Chapter 22 It’s Actually a Prize

We came here expecting that after the boulders blocking the road fell, many corpses would climb out of the coffins and attack us, but the result was obviously different from what we thought.

Those sarcophagi did respond, but the first thing we saw was not the corpse, but a layer of white mist. This mist is very thick, and it looks a bit like the cloud effect created by dry ice in stage performances. It's just that this white mist obviously cannot be made by dry ice, but it really looks like it.

The mist was obviously much heavier than the air. When it came out of the sarcophagus, it looked like a churning sea of ​​clouds. As soon as the mist beyond the edge of the sarcophagus left the sarcophagus, it poured down along the edge of the sarcophagus like running water, and then hit the ground. It fell into a large piece of relatively thin mist, but as the mist gushes out, a layer of light mist quickly formed on the ground. Fortunately, the mist did not accumulate all the time. After covering the ground with a thin layer, it did not continue to increase. Although there is still mist pouring out of the coffin, the clouds and mist on the ground show no signs of rising. It seems that this thing will dissipate naturally.

After those clouds appeared, we still didn't get the bodies we expected, so we quickly became impatient.

Zhenhong glanced at me, obviously asking me if I needed to go up and take a look. I thought for a moment and signaled them not to move, and then I started to walk forward carefully.

In fact, the closest coffin to us was only a few meters away from where we were, so even though I moved very slowly, I quickly reached the sarcophagus.

Because the sarcophagus was filled with that thick mist. So even if I stood next to the sarcophagus, I couldn't see clearly what was inside, so I simply stretched my head and took a look. After confirming that there was no way to directly see what was inside, I decisively gave up trying to see clearly what was inside. Instead of planning the situation, he turned to the sarcophagi beside the wall.

Unlike the sarcophagi placed in the center of the passage, the sarcophagi embedded in the walls are vertical coffins, which means they are standing. Because these mist have a very high specific gravity, it is impossible for them to cover the entire space inside a standing coffin. I should be able to see at least the top half of the sarcophagus.

The truth was pretty much what I thought. When I walked to the nearest standing coffin, I could easily see what was going on inside.

Just like I thought, the coffin is standing upright. And the front covers are open. Therefore, the condition of the upper part of the interior of the coffin is very clear, and there is no fog that can block my view. At this time, there was indeed a humanoid object in the standing sarcophagus. And I think this is probably a corpse.

The reason why it is impossible to confirm whether this is a corpse. Mainly because the humanoid object in this sarcophagus is wearing a rather loose robe. This robe has a wide hem and long sleeves. The cuffs are very wide, and the arms are completely covered in the sleeves, with no skin exposed at all. The hem of the robe underneath also drags directly to the ankles. From below, only the shoes can be seen, and no skin can be seen. The upper part is similar to the lower part. Although the robe only reaches the neck and disappears, the collar of this robe is very high, and it is also a hard collar. Standing there high, there is no intention of falling down. As for this guy's entire neck and a small part of his chin, they were blocked by the collar, making it impossible to see what was inside. As for the higher position... it is a hat similar to the one worn by the zombies who covered their faces with cloth curtains we saw before. This hat is also a relatively tall type, but it is not a pointed top, but gradually shrinks upward from the headband, but suddenly becomes a flat top at a height of more than ten centimeters, and does not continue to extend upward. However, compared with the hats of the zombies I saw before, this guy's hat is obviously much more gorgeous. The hat with a blue background looks like it is made of some kind of high-end material. There is no trace of dirt on the surface. On the contrary, it is silky, shiny and beautiful. In addition, there are many things similar to runes on this guy's hat, all embroidered with gold thread. It looks very fine at first glance, and it is completely different from the zombies I saw before.

In addition to being particularly gorgeous, the most important thing about this hat is that it also has a curtain hanging in front of it, covering the entire face of the suspected corpse, and there are also a bunch of gold threads embroidered on the front of the curtain. The very complicated runes and the faint energy fluctuations indicate that this thing is by no means for decoration.

