Chapter 779: Arriving At The Castle.
[Creak~]
Accompanied by a scalp-tingling sound from its stiff joints, the zombie slowly raised itself from the mud. Its head was hunched, its left arm bent and its right leg was slightly curled. Its posture looked extremely unnatural, as if it were a puppet.
“The movies are accurate, there are really zombies!” the Duck Emperor panicked.
“It must be a vampire puppet that had its blood drained and got thrown here…”
Camel was sweating non-stop. He knew that they would become puppets after being bitten by vampires. Of course, rumors were very different from reality. Vampire puppets didn’t have fangs, but more like a monster like the one in front of them. They were rotting and stinking but somehow still alive.
[Creak~]
More creaking sounds suddenly resounded all around them.
Then, one by one, zombies started to rise from the mire.
“Gai~ How come there are so many? There’s at least a hundred of them!” The Duck Emperor’s eyes were wide open.
Camel couldn’t keep his legs steady upon seeing such terrifying creatures. It felt like he was transported into hell, the air was pungent with the smell of decay.
When he saw that his two companions in the Silver Wing Mercenary Group were among the zombies, Camel’s taut nerves could no longer bear it. With a loud scream, he turned and fled desperately away from the dark castle.
His action seemed to awaken the zombies. They bared their teeth and let out bloodthirsty roars, and scrambled after him. They changed from their docile mannerism into ferocious and terrifying creatures.
“Gai~ boy, save him quickly. If you don’t act now, he will die!” The Duck Emperor urgently said.
“Save him?” Xiao Luo’s eyes slightly narrowed and asked.
Uh…
Seeing the indifference in Xiao Luo’s eyes, the Duck Emperor knew that he (the Duck Emperor) was being naive. Camel still had a chance to live if he didn’t run from Xiao Luo, but he did just the opposite. Camel basically voluntarily gave up his life. Xiao Luo certainly wouldn’t run just to save a mercenary who wanted to kill himself.
“Well, this duck also thinks it’s good to just let him die.” The Duck Emperor looked at Camel.
Camel used all his strength to flee from the zombies; however, he was injured and could not fully utilize his Martial Spirit strength. Although his speed was fast, it was still relatively slow. The zombies surged towards him like an inevitable flood. One of the zombies then took the lead and jumped on his back. It opened its mouth, baring its yellow and black teeth and bit into his neck.
[Poof~]
Blood splashed, Camel screamed in pain as he attempted to strike at it, “Get off me, get off me!”
After hitting it hard, four to five times, he finally managed to shake it off.
Desperation filled Camel as he fed; blood was pouring out of the wound on his neck at a constant pace. His body was writhed with sharp pain; wherever the pain spread, his nerves would tremble. His muscles shivered uncontrollably, and a sense of powerlessness slowly overtook him.
Corpse poison?
Camel thought in horror as he ran.
Suddenly, he felt a pain in his feet. He looked down and saw a zombie head poking out from the mire. It had bit his ankle and tore a large piece of flesh. Suffering such a wound, his body immediately fell to the ground.
As soon as he fell to the ground, the zombies swarmed towards him, gnawing at his neck, arm, thigh… Their yellow and black teeth were comparable to steel saws, and they easily chewed his flesh.
“Ah~”
Camel’s shrieks were particularly piercing. Despair slowly crept up into his heart. In the moment of his death, Camel clearly saw his belly torn apart, and his intestines and liver were pulled out. The zombies were feasting on it as if it were the most delicious delicacy. Some did not even chew and just gulped the ‘food’ down directly.
“This looks cruel…” The Duck Emperor felt his scalp tingle and wanted to vomit.
Xiao Luo, on the other hand, didn’t feel much. Camel had intended to kill him more than once. He wasn’t going to kill Camel with his own hands, which was already merciful. Not to mention that if Camel was able to escape, he wouldn’t really chase him down to kill him. In other words, he would just let God decide Camel’s life and death.
“Howl~“
At this time, a zombie let out a shriek, bared its teeth and jumped at Xiao Luo.
Xiao Luo didn’t even move; his True Essence just smashed the zombie. It looked like it was put into a meat grinder. It was just bones and meat on the ground.
[Boom~]
Xiao Luo stamped his foot and his True Essence rippled around. It quietly ran through the zombies’ bodies and turned them into minced meat. There was no sign of living creatures.
“Dead just like that?”
The Duck Emperor was shocked. “Gai~ Are these zombies so weak?”
“They are weak, they just look scary.” Xiao Luo lightly said.
After thinking about it, the Duck Emperor said with relief, “Indeed, the cultivation of vampires is not very high, and they are far worse than you. Since these zombies are their products, they naturally are weak as chickens.”
Xiao Luo continued towards the dark castle.
Soon an ancient castle similar to the ones in the west on Earth appeared in view. It was surrounded by high walls, and many great halls inside. The castle was shrouded in a layer of fog. So, although the sun was shining brightly, it was shrouded under darkness. Darkness was the mainstream here. Even the temperature seemed to have dropped a little.
As soon as he stepped into the open space in front of the castle, the huge gate opened.
Two vampires armed with torches ran out of the gate and soon surrounded Xiao Luo.
[Whoosh~]
The elders of the vampire clan appeared on the high wall of the castle.
Lester and Gui, who recovered from her wounds, also appeared on the wall, while Louis swaggered out of the gate. When he saw it was Xiao Luo, he was slightly surprised at first, but then he showed a greedy smile, “There was some movement in the mire, I thought it was a strange animal breaking in. I didn’t expect it to be a fat pig. Surprise, what a surprise!”