frightfiction Chapter 645 The Apocalyptic Old Lady 14
Chapter 645 The Apocalyptic Old Lady 14
Three days later, at the abandoned national highway toll station, the torrential rain had just stopped.
Lead-gray clouds hung low over the barren plains, squeezing out the daylight until only a pale gray-white remained.
The mud, mixed with rust, blood, and the stench of decaying plants, went up to Jiang Xingyu and Lin Xiaoran's ankles.
The cold mud mercilessly seeped into their tattered, thin shoes and socks, taking away the last bit of warmth.
The two followed closely behind Yun Chu, stumbling along, each step accompanied by a sticky, icy drag. The biting cold shot from the soles of their feet straight to their limbs and bones. Their lips turned blue from the cold, their teeth chattered incessantly, and each breath they exhaled produced frosty white vapor.
Yun Chu ahead seemed completely oblivious to the bone-chilling cold and dampness.
She was still wearing that old, dark coat stained with mud, her figure appearing small and lonely on the wide, desolate national highway, her short, silver-gray hair clinging to her aged neck, soaked by the damp, cold air.
Her gait was so relaxed that it didn't seem like she was fleeing, but rather like she was strolling in the countryside.
Sudden--
A non-human roar, a mixture of endless greed and bloodlust, tore through the deathly silence of the wilderness like a broken gong!
Then came the second sound, the third sound... a dozen, then dozens of sounds!
The sound erupted simultaneously from the piles of wrecked and abandoned cars on both sides, the ruins of overturned toll booths, and even from the depths of the dry and blackened bushes along the roadside!
Like a death tide awakened!
"Ah!" Lin Xiaoran let out a short scream, immediately covered her mouth with her hand, and trembled all over. She subconsciously shrank behind Jiang Xingyu.
Jiang Xingyu's heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was going to jump out of his throat!
His bloodshot eyes widened in horror, and he felt as if his heart was being gripped by a cold, iron hand, and the voice was right next to him!
Their vision was instantly filled with distorted, howling figures—at least twenty rotting, hideous zombies, on all fours or running wildly, pounced on the three tiny figures from all directions!
They moved with astonishing speed, carrying a wave of death that swept everything. They were so fast that Jiang Xingyu could even see the blackish-purple flesh hanging from the broken gums of the zombie in the front row and its bulging eyes!
The distance was instantly compressed to less than twenty meters! Ten meters!
Finished!
The thought pierced their minds like an icicle! They closed their eyes in despair, their bodies stiff as weathered rocks, their strength to escape drained away in an instant.
The scent of death has never been so close!
At this critical moment of life and death!
Boom——!
A gigantic, deathly white bolt of lightning, imbued with the wrath of heaven and earth, suddenly cleaved the sky, illuminating the gloomy earth as bright as day! In that frozen moment of lightning—
The aged figure standing between the horde of zombies and the two people moved!
She didn't dodge or retreat as expected. Instead, Yun Chu's old eyes suddenly snapped open!
No longer as murky as a still well, a chilling, almost soul-freezing silver-blue lightning flashed suddenly deep within his pupils!
It was as if a long-dormant deity had opened its divine eyes at this moment!
The hem of her old coat suddenly billowed upwards in the unexpected gust of wind! Just as her left foot stepped forward with perfect naturalness—
"Om-!"
A deep, resonant sound, seemingly emanating from the deepest depths of hell, resounded! The ground trembled violently!
Centered on the sole of her foot, an invisible yet substantial circular shockwave suddenly spread out!
Visible ripples in the air, like boiling water, swept past the seven or eight zombies charging at the front!
A sickeningly loud, bone-cracking sound suddenly erupted! Those hideous torsos were as if they had been struck head-on by a multi-ton iron hammer!
The zombies charging at the forefront had their entire chest cavity smashed as if by a giant battering ram, their spines collapsing inwards and their ribs breaking one by one, like tattered sacks that had been forcibly folded inwards. Filthy blood and broken organs gushed out from their seven orifices!
