Chapter 51

On the side of the group, apart from Chu Nan, the third-level Awakened ones were only Shen Mo, Nangong Xiong, and Xia Qiu, three people in total.

"Aah—" Su Yao spat out a mouthful of blood and tumbled through the air. However, in the instant she was thrown out, she also killed an Undead.

Su Yao, who had fallen heavily to the ground, suddenly flipped over again, letting out a hiss. It seemed as if she had not been injured at all. Her body, which lunged out again, moved even faster and more swiftly. Her right hand grabbed the head of an ordinary Undead and slammed it forcefully into the concrete wall beside her.

With a "plop," the Undead's head shattered, and blood mixed with white brain matter splattered out.

Su Yao's eyes glowed with a terrifying light. In the instant she was thrown out, she had successfully broken through.

She was already very close to breaking through. By continuously killing the reanimated and the Undead, she broke through at a critical moment, becoming the fifth person in the group to reach the third-level Awakened stage.

However, because she had awakened, two specially mutated Undead immediately pounced on her.

One could spray strong acid, and the other had evolved limbs, moving like a cheetah.

Their strength was not inferior to that of a third-level Awakened one. Su Yao, fearing the strong acid, was busy dodging and was hit by the other Undead, which resembled a cheetah. It grabbed her leg, swung her around, and threw her out.

Although Tang Sanli's back was sprayed with strong acid, fortunately, it did not hit any vital areas, and he did not die. He barely managed to crawl up and saw Chu Nan grunt and roll out.

Chu Nan also encountered a crisis.

The special Undead attacking him numbered three.

One had evolved a tailbone, one was a three-eyed Undead, and another was a giant Undead, larger than an ordinary person.

Each of these three Undead was stronger than a third-level Awakened one. The most terrifying was undoubtedly the bone-armored Undead, which could throw stones as fast as bullets from the darkness.

If he was slightly careless, he could be hit by the stones and die.

This bone-armored Undead had already thrown three stones at Chu Nan. Although Chu Nan narrowly avoided them, the stones still hit others around him.

The third stone grazed Chu Nan's cheek, leaving a trail of blood as it flew out and hit Tao Zhi's stomach, which had just been grabbed by two Undead.

Tao Zhi's fatty stomach exploded, and yellow fat and blood splattered out.

Tao Zhi screamed, his body trembling, and he fell heavily to the ground.

However, his body of fat saved him. The stone's immense power failed to penetrate his stomach.

To avoid the stone, Chu Nan could not dodge the attack of the tailbone Undead, which grabbed his arm and pulled him forcefully.

Chu Nan, unable to control himself, flew through the air and crashed into a pile of concrete.

With a muffled grunt, just as he hit the ground, the giant Undead stepped forward and stomped on Chu Nan's chest.

"Ah—"

This attack was too terrifying, like being hit by a car. Chu Nan spat out blood, and if it weren't for the fourth-level adrenaline surge, which tightened his muscles and resisted part of the powerful attack, his chest bones would have been completely crushed.

The three-eyed Undead then grabbed Chu Nan's left leg and pulled with terrifying force, causing Chu Nan to fly through the air.

Its strength was not much inferior to Chu Nan's. With this full-force pull, Chu Nan was thrown horizontally. It spun and, with a "bang," threw Chu Nan out.

Unable to control himself, Chu Nan flew into the crowd behind like a cannonball.

With a "boom," Chu Nan collided with Tang Sanli in the crowd.

Tang Sanli grunted and flew out like a broken kite, while the giant Undead charged at high speed, not slower than Chu Nan. It collided with Chu Nan, who was flying through the air, like a high-speed car.

This collision was too powerful. Blood gushed from Chu Nan's mouth, nose, and ears, and his body flew out. At almost the same moment, Xia Qiu, who was fighting, was hit by a two-armed mutant Undead and fell back, colliding with Chu Nan, who was flying over.

Their heads collided heavily, and Chu Nan's head buzzed, his eyes seeing stars. Then, he heard Xia Qiu's piercing scream.

Blood splattered all over Chu Nan's face and head.

His heart sank. When he propped himself up, he saw Xia Qiu's face covered in blood. The spider claw in his right hand had pierced Xia Qiu's left chest, through his heart, and out his back.

Xia Qiu's eyes rolled back, and he lay still, his heart pierced, dead instantly.

