Tigers boast numerous racial classifications. Such as the South China Tiger, the Siberian Tiger, the White Tiger, and so on.

With the viral infection, tigers evolved many new races, like the one before their eyes—the Bloodtooth Tiger! "Need assistance?" iǎ Hei's consciousness transmitted into Ye Chen's mind.

"This is not something you can handle," Ye Chen frowned as the Bloodtooth Tiger slowly approached. He vaguely recalled that in the second month, the Bloodtooth Tiger had reached a power equivalent to about 500 men, and only some powerful technological weapons could kill it in the earlier stages.

"What do we do?" Xi Xiang's face was ashen, trembling. Anyone seeing a monster three stories tall radiating terrifying killing intent would have their limbs go weak with fear.

Ye Chen said gravely, "You all go first!" "What about you?" "Are you going to fight this monster alone?" Xi Xiang and the others were greatly shocked. "Stop the nonsense!" Ye Chen raised an eyebrow and snapped, "If you don't want to die, scram quickly, so you don't get in the way!" Xi Xiang choked slightly.

Despite her beauty, it was the first time someone had so rudely told her to "scram" to her face. However, she understood Ye Chen was deliberately saying that to get them to leave sooner.

"Let's go!" "Hurry!" Bai Long and the others quickly urged them on. Having stayed together for a while, they knew Ye Chen was simply losing patience because he felt he wouldn't have the leisure to look after them during this fight.

"Brother, be careful, you must stay alive!" Ye Zhu cast a sorrowful glance at Ye Chen before rushing towards the other end of the alley with the others. She knew she would only be a burden here, not helpful.

Seeing the food in front of it about to flee, a fierce rage ignited in the Bloodtooth Tiger's eyes. With a roar, the immense tiger leaped to a height of five or six stories, pouncing towards Ye Zhu and the others like a lion attacking a rabbit.

"Seeking death!" Ye Chen's eyes turned cold, and he let out a low cry. The dormant Superman Gene within him instantly activated, throwing him into the Superman State—a pair of antennae sprouted from his forehead, resembling a demon.

He stomped the ground, and Ye Chen shot upwards like a rocket, instantly reaching the Bloodtooth Tiger's underbelly. He plunged both hands out, gripping the soft fur on its belly, roared, and slammed it downwards!

With no leverage in mid-air, the force depended entirely on his core strength. The Bloodtooth Tiger was caught completely off guard by the brute strength of a creature its size, startling it greatly.

Before it could react, it was involuntarily pulled down by an immense force and thrown towards the ground. But its reaction speed was extremely fast.

As soon as it landed, it planted all four paws, bent its forelimbs slightly, and leaped fiercely, lunging at Ye Chen, who was still descending from the air. Ye Chen snorted coldly and swiftly threw his fire axe towards the ground, snatching it back the moment it left his hand, allowing his body to be pulled rapidly downward by the momentum of the axe, narrowly dodging the pouncing attack.

Had that hit him, even with Ye Chen's physique rated at 820-man strength, he wouldn't have survived without grave injury. A Bloodtooth Tiger, though only possessing 500-man power, required human warriors to have at least 600-man strength, coupled with rich combat experience and formidable armor and weaponry, just to have a chance of slaying it!

In terms of defense— The hide of a 500-man strength Bloodtooth Tiger was tougher than that of Ye Chen, rated at 820! In terms of attack— The Bloodtooth Tiger's claws could slice through solid metal; they were far superior to the fire axe.

Ye Chen's only advantage was his strength, surpassing the Bloodtooth Tiger's by 300 points; his greatest weakness was his weapon! Splat!

As Ye Chen plummeted, before his feet even fully touched the ground, his toes lightly tapped, propelling him toward the Bloodtooth Tiger. He brought the fire axe down hard on its softest spot—its belly.

Instantly, it felt like hacking against a resilient, taut piece of cowhide. Crack!

The fire axe broke. This single axe strike didn't even cut through the Bloodtooth Tiger's hide; it only scraped off a few strands of fur.

Ye Chen frowned. Before landing, he saw a massive paw swinging down.

He quickly reached out, grabbed the Bloodtooth Tiger's belly fur, pushed forward using that grip, and shifted his body backward, narrowly avoiding the strike. Whoosh!

A sound of ripping air erupted suddenly from behind him. A stinging pain flared across his upper back, burning like a whip lash.

Ye Chen’s body involuntarily flew forward, landing heavily on the ground. He turned to see the Bloodtooth Tiger drop down, its colossal body obscuring the sky, like the heavens themselves were collapsing.

A murderous glint flashed in Ye Chen's eyes. He darted forward in a swift lunge, moving behind the Bloodtooth Tiger.

He grabbed its tail with a roar and pulled forward like a charging ox, taking a single step! Roar!

The Bloodtooth Tiger's massive body was dragged backward by a step! Thump!

Thump! Thump!

Ye Chen took seven or eight steps in succession, leaving an imprint in the ground with every landing. The Bloodtooth Tiger was also dragged backward seven or eight steps, roaring furiously.

"Die!" Ye Chen's gaze turned icy. He suddenly let go of the tiger's tail, executed an ultra-short-range dash, using his massive burst power to accelerate instantly, and sprang up, kicking both feet into the Bloodtooth Tiger's rear.

Bang! The ferocious power vented onto the monster.

It had been desperately gripping the ground, trying to crawl forward, but when the grip behind it suddenly released, it felt like a tug-of-war opponent suddenly letting go of the rope while you were exerting maximum force—it tilted forward uncontrollably. However, with its nervous system speed, it quickly regained balance, halting its forward tilt, just as it was about to turn and strike its opponent.

