Book 1 Chapter 6: SuperhumanGenome Warrior!
In the early stages, mutant ants weren"t veryformidable creatures, however in the later stages, every single one of themwere ridiculously horrifying existences. Later into the apocalypse, mutant antswere far more fearsome than the likes of mutant lions or tigers!
Scientists estimate that ants could very welllift up to four hundred times their bodyweight!
Imagine how terrifying a boar sized ant wouldbe?
"This ant is still quite small, only the sizeof a fist; it should amount to the strength of ten zombies. In the next month,when the virus within its body further evolves and its body increases to thesize of a football, it would be far more terrifying, able to strike out withthe force of a hundred zombies."
Ye Chen"s eyes were gleaming "If I could captureit and have its genes extracted, I could very well become a superhuman genomewarrior!"
Superhuman Genome Warrior was a t.i.tle bestowedupon powerful fighters in the later stages!
Ye Chen could still remember in his previouslife, the ten most powerful superhuman genome warriors. Each of them wasridiculously strong, able to topple skysc.r.a.pers with a simple punch, completelyexceeding the understandings of normal men. They were acknowledged as thestrongest among the new human race!
"Once I have it captured, the chance for me tobecome a superhuman genome warrior will be secured." Ye Chen was inwardlyecstatic, even though the requirements of becoming a superhuman genome warriorwere staggering. Only one amongst a thousand fortunate survivors had the capabilityof adapting to the genes of a mutated creature, attaining the t.i.tle ofSuperhuman Genome Warrior! The fortunate survivors were of course all peoplewho were unaffected by the initial viral infection, possessing extraordinaryimmunities to begin with, to be that one amongst a thousand was an exceedinglymonumental feat.
However, Ye Chen was confident in his owncapabilities.
In his previous life, he too was a superhumangenome warrior, although he fell short when compared to the ten strongest, heexcelled in multiple fields, garnering himself a modest amount of fame.
After a brief reminiscence, Ye Chen carefullyclosed the room door, sealing it in its own s.p.a.ce. He would return to capturethe mutant ant when his strength was sufficient!
After closing the door, Ye Chen headed for thenext room that was ajar. Peering past the door, what came into view was a roomthat was deathly still.
However, Ye Chen did not relax his guard,through his sense of smell; he could tell that the room reeked of blood, therewere definitely zombies in the room, and not just a few….
Ye Chen was slightly nervous as he attempted touse his foot to gradually push the door open. As his foot touched the door, hefelt a ma.s.sive pressure weighing upon him; he softly took a deep breath beforeapplying more pressure towards opening the door. In the following instant, timeseemed to grind to a crawl.
The door opened little by little, eventuallyrevealing seven to eight silhouettes, these silhouettes were inert like stonestatues, as the door opened, all their heads turned.
In that instant, Ye Chen could feel his heartviolently convulse, without the slightest hesitation, he spun around and madlydashed. Pushing his legs to the limit, it was as though his feet had sproutedwings, rapidly carrying him towards the stairs in the blink of an eye. Whatfollowed was a resounding fit of sinister snarling, accompanied by multiplefigures in hot pursuit.
"Dammit!" Ye Chen"s facial expression wasunsightly, he only estimated four zombies at most, how could he have imaginedthat there were seven or eight in the room. Against those odds, he was as goodas dead!
Even the single bottle of gasoline he wascarrying had already been used up, only the watermelon knife remained.
After fleeing past the stairs, Ye Chenscrambled into the room he had previously used for killing zombies and slammedthe door shut behind him, immediately engaging the locks. A short couple ofseconds later came a cacophony of roaring followed by a relentless battering ofthe door.
It was fortunate that the doors weren"t verywide, only affording four zombies at most to simultaneously hammer on it,enabling it to stall the zombies for a decent amount of time.
Easy there! Be calm!
Ye Chen continuously reminded himself andcalmed down within moments. At times like these, losing one"s cool was fatal.With his body sweating profusely, he bitterly contemplated with furrowed brows.Moments later, his eyes lit up as he turned heading towards the bedroom.
Within the bedroom, he came upon a large whitebed draped in immaculate bedding. Standing before the sizable bed, he musteredall his strength and gave it a push, shoving it a moderate distance away.Delighted, he began moving the bed straight towards the room"s entrance, notintending to obstruct the door; he halted just three feet away.
Immediately after, he entered the otherbedroom, returning with another similar bed in tow. Stacking one bed upon theother, their combined height reached about a meter. The stacked beds served asan obstacle between the entrance and the living room. Even though the zombieshad impressive jumping capabilities, the obstacle would still slow their entryinto the living room by a few seconds.
Those crucial few seconds, were just what YeChen was aiming for!
He entered the kitchen and sure enough, helocated two gas cylinders within the cabinet beneath the stove. He hurriedlyunplugged one of the cylinders and brought it beside the beds, releasing thepropane gas within. With a high pitched sizzle, the thick scent of propanestarted permeating the entire living room.
