The control room door slowly opened, and it too was filled with black mist. Four terminator power armor suits slowly emerged from within, their steps heavy.
Fang Xinglong and Jiang Si Yuan's subordinates immediately prepared for battle; in their eyes, this was Zhu Wenyao's good opportunity to deal with them.
"Stop fighting, all of you. You're fighting each other to the death here, only to benefit someone else in the end." Zhu Wenyao walked out of the control room, leaning on a cane. She was wearing a sealed protective suit, as were several soldiers by her side. However, judging by the blood on their bodies and the chunks of flesh sliding off the terminator power armor onto the ground, they had just fought the Mutants around them.
Fang Xinglong snorted coldly after seeing Zhu Wenyao's appearance, then said, "President Zhu is truly ruthless. To keep us from having an easy time, she chose to spread the virus in Huaicheng District. Now, I'm afraid there aren't many living people left in the entire base. Besides the population of our five factions, there were nearly forty thousand ordinary survivors in the entire Huaicheng District. By now, they've probably all mutated into zombie Mutants."
Zhu Wenyao said nothing, only looked at Fang Xinglong and Jiang Si Yuan before saying, "Victory and defeat are but a moment. Even if I die by your hands in the end, I would never do such a thing. Rather, have you two not noticed where Tian Jia has gone?"
The Hongwen Gang, led by Tian Jia, was one of the five major forces in Huaicheng District, yet its presence was extremely low. Even their leader, Tian Jia, was usually unremarkable. Whenever major decisions needed to be made in Huaicheng District, Tian Jia was always the one to follow the crowd. Therefore, before the rebellion started, Zhu Wenyao and Jiang Si Yuan were both trying hard to win over Tian Jia. The reason Zhu Wenyao had such high confidence before was because Tian Jia had already agreed to ally with Zhu Hong Business Association, but she didn't expect Tian Jia to choose Jiang Si Yuan in the end.
Hearing Zhu Wenyao mention Tian Jia's name, Fang Xinglong and Jiang Si Yuan finally remembered this ally. After breaking into the underground base, Tian Jia had left on his own. Jiang Si Yuan had noticed the situation at the time, but since victory was already decided, he didn't bother with this temporary ally.
"I also didn't expect it to be like this. Tian Jia sent people to paralyze most of the base's defense systems; otherwise, how could you have gotten in so easily? And the smoke mixed with mutated bacteria was naturally also released by Tian Jia." After Zhu Wenyao finished speaking, she signaled her subordinates to show the two a segment of footage.
On the screen, after Tian Jia entered the underground base, he immediately led people away. His subordinates moved several iron barrels directly to the ventilation system's machine room in the base. After installing these iron barrels containing unknown liquid onto the ventilation system, the black mist mixed with the virus spread along the ventilation ducts. In just over ten minutes, it spread throughout the entire base and all the missile silos through the underground ventilation system.
Cold sweat instantly broke out on Jiang Si Yuan's forehead after watching the surveillance video. Before today's operation, he had seen Tian Jia directing Hongwen Gang members to transport these iron barrels. The number of these iron barrels was enormous. At the time, he had even asked Tian Jia what was in these barrels, and Tian Jia, uncharacteristically, told him it was fine wine he had prepared to reward the soldiers after successfully occupying Huai City. Now it seems Tian Jia had probably long intended to release this smoke in Huai City, and allying with them was merely to better release this smoke.
Huai City has now become a city of hell. Except for the lucky few who left Huai City at the beginning, most ordinary people have been infected by the black mist and mutated into zombie Mutants. Occasionally, some survivors managed to close doors and windows in time and block the gaps, or possessed protective suits and masks, but they still found it difficult to escape the slaughter of these Mutants. Most importantly, these Mutants still retained some intelligence. Mutants mutated from soldiers not only grew fangs, sharp claws, and bone spurs, but also still knew how to use weapons like laser guns and Bolters. Whether it was the buildings on the surface or the underground Refuge in the missile silos, they had all become slaughterhouses, with human limbs and flesh scattered everywhere. Even the combat robots deployed into the city by Feng Jun were forced to retreat to the city walls under the Mutants' attacks.
And Tian Jia, the culprit behind all this, had already left the underground base and was leisurely walking on the streets of Huai City's surface. However, unlike Jiang Si Yuan and Zhu Wenyao, Tian Jia was not wearing any protective equipment, just an ordinary jacket, as he walked through the mist-filled streets. And when those Mutants encountered Tian Jia, they not only didn't attack him, but instead actively gathered around him, seemingly protecting Tian Jia.
As for Tian Jia's original subordinates, they had long been infected and turned into Mutants from exposure to the black mist. However, even after becoming Mutants, these people were still controlled by Tian Jia, following closely behind him.
At this moment, the Mutants in the underground base and missile silos seemed to have received some kind of summons, surging onto the surface and gathering towards the center of Huai City. In the center of Huai City, there was a twenty-story building, which was the official government center of Huai City. In the past, whenever major events or incidents occurred, the five factions would elect a representative here to handle the matter. But now, this building was occupied by various Mutants.
These Mutants crowded into every floor and hallway of the building, jostling each other to get in. After filling every space between the floors and hallways, they continued to push inside, with some Mutants even clinging directly to the building's exterior walls.
As Tian Jia approached, these Mutants began to let out wails one after another. Countless infected Mutants lost their self-awareness, squeezed together, emitting horrifying wails. These sounds converged, forming a sinister and terrifying symphony, echoing through the deserted streets and abandoned buildings.
Then, an even more terrifying transformation began. In these densely packed zombie gathering places, their bodies began to undergo strange fusions. Skin, muscles, and blood intertwined, as if losing the boundaries of their original organisms. Their flesh flowed and mixed like melting wax, gradually forming massive lumps. These lumps of flesh continuously expanded, spreading out, filling and adhering to the building's spaces and walls, and the entire building began to transform into the shape of a hell of flesh and blood.