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Surviving Zombies Was Easier Than Raising Beast Cubs

Chapter 240: UNKNOWN ORGANISM · Oct 31, 2026

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201 Chapter 201: Is she sulking? 2026-10-31
202 Chapter 202: You did not miss me! 2026-10-31
203 Chapter 203: They are bullying me 2026-10-31
204 Chapter 204: It has begun 2026-10-31
205 Chapter 205: GET SOREN! 2026-10-31
206 Chapter 206: Bad Pa 2026-10-31
207 Chapter 207: You’re actually jealous 2026-10-31
208 Chapter 208: Why are you holding my daughter? 2026-10-31
209 Chapter 209: The Twins Transformed 2026-10-31
210 Chapter 210: They do not love us 2026-10-31
211 Chapter 211: We need more animals 2026-10-31
212 Chapter 212: You are supposed to be the adult! 2026-10-31
213 Chapter 213: You still cannot bite every person who scares a baby 2026-10-31
214 Chapter 214: You listened to me for ten minutes just to ask if I was done? 2026-10-31
215 Chapter 215: Little fox 2026-10-31
216 Chapter 216: Do not assume my people want the same thing 2026-10-31
217 Chapter 217: I stole you 2026-10-31
218 Chapter 218: You are not climbing the prince 2026-10-31
219 Chapter 219: Some are attacking animals. Some ignore animals and hunt beastmen instead 2026-10-31
220 Chapter 220: Make it stop 2026-10-31
221 Chapter 221: You get meaner when you’re hungry 2026-10-31
222 Chapter 222: They’re all hurting where they were hurt before 2026-10-31
223 Chapter 223: POTENTIAL DISEASE OUTBREAK 2026-10-31
224 Chapter 224 - 225: Stay back! 2026-10-31
225 Chapter 225 - 226: Perhaps threaten people less romantically next time 2026-10-31
226 Chapter 226 - 227: You hid a fever? 2026-10-31
227 Chapter 227 - 228: Is he going to die? 2026-10-31
228 Chapter 228 - 229: You grabbed my ass 2026-10-31
229 Chapter 229 - 230: Why are my children investigating my relationships? 2026-10-31
230 Chapter 230 - 231: Do not let children’s affection make you mistake your place 2026-10-31
231 Chapter 231 - 232: Stop trying to kiss your way out of trouble! 2026-10-31
232 Chapter 232 - 233: A breakthrough 2026-10-31
233 Chapter 233 - 234: I thought you would never figure it out 2026-10-31
234 Chapter 234: Meow 2026-10-31
235 Chapter 235: EVERYBODY SIT YOUR ASSES DOWN! 2026-10-31
236 Chapter 236: Could you stop bringing corpses when you’re courting me? 2026-10-31
237 Chapter 237: RAKU! 2026-10-31
238 Chapter 238: ROOFS! STORAGE PLATFORMS! GET CHILDREN UP FIRST! 2026-10-31
239 Chapter 239: Up! Everybody up! 2026-10-31
240 Chapter 240: UNKNOWN ORGANISM 2026-10-31
241 Chapter 241: If you die, I will be extremely angry 2026-10-31
242 Chapter 242: Mama… your hands… 2026-10-31
243 Chapter 243: GOOD GIRL! 2026-10-31
244 Chapter 244: If either of you bleeds on my patients because you’re too stubborn to bind yourselves, I will kill you personally 2026-10-31
245 Chapter 245: If we become stupid, we kill them ourselves 2026-10-31
246 Chapter 246: EMERGENCY PURGE INITIALIZING 2026-10-31
247 Chapter 247: WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?! 2026-10-31
248 Chapter 248: Absolutely disgusting 2026-10-31
249 Chapter 249: If they don’t care about me, I can’t lure them away just by fighting 2026-10-31
250 Chapter 250: DO NOT FIRE. GUNFIRE OR PROJECTILE IMPACT MAY DIVERT THE SWARM BACK TOWARD HOST 2026-10-31

Content Warning: Graphic violence, blood and gore, death, and child endangerment.

One cub was sobbing too hard to climb the raised platform.

Tilla shoved him upward with both hands.

“Come on!”

“I can’t!”

“Yes, you can!”

A Warder claw erupted behind them.

The child screamed.

Tilla spun and kicked it with both feet.

The hand recoiled.

She snatched the cub up again.

“MOVE!”

