Chapter 47

"Damn it, maybe it's because these undead have such low intelligence that they haven't even realized the danger of our actions!" Although he felt something was wrong, given the situation at the time, Zhou Tian couldn't change his plans even if he had noticed. Thus, he could only console himself and then focus on arranging the defense lines with the half-orc warriors under his command.

Everything went smoothly, and the situation Zhou Tian had worried about did not occur. With his help, the number of half-orc warriors under his command, though not many, performed beyond their usual level and, with almost zero casualties, successfully held the undead monsters from the skeleton cave at bay. As for the members of the undead monsters' lair, although they were powerful, they couldn't launch a large-scale attack and thus had no way to deal with Zhou Tian.

"It seems that..." Seeing how things had developed, Zhou Tian let out a sigh of relief and decided to wait for things to end as he had planned.

However, just as Zhou Tian was making those plans, he didn't realize that the factor that had been making him uneasy was about to appear.

"Roar!" A huge roar suddenly came from the passage behind him. Zhou Tian was startled and turned around to see what had made the noise, but he didn't expect to be attacked instantly.

A massive chain suddenly flew out from the passage they had blocked. Before Zhou Tian could react, it struck him fiercely.

It felt like being hit by a truck. After being attacked, Zhou Tian didn't even have time to figure out what had happened before he found himself flying through the air. Before his body hit the ground, Zhou Tian felt a sharp pain in his head.

"Damn it, it seems I need to have some strength of my own!" After taking a hit, Zhou Tian's original thoughts changed. In his original thinking, the power in his hands was power, whether it was his own or that of his subordinates. As long as he could fully control that power, there was no need to insist that he must personally possess it.

He even trusted the power of his forces more than his own. After all, no matter how strong his own power was, if he had to fight personally, the danger was always inevitable. Zhou Tian naturally didn't want to put himself in danger. Therefore, if his subordinates could solve the problem, he would rather let others handle it.

But this encounter changed Zhou Tian's original thoughts. Despite having a large group of monsters under his command, when he was really attacked, Zhou Tian found that his half-orc warriors couldn't help much. If it weren't for the strength he possessed as the leader of the half-orcs, that sneak attack would have been enough to take his life.

"Damn, I need to get some benefits for myself in the future. If I didn't have some strength, I might have been done for here today." With that thought, Zhou Tian angrily turned his head toward the direction of the attack, wanting to see what monster had attacked him.

"This is... a zombie!"

There are many types of undead, and the most common are skeletons. The skeletons in the skeleton cave were the most ordinary kind. Among the undead monsters now opposing Zhou Tian, there were several types of skeletons, including many ordinary skeletons and a fair number of skeletons made from the bones of wild beasts.

In addition to skeletons, there were also ghosts, which looked like white cloths with two black holes.

Of course, since there are skeletons and ghosts among the undead, there couldn't be a lack of zombies, another representative type.

In the skeleton cave, Zhou Tian encountered many zombies. Although there were many, most were headless zombies, which, while not weak, were at most on par with half-orc warriors. Zhou Tian didn't take them seriously.

Zombies, like skeletons, come in different types. Zhou Tian knew that ghosts and zombies should also have different types. However, because he hadn't seen other types of ghosts and zombies and thought they wouldn't come to the skeleton cave, he didn't pay much attention to this.

But Zhou Tian didn't expect that, just as he was about to cut off the retreat of the undead, he would encounter an attack from a type of undead that shouldn't have been there.

"Is this still a zombie?" Zhou Tian couldn't believe that the monster he saw, nearly three meters tall, covered in long hair, and dragging chains on its limbs, could be the same species as the headless zombies that looked like ordinary people.

However, no matter how unbelievable it was, Zhou Tian had to accept what he saw. According to the rules of the world, he could know part of the information about a target just by looking at it. Since the information he saw about the large monster indicated it was a zombie, no matter how strange, its identity couldn't be wrong.

Although Zhou Tian wasn't angry at the large monster for attacking him, he couldn't let it go today. After all, even if the zombie couldn't enter the skeleton cave due to its size, if left alone, it could use its chains to threaten Zhou Tian and his half-orc warriors.

"No wonder I could easily get to this place. It seems those guys knew this big guy was guarding here. If we don't take care of it, our plans will be completely ruined." Zhou Tian glared at the large zombie and, after getting up from the ground, immediately ordered his half-orc warriors to take action.

Under Zhou Tian's command, some half-orc warriors directly blocked the inside of the passage, working with the half-orc warriors inside the skeleton cave to prevent the undead monsters from interfering with their battle.

At the same time, the second group of Zhou Tian's subordinates rushed to both sides of the narrow passage, desperately blocking the undead monsters on the other side.

After making these arrangements, Zhou Tian led the most elite dozen half-orc warriors by his side toward the large zombie.