Chapter 755 - Ancient Man (2 in 1 Chapter) (1/2)

Chapter 755

Ancient Man (2 in 1 Chapter)

On the stone table, the person in the coffin sat up and twisted his neck, making cracking sounds. The dried hard skin on his neck made the corpse’s movements stiff and unnatural. Like a rusty machinery, the corpse began to move with stiff rigid movements.

A water moon stone illuminated the secret underground room. The corpse turned his neck and looked toward the water moon stone in the corner. His eyelids moved slowly and opened up little by little, like a stuck sliding window rolling up.

He was like a fierce beast that had been asleep for too long. When his eyes opened, a pungent stench of blood and evil poured out from within. His bloodshot eyeballs stared straight ahead.

The pterosaur shrank in a corner of the room and did not dare to say a word. It tried to stay as invisible as it could and desperately wished to leave this place. However, besides the small ventilation holes in the room, there was no other way out, and it obviously couldn’t fit through those small ventilation holes.

The corpse turned toward the water moon stone’s direction and rolled his bloodshot eyeballs. After twisting his rigid neck, he looked around him expressionlessly. No emotions could be noticed through his dried skin, and if anyone was present, they would definitely feel unnerved.

Crack, crack, crack.

The corpse twisted his body, making strange cracking sounds, and got off the stone table. He seemed a little uncomfortable at first, as if not used to standing on the ground when he stood on both his feet. His movements were very slow, and he even hesitated a while after firmly planting his feet on the ground.

He observed his own body and looked around the room. His eyes scanned and stopped on some objects in the room, including water bottles, metal tools, and the pterosaur’s cage. Finally, he looked down on what he was wearing, and his hands held onto an ornament-like object on his body.

The beast bones and stones had lost their former glory. A lot had changed. Some parts of the necklace were no longer there and some had cracks in them. His stiff fingers pinched an irregularly shaped ornament on the necklace and his fingers pressed hard. Poof. With a gentle clicking sound, the stone ornament was crushed to debris, and the crumbs fell to the ground.

The person looked at the debris in his hands. No one knew what he was thinking. He appeared somewhat dazed. After a while, he lifted his head to scan his surroundings once again.

The soldier outside had no clue what was happening inside the secret room.

He did not feel or sense anything wrong. He only felt a cold shiver down his spine a moment ago, but ignored it.

The strange figure could see much clearer after standing up. It saw every corner of the room clearly, and after a brief scan, his eyes finally fixed on the pterosaur that was hiding in the corner.

The pupils of his bloodshot eyes dilated as he focused on the pterosaur.

The pterosaur was trembling uncontrollably. It knew that danger was about to befall it, and it wanted to escape too, but when those eyes looked at it, it felt like a giant mountain suddenly pressed down on it, and it could not move its body at all. It was even hard for it to move its wings.

As this monster approached, this invisible pressure increased, and the pterosaur felt like the pressure that was pressing down and stopping its movements also grew. A while ago, it could still move its wings, but as this corpse approached, the pterosaur was frozen like ice, and could only tremble helplessly as it awaited its fate.

The corpse stopped in front of the pterosaur and bent down. His hands extended and reached for the creature.

No matter how hard the pterosaur trembled, it could not move away from these dead hands. The giant hands clasped onto it and the small creature was lifted off the ground.

It tried to struggle, but there was no use. The grip from those hands were so tight the pterosaur could not loosen it one bit. The corpse’s shrivelled fingers had dried skin clung onto it. The pterosaur was being squeezed so tightly that all of the food it just ate almost came out through vomit. Suddenly, it felt the threat of death in those hands.

In a desperate fight for survival, the pterosaur struggled and tried to break free from the pressure. It decided to fight back. Immediately, it bit down on the corpse’s hands.

The pterosaur could shred the piranhas in the Flaming River with its sharp fangs effortlessly, but there was not a slight mark on this corpse where it bit down. There was a slight change in the hard skin of the corpse’s hands, but it was barely noticeable. Normal people would have been injured severely by this bite, but there were no scars and no blood on the corpse, only tooth marks. It was as if the pterosaur didn’t bite down on a human hand, but a piece of unusually solid hardwood.

