I just became the Pirate King, and you're telling me I also time-traveled at the same time.

"We've come this far, even if it's the King of Hell's palace inside, we still have to go in and try to get in."

Chu Yang took out two glow sticks and two tactical high-powered flashlights from his backpack. "Don't turn on the flashlights, hang them around your neck for later use."

It was dark inside; if the lights were turned on, we'd be sitting ducks.

Remember, from this moment on, your life is in your own hands.

The two of them silently slid down the drainpipe along the edge of the roof to the back wall of the police station compound.

This is a wall nearly three meters high, with broken glass stuck in it.

Chu Yang suddenly took a running start, pushed off the wall with both feet twice, and used his hands to precisely avoid the broken glass and grab the top of the wall.

With a burst of strength in his arms, he flipped over like a nimble cat, without making a sound.

Shen Lie followed closely behind.

The two landed steadily on the lawn in the backyard of the police station.

It was much quieter here than in the front yard, with only a few abandoned police cars parked in the corner.

The stench of rotting flesh mixed with blood in the air was so strong it almost stung the eyes. "Go through the back door."

Chu Yang pressed himself against the wall and reached a security iron door at the back of the main building.

The iron gate was ajar, and thick, dark brown blood was seeping out from the cracks.

Chu Yang took a deep breath and compressed his Observation Haki to its limit.

In his mind, any slight movement within a ten-meter radius was magnified a hundredfold.

"Squeak..."

Chu Yang slowly pried open the iron gate with the tip of his knife.

The rusty hinge made a soft, teeth-grinding sound.

The two of them slipped into the lobby of the main building of the police station, one after the other.

Darkness, deathly silence.

The windows in the lobby were all blocked by thick riot shutters, so the sunlight couldn't get in at all.

The two could only make out the outline of the room with the help of the dim light. There were messy desks, scattered documents, and an overturned water dispenser everywhere.

On the ground lay four or five mutilated corpses, scattered haphazardly.

Judging from their tattered police uniforms, they were all officers from the local police station.

"This is too tragic..." Shen Lie lowered his voice, looking at the corpse at his feet whose chest cavity had been completely ripped out, and his stomach churned.

"Their sidearms are not in holsters."

Chu Yang crouched down and examined the holsters on the corpse's waist; they were all empty. "It seems they put up a fierce resistance when the virus broke out, and they must have run out of bullets."

Chu Yang stood up, his gaze fixed on the dark corridor at the end of the hall leading to the basement.

"The armory is on the second basement level."

Stay close to me.

The two walked carefully through the sticky bloodstains, suppressing their breathing to a minimum.

A suffocating chill permeated the corridor.

Just as they reached the top of the stairs leading to the basement, "Clatter...clatter..."

A clear, dripping sound came from the darkness below the stairs.

Chu Yang's steps suddenly stopped, and his right hand instantly gripped the hilt of the knife.

"Shen Lie, look up." Chu Yang's faint voice rang in Shen Lie's ear.

Shen Lie subconsciously raised his head and looked up through the gap above the stairwell.

In that instant, every hair on Shen Lie's body stood on end! His heart felt as if it were being squeezed tightly by an invisible hand!

About three meters above their heads, on the ceiling, a terrifying humanoid monster was clinging to them like a gecko!

The monster's limbs had completely mutated, and its fingers and toes had grown sharp bone claws that were more than ten centimeters long, which pierced deeply into the hard concrete floor slab.

There wasn't a single good piece of flesh on its body; its skin looked as if it had been corroded by some kind of strong acid, revealing the bright red, pulsating muscle fibers and blackened blood vessels underneath.

What's most terrifying is its head!

Its lower half of its face was completely torn apart, and a long, scarlet tongue covered with barbs, like that of a giant lizard, was dangling from its mouth. Drops of viscous, corrosive saliva were dripping from the tip of its tongue onto the stair railing below, instantly corroding the wooden railing into black holes that emitted blue smoke!

"A mutated licker?!" The name flashed through Chu Yang's mind instantly.

The Black Rain virus's rapid evolution has actually spawned this terrifying, agile mutant within this closed security facility!

The monster's huge eyes, devoid of eyelids and consisting only of the whites of its eyes, were now staring intently at Chu Yang and Shen Lie below!

It had spotted them long ago! It had been lying on the ceiling like a patient hunter, waiting for its prey to walk into its death trap!

"Hiss—!!!"

