"how so?"

"Where did we fall?"

"Are these really zombies? Why do they feel so strong!"

Even though many of the exploration team members were used to seeing strong winds and waves, facing such a ghastly scene, they still felt their scalps go numb.

You know, ordinary zombies have rotten muscles, loose tendons, sluggish joints, slow and twisted movements, and their limbs will fall off without even touching them. All in all, they look very weak.

During a zombie crisis, even ordinary citizens wielding lawn mowers can kill all the zombies, leaving them with flesh and blood flying in and out of the crowd.

Even the super zombies carefully prepared by the monster civilization have twice the mobility and infectivity, can spray fire or acid, and can cause serious damage to ordinary citizens, but they can't do anything to extraordinary people above the level.

The extraordinary person constructed a spiritual magnetic force field and used a special move to kill seventy or eighty zombies. It was because he had poor eyesight and failed to aim.

But these zombies in front of me are different.

Their flesh merely shrank rather than decayed.

No, it's not shrinking, but "compressing", compressing to the extreme into a steel-like substance.

Their tendons only turned gray-white, but did not break. They also increased their ductility and flexibility.

Bundles of blood-striped hyphae sprouted from their skin. At first glance, they looked like they were covered with a layer of short red hair.

Judging from Meng Chao's past experience in irritating undead creatures, this layer of red hair can evenly disperse external attacks, making it difficult for external forces to concentrate on one point and break through the defenses of undead creatures.

It can also stimulate the cells of undead creatures to accelerate division and abnormal proliferation, improving their battlefield survivability.

Even around their joints, clusters of crystal-like substances have grown, which can not only strengthen the strength of the joints, but also act like armor, protecting these joints from enemy attacks.

Of course they don't have eyeballs.

However, the phosphorus fire in his eyes formed countless intricate geometric patterns, as if shining with evil wisdom that was very different from humans.

Even the undead creatures surrounded by blood streaks were vaguely obeying the orders of these zombies, forming an orderly offensive and defensive battle formation with orders and prohibitions.

Such humanoid undead creatures are of course not comparable to traditional, weak zombies, but "zombies" that can cultivate and upgrade themselves.

They are even somewhat similar to the "Lich", the commander of the undead creatures from the Netherworld in the memory fragments of Meng Chao's previous life.

But why do some zombies wear costumes from the Earth Age?

Could it be that they are all citizens of Taoyuan Town?

Before anyone could figure this out, countless zombies were already commanding undead creatures like Stitch Monsters, surrounding hundreds of exploration team members.

The putrid smell on their bodies and the deep flames in their eyes combined to form an invisible swamp, which trapped the exploration team members deeply and almost suffocated them.

"I'm sorry, Meng Chao, I did deceive you. Taoyuan Town is not a perfect paradise, it is just an illusion created by me. In front of you, there are windy winds, ghostly atmosphere, undead creatures, and red-haired zombies running rampant.

This is the most authentic appearance of Taoyuan Town."

A faint sigh sounded from behind Meng Chao.

It seems to contain great regret, grievance, remorse and anger.

Everyone was horrified and turned around to look at the wisdom tree, which was made up of poisonous snake-like vines and monster bones, with scarlet mycelium, dark green moss, and rancid mucus flowing.

The trunk of the wisdom tree was cracked again, and countless mycelium was wrapped in moss, and it once again condensed into the appearance of a girl with a cool golden millennium.

But at this moment, the girl's body was covered with pustules, tumors and wounds that would never heal. Her facial features and limbs were deformed and twisted, and poisonous spores spewed out of her seven orifices, like a "plague goddess".

In the illusion, he and Meng Chao saw the girl who was surrounded by golden light, as flawless as a gem, and as clear as crystal. They were completely different from each other!

"Are you disappointed with me and Taoyuan Town like this?"

The Plague Goddess stepped on the corpse flowers that bloomed from the snake vines, and walked towards Meng Chao and others, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to deceive you. The truth is really too cruel and ugly. Tell me.

Not exported.

"Yes, Taoyuan Town was not saved, but was destroyed decades ago - destroyed by the hands of humans themselves.

"That was what happened after I fished out Jin Qianqian's body from the Chilong River and tried to fuse her soul.

"Unlike what I said before, this integration is actually not that smooth - Jin Qianqian is one of the most powerful beings among earth travelers, and I am one of the weirdest carbon-based intelligent life forms born in this foreign land.

How can the soul fusion of two such completely different and powerful life forms be smooth?

"In the beginning, Jin Qianqian couldn't understand my wisdom and civilization at all.

