and looked back.

Looking through the chaotic beast tide below, my gaze suddenly caught something unusual.

At the collapsed subway station entrance on the street corner, several dark figures were seen darting down the wall.

Those were four mutated reptiles, each the size of a crocodile, covered in bluish-green growths.

They didn't join the fleeing crowd, seemingly intending to hide inside the subway station and slip through unnoticed, or perhaps they were attracted by some kind of aura emanating from inside.

Fang Cheng's eyes flickered slightly.

That four-person hunter team just now escaped through this entrance.

"Is this... a case of collateral damage?"

Fang Cheng shook his head slightly, picked up a piece of rusty steel pipe from the ground with his toe, and held it in his hand.

He then leaped down from the gap on the second floor, like a weightless shadow, silently disappearing into the darkness.

....................................

The ticket hall is located on the basement level of the subway station.

There was not a single ray of light here; it was utterly dark.

A dull tremor occasionally emanated from the concrete ceiling overhead.

That was the sound of countless mutated beasts raging on the ground.

Fine sand and gravel fell down along the cracks in the load-bearing wall, hitting the scrapped iron wreckage.

Any tiny movement is amplified infinitely in the deathly silent underground space.

"Huh...huh..."

Kyle leaned against the wreckage of a collapsed security screening machine, panting heavily.

He ripped off the filter canister of his gas mask, replaced it with a spare canister, and put it in with a crisp "click".

Ira slumped weakly to the ground, his face pale.

Although the bleeding from her nose had stopped, the exhaustion of her mental energy left her without the strength to even stand up.

Loken, rifle in hand, stared intently at the dark passage they had escaped through, his forehead beaded with cold sweat.

Parker huddled in the corner, clutching the rusty boning knife, his body trembling as if he were being shaken.

"Uncle...are we...are we safe?"

The child's teeth were chattering, and his voice came through the mask, clearly tinged with sobs.

Having survived in the wasteland for over a decade, he had never seen such a terrifying scene, with so many monsters.

"It's fine……"

Kyle gripped the double-barreled shotgun tightly, about to speak to comfort him.

rustling... rustling...

A faint sound suddenly came from the direction of the passage entrance.

It looked like some kind of fleshy pad was slowly rubbing against the rough floor tiles.

Immediately following were several chilling, low sniffing sounds.

Loken's breath caught in his throat for a moment.

He swallowed hard, his thumb trembling as he turned on the tactical flashlight beneath the barrel of his gun.

A ghastly beam of light suddenly tore through the darkness ahead.

Less than twenty meters away at the corner of the passage, four mutated reptiles covered in bluish tumors were lying on the ground.

The ghastly green vertical pupils reflected a greedy, bloodthirsty light under the flashlight beam.

They smelled the scent of humans, and also the fresh blood that had just flowed from Ira's body.

"Grass!"

Loken's scalp tingled, and he pulled the trigger almost instinctively.

boom! boom! boom!
In the narrow underground space, the gunshots were deafening.

The bullet struck the reptile's scales, sending up a shower of sparks, but leaving only a few shallow white marks.

These beasts possess defensive capabilities far exceeding those of the lower-level wild animals on the surface.

"Spread out! Seize the opportunity to attack their bellies, that's the fatal spot."

Kyle roared and charged forward, shotgun in hand.

But the reptiles were too fast.

With a sudden burst of power from their hind legs, they moved like two streaks of blue lightning, instantly covering a distance of twenty meters.

One of them tackled Rocken to the ground.

The sharp claws tore through the radiation protection suit instantly and scratched the shoulder.

Rocan screamed in pain, barely managing to block the attack with his rifle before being flung away along with himself.

On the other side, they rushed towards Kyle's gun barrel.

boom!
Kyle pulled the trigger, and the violent steel ball slammed into the reptile's side, smashing a large patch of flesh.

But the reptile did not back down; instead, it used the momentum to ram into Kyle's chest.

Kyle's massive body flew backward and crashed heavily onto the wreckage of the security scanner, causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood.

The double-barreled shotgun fell to the ground.

The reptile flicked out its barbed tongue, and foul-smelling saliva dripped onto Kyle's gas mask.

It opened its gaping maw, wide enough to crush iron plates, and lunged straight for Kyle's head.

Seeing this, Ira tried to forcefully activate his telekinetic power.

But a sharp, tearing pain shot through her brain, causing her vision to go black and her to collapse to the ground.

"Uncle!"

Parker, huddled in the corner, closed his eyes and let out a terrified scream.

Kyle stared intently at the approaching, gaping maw, his hands instinctively rising to try and make a final stand.

But in this desperate wasteland, without weapons, the human body is as fragile as tofu in the face of these mutated beasts.

"It's finally over..."

As he lay dying, Kyle's tense muscles relaxed.

Suddenly, the fear vanished from his mind, leaving only the thought of complete liberation.

At this critical moment.

woo-

From the depths of darkness, a sharp, piercing hissing sound suddenly erupted.

That wasn't the sound of gunfire.

Rather, it was the sound of an object tearing through the air at an alarming speed.

Kyle couldn't even see what it was.

He only felt a violent gust of wind sweep over his head, making the glass of his mask rattle.

Then, the reptile clinging to him suddenly vanished. (End of Chapter)