bookcurios Chapter 646 The Apocalyptic Old Lady 15
Chapter 646 The Apocalyptic Old Lady 15
Yun Chu slowly withdrew her hand, as if she had merely flicked the dust off her fingertips.
The violent wind and surging energy fluctuations vanished instantly.
She casually stepped over the sticky, slippery, bloody, and fleshy mess mixed with broken bones and internal organs, and continued on her way.
She stepped over the mud, splashing up a few dirty mud spots that landed on the hem of her equally mud-splattered coat, indistinguishable from each other.
She didn't even breathe rapidly.
Lin Xiaoran's knuckles, which were covering her mouth, turned pale from the excessive force, and her stomach acid churned violently, burning her throat.
She covered her mouth tightly, afraid to make a sound. Tears streamed uncontrollably down her cold cheeks, burning her skin.
That wasn't sadness; it was purely physiological, a fear of extreme violence and a tremor from the brutal ravages of the senses.
Jiang Xingyu's legs were stiff, as if welded to the cold mud. He swallowed desperately, but his throat felt as dry as if he were swallowing sand.
He watched the silver-gray figure calmly moving forward amidst the mountains of corpses and seas of blood—that was no longer the frail old woman he remembered!
That was clearly a walking... living... killing god exuding a strong bloodthirsty aura!
White hair fluttered in the eerie wind, stained with the blood of hell!
What kind of superpower?
What combat techniques?
Faced with this absolute power, absolute destruction, and absolute indifference, all appear pale and powerless!
It was a pure act of crushing death upon anything that dared to approach!
When Jiang Xingyu and the other man witnessed Yun Chu's true strength for the first time, they were both stunned.
It wasn't until they heard Yun Chu's voice that the two of them came to their senses.
"Go on, it's time for you to get to work," Yun Chu's calm voice rang out. "Go and collect the crystal cores from the zombie heads."
At first, the zombies didn't have crystal cores, but after several months of evolution, the zombies now have crystal cores.
The two took the axe given to them by Yun Chu and went to dig for crystal cores.
Although they felt nauseous, they endured it in order to survive.
After mining the crystal cores, Yun Chu cleaned and stored them away.
After resting for a night, Yun Chu and the others continued their journey.
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On the edge of an abandoned city, slowly eroded by vegetation, lies a dilapidated main road.
On both sides are dilapidated high-rise buildings and broken shop windows, with weeds growing tenaciously from the cracks in the cement.
The air was thick with the stench of decay, stronger than the desolation of the wilderness, and a faint, almost imperceptible, industrial acidity. Intermittent, damp rain fell, making the exposed steel bars and broken glass gleam coldly.
Jiang Xingyu and Lin Xiaoran were a little more numb than before, but the tension never disappeared.
When they reached a large intersection filled with twisted car wreckage, the mutated tiger's aura brought not sound, but an invisible sense of oppression.
The air seemed to freeze, and even the wind avoided the area. Lin Xiaoran instinctively grabbed Jiang Xingyu's arm, her teeth chattering—it wasn't the stench of rotting zombies, but the unique, chilling, and savage stench of a top predator that ran deep into one's soul.
It was at the very top of that pile of wreckage. A giant tiger, far exceeding any comprehension in size!
It stands nearly 1.6 meters tall at the shoulder, its entire body covered in steel-needle-colored fur of alternating earthy yellow and dark brown, which shimmers with a metallic sheen in the dim light.
Its massive body was as steady as a mountain, with knotted muscles rolling beneath its skin.
Those amber vertical pupils seemed to burn with the flames of hell, cold, arrogant, and devoid of any emotion as they looked down at the three tiny figures below.
Its claws were deeply embedded in the deformed metal roof of the car, silently declaring its territory.
It didn't utter a single growl, but the heavy breathing, accompanied by the rise and fall of its chest, was even more suffocating than a roar. A faint energy fluctuation unconsciously emanated from its body, causing the air to seem to distort slightly (a hallmark of a second-tier being).
The mutated horse next to Jiang Xingyu, which had been contracted by Yun Chu, was originally following him obediently, but now it seemed to be facing a formidable enemy!
It snorted anxiously, its hooves pawing the ground restlessly, instinctively lowering its body to retreat, its tail tucked tightly between its hindquarters, and a low, fearful whimper escaping its throat. Its fear of a superior predator far exceeded that of two humans.
The mutated tiger was attracted by the fresh "food," and a fierce glint flashed in its eyes before it moved without warning!
The enormous figure vanished instantly atop the wreckage, not in a run, but in an unimaginable, explosive leap!
Like a cannonball fired from a cannon barrel, it hurtled straight at Yun Chu at the front of the group with a shrill whistle that tore through the air and a bloody stench!
The target was precise, and the speed was so fast that Lin Xiaoran only saw a blur and a deadly gust of wind!
Yun Chu didn't even lift her eyelids. Just as the mutated tiger's massive claws, powerful enough to tear through steel, were about to touch her silver hair with a vicious gust of wind—
The air seemed to suddenly solidify into steel! (Visualization of mental energy/Strong gravitational field binding).
The tiger's pounce suddenly slowed down, as if it had been plunged into viscous, transparent syrup. Its ferocious momentum faltered, and its massive body appeared and froze eerily in mid-air, as if its head and waist had been held down by an invisible giant hand.
Immediately following, under the slight pressure of Yun Chu's raised hand (a thought), a deafening boom resounded!
The mutated tiger's massive body was slammed from the air onto the dirty, damp cement road by an irresistible force!
The road surface cracked in a spiderweb pattern, and mud, water, and debris exploded with a muffled groan! The force of this blow was enough for onlookers to imagine the pain of their internal organs being shattered.
This was the truly decisive moment. Yun Chu's eyes, brimming with silver-blue lightning, seemed to pierce through the tiger's strong flesh and blood, locking onto the burning core of its soul within its skull.
A spiritual force far more powerful, vast, and undeniable than before, like an invisible silver lightning bolt, violently penetrated the mutated tiger's brain!
In the tiger's spiritual world, it seemed to see a pair of giant eyes, brighter and colder than the moon and stars, opening, containing an oppressive force like the boundless universe.
Its indomitable will to rule was like a small boat in a raging tsunami, instantly submerged and destroyed!
The rage, wildness, and pride that came from the depths of their bloodline were reduced to a trembling, mournful cry from the very depths of their souls before this absolute power!
All of this happened in the blink of an eye. When Jiang Xingyu and Lin Xiaoran, still dizzy from the tiger's roar and the impact, barely managed to steady themselves by holding onto the overturned trash can, the scene before them horrified them even more:
The once majestic and terrifying beast, which seemed capable of swallowing a car whole, now lay limp in the muddy puddle like a sack with its bones removed. Blood mixed with mud spilled from its mouth, and its powerful limbs twitched and trembled involuntarily.
In its enormous amber eyes, the raging flames had been extinguished, replaced by extreme pain, incomprehensible fear, and... a trace of utter, humiliating submission.
Unable to lift its enormous head, it could only turn its eyes with difficulty, gazing humbly at the thin old woman standing before it, who resembled a goddess from mythology.
One could even vaguely "sense" a faint, electric-sparkling silver-blue energy thread, like a runic chain, wrapped between the giant tiger's forehead and the tiny human.
The chains, though seemingly thin, exude a terrifying, unyielding will. This is the mark left by a spiritual contract.