The monster let out a sharp, ear-piercing scream!

Its powerful limbs kicked off the ceiling, and its entire body, like a cannonball, charged down towards Shen Lie's head with terrifying kinetic energy and a pungent, fishy smell!

"spread!"

Chu Yang roared and, without the slightest hesitation, kicked Shen Lie hard in the hip.

"Bang!"

Shen Lie was kicked more than three meters away by Chu Yang's kick, which contained primal energy, and crashed heavily into the wall of the corridor.

And just a fraction of a second after Shen Lie was kicked away! "Boom!!!"

The monster's heavy body slammed violently onto the staircase platform where Shen Lie had just been standing!

The hard marble floor tiles were instantly shattered by its terrifying impact and sharp bone claws, with stone chips flying everywhere like bullets!

"Damn it!" Shen Lie endured the excruciating pain as he got up from the ground, grabbed the fire axe, and his back was instantly soaked with cold sweat.

If it weren't for Chu Yang's kick just now, his head would have been crushed like a watermelon by this monster!

The monster missed its target and nimbly rolled on the ground. Its long, scarlet tongue, covered in barbs, flashed through the air like a venomous snake, before lashing out at Chu Yang's neck, the closest person to it!

The speed was so fast that even the air was blown apart, producing a piercing sonic boom!

"You ignorant fool!"

Faced with this fatal blow, Chu Yang's eyes showed no fear, but instead erupted with a fierce and fanatical fighting spirit.

The steely will honed on countless brushes with death in the Tang Dynasty world, coupled with the terrifying perception of a rudimentary Observation Haki, allowed him to accurately capture the attack trajectory of the long tongue the moment the monster extended its tongue!

Chu Yang advanced instead of retreating!

He suddenly slid to the right at the limit, and the long tongue almost grazed his cheek, slapping the wooden door behind him into pieces with a "smash"! Just as the long tongue had exhausted its strength and had not yet withdrawn!

Chu Yang's left hand shot out like lightning and grabbed the long, scarlet tongue covered in corrosive saliva and mucus!

"Sizzle..."

The highly corrosive saliva instantly corroded the tactical glove on Chu Yang's left hand, causing it to emit black smoke, but Chu Yang didn't even flinch.

His terrifying power, enhanced by the primordial immortal light, erupted with a thunderous roar!

"Come here!"

Chu Yang roared, his left arm muscles bulging, and he actually grabbed the long tongue, roughly pulling the mutated monster, which weighed at least 200 pounds, towards himself!

"Hiss—!" The monster was clearly not expected that this human's strength would be so terrifying. For the first time, a trace of fear flashed in its dead gray eyes. It desperately gripped the ground with its limbs to try to steady itself, but it was still irresistibly pulled over by Chu Yang's violent power!

"Shen Lie! Cut off its legs!" Chu Yang roared.

Shen Lie had been preparing for this for a long time.

He gripped the fire axe tightly with both hands, roared, and pounced from the side like a mad tiger.

"Die!!!" The heavy fire axe flashed a chilling light in the dimly lit corridor, and chopped down precisely on the monster's right thigh joint!

"Snap!!!"

A crisp sound of bones breaking rang out! The monster's leg bones, as hard as iron, were directly severed by Shen Lie's all-out axe blow! Black, foul blood instantly sprayed all over Shen Lie's face!

"Aww—!!!"

The monster let out a piercing scream; its right leg severed, it completely lost its balance and fell heavily to the ground.

However, this advanced mutant is extremely resilient.

Ignoring the excruciating pain of its broken leg, it wildly waved its remaining three claws on the ground, and its long tongue covered in barbs suddenly retracted, actually trying to pull Chu Yang over and tear him to pieces!

"Still struggling even when death is imminent?!"

Chu Yang's eyes flashed with murderous intent.

He didn't let go of his left hand, but instead used the force of the monster's pull to propel his body forward.

The instant he got close to the monster's body, Chu Yang's right hand, which was gripping the machete upside down, transformed into a cold and sharp dark red lightning bolt!

"Thud!" The machete pierced the monster's jaws without any resistance!

The blade traveled up its throat, brutally piercing its upper jaw, and finally, with a "crack," the tip of the blade emerged conspicuously from the monster's bald head!

"Heh...heh..."

The monster's massive body convulsed violently a few times, its limbs scratching and clawing in the air in despair.

But if the brain is completely destroyed, even the strongest willpower is useless.