Although I can clearly see the general appearance of this thing, because it has no skin exposed and it is motionless, I am not sure what is going on with this thing. As for the situation in the coffins lying there Even more ignorant.

Seeing me standing there motionless for a long time, Christina and the others couldn't help but ask, "What's going on over there?"

I glanced at them uncertainly and said, "I don't know either! It seems like there is a corpse, but it doesn't react at all."

Zhenhong obviously couldn't wait any longer. He ran over after hearing what I said, and then looked at the sarcophagus I was looking at. When he found the body, he didn't even ask me, and just reached out to stab it. When I saw it, I quickly took hold of Zhen Hong’s hand, and then said, “I’ll do it!”

Zhenhong didn't argue with me. Since I said I wanted to do something, she took the initiative to step aside. I turned Eternity into a long stick, then stood two meters away and touched it carefully with Eternity. Corpse arms.

Surprisingly, the other party's body was not stiff. The thing that looked like a corpse shook a bit after Eternal touched it, but as soon as my power was removed, it immediately stood up straight again, with no intention of falling down.

Zhenhong and I looked at each other confused. This moment has clearly proved that this thing is a living corpse or something like that, because if it were a real corpse, it would have been pushed down just now. But after the guy obviously lost his balance, he actually found his own balance and stood back up. Only living corpses and the like can do this. However, if this thing is a living corpse, they should attack us immediately, but now this thing seems to treat us as air and has no reaction at all. This is not in line with the behavior of living corpses.

"President, why don't you just use eternity to draw it out and have a look?" Christina suggested from behind.

After thinking about it, it seems that this is the only way. So the front end of Eternity was turned into a hook with a large arc to wrap around the thing's neck from behind, and then Eternity deformed to completely seal the hook, turning it into a ring to lock the thing's neck. In this way, the guy is equivalent to being fixed. There is still eternity between it and me, if it wants to come over. As long as I push hard against it, it won't be able to get close to me.

After circling this guy's neck, I carefully started to pull him out. The guy didn't seem to have any intention of resisting me. I just used a little bit of strength, and the guy started to move forward directly along with my strength. When that guy first started moving, I was still worried about whether it was going to pounce, but it stopped as soon as I stopped. There is no intention of taking any initiative at all.

It was confirmed that this guy doesn't seem to be able to take action on his own. I immediately let go and pulled the guy out of the coffin. Without the other party resisting, I quickly pulled him to the place where we were. As a result, the other party moved with my strength all the way without any intention of resisting.

"This should be a corpse, right?" Christina asked looking at the thing in front of her.

I frowned and said, "I'm not sure. I don't smell corpse odor, and although there is death aura on this thing, it's not too strong. It feels very strange."

"Is this being transformed into a zombie?" Jin Coin asked: "Because the transformation has not been completed, it will not move, and the aura of death on the body is not too heavy."

"Probably not." I shook my head and said: "The energy fluctuations on this thing are quite strong. Zombies would not have such a large energy level. Otherwise, if these things are transformed, they will all be boss-level. .”

At this time, Jin Coin suddenly said: "Anyway, this thing has nothing to do with our mission. If they don't move, can we just ignore it?"

Not to mention, the gold coin’s words woke us up. Before, we just retreated to the wall here because we were worried about being attacked. So if these corpses won't move, there seems to be no need for us to take care of these things. As long as we treat them as normal corpses, at most they will just be a little bit oozing when passing by, so it won't have any impact on us.

After reacting, we immediately followed our previous thoughts and ignored everything except the main goal of the mission as long as it did not affect the main mission. After asking Yongheng to let go of this guy, we made sure that this thing had no intention of moving on its own, and we were ready to leave this place. However, just as we were about to leave, Zhenhong went over bored and reached out to lift the thing in front of it. Curtain wanted to see what this thing's face looked like. But this time, she suddenly touched this thing.

Just after Zhenhong opened the curtain in front of the guy, the thing suddenly opened his mouth and said "ha..." and sprayed out a large amount of white mist from his mouth, which was exactly the same as the ones on the ground. .