He had killed Xia Qiu.

Chu Nan was stunned.

Killing a living human was Chu Nan's first time, and it left him in shock.

The terrifying whistling sound of the wind woke Chu Nan. The stone came too fast, and he barely managed to dodge, but it hit his left shoulder.

His shoulder immediately rotted, and his entire body was thrown backward by the stone.

In the instant he killed Xia Qiu, Chu Nan felt a massive surge of primal force flood his mind.

It turned out that killing a human could also grant primal force, and more so than killing ordinary reanimated or Undead.

Chu Nan grimaced, a deep bitter smile on his face. What an ironic thing.

"Boom—"

His body, flying through the air, was hit again in the chest. The three-eyed Undead kicked Chu Nan, who rolled out, spitting out a large mouthful of blood.

"Roar—"

The Undead, moving on all fours like a fierce beast, pounced.

Chu Nan, rolling out, grabbed the spider claw with his right hand and, with his last strength, pulled it out and threw it.

With a "swoosh," this attack, almost using all his strength, the spider claw pierced the brain of the pouncing Undead, penetrating it. The primal force contained in the spider claw exploded, and the Undead staggered and fell backward.

Chu Nan's mind buzzed.

The gene force absorbed from killing Xia Qiu and the Undead finally allowed him to break through.

Especially the gene force from Xia Qiu's pineal gland was even more substantial than that of the special Undead, which was the key to his instant breakthrough.

This was ironic for Chu Nan.

Although he and Xia Qiu were not very close, they were still of the same kind. Xia Qiu was a living human, and the feeling and impact of killing a human were completely different from killing reanimated or mutants.

Now, Xia Qiu was dead, and Chu Nan felt a shock and more anger.

Anger at the Undead.

His muscles trembled, his pineal gland vibrated, and his gene center transformed. The surging gene force suddenly burst from his mind, sweeping through his entire body.

His left shoulder, crushed by the stone, healed at a visible speed. His exhausted body greedily absorbed the gene force, and half of the gene force surged into his right leg, transforming it and triggering a special power within his right leg.

This power would eventually burst out completely.

With a fifth-level gene center and fifth-level adrenaline, his physical condition improved entirely. More astonishingly, reaching the fifth-level gene center, new powers awakened in his pineal gland. Harmful, performance-inhibiting, and defective genes in his body began to be expelled through sweat, and his entire gene structure would be perfected.

Nearly half of the gene force filled his right leg, causing a painful, intense sensation as if his leg was about to burst. Chu Nan couldn't help but open his mouth and let out a scream.

Out of over seventy people, nearly sixty had died in a short time.

Everyone's faces were pale, and despair filled their hearts. They all knew they would die here today.

Nangong Xiong let out a fierce cry, just having flipped over an Undead, when another Undead stabbed him from behind with a rebar.

Seeing the bloody rebar protruding from his chest, Nangong Xiong turned and grabbed the Undead behind him, throwing it out. However, he was then pounced on and knocked down by several other reanimated.

Shen Mo was covered in blood, injured all over, just having blocked the attack of the Undead that moved like a cheetah.

But he heard a "crack" as his left hand was grabbed by a two-armed mutant Undead and then twisted and broken.

At the fifth-level awakening, Chu Nan suddenly hugged his leg and let out a series of screams. He felt a force almost tearing his right leg apart from the inside.

At almost the same moment, two Undead pounced.

One was a three-eyed Undead, and the other had evolved a tailbone.

These two Undead were extremely terrifying, stronger than ordinary third-level Awakened ones. Their speed was the fastest, and together they pounced to deliver the final blow to Chu Nan.

Chu Nan, hugging his leg and screaming, suddenly felt his right leg explode. A blinding golden light shot out from his right leg.

Dozens of meters away, the bone-armored Undead, observing in the darkness, was startled. Its terrifying eyes immediately focused on Chu Nan's right leg on the ground.

"Roar—"

All of this happened in an instant. Chu Nan, who had been screaming, suddenly let out a roar, rolled over, and jumped up, kicking out at the pouncing Undead.

The blinding golden light dyed his right leg from inside to outside, turning it a golden yellow.

At the same moment, Chu Nan's mind felt like a pot boiling over. A surge of information, translated by his consciousness into understandable information, emerged.

"Golden gene awakened, Golden Power, Golden Right Leg."

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