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The European apartment complex was a large, high-end residential complex that was completed five years ago. It took up over 300 mu of land, and on the east was the newly reclaimed Dong An district, and on the west was the Crescent Lake. On the south was a farmhouse and a resort along the lake, while on the north was the city's ten thousand mu vegetable base. To the east of the European apartment complex were a dozen multi-storey garden houses; in the middle were supermarkets, swimming pools, tennis courts, children's parks and small parks; on both sides were high-rise elevators; on the west side of the lake was a villa complex. At one time, European apartments boasted a spectacular view of queues with tents.

Ever since the female guard squadron had entered the battle for the first time, Lu Min had carried out a comprehensive reformation and strengthening training. At this time, the female guard squadron's experience and strength had greatly improved. The battle for the recovery of the European apartment of the female guard brigade could be said to have gone smoothly. However, because there were too many residences, it took them almost an entire day to complete the task of recovering the residential complex and rescue more than 300 survivors.

The battle between the first squadron and the second squadron had gone smoothly, but the second squadron, who was expected to have the least problems, had met with mishaps.

Squadron One was naturally the first to complete their mission. At around 9 AM, they brought the survivors from No. 8 High School back to the base. As they were still worried about the ongoing battles in the other two locations, when they arrived at the encampment, they arranged for Wang Jun, Zhang Xiang, and the others to receive the survivors from No. 8 High School. Chen Jing immediately instructed Wei Dong to lead a squadron to meet the Second Squadron while he personally led a special team to meet the female guard regiment. Deep down, Chen Jing was more partial to the female guard squadron since that was where Lu Min led the squadron.

When Chen Jing arrived at the European apartment, he found that the battle for the recovery of the female guards' squadron was proceeding in a normal and orderly manner, while Zhang Bin's team, who was in charge of supporting the group, took in the survivors. Seeing this, Chen Jing was relieved. Of course, he didn't ask the special task force to help them, but rather asked them to take care of the work together with the scouting team.

Half an hour later, a member of the first squadron came running over, bringing with him a shocking piece of news: something happened to the second squadron! Chen Jing immediately instructed Zhang Bin to be careful of his safety while he led the special team towards the tumor hospital.

The main building of the oncology hospital was a six-storey structure shaped like a well. In the middle was a two to three hundred square meter patio, and in front of it was a small square.

When Chen Jing and the others arrived, the first squadron, second squadron, and dozens of other squadron members fanned out in front of the hospital's square. The building opposite was full of holes. What was going on?

It turned out that Squadron Two had also left at 7 am, and when they were almost at the Oncology Hospital, they discovered something strange. Around the hospital that was originally empty during the scouting (no, it should be zombies), more than a hundred zombies were currently gathering. The zombies were gathering together, occasionally looking into the hospital, seemingly wanting to go in but not daring to go in, and the surrounding walls of the hospital should have already been knocked down by zombies.

At this time, almost all of the 2nd squadron members were new recruits, but they didn't have the guts to fight against so many zombies, so Yang Dahai ordered his teammates to hide and observe from afar. At this moment, a foul stench emanated from the hospital, which could be smelt from far away. It seemed like the zombies were attracted by the smell, but why didn't they go in?

Encountering this kind of accident, Yang Dahai also thought of sending people back to get reinforcements, but he only thought for a moment and gave up. After all, all his team members were fighting outside, there wasn't even a single soldier in the camp right now. Forget it, let's observe for now.

Thus, they had been hiding far away to observe. Due to the fact that they were too far away, they couldn't clearly see the actual situation. They could only occasionally hear the screams and restlessness of zombies. This situation continued for more than an hour.

Around eight-thirty, the stench gradually disappeared, and after ten minutes, the surrounding zombies also dispersed. After another 10 minutes, Yang Dahai saw that the hospital became empty again, so he led his team members to the hospital cautiously.

This time, everything went smoothly. After a few minutes, they arrived at the square in front of the hospital. The situation in the hospital building was exactly as Chen Jing had seen it earlier. They felt strange inside, so they naturally had to observe first, but after observing for a long time, they were all quiet and nothing was out of the ordinary. They even saw some survivors on the sixth floor waving to them.

At this moment, within Squad Two, besides the three teams, there was also a seventeen person reserve team. Yang Dahai saw that nothing was wrong, so he asked Squad One to be the vanguard, with Squad Two and Three in the back, preparing for the team's reinforcements, and slowly made their way towards the main entrance.

After entering the door, they naturally saw through the window that there was a pile of 5 to 6 square meters tall, 1.5 meters tall, and at least 10 tons of black matter inside the courtyard. After entering through the door, naturally, through the window, they saw a pile of 5 to 6 meters wide, 1.5 meters high, and at least 10 tons of black matter. At this moment, one of the team members got scared and raised his 28 kgs of blade high as he used all his strength to slash at the ball of flesh.

The unforeseen event happened in an instant. The heavy blade finally cut the surface of the flesh, and pus and blood flowed out. Of course, that wasn't the reason. After the ball of flesh was cut, dozens of tentacles suddenly shot out like lightning, instantly rolling up the two unprepared members and stuffing them into a huge gaping hole on the top of their bodies. At the same time, a strong stench spread out in all directions, scaring the other members into retreating. Fortunately, after eating two people, the meat ball closed its mouth and the dozens of tentacles slowly shrank back. The wounds healed at a speed that could be seen with the naked eye. A few minutes later, it turned back into the same as before.

