Chapter 136: Don’t Underestimate It
“Right now, while that crowd is completely fractured by chaos, let’s launch the attack!”
Not far from God’s Community, massive swarms of zombies, looking like a dense carpet of ants from a distance, were gathering. Wan Youzhi, Lin Han, and Chen Ke stood at the absolute vanguard of the legion.
Yet, despite being insulated by so many mutated thralls, Lin Han and Wan Youzhi still felt a persistent wave of unease knotting their stomachs. Lin Han shot a sideways glance at Wan Youzhi, noting that the prophet’s face had drained of all color.
“Are you absolutely certain about this layout?” Lin Han asked in a low, tight whisper.
Chen Ke, who was marching a few paces ahead, snapped her head back, throwing a look of sheer disdain at the two humans.
“Yes,” Wan Youzhi nodded, forcing his voice to remain steady.
He was entirely certain of the parameters because he had physically witnessed the outcome. In a vision of the near future, he and Lin Han successfully controlled the lives of every elite esper on the planet, forcing anyone who dared to defy their administration to be sacrificed to the horde. It was precisely because he had intercepted this specific timeline that he possessed the confidence to forge a shadow alliance with the undead.
While God’s Supermarket might introduce a few volatile anomalies to the field, as long as they systematically crushed the storefront and neutralized the manager, they could permanently rewrite those variables. Until the supreme scientists finally chose to terminate the program, they would be free to enjoy absolute sovereignty every single day.
To ensure his blueprint succeeded, Wan Youzhi had utilized every psychological lever at his disposal to persuade Chen Ke to redirect her forces back toward Chen Town, prioritizing God’s Supermarket as their absolute primary target.
Initially, Chen Ke hadn’t set her sights on besieging the supermarket, preferring to focus her blitzkrieg exclusively on the human outposts closest to Base Zero. But Wan Youzhi had confidently argued that once God’s Supermarket was wiped off the map, the remaining independent strongholds would fall like dominoes. Chen Ke’s recent failure to conquer Base No. 3 had ultimately granted the prophet’s calculations a massive layer of credibility.
“Crushing God’s Supermarket is merely the opening gambit,” Wan Youzhi murmured, turning to look Lin Han dead in the eye. “Can you hold your end of the operational load?”
Lin Han bristled, his features twisting into a sneer. Why wouldn’t he be able to handle it? He was entirely resolved to outlast Wan Youzhi in the long run anyway.
“Hmph, as if you have any other choices,” Lin Han shot back under his breath. He knew for a fact that the prophet had no other high-tier partners left to align with.
But Lin Han’s private calculations were entirely different. Once the smoke cleared and the new hierarchy stabilized, the raw physical power locked within his own void mutation would easily dwarf Wan Youzhi’s status. After all, what was the functional use of predicting the future? At the end of the day, Wan Youzhi was fundamentally a fragile, defenseless man.
The moment the massive zombie horde swarmed the perimeter of God’s Community, the relentless chemical drizzle abruptly ceased, and the weather shifted into an abnormally bright, clear afternoon.
“Hiss, hiss!”
Xie Qiang and Zhang Lin, trailing closely behind Chen Ke, lifted their heads to look up at the clear sky, a wave of primal satisfaction rippling through their mutations. To them, the sudden sunlight was a spectacular omen of victory.
Bathed in the solar glare, a brilliant rainbow arc rose directly above the reinforced walls of God’s Supermarket. Staring at the structure, a sudden, inexplicable panic fluttered deep in Wan Youzhi’s chest. The more intensely he studied the store’s barrier, the more sacred and unyielding it felt to his senses.
Chen Ke halted her advance, her eyes scanning the towering metal wall that had violently erupted from the desert soil. She couldn’t help but feel a twinge of cold admiration. It hadn’t been very long since she had evacuated Chen Town, yet the settlement had already evolved into a massive, heavily fortified metropolis during her absence.
Nevertheless, she quickly checked her hesitation. No matter how flawlessly the human sanctuary had developed, and no matter how many survivors were burrowed behind those metal plates, they could never compete with the sheer, infinite numbers of her legion. Even after deploying several detachments to launch secondary sieges against the distant outposts, the sheer bulk of the undead massing beneath the courtyard walls was staggeringly overwhelming.
Unlatching her jaw, Chen Ke unleashed a piercing shriek. At her command, the lower-tier zombies violently threw their weight against the barrier, constructing massive, squirming ladders of human flesh to scale the metal plates, while an underground vanguard utilized earth-burrowing mutations to tunnel directly beneath the foundations.
On the defensive side of the wall, the residents of God’s Community stood on maximum alert. The absolute second a mutant head breached the rim of the parapet, the elite espers unleashed a devastating barrage of synchronized elemental strikes, sparing absolutely no energy to execute the infiltrators.
Wan Youzhi’s pupils shrunk in shock as he tracked the initial skirmish. The supermarket faction wasn’t just ready—their counter-logistics are flawlessly optimized.
“Hiss!!!”
Enraged by the initial resistance, Chen Ke issued a systemic command for the entire horde to swarm the coordinates simultaneously. Flexing her augmented muscles, she launched herself into the air, cleanly vaulting over the rim of the wall to engage the defenders in brutal, close-quarters combat.
Xie Qiang and Zhang Lin followed right in her wake, dropping into the courtyard. Actively swerving around the incoming elemental strikes, the zombie couple utilized the absolute chaos of the melee to seamlessly slide into the ranks of the human defenders, flawlessly mimicking their movements to pretend they were aggressively attacking the mutant frontline.
