Chapter 297 City of Ashes (Part 2)

Finding nothing more, Shen Yi and the others left the giant insect corpse.

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

Judging from the scale and construction of the ruins, it was once a quite lively adventurer camp.

Shen Yi could even imagine adventurers one after another traveling through the city, selling various unique items and props. Since there are no restrictions against attacking each other, the people here may be more direct, violent and bloody. They may They fight whenever they disagree, and there is full of distrust between them. Life is full of chaos, filth, fraud and betrayal.

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

So people can only choose to rely on each other. Groups of various sizes are established, fighting and plundering. Their strength is consumed in the civil war, and only a few can become strong in the end...

Until one day, the giant insect-like beast suddenly appeared and destroyed the city. He himself also died under the joint efforts of all the strong men.

Then Bloody City appeared.

A standardized system emerged.

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

Although the relationship between people is still cruel and full of fraud, at least everything has laws to follow.

This is the process of development.

Humanity is developing, and so is the bloody city.

Maybe there are some missing links in this guess, 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 past few decades, Bloody City has not made any further development or changes.

It seems to have stalled its progress...

While he was thinking, Wen Wen, who was walking at the front, suddenly stopped and raised his right hand into a fist. This meant that there was something going on ahead and everyone stopped.

"What happened?" Hong Lang asked.

"Strange, I seemed to hear something just now, but now it's gone." Wen Wen looked around.

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

It was a desolate and quiet place, not even a ghost was seen, and there was no extra sound except the howling of the wind and their own footsteps.

As for the big guys in difficulty level 4, they are always under the surveillance of the Sky Eye, and it is even less likely that they will suddenly approach them.

"I hope so, but unfortunately, this is the City of Ashes, not a resort." Wen Wenwen replied coldly.

The City of Ashes is a dangerous zone, that's for sure, so be careful with anything suspicious.

Wen Wen quickly jumped onto the roof of a car that had been burned to only its skeleton. Her eyes wandered around the ruins, never missing a corner.

After a while, she raised her voice and said, "Nothing was found."

Hong Lang breathed a sigh of relief: "I was so nervous for nothing."

At this moment, a black shadow suddenly appeared from under the car and rushed directly behind Wen Wenwen.

King Kong Dahao: "Be gentle and careful!"

He rushed over to help, but he saw Wen Wenwen suddenly leaping into the air, the cracking whip suddenly appeared in his hand, and the whip was hitting the figure, obviously he was well prepared.

"Ouch!" The black figure let out a shrill scream, passed by Wen Wen's feet, and grabbed Wen Wen's feet with his backhand, moving quickly and sharply.

Wen Wen didn't expect this guy to react so quickly. He hurriedly retracted his feet and slashed with the blade of power. The black shadow quickly retracted his hands and dodged the bullet fired by Zhou Yiyu with a sharp flip in the air. At the same time, he raised his hand and shot out a white light, attacking directly. King Kong.

King Kong hurriedly dodged and activated his heavy attack.

Unexpectedly, this heavy blow hit the opponent, and the black shadow was not affected at all. Instead, it shot out a flame in the air, sweeping everyone, and then quickly jumped to the nearby wall. Using both hands and feet, it quickly climbed to a high place. place, then turned around and rushed towards Wen Wenfeng.

Gentle's long whip whipped violently, and the black shadow flashed several times in the air, easily dodging Gentle's whip blows, and one of its claws was already grabbing at Gentle's face.

"Ice Explosion!" As a gentle and melodious voice sounded, the blade of power slashed head-on. The black figure seemed to know how powerful it was, and suddenly screamed strangely to stop the momentum of the impact, and then did a backflip to avoid this one who was determined to win. hit.

At this time, everyone in the Broken Blade team except Shen Yi had opened fire at the same time, and the black shadow rolled back to the ground, submerged into the ground and disappeared.

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

"Damn, he ran so fast!" Hong Lang yelled.

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

She had previously pretended to be unprepared and lured the guy into a sneak attack. She did not expect that the opponent's attack was not only fierce, but also reacted quickly. Seeing that the attack could not succeed, she immediately retreated, which surprised Wen Wen.

