I practice martial arts by adding skill points in modern city-Chapter 617: 【Ending Easter Egg - 】

In the depths of the vast grassland, amidst the dense forest area.

A dark-skinned indigenous tribe, clad in animal skins and painted with plant colors, the entire tribe carrying large quantities of fruits and meat, packed in straw baskets, heading towards the depths of the large forest.

They waded through streams full of leeches and mosquito larvae, stepped over jagged rocks, and passed through taller-than-human bushes.

Finally, they reached a desolate pile of rocks.

In this area, there were no living things.

Neither plants nor insects.

It felt like an absolute life-forbidden zone, with only the circle surrounding the pile of rocks filled with towering trees long since dead and turned into decaying wood.

At the top of the rock pile was a pitch-black cave formed by two massive flat black stone slabs leaning together.

The cave led underground, and no one knew how deep this cave was or where it led.

One by one, the tribespeople stepped on the rocks to ascend the pile of stones, devoutly tossing the straw baskets they held into the cave.

Immediately, the sound of heavy objects rolling down echoed below.

Every tribesperson's expression remained very calm and devout, completely unperturbed by the possibility of any unusual incidents occurring. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

For these food sacrifices were traditional customs passed down uninterrupted since their tribe's inception.

Suddenly, the entire pile of rocks started to tremble slightly.

Yet not a single person noticed.

A gray mist spread along the ground, turning everywhere it passed into gray scorched earth.

The ground cracked open like parched land that hadn't absorbed water for years, barren and desolate.

"Ah!!!"

At this moment, the tribespeople standing atop the rock pile began to notice the anomaly.

Their legs dried up rapidly, flesh and blood melting amidst their screams.

Those taken over by the gray mist underwent physical mutation.

They became emaciated, their skin resembling cement, eyes pale white, wandering aimlessly like the living dead.

The gray mist spread quickly along the ground wherever it went.

The earth, as if eroded and polluted, lost its vitality, the soil hardened and cracked.

Plants started to grow rapidly, splitting and mutating.

The impact on animals was even more astonishing.

A rat, poking its head out of its burrow, suddenly grew to the size of an adult large dog.

Its sharp teeth filled its mouth, its eyes protruding, its forelimbs boasting claws like blades, each strand of its fur like iron spikes, and its tail grew scales akin to a snake.

Where the gray mist reached, all living beings began to mutate.

Mutated beasts started hunting everywhere, while those that hadn't mutated were brutally slaughtered.

This was a metamorphosis affecting the entire natural world, even the whole planet.

At this precise moment, humans still entrenched in modern technological civilization remained unaware of the terrifying dark disaster quietly brewing from the westernmost edge of the world map.

...

Ikonola City, a small city with a permanent population of around 100,000.

As a city situated on the highway network over the grassland, Ikonola City's armed forces were fairly strong.

Numerous security firms were stationed here year-round, equipped with weaponry.

Convenient for wealthy tourists seeking a reliable security team as the safest choice.

"Joey, look here, this is my wife, this is my child, already one year old. Once we finish this year, I'm quitting, going back to be a responsible dad."

On the roof, a Middle Eastern man pulled out his folding necklace, showing a photo to his companion beside him.

"Such a beautiful wife, such a lovely child."

The companion nodded, filled with hopeful sentiments: "Bob, once I earn 2 million US Dollars here, I'm going back home to marry the woman I love most."

"Good luck to you, Joey."

"Thank you, Bob."

Just as the two harbored hopeful thoughts, they suddenly heard a strange noise from below.

Looking down over the eaves, they saw several skulking figures slowly approaching from outside Ikonola City.

These figures moved very slowly and their body postures were extremely odd.

As if their arms, legs, necks, and waists had been broken, yet they could still walk upright normally like bizarre creatures.

"Hey! This point in Ikonola City is prohibited for entering, you all stay outside overnight!"

Joey picked up the rifle in his lap, loudly warning those weird figures not far away.

On the grassland, robbery and plundering were common occurrences.

Even the heavily armed Ikonola City couldn't guarantee they wouldn't encounter a robbery.

Therefore, after midnight, outsiders were strictly prohibited from entering the city, needing to wait outside and make do for a night. Only after verifying their identities the next day could they be approved for entry. This had become the rule.

The moment Joey raised his voice, those figures walking strangely suddenly froze.

Like scarecrows, they stood motionless.

Just as Joey and Bob felt profoundly puzzled by this situation, preparing to fire the signal flare for an alert.

Those peculiar figures suddenly leaped forcefully, like frogs, jumping high and pouncing directly in front of them.

It was a face of charcoal gray color, eyes pale like a zombie, and their mouth was full of uneven, rodent-like teeth.

Seizing Joey and Bob, they irrationally opened their mouths to bite.

Ripping off Joey's nose right from his face.

Bob barely saved one eye; his eye socket began to bleed profusely.

"Oh, shit! Damn things!"

Bob quickly raised his signal gun and fired a shot towards the sky.

In an instant, the entire sky lit up with noticeable pink.

Borrowing the momentary brightness, Bob managed to see the scene outside Ikonola City clearly.

Upon witnessing the scene outside the city, his single remaining eye couldn't help but widen to the fullest, and his heart beat feverishly.

On the grassland, numerous mutated beasts trekked through the gray mist.

Among them, Bob saw creatures resembling mutated rhinos, lions, ostriches, hyenas, zebras, giraffes, elephants.

At this moment, they all launched a fierce assault on Ikonola City.

The ground shook with each occurrence.

Rat-a-tat-tat! Rat-a-tat-tat!

Inside the city, countless guns began firing, bullets spraying at the mutated beasts.

Grenades were thrown liberally by the security mercenaries who had come to senses.

Exploding clouds of fire and black smoke on the road.

But all this resistance seemed ineffective.

Humankind's pride in firearms and hot weapons proved futile against the unyielding bodies of the mutated beasts.

Miserable wails echoed through the deep night in Ikonola City, flames soared high, rumbling resounded.

The unknown pollution had silently begun.