Chapter 4: The Road to Survival
A prisoner ghost who crawled out of the mine, dragging a clanking iron chain, came to the frontmost civilian zombie. With extremely rough muscles and thick arms, it pressed the civilian zombie into a four-legged posture facing upwards. Then, with its wide open mouth full of white teeth, it bit through the civilian zombie's bulging belly in one swift motion!
The commoner zombie struggled violently, seemingly temporarily freed from the pressure of the undead by being torn and bitten, but under the control of the prisoner zombie's iron-strong arms, where could it escape?
The prisoner of the flesh-eating ghost, mouthful after mouthful, ate non-stop. In an extremely short period of time, he completely devoured the rotting intestines of the civilian zombies and the blood and flesh of the deceased magic apprentice that had been swallowed into their stomachs, without being picky at all!
When the civilian zombie's belly was empty, the prisoner food ghost used a garbage disposal method to discard the civilian zombie's already broken body on the side, and then brutally smashed the civilian zombie's head with one paw!
A small cluster of faint gray-green soul fire floated out from the exploded head of a civilian zombie, and it fluttered in the stinky mine cave for a few flashes before finally disintegrating and disappearing into the putrid air.
Although it had just devoured the abdominal cavity of a common zombie, the prisoner eating ghost did not stop its desire to eat at all. It quickly grabbed another common zombie, bit open its belly and continued to devour it...
And as he watched the prisoner ghost smash the second civilian zombie's head, and then ripped open three civilian zombies' abdomens to devour them voraciously, Luo Wei's emotions had already hit rock bottom.
Rovi's soul was gradually filled with fear, he could calmly accept the fact that he had become a zombie, but how could he accept being eaten by a ghoul and then having his skull smashed?
If his heart was still there, Luo Wei's heartbeat at this moment must be extremely fast, he desperately thought of a way to escape.
However, the lingering presence of the vengeful spirit emitted by the Corpse Eater made it impossible for Luo Wei to even stand up, and he couldn't find any feasible way to extricate himself from this predicament!
In the world of the living, when one's strength is insufficient, they can still use strategy to turn the tide and preserve their life and property.
But in the simple and brutal world of vengeful spirits where strength is respected, the gap between ability and rank... is now the completely unsolvable life-and-death distance that Lovi is facing!
If I had known earlier that this mine was hiding a cannibalistic prisoner who eats his own kind, Luo Wei would not have entered even if he were beaten to death!
But now it's too late to say anything.
Fortunately, the light of hope always flashes at the last moment before despair.
After devouring the third civilian zombie's rotting guts and stale corpse magic apprentice flesh, the prisoner ghoul didn't continue eating, but instead opened wide its jagged teeth-filled maw full of shattered bones and rotten meat, then stuck out its festering tongue and let out a... burp!
Luó Wéi can guarantee to any god that he has never felt, like now, that Zhang Dàmǒubā's burping is as melodious as heavenly music!
I won't die!
I'm so fed up with this crap!
Luo Wei was overjoyed at his narrow escape, but the next moment he realized that he had rejoiced a bit too early, because the Corpse Eater Ghost let out a commanding low growl towards the fourth civilian zombie and him!
The fourth civilian zombie in front of Luo Wei, although still trembling uncontrollably all over its body, obediently crawled up from the ground under the prisoner-eating ghost's commanding low growl. Then it stumbled and staggered to the side of the prisoner-eating ghost and walked into the branch mine tunnel that the prisoner-eating ghost had just come out of.
"Hoo-hoo, hooo!"
It was probably because Rove hadn't moved yet that the Corpse Eater let out a low growl towards him, apparently ordering him to get up and follow quickly.
Ruo Wei had no choice, originally trying to pretend he didn't exist by lying on the ground, but could only shiver all over and crawl up from the ground, then followed the civilian zombies.
