Chapter Seventy-Two: The Lair of the Dead
The night wind was like knives, whirring and blowing, and a large crowd of people lay in ambush behind the iceberg, holding their breath and staring ahead. In the darkness where you can't see your fingers, there is a group of green light points beating, like fireflies in the dark, and the sound of the ice being dug up and broken is endless.
The green light point is the undead fire in the eyes of the undead.
Zhang Mu retracted his head, so as not to be discovered, and clenched the Binghe Sword: "What are those guys doing?" ”
"There was a skirmish in this place a few years ago, and the Snow Alliance wiped out a group of infiltrated frost trolls, and their bodies were abandoned here. ”
"These undead are stealing corpses again?"
"That's right."
Zhang Mu knew the power of the Hades Coffin, even if the corpse had been dead for a long time, it could be transformed into an undead spirit through the Hades Coffin. Because ordinary undead monsters, they only need liliang, they don't need souls, and when the living souls die, the souls gradually dissipate, but the strong body will still preserve a part of liliang. The Coffin of Hades ignites the fire of the dead in the corpse, and at the same time stimulates the energy in the corpse, allowing the corpse to regain its mobility.
However, the longer the time of death, the more serious the decomposition of the body, the more liliang is lost from the corpse.
Because of the special climate of the ice field, when exposed to the corpses of the wilderness, they basically do not decay, and are forever hidden in the snow or sealed in the ice. Such corpses are excavated and have high utilization value, so the undead king wantonly looted the corpses and continuously expanded the scale of the undead army.
Zhang Mu put on a night vision goggles.
In a small basin a few kilometers ahead, there are about a thousand undead, constantly digging for ice. There are many strange undead, including ice demons, trolls, snow tribes, barbarians, djinns, and even several races that have been extinct on the ice field for many years.
The undead dug up the corpse and carried it away with the ice.
They have no wisdom and can only follow instructions and complete tasks numbly. At this time, somewhere far away, the undead king must be using the Hades coffin to control the actions of the undead, the control is unilateral, and the undead cannot give back information like the undead king. Because they don't have the ability to think, they're sluggish than robots.
Xue Ling drew the long sword stuck in his waist, "Don't let one go!" ”
"You follow me!"
Zhang Mu ran the Heaven Covering Demon Skill, and there was a black qi that rose from his body, slowly diffuse, and covered all directions in the blink of an eye. Everyone hid in the black fog and advanced, and after a while, they came to the range of the undead's perception, but it was very strange that the undead were unaware.
The undead have no sensory function, and everything that happens in the outside world cannot be heard, seen, or smelled, but can only be perceived through an extrasensory ability that living beings do not have. The liliang of the Heaven Covering Demon Gong spreads out, blocking the perception of the undead, so even if they get very close, the undead will not be able to detect it.
This move is simply invincible to the low-level undead!
Zhang Mu created more black mist, and the black mist surrounded the undead little by little with the help of the cover of night, greatly reducing their perception range.
"Let me come first!"
The Ice River Sword floated into the air, turning into a streamer of light in the darkness, and instantly shot into the black mist. An undead troll sensed something, and as soon as he turned around, the Binghe Sword slashed over, and a head rolled directly to the ground, and his head was in a different place in an instant.
Because the perception of the undead is obscured, even the undead who are standing close to each other do not feel anything.
Zhang Mu controlled the Binghe Sword, like a swimming dragon, constantly shuttling back and forth, and in just a few seconds, he took down the heads of dozens of undead. The undead were still digging through the ice, and their companions were killed one by one, and they didn't feel the slightest feeling.
Xue Ling was stunned.
This move can almost allow Zhang Mu to solve an entire army of undead by himself.
Of course, the good times were short-lived.
The undead kings in the distance and the spirit of the dead were interrupted one after another, probably feeling that something was wrong, so they sent an order to the undead. A certain rune on the body of the group of undead flashed brightly, and after receiving the order of the undead king, they all put down their affairs and let out a beastly roar from their mouths.
"Do it!"
With a stroke of Zhang Mu's fingers, the Ice River Sword in the air, shrouded in lava, suddenly inserted in the middle of the undead. Then, a scorching flame was released from the middle, and dozens of undead were burned to charcoal in an instant. The undead began to notice the breath of the creatures, and immediately brandished their weapons and slashed indiscriminately.
"Kill!"
Xue Ling held a sword, and killed first, the brilliant sword light flashed, and several undead were beheaded under the sword.
Everyone rushed out, because of Zhang Mu's cover, the target that was a little farther away, and the undead couldn't find it at all. Mages and archers can stand at a safe distance and kill the undead one by one. The combat ability of the two parties is not on the same level, and with Zhang Mu's obstruction, can the undead resist?
The battle ended in less than 10 minutes.
Of the less than a thousand undead, Zhang Mu killed more than 150 by himself, and his experience slot increased by a small amount. The only fly in the ointment is that it is probably an undead monster that is artificially resurrected, and basically there will be no drops of any items.