Several zombies that were hit by the edge of the shockwave on both sides had their limbs twisted into bizarre angles with reverse joints, and their arms or legs snapped like rotten wood!
Several rotting arms and legs, with torn muscles, detached directly from the body and spun out!
The zombies at the very front, struck by the explosive energy from the center, were sent flying backward at an even faster speed than when they had charged, crashing heavily into their companions that were surging behind them, instantly knocking down a large number of them!
The ferocious horde of corpses was abruptly cut off and crushed by her silent stomp!
But even more numerous and ferocious zombies trampled over the mangled bodies of their companions, wading through the thick, viscous, blackish-green blood and entrails that covered the ground, and pounced madly on their prey in the center! Their numbers far exceeded those of the first wave!
Yun Chu remained motionless in the mud, showing no intention of drawing any weapon! Her right hand simply gestured casually toward the muddy, scorched wasteland beside her.
"Puff puff puff puff puff—!"
The next moment, an extremely terrifying and bizarre scene unfolded!
The hard, cold asphalt road surface and the muddy ground beside the road suddenly cracked!
Countless jet-black, sharp-spike-covered, and thicker than an adult man's arm, tough tree roots, like ancient demonic serpents awakening after a thousand years of slumber, burst forth from the earth without warning! They moved with lightning speed, accompanied by a fierce and ruthless whooshing sound as they pierced the air!
Several jagged tree roots, like precise javelins, carrying terrifying kinetic energy, pierced the most vulnerable parts of several of the fastest, most menacing zombies in the horde with a "thud," striking them precisely through their eye sockets, temples, and jawbones! Filthy blood mixed with yellowish-white brain matter splattered, killing them instantly!
Other tree roots, like living nooses, coiled around the necks of several zombies like serpents!
Sharp splinters embedded themselves deeply into the rotting flesh! Suddenly, they tightened! With a few chilling snaps, several grotesque heads were instantly severed and torn off by the immense force! They rolled into the mud!
More thick, spear-like tree roots shot skyward, piercing through the two powerful zombies that were lunging at them simultaneously, from their lower abdomens to their chests like skewers of candied hawthorns! They were impaled high in the air! Their limbs were still twitching unconsciously!
The central area of the charging horde of corpses instantly transformed into a bloody jungle constructed of jagged tree roots and severed limbs!
The filthy blood sprayed out like splashed ink, completely staining the already muddy ground dark red! The stench of blood, so strong it was almost nauseating, mixed with the stench of corpses, creating a smell that was almost solidified and assaulted the brain.
The few remaining fish that had escaped the net instinctively froze. They huddled at the edge of the strangulation net of tree roots, hesitant to advance further.
Just then, Yun Chu's still calm and unwavering eyes turned slightly towards the last few lucky ones.
Without making a huge fuss, she simply clenched her right hand casually towards the zombies.
"Sizzle—sizzle—!"
Several thin, yet dazzlingly bright, silver-blue arcs of electricity, like precisely guided death rays, appeared out of thin air above the heads of those zombies!
It moves so fast that its trajectory cannot be detected by the naked eye!
There was a very faint "plop" sound, like butter melting on a red-hot iron skewer!
The zombies that were emitting low growls suddenly had a small hole, about the thickness of a finger, with charred edges, appear on their foreheads!
Without struggling, without any unnecessary movements, their eyes froze instantly, then they lost all support and collapsed like broken puppets into the pool of blood and rotting flesh laid out by their companions. Wisps of smoke and the smell of burnt meat even rose from the corpses.
Dead!
From the first howl of the corpse to the final flash of lightning, the entire process took less than a minute!
The sounds of wind and rain seemed to freeze at that moment.
Near the toll booth, all that remained was the thick, lingering smell of blood and burnt flesh, along with the shocking sight of mangled corpses scattered across the road.
Twisted, charred, pierced, shredded... death was presented to the two in the most naked, chaotic, and brutal way.