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"Swish—swish—"

For some reason, even though they were far away from the core of the territory of the corpse beast codenamed "Ice Plague", the boy and the uncle found that the wind and snow were getting stronger and stronger.

The boy pulled his collar together. The clothes they were wearing were all picked up from various ruins. They couldn't wear whatever they wanted, so they had to wear several layers to keep warm.

He whispered, "Is that thing really thrown away? Why do I feel... getting colder and colder."

Upon hearing this, You Huan, who was following them closely in the snow, suddenly turned into a gust of wind and snow.

"call--"

The boy suddenly felt extremely cold and shivered. He stepped into the snow which was several meters deep and almost stumbled.

The uncle pulled him aside, looked at the large black shadow hidden behind the snow and wind, and began to speak, with streams of hot air rising from his mouth and nose:

"Hold on a little longer, and we'll soon be able to leave the Ice Plague's territory."

You Huan, who turned into a snowflake, also "looked" forward - even in the melting snow state, he still retained his [supersensory vision] - and saw clearly an abrupt dividing line.

On this side of the dividing line is a snowy area with temperatures as low as minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius, and is shrouded in wind and snow all year round.

On the other side of the dividing line, the snow quickly disappeared, the temperature quickly rose to a cool temperature of more than ten degrees, and large areas of the long-abandoned city stood quietly.

You Huan immediately understood that the area with low temperature and snow was the territory of the "ice plague".

He moved forward quickly, like a wisp of snow that accidentally fell outside the dividing line, and entered the outside of the territory.

Before his physical strength reached the critical value he set, he changed back to his original form and hid in a half-collapsed building next to him.

He looked around the building. It was a medium-sized supermarket. The glass walls had been completely shattered, the shelves had been overturned, and dusty wrapping paper was scattered on the ground.

Any cargo that once existed here has been cleared out.

There is also a large graffiti on one wall:

"Civilization is dead!!!"

The graffiti is also faded, and it seems that the city has been left in this state for a long time.

Because he entered through the broken glass wall of the back door, he walked to the front half of the supermarket while observing -

Then, my eyes met with a "person" standing at the cash register.

"Well..."

The man made an unconscious sound, and his slightly turbid eyes revealed a look of doubt. He stared silently at the red eyes on the strange white fur ball that broke into the store for a while.

The man's face was a grayish-white color that was definitely not that of a normal living person. His cheeks were even a little blue. He was fully clothed, except for a large hole in his chest, revealing his bloody internal organs.

"Swish——"

The sound of boots being pulled out of the snow interrupted the stare-gaze between the two.

This "person" suddenly turned his head at the sound of his neck cracking and looked outside the supermarket.

When his eyes met the two figures walking out of the snow, he licked his lips with his dark red tongue, lowered his body slightly, and then -

"Boom!"

A shallow hole was stepped on the ground, and he only left an afterimage there, while his real body instantly appeared on the street outside the supermarket.

With a "click", You Huan jumped onto the cashier counter and looked out -

The figure of that "man" rapidly deformed while running. Large clumps of flesh and blood protruded from the holes in his chest to form a huge new head.

At the same time, a large amount of metal armor gradually covered the skin, the hind legs bent and turned into strong and powerful beast legs, the upper arms became thick, and several huge claws flashing with cold light stretched forward.

As the uncle whispered "There are zombies", the figure that instantly transformed into a monster attacked the two explorers!

"…"

The fur ball in the supermarket was stunned.

This thing is about 1.5 times the size of a human, has claws, sharp teeth and hard armor, is extremely fast and agile, and obviously retains enough sanity. You call it a "zombie"?!

Suddenly, the red eyes that were watching the battle moved slightly, as if they discovered that one of their "items" had moved slightly.

"Bang!"

And in this brief moment, the sound of a gunshot was heard.

The young new "Ice Plague" looked up and saw the uncle raised his gun. The old barrel of the gun emitted a roaring sound and light like a ferocious beast. A bullet with a caliber of more than 13mm shot out and collided with the "zombie" attacking from the front!

A huge hole was instantly blasted in the zombie's abdomen, and dark red blood plasma splattered radially.

"Swoosh—"

Several crossbow arrows were fired from the other side. The barbed tips accurately pierced the zombies' limbs, penetrating their flesh and blood with great force and nailing them directly into the concrete floor!

"roar--!"

You Huan saw two figures, one tall and one short, walking forward amid the zombie's struggling roars and stabbing its throat with a knife.

The roaring stopped.

He raised his paw and touched his neck - although it couldn't be seen at the moment, he was of course a creature with a neck - and felt that his throat was a little cold.

The zombie that looked like a monster was killed by these two humans dressed like rag pickers as soon as they met...

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He carefully examined the weapons in the hands of the two men, but could not see anything remarkable. Instead, he discovered something unusual about the two men.

He originally thought that was the temperature flow that humans should have, but after comparing it with the knowledge of human physiology in his brain, he realized that the organs in the bodies of these two people had undergone different degrees of mutations, constantly bursting out and exchanging a special energy flow.

This made their bodies look like a garden to him - countless heat buds opened and burst out everywhere, colorful and brilliant.

"Fortunately, it's just an ordinary zombie." He walked to the door of the supermarket and heard the boy breathe a sigh of relief.

"This area is not the territory of the Sisters, so there won't be organized zombies." The uncle said, "What we have to be careful about is whether Ice Plague has resurrected, or whether a new zombie with high potential has been born in Ice Plague's territory."

"…'Ice Plague' was once the No. 21 monster. If there are indeed corpse beasts or zombies that were created using its corpse… they should not be underestimated."

"Uncle, let's go back and report the situation." The young man tugged at his clothes. "Now the two of us 'scavengers' alone are not enough to deal with the situation in the Ice Plague Territory."

"Yeah." The uncle looked around with his sharp eyes and found nothing unusual. He and the boy moved forward while holding their weapons in alert.

Halfway through the journey, the uncle suddenly stopped and looked back.

The street behind him was empty, with only a corpse, either a beast or a zombie, lying on the corner. It had already rotted away, revealing its skeleton.

He paused, turned around and continued walking forward.

After the two figures disappeared, a snow-white ball of fur moved out from behind a building as if moving horizontally.

You Huan narrowed his eyes, and his comprehensive vision instantly revealed the destination of the two people.

It is indeed the place not far away where many human heat sources are concentrated.

That should be the base the two mentioned in their previous conversation.

In addition, "Sisters", "No. 21", and "Scavengers" all sound like they have special meanings in this world.

As for zombies and corpse beasts, if he guessed correctly, zombies should refer to monsters transformed from humans that have the ability to switch between human form and monster form, just like the zombie just now.

And the corpse beast should be a creature in pure monster form, just like himself.

After determining their destination, he had a definite idea in his mind.

"call--"

The young man was on his way when he suddenly heard the sound of wind. He looked up and saw only a few snowflakes swirling and floating forward.

He just thought it was snowflakes drifting out from the Ice Plague Territory. Although there was a clear dividing line in temperature, it was common for snow and wind to drift out.

Soon, the two passed through most of the city ruins and came to a three-meter-high wall made of wire, sandbags and cement.

After confirming the identities of the two, a sentry holding a machine gun removed the roadblock and allowed the two to enter the other side of the wall.

In the air, which they had not noticed, a few wisps of wind and snow were swirling and drifting in slowly. (End of this chapter)