Tokyo Detective

Chapter 535 City of Corpses
A burning car, a little girl crying alone, a victim being bitten, and an infected person with blood all over their mouth.

Sarah Morgans felt as if he had walked into hell or was having a dream, but everything felt so real, with the stench of burning gasoline filling the entire street.

Suddenly, a figure pounced on the panicked pilot; it was a two-meter-tall fungal corpse.

"No, no, please save me."

The pilot cried for help, and the retired soldier tried to push the fungal corpse away, but his considerable strength was no match for it until his throat was ripped open and blood splattered all over the ground.

The fungal corpse relentlessly devoured the flesh and blood of the body, growing stronger at a visible speed. Fungal filaments sprouted from its surface. Only when the pilot, who had been torn apart, stood up with his mangled body did the fungal corpse stop biting.

If Naoki Hanyu were to witness this scene, he would be absolutely shocked. He knew that the fungal corpse he saw in the cave where the black stake was located was similar to this one, but the fungal corpse inside had existed for over a hundred years. Ordinary fungal corpses simply do not possess this kind of strength.

Just as Sarah was reeling from what she was seeing, Fatima grabbed her sister's hand and ran toward a luxury villa.

"Sister Salad, if we don't run, we're going to die here."

"I'm sorry to have made you worry."

The two climbed the wall skillfully. It was pitch black inside. Then the sound of breaking glass came from inside. Sarah also used her phone to contact an Americana executive she knew.

Houston Police Headquarters was overwhelmed by a flood of unexpected emergency calls, leaving the already short-staffed police department unable to cope.

"Damn it, get back to the police station with me right now."

"Yes, Superintendent Robert."

A superintendent called out to his squad members, and at that moment, many other squads within the department also sprang into action.

Just then, the glass door of the police station was smashed open, and a fungal zombie rushed in and pounced on the nearest member.

"Ah! Help! Pull this madman away!"

Many police officers did not go over to arrest the person because the fungal corpse in front of them looked very familiar. Superintendent Robert had already recognized the thing in front of him and immediately gasped.

"Fungal corpses, man-eating fungi, how could they possibly appear in Houston?"

They've seen Japanese news, so of course they recognize this stuff.

"boom."

The bullet pierced the head of the fungal corpse, damaging its nervous system and rendering the evil fungal corpse, which had not yet fully controlled every part of its body, powerless.

"Quickly, notify the higher-ups immediately and contact the nearest military units, whether they are regular troops or National Guard, call them all. If they don't come soon, Houston will be out of control."

Japan mobilized an entire division to control the situation, and it still couldn't be cleared up in a short time. Keep in mind that Japan's incident happened in the mountains, while theirs happened in the city.

"Damn it, what on earth happened?"

The door opened again, and a group of fungal zombies rushed in. These things were not the slow-moving zombies in the movies. They could run at more than 20 kilometers per hour as soon as they turned into fungal zombies, not to mention that those fungal zombies that were nourished by nutrients became even faster.

"Fire."

"bang bang bang"

Bullets flew wildly inside the police station, but unfortunately, not all police officers were seasoned marksmen. Faced with the moving corpses, they could only retreat again and again, leaving behind the victims who were tackled to the ground.

"Save me, save me."

"I can still be saved."

As the battle lines stretched out, other police officers provided timely support, and the first wave of fungal zombies was indeed dealt with, but the number of police officers was reduced by a small fraction.

But before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, the police station door was completely demolished, and a 3-meter-tall, muscular little giant walked in with a strange smile on his face, his mouth stained with blood.

The little giant remained unmoved by the numerous gun barrels, instead uttering chilling words.

"So hungry."

"bang bang bang"

Amidst a series of gunshots, a bloody battle was brewing within the game.

The little giant grabbed Superintendent Robert by the waist with one hand and lifted him up, charging forward. Anyone who was grazed by him was either killed or seriously injured.

Robert coughed up blood, feeling the irreparable damage to his bones and internal organs, and could only barely manage to fire a shot at the monster's head with his shotgun.

"You monster."

"boom."

The shotgun pellets were all stuck in the little giant's muscles, seemingly having no effect whatsoever.

"Ah ah ah"

The fungal zombie bit off Robert's head, then turned to look at the human who was still shooting at him.

"Roar." Soon after, the commotion at the police station subsided, and the lights at the entrance flickered until a fungal corpse dressed in a police uniform emerged.

Bloodshed shrouded the entire city, with aimless corpses wandering the streets in search of prey. Only those hiding inside buildings could eke out a living.

A beautiful female corpse crouched down, gnawing on flesh and blood, her sexy figure revealing alluring curves.

Suddenly, the sound of an engine attracted the female corpse's attention. When she stood up and looked in the direction of the sound, she saw a bright light shining from around the corner, followed by the appearance of an armored company of 12 infantry fighting vehicles.

Their machine guns were reaping bodies one by one. The newcomers were the National Guard who were training at Ellington Field Airport, only 24 kilometers from Houston, which is why they were able to arrive in just over 10 minutes as the vanguard.

Moreover, there were two military helicopters following overhead. Although they were not heavy military helicopters like the Apache or Seahawk, they could still be equipped with cannons and machine guns.

