Chapter 96: Does Shen Zhuo Have New Abilities? / “Kneel.”
Shen Zhuo knew things were bad the moment he saw the source of the commotion.
A strange creature with excessively long limbs was肆無忌憚地 opening its bloody maw by the shore.
Its four limbs twisted grotesquely as it crawled across the sand.
Swallowing those who hadn’t managed to escape.
Shen Zhuo crouched down, leading the two others to hide behind a fallen umbrella.
The sound of waves washed over the mournful cries in the silent night sky.
Police sirens sounded from afar, getting closer, red and blue lights piercing the night, and the sound of flesh being torn and eaten was piercing and horrifying.
Surprisingly, neither Ai Li nor Fu Qishang flinched.
They followed quietly behind Shen Zhuo, not making any rash moves.
“Ai Li, call Du Xun and tell him we’ve found a humanoid Zerg. Try to evacuate the crowd.”
“Fu Qishang, come with me.”
“Okay.” Ai Li immediately took out his phone.
“Mn.” Fu Qishang took a step to stand behind Shen Zhuo.
Only Shen Zhuo here had seen a humanoid Zerg before.
And only he had a chance of stopping it.
Shen Zhuo didn’t know if the scene at the research institute would repeat itself.
He could only bet on one possibility—
That this bug would also recognize him as its mother.
Shen Zhuo tightened his grip on the gun at his waist.
Someone had called the police reporting a disturbance, but people who had never seen a humanoid Zerg didn’t know what they were facing.
So they hadn’t contacted the military.
Just as Shen Zhuo was about to step forward, a hand suddenly grabbed his arm.
“Sir!” A fully armed guard grabbed him,
“It’s dangerous ahead, please evacuate immediately. We’ll handle this.”
Shen Zhuo directly showed Du Xun’s gun.
The Commander-in-Chief’s gun had a red flag emblem indicating identity.
The guard saw it and immediately let go, saluting.
“You are… Mr. Shen?”
Shen Zhuo nodded, “Humanoid Zergs require high-level suppression. Ordinary firearms are useless against it. You evacuate the crowd; my companion and I will distract it. The military will arrive soon.”
The guard had never encountered a Zerg personally. If he did something to provoke it, the consequences would be unimaginable.
The guard nodded repeatedly.
A miserable howl came from the Zerg’s direction.
Shen Zhuo’s expression changed, and he looked over.
Someone had fired.
The Zerg immediately began to roar frantically, limbs struggling and twisting as it charged straight for the guard who shot at it.
Sand scattered everywhere with its running steps.
Shen Zhuo dashed forward, vaulting high over a railing with one hand.
Before the Zerg could open its mouth to bite, he kicked it in the face.
The Zerg stumbled a few steps from the kick, shaking its head.
It looked at Shen Zhuo, who landed steadily, with a resentful and vicious gaze.
It screeched piercingly towards the sky.
Shen Zhuo pressed his ear, frowning.
The sound gave him a headache.
The bug twisted its body and sprinted towards Shen Zhuo with a shriek.
The boy stood still, subconsciously raising his hand, lips slightly parting.
“Stop.”
As soon as the voice fell.
The bug seemed instantly calmed.
It actually slowed down.
Hands on the ground, it approached Shen Zhuo, sniffing.
Its mouthparts moved up and down, making “pa pa hiss hiss” sounds.
“Mama…?”
Shen Zhuo breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, this bug couldn’t distinguish either.
“Stop, don’t move…”
But the change happened in the next second!
The bug suddenly changed for some unknown reason.
The submissive attitude from a second ago vanished instantly, its humanoid facial expression turning狰獰恐怖.
It moved extremely fast, pouncing madly towards Shen Zhuo.
“You’re not… you’re not Mama…”
“Enemy…!”
Not good!
Shen Zhuo dodged immediately, aiming for the bug’s neck out of the corner of his eye to counterattack.
But someone bumped into him.
The calculated dodge angle shifted, and he was about to be caught and bitten by the Zerg.
Shen Zhuo turned his head at the last second.
He saw the tattoo exposed on the neck of the guard who pushed him due to the movement.
It was the mark of the Royal Guard.
Shen Zhuo’s gaze sharpened—
The Queen’s people.
The guard coldly pressed down his hat brim, retreating into the crowd as if nothing happened.
The Zerg in front arrived in an instant.
Just as Shen Zhuo prepared for a desperate struggle, a black shadow suddenly appeared before his eyes.
The bug seemed to be pressed down by a thousand pounds of force, heavily slammed onto the ground, kicking up waves of dust and sand.
The golden-haired omega grabbed Shen Zhuo and pulled him back.
The moment the Zerg went down, it bit Fu Qishang’s wrist.
The omega cried out in pain but didn’t relax his ability.
“Legs weak from skipping dinner?”
Fu Qishang said sternly: “My ability lasts five minutes at most, think of something fast!”
Shen Zhuo immediately flipped onto the bug’s neck, pulling out his gun and aiming at its spine.
One shot.
The bug screamed and twisted.
Fu Qishang increased the [Gravity Control] ability, pressing the struggling bug onto the ground with difficulty.
Fu Qishang’s left hand was still in the bug’s mouth.
Sharp teeth dug deep into flesh.
While suppressed, the bug’s mouthparts pierced through Fu Qishang’s forearm.
The smell of blood excited the bug again.
Second shot, third shot.
Shen Zhuo frowned at the bug’s unscathed neck.
