Chapter 53: - Danger in the Wilderness

For an entire night, Ye Yang could not rest in peace.

From time to time, the roars of various mutated creatures could be heard in the distance, and in the early hours of the morning, there were even a large number of rats coming out of nowhere and converging towards Ye Yang, hundreds of rats competing to bite the corpse of the giant elephant, not at all afraid of the scent emitted by the dead bear.

Ye Yang could only climb to a high place and control the skeleton to cut the rats with a knife.

The skeleton was “resurrected” from a nearby corpse, and the knife was found in a scrapped off-road vehicle.

The rats ate the elephant’s flesh, and one by one they rolled on the ground, some rolled a few times and then died, one rolled a few times, the body blossomed red light, after the light is reduced, became a red-furred rat.

The elephant’s head, the rat picked out an oval-shaped red gem that emitted red light, the red-furred rat snatched it and ate it, but the body exploded.

Ye Yang asked the skeleton to hold the gem, and a group of rats wandered around in a haze of ghostly ghost. He was very unwilling, but he couldn’t find the gem.

The skeleton and the “resurrected corpse” kept slashing and killing, the elephant’s corpse was eaten to the point where only the white bones were left, before those rats left.

“What kind of gemstone is this…Huh? Energy crystals?”

Ye Yang remembered that when he killed a colour-changing giant lizard corpse, he got an energy crystal core, but that one was yellow-brown and did not glow, before Ye Yang returned to the present world, he gave it to Zhou Na for safekeeping. This one now, however, was red and glowed.

“There is also this kind of crystal core on the body of a mutated animal?”

Ye Yang controlled the skeleton and dissected the corpse of the giant bear, this time no energy crystals were found, but the eyes of the giant bear were gouged out.

Both eyes were intact, including the one that had been shot by the bone spear, which was just stuffed into the brain and not broken.

“It’s hard as steel, and it emits a yellow-green light… Could it be considered an energy crystal?”

After Ye Yang cleaned these crystal nuclei with water, he found a box and put it away.

According to Zhou Na, there are some powerful energy crystal nuclei that will emit weak radiation energy and affect the human body, using a box that is sealed with lead in it for storage will prevent the radiation from spreading. If it is a magnetized iron box or special tempered crystal bottle, it can also resist most of the radiation.

Ye Yang’s body mass reached 18 points, should not be afraid of this radiation, and the ghost mist can also block this kind of radiation…….before the mouse could not find the crystal nucleus in the ghost mist. But Ye Yang still carefully wrapped the crystalline nucleus with a cloth and put it inside a magnetic box.

At three or four o’clock in the middle of the night, no more than thirty meters away, a large snake with a body length of more than a hundred meters, pressed against the barren branches and shrubs by the roadside, crawling past, making a creepy sound.

Ye Yang was shrouded in black mist, curled up behind another huge concrete pillar at the toll station, and did not dare to breathe.

“It is said that the snake can still twist its body as hard as it can after having its head decapitated, my bone spear probably won’t be able to kill it with a single blow…”

He had no intention of “fighting” with this snake.

Fortunately, it did not find Ye Yang, and had no interest in the skeletons and the corpses on the ground, and gradually crawled away.

“No wonder there are a lot of realgar in the living supplies of the migration team, which should have been sprinkled around beforehand.” Ye Yang muttered.

The sky was getting brighter….

He slept and woke up at times, testing out his skills.

“Summoning skeletons, the characteristics of this skill are also clear.”

“Summoning a skeleton for the first time, or re-summoning it after its destruction, costs 10 points of spirit per skeleton. Leaving them lying completely immobile consumes almost nothing, but if they perform an activity, an average of 0.1 spirit energy is deducted per minute, and only 1 point is deducted for 10 minutes, and if it’s a violent battle, this loss is raised three to five times.”

“However, a battle hardly consumes too long. Also, they can still guard my side when I sleep, which is quite useful. But, when I am in danger, it will not actively attack the target, not as well as the “resurrected corpse”. It is estimated that the grade is still low.”

“When I’m asleep, they will continue to deduct my mental energy, but not by much, so there’s no need to un-summon them at all. Their combat power is not as good as that of ‘Resurrection Corpses’, and they have quite a few weaknesses, but they also have considerable advantages.

“For example, I can control up to 3 of them at the same time, but at the cost of double my mental energy, I can summon up to 6 skeletons. Only, you can only command 3 of them at the same time, and the other 3 skeletons will automatically stop moving.

“In addition, the biggest advantage is that they can provide me with skill proficiency as long as they continue to be active!!!”

This was the point that made Ye Yang most excited.