Encountering this kind of accident, Yang Dahai knew that he couldn't handle it anymore, so he sent someone back to report, while he brought the remaining members to observe from a distance.

The messenger had met a squadron that had come to assist him. After learning of the situation, Wei Dong had sent someone to report to Chen Jing.

What kind of monster was hiding in the hospital? I have to start from before the catastrophe. Grandpa Luo, 67 years old, was a patient with advanced brain tumors. Living in the cancer ward on the fourth floor of the hospital only meant death. If there was no disaster, he would have at most a month of life. However, a catastrophe had happened. Grandpa Luo had also evolved into a zombie, while the cancer cells attached to him had also evolved into a special life form.

After the catastrophe, Master Luo, who had turned into a zombie, jumped into the hospital courtyard from the window. While he was sharing a dead body with the other zombies, the brain of Master Luo was devouring the evolved life forms of the cancerous cells. Within the next few minutes, the brain devoured all of Master Luo's body, and turned into a lump of meat with a few tentacles growing out of it. Then the tentacles slowly sank back into the flesh, turning into a pile of dead meat.

After the zombies in the sky well finished eating the meat, there were naturally zombies that wanted to have a taste of the meat, but there was a layer of tough skin on the meat, so no matter how the zombies tried to bite it, it wouldn't hurt at all.

A dozen hours later, the lump of meat seemed to have come to life as it grew in size. The meat ball slowly extended its tendrils, and at the same time, a huge crack appeared on the top of the meat ball. The meat ball slowly extended its tendrils, and at the same time, a huge crack appeared on the top of the meat ball. After the zombies entered a certain range, the tentacles suddenly rolled up like lightning and stuffed a zombie at the very front into the gaping hole at the top of the meatball. Then, the zombie slowly closed its big mouth and the tentacles slowly shrunk back into the meatball, once again turning into a pile of dead meat. Naturally, the stench was gone.

After that, the meat was resurrected every ten hours or so. The bigger the meat, the longer the tentacles. The longer the meat, the bigger the appetite.

At first, the zombies were like moths to a flame as they madly rushed over, but they seemed to have become smarter. Most of the zombies surrounded them from afar, just like what Yang Dahai and the others saw.

But the meatball had patience, and there were always some zombies that could not resist the temptation to make the moth fly into the fire. Therefore, a lump of meat would always be able to fill one's stomach for a bit longer.

By the time Yang Dahai and the others arrived, the mass of meat had already grown to more than a dozen tons, and the number of tentacles had also increased to eighty to ninety, and reached a length of over fifty meters. Originally, the ball of meat was already full, so they didn't want to pay any attention to them. However, they didn't understand the situation and even caused the ball of meat to hurt, so they naturally extended their tentacles to grab two of them.

When Chen Jing and the others arrived, they did not know the attacking range of the tentacles, so they stood at the entrance to watch. Fortunately, the meat ball was full, otherwise, it would be hard to say how many of them could escape.

Chen Jing didn't know what to do when he saw the dead meat ball, so he asked a few people to stay and keep an eye on it while the rest went upstairs to search.

There were 15 survivors in the whole hospital, most of them doctors and nurses, only one patient and two nurses. Unfortunately, most of the drugs that Chen needed were destroyed by the tentacles of the meatball.

Chen Jing and the others broke out in a cold sweat after learning about the attacking range of the meatball from the survivors. They quickly made everyone retreat 60 meters away.

What should we do with the meatball? It was impossible to just ignore it. Who knew what kind of demon it would turn into? But how? In the end, Chen Jing and the others believed that the surest way was to use fire.

At 3 in the afternoon, a member called Liu Wei drove a tanker from a nearby gas station, poured several hundred kilograms of gasoline on the meatball. Then, after all the members and dozens of spectators had retreated 500 meters away, he ordered the fire to be lit.

Half an hour later, a loud explosion suddenly came from the hospital's patio. It seemed as if the meat had exploded under the high temperature, and the flesh and blood had been scattered all over the place. After the fire had been ignited, a few guards who were too curious and surrounded the crowd ran over a hundred meters away to see what was going on. At that time, Chen Jing and the others felt that there was no danger, so they didn't stop it. However, there was one person who was very unlucky. A drop of blood just happened to fly onto his face, and in an instant, that lump of flesh started to engulf his face, causing him to roll on the ground in pain. The other person he was on good terms with wanted to help him up, but who knew that his left hand would accidentally touch the spot where the face of the previous person began to fester? Inevitably, his fingers would be stained. The tissue on his finger began to devour the cellular tissue on his hand, transforming it into his own tissue.

At this moment, a large area of the head of the previous person had been devoured, and the person lying on the ground had stopped moving. The second person was still rolling on the ground in pain, and a few minutes later, his entire left hand was festering.

At this moment, one of the bodyguards noticed that something was wrong. He quickly chopped off his left hand and dragged him away from the pile of rotten flesh.

Tens of minutes later, the first person had turned into a hundred pound lump of meat with a few tentacles growing out of it. Then it slowly shrunk back into a pile of dead meat and a new, special life was born. The second man's left hand had also become a lump of flesh, but it was only the size of a fist, and it was still too early to grow tentacles.

Seeing the situation, everyone realized the severity of the problem. After all, how many thousands of pieces of flesh were blown away? Fortunately, the creature could not move, so Chen Jing gave the order: A 500 meter radius around the hospital was set up as a forbidden area. Starting tomorrow, the guards would begin to clear away all life within the forbidden area. He ordered Li Jianming to create a closed incinerator as soon as possible.