Chapter 65 In Utter Disarray

Mu Chen's heart sank. Through [Wall Vision], the situation inside the building was shocking. There were at least a dozen households in the apartment building, and the points of light representing life reactions were all glowing at this moment. However, the colors and shapes of many of those lights had already been distorted, looking no different from Wang Ermazi after his mutation—filled with manic chaos.

"Damn it, what the hell did Pan Guang and that bunch of scumbags spread downstairs?!" Mu Chen cursed in a low voice.

Hearing the commotion outside, Doctor Li spoke with a trembling voice, "Could it be... could it be that they mixed that moss and radioactive material in some way and used it on people as some kind of 'enhancement potion'?" The more she thought about it, the more terrified she became, shivering uncontrollably. "That's not enhancement! That's a death warrant! That's turning people into monsters!"

Chen Si leaned against the sofa, lacking color in her face. She looked at Mu Chen and asked, "Should we open the door? The people outside..."

"I'll go take a look." Mu Chen said, walking toward the door and giving Chen Jiahe a look.

Chen Jiahe understood immediately. Together with Xie Youyou, they dragged Liu San, who had been frightened paralyzed, into a corner and bound him haphazardly with a rope. Big Mouth also struggled to its feet, emitting a low, threatening growl from its throat, and stood guard next to Chen Si.

Mu Chen pressed his ear against the cold door panel, and the crying and shouting outside became clearer. "...Help! They've all gone mad! They've all turned into monsters! Only I... I'm still conscious! I'm begging you!"

"Is that you?" Mu Chen recognized the voice as belonging to Xiao Mu.

Hearing Mu Chen's voice from outside, Xiao Mu clutched at it like a drowning man grasping a driftwood. "Master Mu! It's you! Master Mu! Have mercy, save my life! I know I was wrong! I'll never dare do it again! Outside... outside is too terrifying!"

Mu Chen pulled the door open a crack, his gaze sweeping over Xiao Mu with icy coldness.

Xiao Mu was in an utterly pathetic state. His clothes were torn to shreds, his face and arms covered in bloody gashes and filth, and one leg seemed to be injured as he cowered in terror outside the door. Seeing Mu Chen, he dropped to his knees with a heavy thud.

"Master Mu! Spare me! Downstairs... downstairs is in complete chaos! That newcomer 'Scarface Qiang', he... he doesn't know where he got a batch of 'immortal water', claiming it can strengthen the physique and make one immune to all diseases! A lot of people drank it! But as a result... as a result, they all turned into monsters! They bite everyone they see! Master Mu, I'm quick-witted, I didn't drink it, and I ran fast..." Xiao Mu rambled incoherently, snot and tears smearing all over his face.

"Immortal water?" Mu Chen's brows furrowed tightly. "Scarface Qiang?"

"Yeah! He's the new boss who popped up after Pan Guang died! He brought a bunch of people and took control of the lower floors! That 'immortal water' was distributed by him!" Xiao Mu nodded repeatedly, his head bobbing like a pounding pestle.

Before his voice faded, several heavy, stumbling footsteps mixed with beast-like roars were rapidly approaching from down the stairwell!

"They... they're catching up!" Terrified out of his wits, Xiao Mu tried to squeeze into the doorway using both hands and feet. "Master Mu! Save me!"

Mu Chen pulled the door completely open in one swift motion and stepped back a pace.

At the stair landing, three figures swayed into view.

They were three "monsters" that no longer looked human at all. Their skin was dark blue and bruised, their muscles knotted, their eyeballs bulging and laced with bloodshot veins. Saliva drooped from the corners of their mouths, and low, rattling growls came from their throats—they were precisely the residents from downstairs who had drunk the "immortal water".

The moment they spotted Xiao Mu at the doorway and Mu Chen and the others inside the room, their ferocity flared even higher, and they lunged forward with roars!

"Ah—!" Xiao Mu shrieked, scrambling on all fours to hide behind Mu Chen.

"Big Mouth!" Mu Chen shouted in a low voice.

