"How could this be?"
"Just where did we fall?"
"Are these really zombies? Why do they feel so strong?!"
Even if the exploration team members were used to all sorts of situations, when they faced such a ghastly and terrifying scene, they still felt their skin crawl.
It has to be known that normal zombies had rotting muscles, loose tendons, and could not move their joints well. Their movements were slow and contorted. In fact, even if they were not touched, their limbs would fall off on their own. In any case, they were clearly very weak existences.
When there was a zombie crisis, even if a normal citizen swung a lawnmower, they could kill a zombie horde, and their flesh would fly all over the place.
Even if they were super zombies meticulously created by the monster civilization, their mobility and infection rate were doubled, and they could spit fire or acid to deal severe damage to normal citizens, they could not do anything to superhumans who were above average level.
If a superhuman created a spirit energy magnetic field and released a killing move, it would be because his eyesight was bad and he could not aim properly if he could not kill around eighty zombies.
But the zombies in front of him were different.
Their flesh and blood had just shrunk, not rotted.
No, they had not shrunk. They had been "compressed". They had been compressed to the limit into a substance that was as hard as steel.
Their tendons had turned grayish-white, but they did not break. They had even become more malleable and flexible.
Blood Flower mycelium had crawled out of their skin, and at first glance, they looked like they were covered in a layer of short red hair.
Based on Meng Chao's experience in stimulating the undead in the past, this layer of red hair could disperse external attacks evenly so that it was not easy for external attacks to gather in one spot and break the undead's defense.
It could also stimulate the undead's cells to split faster and grow deformed, which increased their survivability in the battlefield.
Even their joints had clusters of crystal-like substances that strengthened their joints and protected them like armor so that they would not be attacked by enemies.
Of course, they did not have eyeballs.
However, the phosphorescence in their eyes formed countless complicated geometric pictures. They shone with evil intelligence that was different from that of humans.
Even the undead surrounded by blood tattoos seemed to obey the zombies' orders. They formed a battle formation that attacked and defended orderly, and they obeyed every order.
Such a humanoid undead creature was, of course, incomparable to the traditional, weak zombies. It was a "zombie" that could train and level up on its own.
In fact, they were rather similar to the liches, the commander of the undead from Nether Kingdom, which was what he remembered from his previous life.
But why were some zombies wearing clothes from the Earth Era?
Could it be that they were all residents of Peach Blossom Town?
Before the people could figure out the problem, countless zombies had already commanded the undead creatures that looked like stitched monsters to surround the hundreds of exploration team members.
The stench on their bodies and the deep flames in their eyes formed an invisible swamp that trapped the exploration team and almost suffocated them.
"I'm sorry, Meng Chao. I have indeed deceived you. Peach Blossom Town is not a perfect paradise. It is just an illusion that I created. This place in front of us is filled with cold wind, ghostly air, undead creatures, and red-haired zombies. This is the true appearance of Peach Blossom Town."
An airy sigh rose behind Meng Chao.
It seemed to contain a great deal of regret, grievance, regret, and anger.
Everyone was shocked. They turned around and looked at the Wisdom Tree, which was formed by snake-like vines and the bones of monsters. It was covered in scarlet mycelium, dark green moss, and rotten mucus.
The trunk of the Wisdom Tree cracked again. Countless mycelium wrapped around the moss and condensed into a girl that looked like Jin Qianxi.
But at this moment, the girl's body was covered in pustules, tumors, and wounds that could never heal. Her facial features and limbs were deformed, and poisonous spores gushed out of her seven orifices. She looked like a "Goddess of Plague".
She was completely different from the girl who was surrounded by golden light in the illusion. She was as flawless as a gemstone and had a crystalline luster about her!
"Are you disappointed in me and Peach Blossom Town?"
The Goddess of Plague stepped on the corpse flowers that bloomed on the snake vines and walked toward Meng Chao and the others. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to lie to you. The truth is just too cruel and ugly, and I can't say it.
"That's right. Peach Blossom Town wasn't saved. It was destroyed decades ago by the hands of humans.
"That was after I fished out Jin Qianxi's remains from Red Dragon River and tried to fuse with her soul.
"It's different from what I said before. The fusion this time wasn't that smooth. Jin Qianxi was one of the strongest transmigrators on Earth, and I was one of the strangest carbon-based intelligent life forms born in this Other World. We were two completely different and powerful life forms, so how could the fusion of our souls be smooth?
"In the beginning, Jin Qianxi couldn't understand my wisdom and civilization.
"I was also terrified by the terrifying scenes that came from the ancient ruins in the depths of her memories.
"The two of us engaged in a terrifying 'war' at the soul level. Neither of us was willing to give in. We both wanted to seize control of the brand new soul after the fusion.