Luo Wei also moved, and the prisoner-eating ghost was satisfied, turning around with a clanking sound of four iron chains, following behind Luo Wei's head, dragging his own mobile food storage, entering the dark and gloomy branch mine.
After walking about 200 meters along the winding path, Luo Wei found that there was no road ahead, only a semi-circular artificial cave with a size of over ten square meters carved out of hollow rocks.
The entrance of this artificial cave was sealed with seventeen or eighteen iron pillars as thick as a child's arm, with only one narrow iron door in the middle that could allow one person to crawl in and out. Although two large iron locks were still hanging on the iron door, the two iron pillars on the left side of the door had been torn apart by someone with incredible strength, creating a huge hole that allowed for easy entry and exit.
From the size of that huge cave, it was the prisoner-eating ghost who did this shocking and astonishing thing!
Damn it!
Although after being infected with the plague of the undead, the power of a plague zombie can reach twice that of when they were alive, it's possible to bend iron pillars as thick as an arm into this shape, and when they were alive, they must have been one of the strongest men among humans!
Luo Wei didn't have time to think much, and the prisoner behind him, Shi Gui, let out a low growl again.
Although the low growl of the prisoner-eating ghost was not similar to any language that Rovi knew, Rovi naturally understood what the prisoner-eating ghost wanted to express - "Drill!"
Although his thinking has become dull due to becoming a zombie, by now Luo Wei should have understood that the purpose of letting him and the fourth civilian zombie enter the cave was for the Corpse Eater to store "food" driven by instinct.
Just as Luo Wei was hesitating, the Corpse Eating Ghost impatiently gave him a push on the back, and with an irresistible force, Luo Wei stumbled through the hole in the iron gate and fell into the Cave of Death!
The prisoner ghost did not follow into the cave, but stood up and exposed his huge belly that was swollen from overeating, then sat down at the entrance of the cave with his back to the cave.
After the prisoner's ghost sat down, Luo Wei quickly got up from the ground.
The main reason why Luo Wei was able to get up so quickly is that the vengeful spirit's pressure emanating from the prisoner's corpse has finally disappeared!
As soon as Luo Wei stood up, he saw a scene that he absolutely did not want to see - in the cave of only over ten square meters, more than ten corpses were lying horizontally and vertically, with more than half of their flesh eaten away! The blood that had already coagulated flowed all over the ground, and large black death flies crawled back and forth among the broken bodies of men and women, enjoying a rare feast of flesh and blood.
Even if you don't use that dead brain, just think with your butt, Luo Wei can also figure it out. These broken and battered corpses lying all over the ground are waiting for his not-too-distant... future.
Absolutely not!
I absolutely don't want to die like this! I still have a chance to revive myself and then enjoy a wonderful life in another world just like an ordinary crosser!
Luo Wei's soul fire was frantically jumping about, and he finally began to search for a way to solve the predicament of death that he faced with his greatest effort, no longer affected by the pressure of the undead.
Don't disturb the prisoner, let the ghost of the dead escape?
It's impossible, this is an unachievable task.
How about finding a way to kill the prisoner-eating ghoul?
Silently castable Soul Fire can be stripped, but the restriction is "can only be released on undead with a soul strength lower than that of the Necromancer"!
Dark Law?
It won't work, it can't intimidate a vengeful spirit stronger than itself...
The almost unsolvable situation made Rovi unconsciously move his feet, and it was Rovi's habit to think while moving when encountering major problems, but at this moment, Rovi forgot the environment he was in.
Just then, having taken only two steps, Luo Wei felt himself treading on something.
Lowering his head, Rove saw two fractured phalanges of fingers exposed under his feet, as well as a withered eyeball near where he had stepped.
The sticky feeling coming from under his feet made Rovi feel very nauseous... wait a minute!
Finger bones and eyeballs?
Right! Finger bones and eyeballs!
Luo Wei's whole body felt a thrill, and he suddenly realized that he had finally found the only way to survive in the midst of death.
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