"Dong dong dong!"
As soon as the words fell, the gate of the Hall of Nourishnt was suddenly knocked on.
Instead of knocking, it was more like a crashing sound.
One after another, continuous and unbroken.
"Hmm?"
"Who is outside?"
The Pri Minister looked puzzled, glancing towards the door, but received no reply.
There was only the thumping crash, one after another.
"Go take a look!"
The Pri Minister signaled a young general to open the door as it was an opportunity for his family’s follower to stand out.
The young general bowed and proceeded directly to the hall door.
Without thinking, he opened the main door directly, but what happened next horrified everyone present.
Heaps of dark things surged into the hall, pressing the young general underneath. He only had ti to let out one miserable scream before he beca silent.
"Living corpses, they are living corpses!"
"How did these things get in?"
"Quick, soone protect us!"
After recognizing what the dark mass was, the hall erupted into chaos.
They were corpses, attracted by the singing and dancing, gathered outside the main hall. Now that the gate was open, they all sward in.
"What happened? Did Lin City fall?"
"Why wasn’t anyone notified? Didn’t Young Master Li say all the living dead outside the city were cleared?"
The cultivators were horrified, clueless against the swarming living dead army.
But the chaos lasted only a few breaths; the military generals employed their cultivation to quickly battle with the living corpses.
Most of the living dead were transford from ordinary citizens and lacked combat power; they were rapidly cleared out. But outside the hall, living corpses continuously charged here, many possessing significant cultivation levels.
Inside the hall, the cultivators were unable to break through the encirclent, gradually being suppressed.
"Visualized Item: Hero!"
The King of Heroes shouted in a deep voice, a towering golden War God phantom erged behind him, its form ethereal, except for the heart, which was solid and beating powerfully.
Every beat reverberated with a heavy drum-like sound, waves of golden light radiated from that heart, sweeping over everyone.
Bathed under this golden ripple, the cultivators seed invigorated, their eyes bloodshot, spirits uplifted, instantly regaining montum and charged toward the outside of the hall against the pressure of the living corpses.
"Do not panic, there’s nothing to fear about these living corpses; they are all transford citizens of the city. You’ve been fighting for years, surely you can handle common citizens?"
The King of Heroes spoke coldly, each word striking the hearts of everyone in sync with the heartbeat rhythm.
"The Hero visualized item can boost morale, I feel my blood boiling and want to rush in imdiately."
Jiang Que stared at the [Hero] visualized item; on the battlefield, this type of visualized item was a great weapon of mass destruction.
Da Jianbi and Yu Huan Shui felt similar, their blood was boiling with impulsive excitent.
Only Li Xiaobai remained unaffected; the System blocked all spiritual powers, good or bad, indiscriminately.
"But among the living dead, there are also formidable ones; at least those young talents have significant power within them."
Li Xiaobai assessed the combat, realizing only the King of Heroes and that Pri Minister had the capability to swiftly end the battle in Lin City.
Yet both were conserving their power, intending to use these living dead to weaken each other’s forces; failing to clear the living corpses imdiately would lead to their downfall.
The longer it drags on, the more living dead in Lin City will erge, and the more special entities will develop.
Furthermore, inside the hall, several military generals have been bitten by the living corpses; although treated promptly, it did not prevent their infection into living corpses.
"Four Dao friends, please aid Lin City!"
The King of Heroes looked at Li Xiaobai and said.
Li Xiaobai replied solemnly, "No problem, I will cut off the outside living corpse army."
With that, the four figures disappeared from the main hall.
The King of Heroes frowned slightly, sensing sothing amiss but said nothing more, knowing the cultivators inside the Hall of Nourishnt needed the support of his visualized item.
Outside.
Li Xiaobai and his companions crouched in a corner, watching the vast swarm of living dead pass by, feeling quite emotional.
"The infection speed of the living dead is terrifying; in less than half an hour, countless have been infected."
Jiang Que: "Naturally, the initial infection range is small, but once the number increases, the infection speed and range will reach terrifying numbers."
"What about handling the Hall of Nourishnt?"
Da Jianbi made a throat-slashing gesture and looked inquiringly.
"I’ve altered the generals’ mories; they will montarily give up resistance and let the living corpses bite them."
Yu Huan Shui said, as manipulation of this sort was the specialty of the Gate of Destiny.
Only the mories of the King of Heroes and the Pri Minister hadn’t been tampered with, as they were of high rank, and impulsively altering would raise their suspicion.
Li Xiaobai: "Let’s find a teahouse, drink for about half an hour, and quietly wait for the living corpses to take over the city."
The Gate of Destiny rewrote the aura on the four people to align with that of the living corpses, so unless they deliberately drew attention, they wouldn’t usually be noticed and would be seen as one of them.
The group found a high vantage point and settled in, observing Lin City.
For so reason, the city gates of Lin City were open, it couldn’t be done by the living corpses as they lacked such intelligence.
The authority to open the city gates was owned only by Lin Zhi and Lin Xiaohua; these two likely opened the gates deliberately for citizens to escape.
But it backfired; panicked citizens fleeing the gates quickly attracted the attention of the outside living dead. Lin City was once again surrounded by the living dead, with large numbers flooding into the city through the gates.
This was likely Lin Zhi’s doing, Yu Huan Shui having Lin Xiaohua obey Lin Zhi was simply the right move.
Although Lin Zhi was pure and kind, she had no knack for achieving success; anything handed to her would surely be bungled, a fact the group realized long ago in the forest.
Despite having a squad of elite cavalry, she took risks alone, losing guards needlessly and putting herself in danger.
Regarding Lin City, Li Xiaobai could only apologize, for with the open and covert struggle between the King of Heroes and the Pri Minister, disregarding the survival of the city, these individuals would inevitably turn into living corpses sooner or later.
Rather than allowing these living corpses to augnt the power of the deity spreading them, they might as well augnt his, expanding the Great Resentnt Species army to prepare for future confrontations against the living corpse army.
Good and evil were no longer benchmarks for judging right and wrong; those who could delay or even prevent the Humanity Purge Plan were the truly useful ones, aside from which everyone else was cannon fodder.
In the face of great disaster, creatures focused solely on infighting have no right to survive.
...
Ti passed second by second.
The sound of terrified screams had long vanished, replaced only by endless roars.
Aside from the endless army of corpses, Li Xiaobai also acquired a useful piece of information; he saw those who had starved to death on the streets miraculously rise after being bitten by the living dead.
The infection affected not only the living but worked on the dead as well!
"It’s about ti, let’s go check the Hall of Nourishnt."
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