Chapter 38: The City of Ashes (Part II)

Without further discoveries, Shen Yi and the others left the giant insect corpse.

Moving along the road, Shen Yi observed the surroundings with great interest.

Judging from the scale and construction of the ruins, this was once a very lively camp for adventurers.

Shen Yi could even imagine that one adventurer after another shuttled through the city, selling all kinds of distinctive items and props. Since there are no restrictions against attacking each other, the people here are perhaps more direct, violent and bloody. They may fight at the slightest disagreement, and they are full of mistrust between them. Life is full of chaos, sorority, fraud and betrayal.

The gap between the rich and the poor has become very wide here, and the most direct manifestation is strength -- the strong are stronger, and the weak are weaker.

As a result, people can only choose to attach, large and small groups are formed, fighting, plundering, and their strength is consumed in the civil war, and in the end there are very few who can become strong......

Until one day, the giant beast suddenly appeared, it destroyed the city, and died itself under the combined efforts of all the strong people.

Then the Bloody City appeared.

A standardized system emerged.

The civilization among adventurers has gradually moved from chaos and barbarism to order.

Although human relations are still cruel and full of fraud, at least there is a law to follow.

This is the process of development.

Humanity is developing, and so is the Bloody City.

Maybe there is still some missing link in this speculation, but Shen Yi knows that at least in the general direction, he is not wrong - this is not a world that has been perfect since its existence and does not need to change, but is constantly learning and improving.

However, it seems that at least in the last few decades, the Bloody City has not made any further developments and changes.

It seems to have stalled its progress......

In the middle of his thoughts, Wen Wen, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped, and raised his right hand into a fist, which means that there is a situation ahead, and everyone stops.

"What's wrong?" Hong Lang asked.

"It's strange, I seemed to hear something just now, but now it's gone. "Look around gently.

Hong Lang scratched his scalp: "Are you nervous?"

It was desolate and secluded, not a single ghost was in sight, and there was no sound except the howling of the wind and their own footsteps.

As for the big guys who said the four difficulties, they were always under the monitoring of the Sky Eye, and it was impossible for them to suddenly approach them.

"I wish it was, but unfortunately, this is the capital of ashes, not a resort. Gentle replied coldly.

The Ash Capital is a danger zone, that's for sure, so everything suspicious must be treated with caution.

Gentle and briskly jumped onto the roof of a car that was burned to the bone, and her eyes wandered through the ruins, not missing a corner.

After a while, she raised her voice and said, "I didn't find it." ”

Hong Lang breathed a sigh of relief: "Bai is nervous. ”

At this moment, a black shadow suddenly rose from under the car, rushing straight behind Gentle.

King Kong was horrified: "Be gentle and careful!"

He rushed over to help, but saw Gentle suddenly leap up in the air, and the split whip in his hand suddenly appeared, and a whip was being whipped on the figure, obviously prepared.

"Whew!" the black shadow let out a terrible hiss, swept past the gentle foot, and grabbed the gentle foot with a backhand, the movement was quick and sharp.

Gentle didn't expect this guy to react so quickly, hurriedly retracted his feet, the blade of power quickly slashed, the black shadow quickly withdrew his hand, and a sharp flip in the air dodged the bullet shot by Zhou Yiyu, and at the same time raised his hand to shoot out a white light, directly hitting King Kong.

King Kong hurriedly dodged, and the skill heavy attack was activated.

Unexpectedly, this heavy blow hit the other party, and the black shadow was not affected at all, but turned sharply in the air and shot out a flame, sweeping everyone, and then flew to the nearby wall, using both hands and feet, quickly climbed to a high place, and then turned around and rushed towards the gentle volley.

The gentle long whip was urgent/pumping, and the black shadow flashed a few times in the air, easily flashing the gentle whip, and one claw had already grabbed the gentle face door.

"Ice Burst!" As a gentle and melodious voice rang out, the blade of power slashed head-on. The shadow seemed to know that it was powerful, and suddenly screamed to stop the momentum, and then did a backflip, avoiding the blow that was destined to be won.

At this time, except for Shen Yi, everyone in the Broken Blade team had already fired at the same time, and the black shadow fell back to the ground and disappeared into the ground.

Hong Lang punched the ground, and the punch made a big hole in the ground, but there was no reaction.

"Damn, you're running so fast!" Hong Lang scolded.

"No, it should still be nearby. Gentleness strode over.

She pretended to be unprepared and led that guy to sneak attack, but she didn't expect the other party's attack to be fierce, not to mention, and her reaction was also swift, seeing that the attack could not succeed, she immediately retreated, so that Wen Rou was also surprised.

"Who do you see that person is that?" asked King Kong. The shadow was so fast that he couldn't even see the other side.

