Chapter 181: Tide of Corpses
Although the group of red-robed mages in Glory City are few in number, they are of high rank and well-equipped.
If you really want to run, it won’t be easy to catch up with you.
What's more, the two top fighters on the pursuing side, such as the Great Shaman Marfa and Bazel, are not in good shape yet.
In the end, only a few bodies of red-robed wizards were left behind, and those guys escaped far away.
Of course, the most important thing is that everyone was stunned by the scene outside.
It's not just the giant flowers that are as tall as mountains, but also the endless tide of corpses.
…
Before being swallowed by this "Morocad Flower", no one inside had an accurate idea of what this monster looked like.
Now when they came out and saw the situation, everyone's faces changed color.
The shape of the giant flower of the Morro Corpse King Flower is like a large onion covered with tentacles. It is thousands of meters high and can be compared with the Alcoron Mountains in the distance.
This is only the part of it exposed above the ground; there is no telling how many roots and rhizomes there are underground.
Of course, half of it was withered.
The side that had been cut by [Frost Moon Swordsman] Carlo had completely dried up and withered, both the tentacles and the flesh walls.
A large amount of vitality was sucked away by the blood nematodes. This hellish creature, which had lived for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, had also suffered damage to its origin and was slowly dying.
Ryan and Canossa were probably the last living people to escape from the monster. They were also shocked when they saw the giant flower that covered the sky.
But what surprised them even more was the surrounding environment.
Ryan looked at the time prompt on the intelligent computer. It should be daytime when they came out.
But before my eyes, the sky was as dark as if there was a solar eclipse.
The air was filled with a black mist, and only the sun's halo could be seen occasionally.
Ryan was no stranger to the "Black Mist".
He seemed to have thought of something, and asked lightly, "Is this the Black Tide erupting?"
Before the giant flower awakened, such thick black fog could only be seen near the cenote. Now, it was everywhere within the field of vision, and it was unknown how much area it covered.
The giant flower woke up, folded its petals, and created an isolated area of dozens of kilometers in the forest.
When Ryan looked down, he found that they were standing on a piece of black hard stone. He picked up a few black stones and found that they were coal!
“This directly becomes an open-pit mine?”
He was also surprised when he saw that there were some special shiny black stones everywhere in the coal seam. They were "high-burning coal" with very high purity.
However, just as Ryan was showing astonishment on his face, Canossa beside him suddenly looked stern and warned him, "Be careful, there are a lot of monsters coming out of the forest!"
Ryan felt uneasy when he heard the quantifier "very much".
As soon as Canossa said this, the Coleman warriors who had gone out to chase the red-robed mages also came back running at full speed.
Bazel looked at the two men standing there, and yelled at the top of his voice, warning: "Ryan, run! There are a lot of zombies crawling out of the forest!"
As he ran, he kept muttering, "This is fucking weird. I can't kill those zombies!"
"Zombies? What the hell is that?"
Ryan found the word unfamiliar.
Without giving it much thought, after seeing this group of people, he finally saw what it was that could chase the legend away. It was like a tide, hundreds of thousands of corpses.
He blurted out: "Zombies?"
However, a closer look reveals different things.
This "tide of corpses" not only includes rotten corpses that look like zombies, but also many white bones with black fire burning in their eye sockets.
Not just humans, but also all kinds of monsters.
Looking at those tall human skeletons, they are obviously the remains of the ancestors of the Coleman tribe!
"Shit, so this is what the prophecy means!"
Ryan immediately remembered the prophecy left by the Coleman ancestors that Mafa had told him before: when the seal is broken, the great terror in the black tide will come upon the world, the living will die, the dead will walk out of their graves, and the earth will sink into darkness forever.
What the hell, the corpses are crawling out of the mud!
It’s not a riddle at all, it means exactly what it says!
…
The "zombies" were like sharks that smelled blood and kept chasing after us.
At this moment, Ryan also saw clearly that the Coleman warriors were fighting back while running.
Because they were all high-level warriors, their attacks could easily kill the "zombies" that were chasing them like a tide. Those short skeleton monsters didn't seem to be too powerful, and the high-level warriors could easily smash them into pieces with one punch...
