Doomsday police, please show your god/demon ID card.

Snapped!

A sharp cracking sound rang out on the deathly silent rooftop.

Tang Long slammed the butt of his Type 95 rifle onto the falling tablet screen.

Glass shattered, and the terrifying giant face made up of countless twisted human heads—a sight that sent sanity levels soaring—instantly disintegrated into a pile of flickering electronic sparks.

"Wake up!"

Tang Long roared, his voice like a thunderclap in everyone's ears.

Wang Hu shuddered and took a deep breath, as if he were a drowning person who had just surfaced.

"Captain Tang... what is that thing...?"

This 1.9-meter-tall man's legs were weak and his teeth were chattering.

"No matter what it is! Retreat! Retreat immediately!"

His intuition was screaming alarm bells; the presence in the clouds was completely beyond their comprehension.

If we don't run now, it might be too late.

However, at that moment...

hum!

A strange sound descended without warning.

That wasn't sound waves from air vibrations, but rather noise that felt like it was scraping directly against the cerebral cortex.

It was as if countless steel needles were simultaneously piercing into everyone's brain, and then stirring wildly.

"ah!!"

The two young police officers, whose willpower was slightly weaker, immediately knelt down, clutching their heads, with bright red blood seeping from their nostrils and eardrums, and letting out shrill screams.

Su Yan's body swayed violently, and her face turned deathly pale instantly.

She bit her lip hard, and blood dripped down her chin.

"It...it saw us."

Su Yan's voice was weak, but filled with extreme terror.

"It opened its eyes!"

Boom!

The once calm, dark blue sea of ​​clouds overhead suddenly began to churn violently.

The thick clouds seemed to be torn apart by an invisible giant hand, and a massive, suffocating malice, like a tangible waterfall, poured down from ten thousand meters in the sky, instantly engulfing the entire city.

Through the cracks in the clouds, the giant human-headed face slowly split open with two slits.

There is no white in the eye, and no pupil.

Only countless smaller, denser heads wriggled and shrieked wildly in their eye sockets, converging into two gray-white beams of death light that shot straight toward the building where Tang Long and his group were.

"run!!!"

Tang Long kicked open the iron door to the rooftop and roared behind him.

at the same time.

Click~ Click~ Click~

Down on the street, the tens of thousands of headless zombies who had been silently pilgrimage-like with their hands clasped together suddenly moved.

They lowered their hands in unison.

The sound of that instantaneous movement was like a tsunami crashing against the shore.

Immediately afterwards, all the headless zombies mechanically rotated at an angle, facing the direction where Tang Long and his group were.

At the severed neck, where there was no head, the originally smooth skin suddenly split open, and thin, long fleshy buds, like the tentacles of a sea anemone, emerged.

These buds were waving wildly in the air, seemingly receiving some kind of signal from the clouds.

"roar--!!!"

Although they lacked vocal cords, thousands of chest cavities vibrated simultaneously, emitting a dull and terrifying low-frequency roar.

The once lifeless city instantly came alive.

A zombie horde has erupted.

……

"Quick! Get downstairs!"

Tang Long took the lead and rushed into the fire escape, followed closely by the others.

Just as the last person rushed into the stairwell, the two gray-white beams of death light from the clouds swept across the rooftop.

sizzle-

Under the dead light, the cement floor melted and boiled rapidly like butter, emitting pungent yellow smoke.

Under the glare of the dead sunlight, the concrete rapidly carbonized, turning into a pool of bubbling black pus.

Luo Yongchao, who was at the back, looked back and was so frightened that he scrambled into the stairwell and slammed the iron door shut. The metal door began to heat up and deform a few seconds later.

"That light is corrosive! Don't get caught in it!" he shouted ahead, quickening his pace.

Tang Long glanced back and felt a chill run down his spine. Luckily, he reacted quickly and left with his men almost immediately; otherwise, they might all have perished here.

Tap tap tap~

The sound of hurried footsteps echoed in the empty stairwell.

The group frantically slid and jumped down the handrail, leaping over four or five steps in one go.

"Team Leader Tang! Down below! There are sounds coming from down below too!"

At this moment, Wang Hu, who was standing right next to Tang Long, shouted.

Without him reminding him, Tang Long heard it too.

From the stairwell downstairs came a series of heavy footsteps, mixed with the sound of flesh rubbing against the walls.

"Grenade!" Tang Long shouted sharply.

Wang Hu gritted his teeth; in this dangerous moment, the fierceness in his bones was forced out.

