Chapter 281 - Flame Demons I (1/2)

(Happy Christmas, everyone.) Cold weather, suitable to stay with your girlfriend to warm up, hehe.)

From within the cave, a bone-chilling cold wind blew out along with the smell of rotting flesh. Even though he was standing by the entrance of the cave, the smell was so thick that God only knew how much rotten meat was needed to produce such a smell. For some reason, this made Zero think of thirty bodies that were missing.

They were at the edge of the cave, solemnly saying, ”Ma pei's ability is not suitable to be used in this kind of complicated and narrow environment, so we'll just stay outside the cave and be on guard.”

There was no objection to this arrangement. His main ability was the Armored Rhinoceros transformation. It was best suited for charging into open areas. However, he was not the head of a small battle station. Especially considering that there might be a fifth stage fire ability user hidden inside the cave, if Ma pei rashly entered, he would be roasted into a fragrant meat. After listening to Zero's explanation, he nodded his head, agreeing to the arrangement.

Su Chaofeng and Su Chen made a signal with their eyes, and the latter understood. The three of them then entered the dark tunnel. During this mission, they had never considered entering a burrow like environment, so they had not equipped any related equipment. Such as tactical helmets, oxygen cylinders and searchlights. Fortunately, the catacombs were different from the underground bases. The underground bases were pitch black without any light source, but there were luminescent fungi in the catacombs. These little things emitted a faint light which adorned the dark caves.

The cave was narrow and wide, and when they first entered, it was only enough for two people to walk side by side. But the deeper they went, the wider the road became, and the more fungi they emitted. They grow on the walls of the mountain, beside the stalagmites or directly on the ground. If not for the smell of decay in the air, the cave occupied by the glowing fungi would be like a sea of light.

Zero couldn't help but marvel at the wonders of creation. In this day and age when the entire world was undergoing crazy evolution, there was still such an ancient fungus existing and maintaining its original genetic pattern. While the three of them were immersed in this strange sea of light, the corpse of a half-bird man suddenly appeared in front of their eyes. The body was half lying beside a stalagmite. The flesh on the left side of the body had disappeared, revealing the bones still stained with flesh. Beneath the corpse, dark green blood stained the ground with spots of color. There were also remnants of intestines and internal organs that were different from humans.

”What a picky eater, casually throwing away half of the food. How uncultured.” At the same time, he took out Tang Dao to stir up the corpses.

Tang Dao pressed on the shoulder bone of the corpse and with a slight external force, the originally unbalanced corpse immediately fell to the ground, exposing half of its back. The man's back was pitch black, and the bones beneath his skin were charred. Apparently, the Aaron man had been burned to death by the heat, and most of his bones, nerves, and organs had been burned.

Looking at this broken corpse, whether it was an elemental domain user or a wild beast that had the power of fire, Zero could not find a suitable target. He shook his head and gestured for them to move on, and the three of them headed deeper into the crypt.

Gradually, more and more tunnels appeared in the crypt, showing a complicated topography. Fortunately, the three of them had sonar grenades on them. The sound waves emitted by these special grenades could map out the complicated terrain within a thousand meters, which would allow them to distinguish the direction they were heading in. However, what Zero relied on was still the bloodstains, chunks of flesh, and broken corpses that he left behind along the way.

The uncertainty dragged the Aaron's body deep into the complex crypt, as if some wild beast were beginning to store food for itself in the cold winter. However, there was no record of a mutated beast controlling fire in the Western Frozen Plains. As a matter of fact, the habits and abilities of mutated beasts had a great deal to do with the environment they resided in.

The Frozen Plateau could produce Ice Snow Demonic Wolves, but it was unable to produce strange beasts like the Blazing Lizards. Although many things could not be tested with common sense in the new era, there were still some basic rules.

It was not a pleasant journey to travel under the complicated terrain, especially with the scraps of flesh and the occasional Aaron or two of corpses, which made the trip less than a sightseeing tour of the catacombs. On the contrary, the deeper one went, the more one would feel as though they were heading towards hell.

