The Undead (New book uploaded, seeking collection and red tickets)

  Fangchenggang City is located in the southernmost part of Guangxi, China. It is not only the largest port in western China, but also a bridgehead for east-west traffic. At the same time, it is one of the areas with the most rampant smuggling and human trafficking in China.

  "Rustle...!"

  In a residential house in Fangchenggang Port, a stout mouse was nibbling on an unfinished bread in the corner of the house. The bread mixed with sweet butter was obviously a rare delicacy for the mouse, and it even let out a satisfied hum while eating.

  "Hiss--huff!"

  But just as the mouse had made a sound, a flash of silver light suddenly flashed through the room and then directly pierced the mouse's body, pinning it to the ground. The broad blade of the tiger-tooth dagger almost cut the fat mouse's body in half, and strands of fresh blood shot out from the mouse's body, adding a hint of fishy sweetness to the air in the entire room.

  "There are really many mice in this place..."

  He stretched his waist, and a young man slowly got up from the bed. Then he walked to the side of the mouse corpse, pulled out the tiger-tooth dagger that was nailed into the ground for several inches, and scolded in a low voice with an unpleasant face: "This damn Snakehead King charged me so much money and actually arranged for me to stay in such a ghostly place. If I had known earlier, I would have rather left from Vietnam... What a hassle!"

  This young man, named Zhou Feng, is a rather famous mercenary on the international scene. Although he's only twenty-four years old, having formally entered the mercenary profession at thirteen, he's already considered an elder statesman in the mercenary world. This time, he had taken on a mission to successfully assassinate a drug lord in Vietnam and was preparing to sneak into the United States from Fangchenggang. However, what he didn't expect was that after paying $20,000, the other party informed him that he wouldn't be able to leave Fangchenggang until the next day, resulting in Zhou Feng needing to temporarily stay in this secret residence for a day.

  "What a big fog..."

  He inserted the sharp tiger-tooth dagger into its sheath on his calf, and Zhou Feng opened a window to get some fresh air. However, what surprised him was that outside the window, there was a thick fog that he had never seen before. Under the cover of the fog, Zhou Feng could only see things within a few meters of the window, and anything further away was just a vast expanse of white.

  "Rustle... Boom!"

  However, just as the wind was slightly strange, a loud noise of rubber scraping against the ground suddenly came from afar, followed by a loud rumbling sound. As the rumble sounded, several strands of firelight flickered vaguely in the thick fog in the distance, like the stars on a dark night, shining dimly and uncertainly.

  "Save me! Save me!"

  In the place where the flames were shining, a cry for help filled with fear and panic slowly came over. Judging from the voice, it should be a young woman.

  "Car accident?"

  Upon hearing the cry for help, and recalling the massive explosion and flames from earlier, Zhou Feng slightly furrowed his brow before preparing to close the window and continue resting. Although he had never committed any crimes in Tian Chao, his nickname "Viper's Fang" was notorious among the national security forces. To avoid causing any trouble, Zhou Feng naturally didn't want to get involved with the car accident either. Anyway, judging from the woman's cries for help, she seemed to have enough energy and should be able to hold on until the ambulance arrived.

  "No, no, don't come over, don't come over -- ah!"

  Just as Zhou Feng was about to close the window, the woman's abrupt cry made him furrow his brow. Listening to this sound, it seemed that it wasn't just a simple car accident.

  Murder? Kidnapping? Robbery?

  In an instant, three possibilities flashed through Zhou Feng's mind. He glanced at his watch and saw that it was less than an hour before boarding the ship. Thinking of this, Zhou Feng's mouth curled up slightly as he walked back into the room, picked up his only luggage - a modified Five-seveN pistol, then opened the door and walked out.

  Anyway, we're going on board, might as well take a look at the excitement.

  "Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh!"

  The thick fog outside the door was really dense, and if it weren't for the distant flickering firelight guiding him, Zhou Feng wouldn't be sure if he would get lost in the mist. However, just as he approached the firelight, a strange chewing sound suddenly entered Zhou Feng's ears, causing the smile on his face to instantly disappear, and his eyebrows furrowed slightly.

  This voice... sounds so familiar!

  Soon, Zhou Feng remembered where he had heard this similar sound before. Once when he was on a mission in North Africa, he had witnessed an enemy mercenary being pounced on and torn to pieces by a lion. The sound the lion made while devouring the mercenary's remains was about 80% similar to what he was hearing now.

  "Did someone bring a large carnivore?"

  The strange sound made Zhou Feng hesitate for a moment, he knew that as a mercenary, being too curious would often lead him to the path of death. However, it's easy to change one's circumstances but hard to change one's nature, and the stranger things were, the more Zhou Feng wanted to know the truth. Besides, this Five-seveN pistol was modified from the IOM model, and after loading the SS90 bullet, its power was greatly increased. Not only could it penetrate a 30m distance of NATO standard thick low-carbon steel plate, but even at a distance of 175m, it could still penetrate the two sides of a US military standard helmet. So he had full confidence that even if the predator in front of him was a North African lion, he could take it down before being attacked!

  "What's the point of raising large carnivores in this heavenly dynasty?"

  Shaking his head, Zhou Feng gripped the Five-seveN in his hand tightly and continued to move forward. Judging from the sound, the target should be just ahead, not far away.

  Soon, Zhou Feng saw the burning car. Under the illumination of the raging flames, his field of vision expanded greatly. At the same time, a winding bloodstain on the ground also caught his attention. The bloodstain stretched from the front of the car to its rear, and the constant crunching sound was coming from the rear of the car as well.

  "Something's off..."

  Looking at the winding blood line on the ground, Zhou Feng suddenly felt a bad premonition in his heart. The intuition he had honed through years of life-and-death battles was now constantly reminding him that there was danger ahead.

