"What the f***!"
Li Cang was completely flustered now.
I'm fine with you wanting to duel me, but don't you dare make a sound! There are at least six hundred monsters on the Floating Island, and you're wailing here?
If just a few hear the commotion and come over, do you really think I'm a one-man army?
Don't hide it, I saw the suona you're carrying in your pocket!
A steel rebar, an inch thick, went straight for the Walking Dead's teeth, a massive slap!
This thing apparently didn't know what evasion was.
Li Cang's strength was, at most, above average among ordinary people of the same build; it wasn't outstanding.
But even so, with the help of the meter-long rebar, he still dealt astonishing damage.
The Walking Dead's teeth shattered instantly, and all its welcoming words were choked back; its body was still charging, but its head was already reversing.
The result was that its legs kept rising higher and higher, directly taking off, hitting the ground with a thud, landing on the back of its head first.
With Big Corpse Bro as a lesson, Li Cang had no intention of stopping his movements, his hand, numb from the shock, tightly gripping the rebar.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
Three bloody holes: in the brow, neck, and heart, almost transparent.
Tell me, isn't this finishing blow worthy of a few recommendation tickets?
Ahem...
Anyway, it was a smooth, flowing combo, and the unlucky Walking Dead died on the spot.
But a big question mark popped into Li Cang's head—
So, is my combat power really that amazing?
Then he turned back to look at Big Corpse Bro.
"Crunch, crunch, crunch."
Big Corpse Bro was gnawing on a head with relish, a whole bloody spine still attached to the bottom of the head, fresh, clearly just pulled from the Walking Dead's body.
"Holy crap, is it good? Pfft, pfft... You beast, stop! After the founding of the nation, no... uh, that's not right..."
Heh.
This guy probably isn't a deadbeat from a trashy web novel; we noble readers from Qidian all know that, in principle, you can't eat people!
However...
These two guys' combat power seems really off.
Let alone compared to that terrifying former Big Corpse Bro, even the current Big Corpse Bro can instantly kill it; they're not even in the same league.
Do humans turning into monsters even have classes? These two hungry guys clearly aren't successors to socialism.
Big Corpse Bro crunched through the Walking Dead in a few bites, then showed no further subjective initiative, even its gaze returning to that stagnant, dead-straight state from before.
Li Cang circled Big Corpse Bro twice.
"I just feel like something's different."
There was no time to continue thinking; the commotion just now was not small.
Li Cang quickly fled the scene with Big Corpse Bro; ten minutes later, one man and one corpse climbed over the back wall into the Second Hospital.
"Bang!"
Li Cang landed steadily, half his body sinking into a strange white powder.
"What is this stuff now?"
White, lime-like powder covered the entire Hospital, only twenty to thirty centimeters thick in thin areas, but over three meters high in thick areas, piled up into undulating small sand dunes in the courtyard, even blocking the entrance to the underground parking lot from view.
Li Cang scooped up a handful of powder and examined it closely.
The seemingly fine particles were actually quite uneven; individually, they weren't as pure white as they appeared when viewed as a whole. The particles varied in size, from fine dust to coarse sand, and their surfaces were covered with extremely tiny pores.
The more Li Cang looked, the more he felt something was wrong, and a drop of cold sweat slowly trickled down...
Why does this stuff look so much like ashes??
Ashes that filled the underground parking lot and the entire Hospital courtyard—how many people would have to be burned for that?
Even if everyone on the entire Floating Island was put here, it might not be enough?!
"Boom~"
Suddenly, a violent explosion interrupted his wild thoughts.
Then, a scorching heatwave swept across the entire Floating Island.
Li Cang stood on a high point and looked towards the explosion's direction; the northwest had clearly become a sea of fire.
Flames devoured several surrounding buildings, covering streets for one to two hundred meters in radius, and a mushroom cloud of black smoke rapidly expanded.
"Are those people crazy? They blew up the gas station?"
This Floating Island is only a few kilometers in diameter; anyone with ears on the entire Floating Island could hear the commotion caused by the explosion.
Li Cang vaguely saw several figures with inhuman gaits flash by in the distance, converging towards the center of the explosion.
Originally, these monsters were all obediently staying within a relatively fixed range, but now, it was all chaos; who knew where they would go when they dispersed again?
Li Cang lamented,
"I was so foolish, truly."
"I only knew there would be wolves in the snow..."
"I only knew curiosity kills the cat..."
"Am I stuck with a side quest?"
Then, completely unable to control his feet, he waded through the white dust and arrived before the apple tree.
Li Cang swore that every branch and every inch of bark on this apple tree was exactly the same as the one on his Island!
Except that one had half its canopy broken, while this one in front of him was perfectly intact.
Not only was it perfectly intact, but it even bore fist-sized, greenish, tender new apples.
How was this possible?
It was only early June; in the Salt River region, apples couldn't grow this fast even if they were fed urea and nutrient solution!
While complaining, an apple appeared in his hand.
"Crunch~"
Tart and slightly sour, with a sweet aftertaste, and incredibly crisp; you wouldn't find an apple this delicious for under 5 yuan.
Pfft...
What the hell am I even thinking?
I'll just eat another one!
Li Cang, who hadn't eaten anything since arriving on the Island, angrily devoured three apples, his teeth almost aching.
"Breathe... huff... puff... I've eaten and drunk, now it's time to get down to business!"
Li Cang's heart pounded, his gaze falling on the Hospital room window with its familiar white curtain, open just a crack.
The Hospital room was still there.
The apple tree was still there.
Could I also be in that Hospital room?
Creak...
The slightly warped plastic window emitted a teeth-grinding friction sound, the gap widening little by little.
Li Cang held his breath, his hands trembling slightly, even hearing the booming of his own wildly beating heart.
Suddenly, a gentle breeze blew, just enough to part a corner of the curtain inside.
A giant, scarlet eye, covered in strange blue veins, met Li Cang's gaze perfectly.
"My goodness!"
He jumped three feet high!
He ascended on the spot!
He did a flat-back swan dive!
This fright Li Cang experienced was no small matter.
However, it must be said that human potential is truly infinite.
It was excellent that a reflex action, a dry-land spring onion, could throw him back several meters; with this leg strength, letting Big Corpse Bro pedal a rickshaw for him was simply a waste of talent.
The window, which had just been pushed open a crack, twisted and closed again under the force of the wind.
Li Cang swallowed, still shaken.
Judging by the size of that half-eye, this thing was probably a giant!
There was no movement in the Hospital room; in fact, the entire Hospital was as quiet as a graveyard.
Could it be a dead thing?
Just then, a sound suddenly came from outside the Hospital,
"Run! Into the Hospital!"
"Damn it, more trouble than it's worth!"
"I told you we shouldn't have brought these old bastards!"
"Ah, help!"
"Why aren't they chasing anymore...?"
"Close the door, quickly push the main gate shut!"
A group of people, reeking of blood, rushed in through the main entrance of the Hospital. The hard asphalt road suddenly turned into soft ground filled with unknown powder dozens of centimeters high. The group's feet gave way, and they tumbled one after another, rolling like gourds.