Chapter 53 The Refuge in the Villa Area

Chapter 53 The Refuge in the Villa Area

"Brother! Don't tell him! If this devil finds our refuge, everyone there is doomed!" the silver-haired girl screamed with a trembling voice.

Without a word, Alex viciously whipped the silver-haired girl with his salt-coated iron whip.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!" The sensation of the whip lashing against flesh was strangely satisfying for Alex.

"Ah!!!!!" The silver-haired girl let out a heart-wrenching scream, enduring unspeakable agony both mentally and physically.

Yet, remarkably steadfast, she clenched her teeth fiercely and roared, "Kill me! Even if you torture us to death, we won't tell you anything!!"

Alex grinned and turned to Ma Chenbin, who had once again wet his pants, and asked, "Esteemed leader of the human survivors, is what this beautiful lady saying true?"

Ma Chenbin, with wide eyes full of terror, screeched at Alex, "I'll talk! I'll say anything! Just don't hit me!"

"Brother!! What are you saying?!!! Letting this devil know our refuge means putting mom and dad in danger!! He won't spare anyone! Have you lost your mind?!" the silver-haired girl shouted angrily at Ma Chenbin, "Do you want to kill mom, dad, and everyone?!"

Alex smirked again, picked up a branding iron from a nearby brazier, and gently pressed it against the silver-haired girl's fair skin.

With a hissing sound and the girl's piercing scream, the air was suddenly filled with the smell of seared flesh.

Unexpectedly, this girl, who seemed like a delinquent, had quite a sense of justice.

"Are you siblings? Biologically related?" Alex walked over to Ma Chenbin, picked up another branding iron, and scrutinized him, trembling like a leaf, as if searching for a spot to apply the iron. Finally, Alex's gaze settled on a particularly vulnerable spot on Ma Chenbin's body.

Feeling a chill from Alex's gaze, Ma Chenbin yelled frantically, "Yes! Yes! I'll confess everything! I'll tell you everything! We are biological siblings!! My sister's name is Ma Beili!! My father is Ma Gang!!"

Perhaps fearing a slow response would lead Alex to use the iron on him, Ma Chenbin blurted out, "Please don't use that on me! I'll tell you everything!"

"Ma Gang?" Alex slightly furrowed his brows, muttering to himself, "That name sounds familiar." He couldn't immediately recall where he had heard it.

"The Jiangcheng City Public Security Bureau!" Ma Chenbin hurriedly added.

"How did you find my city?" Alex then asked a question that had been intriguing him. Logically, people living in Baihe New Town had no need to venture near Jiangcheng University in a world overrun with zombies.

Twisting in his restraints, Ma Chenbin's expression was distorted due to continuous mental torment: "We didn't know about your existence before. My sister and the man you shot were just following orders to capture mutants to bring back for Dr. Zhu and others to research a cure for the zombie virus. Finding you was just a coincidence."

"Mutants?!!!" Alex was taken aback and asked with a surprised frown, "What are mutants?"

Hearing the term 'mutants,' Alex was somewhat startled and even a bit wary. If others could have strong physiques and evolved abilities like him, it would be a significant threat to him.

"Mutants are those who have been infected by the zombie virus but still maintain their original form. We captured one, and after research, we found that besides their skin turning somewhat blue and changes in pupil color, their strength is much greater than that of a normal person."

"And also, ordinary zombies don't actively attack these mutants!" Ma Chenbin said, casting a fearful glance at Alex. He vividly remembered how the zombies had retreated from Alex, leading him to suspect that Alex might be an incredibly powerful and abnormal super-mutant.

"Another thing, the mutant we captured still retained human intelligence, but seemed to have lost a lot of memory and appeared to have some intellectual impairments."

Hearing this, Alex slightly relaxed. At least for now, it seemed that these newly emerged mutants weren't particularly formidable. They even sounded somewhat innocently dopey.

"How did your search for mutants lead you to my place?" Alex continued with his questioning, curious.

"Our people spotted a female mutant who was different from the one we captured. This female mutant seemed to have merged with cat genes. She not only had cat ears and a tail but was also as agile as a cat."

Cat-eared girl, huh? Alex thought, feeling somewhat amused. A human form, with furry ears and a tail, agile like a cat...

"So this is like a cat-eared girl from an anime, huh? Or should we call her Catwoman, like in Hollywood movies?" Alex thought with a bit of wicked amusement, "I wonder if this cat-eared girl is pretty..."

Ma Chenbin continued his recollection, "When we saw her, she was wandering around, looking for food, seemingly aimless."

"We initially wanted to capture her, but this cat-eared mutant was very cautious, and we never got a chance to approach her."

"Eventually, we tried to surround and capture her by force. But she was incredibly agile and fast, just like a cat, and we couldn't catch her at all. We followed the direction in which she escaped, and it led us here, but then the cat-eared mutant disappeared."

"So, I sent my sister and some people to patrol this area, hoping to find an opportunity to capture this mutant."

Alex nodded, understanding that these mutants were not all the same; some had even merged with other animal genes. But overall, the mutants seemed to be at a very primitive stage of development and were quite rare.