A majestic figure, the **Hu Tou Hai Diao** (虎头海雕), a creature renowned among the world's top ten most ferocious raptors.
Its mutated form boasts a dramatically expanded physique, with its strength, speed, and physical resilience amplified by tens of thousands of times.
Crucially, it stands as a rare mutated animal possessing awakened extraordinary abilities.
Qin Feng was mounted upon the giant eagle's back, while Zhou Haiyang rode his dark giant bird.
Observing the Hu Tou Hai Diao, then glancing at his own immense avian companion, a sense of unease settled upon Zhou Haiyang.
His dark giant bird, it seemed, lacked the imposing presence of the Hu Tou Hai Diao.
Now that the captain had acquired a superior mount, his own seemed rather superfluous.
An old bird replaced by a new one; a forgotten treasure suddenly prized.
"Zombie horde!" Qin Feng shouted.
Among zombies, apart from mutated variants, level five represented the evolutionary limit.
This implied that the vast majority of ordinary zombies could no longer collectively evolve.
Seizing the moment while they still held some utility, Qin Feng intended to reap a bounty.
"Charge!" Zhou Haiyang roared.
"Wait a moment."
Qin Feng called out, "Come over here!"
Zhou Haiyang immediately understood.
While the dark giant bird was not weak, in terms of combat prowess, the dark behemoths were still the superior choice.
He maneuvered his colossal bird closer to the Hu Tou Hai Diao.
In the next instant, he leaped onto the eagle's back, recalling his dark giant bird.
"Central mutated variant!" Qin Feng pointed.
"Caw!"
The Hu Tou Hai Diao let out a piercing shriek.
It dived!
At an altitude of over thirty meters, Qin Feng vanished from sight.
Below, the zombie horde numbered at least twenty thousand.
Mutated variants occupied the center of the formation.
Ordinary zombies had reached level five, while the mutated variants soared to level seven.
Qin Feng had located his target.
And the mutated variant had also noticed the giant bird, preparing for battle!
But... where was the rider?
The Hu Tou Hai Diao swooped to a certain height, then did not continue its descent.
On the eagle's back, one of the two figures was gone.
With the intelligence of a level seven mutated variant, it immediately sensed something amiss, yet could not pinpoint the source of the problem.
A gust of wind suddenly whispered past its ear.
Not good!
Its last vestiges of consciousness echoed in its mind as its vision blurred.
The visual effect was bizarre; it witnessed its own body falling from its own perspective.
The viewpoint continuously inverted, as its head detached and plummeted earthward, separated from its body!
A cold smirk played on Qin Feng's lips.
In the past, dispatching a mutated variant from the midst of an army would not have been an easy feat.
But now, with a mount and spatial displacement abilities, plucking the head of a mutated variant from the heart of an army was hardly a challenge.
"Roar!"
Seeing their leader slain, the other zombies roared.
The one who killed their king was now surrounded.
Countless zombies surged toward Qin Feng.
Spatial Shield!
Several shields materialized out of thin air, separating the surrounding ordinary zombies and forcefully pushing them outward.
Simultaneously, Qin Feng wielded a spatial blade in each hand.
In battles of this scale, his physique, spatial blades, and spatial shields remained his undisputed choices.
Suspended in the void, the Hu Tou Hai Diao was stunned.
With its intelligence, it recognized the central mutated variant as an opponent it could not defeat.
And yet...
A single strike!
A swift kill!
At that moment, its perception of Qin Feng's combat power deepened significantly.
"Kill!"
The Hu Tou Hai Diao circled at a low altitude.
Zhou Haiyang let out a mighty roar.
Metal condensed into countless spears.
Spatial shields formed a circular bulwark.
This was perfect!
Zhou Haiyang unleashed his attacks towards the densest areas of zombies outside the spatial shield, almost without needing to aim.
Qin Feng retracted one of the shields, creating a single direction for the zombies to surge into.
He only needed to repeat one action.
A hand rose, a blade fell.
A hand rose, a blade fell.