"Our souls were torn apart during the war, and both of us were injured.
"Even if we managed to fuse our souls together, our vitality would be greatly damaged, and we would need a long period of time to get used to each other.
"For several years, I lost the ability to control spiritual beasts through my neural network. It was as if my entire body was paralyzed. I could only quietly observe Peach Blossom Town, which was so close to me, but I couldn't even extend a vine to interfere with Peach Blossom Town's every move.
"So, I couldn't stop everything.
"I couldn't stop the leader and the powerful warriors under his command from slaughtering people in Peach Blossom Town. The butcher's knife, which cracked because it broke too many bones, ended up breaking the necks of innocent townspeople instead of cutting them.
"I couldn't stop the demons wielding the razors from catching up to the pitiful girl, Gu Ling, and using the cruelest method to kill her.
"I couldn't stop the leader and the powerful warriors under his command from killing most of the innocent townspeople. Peach Blossom Town's industry and technology couldn't be maintained at all. The leader and the powerful warriors under his command could only gradually give up on all the tools of civilization from Earth and train even harder. They tried to gather all the power in their bodies and rely on their own strength to survive in the jungle.
"This was like drinking poison to quench thirst. It was a vicious cycle.
"The more crazily they trained, the more they wanted to take away all the resources in Peach Blossom Town.
"The more resources they took away, the more Peach Blossom Town's industry and technology declined, and their civilization gradually couldn't be maintained.
"Without the protection of civilization, they could only train even more crazily until they turned into savages surrounded by spirit flames.
"However, without industry, technology, and a perfect research and education system, even if they had a lot of crystals, monster flesh, and treasures, how could they find the correct spirit energy cultivation method and not go through spirit energy deviation?
"Gradually, the leader and the powerful warriors under his command had their minds invaded by the rampaging spirit energy. Their emotions and desires were magnified endlessly, and they were driven by their instincts instead of reason.
"Using the cultivation terminology of Dragon City, they've become lost people. They're pitiful creatures lost in the mysterious, unfathomable, and boundless world of spirit energy.
"They turned Peach Blossom Town into a literal hell on earth.
"In the end, the innocent people fell in pools of blood.
"What's funny is that the leader and powerful warriors who claimed that they had all the power in their bodies didn't realize just how insignificant their power was compared to the forest and the world beyond it.
"The townsfolk are all dead, so there's no one left to mine for them, forge weapons and armor for them, gather food for them, cook for them, serve as cannon fodder for them, and whittle down the monsters' fighting strength. They have to personally handle all of this.
"I still couldn't move.
"But the monsters had awakened to intelligence a long time ago and copied the desires and hatred of humans. They couldn't wait to devour all of Peach Blossom Town.
"The leader and the powerful warriors under him were indeed ten times stronger than before.
"But without the town residents to fight against them, the number of monsters that appeared in front of them was one hundred times greater than before.
"The leader and the powerful warriors under him sank into a sea of monsters surrounded by the vengeful souls of humans. It was only at this moment that they came to their senses, and it was too late for regrets.
"But Peach Blossom Town wasn't destroyed by the monsters.
"There were all sorts of viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites in Hidden Fog. All sorts of undead creatures often appeared there as well.
"The constant fighting in Peach Blossom Town turned it into the best petri dish for Blood Flower spores and zombie viruses.
"After countless coincidences, they fused, mutated, filtered, and evolved, and a brand new super zombie virus appeared.
"No, this thing is a fusion of the genes of Blood Flowers, ancient bacteria, and all sorts of parasites. It can no longer be described as a virus.
"It's one hundred times more dangerous than a normal zombie virus.
"Aside from being highly infectious, even corpses that had been dead for years and were buried deep underground after being nourished by crystal mines for a long period of time did not rot. Instead, they showed signs of crystallization.
"Besides, it's very difficult for the human body's immune system and spirit energy magnetic fields to destroy it. Even superhumans have a certain chance of being infected by it.
"Just like that, the heavily wounded leader and the powerful warriors under him discovered to their shock that when they finally managed to force back the monsters' attack, what came back were no longer the monsters they were familiar with, but vengeful departed spirits.
"Over the past few years, aside from tossing the corpses into Red Dragon River and Tiger's Rage River, they tossed them into the depths of the forest.
"They thought that all the corpses of the innocent would be like their sins. They would gradually sink, rot, be destroyed, and disappear without a trace in the dark forest.
"But they didn't expect that a small number of 'lucky' victims would crawl back to the human world from the depths of hell under the stimulation of injustice, anger, hatred, and the super zombie virus. Then, they reappeared before their eyes!
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