This meant that summoning the skeletons out and making them keep bouncing around before going to sleep, when he woke up, his skill proficiency would be able to scramble up by a large margin. He had a feeling that this skill would be upgraded faster than the other skills.

“Time to go… The fire in the City is too big to enter, so I turned around and rushed to Wuyin City to meet Zhou Na and Xinyun before thinking about other things.”

Ye Yang packed up his bags and looked at the giant bear’s corpse with some regret.

The skill level of “resurrecting corpse” was not high.

Ye Yang estimated that at least two more levels were needed to control the dead body of the giant bear.

Improvement direction 1: The creatures killed by oneself can also be “resurrected”.

Improvement direction 2: The brain damage of dead creatures exceeds 5%, and it can also be resurrected.

“Next time, upgrade the first direction first, then find a chance to kill a powerful wild mutant animal, and then… hehehe.” Ye Yang imagined himself standing on the head of a hundred-meter long giant snake, or riding on a ten-meter tall giant bear, or standing far away, with a wave of his hand, the super mutated ferocious beast roared and charged forward, who could stop it?

That would be a wonderful feeling.

However, it was still just a fantasy.

………………

He let one of the “White Bone Skeleton” carry the huge bag on his back, and let it follow him without being crushed.

In front is the “resurrected corpse” opening the way, Ye Yang was in the middle and on the left and right were two other skeletons.

Although it was broad daylight, but Ye Yang’s skeletons are not afraid of sunlight, is also a surprise.

As he was too slow to walk, he gradually turned into a trot, and his body wouldn’t get tired, running out of less than two kilometres, Ye Yang saw an odd and desolate wilderness with many trees and shrubs of varying heights, all kinds of strange weeds growing on the ground that Ye Yang had never seen before, and some fresh bones and bits of flesh and blood mixed in with the soil.

What surprised Ye Yang even more was that on the ground nearby, there were a few huge roots, as thick as a person’s arm, not knowing what kind of plant had shed them, allowing the skeleton to wield the knife to cut a few times, only a layer of skin broken.

Ye Yang chanted, backed away for a distance, black mist covered the body, allowing the skeleton to walk to those weeds.

“Dig!!!”

Digging up the weeds on the surface and picking up the dirt underneath, an arm-thick root steeply emerged, and with a shake, it slapped the skeleton away, turning it into broken bones. That root whisker was then retrieved into the ground at an extremely fast speed.

Ye Yang’s face changed abruptly, he was stunned and opened his mouth wide.

“A strange root that has a hook? Could it be that this is the ‘giant tentacle’ that we saw last night?”

They didn’t dare to stay for long and quickly ran away.

Although it is assumed that these things may come out at certain hours of the night, otherwise the people from the migration team and slave catching team wouldn’t be running around at seven or eight o’clock in the night without fear of being swallowed by the monsters or “eaten” by these roots.

But it was not daring to try it in person.

He was keep going, from time to time, he could see some weird creatures running around. For example, a group of ducks with horns on their heads quack flying by. Surprisingly, one of the ducks was flying. There was carrion falling from com’s body. He didn’t know if the corpse mutated into a strange duck, or the blame duck fell due to the corpse virus.

Sometimes, he could also see a flock of small fire birds, like a sparrow, fluttering, the flames easily scorched the branches on which it was sitting or even ignited.

On both sides of the highway, he could see a lot of abandoned cars were running and covered with moss, weeds, trees, vines and other things. Some of them have turned into mouse and ant nests. Of course, there were no shortage of corpses that had completely decomposed into bone scraps, that is, active humanoid corpses were rarely seen.

“It would be much better if we could have a car for transportation, and if we encounter danger, we can also just step on the gas pedal and rush over…”

He didn’t know who has cleared this highway. There were barely clear of obstacles in the middle of the route, barely enough for two large trucks to travel opposite each other.

A little further on, clouds rolled overhead, muffled thunder rumbled, and the air became a little chilly.

“No, it’s like it’s going to rain.”

Will the rain in the last world sky be very “nourishing”?

Like “nourishing” the living into corpses?

It was a rather serious question.

“There’s no shelter from the rain around here, and I’m a necromancer, and I have to drive on two legs like a martial artist? It’s unreasonable. Even if I’m physically fit and not afraid of getting tired, it’s better to be able to sit and lie down than to make the effort to drive, right?”

Ye Yang frowned and considered, turning around to look at some bamboo growing wildly by the roadside, and then at the few skeletons around him, remembering that there seemed to be a rain cloth inside the backpack on the skeleton, his mind couldn’t help but come up with an odd idea….

“The point of a skeleton being born is to serve necromancers, well, if I’m right… then there’s no need for two legs to accompany the skeleton on its journey.”

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