Chapter 423: Changes


    As they neared the summit, the protagonist David said with a hint of concern:


    “Mr. Nichs, it appears that a foreign army has stationed at the top of the mountain.


    If they are still alive, perhaps they could airlift us out of the fog area with a military helicopter.”


    “There’s hardly any chance… The reason is simple. If the troops stationed at the top of the mountain were alive, they should havee to rescue the town.


    Moreover, ‘rescue’ has already been carried out once, which was the ‘Octopus Soldiers’ incidentst time.


    The reason I asked everyone to go up the mountain is simply to cross this mountain and move ind… By the way, if the army stationed here left any weapons or equipment, we could arm ourselves fully, and have the basic ability to fight monsters.


    If we encounter ‘Octopus Soldiers’ again on our way, we should find a way to kill them and seize the military equipment.”


    “Hmm.”


    There seemed to be no w in Han Dong’s exnation.


    Moreover, the equipment left behind by the army is bound to be hundreds of times better than the four small guns now held by the townsfolk.


    If they can truly raid the army’s arsenal and arm the entire vehicle, they will have the trump card to<div>


    fight against the monsters.


    ……


    When they were about three hundred meters away from the top of the mountain…


    Suddenly, the school bus mmed on its brakes.


    A soldier in camouge uniform blocked the bus with his arm raised.


    “Sir, we are residents of Rhine Town, hoping that the military can provide us with a sanctuary…” The old driver Daniel was attempting to have a friendly conversation with the soldier outside the window.


    “Let me get on the bus for a basic check, if there’s no problem I’ll lead you up the mountain.”


    “Alright!”


    Daniel immediately opens the door and lets the soldier aboard.


    However, the soldier, wearing a respirator mask, had barely stepped onto the bus.


    Swish!


    A homemade steel arrow urately pierced through the soldier’s wrist, separating his hands from the weapon.


    Without giving the soldier time to react.


    The protagonist David, holding his axe tightly, made a direct horizontal sh at his head…


    Han Dong silently watched the scene, and muttered under his breath:


    “Just as expected, under the circumstances of increased overall difficulty, these townsfolk have also been enhanced.


    All kinds ofbat skills are greatly improved; with a single axe, they can directly behead, which they now do at the level of executioners… However, they are still not enough to deal with real monsters.”


    Thump!


    Despite his head falling off, the soldier didn’t fall.<div>


    Squeak, squeak…


    A tentacle with a spherical tip quickly grew out of the wound in his neck, simr to an ‘antenna’ structure, intending to broadcast the sudden emergency situation here.


    At the critical moment.


    Han Dong stepped forward, quickly inserted the petrol bottle he had prepared into its neck!<div>


    He stuffed the emerging tentacle back into the body, and lit the petrol at the same time…


    At the same time kicked the ming Octopus Soldier off the bus.


    If it was before, this would have done the trick, the mes would have burned the soldier to ashes… But now the difficulty has increased, the soldier was not dead even under the coverage of the mes, aiming his automatic rifle at Han Dong.


    Suddenly… Whoosh!


    A pink tentacle attacked from the back of the bus, instantly coiling around the soldier’s body, crushing him alive through the squeezing of the tentacle.


    Then, the pink tentacle retreated back to Nicole who was seated in the back seat.


    “Thank you.”


    In fact, even if Nicole hadn’t intervened.


    Duo Zeya had been hovering around the soldier, ready to pierce his core with her sharp beak at any time.


    “They don’t die even if their heads are chopped off and they’re burned… How can we fight them!?”


    For a moment, the townsfolk’s courage began to waver.


    Just then.


    Han Dong extinguished the mes, took off the undamaged bulletproof vest and some equipment, and a brand new automatic rifle, and handed them to the protagonist David.<div>


    “With each variant we kill, one of us can be fully armed.


    In subsequent battles, you guys just shoot at a distance and hold off these variant soldiers.


    Nicole and I will deal with the soldier hosts up close.


    If we run away now, we won’t have any equipment to fight against the monsters in the mist, and will certainly die if we encounter any danger.”


    With the fine equipment he received, David’s confidence also grew and he immediately echoed Han Dong.


    “Yes! Maybe in the armory, we can get some grenades, rocketunchers, or some high-tech equipment… If we can arm ourselves, our chances of escaping from the mist will be greater.”


    Seeing this, Han Dong showed a dark smile, returned to his seat, and sat with Nicole.


    ……


    The school bus stopped in a grove by the roadside about 200 meters from the mountain top.


    The remaining journey was to be made on foot to improve concealment.


    “Is this… an army camp?”


    As they approached the top of the mountain, a dark steel wall stood in front of them, with a total height of 20 meters.


    It waspletely different from the army camp they remembered, and looked more like some special armed organization.<div>


    “Everyone, replenish some water and energy, we might need to stay inside for a while.”


    Han Dong handed two buckets of mountain spring water and high-energy food that he had prepared in the supermarket to the townsfolk.


    Nicole looked at the two buckets of water, and she vaguely saw that there seemed to be some peculiar substance injected into the spring water…


    Of course, all this was Han Dong’s secret operation, Nicole just quietly watched and didn’t say anything.


    Glug, glug!


    Everyone was drinking water to relieve their inner stress, and had no suspicion that there was anything wrong with the mountain spring water.


    “Nicole, let’s go…”


    While everyone was replenishing energy and drinking water, Han Dong led Nicole away quietly into the woods… keeping a distance of more than 100 meters from the townsfolk.


    Before long.


    The townsfolk, who were eating, were captured by the surveince probes set up inside the ck wall.


    More than thirty fully armed soldiers appeared at the top of the high wall.


    “What… what’s going on!?”


    For a moment, the townsfolk were in chaos, having no idea how to respond.<div>


    But they didn’t have any time to react.


    The moment the soldiers appeared, bullets were fired!


    The thirty automatic rifles fired urate shots simultaneously, and the townsfolk standing in the open area were just live targets.


    Bullets pierced through everyone’s lethal points, and the grass in the woods waspletely dyed red.


    But…


    Han Dong, who was hiding in the woods a hundred meters away, silently watched all of this, and even showed a satisfied smile… because he did not receive any system prompts about the death of any important characters.


    About three minutes passed.


    The bullets shot into the townsfolk’s bodies were being squeezed out of the wounds by the rapidly proliferating tissues.


    Their bodies began to undergo all kinds of unpredictable changes.


    Massive tumors,


    Eye tissue,


    Sharp ws or spike structures,


    all were undergoing mad mutations under the inducement of the G virus… The mountain spring water that Han Dong and Nicole brought back had been injected with G virus serum.


    Among them, the mutation of the protagonist David was surprisingly within the ‘controble range’, and he continued to lead the townsfolk… The protagonist’s halo was having a strong effect.


    Whates next will be a direct sh between ‘Biohazard’ and ‘Mist’.


    The action of the Second Phase – the Cult began.