The rest of the members, upon seeing the passage that Fang Tian had opened, quickly jumped onto the floor framing as well.
When they reached the first floor, the mutant zombie also entered within Lin Xinghai’s 100-meter perception range.
“So fast!” Lin Xinghai was horrified.
However, his attention was quickly diverted because there were continuous explosion sounds coming from the front right.
Moreover, the explosions were getting closer, with their power becoming more terrifying.
It seemed as if the institute was about to collapse.
“What happened?”
As this thought revolved in Lin Xinghai’s mind, he saw Fang Tianhe running toward the direction from which the sounds of explosions were coming.
Lin Xinghai didn’t have time to think and rushed forward with the team.
At this moment, Fang Tianhe was moving in a straight line, but the direction he was headed in had no passageways. Hence, he could only continue to break through walls to enter the rooms ahead.
Vwom!
Sky Fracture ability was unleashed again. The construction standard of the structure at the ground level was less stringent than the underground. The walls were not reinforced with alloy but merely constructed of high-durability reinforced concrete.
Therefore, Fang Tianhe had an easier time breaking through the walls. However, his aura still diminished significantly, clearly indicating a substantial expenditure of energy.
Roar!
The zombies in this room immediately lunged at Fang Tianhe. However, he reacted quickly, firing three consecutive shots with the hand cannon in his hand. He blasted away more than 20 zombies that were rushing at him.
Using the hand cannon at such a close range could certainly clear out the zombies as quickly as possible, but Fang Tianhe himself had to withstand some of the blasts.
He dared to do so because of his strong physique.
Lin Xinghai was the second to enter the room. At that time, the room was still filled with smoke and visibility was extremely low.
In that case, it was difficult to aim and shoot.
However, that was limited to ordinary people. Lin Xinghai was different. At such a close distance, his perception was already capable of discerning the location of the zombies.
Relying on this advantage, he quickly fired his gun. In an instant, he had followed up with additional shots, killing the last surviving zombies in the room.
Fang Tianhe had a fleeting look of surprise on his face; under normal circumstances, he would have stopped to see how Lin Xinghai managed to do it.
However, the mutant zombie was only 60 meters away from them.
He could even hear a strange swishing sound with his keen hearing as if it were the sound of some liquid flowing.
Fang Tianhe did not dare to pause for a moment and immediately crashed into the wall of the next room.
At the same time, a violent roar came from the next room.
When Lin Xinghai rushed through the hole smashed by Fang Tianhe into the next room, he saw Fang Tianhe plastered against the wall with a trickle of fresh blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.
The shockwave from the explosion had sent him flying.
“Leader, are you okay?” Lin Xinghai asked quickly.
“It’s nothing serious. Get out quickly.” Fang Tianhe broke free from the wall and continued running forward. Although he was injured, he could still hold on.
Lin Xinghai looked ahead. At this time, all the walls in front of them were breached.
However, it was more accurate to say that they had been blasted through.
Following this blasted passage, they only need to run for another 100 meters to get out.
At the end of the corridor stood the snow-white Sky Frost Mecha. The missile protective covers on its legs were open. The micro-missiles inside were already depleted by more than half.
The micro-missiles opened the path for us.
“It’s straightforward and brutal!” Lin Xinghai couldn’t help but comment, but it indeed proved to be practical.
With the path cleared, everyone’s advance quickened. When they were about to reach the exit, the mutant zombie also caught up to them at this passage.
Lin Xinghai turned around and looked at it.
The wall was pushed open, and then a humanoid monster emerged from inside.
This mutated zombie was quite strange because its entire body had no claws or sharp horns or anything like that. Instead, it was smooth and elastic as if it were molded from soft rubber plastic.
Lin Xinghai’s first impression of this thing was that it seemed harmless except for being a little bigger.
However, when other mercenaries saw it, their expressions changed drastically.
“Dammit, why are we so unlucky to encounter this thing?” Roger couldn’t help but curse.
“What is that? Is it scary?” Lin Xinghai asked.
“This thing is called a blood fiend. When the catastrophe erupted, it was the sudden emergence of these creatures, spreading the virus in large numbers, that led to so many humans turning into zombies.” Roger explained.
The blood fiend let out a roar. The sound was strange as if it was transmitted through the water.
Of course, no one paid attention to that at the moment because the blood fiend was charging at them. It was agile, advancing more than ten meters in a single leap.
“Get out of the way!” Shen Han’s cold voice sounded through the loudspeaker on the mecha.
She piloted the mecha, raised the electromagnetic railgun, and unleashed Sky Frost ability.
Lin Xinghai, like the other mercenaries, immediately dodged aside.
In the next instant, a white trail formed in the air before their eyes.
Splot!
The bullet struck the blood fiend accurately. Its body, which seemed to be composed of blood, was instantly covered with a layer of frost, making it difficult to move.
Swosh!
Two micro-missiles followed closely, hitting the blood fiend.
Boom! Boom!
Under two loud booms, the enormous body of the blood fiend was blown to pieces.
Lin Xinghai was a little stunned, “It… it’s an easy target!”
He cast doubtful eyes on Roger, but Roger just dragged him and rushed out of the research institute.
Until then, Lin Xinghai had time to look back. However this time, his eyes were wide open.
The blood fiend’s body, torn to pieces by the explosion, turned into individual blood spheres. These spheres bounced forward, continuing to chase them.
During this process, the blood spheres would draw closer to each other and quickly merge into one.
When these blood spheres chased out of the building, they had completely merged into one, transforming back into the blood fiend without a single scratch on it.
Lin Xinghai was shocked by what he had witnessed. Fortunately, they had already escaped from the building. Fang Tianhe managed to pilot the Sky Fracture Mecha as well.
“Let’s go. Back to the vehicle. Don’t hinder us here.” Roger said.
Soon, they met the waiting team outside. The energy crystals were put in the multi-functional off-road vehicle.
Fighting against monsters of the mutant zombie level was only possible with mecha.
Therefore, everyone escorted the multi-functional off-road vehicle and moved away from the battlefield as quickly as possible.
With the cover of the Sky Fracture mecha and Sky Frost mecha, it was not difficult for everyone to stay away from the battlefield.
However, if they couldn’t kill or seriously injure the blood fiend, they simply wouldn’t be able to leave the city center safely.