He ripped two high-explosive grenades off his tactical vest, pulled the pins, tapped them in his hand, and then threw them down through the gap in the stair railing.

"Go to hell, you son of a bitch!"

Two seconds later.

Boom! Boom!

A violent explosion rang out downstairs, and the flames illuminated the entire corridor.

A blast of air, carrying bits of flesh and concrete, rushed up.

The roars below paused for a moment, but then became even more ferocious.

"Charge! Don't stop!"

"I'll lead the way!" Tang Long took the lead and rushed to the front.

Just two floors past the corner, they were met head-on by the first wave of headless zombies rushing up.

These creatures are stronger and more agile than ordinary zombies.

Although they have no heads and cannot see, the fleshy buds on their necks seem to possess extremely strong sensory abilities.

Upon sensing the warmth of a living person, the headless zombie at the front leaped up, spreading its arms and lunging at Tang Long.

Its chest cavity split open, revealing rows of sharp, shark-like ribs.

"roll!"

A cold glint flashed in Tang Long's eyes, and he suddenly swung his right hand.

puff!

A jet-black vine instantly sprouted from his palm, leaving a blur in the air before precisely piercing the gaping mouth of the headless zombie.

Then, Tang Long flicked his wrist.

The vines snapped straight instantly, lifting the zombie into the air before slamming it down into the horde of corpses behind it.

boom!

Four or five zombies were smashed and rolled around in a heap.

"Fire! Don't hold back your bullets!"

Da da da da!

In the narrow stairwell, gun barrels spewed fire.

The Type 95 rifle demonstrated near-perfect lethality at close range, tearing the headless bodies that surged forward to shreds and sending them staggering backward.

The team was like a sharp knife, painstakingly cutting downwards through the horde of corpses.

Twentieth floor.

Fifteen floors.

Ten floors.

The stairwells on each floor were crowded with bizarre monsters, and ammunition was being consumed rapidly.

"Change magazine! Cover me!"

Wang Hu emptied a drum magazine, casually smashed the scorching hot barrel onto a zombie, pulled out a tactical dagger from his waist, stabbed it into the monster's severed neck, and twisted it forcefully.

puff!

A stream of black, foul-smelling liquid sprayed all over his face.

"Pah!" Wang Hu spat out a mouthful of black blood, wiping his face. "It fucking stinks!"

He turned to Tang Long and roared, "Captain Tang! The road ahead is blocked!"

When they rushed to the fifth floor, the corridor in front was already filled with countless corpses, and there was no place to step.

"Su Yan!" Tang Long swung his rattan cane and shouted as he turned around.

Su Yan, who had been protected in the middle, suddenly opened her eyes.

Her eyes had turned a pure silver-white, and blood was beginning to seep from her nostrils.

"open!"

She pushed her hands out to both sides with a sudden force.

hum!

An invisible mental shockwave erupted from her, spreading outwards in a fan-shaped area.

The dozens of headless zombies blocking the corridor suddenly froze, as if a pause button had been pressed.

Immediately afterwards, their bodies began to tremble violently, and the fleshy buds on their necks twitched wildly, as if the control nerves in their bodies had been forcibly severed.

Bang bang bang!

The first few zombies exploded, turning into a shower of blood.

Clearly, Su Yan was overdrawing her life force to forcibly sever the spiritual connection between these monsters and the "Queen" in the clouds.

That brief moment of emptiness is where life begins.

"Go! Don't hesitate!"

Tang Long seized the opportunity, and the vines in his hand shot out suddenly, wrapping around the corner of the stair railing. He swung out and kicked out with both feet, sending several corpses blocking his way flying.

The crowd followed closely behind, breaking through the final blockade.

boom!

Tang Long kicked the fire door in the lobby on the first floor away.

The outside light shone in.

But what followed was an even more despairing scene.

In the plaza outside the building, countless headless zombies surged toward the building entrance like a black tide.

The two armored transport vehicles parked on the side of the road were like a lone boat about to be swallowed up by the black giant wave.

"The car! We have to get in the car!" Wang Hu roared, his eyes red.

Without their car, they would surely die in this environment.

"I'll clear the way!"

Tang Long took a deep breath and suddenly raised his left hand.

puff!

A second vine burst forth.

Double whips!

This is the limit of what he can currently control.

Two jet-black vines, like two wildly dancing black dragons, formed a deathly strangulation circle within a five-meter radius around him.

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!

The vines whipped through the air, making a popping sound.