Gently replied, "That's not a person." ”

"Not people?"

"Yes, not people. Gentle repeats affirmatively: "That's a zombie." ”

King Kong shook his head: "How is this possible?"

Zombies, the lowest-level existence in the life level of the undead, are reduced to cannon fodder no matter what world they are in.

Cannon fodder like this, Hong Lang can kill ten or eight at will, how could he be quietly approached, sneak attacked, and even retreated under the siege of everyone.

Shen Yi said suddenly: "Gentleness is not mistaken, it is indeed a zombie, but it is ...... That's a very unusual zombie. ”

Everyone looked back at Shen Yi together, he didn't make a move from the beginning to the end of the battle just now, and he was observing all the time.

Of course, this has also become a habit of the Broken Blade team, whenever he encounters a new target and the team members are enough to deal with it, Shen Yi will hardly make a move, but more to observe and discover.

It is always more important for him to know the enemy than to kill it, provided that there is no end to such enemies, of course.

Shen Yi looked at everyone coldly, and he said, "Is there something, have you noticed?"

"What?"

"As a former adventurer's camp, where are those dead adventurers? Why do we only see the remains of fierce beasts but not a single humanoid skeleton along the way?"

All of them had a numb scalp at the same time.

Hong Lang pointed at Shen Yi and shouted tremblingly, "You...... You mean......"

Shen Yi nodded: "That's right, it's a zombie turned into an adventurer." ”

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The adventurer undead, the most sinister existence in the Ashen Capital, but that's not the scariest part of it.

The real horror of the Ashen City is that any adventurer who dies here will eventually become a member of this group of undead creatures.

These undead creatures are all made up of dead adventurers, some of whom may have been dead for thousands of years, and some of whom may have just joined.

They hover here, forming a unique force that hunts down any adventurer or beast that dares to enter the place.

They may not be as powerful as the beasts, but they retain a considerable part of their human intelligence, know how to sneak attack and cooperate in battle, can use some of their previous skills, and even retreat and call for help when the fighter plane is unfavorable.

This makes each immortal as cunning and difficult as a human, and it is also their most terrifying part.

Despite the calm appearance of the City of Ashes, no one knows how many adventurers are watching them from behind the hidden shadows.

This is the City of Ashes!

"Whew!" Gentle let out a long breath: "I really didn't expect it to be like this, it looks like I'm going to have a headache now." ”

Hong Lang snorted coldly: "That's not necessarily." I don't think they can really retain all their wisdom, you must know that wisdom is generated by consciousness, and they don't even have consciousness, how much wisdom can they leave behind? At most, they still have some instincts, knowing how to drive away advantages and avoid harm, which makes them appear to be smarter than beasts, but they are also less intelligent. ”

This is quite true, human intelligence is never generated for no reason, in addition to the need for a highly developed brain, but also need an understanding of the human world, the excavation of one's own desires and the summary of historical experience...... and so on.

It's like a genius prodigy with an IQ of 220 but no education, and it's impossible to make a three-dimensional quadratic equation problem.

Without the minimum knowledge of humanities, the so-called wisdom is just a tree without roots and a weed without water.

These adventurers have become undead after death, they no longer have memories, and they have become less self-conscious, so what they really have is not necessarily wisdom, but more likely the battle instinct left over from the past.

While this is just as annoying, it's at least much easier to deal with than a real adventurer.

It's just that when Hong Lang said this, everyone didn't have a sudden open expression, but looked at him with a look of surprise.

Zhou Yiyu even touched Hong Lang's head and said, "Hey, this script is wrong, this line should be said by King Kong or Shen Yi, why did it come out of your mouth." ”

"Damn!" Hong Lang grabbed Zhou Yiyu's arm with his backhand, and threw him to the ground with a back fall: "It's really stupid, I just don't like to use my brain!"

"Alright, okay, don't make a fuss. Shen Yi interrupted the two: "These immortal wisdom may not be as high as imagined, but their strength may not be lower than imagined. ”

"How?"

Shen Yi replied: "Because those who die here may not all be adventurers of second difficulty. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone gasped.

"General!" King Kong blurted out.

If the memory is correct, just ten minutes ago, the corpse of the giant worm they had seen was killed by at least three adventurers at the level of a general.

No one knows whether these adventurers will end up alive or dead.

Maybe they lived and ended up leaving this world.

Perhaps they died, becoming the most terrifying of the undead, wandering in the ruins.

No one even knows if there were any other adventurers of other difficulty who came here and were killed after that.

As long as these general-level immortals still retain one-third of their abilities in life, they are enough to slaughter everyone here.

They finally understood where the truly terrifying place of the City of Ashes was.