Useless.
Pheromones, guns were useless.
What to do?
What to do…
Facing this predicament personally made Shen Zhuo even calmer.
He aimed the gun at the bug’s eye.
Fired the fourth shot.
“Ahhh—”
The bug finally let go, falling to the ground trying to cover its eye, but was completely immobilized by [Gravity Control].
These events happened too quickly.
From Du Xun receiving the call to arriving.
It was only a few minutes.
He saw Fu Qishang clutching his arm, blood dripping from his fingertips.
Fu Qishang’s [Gravity Control] range was very small, so he couldn’t leave the bug’s side.
Shen Zhuo was taking the medical kit from the guard to bandage him.
“The military will be here in five minutes.” Du Xun looked anxiously at Shen Zhuo, holding his arm and checking him up and down. “Are you okay?”
“Sorry, I’m late.”
Shen Zhuo shook his head and turned to look at Fu Qishang.
The golden-haired omega noticed Shen Zhuo’s expression, blinked, turned his head and rubbed his hair.
“I didn’t do anything, don’t say those things to me.”
Fu Qishang’s voice came from behind, muffled.
Shen Zhuo laughed.
“The military brought serum, remember to get a shot later.”
Shen Zhuo was preparing to check the Zerg when he suddenly realized Ai Li wasn’t in his field of vision.
“Seen Ai Li?” Shen Zhuo looked up and asked.
Fu Qishang shook his head: “Didn’t you tell him not to come? He went to evacuate the crowd.”
Shen Zhuo looked at Du Xun, and the alpha also denied it.
“I didn’t see him when I came over.”
Shen Zhuo’s heart skipped a beat: “You guys handle the Zerg here first, I’ll go find him.”
Du Xun immediately instructed: “Be careful.”
Shen Zhuo was confident in Ai Li’s abilities.
Ai Li received the same training as him since childhood; even if his rank wasn’t S3, his skills definitely wouldn’t be worse than Fu Qishang’s.
But a humanoid Zerg appearing on the beach was definitely not normal.
When a cockroach appears in the light.
It means the darkness is already teeming with them.
This made Shen Zhuo uncertain.
How could a humanoid Zerg appear in the city?
Could someone be behind it…
Shen Zhuo paused abruptly.
Thinking of the guard who exposed his identity just now.
It was the Queen.
The Queen was inextricably linked to this Zerg appearing in the crowd.
What exactly did she want to do?
Shen Zhuo ran into Ji Weishen leading military personnel to take over beach affairs.
Shen Zhuo’s pupils constricted slightly: “Ai Li is missing.”
Ji Weishen’s reaction was smaller than he imagined.
Being an adjutant after all, he understood that panic was the most useless emotion at such times.
“I’ll lead people to search separately right away.”
Ji Weishen didn’t show panic on the surface, but started walking with same arm and leg.
Shen Zhuo chose a different direction from Ji Weishen, running quickly towards the other end of the beach.
Calling Ai Li’s name all the way, Shen Zhuo’s palms were sweating.
Shouldn’t have split up just now.
It’s all his fault.
Shen Zhuo’s running steps stopped suddenly.
It was a pungent smell of blood from an abandoned amusement facility at the end of the beach.
“Ai Li?”
Hearing his own voice, Shen Zhuo realized it was trembling.
Afraid of seeing something he shouldn’t see.
Walking past the slide to the back, just as Shen Zhuo was about to peek and observe, all the hairs on his body stood up.
Danger!
Sixth sense made Shen Zhuo dodge quickly to the side.
Where he stood originally, a palm-sized piece of iron was nailed in a fraction of a second later.
It was a piece torn from some amusement facility pedal.
Shen Zhuo gripped his gun tightly, watched vigilantly from behind the slide for a moment, then suddenly raised his gun to raid.
He saw a dismembered corpse, the upper body gone.
A humanoid Zerg was gnawing on the corpse’s thigh, flesh and blood blurring, fragments splashing.
Shen Zhuo’s eyes fixed tightly on the torn clothes thrown aside.
Soaked in blood, the pattern was unclear.
But Shen Zhuo knew, this was Ai Li’s clothes.
The one Ai Li wore at dinner.
At that moment, the emotions Shen Zhuo thought he would feel didn’t appear at all.
Extreme emotional changes made Shen Zhuo only feel his heart thumping twice.
A buzzing began to roar in his ears.
The long-lost electronic voice, blurredly broadcasting something in his ear.
But Shen Zhuo suddenly couldn’t hear anything.
As if separated by a water film.
Couldn’t hear clearly, couldn’t see clearly.
Couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think.
Could only feel a rhythmic restlessness in his immobile body.
And some power flowing in his blood.
Slowly awakening.
The bug noticed Shen Zhuo, dropped the leg meat in its mouth, and pounced towards Shen Zhuo.
The screech was hoarse and terrifying, coming from the mouth full of mucus and blood.
The boy’s black eyes became bloodthirsty and sinister.
In the night moonlight, a tiny bit of blood-red cold light hidden deep in the pupils appeared.
His face was icy cold like a different person.
Expressionless, looking up but condescending, tone indifferent and cold like a deity.
Only said two words:
“Kneel.”
The next second.
Under the dead silent and plain moonlight.
The Zerg stopped its pouncing motion with a resistant expression, as if controlled by someone.
Then, stiff all over, with a hideous face towards the boy—
Slowly lowered its head and knelt on the ground.
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