The pustules on the Goddess of Plague's body popped one by one.
Thick venom burst out of each pustule.
The venom turned into small, deformed, and ugly people. They looked like zombie models. They split into two groups and charged into each other to fight against each other.
"This is Peach Blossom Town's version of the zombie crisis. It's one hundred times worse than the one in Dragon City," the Goddess of Plague continued.
The Goddess of Pestilence continued, "The vengeful revenants charged forward like a tidal wave towards their leader and the experts under him.
"The leader and powerful fighters who were high above the masses, arrogant, and even sage-like in the past had long since used up most of their spirit energy, strength, and resources because of the monsters. They could no longer fight against the attacks of the dead.
"They gritted their teeth and used the last bit of their strength to crush the dead. They destroyed them to the point that even the Blood Flower spores and zombie viruses couldn't gather together again.
"But their wounds were inevitably stained with the cold blood of the undead, and they were infected with dozens of new zombie viruses and other strange things.
"Under the combined effects of the rampaging spirit energy and the new zombie viruses, the leader and the powerful fighters under him mutated.
"Their skin festered, their limbs twisted, and their flesh was gradually devoured by layers of tumors. Their appearances became as ugly as their hearts.
"Their brains were also seriously corroded, and the last bit of their human intelligence was destroyed.
"From that day onwards, there was no longer a single human in Peach Blossom Town.
"Among the broken walls are human-shaped shells filled with mycelium, viruses, hatred, and desires. They wander about, wander about, kill, shatter, and be reborn together with the undead creatures that have transformed from monsters.
"Peach Blossom Town was destroyed.
"It was only at this moment that I gradually regained the ability to control etherealized plants and spirit beasts through neural networks.
"But I was one step too late. I couldn't save half of the humans in Peach Blossom Town and the glory of our civilization.
"The only thing I could do was to find all the human corpses and have them fuse into my main body so that they would no longer be invaded by the monsters, Blood Flower spores, and zombie viruses.
"Some of the corpses were nourished by the spirit energy ley line underground, and their brains showed signs of crystallization. Miraculously, they still retained some of their emotions and memories, just like incomplete souls.
"I treated them like treasures. I used fungi and algae to repair the crystallized remains of the brain and treated them as computing units to form a large computing system.
"On the one hand, it made up for the inadequacies of the original neural network. On the other hand, it also used them to build a gigantic illusion — a paradise that was as perfect as a fairy tale. All the agitated, sorrowful, anxious, in pain, and filled with ambition and hatred of the dead could find eternal comfort in this place.
"Hehe, this is the story of the Peach Blossom Town.
"It's a very ugly and dark story filled with regret. I didn't want to tell it to anyone.
"But … you forced me to do this.
"The tragedy that happened in the Peach Blossom Town deeply stimulated me. It prompted me to make up my mind to completely break with the Earth civilization and evolve a new civilization.
"I have already missed the chance to save Peach Blossom Town. I will never miss the chance to save Dragon City, which is a hundred times bigger than Peach Blossom Town.
"I won't watch Dragon City become like Peach Blossom Town. I won't watch the tens of millions of Dragon Citizens turn into ghosts, undead, and zombies like the people of Peach Blossom Town!
"No matter how much misunderstanding and hostility I have to bear, no matter what sort of devastating price I have to pay, I will do everything in my power to attack the evil order that rules Dragon City. I will use my own method to reform Dragon City and crush the apocalypse!
"If you insist on standing in front of me, then open your eyes wide and take a good look at the ending of Peach Blossom Town, and personally taste the pain of the people of Peach Blossom Town!"
The Goddess of Pestilence's screams turned into a bugle call for the undead and undead to attack.
The phosphorescence around the Stitched Monsters and the zombies instantly became more vigorous, and the stench of decay became even stronger. It was like an iron wall, slamming hard on the eyes and noses of the exploration team members.
Just when the humans were so stimulated that they could not open their eyes and breathe, the undead creatures pounced on them like a viscous black tide.
"Tutututututu!"
Although they had previously belonged to more than a dozen different exploration teams.
However, the well-trained elite scouts and veteran hunters still quickly formed a sturdy battle formation and fired short and precise lines of fire in all directions.
Many of the elite scouts were sharpshooters who had trained with tens of thousands of bullets.
Some of them had awakened supernatural abilities such as super vision, ballistic adjustment, weakness detection, mind lock-on, and so on.
For this extremely important exploration mission, the bullets they were equipped with were all embedded with high-level crystals and engraved with exquisite runes. With just a bit of spiritual energy, they could activate destructive rune arrays, such as armor-piercing bullets, incendiary bullets, freezing bullets, explosive bullets, and stun bullets.
Almost every special bullet drilled into the empty eye sockets of the undead creatures and directly exploded in the depths of their skulls or even in their spines.
