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Really ate it. Kyungwon looked at his blood-stained hands.

His shirt was stained red with blood, and his face was reflected on the pitch-black TV screen, blood smeared around his lips, and a mouth full of dirty hair.

He had eaten a lame dog raw, and though he didn't know why he was the way he was, the hunger that burned his stomach was relieved.

With only bone fragments and remnants of fur on the ground, he sat on the couch and patted his face.

The feeling of tiredness and weakness was completely gone, and although night fell, he didn't want to sleep at all, but was very energetic and energetic.

There was a feeling that he couldn't use his strength, he twisted his neck, exercised in the living room, and suddenly found that his physical ability seemed to have become much stronger, and he jumped with all his strength, and he was able to touch the ceiling.

So what's next?

He picked up the gun on the table, there was no rustiness, and it was easy to use.

He seems to be a little hungry again, and it looks like he has turned into a zombie?

Hawkers, forget it, it doesn't seem to matter anymore.

He licked the area around his lips, just wanting to taste the taste again.

A small black vial on the table caught his attention, containing some kind of virus-like black liquid with a skull tag attached to it.

He reached for it, but the moment he put his hand on the bottle, the bottle shattered suddenly, and the liquid squirmed and crawled on him, and he shook his hand vigorously, but he couldn't shake it off, and in a matter of seconds, they burrowed into his skin and disappeared.

He waited for a moment, as if it didn't affect him in any way, but made him more energetic, as if he had an inexhaustible vitality.

In order to vent his energy, he got up and went to the empty hallway outside the door, he held a rifle and a pistol, and went downstairs.

The empty building, he followed the stairs from the seventh floor to the first floor, and everywhere was silent, like a grave in the wilderness.

Coming to the main road, a zombie wandered in front of him and slowly walked towards him.

Are you attracted by the smell of blood?

He fired a shot at the guy, a shot in the head, and it fell.

What a fragile creature, as if it just died.

The zombie seemed to be much weaker than him, and it looked very old, with rotting flesh hanging from the white bones of the forest, and the smell of rot all over his body.

Kyungwon got closer to compare it and reaffirmed that he was no longer human, and that he had traveled to a post-apocalyptic world full of zombies.

He spent the whole night wandering.

He covered the smell of blood on his body with dirt, and gradually those zombies did not react to him, sure enough, these zombies are his kind, and his kind have all rotted for a long time, comparing him to a piece of "little fresh meat", then his kind is "old bacon".

All in all, he was sure that he wouldn't be attacked by the zombies, so he walked around the city with confidence.

But in the dark, he sensed that there was something uncomfortable for him, as if there was danger there, and he tried to stay away.

After wandering for several days, he found some strange fruits, which gave off an attractive fragrance, not as fragrant as the taste of blood food, but still delicious.

These fruits seem to grow in places where people gather, such as shopping streets and shopping malls, and they grow strange fruits.

He could feel his strength growing stronger after eating the fruit, and as the days passed, his body did not rot, but his muscles tightened, and he realized that he was different from those zombies, and if he wanted to say anything, he was probably similar to the mutants in "Resident Evil".

It was raining heavily, very much, and the rain on him made him very comfortable, and he began to like the dark and damp place.

But the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and it gradually submerged to his calf.

It was the first time he had met the same mutant as him, a skinny little guy with a strong ability to bounce.

It's fast, but it doesn't matter, he has a gun.

Although the guy was close to the back and was wounded, he was killed by a close-range pistol shot to the head.

The wound is painless and heals slowly.

Even in hand-to-hand combat, he can win.

Among the mutants, there was something that attracted him, he found a black hard stone in the heart of the corpse, the thing gradually softened after touching his body, and merged with him, a feeling of tiredness came, and he found a narrow room to hide before he fell asleep.

When he woke up again, the rain still didn't stop, and his physical abilities were extremely improved, especially the bounce power, and the muscles in his legs became more developed.

He realizes that there are some mutants like him in the city, and he fights them, devours each other, and then gains a boost in combat power.

So he started working as a hunter, he had a gun and bullets, and he found that he had a sense of what was weaker than him, and which ones were stronger, and he knew where they were.

He began to hunt, and for half a month, he was fighting his kind.

Having eaten the "cores" of a total of 12 mutants, he has many abilities, and realizes that those "cores" are something like mold, and they are creatures, all of their power comes from mold.

Half a month has passed, and he has forgotten his name, and all he thinks about is fighting and devouring in his mind.

He has a unique feeling of refreshment when killing certain mutants, as well as some strangely shaped trees, and he can't help but burn them when he sees them.

It's his instinct, he's like a scavenger, removing impurities from the city.

He grew stronger, human feelings and the like disappeared completely, and he became a different creature than human.

Then another month passed, and the weather gradually cooled.

He found a number of sleeping creatures in places like the school hospital, linked to a tall strange tree, and as he approached them, his consciousness had a faint connection to them.

He was able to control them and act, which seemed to be his natural ability.

He realized his duty, he wasn't a mutant creature, he was born as a scavenger in this city.

The city itself is a huge life form, and he, this life form, gave birth to something similar to immune cells, but much more advanced than immune cells.

He's going to devour his predecessor so he can gain more power and authority.

It must be as soon as possible, the crisis is imminent.

The city was hit by an earthquake, and some kind of massive, mountain-like creature moved across the ruins.

The fungus beast, which he named the creature under his feet, was a four-legged behemoth that resembled an animal called an elephant.

He sat cross-legged on top of the beast's head, and the behemoth, which weighed several tons, flattened the car under his feet and headed towards the city center.

It was an area that had been bombarded by missiles, and there were battlefield-like ruins everywhere.

