Zongman: Evolution Paradise

"Let's go in. We've come this far, we should at least check whether this is the entrance to Umbrella's base."

He only had seven days. Although this place was unusual enough, there was no concrete evidence that it was the Umbrella base. He had to confirm this. If this place was actually fake, it would undoubtedly waste a lot of Jolyne's preparation time, and there would be no time left to find the real base.

The iron gate had been torn open with a jagged crack, and the cold air inside was spreading outwards.

Walking inside, the space was quite spacious, but the smell of blood was extremely strong, and the floor had been completely stained blood.

"It seems someone recorded an unboxing video here." Jolyne looked at the refrigerator that had been violently damaged.

"That joke seems a bit lame," Saeko Busujima said with a hint of helplessness.

"Are you here to play with Alice?"

Suddenly, a child's voice came from above, attracting Jolyne and Saeko Busujima's attention.

"It's the ceiling again..." Jolyne looked up at the ceiling, where a monster was hanging, and it was the one that made the sound.

Meanwhile, the park's information has been updated.

[New Mission - lv3 - Escape: Escape the pursuit of the special mutant Ciri Alice (Completing this mission will grant additional rewards)]

There was no time to think. Although the monster said it wanted the two of them to play with it, several snake-like tentacles swept down from the ceiling and swiftly pierced the two of them like lightning.

boom!

The shotgun fired, severing the tentacles from the bullets. The tentacles fell to the ground, struggling, while the monster descended from the ceiling, landing in front of the two.

This is a skinless creature resembling a dog and an ant. Its body is twisted and deformed, with no skin covering it, making its muscles and bones clearly visible, which looks very strange and terrifying.

"Your name is Ciri Alice?" Jolyne asked the monster with some surprise.

"you know me?"

The monster froze in place, seemingly deep in thought, yet a child's voice emanated from its ugly body, creating a jarring incongruity.

"Have you forgotten? I'm your second uncle. I even held you when you were little."

Fortunately, this Alice was not the one Jolyne knew; otherwise, with her psychic powers, she probably wouldn't have had a chance to escape.

"Tell your second uncle, have you seen anything special here?"

"special?"

A few drops of saliva dripped from the monster's dog head as it glared angrily at Jolyne.

"You look especially delicious."

"You seem to have angered it."

"It's obvious that it has a bad temper."

A monster several meters tall lunged at her, but Saeko Busujima dodged to the side, her wooden sword already swinging towards the monster's side.

No defense breached!

Seeing her hand trembling under the reaction force, Saeko Busujima exclaimed incredulously, "What kind of monster is this?!"

"Bukjima, don't get close, use firearms."

Jolyne estimated that this monster was at least several tons strong, and its thick flesh and shell were completely different from the fragile zombies outside.

This being, judged as level 3 simply for escaping pursuit, is clearly beyond the capabilities of a prospective player like him. No wonder the amusement park suddenly issued a mission, and he stopped playing dead.

boom!

The shotgun fired again, tearing through the skin and embedding itself into flesh at such close range. However, the damaged area was quickly repaired. The ferocious monster then extended several tentacles, making it even more difficult to dodge its attacks.

It has high attack, high defense, high recovery, and even control. Going back, there are only narrow stairs and passages, with no room to dodge. The park's escape difficulty is only level 3!

Is the amusement park really that difficult?

Is there any chance to escape to the workshop?

Jolyne fired another shot, forcing the monster back. She glanced at Saeko Busujima, who was also dodging and occasionally firing her gun to harass the monster.

It only takes three steps: contact Saeko Busujima, send her into the workshop, and then enter the workshop yourself.

Putting aside the fact that it is extremely difficult, what is the difference between completing these three steps and putting an elephant into a refrigerator?

Furthermore, based on the condition of the morgue, this monster has clearly settled here. If the monster is still outside after entering the workshop, then you're essentially blocked from entering by the boss, completely losing the chance for a higher score.

You cannot enter the workshop from the morgue!

"Bukushima, you leave the morgue first. I have a way to get out."

Jolyne shouted to Saeko Busujima that he could only delay her and let her run away to survive, while he rushed back to the hospital alone and found a chance to enter the workshop to avoid the attack.

Fortunately, Saeko Busujima didn't say anything as foolish as the pitiful and dim-witted heroine, like "If you don't leave, I won't leave either." Instead, she chose to trust Jolyne and decisively fought her way back, gradually approaching the gate.

"Jolyne, if you die, I will avenge you."

"There's no need for that. Based on the flag you set, I will survive."

"What kind of time is this to be saying such strange things?"

The monster named Ciri Alice clearly didn't want to let anyone escape and chased after Saeko Busujima at top speed. To stop her, Jolyne used her ancestral dog-training skills.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk."

Clearly, this zombie dog from Japan could not be tamed and instead went even more berserk, activating its second form.

Alice will defeat you!

A pair of fleshy wings unfurled from its back and soared into the sky. With an angry roar, it even spewed flames from its mouth, instantly raising the temperature of the surrounding air as if it were in a furnace.

"You're making it sound like I'm some kind of evil boss who does all sorts of wicked things."