Any zombie that gets close will have its spine broken or its chest pierced.

Tang Long was like a human meat grinder, carving a bloody path through the dense horde of corpses.

"Keep up! Don't fall behind!"

The remaining officers quickly followed, firing wildly to both sides to prevent the horde of corpses from closing in.

Fifty meters.

Thirty meters.

ten meters.

The armored vehicle was right in front of us.

"Wang Hu! Drive!"

Tang Long used a vine to wrap around a mutant that was trying to climb onto the roof of the car, then flung it away with a loud roar.

Wang Hu rushed to the driver's seat, opened the car door, and climbed in.

The engine roared to life, and everyone scrambled into the back of the truck.

"Team Leader Tang! Come up here quickly!"

Tang Long was about to retract the vines and retreat.

Sudden.

A strong sense of crisis spread through his heart, sending chills down his spine.

He suddenly looked up.

The world has changed.

Suddenly, countless human heads began to float in the sky, scattered densely throughout the city.

Men's, women's, the elderly's, and children's.

They were like balloons blown into the sky, floating silently in mid-air, densely packed, obscuring half the sky.

Some had their eyes closed, their expressions serene.

Some had their eyes wide open, their faces still frozen with the terror and pain of dying.

"Holy...holy shit!" Tang Long's teeth were chattering.

Although it's unclear what danger these heads pose, it's clearly not a good thing.

After all, this thing is part of the Queen.

"Don't...don't look at them! Let's go." Su Yan's voice came from the back of the car, weak but with a hint of urgency.

She had just exhausted her mental energy to blast a passage, and was now leaning back in her chair, her face as white as paper, with blood still streaming from her nose.

However, her reminder came too late.

"mom……?"

In the second car behind, a young police officer suddenly showed a confused yet delighted expression.

He stared intently out the car window, his eyes instantly reddening as he looked at the head of an elderly woman with white hair.

"Mom! Is that you?! You're still alive!"

His comrade next to him changed his expression and immediately reached out to pull him back: "Li Bing! Wake up! It's fake!"

"Let me go!"

The police officer named Li Bing acted as if he had gone mad, unleashing tremendous strength to shove his comrade aside.

"My mom's calling me! She's waiting for me there!"

He shouted as he frantically tried to open the car door.

"Lock the car doors! Don't let him get out!"

Luo Yongchao's anxious shouts came through the walkie-talkie.

But... it was too late.

Click.

Li Bing forcibly opened the car door lock from the inside.

He scrambled off the slowly moving armored vehicle, staggered a few steps, and then reached out with a blissful expression toward the old woman's head.

"Mom, I'm here! I've missed you so much..."

The words came to an abrupt halt.

Everyone saw a scene through the car window that they would never forget.

Li Bing froze, his smile frozen on his face.

Then, without any external force, his head silently separated from his neck and floated upwards, swaying gently.

Like a balloon that has broken free from its restraints.

The head's face still bore the ecstatic joy of seeing loved ones.

It floated into the air and merged into that eerie "starry sky" composed of countless heads.

Below, Li Bing's headless body fell straight down like a chopped-down wooden stake, kicking up a small cloud of dust.

"..."

The convoy was deathly silent.

Everyone's blood seemed to freeze at that moment.

"Wang Hu! Jammer!" Tang Long's roar shattered the deathly silence.

Wang Hu suddenly realized what was happening and frantically rushed to the metal box next to him, slamming the red switch shut.

hum-

The piercing high-frequency noise filled the entire carriage once again.

The other officers, whose eyes were already starting to glaze over, shuddered and looked pained, but their eerie, maniacal laughter vanished.

"Quick! Get out of there!!"

Wang Hu floored the accelerator.

boom!

The armored vehicle's engine roared, like a steel behemoth, as it slammed into the dense horde of headless corpses ahead.

boom! boom! boom!

The headless zombie blocking their path was smashed to pieces, its bones shattered and flesh flying everywhere.

The convoy began its forced breakout through the horde of zombies.

"Grenades! Throw them!"

"Fire! Free fire! Don't let them climb up!"

The firing ports in the rear compartment opened instantly, and several officers who had regained their senses picked up their Type 95 rifles and opened fire wildly out of the windows.

Da da da da!

Flames danced wildly in the dimly lit streets, bullets tearing headless bodies that tried to approach to shreds.

Wang Hu gripped the steering wheel tightly as the armored vehicle continued to ram and crush the horde of corpses.

Can...

There are just too many zombies.