For adventurers who like to be in control, this unpredictable factor is the most dangerous and fatal factor, and it is the nemesis of anyone who is good at planning and layout. Therefore, even some adventurers of three or four difficulty do not like to come here.

Of course, as long as you can kill the adventurer zombies, you have a chance to get a skill upgrade scroll from them.

Perhaps the stronger the target killed, the higher the chance and quality of the scrolls dropped.

Fortunately, Shen Yi finally said again: "You don't have to worry. Anyway, this is the second difficulty area. Since Bloody City has divided the difficulty areas, there will always be some ways to restrain them. Unless our luck wanes, we shouldn't run into that kind of guy. ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, Wen Wen's face suddenly changed, and she suddenly turned around, her right hand stretched out like lightning, and she was grabbing a white bone arrow shot from the air. The bone arrow trembled in the palm of her hand, releasing a huge force that shook her gentle body.

"Over there!" Zhou Yiyu had already seen a skeleton archer on the top of a small building not far away.

Brush!

Another arrow pierced through the clouds and cracked through the sky.

The flood roared, and the sword of the Hell King slashed through the air, hitting the arrow head-on, and under the impact of huge power, the white bone arrow turned into pieces, and King Kong and the fat man rushed towards the skeleton archer at the same time.

Pandora snapped, and the Dark Hand was already grabbing at the skeleton.

Unexpectedly, the skeleton leaned back, dodged this claw, and took a few steps back, just as King Kong Fat Man was approaching, a black shadow suddenly rushed out of the ground, and he raised his hand and punched King Kong, which was the zombie who had sneaked up on the gentle before.

This time it faced everyone, and King Kong Honglang saw that it was indeed a zombie, with blue and stiff facial muscles, which was a sign that all the human fat had died, making them move sluggishly.

It's just that this zombie is not stupid, not only will it sneak attack, but it will also set traps, which is too surprising.

This punch shook King Kong and fell back again and again.

"Bastard!" he didn't expect to fall into the ambush of a zombie, although the injuries were not serious, and he couldn't get over it.

The zombie has rushed forward, King Kong, swinging his fist to counterattack, and the other party is actually punching straight up.

Bang!

The two punched each other, and their bodies shook at the same time.

Then jumped up at the same time, the speed of the zombie was even faster than King Kong, and he kicked King Kong first, and then retreated with his strength, dodging King Kong's kick, and at the same time smashing the fat man with flying fists, the movements were coherent like flowing water, where there was the slightest zombie sluggishness and numbness, and the characteristics of slow action.

A third bone arrow shot out in the sky, this time at the fat man.

The fat man hurriedly added a mental armor to himself, and the flood waves had already rushed up from behind.

The tomahawk threw at the skeletal archer: "Whirling axe, slaughter!"

This is also his only ranged skill at the moment.

When the skeletal archer saw the slaughter axe flying, he immediately pulled away and flew back. It's just that Carnage, when there are only a single target, has the ability to automatically pursue. Seeing the shadow of the axe slashing in the sky, the skeleton suddenly snapped its jaw and let out a sharp scream.

Then I saw that the white bones of its whole body suddenly fell apart, turning into countless bones and shooting in all directions, and the slaughter suddenly lost its target, and could only return to Hong Lang's hands.

The skeleton's response was stunned, and Hong Lang was stunned, only to see a skull suddenly flying towards him.

This change was so sudden that even Hong Lang couldn't dodge it, and he was bitten on the arm by the skull, and he screamed in pain, and his left hand quickly slapped towards the skull.

Unexpectedly, the zombie who had fought against King Kong suddenly rushed out, blocked the flood waves, snatched the skull, and then jumped back, disappearing into the ground again.

"Damn!" Hong Lang was so angry that he was going crazy.

On the contrary, it was Shen Yi, and the corners of his mouth twisted into a smile: "It seems that these are the goals we have to face next." So from now on, the task is assigned!"

As soon as they heard the word assignment, everyone became serious.

Shen Yi said loudly: "Yi Yu, Luo Hao, you two go to the Jade Mine Cave." Gentle, King Kong, Hong Lang, the three of you are now responsible for hunting the undead adventurers, let's divide our forces. ”

Divide the troops? Everyone was stunned.

King Kong asked, "It's not appropriate to separate at this time, right?"

Shen Yi smiled: "Sometimes it's not suitable, but it's the most suitable." ”

"What about you, what are you responsible for?" asked gently.

"Me?" Shen Yi's eyes narrowed.

He looked at Pandora, "Miss Pandora, are you interested in accompanying me on a tour of this abandoned land?"

"As long as you're not afraid of your girlfriend being jealous. ”

"She's a good woman who is empathetic. ”