Having suddenly evolved again, it had not yet adapted to the new form. Its wings were flapping erratically, and flames were shooting out randomly. Instead, it fell into a state of "weakness".

Jolyne's eyes lit up; her chance to leave had arrived.

boom!

Another shot struck the base of the wing, creating a bloody hole that caused Ciriace, who had just evolved wings, to fall heavily to the ground, groaning in pain.

"go!"

Jolyne and Saeko Busujima rushed out of the morgue one after the other.

The park's information has been updated again.

[Mission - Level 3 - Escape from Hazard Completed]

I just left the morgue, and my mission is already complete?

"Wait a minute, Busujima, we're not running away anymore."

Jolyne stopped and called out to Saeko Busujima.

"Not running? You have a way to kill it?"

Although Saeko Busujima was surprised, she still turned around trustingly.

"No, it means it won't chase us anymore."

Jolyne gestured for Saeko Busujima to look inside.

In just a moment, Ciri Alice's wounds had healed, but it looked at Jolyne not far away, then glanced at the gate, struggled, and finally did not chase after her.

No wonder the escape difficulty is only level 3; it turns out this guy can't even leave the house.

Ultimately, it all comes down to a lack of information. Jolyne is still a prospective player and has no idea about the specific difficulty levels or what level 3 actually is, which led her to misjudge the difficulty.

So what's preventing it from coming out? This isn't a game, and Ciri Alice doesn't have a target range. Everything has a reason; grasping the connection is the key to victory.

Jolyne looked at the corpse in front of the door. It had eaten all the corpses in the freezer, but this corpse was right in front of it and hadn't been moved.

"It's a gunshot wound."

Saeko Busujima obviously figured out the reason too, and went forward to check, discovering a bloody hole between the eyebrows of the corpse.

Don't touch him!

Ciri Alice noticed their movements and roared with bloodshot eyes.

“Ciri Alice, you don’t want anything to happen to this corpse, do you?”

Seeing how much the monster valued it, Jolyne slowly spoke.

Chapter 12 Ciri Alice's Weakness

"Roar!"

Don't touch him!

Unfortunately, it doesn't accept Jolyne's threats at all. Whenever Jolyne or Saeko Busujima gets close to the corpse, it will lose its mind and roar incessantly with its gaping maw.

"So what if I touched it?"

Jolyne kicked, eliciting an even more ferocious roar from Ciri Alice, but she still dared not approach.

"What should we do with this monster?"

Saeko Busujima asked Jolyne, "Our brief encounter clearly shows that this monster is not one we can handle."

"Bukushima, why do you think this monster is named Ciri Alice and makes such a strange childlike voice?"

"It also mutated from humans?"

"But it doesn't have any human characteristics."

Jolyne and Saeko Busujima exchanged a glance and said in unison, "Inside the body."

The two of them came up with the answer almost at the same time.

"Perhaps its essence is still human, and that is also its weakness."

"Verification is required."

Verification wasn't difficult. Jolyne pulled a grenade from the workshop. It was unlikely to kill the monster, but it should be enough to break through its defenses, which would be enough for them to see what was going on with this monster.

Pull out the fuse and throw the grenade in front of the monster. As the shockwave hit, the monster let out a scream.

Its flesh and blood tore apart and quickly regenerated, yet even so, the monster dared not approach the gate, only staring at them with its savage gaze.

Although it was only for a moment, Jolyne was absolutely certain that what she saw inside its body was a human.

"The zombie's weakness is its head. What we need to do now is to find the location of the human head inside its body."

The monster neither wanted to approach the gate nor leave, giving them the opportunity to experiment with firearms.

"At the monster's head."

Jolyne and Saeko Busujima concluded that only by attacking this spot would the monster show any obvious signs of dodging.

"Now, we need to do some preparatory work."

Given Ciri Alice's size, normal attacks are definitely ineffective. The Galaxy Batman era is over, and now he needs to leave the hospital to find a new weapon.

When Jolyne returned, she had a steel road sign that was at least two and a half meters long.

Looking at the distorted cross-section of the road sign, Saeko Busujima looked at Jolyne with some surprise: "Wasn't your strength a bit too much?"

Jolyne shrugged and complained to Saeko Busujima, "Actually, this is nothing. I've even seen someone kick a telephone pole in half."

Do you know how to use a sniper rifle?

Jolyne pulled out a sniper rifle from the workshop, but unfortunately it wasn't an anti-materiel rifle, otherwise she could have tried to shoot it through the casing.

"I'm just a college student."

Saeko Busujima was no longer bothered by Jolyne's occasional conjures of weapons out of thin air, and wasn't even surprised.

"Then we'll have to shoot at close range. I'll help you find an opportunity."

"I understand."

Previously, it was an unexpected situation, and there was no intelligence at all. Now that they are prepared, Jolyne is confident in herself.

He picked up the road sign with his left hand, waved it a few times, took a deep breath, and rushed inside.

Ciri Alice, who was already on the verge of losing her mind, was about to unleash a torrent of flames and charge straight at Jolyne.

At that moment, Saeko Busujima threw the corpse outside in, causing the monster to abruptly stop its attack and even retreat, unwilling to get closer.