Due to the sudden reaction of this thing, Zhenhong was so frightened that she let go and stepped aside, and we immediately became alert. However, what surprised us was that after Zhenhong put down the curtain, the thing stopped moving again.

"Is this a seal?" Jin Coin asked, looking at the curtain.

Christina shook her head and said: "This is not a European magic system, I can't understand what's on it!"

Jin Coin himself immediately said: "This is not something from our Taoism!"

"Whatever this is, it must have some sort of sealing effect," I said.

Zhenhong asked me: "Do you want to lift the curtain and wait a little longer to see what changes will happen to this thing in the end?"

Upon hearing this, Jin Coin immediately objected: "You were educating me before. It's better not to study these irrelevant things."

Christina shook her head and said: "It's different. There are so many of these things, and it would be troublesome if they all suddenly started to move when we were halfway there!"

I understand what Christina said makes sense. I planned to leave these things alone before because these things had no intention of moving, so I decided to take the risk and walk over first. But now it has been discovered that these things are not unable to move, but there is no thought to drive them to move, so they have not moved. This is completely different from before. If these corpses were dumb bombs before, then now they have changed from dumb bombs to intact bombs. The only difference is that they are not activated, not completely unable to explode.

Of course I hope to eliminate this unstable factor, so after weighing it up I decided to check it out.

After nodding to Zhenhong, I locked this guy with eternity again, and then Zhenhong carefully took out a rarely used long sword and raised the curtain in front of the thing with his own hand. As for the gold coins and Christina, of course they hid far away and prepared spells to deal with the zombie riots that might appear at any time.

really. Just like before, as soon as the curtain was opened, the thing immediately showed signs of activity. First of all, the posture that seemed to be standing at attention in a military posture suddenly softened. It's like the body relaxes. Then the guy's mouth opened again and let out a silent cry. But although no sound was heard, a large amount of white mist could be seen coming out of this guy's mouth, but it immediately fell to the ground as soon as it left his mouth. Not flying forward.

After the curtain in front of the thing was opened, it kept spraying the white mist with its mouth open. We soon discovered that the main factor of this thing was not the curtain, but the white mist in its mouth. The curtain acted more like a plug, sealing the white mist inside the body. As long as the curtain was opened, the thing would start spitting out the white mist. I estimate that after all the white mist is exhaled, or the concentration drops to a certain level, this thing will probably start to move on its own. However, despite this speculation, we still plan to let this thing move and see first. At least we can know how effective these things are when they move, so that we can be prepared if we are attacked later.

The reality is a little different than we imagined. The thing closed its mouth after spitting out all the white mist in its mouth, and then opened its eyes that had been closed. When the red eyes like two light bulbs lit up, we all thought that this thing was going to start attacking, but to our surprise, this thing just opened its eyes, and then stood there motionless and unresponsive. . Even if we open the curtain in front of him first, the mist in his body seems to have completely emitted light and is no longer spraying out the white mist, but he doesn't move and still stands there as if a normal person is in a daze. .

"Holy shit, even if it's an attack, you should give me a reaction!" Zhenhong said helplessly as she looked at the wooden pile-like thing in front of her.

"Isn't it a good thing not to move?" Jin Coin said: "Don't you hope that all these zombie-like things will jump up and attack us?"

"It's really easy to get them all up. The key is that it's very uneasy to be like this!" Zhenhong said.

In fact, I feel the same way. It doesn't matter if the other party really attacks. The key is that he can move but doesn't react. This makes people feel that the road ahead is a big pit. As long as they move forward, they will definitely be killed.

Christina looked at this zombie-like guy and said, "Actually, I think these things may not be moving just because they didn't hear the order."

"Huh?" I looked at Christina in confusion, and then thought about it to myself, it seemed to make sense.

Zhenhong didn't think much about Christina's words, but said jokingly: "Are these things remote-controlled?"

Christina also joked: "Maybe it's voice controlled."

Zhenhong then jokingly said to the zombie-like thing: "Let me try. Hey, you, raise your hands."

