Chapter 31: Desperate Pursuit

"Corpses? What is that? Yang Mengqing asked, I said in my heart that I don't know, I just speculated that this monster might be a corpse based on the Taoist priest's message, as for what the corpse is, I can only ask the Taoist priest.

"I don't know, but this thing is so much better than the living dead and the strange birds, remember the remains of the three living dead that hung on my backpack when I got up from the river? It was cut in half by this monster's claws, and I suspect that this thing is probably responsible for the tragedy in the cave, the corpse...... I've heard the legend of the corpse demon drought, but I don't know if this corpse has anything to do with the drought? ”

Listening to my words, Yang Mengqing sighed deeply and said: "Another terrible monster has appeared, alas, I really don't know what happened, how did a good town suddenly become like this?" ”

As she spoke, she squatted down with a painful expression, pulling her hair with both hands, as if she was about to collapse. I thought she couldn't bear these realities, and her spirit began to collapse, so she squatted down to comfort her, but I didn't expect it to be not, before my hand touched her shoulder, she suddenly raised her head and glared at me fiercely, her eyes were cold, violent, and full of suffocating killing intent.

In an instant, I froze, my hand froze in mid-air, and before I could react, she slapped me in the face, and suddenly a huge force came, and I didn't even notice the pain, and the whole person flew out with more than 40 kilograms of weight on his back, smashed heavily on the stone wall, and then bounced down.

This completely stunned me, my head buzzed non-stop, my chest was almost out of breath from the violent impact, my teeth were about to fall out, and my mouth was foaming with blood. I lay on the ground and couldn't move for a while, my brain stopped thinking, just when I was gasping for breath with difficulty, Yang Mengqing's face full of guilt and worry appeared in front of me, wanting to help me, I was so frightened that I shrank back again and again, and hurriedly told her not to come.

I stared at her hand in horror, I always felt that she seemed to have become like that monster, the force of the slap just now, absolutely not people can have, I and the backpack combined are definitely more than 100 kilograms, but she slapped five or six meters away with an understatement, even the world weightlifting champion can't do it, right? What's more, she's just a little girl who looks soft and weak, where did that strange power come from?

She saw my reaction and knew that I was afraid of her, so she hurriedly retracted her hand and kept saying sorry, and tears began to flow.

After a while, I felt a little more relaxed, sat up, spit out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, pointed to her hand and asked, "How is it, big sister, can you explain?" You don't tell me you're a martial arts master, do you? ”

When she saw that I could speak, her face showed joy, and she hurriedly said: "I really didn't mean to, I had a terrible headache just now, and my body was not under my control, so I wanted to smash things, and you just happened to come over again, and this is ......"

I thought to myself, no, could it be that I was infected by those monsters? Hurriedly asked her, "How can this be, were you touched or injured by that monster just now?" ”

She shook her head and replied no, adding that this was not the first time this had happened, and that once when she was surrounded by a group of living dead and in a desperate situation, her body became uncontrollable, manic, and angry, and when she regained consciousness, there were only a few pieces of corpses left on the ground. When she said this, she looked terrified, and apparently even she didn't know why this change had happened.

I took a closer look and found that she did not show signs of mutation, and I couldn't help but wonder. After thinking about it for a while, I still didn't have a clue, and now the important thing was to find the Taoist priest and Lin Qiao'er, so I didn't bother with this problem anymore.

She helped me up and asked me to give her the backpack, and I thought to myself that she was so vigorous, and that I was really injured and couldn't walk on my back, so I agreed. The forty-kilogram backpack was changed behind her, and she didn't seem to feel it at all, I couldn't help but be speechless, and I said that you have so much strength not to say it earlier, I knew that I would let you carry it at the beginning.

Thinking about it, I picked up my shotgun and tried to find my way, but the cave was at the end of the tunnel, and there was no other tunnel or entrance to the cave wall around it, except for the gap that connected to the river. In this way, if you want to leave, you can only go back the same way, but when I think that I will definitely encounter strange birds when I go back the same way, I can't help but have a headache.

When I was at a loss, a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and my heart said that it was not right, since the corpse chased here, it means that someone must have run into this place after the accident in the cave, but now there is neither a corpse nor a bloodstain, what about those who ran in, where did they go? Just as I was about to figure it out, I was about to ponder it when there was a series of thudging sounds in the furnace.

Yang Mengqing and I were stunned at the same time, and said no, the monster hadn't burned to death? When I went to look at the furnace, I saw that the walls of the furnace were smashed out of the claw prints, and the flames that burst out of the top of the furnace began to become restless because of the changes that had occurred in the furnace. This scene shocked my jaw and almost dropped, my God, that is a furnace that can melt all the gold, at least it must be more than a thousand degrees, so it can't burn it, damn it, this is too outrageous!

