The Chef Rules the Last Days

80: Chapter 78: Evolution Species 80: Chapter 78: Evolution Species “The particles in this rain are the virus!”
Realizing this, Su Mo quickly looked at her hands, which, aside from some black specks caused by splashes, were fine.

Lu Chen also got splashed, but he was fine and even leveled up—could it be because of the system and superpowers, they had immunity?

Then what about the ordinary people…

She took out a cup filled with Longjing Tea from her System Bag and drank a large gulp.

[Light as a Feather status bonus successful, duration 48 hours]
“Su Niang, stay inside, lock the door, and don’t open it for anyone unless it’s Lu Chen and the others waking up!”
She threw the bottle into her System Bag, sternly instructed Su Niang, and then slammed the window shut before running out.

Su Niang’s heart leapt with worry: “Be careful, girl!”
The door shut, and she anxiously watched over Lu Chen and the others.

Moans of despair and monstrous roars occasionally echoed through the corridor.

She moved a table to the door for blockage, clasping her hands in front of her chest, ceaselessly praying.

Outside was in complete chaos.

As soon as Su Mo stepped out, she drew her knife and shouted loudly, “The rainwater has the virus!

Lock your doors, don’t come out!”.

She rushed to the staircase, many people panicked and sprinted up from downstairs, Su Mo encountered the first being who had directly transformed from an ordinary person into a Level 2 Zombie, an Evolution Species.

It was a woman who had evolved, squatting on the landing of the staircase.

Her skin was peeling off in large amounts and her sparse, dry hair stuck to her scalp with mucous.

Her spine, where human vertebrae would normally be, was completely protruded.

Her eyes, white and devoid of pupils, rapidly moved in different directions while her sharp fangs easily tore apart the arm of a human caught on the floor, splashing blood all over the wall as it greedily chewed the fresh flesh.

The chaos downstairs had intensified, and a man running upstairs was immediately marked as a target by the evolved species.

Dropping the flesh in its hand, the creature powered its thighs and sprang from the platform, landing on the man’s back—a leap two meters high at an astonishing speed.

It didn’t even give Su Mo time to react before it bit through the man’s neck.

It was too fast!

Su Mo was terrified.

She gripped the knife tightly and pulled out a handgun from the system, ‘bang bang bang’, firing several shots in succession.

The evolved species, with its back arched, used the person underneath it as a springboard to leap up and dodge the bullets, then swiftly climbed onto the wall.

Using its powerful jumping ability, it lunged at Su Mo.

Startled, Su Mo immediately clung to the second-floor handrail, sliding down along the stair railing and landing on the platform.

She tumbled to the ground and, rolling over, shot twice at the evolved species, successfully hitting its head with a preemptive shot.

The monster screamed and plummeted from the air, dead for good.

She stowed the gun, grasped the knife, and swiftly ran down to the first floor.

Another zombie lunged at her head-on.

She immediately jumped up on the spot, leveraging the Light as a Feather skill modification to leap two meters high.

As she swiftly fell, she sliced off its head with her knife.

Many people, panicked by the rain, screamed miserably as they rolled and crawled into the dormitory building.

Ai Yang sensed something was amiss and led his group down from the third floor immediately.

“What’s happened!

Mo Yan is motionless in his room,” he said anxiously to Su Mo, avoiding the running crowd.

Chu Mengyao and Zhao Xiweng, possessing no combat power, had been left in Mo Yan’s room by him.

“Don’t disturb him; he’s evolving.

The rain contains a virus, but superpower users are okay.

Don’t let ordinary people go outside, or they will mutate,” she shouted loudly.

It was still too late.

Those who had run back in the rain all collapsed on the ground, convulsing, their outer skin peeling off, exposing the disgusting subcutaneous tissue beneath.

The most prominent feature was the spinal bones that began to protrude one after the other on their backs.

“Stay away from the injured, go into your rooms and do not come out!” she warned the crowd while approaching those who were mutating.

The few lying on the ground cried out in agony, their eyes rapidly whitening.

“Sorry,” Su Mo said softly, raising her knife high and bringing it down on those people before they could emit monstrous roars.

She couldn’t conquer the multitude; she simply couldn’t help that many people.

Those she couldn’t dispatch in time had already evolved into Level 2 zombies, springing up from the ground in bizarre, twisted poses, their bodies covered in purple-brown patterns, running at terrifying speeds.

There were too many people; sometimes she couldn’t even tell whether the ones brushing past her were zombies or ordinary people.

“Damn it!” she chopped off the head of a zombie lunging at her and yelled at Ai Yang, “What are you doing just standing there?

Help, they’ve evolved too!”
Ai Yang finally snapped out of it and hurriedly ordered his companions to pair up, back to back, and start clearing out the zombies.

She didn’t have the energy to spare to help; she just did her best to help ordinary people avoid them.

But the zombies kept increasing, and she dared not even imagine the situation at the cells.

Old Shen Du, who had been hung inside by Zhao Changsheng, had been eaten until only a segment of his lower leg hung from the fan.

What they didn’t know was that the two cows in the cowshed that had been soaked in the virus-laden rain had knocked down the high electric fence of the prison, and a zombie, too fast to capture a trace of, had darted in.

The noise outside was too loud; Zhuang Mei, drowsy, opened the door and was shocked by the sight in the hallway, as someone rushed in and fell to the ground, convulsing.

She screamed as she hit the wall; she understood this was a sign of mutation, but the chaos outside left her with no good options.

Su Mo faintly heard someone calling her, and as she turned her head, she saw Zhuang Mei standing at her own room doorway, waving at her.

She was just about to warn her to go back when, within just a few seconds, she saw a zombie from the Evolution Species dart out of her room, pounce, and drag her back inside.

“No!” Su Mo screamed, dashing forward with her knife raised.

Inside the room, the evolution species didn’t even give Zhuang Mei a chance to fight back; its sharp claws tore open her swollen belly, and it buried its head inside.

“No…

not my child,” Zhuang Mei lay on the ground as blood flowed out beneath her, her eyes filled with despair.

Su Mo had just reached the door, her hand trembling with the knife, when in such a short time, Zhuang Mei choked on her own blood, desperately trying to smack at the head on her abdomen.

“How can this be, how can it be like this!” Tears filled Su Mo’s eyes, whether from sorrow for Zhuang Mei or for this tragic world.

She leapt up from the doorway, her knife slicing off the head of the zombie with all the hatred she could muster.

She knelt beside Zhuang Mei’s corpse, set down the knife, and pulled apart the zombie’s body, tremblingly reaching into her belly to pull out the child.

It was a boy, very small, his neck barely connected by a thin layer of skin.

She caressed the child’s unblemished face, her heart heavy with grief.

You should not have come into this sinful world, Su Mo silently watched him for a while, sniffing, then suddenly re-opened Zhuang Mei’s belly and carefully placed him back inside…