The explosion of every bullet either froze the undead creatures into ice, turned them into blazing fireballs, or blasted them with the effect of a tank's main cannon at close range, completely blowing the undead creatures' body cavities into pieces.
The ferocious power of the bullets was on a completely different level compared to the "scraping" effect of ordinary bullets on the undead creatures.
Just like that, the exploration team of just a few hundred people managed to miraculously block the undead's tidal wave of attacks.
But unfortunately, miracles usually lasted even shorter than fireworks.
As more undead creatures were torn to shreds under the humans' guns, the fatal weakness of the humans' lack of ammunition and heavy firepower was gradually revealed.
All the exploration team members, including Meng Chao and Lu Siya, lost all their heavy weapons when they fell into the sinkhole.
They also lost their mobile armory of bread crabs and peregrine falcons.
They only had individual weapons that they brought with them and a small amount of ammunition.
No matter how much they tried to save bullets and shoot accurately, the few magazines and grenades they had were quickly used up.
The dense firepower soon became sparse.
The humans had to retreat and shrink the circle of defense.
But there was a dense wave of undead around them.
They were like bubbles that popped up endlessly in a swamp.
Aside from the fact that they were about to run out of ammunition, the Goddess of Plague's words were like a real plague that enveloped everyone's hearts.
Humans are very strange creatures.
Compared to beauty, they seemed to be more willing to believe in ugliness.
In truth, many of the exploration team members were like Meng Chao and Lu Siya in the perfect and carefree paradise she had created. They noticed that something was off and woke up from their stupor.
But the "true ending of Peach Blossom Town" that the Goddess of Plague described seemed even more real because of its ugliness.
"Is Dragon City really going to follow in Peach Blossom Town's footsteps and walk down the path of destruction?"
"Will we … and our descendants become ugly, pitiful, and deformed zombies like the people of Peach Blossom Town?"
This confusion and fear seeped into the exploration team members' minds like poison.
This was especially so when some of the exploration team members noticed that quite a number of the undead charging at the front had swollen and festered faces. They were the town residents who had been singing and dancing carefreely under the colorful Wisdom Trees in the perfect paradise.
The most beautiful thing had instantly festered into the ugliest form of stimulation, and most of the exploration team members' mental defenses began to loosen.
Besides, as the firepower gradually thinned out and the undead drew closer, the sticky liquid that flew out when they exploded could easily splash on the humans.
In the real world, the exploration team members were covered in wounds while they ventured deep into Hidden Fog Desolate Region.
Even if they circulated their spirit energy to speed up their healing, no one could guarantee that they did not have wounds that could not be seen by the naked eye and that could be easily pierced by bacteria, viruses, and spores.
Hence, while they gritted their teeth and fought against the undead, they had to divert part of their attention and spirit energy to stimulate their immune systems and increase their defenses so that they could destroy or expel the viruses that invaded their bodies.
The process of the human body stimulating the immune system to overload had a very common name — fever.
Soon, most of the exploration team members had a fever of more than forty degrees Celsius.
Their fighting strength was naturally reduced by a large margin when they continued to be in a feverish state. The defense line was rapidly becoming precarious.
"We can't continue like this!"
Meng Chao continuously destroyed the heads of dozens of undead along with their spines.
He ensured that they would not be able to form new bodies for a long period of time.
He also used up all the bullets in his magazines.
He keenly noticed that he seemed to have fallen into the rhythm of the wisdom tree's mastermind, and he was fighting in the way it wanted him to.
"There's no end to the undead! We shouldn't fight against them! We should attack the wisdom tree's main body!"
Meng Chao instantly reacted to the situation and shouted at the top of his lungs.
Unfortunately, most of the exploration team members had savage expressions on their faces. Their gazes were blank, as if they were in a nightmare or had been invaded and controlled by a mysterious power. They only cared about fighting and did not hear his warnings.
Only Lu Siya shuddered, as if she had just woken up from a nightmare. A look of realization appeared on her face.
"Big Sis Ya, let's attack together. If we get rid of this Ghost Tree, we'll naturally be able to stop the undead's attack!"
Meng Chao aimed at the wisdom tree and pulled the trigger, but he heard a click. There was no reaction from the muzzle.
He cursed in his heart and decided to throw the empty gun at the wisdom tree.
Then, he drew Golden Tooth Bloody Soul from his waist.
As he roared, the spirit energy hidden in the depths of his blood erupted like a volcano, causing his spine to bulge.
Thick spirit meridians moved along his spine and wrapped around his torso and limbs like raging aquatic dragons.
His torso and limbs instantly swelled up, and profound, complicated, and exquisite spirit tattoos rose from the depths of his skin, causing him to look as if he was wearing a Nine Dragons Robe that was as thin as a cicada's wings but indestructible!
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