However, the terrifying thing is that this level of attack did not slow down the zombie tide's pursuit at all.
But as long as the skeleton was not smashed to pieces, the broken limbs would crawl and jump towards them again.
After rushing out of the beast tide, many Coleman warriors were seen with various skulls bitten on their bodies, and their hands and feet were broken...
The same went for the rotten corpses. Bows and arrows shot holes in their bodies as big as fists, but apart from slightly slowing down their forward speed, it had no effect at all.
The surviving warriors were all the elite of the Coleman tribe. Although these skeleton monsters could not kill them, they could not cause much damage.
but!
The worst is yet to come!
There are no trees where Ryan came from now, and the view is very open.
As far as the eye can see, in the hazy black fog in the distance, huge monster figures are attracted by the breath of living people.
Among the tide of corpses, there were some unusually tall and strange-looking figures swaying around.
That was a corpse of a creature that clearly did not belong to this era.
Looking closely, Ryan's eyelids were also twitching.
Obviously, this is the threat that is chasing Basel and the others to escape!
The Titan Golden Python is a thousand meters long and has been extinct for at least eight thousand years...
The abyss monster [two-headed troll] discovered during the Kabul civilization ten thousand years ago...
According to historical records, the Behemoth became extinct after the last one died three thousand years ago...
Even the Titans, who were said to be as tall as thirty or fifty meters in myth and legend, came running over with huge stone clubs in their hands...
But these big guys are not living creatures, but wet corpses, dried corpses, rotten corpses, or skeletons.
Moreover, in the black fog in the distance, a mysterious bull-headed monster the same size as the "Moro Corpse King Flower" was even seen. It also turned its head, as if it was attracted by the movement here...
Ryan looked at these huge monsters and guessed in his heart: "This... could it be that all the corpses underground have been turned out?"
He looked at the devastated forest and was probably afraid that it was really like that.
In the extraordinary world, the stronger the strength, the less likely the corpse will rot. God knows what kind of monsters are buried deep in this earth!
No wonder Coleman’s prophecy said “everyone will die.”
[Black Tide] brought all the monsters from the underground to life, and they couldn't be killed. How could the thatched houses of the Coleman tribe stop it?
These monsters are attracted by the breath of living people. How many can be killed by human power alone? This land has existed for a long time, which is counted in billions of years. How many corpses are buried underground?
The earth will sink into darkness forever...
This prophecy of Coleman echoed in his mind again and again, and Ryan's face turned ugly. Was he going to die in this tide of corpses again after escaping from the belly of the giant flower?
Is this really a dead end?
…
Just as Ryan was distracted by the zombies, Bazel and the others came running over and shouted, "Ryan, what are you standing there for? Run!"
Ryan came to his senses and started running with everyone else.
At this time, he heard a pale-faced Coleman warrior beside him muttering something: "The black tide is coming, and everyone will die..."
When this was repeated, it was like the crowd was chanting a sutra, with more and more people beginning to repeat this sentence over and over again.
"When the black tide comes, everyone will die..."
"When the black tide comes, everyone will die..."
“…”
An atmosphere of despair spread rapidly.
This is the ancestral motto of their clan, and everyone knows it.
Moreover, they have a worship faith and firmly believe in the prophecies of their ancestors.
The more primitive the civilization, the simpler the nature, the closer this belief is to "demonic obsession".
Now that the disaster has struck, everyone's will is gradually dominated by the fear of death because of that "prophecy".
Moreover, it now seems that the forest has become a sea of corpses carnival. No matter where they run, they will be surrounded by endless "zombies".
Sooner or later, they will run out of energy and be killed.
This made them feel hopeless, as if there was no way up to heaven or down to earth, and they seemed doomed to die whether they broke through or not.
Their beliefs have now become the biggest obstacle to their survival.
Ryan felt a sinking feeling in his heart as he watched this group of people becoming increasingly demoralized.
Suddenly, an idea came to his mind.
Upon closer inspection, although this "tide of corpses" is large in number, it does not seem to be as ferocious as the "tide of beasts".