Suddenly, it felt a massive force land on its backside, and with a whoosh, it was kicked flying seven or eight zhang away, tumbling three or four times on the ground, utterly disheveled. Ye Chen wasted no time, rushing forward again.

He seized one of the massive tiger paws, roared, lifted it, spun his body, and hauled the creature up, spinning it around several times. The Bloodtooth Tiger's massive body could not fully extend in the narrow alley, smashing through the walls on either side, leaving it dizzy and disoriented.

Finally, Ye Chen hurled it high into the air. With a thud, it crashed down, creating a large crater in the ground, its body twitching slightly.

... Outside the alley, Ye Zhu and Xi Xiang's group hid in a corner.

"Will he be okay?" Xi Xiang worried. "He should be fine," Bai Long said steadily after glancing at Ye Zhu, though the worry in his eyes betrayed him.

Just then— Boom! A tremendous sound echoed from the alley.

Everyone jumped in surprise, turning to look, holding their breath. A moment later, the sound of footsteps emerged from the alley, and a lean figure appeared before their eyes—black clothes, black hair, a cold expression: it was Ye Chen.

"Brother—" Ye Zhu rushed forward, tears of joy streaming down her face. The others breathed a collective sigh of relief.

"What about the monster?" Bai Long quickly asked. Ye Chen replied indifferently, "Dead." "What!!" Xi Xiang and the others almost thought they had misheard, staring at Ye Chen in shock.

That tiger monster, evolved from a tiger, was absolutely a top-tier terrestrial monster they had encountered so far, yet the cold young man standing before them had actually killed it! This was simply unbelievable!

Ye Chen glanced up; the sun was approaching noon. He looked at Xi Xiang and the others.

"We part ways here!" Xi Xiang and the others froze, then offered a bitter smile. They knew that with the strength of Ye Chen's group, they definitely couldn't take along a burden like them; being rescued at a critical moment was already a profound act of kindness.

"We are going to Beijing next month. If you are heading to the base city too, we’ll meet again," Ye Chen turned and walked back towards the alley, waving his hand, leaving a final remark.

In later times, if he encountered such a team in the wilderness, he certainly wouldn't pay them any mind, as food would be extremely scarce then, and cannibalism would be common. But in the early stages, there were still some kind people; after all, this was a process that needed to be experienced gradually—it wasn't as if everyone turned brutal the moment the apocalypse began.

Bai Long cast a lingering look at Xi Xiang, then dejectedly followed Ye Chen back into the alley, leaving only Xi Xiang and the others standing there, watching their receding figures in silence. "Let's go!" After a moment, Xi Xiang took a deep breath and said calmly.

"Where to?" "Beijing!" ... "Ah, what a pity that we had to separate," Bai Long looked back three steps at a time, clearly reluctant.

Yue Heng chuckled, "You could chase after them!" Bai Long shot him a look and huffed, "Who do you think I am? In the past, only beautiful women chased after me.

What's so great about women? I can have as many as I want...

Wait, Ye Zhu, what are you doing? Ah, I didn't mean you, don't..." ...

Next, the group resumed hunting zombies. Ye Chen had iǎ Hei drag the Bloodtooth Tiger's carcass back to the research institute, placing it in the underground parking lot.

They only needed to wait until the Black Burrow Worm reached 50-man strength; then, they could control this Bloodtooth Tiger, acquiring a powerhouse equivalent to 500 men! By evening, the group returned to the institute.

That day, they had hunted a total of 400 zombies, including some zombie dogs, zombie ants, zombie mosquitoes, zombie flies, zombie cockroaches, and more. All these were dismembered under the control of iǎ Hei’s Three-Tailed Silver Dog paws.

They extracted about 100 pieces of Base Material in total, most of them small-sized, with only one medium-sized piece. This was mainly due to Ye Zhu's effectiveness in collection.

If Ye Chen or Bai Long had done it, the ratio would have been 10:1, meaning they would only have extracted about 50 pieces of Base Material. Everyone had to marvel—this stuff truly relied on luck.

"Brother, why do so many monsters listen to you?" After dinner, Ye Zhu walked to the window and approached Ye Chen, who was looking at the night sky, curiously. Ye Chen turned and looked at her, a gentle light in his eyes.

"These monsters are actually all dead. What controls them is a creature inside their heads called the Black Burrow Worm." "Black Burrow Worm?" Ye Zhu asked in surprise.

"There’s a bug like that, that can control another body?" Ye Chen smiled. In this vast world, anything can happen.

If scientists hadn't verified it, who would have believed a tiny ant could lift 400 times its own weight? "But..." Ye Zhu looked puzzled.

"How can you control these Black Burrow Worms? I heard them say yesterday that this swarm of worms nearly rebelled, and you only suppressed them because you put poison inside them." Ye Chen shook his head.

"Actually, I didn't use any poison." "Oh?" Ye Zhu paused, then understood, blinking and smiling. "Then you were just tricking them?" Ye Chen nodded.

He might not explain things to Mo Feng and the others, but he had nothing to hide from his sister. "Then how did you know their bodies would turn red?

Wasn't that caused by poison?" Ye Zhu wondered. Ye Chen smiled.

"Naturally not. The Black Burrow Worms' bodies turn red whenever they enter an agitated emotional state; that's a natural phenomenon." "Then why did they think it was caused by poison?" "It's simple.

For example, you don't know exactly how many bones or meridians you have in your body. They aren't completely familiar with their own bodies either.

Under those circumstances, it's natural for them to mistakenly believe they were poisoned." "However, having learned from this warning, I’ve already instructed Mo Feng to secretly inject a compound into their bodies. Next time, when they realize they were tricked, there will be something else to suppress them." ...

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