The destination was underground, and the fungus beast stepped on the rubble around it, and the ground collapsed, and it was hollow underneath, and for I don't know how many days and nights, as if it had been corroded, a huge cavity appeared.

The sticky mold entangles the fungus, and maggot-like white worms crawl and gnaw on its surface.

These bugs numbered in the tens of thousands, but they were only ant-like creatures to the fungus beasts, and rivers of red and sticky blood gushed out of the sewers.

It was a different form of the fungus, it was a liquid creature, and the rivers of blood were its tissues, which had the ability to paralyze and digest.

The insects, which were drowned by the river of blood, quickly rolled over and floated weakly.

When this scene happened, he didn't notice that there was a small shadow coming out of an abandoned supermarket thousands of meters away, watching everything that was happening around him from a distance.

In his eyes, there was only the creature underground.

This cavity is the nest of the creature, it is like a tumor growing in the organism's body, constantly absorbing nutrients, but it has no effect, and it is a major disease that must be eliminated.

The battle didn't last long, and with the help of the fungus, he quickly won.

That guy couldn't move, the flesh was embedded in the wall, and even though he absorbed a lot of nutrients, his combat power was not strong.

He jumped down, crawling among the red buds, eating as much as he could, and when he had eaten them, black filaments grew from his body, and he turned into a cocoon.

The cocoon broke open after three days, and he no longer looked like a human, a bony shell covering his body, smooth as jet-black alloy that covered him like armor.

He has sharp claws, spring-shaped feet, bony protrusions and bone spurs at various places, and a rhizome-like tail of some kind of plant growing from his back.

Completely turned into a monster, or "alien".

He wielded more power, and in the city, he became the apex of existence.

The next thing to do is to clean up and fix the holes in the barrier.

He jumped up from more than a dozen meters underground and reached the surface at dusk.

The first snow of winter fell, and snowflakes fell on his body.

It was a creature of his level, and he was going to fight her in this full form.

After a fierce battle, the supermarket was destroyed, and there was nothing around that could be called flat.

Under the moonlight, the vines fluttered, pumping out the terrifying wind pressure.

Her vines snapped 2, but 2 more unleashed a storm of attacks towards her enemies.

Her gaze was as cold as ice, and the posture of a little girl burst out with unimaginable power.

Boom Boom! The 30-story skyscraper collapsed, and the creature that had been knocked out shattered several walls before finally stopping, buried in the rubble, spitting jet-black blood from its insect-like mouthparts.

Its outer carapace was completely shattered, its heart and abdomen were pierced, and its well-developed thighs were broken, making it look horrible and miserable.

In contrast, the little girl only broke one arm and two vines.

Although the two are within the same level, there is still a gap in combat effectiveness.

In the end, there was her victory, the vines sliced the "alien" into minced flesh like a meat grinder, and she dug out the hard core from it, swallowed it in one gulp, picked up her severed arm, picked it up, and returned to where she had been.

She sat in the ruins of the supermarket, looking up at the moon until the snow buried her.

In the depths of winter, fires ignited.

The lonely girl waited quietly in the iron cage for the blood to run out, her eyes staring blankly at her wounds and the hideous, rotting face outside the iron cage, falling into eternal sleep in the cold snowy night.

When she died, her scrawny and slightly sunken eyes looked at the sky, as if there was a city in the sky.

The human fleet arrived at the beginning of spring, and the snow melted.

They occupied most of the area with strong firepower.

However, the situation did not develop as expected, and one day, a large number of peripheral fungus beasts suddenly invaded this territory.

After discussion, they decided to use the ultimate weapon of mankind, the hydrogen bomb.

They waited for days, waiting for those invaders to gather and fight, and dropped the hydrogen bomb.

Loud noises that make people lose their sense and glow that surpasses the sun erupt in the heart of the city!!

A cloud-like condensation of the hat that obscured the sky gathered over the scorched earth, and everything was purified, leaving nothing alive in the center.

Humanity cheered, the mothership docked again, they began to build the base and defense measures, the construction team began in full swing, three months later, the prototype of the base was basically completed, on this abandoned scorched earth, a new spring sprout appeared.

But one day, suddenly, many people collapsed due to fever, and even though they were wearing thick protective clothing, they were infected by the virus.

There were a number of corpses in the infirmary's isolation room, some of which had already gotten up and begun to grasp the tempered glass surface.

At some point, pitch-black mold grew in the invisible crevices of the mothership.

"Dr. Su, isn't there a way to do it?"

"I'm sorry. Everybody"

The woman in the white coat finally realized what a terrible mistake they had made, and even she began to heat up and lose consciousness.

"We made serious mistakes, we were all infected, not a single case."

"Take us as a warning, warn the compatriots on the other side of the coast, let them give up exploring the world beyond the ice sea, this world no longer belongs to human beings, please let them live well on the other side of the sea, and pass on the fire of our civilization."

The tragic atmosphere soaked her surroundings like a tidal wave, and she bowed and apologized to all who were still alive.

All of them are infected and can't go back, and dying here is their final end.

All of them made their last communication with their compatriots across the sea, and they decided to let themselves die as a human and not as a monster.

Those who were already infected, were shot en masse.

The remaining thousands, just feverish people, gathered on the deck of the mothership, each assigned a pistol.

The woman in the white coat took the jewelry box from her pocket and threw it into the sea.

Ten seconds later, they aimed their guns at their temples.

Thousands of gunshots overlapped, pools of blood stained the deck red, leaving only the white sunlight to illuminate the thousands of corpses, but under the scorching sun, it made people chill from the bottom of their hearts.

This is the winter of humanity.

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Congratulations, the ending "Winter" has been achieved.

(End of chapter)