"Why did they stop?" Seeing that less than half of the moving flower-shaped zombies remained, Shen Muyu was planning to wipe them all out in one fell swoop, but who knew they would suddenly stop.
Shen Muyu continued shooting, taking advantage of the enemy's weakness to finish them off, but also used his mental energy to scan the area during the cooldown period.
An invisible wave suddenly spread throughout the surrounding flower-shaped zombies, and the flower roots inside their bodies resonated with the wave.
However, the fluctuations didn't last long before they disappeared, and then the zombies suddenly changed direction and headed towards the bearded man's villa.
"Zhan Yi, stop." Shen Muyu was also happy to watch from the sidelines, and shouted to Zhan Yi, who was still being dismembered outside, through Xiao A.
After shaking off all the wriggling branches on his body, Zhan quickly got into the car.
Shen Muyu didn't go down, but sat on the tower and looked at the villa in front of her, where the view was better.
At this point, no more flower-shaped zombies appeared in the pit, but there were still several hundred left, and they didn't look like the people could handle them.
When the flower-shaped zombies started rummaging through the house, Shen Muyu extended his mental energy straight into the interior of the villa without diverting it at all. After all, his energy reserves were limited, and what he digested couldn't keep up with what he consumed, so he had to use it sparingly.
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"What do we do! They're in!" The thin woman we'd encountered earlier said, her voice trembling as she gripped the bearded man's arm tightly.
"Didn't you say you'd leave after eating them? Why did you still come in!" A long-haired man trembling in the corner muttered to himself in a daze.
"That woman isn't dead!" After seeing that the zombies had climbed over the wall, the bearded man lowered the curtain he was holding, picked up a fire axe, and walked to the door.
"If you don't want to die, come over here with your weapons! They're already up here!" the bearded man shouted at the men behind him.
This room is located at the very back of the third floor. It's a storage room, so the door is a small single door. The bearded man specially replaced it with an iron door so that the zombies can't all come in at once. If they cooperate, they might still be able to survive.
"Let me help you." The short woman had just let go of the bearded man's hand, but now she slowly moved closer again.
"Give it to me, he and I will take turns. You two can work together to push the door open while we switch, and you can try to close it when we switch." At this moment, an old man by the curtain took the axe from the short woman and walked behind the bearded man. He looked quite energetic, with a resolute expression on his face.
Behind the door, they had piled up specially made cabinets and refrigerators, leaving only a passage for one person to pass through, all for this moment.
"It was our turn all along, we were prepared, weren't we?" the old man said with exasperation as he looked at the people scattered and sitting on the ground.
Apart from the long-haired man in the corner, the others slowly stood up and walked to the short woman's side. This position was already safe, and they had to do their part; they couldn't just sit and wait to die.
Soon the flower-shaped zombie appeared on the third floor and rushed towards them without stopping.
The bearded man swallowed hard, only feeling slightly safer when he saw the duct tape and newspaper wrapped around his arm.
"Ah! Why are they still alive even though their heads have been cut off!" Seeing the head of the leading zombie chopped off, the bearded man felt more confident, but to his surprise, the body was still standing, its hand still tightly gripping his arm.
"Don't panic, it's alright, they can't squeeze in for now." The old man reassured the bearded man in front of him while kicking the headless zombie standing in front of him hard with his leg.
The bearded man glared and swung his sword at the headless zombie's arm. After a series of wild hacking motions, the zombie actually stopped moving.
When the zombies attacked the people in the other villas, they could only stay here, and knew nothing except for the screams.
Moreover, these zombies won't attack the next villa after attacking one. You could say they're lucky to have survived this long, because there were many other people who came in to take refuge together.
The bearded man and the old man took turns, while the others behind the door were also trying their best to buy them time to exchange. For a time, they formed a harmonious situation of give and take with the zombies piled up outside who couldn't get in.
But in Shen Muyu's opinion, these people wouldn't live much longer.
Because from the pile of zombie fragments on the ground, many tiny, almost imperceptible branches extended, and these branches had already crawled into the wounds and crevices of those people.
"Even if the pain isn't obvious, is there no feeling of a foreign object?" Shen Muyu had already "seen" several branches burrowing into the long-haired man's ear in the corner, but he didn't seem to feel anything at all, just trembling as always.
The ones behind the door were the same; one of them even crawled in through his mouth. Doesn't that feel disgusting? You must feel nauseous.
"It seems that the roots and stems of these flowers can numb one's senses." Shen Muyu took notes in her notebook.
After memorizing the information, Shen Muyu selected the long-haired man and extended her spiritual power into him. This was the first time she had used it on a living person, and she didn't know how effective it would be.
"Ah!" A scream came from the long-haired man, and Shen Muyu and the others paused for a moment.
"Is it because of me?" Shen Muyu asked, puzzled, seeing the long-haired man's distorted face. But now that things had come to this, there was no way to stop.
Shen Muyu's expression hardened as he continued his investigation, while the long-haired man's cries grew increasingly painful.
"Let's finish this quickly; a short, sharp pain is worse than a long, drawn-out one." Shen Muyu increased the transmission of his mental energy and instantly "saw" the situation inside the long-haired man's body.
The flower roots had completely enveloped his internal organs, and the viscous liquid he had just seen was continuously corroding them.
New branches grew within the flesh and blood, and in no time the long-haired man's body was completely hollowed out by the roots, leaving only a thin shell to support him.
After taking over the body, the roots began to attack the head. At this moment, the long-haired man seemed to be frozen, his eyes began to turn gray, and then an even louder shout rang out.
This contrasted sharply with his increasingly indifferent expression, creating a stark contrast between his cries of pain and his own.