Gate of Apocalypse

"Fuck, just fucking guessed there was more!"

The spare tire spit hard on the floor.

This was the top floor of the building, a large banquet hall.

There were dozens of corpses lying all over the floor.

Most of them were ordinary humans, but there were still three mutants that had been killed by the Meteorite Squad and fell to the ground in pieces.

"It should have killed the others on this floor in a very short time after mutating three of them, and then sensing us on the rooftop, they broke the floor and attacked us." Tire looked around at the situation: "So it seems that not everyone will mutate."

The appearance of these mutants, however, was different from each other, even from the one on the rooftop just now, but the deformity and weirdness were similar.

"There should be some sort of odds, and it will produce different mutations depending on the individual." JoJo stood in front of one of the mutants and stretched out her foot to kick the lifeless corpse: "This one, for example, is capable of spewing out acidic body fluids. It's not particularly corrosive, though."

Xia Xiaolei strengthened his perception organs and kept looking around the floor, suddenly walking quickly towards the corner.

"Sister Qiao Qiao, it is reasonable to say that mushrooms shouldn't grow out of a ...... five-star hotel, right?"

Xia Xiaolei turned his face and looked hesitantly at Qiao Qiao.

"Mushrooms?"

The tire was busy walking quickly toward Xia Xiaolei.

On the wooden floor in the corner was a clump of small grayish-white mushrooms.

"Of course not." Tire and JoJo said in unison.

A hotel of this caliber is meticulously cleaned daily, and Los Angeles is located on the southwest coast of the United States, which has a warm, dry, Mediterranean climate. Without the dark, humid environment, it was impossible for mushrooms to grow in just one day.

Obviously, this must have come from Adric's newly acquired ability.

Xia Xiaolei stretched out his hand and touched it only lightly, and the mushroom suddenly exploded with a dull explosion.

A puff of dusty spores exploded and scattered in the corner of the house.

The spores quickly drifted into the air and disappeared into thin air, but the tire's brows furrowed and his face became heavy: "Don't touch it! What if we get infected too!"

"Nothing." Qiao Qiao shook his head, "It's already said in the copy description that the alien genes that appear in this copy cannot affect the players, including us Awakened of course. Besides, if the pilot in that helicopter can be infected, and the evacuees in this house can be infected, then the city must have been flooded with such spores for a long time, and it's not too bad that Ray touched it."

"Just reminding him to pay attention later." Tire nodded.

"So it seems that the U.S. Army doesn't stand a chance. Since even the pilot of the helicopter can be infected, all of them should already be infected, it's just that not everyone will have an attack." Roddy scratched his hair and grimaced, "Although it's not yet known whether the odds of mutation depend on the individual, or time, or both, either way, our worst fears have already been realized."

Even the strongest army firepower can only work on the front side. When sufficiently equipped, pulling away and striking a diffuse web of fire can certainly break these mutated creatures, who only have flesh, to pieces from afar.

But the army has already lost its greatest advantage when fellow soldiers around it, including even itself, suddenly mutate at some point and then suddenly attack the surrounding crowd.

Moreover, the blow to morale was fatal.

"We have to leave the city, now!"

JoJo darkened her face and leapt through the gaping hole above her head, jumping back onto the rooftop.

"Leave?" Roddy was busy turning on the thrusters and jumped up after JoJo, "Leaving now?"

JoJo: "There will definitely continue to be more mutants in the city. No matter how high the odds of mutation are, the eventual number is bound to be terrifyingly astronomical, considering the base of citizens here."

"Any more and we'll all have to face it sooner or later!" Roddy firmly disagreed: "We can leave the city and avoid these mutants for a while, but we'll have to come back and kill that guy Adric if we're going to win the copy in the end!"

"At least find an empty place to wait first!" JoJo is also very determined: "The number of mutants in the city will only increase, and with more than half an hour to go before the coordinates are displayed, there's no way we can successfully find Adric without the coordinates showing. Staying here for another half hour will be mauled to death by an endless supply of mutants."

"...... "Roddy bit his teeth and turned to Tire, "Tire, you're the captain now, we listen to you! It's your call whether to stay here and wait, or retreat from the city for now!"

Tire's eyebrows were locked and he didn't speak for a while.

"What the hell! Tires!" Roddy was in a hurry.

On the street below, Roddy had already seen several mutants break the window and jump out, falling into a column of U.S. troops below the convoy, causing a large number of casualties in an instant.

The number of mutants would only increase if they continued to drag on like this.

"Let's go." Tire finally came to a decision, "but not to leave, but to go back to Griffith Park. There are plenty of other players and awakened ones there. Whoever they are, pull them all together! The difficulty of this copy has been raised to a level that we can't deal with alone, so we have to gather all the existing forces together and maybe there is a glimmer of hope."

......

A small team of one man and three women were running at a fast pace, occasionally turning back and shooting.

Behind them, they were chasing dozens of mutants of different shapes and sizes.

They had also been waiting for several days for a new system prompt to arrive. After a sudden riot broke out in the city, they immediately followed the direction of the spread of the mutated beasts and found Griffith Park.