"Awooh!" Big Mouth let out a roar. Dragging its injured hind leg, it lunged fiercely at the foremost monster, sinking its teeth straight into its arm.

"Crack!"

The sound of snapping bones was clearly audible. A section of the monster's arm was actually bitten clean off by Big Mouth, spraying a thick black liquid. Yet the monster felt no pain at all, instead viciously clawing at Big Mouth's head with its other hand.

"Courting death!" Mu Chen's figure moved as fast as lightning, his mountain-cleaving saber drawing a cold arc as he slashed horizontally.

"Splat!"

Where the blade passed, the head of the leading monster flew off its shoulders on cue, black liquid splashing all over Xiao Mu's head and face.

Xiao Mu was scared paralyzed on the spot by this bloody scene, and the crotch of his pants rapidly soaked through with a large patch of wetness.

The other two monsters had already charged to close quarters.

Chen Jiahe reacted extremely quickly, thrusting his dagger forward with piercing speed, aiming straight for the eyes of the monster on the left.

"Thwack!" The dagger buried itself entirely into the eye socket, and the monster let out a painful roar, its momentum slowing slightly.

Mu Chen reversed his blade and slashed, carving a huge gash across the chest of the monster on the right.

"Roar!"

Although injured, the monsters lost none of their ferocity, continuing their frantic attacks.

Looking at the black liquid flowing from the bodies of those monsters and then at the corpse of Wang Ermazi on the floor, Doctor Li suddenly remembered something and shouted anxiously, "Be careful! Their blood! Their blood is highly radioactive and infectious! Make sure not to let it touch any wounds!"

Xie Youyou screamed and retreated step by step, wildly slashing the fruit knife in her hand, not daring to get close at all.

Chen Si struggled to her feet to help, but was hit by a wave of dizziness and tumbled back down onto the sofa.

"Brother Mu Chen! There are too many!" While parrying the monster's sharp claws, Chen Jiahe shouted anxiously. New roars echoed from downstairs, growing closer and closer!

Down the stairwell, dark figures loomed as more monsters rushed up, roaring!

"Damn it, this is never-ending!" Mu Chen kicked a lunging monster hard, sending it flying backward and knocking over several others behind it, yet monsters continued to pour out of the stairwell endlessly.

Slumped on the ground, Xiao Mu looked at the dense mass of surging monsters, completely breaking down as he wailed aloud, "It's over... We're all going to die here... It's all over!"

Mu Chen gave him a cold glance and said nothing.

"Roar—!" A monster roared as it darted out from the stairwell, targeting none other than the limp Xiao Mu on the floor.

"Ah! Don't come over! Don't come over!" Terrified out of his wits, Xiao Mu scrambled backward on his hands and knees.

"Useless trash! You're in the way!" Instead of retreating, Mu Chen advanced. The mountain-cleaving saber in his hand moved at ultimate speed, whistling through the air as it chopped down from the top of the monster's head, driving straight into its neck!

"Splat!"

Black blood shot into the sky.

Without pausing his movements for even a fraction of a second, Mu Chen used the momentum of the chop to spin his body, smoothly sweeping the mountain-cleaving saber in a horizontal slash that cut another monster lunging at Chen Jiahe straight in half at the waist!

"Jiahe, take them and retreat toward the bedroom! Quick!" Mu Chen's voice carried unquestionable command. The mountain-cleaving saber transformed into a sheet of cold light in his hands, every strike fast, accurate, and vicious, forcing back all the monsters attempting to break through the defense line.

Big Mouth had also completely gone berserk. Dragging its injured leg with undiminished ferocity, it clamped its jaws tightly around a monster's throat and shook its head violently, tearing the neck wide open!

Chen Jiahe grabbed the still-stunned Xie Youyou, glanced at the weak Chen Si on the sofa and the pale-faced Doctor Li beside her, and barked, "Follow me, all of you!"

The group quickly retreated to the narrow hallway leading to the bedroom—a spot indeed much more advantageous for defense.