The crowd knelt for a long time, but Shen Chengyin remained unresponsive. Only Zhao Guang saw him lean back slightly, resting against the weathered city wall behind him.

Below the wall was a surging, howling horde of zombies, yet the man leaned against it casually, as if he were merely resting on his own porch.

"It's so noisy."

No one dared to utter a sound; no one knew whether Shen Chengyin was speaking of the zombies' wails or their prayers.

Su Han smiled and stood beside Shen Chengyin, a hint of amusement in her eyes.

"What a pity. If only Wang Jiafu could kneel here and apologize to Chief Shen."

Zhao Guang jolted awake, abruptly sitting upright and pointing wildly at the crowd: "Quick! Go to the detention center! Tie Wang Jiafu up!"

Two strong superhumans appeared in response.

The distant firelight flickered on and off; separated by a wall, one side could hear the howls of zombies, and the other the cries of the base's survivors.

The sounds of pain blended together, eerily pleasant.

A zombie climbed over the wall, stepping on piles of corpses, and struggled to get inside, only to be punched down by a nearby superhuman.

Zhao Guang continued kowtowing, his forehead already a bloody mess, blood dripping from his nose and covering the ground.

As he kowtowed, he kept muttering "I'm sorry" in a daze.

More and more zombies climbed the city walls, and most of the superhumans got up and began to fight back.

Several clueless zombies staggered towards Su Han. Before Su Han could finish them off with her knife, Shen Chengyin shot them one after another in the head with pinpoint accuracy.

Without a solid defense and a plan for disposing of corpses, this place will soon be overrun by zombies.

Su Han tugged at Shen Chengyin's sleeve, "Who are we—who are they over there?!"

He caught a glimpse of an extremely unfamiliar figure out of the corner of his eye.

He was a thin, youthful-looking person who stood silently at the back of the crowd.

Her short, ear-length hair was jet black and shiny, as if it had been soaked in oil.

Everyone present was a superhuman with heightened senses, yet no one noticed when the boy had appeared.

Everyone turned around at once, even Shen Chengyin looked up.

The strangely shaped boy raised his face, and in the dim light, everyone could see his eyes.

Those were crimson eyes, without the dividing line between the whites and pupils, only countless eerie protrusions like wriggling worms beneath the thin membrane of the eyeball.

A piercing system alert exploded in his mind: [Intermediate Zombie! Run! Su Han! Run!]

In the original text, intermediate-level zombies appear relatively late. As their evolutionary level becomes more complete, intermediate-level zombies begin to show similarities in appearance to humans.

They began to mimic human behavior, lowering human guard. In both speed and strength, intermediate-level zombies far surpassed basic-level zombies.

The apocalypse has been going on for less than a year, and the superhumans are far from being able to fight against mid-level zombies.

In other words, this mid-level zombie in front of us could kill everyone present.

"It's a zombie!"

"Be careful!"

The crowd dispersed.

Su Han was standing next to Shen Chengyin, and he immediately noticed that the man was tense.

It is indeed a mid-level zombie.

The zombie staggered a couple of steps, then suddenly grabbed a superhuman and bit through his neck.

Unlike ordinary zombies that devour flesh without restraint, the intermediate-level zombie simply pierced the superhuman's neck with its teeth, then immediately released its grip and charged toward its next target.

[Intermediate-level zombies can infect low-level ability users; those bitten are beyond saving! Run!] System 111 was frantic.

Su Han immediately turned around and retreated in tacit agreement with Shen Chengyin.

On the city wall, the circle of superhumans was in complete chaos.

Some people accidentally injured their companions while attacking, while others mistook those who had been attacked by mid-level zombies and stood up again for those who had been resurrected, only to be devoured by the desperate bite of their necks.

Zhao Guang didn't even bother to kowtow or beg anymore. His survival instinct made him unleash his explosive power, breaking through the crowd at lightning speed and escaping the encirclement.

He stared intently at Su Han and Shen Chengyin—they must have a way out!

The intermediate-level zombie followed closely behind, and just as its claws were about to touch Su Han's shoulder, its hand was shattered by a single shot.

The intermediate-level zombie paused for a moment, giving everyone a chance to catch their breath.

Shen Chengyin's gun was still smoking, and Zhao Guang saw everything. He swallowed hard. "Chief Shen! Save us!"

Only Shen Chengyin has the strength to kill this zombie... Only Shen Chengyin does!

Zhao Guang rushed over and hugged Shen Chengyin's leg.

"Please, Chief Shen! I'll do anything to save us! I can give you my sister... I can let her go with you!"

Shen Chengyin's face darkened, and he kicked Zhao Guang hard, sending him flying.

"roll!"

Zhao Guang rolled on the ground, like an unkillable cockroach, and stuck back, desperately reaching out his bloodied and mangled hand to grab Shen Chengyin's ankle.

Because of Zhao Guang's momentary delay, Shen Chengyin was unable to stop the mid-level zombie from attacking again.

Su Han was being choked by a zombie, and with one hand, she struggled to hold a dagger to the zombie's mouth. In the struggle, the two of them flipped over the edge of the city wall and plunged into the endless horde of zombies below.

Just as Shen Chengyin was about to chase after him, he felt a blockage under his feet.

Zhao Guang, still unwilling to give up, gripped Shen Chengyin's ankle, his face smeared with blood, tears, and snot. "Leader! If you leave, Hope Base will be completely finished! You can't do this, Shen Chengyin! You... you could save me once, can't you save me a second time?!"

He only told a lie; he didn't do anything heinous!

Shen Chengyin came back alive and well! Why should the entire base be wiped out with him?!

Su Han's death is just that—a death! But there are tens of thousands of lives at Hope Base!

His response was a gunshot.

Zhao Guang's eyes widened, a bloody hole appeared on his forehead, and he fell straight down.

Amidst the survivors' shocked gazes, Shen Chengyin did not hesitate and leaped off the high wall.

"Chief Shen!"

"Chief Shen!!"

The few survivors immediately rushed to the edge of the city wall, dealt with a few zombies that climbed up, and eagerly peered down.

Beneath the city walls, the surging, writhing zombies surged like waves from hell, one after another.

There was no one in sight.

It's over...it's all over!

When Wang Jiafu was brought there by several people with superpowers, he was shocked by the horrific scene at the scene.

Zombies were rampaging through the area; the base was likely completely overrun. Shen Chengyin, that useless piece of trash, was clearly incapable of leading the fight against the zombie horde.

Wang Jiafu was secretly delighted. It must be because the superhumans at the base had changed their minds that they asked him to come and take command.

Although he couldn't speak, he still stood up straight, straightened his clothes, and waited for everyone to speak.

The leader of the superhumans, dragging his battered body, immediately stabbed Wang Jiafu in the left shoulder.

Amidst Wang Jiafu's mournful howls, he slashed hard, instantly disemboweling Wang Jiafu.

"Wang Jiafu, you deserve to die the most!"

"It's all because of you that Chief Shen abandoned Hope Base and us!"

"Go down and be buried with Chief Shen!"

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