Zhang Hao's headless corpse crashed to the ground, and viscous black blood spread across the corridor floor like spilled ink.
Li Mingyu's furious roar was like a spark dropped into boiling oil, instantly igniting the battlefield that was on the verge of collapse!
The students, pushed to their limits, completely unleashed their ferocity, their crude weapons striking their former classmates and teachers with hysterical force!
The sound of bones shattering, flesh tearing, death throes, and desperate cries, mixed with an intensely nauseating stench of blood, transformed the fourth-floor corridor into a true depiction of hell!
Ling Chen still leaned against the wall, his hat brim pulled low, as if he were stunned by the horrific sight.
But beneath the shadow of his hood, his deep, pond-like eyes calmly scanned the entire battlefield.
His bat-like perception acted like an invisible radar, feeding back every detail of the battlefield.
His gaze locked onto the classroom door that had been burst open at the end of the corridor.
His bat-like perception told him there was still something inside... more than one.
One of the auras was cold, viscous, full of chaos and brutality, like a toxic fungus fermenting in rotting flesh, carrying a heart-pounding sense of oppression!
It was much stronger than the ordinary corpse ghouls outside! And... it was moving, it was devouring!
Just then!
"Roar—!!!"
A muffled roar, as if from the depths of the earth, suddenly erupted from deep within that classroom!
The sound carried a high-frequency vibration that caused dust to sift down from the corridor walls!
An even stronger, more nauseating stench, mixed with rotten flesh, internal organs, and a certain sweet, bloody odor, surged out from the door like a tangible tide!
All the people and corpse ghouls who were fighting suddenly paused!
A primal fear, stemming from the instinct of self-preservation, instantly coiled around everyone's heart like a cold viper!
"What is that?!" Li Mingyu smashed a corpse ghoul's head with a club, then abruptly turned to look at the classroom door, his pupils constricting!
Sun Qiang's metallic body withstood a corpse ghoul's bite, emitting a harsh scraping sound, and he also looked warily towards the door!
The chaotic students were even more terrified by this sudden, horrifying roar, their recently ignited ferocity instantly extinguished by more than half, as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over them!
Fear once again gripped their nerves!
Rumble! Rumble!
Heavy footsteps sounded, like giant hammers striking the ground!
The entire corridor floor trembled slightly!
A massive, bloated, mountain-of-flesh-like black shadow slowly "squeezed" out from the darkness within the classroom door!
When it was fully exposed in the dim light of the corridor, everyone gasped!
Their stomachs churned!
It could not be called a "person" at all!
Its body was as enormous as an inflated ball, nearly three meters tall, and wide enough to almost fill the entire corridor!
Its original human outline was already twisted and deformed!
Its skin was a nauseating, dark purple, like rotten pig liver, covered with large and small, pus-filled, swollen tumors and cysts!
Some cysts had burst, oozing yellowish-green, foul-smelling, viscous pus!
Its limbs were disproportionately short and thick, like four massive, fleshy pillars covered in thick fat and overgrown tissue, struggling to support its enormous body!
With every step, the ground groaned under the strain, and its thick layers of fat swayed violently like waves!
The most terrifying part was its head! Or rather, the part that could barely be recognized as a "head"!
On a massive, tumor-like fleshy lump, the outlines of facial features were barely embedded!
Its eyes were squeezed into two narrow slits, from which flickered chaotic, mad, lava-like crimson light!
Its nose was sunken, leaving only two dark holes, and its mouth was split to its ears, revealing two rows of pale, sharp teeth, like a shark's, interlocked and covered in viscous saliva and bits of rotten meat!
Layers of fat piled up on its chin, hanging down to its chest!
And on the surface of its enormous body, countless remains of other corpse ghouls were strikingly "embedded"!
Broken arms, twisted lower legs, even half a rotten head, were deeply embedded in its dark purple, mud-like flesh, as if forcibly stitched and fused!
Those remains were still faintly wriggling, as if a faint life force remained!
Even more chilling, at the end of its thick, pillar-like right arm, a huge, deformed claw, covered in black keratin, had strikingly "grown"!
The shape of that claw was clearly somewhat similar to the Four-Eyed Ghost Tiger's claws from before!
It was estimated that the students in the classroom had thrown those remains elsewhere, and it had picked them up.
Devour! Abomination! Genetic collapse!
Ling Chen's lips curved into a slight smile as he looked at the mountain of flesh.
A distorted creature that chose to devour its own kind due to genetic mutation?
What a perfect whetstone.
His past life's memories instantly provided the answer—this was a corpse ghoul that had undergone genetic mutation, then devoured too much of its kind's flesh and blood, leading to the complete collapse of its own gene chain and uncontrollable, malignant distortion!
It had fused with some characteristics and powers of those it devoured, but at the cost of completely losing its sanity and form.
In other words, no matter how much flesh and blood it consumed throughout its life, it could not advance, becoming a mountain-of-flesh monster that only knew how to devour and destroy!
For him in his previous life, it was nothing.
Even if this fleshy ball was as big as a mountain, it was ultimately a monster without sanity or a brain.
In his previous life, the mutated side in the war often used it as cannon fodder and a battering ram.
Its strength far surpassed that of ordinary corpse ghouls, and its defense was even more astonishing, but it was slow, unintelligent, and... extremely unstable!
A mountain-sized abomination like that could very likely suddenly explode in the middle of a fight.
Of course, with such a small body, its internal gene chain was not unstable to that extent; at least it still resembled a human, so it should not explode.
But this sight was already impactful enough for them.
"Ugh—" A girl, looking at this nightmarish scene, could no longer hold it in and bent over, retching violently!
"Oh god... what kind of monster is that...?" A boy's face was pale, and the hand holding his weapon trembled violently.
Fear spread again like a plague!
The fighting spirit that had just been ignited by the bloodshed instantly crumbled before this terrifying monster that defied comprehension!
"Roar—!!!"
The distorted mountain of flesh's crimson, slit eyes locked onto the crowd in the corridor!
It opened its blood-red maw, split to its ears, and let out a deafening roar!
A foul, stinking hurricane, mixed with viscous saliva, surged out!
Its pillar-like left arm suddenly lifted and smashed heavily into a partially collapsed wall nearby!
Boom!!!
Bricks and stones flew!
The wall was smashed, as if made of paper, creating a huge gap!
Debris shot out like cannonballs!
Several students who couldn't dodge in time were hit by the debris and fell to the ground, screaming!
"Scatter! Quickly scatter!" Li Mingyu shrieked!
He burst with speed, narrowly avoiding a flying piece of debris!
The distorted mountain of flesh took heavy steps, like a moving fortress, crushing towards the crowd!
Every step made the ground tremble!
Its huge right claw, covered in black keratin, swept towards Wang Meng, who was closest to it and frozen in terror, with a shriek that tore through the air!
"Wang Meng! Dodge!" Li Mingyu's eyes were bloodshot, wanting to rescue him but too far away!
Wang Meng watched as the terrifying claw, the size of a door panel and glinting with metallic coldness, rapidly grew larger before his eyes, and a foul, bloody stench assaulted him!
His mind went blank, and his body was frozen, unable to move!
The shadow of death instantly enveloped him!