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"You were too excited during the fierce battle and died suddenly?"

It is a very common phenomenon for human beings to be unable to withstand the excessive and violent psychic impact, and to die suddenly in battle.

But it’s not so “common” that everyone dies of exhaustion?

Moreover, Meng Chao also observed a very strange phenomenon.

Director Jiang said that there are only three extraordinary people in this stronghold, and the remaining dozens of pioneers are ordinary people.

Meng Chao discovered that they had killed at least hundreds of ordinary monsters and dozens of nightmare beasts before they died of exhaustion.

Is this combat power too exaggerated?

You know, it is because ordinary people are helpless against nightmare beasts, and once they encounter them, they often turn into one-sided massacres, hence the name "Nightmare"!

On average, two ordinary people can fight off one nightmare beast, and they can also take on three or five ordinary monsters. How powerful is that?

Meng Chao didn't think the Pioneers would hide their strength.

If they had the strength to kill so many monsters when they left Dragon City, they could go to the relevant departments for approval and obtain a legal land reclamation permit.

So, after coming to the wilderness, your combat effectiveness suddenly became stronger?

How can it be!

Meng Chao continued to explore and finally found a blood-stained gap on one side of the stronghold.

Hundreds of corpses were piled up here, which seemed to be the main direction of the monster's attack. After breaking through the gap, they were attacked head-on by humans and driven out. The two sides fought fiercely, resulting in numerous casualties.

Meng Chao stepped into the pool of blood and inspected every human corpse.

It was found that while dehydrated to varying degrees, some corpses still retained extremely high temperatures, and their internal organs also showed signs of slight carbonization.

It's like the human body spontaneously ignites and the blood evaporates, leading to dehydration and death from exhaustion.

After entering the stronghold, a new human corpse caught his attention.

This human also died of dehydration, like a black, dead tree.

But his right arm was deformed and swollen, and its surface was covered with sharp, raised scales, as if dozens of daggers were stuck in it. It didn't look like a human arm in any way.

"What's going on?"

Meng Chao knew that after an extraordinary person enters the realm of "two-star spiritual transformation", some limbs and organs will undergo slight mutations under the stimulation of spiritual energy, taking on the characteristics of crystallization.

But this kind of "atavism"-like mutation does not look like the normal changes of extraordinary beings.

Moreover, there shouldn't be so many two-star spirit realm-transformers in this stronghold.

At this moment, Meng Chao heard a groan.

With his eyebrows raised high, he rushed over like an arrow.

Behind a heavy machine gun, he found a pioneer with his arms stretched out.

Although his limbs were withered and his face was as haggard as a skull covered with skin, the heart of this pioneer was still beating weakly in his bony chest. He was not dead yet!

Meng Chao breathed a sigh of relief and gestured to the Longya commandos who caught up later to check the survivor's condition and inject him with medical drugs and high-energy nutrients.

After that, they discovered three dying pioneers one after another.

They all described themselves as haggard, mentally exhausted, and unable to utter even a single word.

One of them's right arm had been burned to coke.

The entire right arm of the other person showed horny features, as if it had turned into a broad and sharp bone blade like the sickle of death.

However, when the Dragon Teeth commandos injected him with high-energy nutrients and stabilized his condition slightly, the bone blade slowly softened and regained the elasticity that flesh and blood should have.

"What happened in the stronghold? How did you end up like this?" Meng Chao asked with a frown.

Retrieving the memory fragments, at least in this period of his previous life, he had not seen similar phenomena.

Although the physiological parameters of the survivors were stable, their spirits were strongly stimulated, as if they were still immersed in a terrifying nightmare. They turned a deaf ear to Meng Chao's questions and just kept chanting: "God...changes..."

Meng Chao and Director Jiang looked at each other, neither of them understanding what the survivor was talking about.

At this time, the Longya commandos found a female survivor from a data cabinet in the deepest part of the stronghold.

Her hair was disheveled, her face was pale, and there was only deep fear in her eyes.

Even if he is rescued by fellow human beings, he will only scream and even scratch randomly. He cannot explain the whole process of the fierce battle, as well as the secret of spontaneous combustion of the human body and the transformation of humans into monsters.

However, she always held a metal tube tightly in her arms, like a secret weapon that could bring infinite security.

For her safety, the Longya commandos could only inject her with sedatives and let her fall into a deep sleep.

After counting, a total of seventy-two human corpses were found.

There are still five survivors, oh, plus the extraordinary person who mutated into an ape-man, there are six survivors.

The survivors were either overdrawn or too panicked to say anything.

Fortunately, the surveillance and computer systems in the stronghold were not damaged.

Director Jiang used the female survivor's iris and fingerprint information to open the computer and call up the surveillance footage from a moment ago.

Combining dozens of surveillance images from different locations and angles, it can be clearly seen that the monster launched the attack two hours ago.

