A few days later…
To the east of the red rock volcano, there is a mountainous forest.
In space hundreds of thousands of meters above the ground, a satellite is floating quietly, with lenses all over the sphere constantly expanding and contracting to observe the situation on the ground.
Seen from space, this red mountain range is particularly conspicuous. The surrounding terrain is flat and the vegetation is sparse, making it easy to identify.
There is a small patch of white on the top of the mountain, which is accumulated ice and snow over the years. Below is the red rock mountain, and at the foot of the mountain is a circle of lush forest.
The Red Rock Volcano has not erupted for hundreds of years, but the lava underground is still active, and the hot spring water in Shin-Edo is drawn from here.
Thanks to the rich nutrients of volcanic ash and the melted snow water on the top of the mountain, the vegetation at the foot of the mountain grows vigorously, including birch, spruce, larch, and various ferns.
"Wow wow wow..."
A deep sound came from the hillside, and several shaky figures appeared at the edge of the forest.
Their skin is pale and their eyes are empty, like walking human corpses. They are the most common mutated creatures in the red earth world - the living dead.
The number of living dead is extremely large. They are mutated by living corpse bacteria invading the corpses of humanoid creatures. They are produced by the corpses of the 50 billion people before the cataclysm, and they are also produced by corpses brought by the undercurrent of time and space. According to the imprecise statistics of White Tower scholars, the number of living dead scattered around the world is as high as 700 billion, which is almost inexhaustible.
These living dead seemed to smell the scent of living creatures coming from the foot of the mountain, climbed out of the mud, and went down the mountain in search of food.
"call out!"
Suddenly there was a sound of piercing the air in the woods, and a living corpse seemed to be concentrated by something. A ball of blood exploded on its head, and its head tilted to one side.
"Hala!"
Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen green monsters sprang out of the trees, holding crude sticks and rusty kitchen knives, and rushed towards the living corpses screaming.
Some of them were riding wolves, some were wearing red cloaks, and some were holding short spears and throwing them as they ran.
The encounter between the two sides was very chaotic. The living corpse bit the little green monster, and the little green monster hit the living corpse on the head with a stick and kitchen knife. After a fierce battle, the little green monster with the numerical advantage won the final victory.
But they also paid half the price, and the remaining half dragged the body deeper into the woods.
More than ten minutes later, they dragged the body to an underground cave.
This cave looks like an ordinary hole from the outside, a lair for some small to medium-sized creatures.
But it's actually a huge underground fortification, with torches on the walls and thousands of little green monsters digging inside.
The bodies were dragged to a storage room and piled up. Judging from the light of this torch, the corpses were piled up in a mountain, so densely packed that it made one's scalp numb.
Above the underground fortifications, a hammock hangs between two spruce trees.
There was a man lying on the hammock, swiping away with a portable screen in his hand. There were teacups on the rough table beside the bed, within easy reach.
"Chi chi chi..."
Not far from the hammock, an insect-like creature the size of a calf was lying on the ground eating. Its food is a living corpse, the upper body has been eaten, leaving only the waist and two legs.
It ate happily, turning its head from time to time and making endearing calls to the man in the hammock.
If any adventurers passing by saw such a scene, they would probably be frightened.
This seemingly leisurely man is none other than Chen Xing, who came here three days ago. While he directed the goblins to dig underground fortifications, he used tactical satellites to observe the surrounding situation, and directed the goblin team to hunt for living corpses.
The insect creature that is eating is a queen ant that is divided into nests. In order to let the other party gain a foothold here as soon as possible, Chen Xing simply helped her dig the hole and prepare food to help her get through the most difficult period of development.
This will be the new territory of the queen of hundreds of nests. When this queen of nests grows up and ignites the spiritual fire, Suna will be able to use teleportation to move around at will.
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After setting up the situation, Chen Xing planned to take Su Na with him so that he could move elsewhere at any time. Although it is not as good as Lumsden's space gate, it is still a hundred times better than making an airplane.
He has already thought about finding an island with suitable longitude and latitude and a climate similar to Hawaii, and building his holiday palace on the island. If nothing happens, he will ask Suna to send him back for vacation.
There are many maids on this island, but he is the only man who enjoys the most decadent life with beautiful women on the beach and sunshine every day.
Of course, there is still a long time before this day, at least stabilize the position first, otherwise everything will be just a castle in the air and a dream.
"King of Corpses, my little King of Corpses, where are you..."
Chen Xing drew the map casually, looking for the "big guy".
In the past three days, he has sent all the living corpses that can be found within a ten-kilometer radius into the storage room, including more than a dozen guard-level iron corpses, poisonous corpses and other mutated creatures.
But he hopes to find a few lord-level ones, because after the mutated queen ants grow to a certain level, they need to be devoured in order to ignite the spiritual fire.
For mutated creatures that use crystal nuclei as spiritual energy carriers, igniting spiritual fire is a symbol of evolution from non-intelligent creatures to intelligent creatures. Its significance is like being reborn.
While gaining wisdom, their use of spiritual energy will also reach a higher level, opening up more species inheritance skills.
Strictly speaking, the queen who ignites the spiritual fire is the queen of hundreds of nests. However, according to the colony system of termite species, each ant colony can only have one queen of hundreds of nests at the same time, unless the queen dies or is promoted. to a higher level.
"Woojiajia, wujiajia!"
"Gulu-Gulu Tower, Guru-Guru Tower!"
