The sensation of suffocation overwhelmed her body. The woman's face turned ashen as she gripped Bai Ye's wrist, struggling fiercely, her eyes filled with fear and disbelief.
"Why?" she rasped.
Why?
This was, of course, thanks to the T-virus enhancement, which had elevated Bai Ye's already outstanding spiritual attributes to a terrifying level, resulting in what was known as mental pollution abilities.
Then...
*Crack!*
Bai Ye tightened his grip, a crisp bone-snapping sound echoing. The woman's pupils contracted, her head lolled to the side, and she died.
"I am under no obligation to satisfy your curiosity."
Bai Ye dropped the woman's corpse and scanned his surroundings.
Following the woman's death, the twelve individuals who had been escorted to the tomb door had all turned into corpses. Bai Ye cautiously examined them one by one, confirming there were no survivors. He then retrieved his firearm and forcefully pushed open the tomb door.
As the tomb door swung open, Bai Ye immediately felt the temperature plummet.
Before him lay a narrow passage. The moment the tomb door opened, the oil lamps on either side of the passage lit up on their own. However, the lamplight was eerie, a strange greenish hue that exuded a sense of mystery.
Without hesitation, Bai Ye slung his gun over his shoulder and stepped into the passage, moving forward. Suddenly...
*Creak!*
A piercing sound rang out, followed by the tomb door slamming shut with a resounding bang.
The atmosphere was somewhat oppressive, but Bai Ye paid it little mind.
Just a haunting, wasn't it!
When the King of Huai Nan died, he had taken many living people with him for burial. These individuals had become Yin soldiers after death, helping to guard the King of Huai Nan's tomb.
In fact, the first of the three restricted area missions within the King of Huai Nan's tomb was to kill fifteen tomb-guarding spiritual monsters.
This was also why Bai Ye had ambushed at the tomb door, eliminating everyone who had been brought to it.
The number of tomb-guarding spiritual monsters on each route was limited. If there were a crowd competing, it wouldn't be easy to kill fifteen.
However, with only Bai Ye on this route, all the tomb-guarding spiritual monsters were his for the taking, making it not difficult to reach fifteen.
Moving forward, he soon reached the end, where an open jade door appeared before him.
Beyond the jade door was a square stone chamber, roughly a hundred square meters in size. In the center stood a jade coffin, and nothing else.
The moment Bai Ye stepped into the stone chamber...
Black mist materialized around him, and within the mist, human-like silhouettes appeared. Soon, child-like corpses, no more than a meter tall, emerged from the mist. They moved with a staggered gait, appearing to be five or six children, around seven to nine years old, all of them reanimated corpses.
Without hesitation, Bai Ye raised his Aug assault rifle and squeezed the trigger.
The bullets flew forward, but upon striking the child corpses, they had little effect. The bullets hit them like steel plates, emitting metallic clangs.
Zombies were different from these reanimated corpses. Zombies were relatively easy to deal with; a shot to the head would suffice. But these corpses were different. They had no obvious weak points. Bullets weren't entirely useless, but they simply didn't inflict enough damage.
"See, foreign goods are unreliable. Even for ghosts, domestic products are tougher!"
Bai Ye muttered, quickly detaching the empty magazine, retreating to create distance, and reloading.
At this moment...
*Pfft!*
The child corpse before him suddenly opened its small mouth and sprayed a cloud of dark purple mist.
Bai Ye didn't dare to delay, quickly dodging backward.
The purple gas was corpse poison, and contact with it would be fatal in a short time.
After evading the purple mist, Bai Ye finished reloading, raised his gun again, but two child corpses, using the black smoke as cover, flanked him. They suddenly leaped, extending their hands straight forward, aiming to grab Bai Ye's throat.
Bai Ye quickly swung his rifle in an arc, smashing the butt of the gun into the head of one corpse, knocking it away. He then spun and kicked the other corpse.
"Ningshuang, summon sword!"
The Ningshuang sword, suspended beside Bai Ye, immediately transformed into a beam of light and shot forward.
*Clang, clang...*
The Ningshuang sword's light was incredibly fast, repeatedly striking the neck of a child corpse, producing clear ringing sounds.
But with the third strike...
*Pfft!*
The neck of the child corpse finally couldn't withstand the sword's slash. A line of blood appeared on its neck, its head flew off, and its body toppled backward.
Seizing the opportunity, Bai Ye loaded a grenade into the launcher and aimed forward.
*Boom!*
Accompanied by an explosion, flames billowed.
A massive fireball erupted, sending the surrounding child corpses flying. Black smoke rose from their bodies, carrying a scorched aroma.
At this moment...
*Creak, creak!*
A grinding sound suddenly echoed, and Bai Ye felt a strong gust of wind.
The jade coffin in the center began to tremble, and then its lid suddenly flew up, spinning through the air towards Bai Ye.
Bai Ye quickly dodged to the side. The coffin lid slammed into the wall, shattering a piece of it.
Simultaneously...
A chilling wind suddenly swept through the surroundings, accompanied by ghostly wails.
From within the white jade coffin, a child corpse sat up, its hands extended straight forward, its pair of red eyes fixed on Bai Ye.
This child corpse appeared larger than the others, and its clothing was entirely different. Although tattered, it was clearly more luxurious than that of ordinary child corpses.
Bai Ye immediately raised his gun, aiming at the child corpse, intending to pull the trigger. But at that moment...
Bai Ye found that after pulling the trigger, there was no reaction. The barrel of his Aug assault rifle was gradually fading, becoming translucent, and then quickly disappeared.
Bai Ye was speechless. The 24-hour usage limit for the gacha item had expired.
"Ah!"
At this time, the child corpse suddenly opened its mouth, letting out a ghostly shriek, and a ball of black smoke was spewed from its mouth.
Bai Ye quickly performed a sideways dive, pushed off the ground with one hand, and rolled to the side. The moment the smoke landed on the corner of the wall, a sizzling sound erupted. When the black smoke dissipated, a section of the stone slab at the corner had been corroded, looking quite shocking.
Bai Ye got up from the ground and glanced at the corner, wincing. He could easily imagine what would happen if that black smoke landed on him.
Then...
Bai Ye suddenly lifted his shirt, revealing two decks of poker cards.
...