It was almost the time when the tyrant Mammoth led the beast tide and raided the forward base built by Tenglong.

It seems that these blood moon demon wolves and ghost leopards have also evolved cunning wisdom and know how to take advantage of opportunities when humans are overwhelmed and unable to rescue.

The pioneers in the stronghold were naturally panicked.

Many people are like ants on a hot pot.

Some people were beating their chests and lamenting how bad their luck was, and not long after setting up camp in the depths of the wilderness, they were attacked by monsters.

Of course, after realizing that panicking and wailing would not solve the problem, these tough Longcheng people quickly plucked up the courage and armed themselves to the teeth.

Unfortunately, this monster raid gathered all the Blood Moon Demon Wolves and Ghost Leopards that had been driven into the jungle by the Tyrant Mammoth.

The automated machine gun towers and power grids outside the stronghold were quickly torn to pieces by the monsters and smashed into pieces.

Seeing that there was a heavy "bang" sound coming from the metal shell of the stronghold, the door was trembling and might be knocked open by a monster at any time.

The people in the stronghold all turned pale and lost their minds.

"Use, use 'that'?" someone suggested stammering.

"You're crazy!"

Someone else refuted, "That thing has no production license at all. It has very strong side effects. If you really eat it, you will only have half a life left!"

"boom!"

There was another deafening crash from outside. Through the surveillance camera installed on the wall, we could see that it was a Blood Moon Wolf King the size of a rhinoceros, launching a battering ram-like impact at the gate.

The lights in the stronghold suddenly flickered.

For three full seconds, all the pioneers were plunged into darkness.

After the emergency lights glowed red, they immediately made a decision: "Quick, take the 'Magic Transformation Capsule'!"

Then, Meng Chao saw on the screen that the girl found in the cabinet walked out, carefully unscrewed the metal tube, and took out from it a number of crystal clear, grape-sized, green beads that exuded an enchanting brilliance.

"One for ordinary people, two for one-star extraordinary people. Brother Liao, you have three, just bite them open and swallow them."

A young man who had shaved off all the hair on both sides of his head except for a bunch of hair rising up in the middle helped the girl distribute the beads.

Everyone except the girl swallowed a small bead. Among them, three extraordinary people with particularly exaggerated weapons swallowed two to three beads each.

The girl repackaged the remaining beads, tightened the lid of the metal tube, and was about to swallow her own beads.

Those pioneers who bit into the beads and swallowed the medicinal liquid inside had undergone astonishing changes.

"Whirring whirring!"

"Ouch!"

"Ho ho ho ho!"

Their eyes suddenly widened, and the eyeballs seemed to pop out of their sockets. Dozens of thick blood vessels protruded from around the eye sockets, making the eye sockets appear to be sunken deeper and deeper.

Everyone was sweating profusely and their muscles were twitching, as if they had completed a five-kilometer sprint in just ten seconds. The sweat turned into curls of white smoke at a speed visible to the naked eye, lingering around them, making them look extremely mysterious.

And ferocious.

Many people's muscles expanded wildly, cracking the seams of their combat uniforms one by one. The skin could not keep up with the growth rate of flesh and blood, and bright red scars were torn.

Some people even had sharp bone spurs growing out of their limbs and backs, like monsters wearing thorn armor.

Some people's arms even mutated into bone blades like death's scythes, or bone tumors like meteor hammers, while others grew hard scales and thick hair, like humanoid monsters.

"Huh, the Divine Transformation Capsule is indeed effective. It feels more than ten times more powerful!"

"A monster is coming? Haha, we are the real monsters!"

"Kill, I will kill all these monsters and tear them into pieces, leaving no one behind!"

The survivors, who were beyond recognition, were grinning and roaring.

Ordinary people who swallowed a "magic capsule" became so bloodthirsty, not to mention the three extraordinary ones.

One of them was surrounded by magnificent flames, and two small fireballs were always spinning around him like satellites.

The other person's skin glowed with a dark metallic luster, as if he had turned into a statue made of steel.

The "Brother Liao" who swallowed three magic capsules turned into what Meng Chao and others had just discovered, an ape-like monster nearly two meters tall.

"I feel my power..."

"Brother Liao" turned into an ape-man, with his bloody mouth split open to the base of his ears, and said hoarsely, "We are about to break through the realm!"

"call"!

He punched randomly and threw out the afterimage of his arm, making a sonic boom-like explosion, which startled the girl holding the metal tube. The magic capsule in his hand fell to the ground and rolled to the ground.

In the corner, under a cabinet.

The girl crawled to the corner and was about to lie down to pick it up. There was a "boom" and the gate of the stronghold had been breached by the herd of beasts.

"kill!"

The pioneers who transformed into humanoid ferocious beasts were extremely excited, howling and rushing towards the beasts.
Chapter completed!