Chapter 8: Plants vs. Ghouls
During the day, the Shadow Canyon is thick with fog, giving people an eerie and eerie feeling, and at night, the Shadow Canyon is a forbidden place for all creatures. As long as it is a living creature, it will instinctively stay away from this side of the dead place, and you can hardly find any signs of biological activity within a radius of ten miles. This is the forbidden place of living creatures, the paradise of the dead, except for sometimes some mercenaries who don't want to die for money, occasionally come here to pick special herbs, but they all enter during the day and leave in the evening, which is like Lin Mu who comes at night.
The gloomy sky was filled with a thick layer of fog, which was formed by too much dead air that would block out the sunlight and provide a natural barrier to the undead creatures of the Shadow Canyon.
"Ya~ya~ya~" The crows that feed on the corpses hovered in the air, and the arrival of the living disturbed their eating, making them vigilant and constantly noisy, which made people annoying.
Listening to the crow's call, the nose lingered with a lingering stench, the soil was soft, and the insects inside crawled unscrupulously as if no one was around. If left untreated, within five minutes, both trouser legs will be crawling with disgusting bugs. The cold wind blew, which seemed to bring the cries and screams of the dead souls, which penetrated directly into the bone marrow, making people shudder. This feeling reminds Lin Mu of the feeling when he was a child, when he watched Lin Zhengying's zombie movie series, he was afraid to watch it but didn't dare to watch it.
Now Lin Mu is a master of art and bold, and besides, there are ten zombies around him, what are you afraid of! So Lin Mu stepped into the shadow canyon, not only did he not feel uncomfortable, but he also had a different kind of comfort. Ten zombies stepped into the shadow canyon, they took a few deep breaths, a large amount of dead air drilled through their nostrils, and as the dead qi replenished, the originally shriveled corpses swelled up slightly, becoming fuller, and a faint white gas emanated from their bodies. That's corpse qi, the intensity of corpse qi determines the skill level of a zombie, and the white corpse qi means that these ten zombies are almost about to enter the realm of white zombies.
Lin Mu named the ten zombies Zombie One, Zombie Two...... Abbreviated as stiff 1 and stiff 2...... The woods looked like corpse chasers in ancient times, with ten stiff zombies bouncing at the front, ten pea shooters moving with leaves, and ten rolling walls of nuts.
Entering the Shadow Canyon, Lin Mu only walked less than five hundred meters before he encountered a group of ghouls. Ghouls are a kind of low-level undead creatures, after the death of humans and subhumans, if the soul is not appeased and goes to the underworld, there will be a certain chance of becoming ghouls, but at this time they have long lost their appearance before life, becoming extremely ugly, rotting skin and flesh, and only the instinct to eat remains. To put it simply, it is a virtue like zombies, but zombies are constantly mutating.
Ghouls are different, as time goes by, some ghouls with good qualifications will grow a soul seal in their heads, which can absorb the magical energy in the space and constantly transform their bodies to make them more powerful.
As they absorb magical energy, their broken souls will gradually repair in the process, and then they will initially open up their wisdom and get a new life. At this point, the ghoul can be regarded as officially becoming a mid-level undead creature, which is equivalent to completing the process of human beings from birth to adulthood. Undead creatures have an instinctive aversion and extreme hatred for all living things, eager to tear apart and devour their flesh and blood, and are also very sensitive to the breath of the living, so when Li Mu first saw them, the ghouls had already keenly sensed the existence of the forest and began to attack.
It's a pity that with the rotting body of the ghoul and the slow footsteps, Lin Mu said that there was no pressure, and as soon as his mind moved, the nut wall rolled to the front and erected, forming a row of defensive walls. The Ten Pea Shooter ran to the back of the nut wall and began to spray peas, and the difference between life and energy was very obvious. The attack of the energy body is very rigid and weak, but the pea shooter of the living body, the power of each pea is about the same as a bullet, hitting the ghoul with a loud bang, you must know that they are only in the growth period now, just one or two pea attacks, and a ghoul's arm is broken.
In addition to the increased power of the peas, the Pea Shooter also has an auto-lock ability, every pea bullet never misses, and they also know how to cooperate and prioritize attacks, which ghoul runs faster to attack first.
As a result, the ghoul group had already lost several of them before they advanced a distance of ten meters, and after killing a few ghouls, Lin Mu also sensed that the ghouls' weakness was the same as zombies, and as long as they exploded their heads, they could be completely killed. As a result, Lin Mu adjusted the target of the pea shooter's attack and hit the head of the shooting ghoul, so that the speed of destroying the ghoul increased a lot.
By the time the ghouls advanced less than three meters in front of the Nut Wall, there were less than five ghouls left, and at this time the Nut Wall was in full swing. Five walls of nuts rolled over, knocking down the staggering ghouls, and the other five slammed into the ghouls' heads with a thud, followed by pea bullets that exploded their heads.
In less than five minutes, the ghoul swarm was wiped out, and the soul remnants emitted by the ghoul swarm were absorbed by Lin Mu's soul pupils, and Lin Mu then refined the remaining essence of their bodies into blood beads. Because of the relationship between the ancestral witch essence and blood, Lin Mu no longer looks down on these blood beads, it is better to give these blood beads to his zombies and cultivate them, so Lin Mu rewarded the blood beads to Zombie One and them.
Zombies, born from the resentment of heaven and earth, are immortal, immortal, and immortal, and are abandoned by the three worlds of heaven, earth and man outside the six realms of sentient beings, wandering and displaced, taking resentment as strength and blood as food in the human world, and venting endless loneliness with the blood of all living beings. After swallowing the blood beads and having the blood replenished, their bodies finally had vitality, and they were no longer as weak as before, and they could be blown down by a gust of wind. Now their eyes are like hungry lone wolves, their pupils glowing with blood-red light, looking around for the breath of creatures.
"Roar~~~" They let out a roar, they stared at the crows flying in the air, the roar was full of thirst for blood, if it weren't for the crows flying higher, their bounce power would not be enough for them to pounce on them, and now they would have flown out.