In a matter of moments, the walls of the furnace have been deformed, and I am afraid that it will not be long before the thing will come out. Yang Mengqing asked me in horror what to do, at this time I was also so anxious that I was sweating profusely, and suddenly thought of the hole on the cave wall that was connected to the water, and my heart moved, and I hurriedly beckoned her to run up the stone steps. At this moment, the furnace finally exploded, and the fierce flames scattered and surged, instantly engulfing the entire cavern.

As soon as we ran to the bottom of the stone steps, the flames had already swept in, and seeing that the situation was not good, I hurriedly pulled Yang Mengqing to hide in a dead corner at the corner of the stone steps, avoiding the flames rushing from the front, but the suffocating heat wave still knocked us to the ground. Since the furnace used liquid fuel, which was destroyed by the corpses before the furnace could be burned out, the leaking fuel continued to burn, turning most of the cavern into a sea of fire.

Thankfully, the stairs were far away from the furnace, and the fire did not reach us, but the rapidly surging temperature and thinning air in the cavern threatened our lives, and we had to leave immediately.

I helped Yang Mengqing up, and the two of them hurriedly climbed towards the top of the stone steps, according to my thoughts, since the water flow can be used to transport ore, it must be connected to the ore vein, and those who were chased here by the corpse all disappeared out of thin air, maybe they escaped into the water, as long as the water flow is not too fast, we can go up against the current to the location of the ore vein.

Unfortunately, we had only climbed halfway through the climb when the corpse, covered in flames, suddenly rose from the flames, and when it saw us on the stone steps, it roared wildly, and then rushed towards us with a raging flame. Seeing this, I said that it was not good, and hurriedly raised my gun and fired a shot at it, which made it stagger, but it did not play any substantial role in stopping it.

I was shocked in my heart, and hurriedly shouted to hurry up, although Yang Mengqing was carrying a backpack, his speed was not slow at all, and he quickly climbed to the top of the stone steps. I was not as fast as her, and when I saw that she had reached the edge of the water, I was busy crawling and asking her about the situation above, and she shouted at me, saying that the water was slow, and we were saved! Hearing this, I was overjoyed, and climbed up with all my might, and saw that there were only ten steps left, when the mad corpse suddenly picked up a red-hot piece of furnace and threw it at me, and I was so frightened that I dodged the iron to my side, but fell from the side of the stone steps.

The stone steps were more than ten meters high, and the height of my fall was seven meters, if it weren't for the two hands grabbing some protrusions on the side of the stone steps during the fall, slowing down the speed of the fall, I was afraid that I would have fallen to death when I landed, but even so, this time I still fell half of my life. I struggled to my feet, and saw the Flame Corpse lunging at me, scrambling around the rest of the still-intact furnaces with him, holding back the pain.

It's a pity that I don't have Yang Mengqing's agility at all, and I was quickly shortened by it, and I could even feel the scorching temperature emitted by the burning flames on its body. I knew that it was only two or three meters away from me at most, and my heart was cold, but then, I saw the generator not far from me, and I had a flash of inspiration, and I thought about it and hurriedly ran towards it.

The corpse was right behind me, but it was much slower than before, and it seemed that the heat in the furnace had damaged it somewhat. I led it to a roaring generator, then turned to look at it, and just as it grabbed me with one of its paws, I lunged to my side, rolled in a circle, and quickly got up, then desperately climbed up the stone steps.

This series of movements was so fast that I couldn't even believe that I had such speed, and just as I fell and rolled, and just got up, the fire claw that the corpse had grabbed at me grabbed the cable connected to the generator, and the flames burned the insulating skin that wrapped the cable, and the current was immediately exposed, and the electric corpse couldn't help but twitch.

Since I didn't stop in the process, and the generator was not far from the stone steps, I had already turned over and climbed the stone steps the moment the corpse was electrocuted by the electricity. The pain and discomfort that I had suppressed just now erupted the moment I climbed the stone steps, and I vomited a mouthful of blood, feeling a tearing pain in my chest, and I didn't know whether it was choking on fire smoke or falling.

I knew that now was not the time to rest, so I was busy holding on to my breath and climbing up, Yang Mengqing also came down to pick me up, and we had just climbed to the top of the stone steps, and the corpse that was electrocuted roared, and it trembled and broke away from the cable. I could see that my scalp was numb, and the corpse was slow, and I knew it was because there was electricity on the ground, and once it had climbed the stone steps, we were finished.

At that moment, the two of them no longer hesitated, jumped into the water, and swam upwards with all their might. We had not swam far before the bright light of the fire entered the waterway, and then we heard the sound of fire and water meeting each other. I couldn't believe that it had chased it into the water, and there was no way to do it, and if it wanted to survive, it had to swim for its life.