523 Ambushed by the Walking Dead! (1/2)
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
”My leg, my leg!” someone began to scream suddenly. The cry of agony echoed in the darkness which had just descended upon the place.
Zhang Xiaohou turned around and discovered Lu Hongjing standing right on top of a pile of rotten arms, which were holding tightly onto his legs. The hands grabbing onto Lu Hongjing's feet were as strong as steel, totally impairing his movement.
The rotten hands and claws were scratching and tearing at Lu Hongjing's legs. One of the corpses that was seriously starving sprang out from the ground and stuck its head onto Lu Hongjing's hamstring and bit it...
The group was unable to react in time. When they finally realized they should be saving the poor lad, all that remained under Lu Hongjing's knees were bloody white bones. He was falling backward in extreme pain!
”Don't fall!” yelled the captain Qin Hu.
Once Lu Hongjing fell to the ground, he would turn into a pile of bones. The bites and scratches of the corpses were faster than a school of piranhas!
”Earth Wave!”
Zhang Xiaohou was the first to react. He quickly cast the Spell.
He manipulated the soil in the area and utilized the second characteristic of the Flowing Mud to turn the soft soil into solid rock.
The Flowing Mud was able to turn soil into swamp or quicksand to entrap his targets and impair their movement. When reversed, it was able to harden the soil into rocks, too! Zhang Xiaohou forcibly turned the ground Lu Hongjing was standing on into solid rocks, trapping the claws of the corpses and stopping them from moving freely!
His Earth Seed was extremely effective in a situation like this. The claws stopped attacking Lu Hongjing and started smashing the suddenly-solid soil instead. Lu Hongjing finally hit his limit and fell to the ground. Luckily, he was lying on the hardened soil. Otherwise, he would have instantly lost his life!
”Save him,” said Qin Hu ordered Wang Tong.
Wang Tong was stunned for a second, before he quickly dashing toward Lu Hongjing.
The bones below Lu Hongjing's knees no longer had any flesh. Wang Tong straightaway carried him back to the team...
The cries of the undead, which sounded like their mouths were filled with soil, rose once again as their eerie heads poked out from the ground. Their bloodshot eyes were glaring at the nine living humans. The scent of blood had driven them berserk, and they could not wait to break out from the ground and enjoy their meal.
The buried undead mostly looked like humans. The Ancient Capital had gone through lots of dynasties and huge wars between humans and demon beasts. The number of humans who died here significantly surpassed that of demon beasts. With all the deaths in the area, the ground was no longer made of ordinary soil, but filled with a deathly aura that nurtured the dead. Once the sun disappeared, the undead would poke out from the ground like the shoots of fertilized plants. Even if they were destroyed, they would rise again after the next season arrived!
Due to some unknown curse that the land was under, both the demon beasts and the humans that died here would resemble humans after they turned into the undead...
Even though they had bones of the demon beasts, the bones would somehow be structured into a weird-looking skeleton giant. Their head was still the same head of the demon beast that was half-rotting under the ground, but their bones would be rearranged into the shape of a human.
Some looked like a beast with a rotten body and four limbs standing on the ground, yet the head was a rotting human head...
Either way, the undead would do all they could to assemble their dead body parts into a human figure, be it half-human, half-beast, or the combination of a few dead bodies, or a giant human corpse made purely from the bones of demon beasts!