The pterosaur was frantic. The skin of this corpse was too hard. Even though it could bite down, it felt as if it was biting on a strong metal weapon. It could not bite in.

As death approached, the pterosaur hurriedly took a few more bites. Suddenly, a loud noise came from within the secret room. It was the noise of its fangs scratching against the bones of the corpse’s hands.

The corpse seemed to have not felt anything at all. He brought the pterosaur up to his eye level and was ready to deliver it into his mouth.

The pterosaur knew that it was about to be eaten, so it finally screeched.

It was very loud.

The corpse’s eyebrows squeezed together. If it was a normal human, this expression would appear as a deep frown.

He lifted his other hand and prepared to first twist the neck of the creature in front of him.

Creak-

The stone door of the secret room slammed open.

The monster stopped moving when it heard sounds coming from the door. His mouth did not bite down on the pterosaur and he looked toward the door.

Shao Xuan was standing at the door. Behind him was Zheng Luo and another soldier that was guarding there.

Shao Xuan was discussing with Gongjia Ren when he sensed that something was wrong inside the secret room. Immediately, he left and rushed back. Zheng Luo also followed behind after figuring that something must’ve happened to the corpse.

As the door to the secret room opened, Zheng Luo inhaled deeply at the sight.

They thought the corpse had been dead for very long, but he was standing there now, ready to devour the pterosaur, and judging by the stare in the corpse’s eyes, those bloodshot eyes reminded Zheng Luo of the fiercest beasts in the forest. It was as if the air all around them was tainted with the scent of blood and death.

The Flaming Horn warrior who was guarding at the door swallowed his saliva. He was about to open the stone door to take a look when he heard the commotion. Luckily the Grand Elder came, or else he had to face such a difficult opponent alone. This……was a human, right?

Zheng Luo wanted to ask Shao Xuan whether this was the same monster they saw in the desert, but very soon, he realised that this one was slightly different from those. Even though he had never seen those monsters in the desert, he had heard about them from those who were present. Those monsters did not have any consciousness and were completely under the control of others. However, the one in front of them clearly had his own consciousness and could still function and move without anyone’s control. He could even hunt for food!

The pterosaur’s eyes lit up with hope as it saw Shao Xuan. Its screams became louder and wilder as it called out for help.

Shao Xuan took a glance at the pterosaur and then observed the monster with green-grey dried skin.

This monster had no breath or heartbeat, but it was moving just like any normal human. Shao Xuan could feel a strong energy within the monster’s body, and this energy was exactly the same energy Shao Xuan seeped into the monster’s bones when he tried to enslave him.

He had followed the same procedures as before, using the same steps in the enslavement, but the only difference was that he used a different type of energy. However, the results were strikingly different, and the reason behind this probably lied within the monster’s body.

Something was weird about this person.

Zheng Luo took a step forward, and the monster became more alert and murderous. The redness in his eyes grew even darker as if the monster was about to kill in the next moment.

Zheng Luo asked Shao Xuan with his eyes whether he should make a move, and Shao Xuan shook his head in reply. He gesticulated with his fists and motioned for him to test the situation.

Shao Xuan could not control the monster like he could the pterosaur. They were still uncertain of this monster’s strength and temper, so no one knew what would happen if they made a wrong move and provoked it. What if the monster decided to squeeze even tighter on the pterosaur’s neck? Shao Xuan still needed that creature.

“Let it go,” Shao Xuan said.

When the monster saw Shao Xuan, he became calmer and less alert, even though he seemed to not have understood what Shao Xuan meant. From his eyes, they could tell that he was doubtful. If it wasn’t for the dried skin on his face, he would have such rich expressions.

Shao Xuan glanced at the pterosaur and his eyes looked up and met with the corpse’s. He lifted his hands and gestured for the corpse to loosen his grip and let the creature go. He tried his best not to look offensive at all. He could no longer treat this monster the same way he treated the other puppets. He had to communicate with him like he would with other tribesmen. If politely negotiating could not work, he could only resort to force. Uncontrollable threats should not be allowed to exist within their tribe.