Gongsun Jing pressed Meng Hanghai’s stomach with one hand and Wang Hehe’s with the other. She looked up and said, “Brother Hou, it’s an ability! There’s some kind of corrosive ability in their stomachs. It must be an attack ability of a second-level or third-level zombie!”
It was only then that Hou Ying and the others realized why Wang Hehe and the others fell. Wu Nan, who had the highest ability level among them, was only at the low level of the second level, so could not resist such an attack. But it was so strange, Li Xuanyuan’s banyan wood crystal did not give an early warning. However, they did not have the time to think about this problem now. Hou Ying immediately asked Liu Zhan to put up a protective water curtain, while he, Li Xuanyuan, and Qiao Daye guarded against the high-level zombie. But no matter how hard Hou Ying and Qiao Daye strained their eyes and ears, they could not detect its location.
Hou Ying turned around to look at Wang Hehe and Meng Hanghai. The panic of the crowd woke up Li Hou, who had been lulled to sleep before and burst into tears.
Hou Ying almost went crazy. He became a little irritable. No one saw a sudden flash of black thread in his eyes, and then his movements suddenly stopped. He held Qiao Daye and stared at the place where he noticed something strange, but still saw nothing. Li Xuanyuan asked him what was wrong, and he replied, “There, I feel a third-level zombie… No, it should be the presence of a third-level nucleus.”
Qiao Daye opened his eyes wide but also saw nothing.
Hou Ying told Liu Zhan that he, Li Xuanyuan, Qiao Daye, and Dongfang Bai would go in the direction where he perceived something.
Qiao Daye said, “Brother Hou, this is the stinky ditch that I said earlier.”
“It seems that it’s a zombie with corrosive ability. We don’t have a crystal nucleus to attract it out, so we can only use foolish methods.”
He asked Li Xuanyuan to remove the protective vines from everyone’s bodies and expose them to the sunlight. Soon, Hou Ying and Qiao Daye heard the movement. It was not the roar of zombies, but the buzzing of flies!
Was it a zombie fly?!
Level 3 corrosive ability zombie fly?!
They immediately increased their vigilance. Dongfang Bai flew in mid-air and used his metal ability to swat at the flies. The swarm of flies, which were about the same size as before the apocalypse, did not disperse, but suddenly “looked” toward them!
“Fuck!”
Dongfang Bai almost fell from the sky. He felt like vomiting!
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It turned out that the bunch of flies was not just gathered together, it was just one fly!! There were two football-sized flies in one belly!
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When the others saw this, they already had a clear understanding of the situation.
It was a mutated zombie fly, just like the fused zombies they had seen in the factory warehouse before.
Dongfang Bai’s scalp tightened. When he saw a huge fly flying toward them with golden eyes blinking all over its body, he suddenly had the urge to hide behind everyone.
He swore he did not have trypophobia, but seeing the fused zombie fly with his own eyes was still too much for his psychological defense.
So disgusting.
Li Xuanyuan no longer retained his strength. He activated his fourth-level wood-type ability. The banyan leaves in the sky wrapped the four together. The zombie fly stopped and released its ability, trying to corrode the leaves, but soon found that its attack was ineffective. Although it has no intelligence, it instinctively sensed the danger and planned to leave after failing a single blow. However, soon, the banyan leaves rebounded its attack, and one of the zombie fly’s wings was corroded by its offensive just now. It quickly lost its balance and crashed into the gutter. Hou Ying and Qiao Daye watched as a group of flies suddenly separated from its stomach and turned into wings, allowing it to fly again.
Li Xuanyuan also saw this scene so the fourth-level vines immediately entangled the zombie fly and were about to pierce its head.
Unexpectedly, Hou Ying reached out and grabbed him, “Wait!”
Li Xuanyuan looked at him. With a pale face, Hou Ying said to Dongfang Bai, “Dongfang, go back and bring Brother Tao here.”
Dongfang Bai flew away without hesitation. Qiao Daye asked nervously, “What’s the matter, Brother Hou?”
Hou Ying’s expression became tangled before he said, “That’s not just one fly… Except for that third-level one, all the flies on its body are alive and independent zombie flies. I can feel the existence of first-level nuclei on them. There must be at least tens of thousands of them.”
“Holy shit, these are all level 1 zombie flies?!”
No matter how Qiao Daye made his eyes widen, with his current visual ability, he still could not see the actual situation of this pile of flies. They do appear to be separate flies, but none of them have legs, as if they all grew together. From the dense eyes alone, it could be inferred that the number of these flies was a lot.
If, as Hou Ying said, after slaughtering that third-level zombie fly, they would face tens of thousands of first-level zombie flies… Just imagining it made them shudder. Even if they were level four ability users, it was hard to guarantee that they would not be bitten by these zombie flies, let alone they all had such a tricky corrosive ability!
Dongfang Bai quickly brought Jiang Tao over. The two of them floated in mid-air. Hou Ying asked Li Xuanyuan to hold the third-level zombie fly steady and prepare to receive the crystal nucleus, and then asked Jiang Tao to burn the zombie fly to death.
Buzz!
The sound of the fly’s wings flapping became more and more intense. With the putrid smell of burning, they relied on Li Xuanyuan to cover their noses with fragrant green leaves to prevent suffocation.
