Chapter 140: Black Substance (1/2)

Chapter 140 - Black Substance

TL: xDh20, LifeisaJourney

ED: NoriPixel

“Zhou BuLiang, will this steel pillar collapse?” Liu Gan interrupted the conversation between Zhou MingLiang and others.

[TL: Zhou MingLiang = Zhou BuLiang. Liu Gan likes to make fun of Zhou MingLiang by calling him the nickname, Zhou BuLiang.]

“Ah? Seems like it wouldn’t continue collapsing further…” Zhou MingLiang announced, looking down at the base of the bridge.

“Then, would it be a waste of our efforts to climb up?” Liu Gan said in shock. It indirectly caused the death of a player, even though it was the player’s own fault.

“Ah… Sorry, these types of situations are really hard to predict. Even though it deals with complicated principles of structural mechanics, I have to factor in the balance of the bridge, as well as the temperature of the water in the foundation and the geology underneath the water. I also need…” Just as Zhou MingLiang was about to go into details...

“Okay! We are going back down! This is the best opportunity to escape! In the event that this bridge really falls, we couldn’t even escape even if we want to.” Liu Gan proceeded to cut loose from his own rope. He proceeded to the steel ladder and climbed downwards. He knew that in these situations, it was very hard to predict, so he couldn’t blame it all on Zhou MingLiang. Even if there was a slight possibility of it collapsing, he still would’ve taken the people up to the top of steel pillar.

One can imagine from climbing down such an elevated area that the players and survivors—after having finally found a small window of peace—were getting nervous once again. There were some glares that were shot at Zhou MingLiang, as if this whole situation arose because of him.

Zhou MingLiang embarrassingly tried to laugh it off. This half of the bridge hadn’t collapsed, and when would it collapse was very hard to predict. No one knew what had caused it to stabilize. In the event that it hadn’t been stabilized and everyone had not climbed up onto the steel ladder, they would’ve fallen with the bridge deck into the monsters’ mouths.

Even if they hadn’t climb so high up, getting struck by the suspension cables would also be fatal in the case that it loosened up!

After ten minutes, Liu Gan lead the group back onto the bridge deck. Even though the cars had stopped burning, there were dense smoke covering their visibility. In addition, there were burning fleshes of corpses that caused the air around the bridge to smell very pungent.

The players and survivors returned to the bridge deck. They saw the fallen player in the pool of his own blood. Naturally, they all fell silent at the unfortunate player.

During these past few days, they had gotten accustomed to people dying left and right. Every time they saw someone die, they would have the dreadful feeling of who might be next. Would it be themselves? While they were in mid-climb on the steel ladder, a large portion of them became lightheaded. They felt as if their hands and legs had gotten weaker with every climb. Whether or not they would fall was decided in that moment of weakness.

In an orderly single line formation, they tread carefully through the smoked filled area under Liu Gan and Yin He’s guidance. There were nearly over hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of zombie corpses that were piled up in continuous mounts of at least a hundred meters of burnt corpses. This was a scene that deeply chilled everyone as they stepped over the mountain of corpses. If they hadn’t known that the apocalypse had occurred, they would believe that they were in the middle of a massacre of war upon seeing so many corpses.