Chapter 1658
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The monster was heading toward the assault team.
Chen Zhao stood on the roof of a three-story building.
In fact, he was less than 20 meters away from the assault team.
But the fog blocked their line of sight.
Even if they stood close, they couldn't see them.
Some monsters noticed Chen Zhao, but he kicked them away.
The monsters killed each other. They didn't group up to attack Chen Zhao.
Finally, the first casualty of the assault team appeared.
It wasn't the infected Merrick.
It was another team member.
Two living corpses charged into the formation and disrupted the assault team's deployment.
Chen Zhao realized that the attacks of these living corpses were only average.
Of course, they weren't average when compared to Chen Zhao.
They were compared to the American soldiers.
Their only advantage was speed.
Furthermore, it was because of this thick fog.
If it wasn't for the fog.
The American soldiers had cleaned them up a long time ago.
But it was the fog that prevented the soldiers from getting what they wanted.
At this moment, Merrick finally made his move.
He wasn't himself anymore.
The magic spores had seeped into his brain. He was a living corpse now too.
Just like the zombie spores in the Amazon rainforest.
But he didn't turn into a brainless creature.
He had human intelligence.
In a situation that no one had expected.
Merrick grabbed a former comrade.
Then he dragged him into the fog.
The comrade that Merrick had dragged into the fog was bitten to death.
Chen Zhao watched all this without any intention of interfering.
After eating the man, Merrick became even stronger.
The magic spores had completely changed him.
Living corpses didn't have digestive systems anymore.
They could directly turn food into energy.
There was an advantage to this. Their physical strength could reach an unbelievable level in a short time.
But the disadvantages were also obvious. It was like a person who'd taken stimulants. Even sitting still was very tiring.
Once their energy was depleted to a certain level, they would feel even more thirsty.
They needed more food to replenish the energy they used up.
If there was enough food here, these living corpses would work together to fight against outsiders.
But there were only living corpses here. There were no other creatures.
They could only eat each other.
But now, the assault team had arrived.
All the living corpses focused their attention on the assault team.
Chen Zhao also realized something else.
The living corpses with more parasite spores.
They were not stronger than their own kind, but they were more energetic.
In other words, their energy consumption and control were more precise.
After Merrick devoured the body of his former comrade, he took off his isolation suit.
It came into contact with the mist in the air on a large scale and allowed the magic spores in the mist to parasitize it.
These magic spores could not be attached directly to the skin. They needed to enter the blood or oral cavity before they could parasitize Merrick.
And it wasn't an ordinary parasite. It was the first magic spore.
The host was like a house, and the magic spores were the owners and tenants.
The owner could not rent to as many tenants as he wanted.
They needed to devour more people or their own kind, obtain their flesh and blood, and then turn their flesh and blood into their own, so that more magic spores could parasitize them.
Merrick did not attack the commandos directly.
It had its eyes on another of its kind, a weaker living corpse.
Without much effort, Merrick made it a part of himself.
Merrick's body started to mutate.
An arm popped out from its left shoulder.
But Merrick's changes did not stop there.
It didn't just have an extra arm.
Instead, it was an invisible change inside its body.
Its body structure became more reasonable.
From a certain perspective, it was also evolving.
But evolution was not that easy.
Chen Zhao had gone through a few evolutions.
However, his body's evolution came from the golden key.
Every time, it consumed a large amount of energy.
But the energy needed for a living corpse to evolve was through devouring.
This kind of evolution was very unstable.
If Chen Zhao's evolution process was like building a building, he would only go up a little bit each time, but it was stable.
On the other hand, the evolution of a living corpse was like building blocks. It could go up very high in a short time, but it would collapse easily.
This was the difference between the two.
Actually, this analogy was not appropriate.
The process of human evolution was a process of building skyscrapers.
The foundation was already there. All of Chen Zhao's evolutions were built on this foundation.
But the evolution of a living corpse was different. It was to push away this foundation and then say, "Come, let's build blocks."
Actually, human evolution was traceable. The first was the evolution of appearance.
Humans had always been evolving in the direction of becoming taller and more in line with the environment.
Why did humans like beauty? This was actually determined by their genes.
Putting aside individual differences in aesthetics.
Humans subconsciously thought that beauty was more advanced.
So, the direction of human evolution would be more in line with their own aesthetics.
As long as the environment did not change drastically.
Then, the general direction of human evolution would not change.
It would not become uglier as one evolved.
Of course, this kind of ugliness did not refer to the face, but the distortion of the body.
In fact, this kind of aesthetics did not only happen to humans.
Many species in the world actually evolved in this direction too.
Humans also tended to like cute and beautiful animals.
There were also aesthetic tendencies among the same species.
What happened on this artificial island was probably caused by a madman or a crazy organization.
It might even be the government.
Don't think that it was impossible. Some small towns in America's borders had mysteriously disappeared.
Similar secrets were kept in the Supernatural Society.
The assault team lost a few more people.
Merrick was even more cunning.
It had been secretly following the assault team.
Whether the members of the assault team died or the living corpses were destroyed.
It devoured the corpses.
Lucenc, the leader of the assault team, felt that it was too risky to move in an open space.
He decided to enter the largest building on the artificial island, which was the supermarket.
The supermarket was an enclosed space, so there was not much fog inside.
But to Chen Zhao, this was a very wrong decision.
In this world, if there was a man-made maze, it would undoubtedly be a supermarket.
Large supermarkets would try to make the terrain as complicated as possible.
It was so that the customers could not walk out.
Now, the assault team had entered an enormous maze.
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