Ye Chen closed off one of the bedrooms,stopping any further gas from leaking into it; afterwards, he approached alamp. Flipping on the switch, he confirmed that the electricity was stillrunning. The apocalypse struck only just recently, therefore the hotel stillhad a power supply.
Ye Chen pried open the power socket andproceeded to alter the switch"s contact area till it was faulty, after which heplaced everything back into its initial position. Due to the switch being of ahigher quality, he had to lean a stool he found on it, adding the remainingfrying pan on it for added weight. With a broken half of the mop, he positionedit behind the door in a way that caused it to be knocked away as the dooropened.
Additionally, he found a clothesline polewithin one of the rooms, which he placed leaning between the mop and the fryingpan.
Finally done with his preparations, Ye Chenglanced at the door. Along with the visibly trembling door, the whitewashlining the walls nearby began to crack and crumble, falling to the ground inlarge speckles; it wouldn"t be long before the door was rammed open.
Ye Chen wetted a towel in the kitchen, coveredhis mouth before diving into the room he shut prior. Within a minute, he couldhear the bang of the door being forced open, followed by a deafening boom. Thesurrounding gla.s.s windows completely shattered, blazing hot air seeped in fromthe cracks of the door.
Ye Chen felt a tinge of glee; everything hadwent according to plan, starting with the opening of the door, knocking thebroken mop causing the clothesline pole to slip, hitting the frying pan andflicking the faulty switch which resulted in an electrical spark.
Within a tightly shut room saturated withpropane gas, the slightest spark would ignite into a violent explosion!
Ye Chen waited for things to settle, beforeslowly exiting the room with the watermelon knife at the ready. The entireliving room was steeped in a chaotic mess, with the gla.s.s table completelyshattered, sofas, beds and many other pieces of furniture charred into asmoldering black heap, some of which were still burning.
Ye Chen grinned bitterly, if seven or eightmore zombies were to come, with the state this room was in, there was no way hecould fend them off. However, he did not mind it terribly; this was after all ahotel, there were plenty more rooms to exploit.
Walking over, he inspected the zombies crumpledaround the stacked beds. All eight of them were undoubtedly dead, two amongst themwho were closest to the gas cylinder were so heavily incinerated that they werereduced into a shrunken black ma.s.s, the rest of them were wafting with anauseous fume of cooked flesh….
Ye Chen scouted the outside of the room, aftermaking sure that the explosion had no attracted any additional zombies over, hereturned inside to dissect the corpses.
Finally done, Ye Chen miraculously found twopieces of mutagenic flesh while harvesting the zombie corpses. This wasundoubtedly an unprecedented stroke of luck; one of the pieces was just thesize of a fingertip, yet the other, was the size of a fist!
Ye Chen was ecstatic, due to mutagenic fleshbeing hidden behind a zombie"s heart and the fact that the gas cylinder washalf full, the explosion did not completely obliterate the zombies, or elsethese pieces of mutagenic flesh would have been history.
After rinsing the mutagenic flesh, he placedthe fingertip sized piece in a clean bag. This piece would later be given tohis younger sister, as for the fist sized piece, he sliced it into threeslices, gradually consuming them.
"This fist sized mutagenic flesh should raisemy strength many times over!" Ye Chen eyes were gleaming with delight.Eventually, after he had digested all the mutagenic flesh, he could distinctlyfeel the ma.s.sive increase of his physical strength. It felt like his body hadlightened by dozens of pounds, with one hand alone, he could lift himself offthe ground into a backflip.
Right now, Ye Chen possessed the strengthcomparable to a zombie"s.
"From now onwards, against a pack of two orthree zombies, I won"t even need to use gasoline to take care of them." Ye Chenwas excited as his increase in strength meant that he could better protect thepeople close to him.
This was also the reason why he had ate most ofthe mutagenic flesh himself, instead of sharing it equally with his sister.After all, the one doing the day to day hunting would be him; he needed to bestrong enough, before he could ensure her safety!
Ye Chen looked at the time; he decided that nowwas a good time to head back. He picked up the watermelon knife and headed backto his room.
Knock knock!
"Brother." Ye Zhu heard the knocking and madesure it was her brother through the peephole before relaxing and opening thedoor. Upon opening the door, Ye Zhu was shocked to find her brother covered inzombie blood, the man"s eyes conveyed a slight sense of exhaustion, his sweatsoaked clothes clung to his body.
Ye Zhu stared at her brother in a daze, gazingupon the person who had protected her ever since she was a child; tearsinstantly began welling in her eyes, ignoring his squalid state, she jumpedinto his embrace.
Ye Chen rubbed his younger sister"s head,tousling her beautiful hair with a smile, he said: "There, there. You"re allgrown up now, you shouldn"t be crying like that."
Ye Zhu slowly released him and lowered herhead, after a while, she suddenly exclaimed: "Big brother, in theafternoon….l-let me go with you!"