Apocalypse: My Items Can Upgrade Infinitely

Moreover, even his own Sensing hadn’t detected any warning, which meant there were no Tier Two Zergs nearby that could threaten him!

’What in the world attacked him!?’

Instantly, alarm bells blared in Qin Hu’s mind. Any sense of ease he’d felt while searching for the source of the call was gone in a flash. He tightened his grip on the Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword and, guided by his head-mounted searchlight, rushed toward the source of the scream.

It was just over a hundred meters away.

Hearing the cry for help, the other team members also rushed over.

With their searchlights blazing, the group quickly found the team member already on the ground, clutching his severed leg.

His right leg had been sliced clean off just above the knee. The exposed cross-section of bone was perfectly smooth, which meant the attacker had used an incredibly sharp blade.

Not only that, but the attack must have been delivered with incredible speed and explosive power—it wouldn’t have been possible without both.

But Tiger Spine Zergs simply didn’t have that kind of capability.

Qin Hu’s brow furrowed deeply. He ordered his teammates to apply first aid to the severely injured Genetic Warrior and stop the bleeding.

Overcome by excruciating pain and massive blood loss, the injured soldier passed out right after they applied the styptic powder and wrapped a pressure bandage around his wound.

Just before he lost consciousness, he gripped a teammate’s arm, his head drenched in a mixture of blood and sweat, and managed to say:

"A Zerg... holding a blade..."

With a wound that severe, he wouldn’t survive unless they got him to a frontline hospital immediately. Not even his Genetic Fusion could save him.

In truth, massive blood loss was far more lethal than a wound that could clot and scab over.

An ordinary person would have died within minutes. As an Awakener and a genetically modified warrior, he was only barely clinging to life.

However, this wasn’t a situation they could just walk away from. Qin Hu took a deep breath. He had to find the enemy, and fast. If panic set in, their situation would become even more dangerous.

But as the remaining seven of them formed a defensive circle, scanning their surroundings for the source of the threat...

...they found nothing!

Whether on the ground or on the Hive’s ceiling, aside from a few Tiger Spine Zerg corpses, there was no sign of the "Zerg holding a blade" that their teammate had described before losing consciousness.

’Wait a minute!’

Qin Hu’s face turned grim as a terrible possibility suddenly occurred to him.

’Could it be Shen Jie, the one Lin Feng brought? Had he lost his mind from excessive Genetic Fusion with the Tiger Spine Zerg genes? Had he gone into a frenzy, and after killing the Tiger Spine Zergs, continued to hunt other living things in the Hive, now targeting Human Awakeners?!’

The more Qin Hu thought about it, the more plausible it seemed.

After all, he himself had come close to losing his mind once. In the test labs at the Research Institute, he had seen far too many modified subjects whose minds had shattered from excessive fusion, turning them into mindless tools of slaughter.

Their bodies would undergo extensive zergification, making them look like humanoid members of the Zerg Race.

This description fit perfectly with what the injured teammate had said.

However, just as everyone was on pins and needles, a two-meter-tall, humanoid zerg figure suddenly emerged from behind a distant Tiger Spine Zerg corpse. It was covered in blood and clutching its side.

The Giant Mandible Heavy Saber on its left arm was completely shattered, and the one on its right was covered in cracks.

From beneath a shattered, mandible-like helmet, a human face was revealed. It was Shen Jie, and he was alone.

Qin Hu’s expression immediately turned grim. He tightened his grip on his Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword, poised to strike.

’But then again...’

’If Shen Jie really was the culprit, then who could have wounded him so severely?!’

’If the attacker wasn’t him...’

’...then who was it?!’

In the gloomy depths of the Hive, an unknown dread began to spread. The survivors felt as if an invisible claw had seized them by the throat.

Their hearts were in their throats.

The slightest sound or movement sent a fresh wave of panic through them.

Just then, a scraping, rustling sound suddenly echoed from the deeper recesses of the Hive.

They swung their searchlights toward the sound and saw a lone, slender figure dragging several enormous Zerg Race corpses toward them.

The moment they saw it was Lin Feng, the tension that had gripped them finally eased slightly.

Lin Feng took in the scene: Qin Hu and the others, looking like they were facing a formidable enemy, and Shen Jie, leaning against a Tiger Spine Zerg, panting heavily as steam rose from his body...

His brow furrowed slightly. He tossed a three-meter-tall, humanoid zerg corpse onto the ground and asked,

"So, how many did you run into?"