Chapter 38 City of Ashes (Part 2)

Without any more discoveries, Shen Yi and the others left the giant worm corpse.

Moving forward along the road, Shen Yi observed the surroundings with great interest.

Judging from the scale and construction of the ruins, it was once a quite lively adventurer camp.

Shen Yi could even imagine that one adventurer after another shuttled back and forth in the city, selling all kinds of unique items and props. Since there is no restriction against attacking each other, the people here may be more direct, violent and bloody. They may fight when they disagree, and there is a lot of distrust between them. Life is full of chaos, filth, deceit and betrayal.

The gap between the poor and the rich has become huge here, and the most direct manifestation is strength—the strong get stronger, and the weak get weaker.

So people can only choose to cling to each other. Big groups are established one by one, fighting, plundering, and their strength is consumed in the civil war. Few of them can become strong in the end...

Until one day, that giant worm-like beast suddenly appeared, it destroyed the city, and it also died under the joint efforts of all the powerful.

Then Bloody City appeared.

A standardized system emerged.

The civilization among adventurers has gradually moved from chaos and barbarism to order.

Although the relationship between people is still cruel and full of fraud, at least everything has a law to follow.

This is the process of development.

Humanity is developing, and so is the bloody city.

Maybe there are still some links missing in this guess, but Shen Yi knows that at least in the general direction, he is not wrong - this is not a world that has been perfect since its existence and does not need to be changed, but is constantly learning and improving.

However, it seems that, at least in recent decades, Bloody City has not made further development and changes [Dzi Bead Transformation].

It seems to have stalled its progress...

In the midst of her thoughts, Wen Rou, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped, and raised her right fist, which indicated that there was a situation ahead, and everyone stopped.

"What happened?" Hong yang asked.

"Strange, I seemed to hear something just now, but it's gone now." Gentle looked around.

Hong 1ang scratched his scalp: "Are you nervous?"

This place is desolate and quiet, not even a single ghost is seen, except for the whistling wind and their own footsteps, there are no extra sounds.

As for the big bosses who talked about the fourth difficulty, they are always under the surveillance of the sky eye, and it is even more impossible to approach them suddenly.

"I hope so, but unfortunately, this is the City of Ashes, not a resort." Wen Rou replied coldly.

The City of Ashes is a dangerous area, that's for sure, so all suspicious things must be taken seriously.

Wen Rou quickly jumped onto the roof of a car that was burned down to its skeleton, her eyes wandered around the ruins, not missing a single corner.

After a while, she raised her voice and said, "No."

Hong Yang heaved a sigh of relief: "I was nervous for a while."

At this moment, a black shadow suddenly rose from under the car, and went straight behind Wen Rou.

King Kong was horrified: "Gentle heart!"

He rushed over to help, but saw Wen Rou suddenly jumped up in the air, a cracked whip appeared in his hand, and he swiped the whip right on the figure, obviously he had been prepared for a long time.

"Aww!" The black shadow hissed miserably, passed under Wen Rou's feet, and grabbed Wen Rou's feet with his backhand, his movements were quick and sharp.

Wenrou didn't expect this guy to react so quickly, she hastily withdrew her foot, the blade of power slashed quickly, the black figure quickly retracted her hand, dodged the bullet shot by Zhou Yiyu with a flip in the air, and at the same time raised her hand and shot a white light, directly attacking King Kong.

King Kong dodged in a hurry, and his skill hit hard.

Unexpectedly, when this heavy blow hit the opponent, the black shadow would not be affected at all. Instead, it spun rapidly in the air and shot out a flame, sweeping the crowd, and then leaped to the nearby wall, using both hands and feet, quickly climbed to the high place, and then turned around and rushed towards Wen Rou Ling Kong.

Wenrou whipped his whip, and the black shadow flashed several times in the air, easily dodging Gentle's whip, and a claw had already grabbed Wenrou's face.

"Burst of ice!" With the gentle and melodious voice, the blade of power slashed head-on. The black figure seemed to know how powerful it was, and suddenly yelled strangely to stop the impact momentum, and then flipped back, avoiding the blow he was determined to win.

At this time, everyone in the Broken Blade team except Shen Yi had fired at the same time, and the black shadow fell back to the ground and disappeared into the ground.

Hong Yang punched the ground, and the punch made a big hole in the ground, but there was no response.

"Damn, you run so fast!" Hong Yang cursed.

"No, it should still be around." Gentle strode over.

She had pretended to be unprepared to lure that guy to attack, but she didn't expect that the other party's attack was fierce, but her reaction was also swift. Seeing that the attack could not succeed, she immediately backed away, which surprised Wen Rou.

"Do you see who that is?" King Kong asked. The speed of the black shadow was so fast that he couldn't even see the other party clearly.