The strength of this team wasn't very strong, but it was enough to deal with those mutated beasts. Although the hint of the copy had not yet come down, but in the mentality of a blindfold, they still headed towards the Griffith Park.

The journey had been smooth. The man captain took the route of the necromantic summoning system, relying on the summoned necromantic creatures as a meat shield, and made it all the way to the location of the zoo.

But then, not long ago, the enemy had suddenly grown stronger!

The original mutants were all in the form of beasts, with nothing unusual about them except that they were huge and more resistant to fighting. However, the new humanoid mutants that appeared had a substantial increase in strength, agility, and defense.

After the death of two team members, the team leader immediately decided to retreat.

Only the number of mutants seemed to be increasing. Although several of them had been killed on the way out, the number of mutants chasing after them was increasing rather than decreasing.

If this continues, the team will be wiped out. ......

The first one was two times larger than the other two, with a thick upper body and relatively slender legs, and a huge sac at its throat.

Seeing the squad coming, the three mutants immediately took up a battle stance. Two of the smaller ones flew over, but the third one did not move, just lifted its head high and vomited out a large cloud of mucus like a mouthful of phlegm.

The four of them immediately ducked and dodged the slime shot. The slime landed on the ground, scorching a depression in the asphalt.

"It's acid!" One of the female team members screamed, closed the index fingers and thumbs of both hands into a ring, and shouted at a mutant at the front of the line, "Law, Bind!"

The mutant's original running stance came to a halt, and it fell to the ground in a roll, while another female member of the Golden Wave had rushed forward and cut the mutant's neck with her saber in her hand.

But as soon as the saber touched the mutant, a blue light suddenly emerged from underneath its entire body and conducted along the blade of the saber to the blonde's body.

With a scream, the blonde's entire body was wrapped in electricity, and she fell to the ground in a jerk.

"Damn, this guy can discharge electricity!"

The captain shouted and rushed forward quickly, trying to help the blonde, but the dozens of mutants behind him were already coming after him.

A few bone spikes shot over, and the screeching sound that broke through the air was almost like a bullet.

The captain could only roll in a circle to avoid the spikes, but he also missed the opportunity to rescue his teammates.

The acid-spewing mutant in front of us had raised its head again and aimed a second squirt of acid at the blonde.

Another mutant had run up to the small team of four, arms raised, and from below the elbows, a row of dense blades extended out like a praying mantis at the woman who used the restraints.

The third woman was the weakest of the team, and although she was screaming and firing her automatic rifle wildly, the bullets were mostly blocked by the mutant's hardened body shell, causing little damage.

The woman who used the restraint skill was so pale that she could only drop her hands from the stance and took out a long stick and held it across her body.

The mutant on the ground immediately rolled over and bit down on the blonde on the ground with a big, bloody mouth.

--It's over!

The captain's eyes went black, already knowing that he would not be able to block the wave of attacks in time.

Nor could he escape this wave of siege.

"Boom!"

With the sound of a heavy sniper rifle, the mutant was hit by a large-caliber bullet, and the powerful impact not only tore open its hard outer shell, but also toppled its entire huge body to the ground.

Before he had time to react, the captain saw a figure appear in front of the acid-spewing mutant in an instant, and two short knives slid across its body, cutting it into two pieces.

The acid sac that was cut open splashed out a large amount of acid, but the figure was so nimble that it immediately turned around and dodged ten meters away after the two knives were cut off. Not a single drop of the acid, which was like a rainstorm, fell on her body.

At the same time, a Sentinel armor suddenly descended from the sky, firing all its weapons together, intercepting the dozens of mutants chasing after it.

In just a few tens of seconds, the wave of mutants that had just chased them into a mess had already been killed on the ground.

"You guys are ......"

The captain flew up from the ground, staring at the team that had just saved his four men.

In addition to the two men who did it, there were more than twenty people behind them, dressed in different costumes, but all of them had weapons in their hands and were wearing armor or protective clothing.

Such a large ...... team?

The captain had been stunned.

He couldn't have run into a group of thorny flowers in this copy!

"There have been extreme changes to this copy, and all teams must join together to stay alive." Flagwood West simply sheathed his sword, flipped his short hair, and stepped forward, "Whether you are Awakened or players, join us if you want to survive."

"Join ......?" That captain stared blankly at the cold, murderous woman in front of him and the Sentinel armor around her, not yet slowing down.

"You have thirty seconds to make a decision! There are still many teams in this area waiting for us to rescue them, so don't waste everyone's time." Flagwood West looked at him blankly and pointed to those following behind him, "There are already six teams here that have joined us. Adding the teams my other teammates searched for, the current total is ninety-three of ......'s ten teams."

"We ...... joined! Join!"

The captain only then reacted to the fact that the people in front of him did not belong to the same team. In addition to the two people who had just attacked, the rest of the others, many of whom were carrying injuries, should have just been rescued, just like themselves.

And although these two had only fought for a few moments, they had already clearly demonstrated their strength.

Since this copy didn't issue competitive quests, there was no need to fight each other. Now that the situation is so grim, having the opportunity to unite together is of course the best choice.

Moreover, the two who had just attacked looked so strong!