Chapter 29

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The surroundings were eerily quiet. The terrifying night had not yet passed, and no one knew the outcome of the distant battle between the reanimated corpses and the hideous monsters.

Tang Sanli faithfully stood guard beside Chu Nan, his face full of vigilance.

A hundred or two meters away, Yuan Tengfei and Su Yao were curled up on the ground, experiencing the same suffocating, near-death discomfort as Chu Nan.

After a long while, Chu Nan, who was curled up in a ball with his muscles twitching, gradually regained some strength. Although his body was still exhausted, the suffocating, near-death discomfort had finally passed.

His stomach growled with hunger, and his mouth was dry. The burst of energy he had just expended could have sustained an ordinary person for several days.

Chu Nan slightly turned over, lying flat on his back, and silently breathed, feeling the surge of genetic energy in his mind.

Although the battle was dangerous, he had also absorbed a considerable amount of genetic energy.

"Chu Nan, how are you? Thanks to you just now." Tang Sanli squatted down, speaking softly, and then offered a cigarette, trying to light it for Chu Nan.

Chu Nan didn't even have the strength to smoke; he just blinked slightly and then closed his eyes.

Seeing this, Tang Sanli understood that Chu Nan didn't want to smoke and put the cigarette away, then looked around.

This look made Tang Sanli's body stiffen, his face showing a look of horror as he exclaimed, "Cane Ear?"

At some point, a pair of eyes, faintly glowing with a greenish light, had appeared in the darkness, like wolf eyes. Then, a large dog slowly emerged from the darkness, walking toward them.

The dog had thick yellow fur, with one ear missing. In the short time since they last saw it, Cane Ear's appearance had changed dramatically, becoming even more massive and robust, not much smaller than a South China tiger. Its slightly open mouth revealed a row of white, sharp teeth that were particularly terrifying in the darkness.

Tang Sanli was drenched in cold sweat, gripping his police baton tightly, and retreated step by step as Cane Ear approached.

"How could... this... this... how did it appear again..."

Tang Sanli was almost driven mad. They had barely escaped, but at this critical moment, Chu Nan had not yet recovered, and Cane Ear had appeared.

On the ground, Chu Nan's body tensed again, and his face turned pale.

This dog seemed to have targeted him, so it wouldn't leave him alone.

It had clearly evolved to be even more terrifying and had come back to seek revenge.

Soon, Cane Ear approached within ten meters of them. Although Tang Sanli was terrified, his legs trembling, he held the baton tightly and stood in front of Chu Nan, not fleeing.

As Cane Ear approached within ten meters, its body tensed, and its muscles tightened, ready to pounce. Suddenly, a sound came from the distance.

This unexpected sound made Cane Ear, which was about to pounce on Chu Nan and Tang Sanli, pause. In the distance, two figures were running toward them.

The leading figure, which had contracted into a straight line, expanded to the size of a millstone, clearly a soft, octopus-like hideous monster.

Ordinary hideous monsters, with all eight tentacles fully extended, were only about the size of a basketball. This one, however, was much larger, even bigger than a millstone, indicating that this hideous monster had evolved.

At the moment, it was fleeing, jumping and shooting forward at an arrow-like speed.

Behind it was a human figure, moving as fast as lightning. In an instant, the two were close to Chu Nan's side. Cane Ear, sensing the disturbance, showed a look of caution in its cold eyes and crouched down, ready to strike but not attacking.

The figure chasing the fleeing hideous monster was even faster. As the distance between them closed, the figure suddenly leaped, extending its arms, and in mid-air, it grabbed a pair of the hideous monster's tentacles.

The hideous monster, sensing the threat of death, turned and lunged at the person's face, trying to insert its tentacles into the person's mouth, nose, eyes, and ears.

Among the eight tentacles, a crack opened, revealing a mouth with what looked like small, sharp teeth.

However, almost at that moment, the person who had grabbed the tentacles inserted his hands into the crack and tore outward. A terrifying sound, like a snapped tendon, "squeak," was heard as blood and a large amount of sticky fluid splattered. The evolved hideous monster was torn apart alive.

The hideous monster's tentacles lost their strength and hung limply. The person discarded the dismembered hideous monster and turned his eyes, which glowed with a faint red light, toward Chu Nan, Tang Sanli, and the more distant Cane Ear.