"All the bodies are burned!"
Xue Ling commanded.
The crowd was busy, whether it was the undead. Or corpses, all piled up, poured with magic fuel, and burned in one fire, so that they would not be wasted again.
"The strength of the undead doesn't seem to be very strong."
"No, they're stupid!"
After this battle, the Snow Alliance's side had zero casualties, and the strength of the undead was not as good as the elite of the Snow League after all. What's more, the undead have no ability to think, and are extremely passive during the battle, and Zuihou is killed one by one, and there is no suspense at all.
"Well done!"
"Go ahead, let's go find the next one!"
The Snow Spirit contacted the scouting team, and soon zeroed in on an undead wandering the ice field, and the group set up an ambush in its path. The number of undead was a little smaller than just now, but they had already succeeded in carrying corpses that had been dug up from nowhere in one direction.
"These guys will definitely transport the corpses back to the lair!"
Someone shouted: "The undead keep stealing corpses, creating more undead, it's endless, can we really kill them all?" ”
Zhang Mu said: "It's best to cut the grass and eradicate the roots!" ”
Lei Ming said, "If we follow them, won't we be able to find the lair of the undead?" ”
The crowd rose one after another, and did not rush to do so. It would be best if you found the lair of the undead king and destroyed the undead clan, Liliang.
Xue Ling asked, "Can your exercise provide cover for us to follow the undead without being discovered, all the way to the undead's lair?" ”
"It's very easy for my Heaven Covering Demon Skill to hide from ordinary undead monsters, but among the undead, there are not only low-level undead, I'm afraid there are also a considerable number of intelligent undead. This kind of undead spirit is directly conceived by the Hades coffin race, with memories and liliang before death, as well as the ability to think independently. If we follow up with a swagger, there is a good chance that we will be discovered. ”
"Wise undead?"
Xue Ling was a little surprised.
Zhang Mu briefly explained the ability of the Hades coffin.
The wisdom of the undead must be very strong.
If you do, it's tricky.
"I can't track them, but I have a way to effectively infiltrate the undead." Zhang Mu made a suggestion, "If I disguise myself as a corpse and am found by the undead, then the undead will take the initiative to send me in and perform the undead ritual." After I find out the situation of the lair of the dead, I will tell you the location and how to enter it. ”
Xue Ling was surprised by Zhang Mu's idea, "Is this method feasible?" ”
"Don't worry, I can't be undead, and even if the Undead King performs a ritual on me, I won't transform into an undead. The connection between the Undead King and the Undead is only one-sided, and the Undead will not pass any information to the Undead King, and if I am mixed in with the Undead, as long as I am not too eye-catching, the Undead King will not be able to discover me. ”
It seems like a good idea.
Xue Ling asked, "How sure are you?" ”
Zhang Mu didn't know, so he could only shake his head and say, "I have the Heaven Covering Demon Skill, and it is very convenient to escape when I am alone." As long as the Undead King doesn't chase him personally, I have a way to escape, so it's worth a try. ”
"Okay, then give it a try!"
"Destroy this undead first!"
Everyone rushed up, and after ten minutes, this undead was completely annihilated.
Xue Meng found another team of undead corpse thieves, and in the process of exhuming the corpse, Zhang Mu immediately prepared, first taking a fake death potion that could hide the breath of life, and then Xue Ling sealed Zhang Mu into a large ice block, this state is no different from a corpse, but Zhang Mu still retains the ability to perceive the outside world, Zhang Mu hides most of his strength, making him look no different from an ordinary warrior.
The undead found Zhang Mu and mistook it for an ordinary corpse, but he didn't identify it, so he picked it up and took it away.
"Jihua succeeded!"
Everyone hid outside the vigilant range of the undead, only to see the undead transporting the corpse in front of them and disappearing into the night in a hurry, and everyone's hearts couldn't help but hang. The place where Zhang Mu is going is not an ordinary danger, it is a gathering place for a group of dead, Zhang Mu, as a living being, is often as eye-catching as a light bulb, in case it is exposed, even if there is a cover of the Demon Skill to cover the sky, he will face the situation of nine deaths and one life.
Du Rongrong said helplessly: "Wood is really, and I always come up with some ghost ideas that make people speechless!" ”
"But it all works!"
"If we succeed, we'll be able to find the lair of the dead."
Zhang Mu was brought into the iceberg by the undead, moving very fast, crossing mountains and mountains, I don't know how many roads he walked, and finally arrived at a basin.
In a month's time, the undead king launched minions everywhere to steal corpses, and even personally attacked towns and villages, and abducted a large number of elite warriors of various races, and the size of the legion should have grown to about thirty or forty thousand, or even a little more.
I thought that when I came to the lair of the undead, I would see the undead all over the mountains.
This is not the case.
The number of undead is at most five or six thousand, and some individuals are significantly different, more powerful and terrifying, and they are intelligent, this is the real undead, the undead with wisdom!