  Zhou Feng is a curious person, but he's more of a person who trusts his intuition. Feeling this inexplicable sense of crisis, Zhou Feng stopped in his tracks and began to quietly retreat backwards.

  The unknown truth is indeed attractive, but ensuring one's absolute safety is of utmost importance!

  "Roar!"

  However, Zhou Feng's retreat at this moment was a bit late. Just as he had retreated several steps, the sound of chewing from behind the car suddenly stopped. Then, accompanied by a burst of furious roaring, a man covered in blood, with a huge piece of glass stuck in his neck, looking like he couldn't be any deader, yet holding onto a severed palm, suddenly jumped out from behind the car and stood in front of Zhou Feng.

  "What the heck is this?!"

  At the sight of the man's appearance, Zhou Feng was shocked. From a mercenary's perspective, the huge glass that almost severed the man's neck should have taken his life by all means. However, at this moment, the man not only appeared in front of him alive and kicking but also had a mouth full of blood chewing on a few white and incomplete fingers. Moreover, from its hungry appearance, it seemed to have already regarded Zhou Feng as its prey.

  "Suffered a fatal wound but didn't die, likes to eat human flesh, eyes are blood red... Is this a zombie?!"

  In the next second after seeing the man's appearance, a well-known term appeared in Zhou Feng's mind.

  In the mercenary world, rumors of zombies have never ceased. Especially in 1987, the "Zombie Incident" that occurred in Tianchao and Tian, and the "Zombie Incident" that occurred during the Zaire Civil War in 1994, made the term "zombie" widely known among mercenaries. Among them, a Serbian mercenary who encountered zombies and survived during the Zaire Civil War in 1994 even wrote a report of his encounter with zombies. Later, although this Serbian mercenary mysteriously died on a mission, the report was circulated.

  With his curiosity running high, Zhou Feng naturally wouldn't let go of these small pieces of information. He had even obtained the original report that year. The records on it left a deep impression on him, so he quickly determined the man's identity.

  "Roar!"

  The man who seemed to be a zombie did not give Zhou Feng much time to think, looking at the prey less than ten meters away from him. After letting out a completely inhuman roar, he rushed towards Zhou Feng at an extremely fast speed.

  Bang!

  As soon as he confirmed that the other party was a threat to himself, Zhou Feng would not give him any opportunity to harm himself, regardless of whether he was human or a zombie. Accompanied by a loud gunshot, the SS90 bullet that came out of the Five-seveN instantly hit the man's head. The SS90 bullet with strong kinetic energy directly blew off half of the man's skull as soon as it entered his head. In an instant, the red and white brain matter mixed together like tofu pudding that had been stirred violently after adding red sugar, spraying onto the car behind the man in a jet-like manner.

  "Hmm!"

  Whether it was a zombie or a human, once their brain was pierced, there was no possibility of survival. Accompanied by a soft sound, the man's body swayed slightly before falling to the ground like a rotten log. At the same time, an emerald-cut diamond about the size of a green bean rolled out from the lower half of the man's headless skull and landed at Zhou Feng's feet with a clinking sound.

  "What is this... Could it be a stone? But I've never heard of zombies having stones in their brains..."

  Looking at the rhombus-shaped gemstone rolling down by his feet, Zhou Feng slightly furrowed his brow, then hesitated for two seconds before pulling out the tiger-tooth dagger tied to his calf and carefully picked up the gemstone, placing it in front of his eyes.

  "Such a pure gem..."

  Looking at the crystal clear gemstone in front of him, Zhou Feng's face revealed a hint of incredulity. He wasn't unfamiliar with gemstones, as many places in South Africa paid commissions in diamonds or gemstones. Yet, he had never seen such a crystal clear and naturally perfect gemstone before.

  "This treasure, if sold at an auction by Christie's, would fetch a price of at least one million US dollars... God helps those who help themselves, this saying is really true."

  After identifying the value of the diamond, Zhou Feng unhesitatingly ejected the magazine from his Five-seveN pistol and removed a bullet from it. He then used his tiger-tooth dagger to remove the bullet head and poured out the gunpowder over the gemstone.

  "Hah!"

  With a faint sound, the gunpowder covering the gemstone was ignited by the sparks generated from the friction between the tiger-tooth dagger and its scabbard. In an instant, it all burned out. Only then did Zhou Feng let out a sigh of relief, using the tiger-tooth dagger to pick up the gemstone that had been scorched by the high temperature but still sparkled with clarity, placing it into an empty cartridge case, putting the bullet head back on and sealing it tightly shut.

  Mercenaries love money, but mercenaries value their lives even more. This gemstone is precious, but no one dares to guarantee that this guy doesn't carry some strange virus on him, after all, it's from a zombie corpse. However, the 1500-degree high temperature produced by the combustion of nitrocellulose gunpowder can kill all viruses in the world, and the zombie virus is no exception.

  As for why he would rather risk it than throw away the gem, what a joke, the bounty for completing a mission once in a while is less than $1 million. A mercenary's life is all about taking risks, and for profit, this small risk was worth taking.

  "Roar!"

  "Roar!"

  "Roar!"

  Just as Zhou Feng finished loading the gemstone, several loud roars filled with violent energy came from a distance. Hearing these increasingly close calls, Zhou Feng's face changed, and he immediately loaded his magazine before rushing towards his hiding place at an extremely fast speed.

  Although he was uncertain what had happened, the best course of action based on his experience as a mercenary in such situations was to find a secure hiding place and then act according to circumstances. At least, he also wanted to return to the room to pick up all the ammunition.

  PS: New book has been officially uploaded, new book is in urgent need of everyone's support, collect!