Suddenly a noisy voice sounded in my mind. "Wujiajia" means "good-looking member of the opposite sex" in Goblin language, but the Goblin language is simple, and one word often means many things.
For example, Wujiajia here means "finding the target".
Because Wu Jiajia is followed by "Gulu Gulu Tower".
Guru Guruta means "I want your head". In the eyes of goblins, Wujiajia is a tool for reproducing offspring, and it is impossible to take the other person's head, so the meaning here is, "We find the big guy, we want its head."
Chen Xing mobilized the tactical satellite and focused on the location of the goblin team.
Although tactical satellites can observe every plant and tree within a ten-kilometer diameter range, just like looking at a real-time map, you must focus on a point to see specific things clearly.
Goblins have their own consciousness, and they will deal with ordinary living corpses on their own. Only if they cannot handle it, or under special circumstances, will they notify the host.
A huge figure appeared on the satellite screen, more than forty meters tall, walking slowly between the peaks, like a moving small high-rise building.
"Good guy, Corpse King!"
Chen Xing regained his energy and rolled out of the hammock.
"You hide down there and wait for me to come back."
Chen Xing gave instructions to the little ant queen, who immediately raised her insect sickle and called out twice, then turned her clumsy body and ran into the burrow.
A moment later, Chen Xing appeared on a rocky hillside covered with lava streams.
The huge corpse king was five hundred meters away, moving slowly.
This corpse king is different from the corpse kings seen in the northern wilderness. It is completely black, its eyes are full of fire, and there is green smoke coming out of the body.
This is a lava living corpse that usually hides in the flowing lava and molten iron. The more lava it absorbs, the bigger it becomes.
But for living corpses, the best meal is living animals. It is estimated that this lava zombie king smelled the scent of living goblins and ran out to look for food.
"Try a new skill."
Chen Xing muttered, instead of rushing to get the gun, he looked at the sky.
As he thought, the tactical satellite in space opened a channel on each side.
Through a small slit, two circular flywheels were pushed out from the inside.
The edges of the flywheel are serrated, very similar to the saw teeth on a cutting machine.
"bass!"
The flywheel rotated at high speed, like a sawing machine, and then ejected with a bang.
A few seconds later, two points of cold light flashed in the sky, and then turned into two lights of fire. They were high-temperature flames produced by friction when passing through the atmosphere.
"Whoa!"
The flywheel flew left and right, spinning down in an arc, and sliced towards the Corpse King.
The Corpse King seemed to be aware of the attack and turned around slowly, but its reaction was half a beat too slow, and the flywheel had already reached its body and was stuck in its chest.
"Stab it!"
The flywheel rotated at high speed, its saw teeth turned red, and two jets of black ash spewed out from the giant's chest.
The tough skin was cut open, and hot lava spurted out.
However, as time went by, the flywheel rotated slower and slower, and finally lost its force and fell to the ground, turning into star sand and disappearing.
"The power is average..."
"I wonder if I can get a little more motivation."
Chen Xing groaned and started the second flywheel.
"Psychic infusion!"
He thought silently in his mind and threw his consciousness into space.
The tactical satellite pushed out a new flywheel and began to accelerate.
Chen Xing concentrated his energy, and a layer of flowing blue light appeared on the surface of the flywheel. When the rotation speed reached the fastest, the flywheel ejected with a bang.
A few seconds later, two stars flashed across the sky, followed by two arcs of light across the sky.
"Whoa!"
The flywheel rotates, blooming with blue light, and its momentum is more than twice as strong as before.
But this time, the Corpse King was already prepared, with his arms crossed, resisting head-on.
"go!"
The flywheel pierced the Corpse King's arms left and right, the saw blades whirled and sparks sputtered.
"Whoa!"
The saw teeth cut into the bones inch by inch, and the Corpse King let out a huge wail, which scared the birds in the forest and caused the animals to flee.
Hot lava spurted from the veins, burning the flywheel red. After a few seconds, the rotation speed of the flywheel gradually slowed down, and finally it got stuck in the bone.
The Lava Corpse King is a lord-level mutant creature. Its body has been completely silicified, and its body strength is fundamentally different from that of carbon-based life.
In the table of elements, silicon is denser and stronger than carbon.
"The power has increased a lot, but it's still a bit difficult to deal with the Lava Corpse King." Chen Xing said to himself. He roughly estimated that it would take at least three to four flywheel attacks to completely collapse the opponent's defense, so he decided to further try to increase the power of the flywheel.
After the second attack, the Corpse King noticed Chen Xing's position and rushed towards him with long strides.
"Ninet!"
The flywheel burst out with dazzling light like a star, detached from the satellite, and flew straight to the ground like a meteor from the sky.
However, just after the flywheel passed through the atmosphere, the flywheel suddenly faltered and lost its momentum that swept the world.
The flywheel hit the Corpse King again, but this time the power was almost the same as the one with added psychic energy last time, and the Corpse King blocked it at the cost of half his arm.
Blessing failed?
It clearly felt like the ensemble was successful, but it suddenly lost momentum.
Chen Xing carefully recalled the details and discovered the problem.
The duration of the Nine Trigram was only ten seconds. The flywheel successfully blessed the Nine Trigram when it was launched on the satellite. However, because it was too far from the ground, ten seconds had passed when it passed through the atmosphere, and the power of blessing disappeared.
"The power is still limited..."
Chen Xing sighed, waved slightly, and the burning warship drove out from behind, knocking the corpse king into half.