Tang Sanli trembled all over, his back drenched in cold sweat.

On the ground, Chu Nan's face was pale, looking like a dead man.

At first, they thought the person chasing the hideous monster was a powerful Awakened, but upon closer inspection, they realized it was not an Awakened.

A pale face, eyes that glowed with a strange red light, and a large chunk missing from the forehead, with a mass of white brain matter protruding and wriggling—this was an Undead.

A powerful Undead that had evolved from a reanimated corpse, and from its recent actions, it was even more powerful than ordinary Undead.

"If Undead were ranked like Awakened, this Undead... would be at least a Level 2 Undead." Chu Nan's heart ached. He had encountered and killed a few Undead, but none were as powerful as this one.

They didn't have such speed and reaction.

After killing the hideous monster, the Undead with the missing forehead began to approach Chu Nan and Tang Sanli.

Cane Ear growled softly, as if warning of something.

Suddenly, the Undead launched an attack, leaping toward Chu Nan and Tang Sanli.

In one move, it could snap Tang Sanli's neck, crush Chu Nan's chest, and then kill the yellow dog.

At almost the same moment, Cane Ear also pounced, heading toward Tang Sanli and Chu Nan.

It was not deterred by the Undead's ferocity and strength.

Caught between two enemies, Tang Sanli's legs gave way, and he almost lost his balance, swinging his baton wildly.

On the ground, Chu Nan clenched his fists, determined to stimulate his adrenaline despite the strain on his body.

Almost instantly, Cane Ear suddenly ran, bypassing Tang Sanli and Chu Nan, stood on its hind legs, and bit the Undead's arm that was attacking them.

The attack was sudden, and the Undead clearly did not expect the yellow dog to bypass the two humans and attack it.

"Crack!" Cane Ear's bite was terrifying, with a force and sharpness that likely exceeded that of ordinary lions and tigers.

Leopards and wolves were no match for it now.

The Undead reacted quickly, swinging its arm and kicking Cane Ear. The kick was powerful, sending Cane Ear flying sideways, but it also tore off half of the Undead's arm.

The Undead's body swayed, and blood gushed from the left arm. It did not feel pain, but it arched its body and pounced on Cane Ear with its right hand, like a wild beast.

Chu Nan and Tang Sanli were stunned, not expecting Cane Ear to save them and attack the Undead.

Hadn't the dog been following them to kill them?

Tang Sanli didn't understand, and even Chu Nan was bewildered, watching the two figures, Cane Ear and the Undead, who had each been injured in a single move.

"Is this dog crazy?" Tang Sanli thought, watching the Undead, with its left arm severed, pounce like a cheetah. Cane Ear, which had fallen to the ground, rolled over and shot out like a shadow, causing the Undead to miss.

Unlike Chu Nan, the Undead did not understand the vital points of canines. Although its kick was powerful, it did not significantly affect Cane Ear.

The Undead, missing its target, tried to turn around, but its thigh was bitten by Cane Ear. Cane Ear pulled hard, tearing off a large piece of flesh and blood.

The Undead's body spun, and its right hand struck Cane Ear's head with great force.

For an ordinary person, this blow would have caused severe injury, but Cane Ear only swayed slightly, growling and pouncing again.

The two figures crossed, and a splash of blood spattered from the Undead's body as another piece of flesh was torn off by Cane Ear.

The Undead tried to grab Cane Ear with its right hand but failed.

Cane Ear landed, turned around, and faced the Undead again, growling, with the glow in its eyes becoming brighter.

The Undead's terrifying strength clearly surprised Cane Ear. It did not expect the human to endure such severe injuries without even a scream.

The Undead was slowly retreating.

Suddenly, Cane Ear launched another attack, like a bolt of lightning.

The Undead bent down and picked up a stone from the ground. It had some intelligence and clearly understood that fighting Cane Ear bare-handed was disadvantageous.

However, just as Cane Ear was about to pounce, it suddenly bypassed the Undead, and the two figures crossed. The Undead's stone missed, but Cane Ear bit the Undead's leg again, tearing off a large piece of flesh.

Although the Undead did not feel pain, the repeated bites on its leg slowed its movement, making it unable to keep up with Cane Ear's lightning-fast actions.