Nahla stood on a raised stone ledge surrounded by blood.

Her gray otter hair was stuck to her face.

Two patients were screaming beside her.

One was not screaming anymore.

She checked his throat.

Nothing.

Nahla looked at the people crowding around.

“HE’S DEAD!”

Nobody moved.

“He’s…”

“I KNOW!”

Her voice cracked like a whip.

“If they’re bleeding, bring them to me!”

She pointed toward the dead male.

“If they’re dead, stop blocking the living!”

His brother stared at her in horror.

Nahla grabbed his face.

“Grieve later.”

His eyes filled.

“Do you hear me?”

He nodded.

“Good. Help Sari.”

Sari was kneeling beside a male whose thigh had been shredded open.

Her hands shook.

Not enough to stop working.

She pressed cloth into the wound.

“Hold this!”

The wounded male screamed.

“I can’t!”

“You can!”

“I CAN’T!”

Sari grabbed his wrist and forced his hand onto the cloth.

Her own eyes were wet.

“Then scream while you do it!”

He screamed.

But he held it.

Inside Swanly’s shelter, she heard all of it.

Every scream.

Every crash.

Every horn.

Every cry for help.

Her whole body wanted to run outside.

She did not.

Sira was pressed against her chest.

Eira clung to her other side.

Kairo, Nilo and Miko were behind her near the raised sleeping platform.

Swanly’s white tail had wrapped around them so tightly that Miko’s face was almost buried in fur.

“Mama…”

“I know.”

Another pale hand slammed through the wall.

Swanly moved.

She shifted both girls backward into Kairo’s arms.

“Hold them.”

Kairo grabbed Eira immediately.

Nilo took Sira.

Swanly pulled her bow from storage.

The System hovered beside her.

LEFT.

Swanly turned.

The Warder lunged.

TWANG.

The arrow struck through the palm and pinned it to the wooden wall.

It kept moving.

Swanly stared.

“Oh, come on!”

Its fingers closed around the shaft.

Pulled.

The arrow tore free.

Miko whimpered.

“It didn’t die.”

“No.”

Swanly reached into storage.

A short blade appeared in her hand.

“No gun yet.”

The System looked at her.

APPROVED. AMMUNITION IS LIMITED AND REPLACEMENT COST IS HIGH.

“I know.”

The Warder snapped toward her.

Swanly waited.

Closer.

She stepped sideways.

The claws missed her stomach by inches.

She cut into the underside of its wrist.

Black fluid sprayed.

The hand jerked.

Sira hissed.

Eira hissed louder.

Miko stared at them.

Then hissed too.

Nilo looked at him.

“You’re not a snake.”

“I’m helping.”

Swanly almost laughed.

Then the Warder caught her blade.

Its fingers clenched.

Swanly’s eyes widened.

“Let go.”

It did not.

“Fine.”

She kicked the wall.

The arm twisted with the movement.

Swanly ripped the blade downward through the softer joint.

The Warder collapsed.

Kairo breathed again.

Swanly turned immediately.

“Everybody okay?”

Eira reached toward her.

“Mama.”

“I’m okay.”

Sira’s tiny lower lip trembled.

“Up.”

Swanly wanted nothing more than to grab both of them.

Instead she heard another scraping sound.

“Not yet.”

Sira’s eyes filled.

That nearly broke Swanly more effectively than the monster.

“I’m right here.”

Outside, voices rose.

“ASH!”

“SALT!”

“RESIN!”

The System’s instructions were spreading.

Tovan had people hauling baskets onto platforms.

Sari threw a handful of wood ash into a fresh crack.

The Warder inside convulsed.

Its pale skin immediately bubbled.

Sari screamed:

“It works!”

People heard.

Hope travelled faster than fear for the first time all night.

“ASH!”

A warrior dumped an entire basket into another opening.

Three hands recoiled beneath the soil.

Mora poured bitter tree resin into a trench.

Raku followed with ash.

The Warders thrashed.

Then withdrew.

Swanly heard the cheering outside.

Small.

Exhausted.

But real.

One hand near her shelter retreated.

Then another.

Swanly stared.

The System’s golden map showed the red signals moving downward.

Her knees almost gave out.

“They’re leaving.”

The fairy did not answer.

Swanly looked at it.

“System.”

Its little face had gone strange.

“Host.”

“What?”

THE WARDERS ARE RETREATING.

