188 Red Smoke Zombie

She walked to the door and looked inside. As she had thought, she saw a few broken furniture pieces and piles of human body parts, with the floor covered by a thick layer of dark-red blood. 

A figure was squatted in a corner with its back toward Lin Qiao, holding something with both hands and chewing on it. 

The chewing sound was coming out of its mouth. 

Its back was hunched, hair wet and sticky. Lin Qiao saw a part of that thing held in its hand, which turned out to be a human foot. Lin Qiao clearly saw the shank and the toes. 

Clearly, the zombie was eating the thigh area. 

Next to the zombie was a corpse which had been torn into two. It was a young man, his face covered in blood. His head appeared to have been bitten, as there was a hole in it. 

The young man's eyes were opened wide, and so was his mouth. His face was twisted and eyes bulged, seeming to even fall out of the eye sockets. His body was torn apart from the waist, and his stomach was smashed, so Lin Qiao couldn't see his internal organs clearly. His lower body was thrown to the side, and a leg of his was missing. 

Judging by the condition of this body, Lin Qiao figured that this man died less than forty-eight hours ago. The other body parts were older; it appeared that this zombie had sorted these corpses. 

The rotten pieces and bones were piled up in a corner by the door. That area radiated a strong stench, and was surrounded by hundreds of flies. 

This pile of body parts was at least a month old. Some pieces that were less than two weeks old were randomly scattered in the room, and the corpse next to the zombie was the freshest one. 

The zombie focused on its food, its head and body moving regularly. It had no idea that Lin Qiao was standing by the door. 

Lin Qiao spent a few seconds watching the zombie by the door, then took two small steps back to stand on a small, clean spot, and showed her face. 

Sensing Lin Qiao's sudden appearance, the zombie froze. Then, it turned back abruptly, letting her see its weird-looking face. Like most zombies, its mouth was cracked from ear to ear. Its eyes were dark; its nose might have been bitten off by other zombies, as Lin Qiao only saw two holes on its face. 

"Roar!" At the sight of Lin Qiao, it bared its teeth and uttered a deep roar. 

Its voice delivered a firm intention of killing, as if saying that she must die in its hands for intruding in its territory. 

Lin Qiao sensed its hostility from its dark and cold eyes. As it was eating just now, its face and teeth were covered in blood. Lin Qiao even saw a few shreds of meat between its teeth. 

She rolled her eyes, ignoring the zombie's roar as she crossed her arms and stepped back to lean against the guardrail of the corridor while looking at the zombie blandly. 'Can you defeat me with your voice? Can you kill me by roaring?'

The zombie was confused by Lin Qiao's calm attitude. As she hadn't shown a sign of attacking, the zombie couldn't tell what encouraged her to come to its territory. Seeing her make no move, the zombie put down the human leg and stood up while turning. 

Lin Qiao couldn't tell how it possibly looked back when it was still a human being. Its sticky hair weren't long enough to cover its face; its face and body were entirely covered in blood. Its clothes had been soaked by blood over and over again, such that she couldn't even recognize their original colors. 

It looked bloody and dirty, and smelled awful. 

This zombie had shown a strong hostility. Judging what she saw in this room, Lin Qiao figured that it had been hunting and eating human beings frequently. 

The man it was eating just now died less than forty-eight hours ago, but his scent had disappeared days ago. Lin Qiao guessed that he was caught and kept here by the zombie. 

This zombie even stored food and kept it alive. It was rather smart!

The zombie faced Lin Qiao as it hunched its back and fixed its eyes on her, slowly releasing a faintly red smoke from its body. More and more red smoke was released, growing thicker and thicker, soon filling up half of the room. 

Lin Qiao had no idea what the red smoke could do. However, she was surprised to find that the zombie had the same kind of power as she did. Zombies with such kind of power were rarely seen. Lin Qiao had learned about many types of superpowers from Lu Tianyu's memories, including metal, green, water, fire, earth, and the relatively rarer ones such as lightning power and spirit power. 

She had killed a level-five metal-powered zombie days ago, and back in the South, she had killed a spirit-powered one. 

Lin Qiao looked at this ugly zombie. If it hadn't eaten too many people, she might have let it live for a little longer. 

As the red smoke slowly blurred the zombie's body, Lin Qiao waved her hand. A thick stream of black mist was released, smartly surging toward the red smoke. The red smoke didn't seem to be flexible or under the zombie's control. It just spread in the room and mixed with the air. 

On the other hand, Lin Qiao's black mist quickly flowed into the room, then spread to envelope the red smoke. The part of the red smoke touched by the black mist disappeared immediately, and the black mist quickly approached the zombie. 

"Roar!" Once Lin Qiao released the black mist, the zombie sensed the danger immediately. It nervously roared at Lin Qiao as it saw the black mist erase its red smoke and come at it. 

"Whooo…" The red smoke zombie growled with a deep voice while slowly drawing back. At the same time, Lin Qiao moved slightly and turned invisible. She saw two windows behind the zombie, and judging by its backward movement, it was preparing to run. Lin Qiao was aware of how powerful her black mist was, but didn't expect the zombie to be so sensitive. It felt the danger before even touching the black mist, and smartly attempted to escape. 

Only the brainless zombies would charge at any enemy they saw without showing any fear. Unlike them, this zombie soon found out that it was no match for Lin Qiao, so it wisely chose to run. 

However, Lin Qiao would give it no such chance.