Chapter 1798: Chapter 1791: The Possibility Worth Dying For
The group had just lifted their heads, listening to Tang Ye’s words, quickly lowered them again. Gong Xiao muttered, "Some did come back, not many... just a few..."
"How many is that?"
"Uh... around seven or eight..."
"Hiss~" Tang Ye took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down, and then called out for Ah Fu.
"Ah Fu!"
"Here, boss."
"Those guys released from the mother nest, order each one to come back for me! If they’re sensible and come back by themselves, then fine; but for those who don’t, you guys catch each one back for me!"
"Boss, you see my size is not an advantage, and some of them run fast. There are too many... they might have gotten used to being outside for so long, their nature’s gone wild... this might need you to personally handle them for them to behave..."
"I don’t care about that. You guys eat so much every day, if you can’t even deal with those half-baked ones, don’t come back to see me. I won’t pursue this for now; just fix and amend what you did wrong. Besides, if you find any that can ’pass the inspection’, consider taking them in as your colleagues."
"Alright..."
"Also, some of the idle folks in the Royal Court, kick them out for a stroll. If you encounter Level 7 and above Demon Sound Zombies, assimilate them."
"Got it!"
Tang Ye calmed himself down. The guys in front of him were old hands too, knowing he wouldn’t do much to them, so he could only wave his hand helplessly, gesturing everyone to follow him as they headed east, moving further away.
A week later, several light jet fighters flew across the sky. After the soldiers on board saw the fragmented land below, the fighters slowly descended.
"It seems we found it!"
"The signal here is a bit weak..."
"First, upload the coordinates, then we’ll go down."
"Hold on!"
"What’s wrong? Why does it look so off outside?"
[Calling Third Group, please respond.]
[This is the Third Group, what’s up?]
[This is Group One, currently at the ruins of the Bunivis city. We seem to have found the remnants of the Nightmare Zombie King. Related information is being sent, Third Group receives it ASAP, over.]
Hiss~
Approximately two to three minutes later, the door of the fighter resting on the ground finally opened. A soldier clad in an exoskeleton suit jumped down. He looked up at the sky, his brow instinctively furrowing. It’s been five days since the Zombie King Battle, yet an unknown particle floated above this area, dyeing the sky an ominous maroon color. Moreover, as soon as he stepped out, he felt a strong sense of discomfort in his body, but he couldn’t immediately pinpoint the source.
"Something feels a bit off..." he mumbled, looking at his comrade inside the fighter preparing to jump out. Hearing his mutter, the other soldiers froze for a moment. They retracted their steps that were about to jump out in the next second.
"What’s off?"
"I don’t know either..." The soldier outside the fighter touched his cold helmet. But just then, he felt something strange on his arm, as if something was crawling under his skin, itchy. The foreign sensation made him very uncomfortable.
"What’s up with my hand?" He looked down, touching it. But his entire body was covered by the exoskeleton suit, he couldn’t see or touch his arm’s current state. Helplessly, he temporarily disarmed the exoskeleton suit, and in that instant, he screamed in agony. The itching feeling originally just from his arm instantly spread all over his body! The skin exposed to the air started to fester!
"Save... save me!" The soldier panicked on seeing the anomaly on himself. He hurriedly yelled towards his comrades still inside the fighter. But they paid him no heed; upon seeing this, they didn’t even think as they instantly closed the fighter’s door again!
The soldier outside tried to stop the door from closing but was a step too late. His face was filled with despair. Unwilling, he re-engaged the exoskeleton suit, but the skin corrosion did not stop; his skin continued festering, slowly disappearing, followed by the rapid dissolution of underlying muscle tissue! His breathing grew heavier as he desperately pounded on the fighter’s door, but gradually, his strength diminished, the sound of fists hitting the door growing weaker!
Until finally, he collapsed, kneeling on the ground. The body inside the exoskeleton suit slowly turned into a pool of blood!
[Third Group, Third Group, what’s your situation over there?]
[A mishap occurred, tell your people not to run outside, someone here died already.]
[This... then you retreat first, we’ll take it from here, Group One.]
[You guys think you can handle it?]
[We are in a better position. Later, we’ll send out reconnaissance robots, in about ten minutes we can return to headquarters.]
[Alright, it’s up to you guys, be careful.]
As fighters from various places took off and gradually disappeared into the horizon, in a fighter situated at a cliff’s edge, a man in his thirties sighed in relief. He stood up from his seat, turning to the soldiers behind him and said, "We have ten more minutes now, quicken the pace!"
"Brother Bo... Group Leader, the robots we released are having difficulty advancing due to terrain influences. We can only perform simple reconnaissance with drones now. Also, it is confirmed that the Nightmare Zombie King died in Bunivis. The decaying meat we saw is likely part of its body..."
"Enough, what’s hidden has been revealed. At this point, there’s no need to conceal. I just want to know if the Level 9 Zombie’s Evolution Crystal has been found!"
"Brother Bo, let’s not search anymore. The Lan Ou Corpse King’s Evolution Crystal might have been taken by our Zombie King. It doesn’t have any reason to leave us such a precious thing, right?"
"Gotta look anyway, what if the Chinese Zombie King didn’t take it? Damn, it’s a Corpse King’s Evolution Crystal! If we find it... that would be..."
Talking, the middle-aged man called Brother Bo began to get excited. After receiving the task to find the Nightmare Zombie King’s remains, he couldn’t sleep that night, his mind incessantly wondering if Tang Ye might have forgotten to take the Nightmare Zombie King’s Evolution Crystal and let him get a big haul?
But such thoughts were unrealistic, yet anything was possible, right? Once he secured the Corpse King’s Evolution Crystal, he could potentially become the first Level 9 New Human! Then enjoy all the luxuries and privileges! Just thinking of becoming a Level 9 New Human, making those Level 8 New Humans he previously revered become his servants, made his body tremble with excitement, even if it meant facing severe bodily mutation consequences!
Thus for this possibility, it’s worth expending part of his energy to try!
Yet just as he was indulging in the imagined life, he suddenly heard a soldier behind him call out to him.
"Brother Bo..." The voice carried some tremors, but he didn’t notice it immediately, only irritably waving a hand and said: "Hurry up and find it, quit wasting time!" Then he sat back in his chair, but in that instant, he suddenly realized something and quickly stood up to look behind.
"You..."
"Oh wow, didn’t expect to find some fun and stumble upon this issue."