Swanly laughed once.

Half sob.

Half hysteria.

“Good.”

She looked toward the cubs.

“We…”

NOT BECAUSE YOU DEFEATED THEM.

Her smile vanished.

“What?”

Everyone near her went quiet.

Swanly stared at the fairy.

“Why?”

The System turned toward the floor.

A severed Warder hand lay beside the wall.

Its fingers had been twitching continuously.

They stopped.

Miko noticed.

“Mama…”

The hand jerked.

Once.

Then slid toward the crack.

Swanly frowned.

It was not crawling.

Something below was pulling it.

The hand disappeared.

Crunch.

Swanly froze.

Kairo’s ears flattened.

“What was that?”

Crunch.

Wet.

Heavy.

Chewing.

Nilo’s little face drained of color.

“Something ate it.”

Outside, the same thing happened.

Raku stood over two severed Warder arms.

One disappeared.

He stared at the crack.

“What…”

CRUNCH.

Mora backed away.

“Raku.”

Another limb vanished.

CRUNCH.

The entire battlefield quieted.

Then something pushed through the earth.

Not a hand.

A hooked leg.

Stone-colored.

It bent at three joints.

Then another leg.

Then four more.

A body dragged itself out.

Low.

Broad.

Covered in overlapping gray armor that looked almost identical to rock.

No visible eyes.

Its head turned toward blood.

Then split sideways.

The entire skull opened into a wet horizontal mouth lined with rows of inward-facing teeth.

Tilla screamed.

Someone shouted:

“WHAT IS THAT?!”

The creature ate the remaining Warder hand.

Whole.

The System jerked upright.

UNKNOWN ORGANISM.

Swanly swallowed.

“No.”

Another one emerged.

Then a third.

“System.”

SCANNING.

“Faster.”

SCANNING.

One of the creatures turned toward a wounded male.

It had no eyes.

It did not need them.

Blood dripped from his thigh.

The creature’s head snapped toward him.

Swanly understood.

“BLOOD!”

Nobody heard.

She screamed louder.

“THEY’RE FOLLOWING BLOOD!”

The creature launched.

Raku intercepted it.

He transformed fully.

His huge crocodilian jaws closed around its armored neck.

The Hollowmaw twisted.

Its mouth opened sideways and bit into Raku’s shoulder scales.

Raku roared.

Then rolled.

His enormous body twisted violently.

Once.

Twice.

The creature’s joints tore.

Its armored head ripped from its torso with a wet snap.

Raku came up breathing hard.

Black-gray fluid poured from his jaws.

Mora stared.

“Do that again.”

Raku spat.

“I was planning to.”

The System finally flashed information.

TEMPORARY CLASSIFICATION: HOLLOWMAW. SUBTERRANEAN SCAVENGER.

“Hollowmaw?”

DATA INCOMPLETE.

“Of course it is.”

ARMORED DORSAL SURFACE. EXPOSED UNDERSIDE. LOW VISUAL CAPACITY. STRONG BLOOD AND VIBRATION RESPONSE.

“How do I kill it?”

DOWNLOADING.

“I hate you.”

NOTED.

Swanly heard something scrape above.

A Hollowmaw was climbing a wooden support.

Straight up.

People screamed from the platform above it.

The whole safety plan collapsed in one second.

“They climb!”

Panic returned.

Worse.

People began jumping from platforms.

“NO!” Swanly screamed. “STAY UP!”

Some listened.

Some did not.

One female landed directly on soft earth.

A Warder caught her ankle.

She went down.

The Hollowmaw reached her before anyone else did.

Its mouth opened.

Her scream ended wetly.

Swanly looked away.

Just once.

Then forced herself to look back.

You did not survive an apocalypse by pretending death was pretty.

Kael burst into the shelter.

Black fur receded from his face and chest.

Blood soaked one side of him.

Not his.

Mostly.

His golden eyes found Swanly.

Then the children.

Counted.

Five.

Alive.

His shoulders dropped a fraction.

Soren came seconds later in humanoid form because his full body could not fit through the doorway.

Raku remained outside.

The System’s map flashed between Swanly’s eyes.

More red.

More movement.

Swanly looked at both males.

“Go.”

Kael stared.

“No.”

“Kael.”

“No.”

A scream came from the eastern shelter.

Another.

Swanly pointed.

“They need you.”

“They are not my concern.”

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