Published: February 12, 2025
The second match was about to begin, and Ye Zhongming could only temporarily set aside his doubts.
He didn’t think the others hadn’t considered this. After all, whether it was Alamos or other foreign forces, they were far from the domestic area. Ten Thousand Beast Manor wasn’t situated in a border region, so how did they arrive so promptly? Unless someone in the domestic area had learned of the news and informed them in advance, allowing them to use that time to rush over.
To say they had no purpose and merely wanted to see the corpse of a ninth-level life, whether others believed it or not, Ye Zhongming certainly did not.
This round of competition was similar to the previous one in Guan Cheng Village, where Alamos's people first knocked out the mutated chimpanzee. They then explained and elaborated to the representatives from Ten Thousand Beast Manor about the tools they were using this time, and soon began placing some small mechanical insects on the chimpanzee's body.
Those with sharp eyes could see that these small insects were not real but mechanical products. About a dozen mechanical bugs crawled into various parts of the mutated chimpanzee's body. It was unclear what they were doing inside; they could only see the chimpanzee's skin continuously bulging, indicating that these bugs were evidently moving within its body. After about a minute, they disappeared, and the chimpanzee immediately woke up, standing there in a daze, like a puppet.
Meanwhile, the laboratory in Guan Cheng Village was also undergoing its own modifications.
Ye Zhongming knew about this laboratory from his past life; he had even seen Guan Cheng Village once, though he had only encountered corpses there.
That was around the time he was close to being reborn. A large organization had hired their team to clear an area, and after over half a month of trekking, they arrived near a city. No one was interested in what this city was called before the apocalypse; Ye Zhongming and the others only knew that there were many strange zombies within it.
These zombies all had an additional flesh lump on their heads, resembling grotesque tumors. Those who hired Ye Zhongming's team referred to this type of zombie as cancer zombies.
The abilities of cancer zombies were somewhat inferior to their peers of the same level, mainly due to their slower reflexes. However, they had a distinct characteristic: they were capable of emitting poison. Their bodily fluids, flesh, and even the odors they emitted were highly toxic. Any evolver that came into contact with even a little would find it very troublesome.
Ye Zhongming later learned that these cancer zombies had been genetically modified by humans, with the modification organization being Guan Cheng Village's dark laboratory.
The entire city's zombies had been modified by them, and Ye Zhongming, whether back then or now, admired their perseverance immensely.
This type of cancer zombie modification had to be done one by one; it wasn’t a large-scale production line. This meant that the dark laboratory in Guan Cheng Village had to capture these zombies one by one and bring them back to the laboratory, undergoing unknown lengths of surgery. Even though the modified cancer zombies would follow their commands and turn the entire city into their protective umbrella, the years-long process of capturing a million zombies and performing surgeries on them was not something just anyone could achieve.
How long would it take to complete such a miraculous project!
With such high toxicity, Ye Zhongming, as an evolver with excellent ranged attack capabilities, was quite sought after. That superpower even provided him with quite a few high-grade bullets.
The siege battle lasted about a week and concluded with that superpower emerging victorious. When that force finally emerged with some corpses and prisoners, Ye Zhongming saw the deceased Guan Cheng Village and learned that the man who had turned into a monster with eight legs and eight arms was the boss of the laboratory.