"Who did you see that person?" King Kong asked. The black shadow was moving so fast that he couldn't even see him clearly.

Gentle replied: "That's not a human being."

"Not a human?" Everyone was stunned.

"Yes, it's not a human being." Wen Wenwen repeated firmly: "That's a zombie."

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

Zombies are the lowest-level existence among the undead life levels. No matter which world they are in, they are reduced to cannon fodder.

For a cannon fodder like this, Hong Lang could easily kill ten or eight people. How could he be approached quietly, sneak attacked, or even escape unharmed under the siege of everyone?

Shen Yi suddenly said: "Wen Wenwen was right, it was indeed a zombie, but... it was a very unusual zombie."

Everyone looked back at Shen Yi. He had not taken any action from the beginning to the end of the battle just now, and had been observing.

Of course, this has also become a habit of the Broken Blade Team. Whenever they encounter a new target and the team members are able to cope with it, Shen Yi will almost never take action. Instead, he will observe and discover more.

For him, understanding the enemy is always more important than killing the enemy, of course, provided that there are endless such enemies.

Shen Yi looked at everyone coldly and said, "Did you notice something?"

"What?"

"As a former adventurer camp, where are the dead adventurers? Why can we only see the remains of ferocious beasts along the way, but not a humanoid skeleton?"

Everyone's scalp was numb at the same time.

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

Shen Yi nodded: "Yes, that's an adventurer turned zombie."

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The undead adventurers are the most dangerous existence in the City of Ashes, but this is not the scariest thing about it.

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

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

They linger here forever, forming a unique force that hunts down all adventurers or ferocious beasts who dare to enter this place.

They may not be as powerful as the ferocious beasts, but they retain a considerable amount of human wisdom. They know how to sneak attack and cooperate in battle, can use some of their life skills, and even retreat and call for help when the odds are against them.

This makes every undead as cunning and difficult as humans, which is also their most terrifying aspect.

Although the City of Ashes looks calm on the outside, no one knows how many immortal adventurers are peeping at them behind the shadow.

This is the City of Ashes!

"Phew!" Wen Wen let out a long breath: "I really didn't expect it to be like this. It seems like I'm going to have a headache now."

Hong Lang snorted coldly: "That's not necessarily the case. I don't think they can really retain all their wisdom. You have to know that wisdom is generated by consciousness. How much wisdom can they leave behind if they don't even have consciousness? At most, they still have some instincts left.

They drive advantages and avoid disadvantages, making them appear smarter than ferocious beasts, but their intelligence is limited."

This is very true. Human intelligence is never generated for no reason. In addition to a highly developed brain, it also requires an understanding of the humanistic world, the exploration of one's own desires, and the summary of historical experience... and a series of other basic conditions.

Cooperate.

This is like a genius prodigy with an IQ of 220 but no education who cannot solve a three-dimensional quadratic equation problem.

Without the most basic humanistic knowledge, the so-called wisdom is just a tree without roots and a root without water.

These adventurers turned into undead creatures after death and no longer had memories. Even their self-awareness became indifferent. Therefore, what they really possess may not be wisdom, but more likely the fighting instinct left behind.

Although this is equally annoying, it is at least much easier to deal with than real adventurers.

It's just that when Hong Lang said this, everyone looked at him in surprise instead of being suddenly enlightened.

Zhou Yiyu even touched Hong Lang's head and said, "Huh? This script is wrong. This line should be spoken by King Kong or Shen Yi. Why did it come out of your mouth?"

"Fuck!" Hong Lang grabbed Zhou Yiyu's arm with his backhand and threw him to the ground: "You really think I'm stupid, I just don't like to use my brain!"

"Okay, okay, stop making trouble." Shen Yi interrupted the two of them: "The wisdom of these immortals may not be as high as imagined, but their strength may not be lower than imagined."

"how?"

Shen Yi replied: "Because not all adventurers who died here are Level 2 adventurers."

As soon as these words came out, everyone took a breath of air.

"General!" King Kong blurted out.

If the memory is correct, the giant insect corpse they saw just ten minutes ago was killed by at least three general-level adventurers.

No one knows whether these adventurers will live or die in the end.

Maybe they lived and finally left this world.
To be continued...