Hearing the gunshots, the three of them immediately became alert.

"He didn't call us, it shouldn't be serious. Zoe continues to collect the medicine, Bill, you protect Zoe, I'll go outside and see what the situation is. Ding Hao said to Bill and Zoe.

"No problem." The old mercenary took a deep puff of his cigarette, then pulled the bolt of his gun, and the AR15 rifle bullet in his hand was loaded.

"You see I'm not so good, I knocked it down with one shot!" When Ding Hao came to the street, Francis was bragging to Louis about a strange corpse with a twisted shape lying at the feet of the two of them.

Upon closer inspection, it was revealed that it was a traugl variant, covered in vine-like plant tissue, and pale green liquid gushing out of the wound in the chest.

Ding Hao looked up at Francis: "Pretty handsome, this is your new friend?" ”

"Not really." Francis shook his head, "We just met, and we just said hello once. ”

"Just one of them?" Ding Hao asked, "No other accomplices?" ”

"No, it staggered around on its own, and was knocked down by Francis with a shot." Louis said from the side.

"I'll check its corpse, you guys help me look around, and don't shoot anyone if there's a lone one running over." Ding Hao took out the M9 dagger, ready to study what this semi-vegetative ghoul was.

"No problem." Francis said, and the two men looked much more relaxed at the moment. Judging from the corpses on the ground, the enemy to face this time should be this strange ghoul, although it is the first time to see a ghoul who lives with plants, but it is much more reassuring to know what you are going to face than not to know nothing.

Ding Hao squatted on the ground and slashed down the hole of the gun in the ghoul's chest with his M9 dagger. Strictly speaking, the dissection of this unknown creature must be carried out in a hazmat suit, to prevent some kind of deadly substance from squirting out of the corpse during the knife. But now I don't have that condition, so I can only use a gas mask.

The ghoul's epidermis was very tough and heavily fibrotic, and it showed that it was covered with hard scales, and it felt like old bark when cut, and it took a lot of effort for Ding Hao to finally cut open its abdominal cavity.

As soon as he slashed it, a stream of dark green liquid gushed out, and Ding Hao immediately jumped back to prevent this liquid from sticking to his body.

Fortunately, the liquid isn't corrosive, doesn't have any strange odor, and smells a bit like tree sap.

After the liquid in the corpse was exhausted, Ding Hao continued to dissect, and was shocked when he opened the entire chest cavity of the ghoul.

Ghouls were first mutated from ordinary people, and although they have been self-reproducing for 80 years, they are still similar to normal humans in terms of visceral structure, except that their hearts, lungs, and digestive tract are much stronger than humans, so as to adapt to the high explosiveness of ghouls and the wide range of diets. At the same time, the lymph in the body mutates into chloroplast-like tissue, the difference is that the chloroplast of plants is used for photosynthesis, while the lymphoid tissue of ghouls is used to absorb radiation energy to repair itself.

This is why powerful ghouls can be found in areas of strong radiation.

But the strange ghoul in front of him was completely beyond Ding Hao's expectations, it had no normal organs in its body, not even bones, instead of a large string of strange structures like wood tumors that were entwined together, and even the skeleton that supported the body was this kind of wooden structure, as for the plant tissues on the surface of the body, they actually grew out of its body.

In addition, judging from the broken chest, Francis must have hit some vital point to kill the ghoul in one hit. However, depending on the characteristics of the plant, it is difficult to determine whether the ghoul is originally on the chest, or if the ghoul in front of him happens to be in the chest, and more research samples are necessary.

However, judging from the fact that the 12-gauge shotgun can kill this ghoul in one shot, its defense should not be too strong, but the plant characteristics may make it more tolerant to damage, and if it can't hit the vital point, it will be difficult to kill it.

After all, if you want to kill a tree, cutting off one or two branches is definitely not enough.

At the same time, Zoe and Bill also walked out of the hospital at this time, and judging from their shriveled backpacks, the harvest should not be ideal.

"What's going on with the gunshot?" As soon as he came out, Zoe asked Ding Hao, and then saw the deformed corpse lying on the ground: "This is the monster that occupies the city?" ”

"It should be one of them." Ding Hao corrected Zoe's grammatical error, "This is a ghoul with plant characteristics, this one is in the chest, and was killed by Francis, as for whether the ghoul we encounter next is in the chest, I'm not sure, if it can't be killed, then fire a few more shots,"

"Is there only one?" Bill, the old mercenary, asked the most crucial question.

"One now." Ding Hao looked at the sky, the sun had sunk in the west, and it would soon be dark, "I don't know how many I can meet in a while." ”

Don't look at low-level ghouls are not afraid of the sun, but ghouls are nocturnal creatures after all, and when the sun goes down and there is no ultraviolet suppression, the tyranny and bloodlust in their hearts will be released, and the ghouls at that time will go up several steps in agility and aggression, becoming very dangerous.

"Personally, I would recommend going back to the bus now and coming back tomorrow morning, which is a little safer." Ding Hao said what he thought.

However, before Zoe could speak, the flowers and fruits on the surrounding vines suddenly lit up, followed by terrible howls one after another, and the chaotic footsteps got closer and closer. Countless ghouls poured out of the wreckage of nearby buildings and pounced on them with terrible howls.