Uh-huh. Just after Zhenhong jokingly gave such an order, the thing's hands suddenly stretched straight forward, just like the zombies in ancient Chinese zombie legends. Scared by this guy's sudden movement, most of us were able to run away a few meters away. Then we all looked at this thing warily, only to find that it just raised its hands flat and made no next move.

"Holy crap, it's really voice-controlled!" Zhenhong finally reacted. The action of this thing was obviously in response to the command given by Zhenhong just now. In other words, this thing really responds to Zhenhong's verbal commands.

At this time, Jin Coin suddenly said: "If this thing can be controlled by us, does that mean that these things are actually a kind of reward?"

I have to say that gold coins are indeed talented in reaping benefits. Just like she said, if these things can really be commanded, then they can be regarded as a kind of fighting force. Although we don't know the specific combat effectiveness of this thing, according to the energy induction, it doesn't seem to be too bad, at least not weaker than those monster soldiers that Christina just killed. Besides, these things are all picked up for free anyway, so don’t ask for them for free.

After understanding the benefits of these things, we immediately became excited. Of course, we first needed to test whether these things could really be commanded.

Test with purpose. The effect is certainly obvious. We soon discovered that this thing is really a treasure. First of all, this thing does not have the shortcoming that we are most worried about-rebellion.

At first, we were always worried that since this thing is voice-controlled, they would still listen to other people's orders after encountering the enemy. If that's the case. Then these things are equivalent to useless. Because if the commands on both sides are opposite. Most of these things will lose their ability to move, and they can no longer be used as combat power anyway. However, after actual testing, we found out. This thing doesn't listen to everyone's words, but like a new-born little thing, it only listens to the words of the first person it sees.

The first thing the zombie saw after spitting out the white smoke and opening his eyes was True Red, so he only listened to True Red's orders, and we later activated several zombies one after another to prove that it was indeed only the first sight. Those who arrive can order them, but other people's words are useless.

In addition to testing that this thing can only be commanded by specific people, we also quickly discovered that the power of these things is actually as good as ours. Of course, this is just pure strength, not combat effectiveness. These guys really seem to be a type of zombie. Although I have never seen them in this series before, many of their characteristics are consistent with those of zombies. For example, great strength, invulnerability and so on. And of course agility is very low.

The strength attributes of these guys are basically similar to mine, a little smaller than True Red, but much larger than Gold Coin and Christina. Their body defenses are quite good. Although they felt very soft without orders before, actual tests found that ordinary weapons can actually make the sound of hitting metal blocks when hit. The hardness is quite amazing. But maybe because they are too hard, these guys are not very fast. Although their attack speed is not slow, their movement speed is more of a problem. Fortunately, the way these guys move is neither like Eastern zombies that jump around, nor like Western zombies with arthritis. Instead, they are similar to the way normal people walk. The only problem is that these guys can't run. If you order them to run, they will move in a way similar to walking. Although it is indeed a little faster than the normal mode, it is really only a little bit faster. .

Although we were dissatisfied with the movement speed of these guys, they were just cannon fodder for nothing, so we didn’t pay too much attention to them.

After roughly testing the basic attributes of these guys, we began to study the sarcophagi lying in the middle of the aisle. There is no reason why the zombies on the wall can be used as combat power for us, but the ones in the middle cannot. So we estimate that there must be zombies here, but they are probably different from those standing next to the wall. After all, the treatment is obviously different. However, the sarcophagus lying on the ground was completely covered by the white mist, so we don't know what the contents inside look like. However, before we were afraid to move for fear of being attacked, but now we are no longer afraid. We directly asked the controlled zombies to help fish out the contents, and then we saw the true appearance of the owners lying in the coffins.

Sure enough, these are also zombies, but they are indeed very different from the ones we got from the wall, because...these lying sarcophagi are actually all beautiful zombies, not only are they dressed in the same way as the zombies around them, There is a clear difference, even the energy fluctuations on the body are completely different.

"These are... legal zombies?" Christina made this judgment as if her face was cramping. (To be continued...)