Ellingtonfield Airport has no Air Force or Army personnel stationed there; only the Air Force Reserve and a battalion of National Guard troops are training there, so they are deployed together.

Not long ago, they received a call from above, asking them to help rescue some important figures before retreating, including the Sarah Morgans sisters.

After all, ever since Naoki Hanyu helped her get rid of her troublesome older brother, Sara, his illegitimate daughter, has taken over his assets, making her own net worth over 100 billion US dollars.
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The infantry fighting vehicle's tracks crushed the female corpse, and the 25mm chain gun focused on areas densely packed with fungal corpses. However, the heavy machine gun on the roof was the most lethal weapon, capable of tearing apart the flesh of several fungal corpses with each shot, making it unnecessary to aim for the head.

"This is so exciting! I never thought I'd experience a scene that only appears in games. Hahaha, die, die, die!"

As the machine gunner was firing, he suddenly noticed a figure descending from the sky and landing in front of him. The figure was a strange fungal corpse, with a height of 2 meters and long limbs, which proved that it was very agile. Most surprisingly, its hands were not much shorter than its legs.

"What's the game?"

Before the machine gunner could finish speaking, the fungal corpse waved its hand, and the machine gunner's head was gone.

On another infantry fighting vehicle, a machine gunner was seen firing at a large, towering creature in the horde of zombies. This fungal zombie was 3 meters tall, with very developed muscles, and most terrifyingly, it knew how to use its arms to protect its head from fatal wounds, making it impossible for heavy machine guns to penetrate its body.

"What the hell? Gunners, blast that thing! It's coming!"

The infantry fighting vehicle's 25mm chain gun opened fire without reservation, instantly tearing the little giant's body apart.

Before the armored company could even breathe a sigh of relief, an even more terrifying figure suddenly rushed out from around the corner. It was 4 meters tall and its entire body was covered in tree-like material formed by fungal filaments.

A giant, as tall as a story, crashed into the infantry fighting vehicle. The driver inside felt as if the 30-ton steel behemoth had almost overturned, and part of the vehicle's body was even dented.

The giant then grabbed the chassis with both hands and flipped the entire armored vehicle over, a scene that stunned the other vehicles.

Is there such a powerful thing as a fungal corpse?
If it really exists, why didn't the information shared by Japan indicate this?

The 25mm chain gun aimed at the giant and fired. The bullet entered the giant's body without exiting, making it far stronger than the 3-meter-tall smaller giant. Immediately afterward, the giant corpse charged towards the armored vehicle under the firepower and smashed the cannon barrel with just one punch.

When faced with attacks from other armored vehicles, the giant corpse even knew to stand the armored vehicles upright to act as shields.

In this way, the armored company's originally foolproof defenses were torn apart, and as the sound of gunfire attracted the horde of corpses, the rescue unit was gradually swallowed up.

Above, helicopters fired their cannons and machine guns incessantly, but they were powerless to stop their teammates from being wiped out.

"These monsters."

A rock, seemingly out of nowhere, suddenly smashed the plane's window, killing the pilot. The helicopter then plummeted to the ground.

The other military helicopter was startled and quickly took off to retreat, since all its teammates had been killed.

But before he could fly very high, a two-meter-long steel bar suddenly pierced into the fuselage, with only a small part exposed. The pilot was impaled by the steel bar and then crashed and exploded.
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Three kilometers away, a figure could be seen silently watching the helicopter crash.

This person was Arandi. His arms were as thick as barrels, but upon closer inspection, they were arms formed from fungi, resembling trees rather than people.

Arandi looked at the burning city and muttered to himself.

"I never imagined I'd still feel a sliver of remorse. Is this the last vestige of my humanity?"

Arandi, a monstrous physique and martial arts master, was once one of the few strongmen in Paraguay.

Who knew that when he returned home after completing his cultivation in the deep mountains and forests, he would find that his entire family had been murdered and turned into fungal corpses. Enraged, he killed more than 300 fungal corpses in the entire village.

But the arriving army claimed he was infected and opened fire without any explanation, clearly intending to kill him to silence him.

He was injured and fled when he unexpectedly found his son squatting and crying by the river not far from the village.

My son isn't dead after all; I'm going to take him away.

With this in mind, Arandi approached and even hugged his son until he was bitten and became infected.

He killed his son with tears in his eyes, and also discovered that although he was infected, he was very different from others. He did not become a fungal corpse, but instead became stronger. His physical body and martial arts improved by leaps and bounds, and he even had a perverted self-healing ability. He could be shot through by a bullet and it would only take a few minutes to heal.

All of this made him incredibly strong, but he also had flaws, namely, his increasingly irritable temper and growing indifference to human life.

Arandy didn't care about any of that; all he wanted was revenge and the truth about what had happened.

Later, in his pursuit of the truth, he met a woman who called herself Marika, who helped him find out the truth about the infection.

The American military collaborated with certain top biotech companies to conduct experiments with the tacit approval of the Bala government. The disaster stemmed from negligence at the experimental facility that led to the leak of the latest man-eating fungus, ultimately resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of people.

(End of this chapter)