Chimera

At midnight, Ye Yin sat wearily at the desk in his hotel room, finishing his summary of the day’s activities, when there was a knock on the door.

“Team Leader Ye, the headquarters has the latest telegram.”

The dim light made him feel a bit drowsy.

Ye Yin grunted in acknowledgement, went to the door, and opened it.

A member of the intelligence team greeted him.

“Team Leader Ye, headquarters just sent a message saying that the Chimera Composite is moving south towards A City. They want us to avoid it as much as possible during this operation.”

Ye Yin nodded, “Why didn’t you go talk to the commander?”

The team member scratched his head awkwardly, “I wanted to, but I knocked on the door three times and the commander didn’t answer me. I guess she’s asleep.”

“Is that so?”

Ye Yin understood, but felt somewhat dissatisfied in his heart.

As the commander, this guy always seemed a bit incompetent.

Oh well, who can deny that she is really very capable?

Shaking his head, he admitted that he was not as good as Ping Chengcheng.

“Alright, I understand.”

Before setting off, the base had specifically contacted A City Base.

At the time, the message was that the Chimera Composite had been lured to the neighboring L City.

So why was it now…?

Oh well, the convoy would not be passing through the south of A City anyway, so there was no need to worry about that Chimera Composite.

He had heard that that strange thing would attract nearby zombies and then become very strong?

He didn’t quite understand why A City Base didn’t quickly take the opportunity to eliminate it now?

In the night, Song Ning traversed the buildings of the city, landing lightly on the roof of a school district building.

She gazed at a dilapidated high school in the distance.

Black cracks covered the earth.

The night in the apocalypse was very dark, so Song Ning activated biohazard mode and turned on night vision.

There were quite a few zombies nearby, and they were even strangely violent.

The young woman jumped down and quickly ran towards Ruolan High School.

She was very familiar with this road.

When she and Ping Yan walked home from school in A City, this was the road they always took.

Years ago, it was also on this road that she had sternly rejected Ping Yan’s confession.

Thinking of this, Song Ning suddenly recalled the song “Love Needs to be Honest.”

Those years, on summer nights, with a gentle breeze, Ping Yan would always hum it on the way home.

That time was very peaceful, and it was also a rare and precious time for Song Ning.

Song Ning’s family was traditional and strict, and their control over her was extremely harsh.

Whether it was doing more exercises or even getting beaten, Song Ning had long been accustomed to it.

What she found most difficult to accept was the verbal abuse from her family.

A long time ago, Song Ning always wanted to escape that family.

Slightly distracted, she slowed her hasty pace and walked slowly down this road.

The surrounding zombies swarmed towards her, but their heads were neatly severed by the bone knife that Song Ning carried with her.

She hummed that song, her mind was strangely peaceful.

This was a rare moment of relaxation for her recently.

Entering the teaching building, Song Ning soon arrived at the archives room.

“Class of 2022 student files…”

The young woman searched.

The school’s organization was good, and she found it quickly.

After opening it, she carefully looked through it page by page, her eyebrows furrowing more and more tightly.

Not only was there no girl named Ping Chengcheng, there wasn’t even anyone with the surname Ping in the Class of 2022!

As expected.

Ping Chengcheng was indeed lying to her.

So who exactly was she?

Song Ning recalled the people around her from childhood to adulthood.

But unfortunately, she didn’t find this person.

At this moment, Song Ning was almost certain that Ping Chengcheng – this little girl – had definitely not appeared around her before the apocalypse.

So what was her identity?

Suddenly, the young woman remembered a guess she had made by chance.

Could Ping Chengcheng be Ping Yan?

Her heart skipped a beat.

This seemed completely impossible, but now she felt that the possibility was quite high!

The more Song Ning thought about it, the greater she felt the possibility was, but how could such a thing happen in this world?

Ping Chengcheng was just a little girl, and her appearance was completely different from Ping Yan!

But for some reason, based on her intuition, she just felt that the girl was Ping Yan!

While the young woman was pondering, the earth suddenly trembled slightly, and some dust fell from the school archives room.
Song Ning was startled.

What was going on?

Were there any Special Infected nearby?

Could it be a Tyrant?

She wasn’t very afraid.

Instead, she walked to the window and observed the situation outside.

She hadn’t concealed her whereabouts much just now, and dozens of zombies had already gathered downstairs, roaring randomly.

In the night, a huge, blurry human silhouette in the distant, thin dust made Song Ning suddenly startled.

What… What was that!?

It moved slowly, making Song Ning afraid to make the slightest sound.

The heavy footsteps rumbled like thunder, chilling her to the bone, until its true face emerged from the dust…

The Chimera Composite!?!

She naturally knew about this type of zombie; it was written about in the new illustrated handbook.

Why would it come here?

A City Base was already working on eliminating it, but now, it had run all the way here!

Song Ning didn’t make a sound, just standing at the window and observing.

This Chimera Composite had absorbed an estimated thousands of zombies, measuring a hundred meters in height, resembling a small mountain!

Suddenly, it paused.

Standing in place for a long while, not moving at all.

Song Ning quietly turned around, hiding behind the window of the classroom building, calming her breathing.

But downstairs, dozens of zombies had gathered, surrounding the building.

In the night, the sound was quite obvious!

Suddenly, the Chimera Composite became agitated!

It turned its extremely large body, and the extremely twisted and bizarre body composed of thousands of zombies suddenly erupted with terrifying energy, stepping out a huge pit in place, and in the explosion, it quickly approached the classroom building where Song Ning was.

She’d been discovered!

“Rumble!”

The young woman’s heart trembled, and her figure retreated violently, using her exoskeleton-covered fist to shatter the cement and leaping down out of the teaching building!

Thunderous footsteps boomed behind her!

In just three seconds, the teaching building collapsed with a bang!

Smoke and dust rose everywhere, and then a massive monster with countless dense, rotten arms and legs entangled together, and continuous roars emerged from the smoke.

Thousands of bloody zombies, entangled together!

Each bloody mouth opens wide——

“Roar! ——”

Waves of roars surged up one after another!

It was simply terrifying!

It had strange, slender limbs, “woven” from hundreds of zombies.

They were connected by strange bluish-gray flesh, a terrifying and disgusting appearance!

The twisted and rotten faces were closely pressed together, screaming hideously!

The young woman fled rapidly through the city without stopping at all!

This Chimera Composite, however, seemed to have it out for the young woman, chasing her head-on all the way!

Sand and stones cracked!

It was almost unstoppable!

“How can this be such a coincidence?”

Song Ning bit her teeth, the night vision function of the see-through black goggles, she fled through various narrow corners, trying to shake off the Chimera Composite.

According to her thoughts, this kind of thankless thing, this level of monster, wouldn’t be chasing after her alone for half a day, right?

But for some reason, it just wouldn’t let go of the young woman!

“Roar, roar, roar…”

“Ha…”

The scalp-numbing continuation of the roar resounded through the night!