"Beware of crossfire!" Ding Hao shouted, then raised the muzzle of the gun and pulled the trigger on the ghoul who pounced on him, and the 7.62mm armor-piercing high-explosive projectile with 4 times the speed of sound with a huge kinetic energy of 8500 joules tore a huge wound the size of a human head in the ghoul's chest, and only two shots broke it in two, but this kind of ghoul vitality is simply amazing, even if it was broken in two, he still crawled towards Ding Hao full of energy.

Two more shots, piercing through the ghoul's head and tearing its upper body to shreds, stopped the ghoul from its activities.

After killing one, Ding Hao hurriedly turned the muzzle of the gun and shot at the other ghouls, and in the process of shooting, Ding Hao subconsciously hit the chest of these ghouls, and all of them were killed in seconds without exception.

"Their weakness is in the chest! Hit them in the chest! Ding Hao shouted, and after being reminded, several other people attacked the ghouls one after another, and soon wiped out all the ghouls in this wave of attacks.

"Is anyone hurt?" After killing the last ghoul, Zoe replaced the .45USP pistol with a magazine, but the ground began to tremble.

When I turned my head, I found that countless ghouls were pouring from the path where everyone came, and a huge black shadow was rapidly approaching from behind the ghouls, many ghouls were thrown into the air by the black shadow, and even the wreckage of a car was swept away by the black shadow.

"What should I do?" Francis asked loudly as he spewed shotgun at the ghouls, "Hit or run?" ”

"Run!" Ding Hao took out two flame grenades, pulled out the pull ring, and threw them out forcefully, "Where there are no ghouls, run there!" ”

Two flame grenades exploded to form a wall of fire, and although these ghouls were not afraid of the flames, they were inevitably ignited into torches as they passed through the wall of fire, and then burned to char and died on the side of the road.

Everyone fought and retreated, and at this moment, the huge black shadow also passed through the wall of fire, rushing towards everyone with flames all over his body, looking at this huge monster, Ding Hao and the five couldn't help but gasp.

This is not the ghoul lord that Ding Hao met in Seattle, but another kind of giant beast, this thing is like a monster running out of a nightmare, 5 meters tall, 4 meters wide, huge, running with two legs, no head in the conventional sense, but 3 bathtub-sized mouths occupy the position that should belong to the head, the mouth is also glowing yellow, and the body is covered with thick tentacles, and the two tentacles at the arm position are particularly thick and long.

"Run, run, run!!" Ding Hao shouted while aiming at the giant beast and pulled the trigger, accompanied by a blue trail, 4 times the speed of sound bullets poured on the giant beast like a torrential rain, but it was useless, this bullet only left a finger-thick bullet mark on the surface of the giant beast's body, and in less than 3 seconds, the bullet mark disappeared without a trace with the terrifying self-healing ability of the giant beast.

Look for weaknesses! Ding Hao used his skills on the giant beast, but the red dots that did not represent weakness appeared on the giant beast.

"Maybe you'd like to try this!" In desperation, Ding Hao shot a grenade at the giant beast, and in the violent explosion, the chest position of the giant beast was scorched black, and there was a terrifying huge wound in the center of the chest, and the yellow liquid dripped down from this wound.

At the same time, this time also triggered the stun effect, the giant beast fell to the ground at once, seeing this scene Ding Hao turned around and ran, although he really wanted to kill this guy to see how much experience he could earn, but he was followed by hundreds of ghouls, if he didn't leave now, would he wait for death?

Running and fleeing, the five suddenly ran into a dead end, but fortunately there was a ladder in the alley to climb up to the third-floor platform.

"Hurry up the ladder!" Ding Hao pointed to the ladder and shouted to the others, while turning to shoot at the swarming ghouls one by one, and soon a thick layer of corpses was piled up in the alley.

In line with the principle of ladies first, Zoe climbed up first, then Louis, Francis, and just as Bill was about to climb up, the giant beast rushed again, first knocking away the corpses piled up on the ground, and then waving its thick tentacles and smashing it towards Bill, who was on the ladder.

Ding Hao, who was looking for weaknesses skills, suddenly found that the weakness of this giant beast was its open mouth, so he stepped forward slowly, and shot at the open mouth of the giant beast one after another, and after more than ten bullets, the left big mouth of the giant beast was beaten into slag by Ding Hao.

The painful giant beast raised two thick tentacles and smashed towards Ding Hao, but was dodged by Ding Hao's rolling, and this powerful blow directly smashed a large cobweb-like crack on the ground, not to mention smashing people, even armored vehicles can be smashed into a pile of scrap metal!

Just when Ding Hao got up, a ghoul happened to pounce, but with the two gunshots, the ghoul had two more bullet holes in his chest and fell directly to the ground.

"There's no time! Come on! Zoe shouted at Ding Hao from the iron platform, and then kept shooting at the other ghouls to cover Ding Hao.

Hearing Zoe's shout, the giant beast directly wrapped its tentacles around the iron frame and pulled it down, how huge the power of this giant beast was, the iron frame was pulled crumbly in an instant, and Zoe stumbled under his feet and was about to fall.

At this moment, Ding Hao shot a hook at the iron frame, and while flipping up, he hugged Zoe and jumped hard, the strengthened legs contained huge strength, but the borrowing point under his feet was unstable, Ding Hao was still a little close to jumping on the platform, plus holding Zoe, he could only hold the edge of the platform with one hand.

Seeing that his fingers were about to slip off, at this moment, three pairs of hands reached over, grabbed Ding Hao and Zoe tightly and dragged them onto the platform. (To be continued.) )