Gently replied: "That's not human."

"Not human?" Everyone was taken aback.

"Yes, it's not a human." Wenrou repeated with certainty: "That's a zombie."

King Kong shook his head: "How is this possible?"

Zombies and undead creatures have the lowest level of life, no matter which world they are in, they are reduced to cannon fodder.

With such cannon fodder, Hong Yang could kill ten or eight casually, how could it be possible for him to approach, sneak attack, or even retreat completely under the siege of the crowd.

Shen Yi suddenly said: "Renrou is not mistaken, it is indeed a zombie, but...it is a very unusual zombie."

Everyone looked back at Shen Yi together, he hadn't made a move from the beginning to the end of the battle just now, and had been observing all the time.

Of course, this has also become the habit of the Broken Blade team. Whenever encountering a new target and the team members are strong enough to deal with it, Shen Yi will hardly make a move, but instead observe and find out more.

For him, knowing the enemy is always more important than killing the enemy, provided, of course, that such enemies are endless.

Shen Yi looked at everyone coldly, and said, "There is something, have you noticed?"

"what?"

"As a former adventurer's camp, where are the dead adventurers? Why did we only see the remains of ferocious beasts, but not a single humanoid skeleton?"

Everyone's scalp numb at the same time.

Pointing at Shen Yi, Hong Yang shouted tremblingly, "You...you mean..."

Shen Yi nodded: "That's right, that's a zombie turned from an adventurer."

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The undead group of adventurers is the most dangerous existence in the City of Ashes, but this is not its scariest place.

The real horror of the City of Ashes is that any adventurer who dies here will eventually become a member of this group of undead creatures.

These undead creatures are all transformed by dead adventurers, some may have been dead for thousands of years, and some may have just joined.

They hang around here, forming a unique force, hunting down all adventurers or beasts who dare to enter this place.

They may not be as powerful as fierce beasts, but they retain a considerable part of human intelligence. They know how to sneak attack and cooperate in battle, and they can use some skills in life. They will even retreat and ask for help when the opportunity is not good.

This makes every undead become as cunning and difficult as human beings, and it is also the most terrifying part of them.

Although the City of Ashes looks calm on the outside, no one knows how many undead adventurers are watching them behind the shadow.

This is the City of Ashes!

"Huh!" Rourou let out a long breath: "I really didn't expect it to be like this, it looks like I'm going to have a headache now."

Hong Yang snorted coldly: "That may not be the case. I don't think they can really retain all their wisdom. You must know that wisdom is produced by consciousness. How much wisdom can they retain when they lose their consciousness? At most, they still have some instincts left, you know. Driving advantages and avoiding disadvantages makes them appear smarter than fierce beasts, but their intelligence is limited."

This is quite right. Human intelligence is never generated for no reason. In addition to a highly developed brain, it also requires an understanding of the human world, the exploration of one's own desires, and the summary of historical experience...etc. A series of basic conditions match.

This is like a child prodigy with an IQ but no education is unable to solve a quadratic equation problem in three variables.

Without the minimum knowledge of humanities, the so-called wisdom is just a tree without roots, like a leaf without water.

These adventurers become undead creatures after death, they no longer have memory, and even their self-awareness has become indifferent, so what they really possess may not be wisdom, but more likely the fighting instinct left over from the past.

While it's equally annoying, it's at least a lot easier to deal with than a real adventurer.

It's just that when Hong Yang said this, everyone didn't look suddenly enlightened, but looked at him in surprise.

Zhou Yiyu even touched Hong Yang's head and said, "Huh? This script is wrong. This line should be spoken by King Kong or Shen Yi. Why did it come out of your mouth?"

"Damn!" Hong Yang grabbed Zhou Yiyu's arm with his backhand, and threw him to the ground with a backhand: "I really think I'm stupid, I just don't like to use my brain!"

"Okay, okay, stop making trouble." Shen Yi interrupted the two of them: "These immortal wisdom may not be as high as imagined, but their strength may not be lower than imagined."

"how?"

Shen Yi replied: "Because those who die here may not all be adventurers with difficulty level two."

As soon as these words came out, everyone gasped.

"General!" King Kong blurted out.

If the memory is correct, just ten minutes ago, the corpse of the giant worm they saw was killed by at least three general-level adventurers.

No one knows whether these adventurers will live or die in the end.

Maybe they lived and finally left this world.

Maybe they died, becoming the most terrifying existence among the undead, wandering in this ruins.

No one knows, after that, are there any other adventurers with other difficulties who came here and were killed.

As long as these general-level undead retain one-third of their abilities, they are enough to kill everyone here.

They finally understood where the truly terrifying place in the City of Ashes was.