Its deathly gray eyes gradually lost their last luster, and finally it collapsed to the ground like a lump of mud, completely dead.

"Huff... huff..."

Shen Lie, leaning on the fire axe, gasped for breath, looking at the horrific monster corpse on the ground, and wiped the cold sweat from his face with lingering fear.

"Chu Yang... what exactly is this thing? Its speed and strength are even more monstrous than the wild boar at the village entrance that night!"

"A product of environmental mutation."

Chu Yang drew his machete and calmly wiped the blood off the monster's corpse. "In a narrow, dark, and well-fed enclosed space, the virus will cause the infected to evolve towards agility and stealth."

This is just the beginning. As time goes on, much more terrifying things will appear in the outside world.

Chu Yang turned his head and looked at the dark staircase leading to the second basement level.

"Let's go. The commotion we made just now was too loud. The smell of blood will soon attract the zombies upstairs."

We're out of time.

The two stepped through the thick, sticky blood and quickly descended the stairs to the second basement level.

This is the air-raid shelter of the police station. The air is extremely stuffy, but thankfully there are no signs of zombies.

At the very end of the corridor, a heavy, silver-gray explosion-proof steel door stands silently in the darkness.

Four large characters were painted in red on the door: "Important Equipment Site".

The door is locked.

"It's a dual combination lock with fingerprint and iris scan." Shen Lie stepped forward and examined the complex electronic lock dial. "It's out of power now, so this lock is just a dead metal."

Without the key, even using explosives would take most of the day to blow it up.

"Step back." Chu Yang didn't waste any words. He walked to the blast door and carefully examined the position of the hinges and latches on the edge of the door frame.

Chu Yang calmly took out a small canister of liquid nitrogen spray from his backpack and sprayed it frantically at the two most critical load-bearing hinges.

The terrifyingly low temperature of liquid nitrogen instantly froze the two high-strength alloy hinges, causing a thick layer of white frost to form on their surfaces.

"Give me the fire axe." Chu Yang held out his hand.

Shen Lie quickly handed over the heavy fire axe he was holding.

Chu Yang took a deep breath and gripped the axe handle tightly with both hands.

He closed his eyes, and in his mind, the experience of countless times in the Tang Dynasty world of forging and searching for the weakest nodes in metal structures perfectly overlapped with the blast door in front of him.

"drink!"

Chu Yang suddenly opened his eyes, a sharp glint flashing in them.

He exerted force from his waist, and the power flowed down his spine to his arms.

The heavy fire axe drew a perfect arc in mid-air, slamming precisely and violently into the most critical stress point of the hinge, which had been frozen by liquid nitrogen!

"Bang!!!" A deafening metallic explosion echoed wildly through the basement!

Under the combined effects of extreme heat and cold, and Chu Yang's terrifying explosive force, the special alloy hinge, which was strong enough to withstand the bombardment of a rocket launcher, actually cracked cleanly from the inside with a "crack"!

"Holy crap..." Shen Lie was dumbfounded.

Is this something that can be done by human power?!

Chu Yang didn't stop. He repeated the process, smashing the remaining hinges with three consecutive blows.

Finally, he suddenly kicked out and slammed his leg violently into the heavy steel door.

"Boom!"

The explosion-proof door, now without hinge support, collapsed backward like a crumbling city wall, crashing to the ground and kicking up clouds of dust.

"Flashlight," Chu Yang called out in a low voice.

Shen Lie quickly turned on the high-powered flashlight hanging on his chest.

When two blinding beams of light pierced the armory, which was over 100 square meters in size, both men instinctively held their breath.

There was no stench of rotting flesh, only a pleasant, cool scent mixed with gun oil and the unique aroma of steel. Rows of neat metal gun racks held the killing machines that would drive anyone mad in this apocalyptic world.

"God……"

Shen Lie, a firefighter who could only touch water guns in peacetime, almost had his eyes pop out of their sockets when he saw what was happening in front of him.

On the outermost gun rack, fifty brand-new Type 92 9mm semi-automatic pistols were neatly stacked.

Next to it were a dozen or so Type 79 submachine guns, polished to a shine.

In the innermost riot control cabinet, there were ten Type 97 18.4mm riot control shotguns locked up! And two rare Type 88 sniper rifles equipped with high-precision optical sights!

Inside the wooden crates on the ground were ammunition boxes stacked like small mountains.