"I was also frightened by the horrific images from the ancient ruins deep in her memory.

"The two of us fought a thrilling 'war' on the soul level. Neither one of us would give in and wanted to seize the dominance of the new soul after the fusion.

"Our souls are shattered in the war, and both sides suffer.

"Even if they are barely integrated, it will seriously damage the vitality and require a long running-in period.

"For several years, I lost the ability to control spiritual beasts through the neural network. It was as if my whole body was paralyzed. I could only quietly observe Taoyuan Town, which was very close at hand, but I could not stretch out even a vine to interfere with Taoyuan Town.

every move.

"So, I couldn't stop everything.

"I failed to stop the leader and his strong men from massacre in Taoyuan Town. The butcher knife that broke because it broke too many bones ended up smashing instead of cutting off the innocent townspeople's necks.

"I failed to stop those razor-wielding demons from chasing down the poor little girl's ancient spirit and killing her in the most brutal way.

"I failed to stop the leader and his strong men from killing most of the innocent townspeople, so that Taoyuan Town's industry and technology could not be maintained at all. The leader and his strong men could only gradually give up on the people from the earth.

He cultivated all the tools of civilization in an intensified manner in an attempt to gather thousands of great powers into one body and survive in the jungle purely by relying on his own strength.

"It's like drinking poison to quench thirst, a vicious cycle.

"The crazier they practice, the more they have to plunder all the resources in Taoyuan Town.

"The more resources they plunder, the more Taoyuan Town's industry and technology will decline, and civilization will gradually become unable to sustain itself.

"Without the protection of civilization, they can only practice more and more crazily, turning into savages surrounded by spiritual flames.

"However, without industry, technology, and a complete research and education system, even if we have a large number of crystal stones, monster flesh and blood, and natural materials and earthly treasures, how can we possibly discover the correct method of spiritual cultivation without going too far?

?

"Gradually, the leader and the strong men under his command were eroded by the violent spiritual energy and their brains were destroyed. Their emotions and desires were infinitely magnified, and they were increasingly driven by instinct rather than reason.

"To use the terminology of your Dragon City cultivation, they have all become 'lost people', poor souls lost in the mysterious and vast spiritual world.

"They turned Taoyuan Town into a literal hell on earth.

"The last innocent people fell in a pool of blood.

“What’s ridiculous is that the leaders and strong men who claim to have ‘thousands of great powers gathered into one body’ have no idea how insignificant their power is compared to the entire jungle and the vaster world beyond it.

"The townspeople are all dead, and there is no one to mine for them, forge weapons and armor for them, collect and cook food for them, serve as cannon fodder for them, and consume the monsters' combat effectiveness. All of this must be dealt with by themselves.

.

"I still can't move.

"But those monsters that have long awakened their wisdom and reproduced human desires and hatred are eager to devour the entire Taoyuan Town.

"The leader and the strong men under his command are indeed ten times stronger than before.

"But without the resistance of the townspeople, the number of monsters that appeared in front of them was a hundred times greater than before.

"The leader and his strong men were trapped in a sea of ​​monsters haunted by human souls. It was only at this moment that they finally woke up and regretted nothing.

"However, Taoyuan Town was not destroyed by monsters.

“Various viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites originally existed in the Kirigakure Realm, and various undead creatures often appeared.

"The long-term fighting in Taoyuan Town has become the best 'petri dish' for blood-striped flower spores and zombie viruses.

"After countless chance collisions, fusions, mutations, screenings, and evolutions, a completely new form of super zombie virus emerged.

"No, this kind of thing that combines the gene fragments of blood-striped flowers, archaea bacteria and various parasitic organisms can no longer be described as a 'virus'.

"It is a hundred times more dangerous than ordinary zombie viruses.

"In addition to being extremely contagious, even corpses that have been dead for many years, buried deep underground, and moistened by crystal veins for many years, instead of decaying, can be awakened.

"Moreover, it is difficult to be eliminated by the human body's immune system and spiritual magnetic field. Even extraordinary people have a certain chance of being infected by it.

"In this way, the bruised leader and the strong men under his command were surprised to find that after they finally repelled the monster's attack, what came back was no longer the familiar monster, but the vengeful undead.

"In the past few years, they have killed the people of Taoyuan Town, throwing them into the Chilong River and Hunu River, or throwing them deep into the jungle.

"They originally thought that the corpses of all innocent people, like their crimes, would gradually sink, rot, annihilate and disappear without a trace in the dark jungle.
Chapter completed!