From all directions, endless.

They poured out of the streets, from the ruins, from the buildings, fearlessly rushing towards the convoy, using their bodies to block the wheels from moving forward.

At the same time, more and more heads floated down from the sky toward the convoy.

The expressions on everyone's faces shifted between confusion and clarity.

Even with jammers, it's impossible to completely get rid of them.

The car began to slow down more and more, as if it were stuck in a swamp, and could only move forward at a snail's pace.

"Team Leader Tang! The road ahead is blocked!" Wu Zheng's voice came through the walkie-talkie.

Dozens of meters ahead, the wreckage of an overturned bus and several cars completely blocked the entire street.

"Su Yan! Can you still hold on?" Tang Long shouted to the people behind him.

"……able!"

Su Yan gritted her teeth and used her last bit of strength to open an invisible mental barrier once again, barely managing to keep out the malice coming from the sky.

"I'm going down to clear the obstruction! Wang Hu, slow down! The rest of you, provide cover fire!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Tang Long grabbed his rifle and kicked open the sunroof of the car.

He moved with the agility of a cheetah, nimbly vaulting onto the roof of the car.

call--

A raging horde of corpses surged in from both sides, climbing onto the roof of the car, seemingly threatening to completely engulf him.

"Get out of here!"

Tang Long roared and suddenly spread his arms wide.

puff!puff!

Two jet-black, python-like vines burst forth from his palms.

A vine shot out like lightning, wrapped around the window sill of the third floor of a nearby building, and pulled him into the air.

Another vine danced wildly around him, transforming into a black whirlwind of death.

Snapped!

The vines whipped through the air, making a crisp popping sound.

A headless zombie that had just climbed onto the roof of the car was snapped in half at the waist, its upper body flying more than ten meters away.

Using the strength of the vines, Tang Long swung in mid-air and landed steadily on the roof of the overturned bus.

"Cover me!"

He roared down.

Rat-a-tat-tat! Bang!

Luo Yongchao and the police officers opened fire simultaneously to clear the zombies around Tang Long.

Tang Long took a deep breath, lowered his waist and sat down, and the two vines twisted into a thick black cable, tightly wrapping around the chassis of the bus.

"rise!"

His muscles tensed instantly, and his energy surged into the vines.

crunch - crunch -

He managed to drag the bus, weighing over ten tons, bit by bit off the ground using vines.

The vehicle screeched against the ground, making a teeth-grinding sound.

The headless zombies around him surged toward him frantically.

Tang Long's eyes were bloodshot, his feet firmly planted on the ground, and he grabbed his rifle with one hand, firing downwards with a single shot.

Finally, pulled by the immense force of the vines, the bus was dragged away from its original position, revealing a gap just wide enough for one car to pass through.

"Walk!"

Tang Long swung his vines violently, slamming the bus into the horde of corpses beside it. At the same time, he used the momentum to leap high into the air and swing back onto the roof of the moving armored vehicle.

"Well done!" Wang Hu shouted excitedly.

He jerked the steering wheel, and the front of the car squeezed through the gap.

Car number two followed closely behind.

The convoy successfully broke through the roadblock.

But the crisis is not over.

The human heads in the sky still exuded a silent allure, while the horde of corpses on the ground, like a persistent, insidious disease, relentlessly pursued them.

"Wu Zheng! Is there any other way out? We can't hold on much longer!" Tang Long's voice was a little hoarse.

That last moment had taken a lot of his energy.

His face was completely white at that moment!

"Yes! Yes!" Wu Zheng shouted, leaning out the window and pointing to a building to his left.

"There! The Parkway underground shopping mall! You can drive right down from that entrance!"

Everyone looked in the direction he was pointing.

On the left side of the street, a huge, sloping entrance leading underground came into view.

The words "Baihui" are still clearly visible on the sign at the entrance.

"Okay! Let's go there!" Tang Long made a quick decision.

"Wang Hu! Turn left! Charge in!"

"receive!"

Wang Hu roared and slammed the steering wheel all the way to the left.

creak-

The armored vehicle executed a beautiful drift, turning sideways and using its thick side armor to smash through dozens of zombies that pounced on it, its front end precisely aimed at the entrance to the underground shopping mall.

"Hold on tight!"

With Wang Hu's roar, the armored vehicle roared and plunged into the deep darkness.

Car number two followed closely behind.

Boom!

The entrance roller shutter door was smashed open.

The vehicle plunged down the slope, and the light was instantly swallowed by darkness.