From the South Heaven Gate all the way to Penglai East Road, bodies fell, and heads were collected into his dimensional space.
Until his feet could no longer touch the ground, the earth buried under a layer of corpses, rising higher and higher.
The two worked in perfect concert.
They were on a killing spree!
"Roar!"
A thunderous roar echoed from afar.
"Captain!" Zhou Haiyang's expression tensed.
This roar was not from a zombie.
Moreover, even a level seven mutated variant did not possess such a powerful voice.
"Go!"
Qin Feng vanished from his position.
He reappeared moments later, already on the back of the Hu Tou Hai Diao.
...
Several kilometers away from where Qin Feng was battling the zombies.
Kaohsiung Port.
Waves tens of meters high surged, as if a depth charge had detonated.
Near the harbor's edge, containers were swept away by the crests, crashing into each other with a series of explosive sounds.
A few wandering zombies heard the commotion and ran towards the source of the sound.
Someone?
Could there be food?
Due to the sheer volume of containers, visibility was obscured.
It was only upon closer proximity that the sight became clear.
Indeed!
A colossal entity emerged from the water.
Its head alone was over ten meters high!
Tentacles, each seventy to eighty meters long and covered in countless suckers, gripped the harbor ground.
It had crawled ashore.
Using its tentacles, it hoisted its immense body.
"Roar..."
Upon seeing the creature clearly, the few zombies turned and fled without hesitation.
Whoosh!
A tentacle, tens of meters long, lashed out and ensnared the zombies tightly.
Simultaneously, suckers lined with sharp fangs ground the ensnared zombies into pulp.
The zombies let out desperate screams.
Alas, to no avail!
Unlike how ability users killed zombies, extracting only crystals, the suckers acted like a meat grinder.
Zombies were torn apart, devoured.
Eaten clean and wiped away!
"Holy crap!"
Zhou Haiyang, flying ahead, witnessed this scene.
He was utterly dumbfounded.
"Cap... Captain, what is that thing?!" his voice wavered.
A squid?
But how could a squid grow so colossal?
Logically, the size of mutated creatures was proportional to their unmutated counterparts.
A mosquito, after mutation, would be nearly palm-sized, a tenfold increase.
A macaque, mutated, would be over two meters tall, a fivefold increase.
While the growth margin varied among species, it rarely became too extreme.
But before them...
A creature no less than 100 meters in length!
How many times had it grown?
"Giant Squid."
Qin Feng's expression was grave. "Unlike ordinary squids, it's a top-tier predator of the seas!"
Adult giant squids could reach lengths of over ten meters.
"This... what level of strength must it possess?" Zhou Haiyang stammered.
"At least level seven."
"Level seven?"
Zhou Haiyang visibly relaxed. "So, it's just like the mutated variant you killed before. I thought it was something far more formidable."
Qin Feng saw no need to explain.
Could two entities of the same level seven possess equal strength?
"Roar!"
Just then, a roar echoed from not far away.
It was a zombie!
And a level seven mutated variant!
The giant squid's roar had attracted the attention of the zombie horde.
With millions of people in Kaohsiung, it was impossible to have only one horde. The giant squid's roar could travel ten kilometers.
Moments later, hordes of zombies, like a surging tide, rushed towards their location.
The mutated variant looked up.
It saw the two humans and two birds in the sky.
However, with the intelligence of a level seven mutated variant, it knew they were beyond its reach—it could not fly.
"Roar!"
The mutated variant issued an order.
Tens of thousands of zombies charged towards the docks.
Meanwhile, the giant squid had already landed using its tentacles.
"It looks like..."
Zhou Haiyang's spirit lifted, his eyes widening. "The two sides are about to clash, aren't they?!"
The mutated variant bellowed.
Hearing their king's command, its subordinate zombies swarmed forward.
Whoosh!
Just two tentacles swept across, and with terrifying force, swathes of zombies were flung aside.
Like cannonballs, they flew in all directions.
The other tentacles were not idle either.
They coiled around zombies, their suckers acting like meat grinders, shredding ordinary zombies.
Grinding!
Tearing!
Devouring!