The zombie flies dispersed hastily. They wanted to escape from the fire circle, but the third-level fire was not something that their first-level ability could resist. They were burned to ashes upon contact. The zombie flies knew how to seek advantages and avoid harm. They immediately returned to the third-level zombie fly. Meanwhile, the third-level zombie fly tried to escape but was firmly held in place by Li Xuanyuan’s barbed keel.
The zombie flies gathered around the third-level zombie fly, so the speed at which Jiang Tao burned them slowed down significantly.
There were even more zombie flies than Hou Ying had predicted. Jiang Tao burned them for an hour but did not finish them. During this time, Hou Ying replenished his energy and burned them for another twenty minutes before finally burning the first-level zombie flies. Li Xuanyuan immediately dug out the crystal nucleus of the third-level zombie fly.
The vines dispersed to reveal the true appearance of the third-level zombie fly. It turned out to be a deformed fly with a head the size of a football. Its eyes were terrifying, but its body and wings were ten times smaller than its head.
Before it fell into the ditch, Jiang Tao burned it to ashes.
Everyone returned immediately.
Li Xuanyuan used vines to weave a bird’s nest-shaped basket to hold the crystal nuclei of the zombie flies. After they took a closer look, they found that the crystal nucleus of the first-level zombie fly was a little smaller than the nail cap of the little finger, but such a small volume filled a large basket. Just try to imagine just how terrifying their number was!
Dongfang Bai said with lingering fear, “If Brother Hou hadn’t discovered it early, we would suffer this time!”
He described the zombie flies he just saw. This time he made everyone’s hair stand up without even using any exaggerated modifiers, giving off a feeling of surviving a catastrophe.
Fortunately, this zombie fly only has a third-level ability and could be dealt with by Gongsun Jing’s fourth-level healing ability. Another fortunate thing was that ability users were relatively stronger and could be healed by her, otherwise, Wang Hehe and the others would die of intestinal bleeding. Hou Ying replenished Gongsun Jing’s energy. Wu Nan, who was treated last, relaxed his curled body and stopped vomiting blood.
Hou Ying breathed a sigh of relief and hugged the frightened Li Hou while staring at the crystal nucleus of the third-level zombie fly.
The color of the corrosive ability zombie crystal nucleus should also be dark purple. The nucleus of the third-level zombie fly was exactly the opposite of the first-level zombie fly. When it was dug out from its football-sized head, it was completely larger than the usual nucleus of its level and was even slightly larger than the fourth-level nucleus.
Hou Ying frowned, with his thoughts unbeknownst to anyone. After a while, he reached out and picked up a crystal nucleus of a first-level zombie fly. Unexpectedly, all the purple crystal nuclei around it were absorbed. He immediately withdrew his hand but the circle of crystal nuclei that had lost color and luster was particularly prominent among the rest.
Li Xuanyuan took one and handed it to Hou Ying.
After the latter absorbed it, he said, “The energy stored in it is the same with any other first-level nucleus, but it’s purer.”
This showed that the energy storage of a zombie nucleus was not directly related to its size. Liu Zhan wanted Hou Ying to absorb the third-level nucleus to thoroughly verify this conjecture, but Hou Ying shook his head. “It’s still best to keep it,” After a pause, he expressed his doubts, “Normally, there should be very few zombies with corrosive abilities. How did Wu Huan become a third-level ability user?”
Everyone then thought of this question. Although no one could answer them, they vaguely understood that Wu Huan’s ability upgrade was probably not on the right path.
Then they thought about why Li Xuanyuan’s wood crystal did not feel such a powerful attack and whether Wu Huan also had such an ability.
But they, who currently know nothing, could not find an answer.
Unable to figure it out, Hou Ying no longer wasted time. They found another large car and put the unconscious seven people inside carefully. The rest were responsible for driving and defense. It was not until they returned to their residence that they dared to breathe a sigh of relief.
Wu Nan was the first to wake up. Although he had recovered already, he was still writhing in pain. His body still retained a clear memory of the extreme stomach-piercing pain it experienced. Soon, cold sweat appeared on his deathly pale face.
After that, according to their ability levels, the other six people also woke up one after another.
Wang Hehe and Meng Hanghai hugged Hou Ying, refusing to let him go. Hou Ying comforted them patiently, and it took them a while to break free from the shadow of pain. Wu Nan and the rest looked very envious, but they encouraged and comforted each other. Gongsun Jing and Liu Zhan also took good care of them, making them feel that they were also cared for. The warm feeling that arose gradually dispelled the remaining fear and restored the youthful smiles of these young people.
Their mood improved, and Hou Ying and the others completely relaxed. After a short rest, they planned to submit the task completion to the guild.
But before they could leave, Miao Feng from the Xuri Team came to visit.
There are too many names to remember now. Who’s Wu Huan? The new comrade?I think I need to reread from the start 😄
He’s the captain of Jiu Wei team, the one with the corrosive ability… I also get confused sometimes and would re-read previous chapters 😂😂
Lol, i have the same reaction, Who’s wu huan? Who’s that?
Thanks for the update! 🤣❤️🪰👀
enjoy reading~~😊😊