The journey finally came to an end after three thousand meters into the crypt. When they walked out of the complicated passageway, what appeared before them was a relatively large and flat piece of land. It was just that the space here was extremely narrow. The lichen above their heads was less than five meters from the ground, making the entire space flat. The uncomfortable shape of the space made the few of them feel oppressed.

What was hard to come by was that the center of the lake was hundreds of meters wide. The water in the lake was in a very pure state. The bottom of the lake was covered with glowing fungi, and a hazy light shone through the surface of the lake, causing the entire surface of the lake to sparkle like bright gems.

Undoubtedly, the scenery of the Earth Lake was beautiful. However, the scene on the other side of the lake was far from beautiful, and even disgusting. At least twenty or so corpses were piled up, forming a small mountain of corpses. These were the bodies of the Aaron people, which now lay like dried meat on the shore of the lake, ready for consumption.

Near the corpse mountain, a figure was lying on top of one of the corpses. Chewing sounds that caused people to go crazy continuously rang out. In this special environment of the cave, the sound was several times larger, and it drilled into the ears of the three of them from all directions. What was even more unbelievable was that the figure was wearing a long, dark red leather robe. It looked like it was the killer of the Aaron Family's entire village.

However, the few of them did not expect this person to have the hobby of eating corpses. Although there were many freaks among those with special abilities, it was still rare for them to eat corpses. The sound of the footsteps of the others had obviously alarmed the one who was enjoying the delicacies of the corpses. He jumped up in alarm and quickly spun around to face the others.

”Sauron?” Zero's pupils narrowed as he cried out in surprise, ”Saurun?”

That's right! Even though this person's face was covered in dark green blood, even though his eyes had turned completely black, there were still circles of red on his skin. But none of this prevented Zero from recognizing him. Sauron, the former heir to Parkland, the man who had struggled with Zero but died at its hands, was now on the Frozen Plateau behind Asgard.

”What's wrong, zero?” Is this your friend? ” Feng asked in surprise.

Zero shook his head and said, ”I don't have any friends like the ghouls … …”

”You two stop talking nonsense, I don't look very happy!” She gripped her heavy sword tightly and assumed a posture that she could attack at any time.

On the other side, Suren who looked like a ghoul began to roar. He let out a strange, beast-like howl. His mouth was opened to the limit, revealing teeth that had already turned sharp from his lips.

Saurun, who had been transformed into a disordered person, had once, by instinct, been very close to zero. However, at that time, the fighting aura of Valkyrie and the other two Adepts had scared Saurun away. After that, the Shield of Dawn and the tremendous aura of the strange creatures that had escaped from the Cossacks' base made Saurun flee even further.

After that, Saurun had been wandering in the wilderness. Instinctively, he had arrived at the dense frost forest, which was filled with the thick smell of life, and had discovered the Aaron Family. In the beginning, Saurun had only killed the Aaron people for food. But after eating Aaron's flesh and blood, Saurun liked this kind of food. However, what Saurun didn't know was that the Aaron human heart and brain had greatly increased his power, which had pushed him from the fourth step to the fifth step.

What happened afterwards was naturally the massacre of the village. The Aaron Family had been slaughtered by Saurun, and Saurun had instinctively picked out the most powerful body in the tribe, dragging it to this naturally formed cave to be used as food. However, even Saurun hadn't thought that his actions would lead to zero.

The instant he saw zero, Saurun's instinctive order to kill zero as the priority was activated. Immediately, the red light wheel in his eyes constantly changed, causing the air in the cave to constantly rise. This was because the space fire element had become active.

Red light began to appear in the surface of the lake, and it only took a short two seconds for the entire lake to boil. The next moment, the lake erupted with a roar, spraying up a tall curtain of water. At the same time, the water vaporized by the high temperature gushed out, making the entire cave wet and hot, at the same time reducing everyone's visibility.

Suddenly, an invisible wave swept out of the mist.

His body tensed up as he felt an incomparably strong sense of danger.

”Disperse!”