For adventurers who like to control, this unpredictable factor is the most dangerous and fatal factor, and it is the nemesis of all those who are good at planning and layout. Therefore, even some adventurers with three or four difficulty levels don't like to come here.

Of course, as long as you can kill the adventurer zombies, there is a certain chance to get skill improvement scrolls from them.

Perhaps the stronger the target you kill, the higher the chance and quality of the scroll will drop.

Fortunately, Shen Yi finally said again: "Don't worry, everyone. Anyway, this is a second-difficulty area. Since the bloody city has divided the difficulty areas, there will always be some way to restrict them. Unless our luck declines to Explode, otherwise I shouldn't have run into that kind of guy."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, Rourou's face suddenly changed, she turned around suddenly, and stretched out her right hand like lightning, grabbing a bone arrow shot from the air. The bone arrow kept trembling in her palm, releasing huge power, shaking Wen Rou's body.

"Over there!" Zhou Yiyu had already seen the roof of a building not far away, and a skeleton archer was aiming at this side with a bow and nocking an arrow.

brush!

Another arrow pierced through the clouds and split the sky.

With a roar of Hong Yang, the sword of the king of hell flew across the sky, and hit the arrow head-on. Under the impact of huge force, the bone arrow was shattered, King Kong, and Fatty rushed towards the skeleton archer at the same time.

Pandora scolded sharply, and the dark devil's hand was already grabbing at the skeleton.

Unexpectedly, the skeleton dodged the claw by leaning back, and took a few steps back. At the same time as Fatty King Kong was approaching, a black shadow suddenly rushed out of the ground, and it raised its hand and punched King Kong. It was the zombie who sneaked up on Gentle earlier.

This time it faced everyone, and King Kong Hong saw that it was indeed a zombie, with cyan and stiff facial muscles, which was a sign that all human body fat had been necrotic, making their movements dull.

It's just that this zombie doesn't stay still, not only can sneak attack, but also set up traps, which is too surprising.

This punch made King Kong fall back again and again.

"Bastard!" He didn't expect that he would be ambushed by a zombie. Although the injury was not serious, he felt very embarrassing.

The zombie rushed forward, King Kong counterattacked with a punch, but the opponent went straight up with the punch.

boom!

The two punched each other, and their bodies shook at the same time.

Then they jumped up at the same time, the zombie's speed was even faster than King Kong's, and he kicked King Kong first, then backed up, dodging King Kong's kick, and at the same time punched the fat man, the movement was as coherent as flowing clouds and flowing water, where There is the slightest characteristic of zombies being dull, numb, and slow to move.

A third bone arrow shot out from the sky, this time it was aimed at Fatty.

The fat man hastily added a spiritual armor to himself, and Hong Yang had already charged from behind.

The battle ax threw at the skeleton archer: "Swinging axe, slaughter madly!"

This is also his only long-distance attack ability at present.

The skeleton archer saw the slaughtering battle ax coming, and immediately flew back. It's just that Slaughter has the ability to automatically pursue when there is only a single target. Seeing the shadow of the ax slashing across the sky, the skeleton suddenly clicked its jaw and let out a sharp scream.

Then I saw the white bones all over its body suddenly falling apart, turning into countless bones and shooting in all directions. The massacre immediately lost its target, and could only return to Hong Yang's hands.

The skeleton's countermeasures made people dumbfounded. Hong Yang was in a daze when he saw a skull flying towards him suddenly.

This change [Dzi Bead Change] was too sudden, even Hong Yang couldn't dodge it, he was being bitten by the skull on his arm, he cried out in pain, and quickly slapped the skull with his left hand.

Unexpectedly, the zombie who had previously fought against King Kong suddenly rushed out, blocked Hong 1ang with his hand, grabbed the skull, jumped back, and disappeared into the ground again.

"Damn it!" Hong Yang was going crazy with anger.

On the other hand, it was Shen Yi, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "It seems that these are the goals we are going to face next. Then from now on, task assignment!"

As soon as they heard the word assignment, everyone became serious.

Shen Yi said loudly: "Yi Yu, Luo Hao, you two are going to the Emerald Mine. Wen Rou, King Kong, Hong Yang, the three of you are responsible for hunting down undead adventurers from now on, let's divide up our operations."

Divide troops into action? Everyone is stunned.

King Kong asked: "It's not appropriate to separate at this time, is it?"

Shen Yi smiled: "Sometimes it's not suitable, but it's the most suitable."

"What about you? What are you responsible for?" Gentle asked.

"Me?" Shen Yi narrowed his eyes.

He looked at Pandora: "Sister Pandora, are you interested in accompanying me on a tour of the deserted land?"

"As long as you're not afraid of your girlfriend being jealous."

"She's a nice, understanding woman."

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