At least, these zombies didn't seem to have any intelligence, they just instinctively followed the breath of living people. And except for a few zombies, they didn't move very fast. It was only because they were surrounded on all sides that they gave people a feeling of being "stuck in quicksand", and the more they struggled, the more the "sand" around them increased.
The primitive civilization of the Coleman tribe cannot be stopped, but the Mechanical City can!
High wall armor, heavy artillery, and most importantly, the ability to move... Isn't this the best way to deal with this tide of zombies?
The most popular tactic for war weapons like artillery is the human wave tactic.
With one shot, a large area was cleared in an instant.
No matter whether you are immortal or not, just blast you into pieces!
…
Thinking of this, the luster in Ryan's eyes suddenly lit up.
As he ran, he suggested to the great witch priest Marfa beside him: "Witch priest Marfa, this [Black Tide] cannot be stopped by human power, but the mechanical city can definitely! Let's go to the 'Kalatwa Basin' now, where our mechanical city is!"
Although he didn't know whether Tust and Udo had found the mechanical city.
But now, for the sake of morale, obviously we have to say that we do have it even if we don’t have it.
After a pause, he was afraid that these guys were stubborn, so he continued: "Elder Fufa and Elder Yimuyu must have established a firm foothold over there. As long as we can get to the basin, we can meet up !"
“…”
Marfa glanced at Ryan.
The tribe was destroyed, the seal was broken, and the great witch Coleman had already lost all hope.
But hearing what Ryan said reminded the old man of the tribesman who had left behind a legacy.
Now that the Temple Tribe has been completely destroyed, that tribe has become the last hope of the Coleman Tribe. Perhaps, they are still alive...
And at this moment, it seemed that fate was helping Ryan.
At this moment, loud and clear eagle cries were heard in the sky, startling the sky and the clouds.
Chirp~
Chirp~
Looking closely, I saw that the object circling in the sky was a blue-tailed eagle!
Those were the "scouts" domesticated by the Coleman people, and they did not suffer much harm in the war.
Now, they bring news from the team from the "Kalatwa Basin"!
…
Hear the cry of an eagle.
One of Kalman's animal-taming priests blew a crisp whistle, and the blue-tailed eagle swooped down from the sky and landed on the priest's arm.
The priest took off the cloth letter and handed it to the high priest Mafa.
After Marfa read it, his cloudy eyes suddenly lit up and he said to Ryan, "It's good news."
Ryan took it and saw that it was the news that Tust, Udo and their team had found the "mechanical city wreckage" and had already gained a foothold relying on the wreckage!
He was overjoyed: "I really found it!"
At this moment, even though Mafa himself had no desires or requests, he was concerned about his surviving tribesmen, and his expression suddenly brightened.
He raised his arms and called out, "Warriors! Let's go south. In the Karatwa Basin, where earth dragons are everywhere, the tribesmen led by the two elders Fufa and Yimu are waiting for us to join them..."
Sure enough, the call of the great witch priest was the best "chicken blood" for this group of Coleman warriors.
As soon as these words were spoken, the morale, which had been extremely low just now, instantly became high!
Previously, this news was top secret, and the surviving Coleman warriors seemed to think that they were the only remaining members of the tribe. But now that they heard that the tribesmen who had traveled south were still alive, their desire to survive naturally grew stronger.
"As long as that tribe is alive, there is still hope for us, the Coleman tribe!"
"Let's go! Let's reunite with our tribesmen!"
“…”
Everyone seemed to have come back to life. They had more strength to draw the bow and shoot arrows, and they ran faster.
Just as everyone rushed out of the open-pit mining area created by the giant flower, good news came one after another!
They were surprised to find that the resurrected "zombies" seemed to be only sensitive to the scent of humans, and were completely blind to the magical beasts!
Just after they rushed into the forest, some magical beasts suddenly ran out from the dense forest.
Those were the domesticated beasts of the Coleman tribe. When the tribe was in trouble, they had been wandering in the forest, and when they smelled the familiar scent of their master, they ran over again.
Although the number is not large, those dozen or so magical beast mounts are enough to take away all the wounded.
This also made the speed of the large force's breakout many times faster.
In this way, Ryan and his group of more than 200 people broke through the circle of corpses that had not yet completely closed, and broke through to the "Kalatwa Basin" in the south...
