Laboratory

Deep in the night, a strong wind blew through the heart of A City.

A bizarre girl with crimson eyes stood atop a skyscraper.

She wore a somewhat loose white shirt, its collar slightly open, hinting at the curves of her budding figure.

“Hoo…”

Looking down from the edge of the skyscraper, she felt a strange sense of weightlessness.

The girl took a deep breath and gazed into the distance, her body gradually leaning forward.

She opened her arms, as if embracing the abyss, and plunged into the pitch-black city below.

Suddenly, in mid-air, something unexpected happened!

“Creak… creak… click…!”

A bizarre cracking sound erupted from the lithe body of the girl as she fell rapidly through the air!

Pure black, menacing scales eerily began to emerge from all over her exposed skin!

At first, only her existing wounds could be seen… but in less than two seconds, the girl’s clothes were heard tearing apart under the strain!

With a ripping sound!

The girl actually tore the clothes on her body to shreds!

During the high-speed descent, it was impossible to make out what the girl now looked like.

Only a pure black shadow and two streaks of blood-red light could be seen, plunging from the top of the skyscraper toward the ground like a meteor…

“Roar! Roar!”

Here, two or three kilometers away from the hotel, the neurotoxins had not reached.

Some zombies, hearing the sound of the wind being torn apart, looked up and saw the girl plummeting downwards, opening their bloody mouths and waving their terrifying claws.

“Boom!”

When the girl crashed heavily to the ground, the earth instantly fractured.

Sand and stones flew in all directions, blasting several zombies into sieves in an instant!

As the dust slowly settled, the girl’s appearance could barely be made out in the darkness.

Scarlet blood light pierced through the thin dust.

At this moment, her body was covered in dark-black scales, bearing faint patterns of scaly texture.

Her slender arms and smooth jade legs were now covered in bizarre armor that carried an aura of sharpness…

…Reflecting light from an unknown source in a vague way.

And the girl’s head seemed to be wearing an expensive and rare dark-black helmet.

Although her small face was hidden by the black scales, only a pair of scarlet pupils remained, radiating bewitching light.

Most unbelievably, her feet and palms had been transformed into something that could only belong to another creature…

Claws!

From a distance, she looked like a hybrid of human and dragon from a Western fantasy world.

Feeling the power within her body, Ping Chengcheng laughed with abandon.

The laughter echoed in the dark night, reverberating among the city’s tall buildings…

The red light focused, and the girl’s legs suddenly burst with power.

She transformed into an arrow shot from a bowstring, piercing through the darkness with a streak of blood-red light, heading straight forward in one direction!

On the way, she once again encountered a lone Tyrant.

Only this time, the girl dealt with it even more decisively.

The Tyrant’s tall figure stood in the center of the road, slowly moving in a certain direction.

It had just sensed something approaching, and was about to roar and turn its head…

The next instant!

A cold light flashed, and the Tyrant’s massive head fell to the ground, green blood gushing from its severed neck!

It actually shot up dozens of meters into the air!

By the time the blood rained down from the sky, the girl’s figure had long since disappeared.

As she advanced, Ping Chengcheng estimated that her current strength should have reached around the mid-tier level of Variants.

She could casually kill any of the weaker Variants she encountered.

But there was still nothing Ping Chengcheng could do about those extremely top-tier guys…

No one knew where those few Variants came from.

It was as if they had appeared out of thin air.

Suddenly, one day, they would show up in a certain location, already in their strongest form.

Some were fortunate enough to have witnessed a Variant from Sequence 1.

The world called it the “Nightmare Demon,” which was a dark black monster that was three or four hundred meters long, fifty or sixty meters high, and crawled on the ground.

Not only did it move extremely fast, but its defense was also thick and tough!

It first appeared in a coastal city in Xia Country, climbing onto the land and wreaking havoc!

Once, it attacked a base city in the inland region.

That was the base where Ping Chengcheng was, and at that time, she was a member of the city’s defense force.

It was then that she truly realized the horror of the top-tier Variants!

At that time, the base city’s missiles were exhausted, and they had only managed to inflict some damage on it.

If they hadn’t requested help from a nearby base and successfully waited for reinforcements, the base city would have already been destroyed.

That was in the first year and six months of the apocalypse.

As increasingly powerful Variants and zombies emerged from the second year onwards, humans had no choice but to continue to band together.

Afterwards, many bases had to merge in order to survive, forming alliances.

Of course, there was only one base that was an exception.

That was A City Base.

This has always been a base shrouded in mystery.

What was it that allowed it to stand alone until the third year of the apocalypse?

Even in her past life, Ping Chengcheng had never heard of anything happening to A City.

A City Base had always been quite mysterious.

Some bases had sent helicopters to seek an alliance, but they were turned away.

Ping Chengcheng frowned and rapidly ran towards the direction in her memory.

If anyone was nearby, they would only feel a gust of wind blowing past them in the darkness.

The secrets of A City also seemed to be numerous.

The reason for A City Base’s strength, as well as that laboratory… was there any connection between them?

Ten minutes later, Ping Chengcheng stopped and looked around.

It was still the same as it had been back then.

There were still the corpses of zombies she had casually killed when she encountered the Sabretooth on the ground.

Only now, they had all been reduced to wreckage.

The surrounding zombies pounced on her like madmen.

Suddenly, a bloody hole exploded on Ping Chengcheng’s scale-covered back.

Brown tentacles casually blasted apart the heads of all the zombies that came to harass the girl!

Following the direction in her memory, the girl continued until she reached the sewer entrance.

A grid-like sealed cover blocked the entrance.

Ping Chengcheng was about to smash it with a punch, but suddenly saw a security camera in the upper-right corner of the sewer entrance.

A security camera!?

In that instant, the girl’s pupils contracted violently.

A tentacle, as if by conditioned reflex, instantly slapped it to the ground.

Could it be that there are still people inside?!

…She should have thought of it earlier!

How could there be no one…

It’s just that Ping Chengcheng remembered that the last time she escaped from here, there weren’t any cameras…

Did they guess that she would come back again?

How could that be!

This…

For a moment, the girl felt like retreating.

She quietly took a step back.

It was this one step that caused a man’s voice to suddenly come from the security camera on the ground.

“As expected, my teacher’s prediction was correct… You really can transform into a human.”

“I’ve been discovered?”

Ping Chengcheng didn’t listen to him and turned to leave.

The man let out a slightly tired laugh.

“Are you sure you want to leave?”

“Believe me, even if you leave, you will still come back sooner or later……”