Across the courtyard, an unknown number of advanced, human-skinned zombies were attempting to execute the exact same infiltration tactic, though the vast majority of them were being rapidly identified and executed by the hyper-vigilant espers. Only Xie Qiang and Zhang Lin managed to perfectly blend into the defense matrix by pure, calculated chance.
Sensing that the frontline was locking into a brutal, evenly matched stalemate, Chen Ke reached into her tactical vest, pulling out her prized collection of stolen meteorite fragments. Channeling her raw evolutionary energy directly into the stones, she watched as a visible, shimmering aura of compressed power violently expanded across the shards.
With a fierce, deliberate flex of her will, she shattered the aura, scattering the raw kinetic energy into the air. The power fractured into tens of thousands of glowing, needle-like stars, each one tracking straight into the biology of a nearby zombie.
Within a fraction of a second, the entire horde’s physical thresholds and destructive metrics multiplied exponentially. The human espers, who had successfully held the line to a standstill, were violently overwhelmed by the sudden spike in enemy power, their formations shattering as they were forced into a desperate, retreating rearguard action.
“Damn it all! This is a total disaster!” Xie Hao roared, his heart sinking as he fired a localized burst of fire. “Our intel was completely flawed!”
The sheer, infinite density of the horde was entirely too high, and backed by the reality-bending augmentation of the meteorite fragments, it was mathematically certain that the zombie legion would command the entire sector within the hour.
Wan Youzhi produced a high-powered megaphone from his pack. Alongside Lin Han, he rapidly scaled a secured section of the outer wall, raising the microphone to broadcast a sweeping psychological attack across the retreating defenders:
“Your elemental thresholds are completely inadequate against the evolved horde! If you desire to keep your families alive, your solitary tactical recourse is to lay down your weapons and surrender to our administration immediately!”
Initially, the battle-hardened survivors met his demands with absolute, mocking derision. Are you out of your mind? Who in their right mind surrenders to a pack of monsters? Everyone knows zombies view humans strictly as livestock!
Undeterred, Wan Youzhi continuously sustained the broadcast:
“The undead legions have successfully completed their evolutionary cycles into advanced entities! They command a functional level of human rationality. As long as you formally submit to our terms, they are programmed to abstain from harvesting your flesh! If that weren’t the baseline reality, how do you think a regular human like myself has managed to comfortably survive alongside their vanguard for months?
“Our strategic target today isn’t the civilian census of this base—our exclusive objective is to permanently liquidate God’s Supermarket! Lay down your arms. The exact second we breach the storefront and dismantle the manager, the absolute entirety of the supermarket’s infinite supply vaults will be partitioned and distributed directly to you!
“The establishment utilizes an automated security matrix to prevent raw theft, but our coalition commands the exact technical methodology required to systematically crack those vaults from the inside out!”
Wan Youzhi’s broadcast was an intricate weave of half-truths and pure fabrication. In reality, they possessed absolutely zero structural methods to bypass the store’s defensive architecture—unless they could psychologically break the core staff into opening the vaults themselves.
Nevertheless, the targeted psychological assault began to cause a visible fracture among the wavering espers.
“Keep your jaws shut and ignore his garbage!” Xie Hao bellowed, his face turning an angry crimson as he witnessed several units visibly hesitating. He was entirely furious that such transparent, malicious rhetoric could actually sway the resolve of his people.
Lin Han’s eyes frantically scanned the battlefield, hunting for the signatures of the four core supermarket employees, but the primary staff was entirely absent from the grid. Though a brief flash of surprise rippled through his mind, he instantly pivoted the data to reinforce their psychological siege.
Snatching the microphone from Wan Youzhi’s hand, Lin Han’s booming voice echoed across the courtyard: “Look around you! Are you honestly spilling your own blood and risking your lives just to shield the property of God’s Supermarket? Let’s look at the logistics: where exactly is your precious store manager right now? Where is Song Yuqing? Where are her elite non-human staff members? They’ve completely evacuated the sector! They are using your bodies as a disposable shield to buy themselves time to run!”
True to his calculations, the minds of the thoroughly exhausted, isolated espers began to buckle under the weight of the lie.
“I’m dropping my weapon! I surrender!” “We submit! Stop the assault!”
Huo Bin, tracking the rapidly disintegrating battle lines from his perch high up in the Chinese tallow tree, was gripped by a terrifying, frantic panic. How could the secure sanctuary he had finally clawed his way back to dissolve into ash in a single afternoon? Furthermore, at the absolute climax of the doomsday siege, Song Yuqing was completely missing from the quadrant! Even Master Fu hadn’t broadcasted a single line of defensive code!
“The core executive team has deployed out into the multiverse to secure a massive detachment of heavy reinforcements! They will breach the perimeter and reclaim the sector momentarily!” Huo Bin screamed down from the branches, desperately fabricating an absolute lie to patch the fracture.
“Hehe…” Lin Han’s dark, mocking laughter echoed through the mega-speakers, ruthlessly crushing the skeleton’s counter-narrative.
“Reinforcements? From where exactly? Are your brains truly this deficient? Every single human outpost on the continent is currently suffocating under an identical, synchronized siege! It’s a miracle if the store manager’s detail hasn’t already been liquidated out in the wastes. If they actually blundered into a rescue run, they are already dead and never coming back!”
The definitive finality of the statement rippled across the remaining holdouts, throwing the final tier of stubborn defenders into an absolute, suffocating panic.
