Chapter 619: Chapter 605: Netherworld
After making many preparations, Chen Feng finally embarked on his journey.
Before leaving, Chen Feng handed over all the affairs of the city to his subordinates. According to the layout which had been revised several times, Order would expand into a massive metropolis capable of accommodating two million people. In today’s world, this could truly be considered a giant city, and a year’s development had finally paid off.
The scattered forces began to integrate, clearly condensing Order into a cohesive whole, allowing stronger forces to be mobilized more quickly in times of war.
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Traveling alone was much more convenient.
Chen Feng sat directly on the back of the White Dragon. This creature, whose intelligence had been eroded by demonic power, was chaotic by nature and cold towards others, yet was completely obedient to the Inferior Demon. At this moment, the Inferior Demon undoubtedly served as a groom.
With Chen Feng’s current strength, his eyes had already undergone a mutation, allowing him to clearly see everything below even from dozens of meters in the air.
Monsters flying in the air scattered in panic when they spotted the figure of the White Dragon. This was a bloodline suppression, a terror that weaker beings could not overcome.
Terrifying figures occasionally flashed across the sea surface. Even some ordinary fish had mutated, generally growing to about two meters in size.
Chen Feng couldn’t help but ponder.
He had always believed that the ocean was the future of humanity. In the face of food scarcity, these marine creatures could provide humans with an inexhaustible supply of food.
But isn’t that also a challenge?
The ocean was filled with countless food sources but also teemed with horrors. Due to the ocean’s vastness, no restrictions were imposed on the bodies of the monsters. Even a sardine might transform into a giant several meters long, to say nothing of the original rulers of the sea!
A massive school of fish rolled over the surface of the sea. At this moment, a dozen sharks covered in spikes rushed out from the side. Tiger Spike Sharks, their exterior skeletons provided them with terrifying defense and lethality, and in the sea, their ramming speed rivaled that of a real fishing boat.
At this time, a dozen Tiger Spike Sharks surrounded from all directions, beginning their devouring journey. After several collisions, the sea surface was already stained with blood.
Chen Feng only glanced for a few seconds before leaving.
In fact, this was a commonplace sight: the strong devouring the weak had always been the style of this world.
According to the map provided by the survivors, Chen Feng accelerated his journey. Order had already explored here, and nothing nearby aroused Chen Feng’s curiosity anymore.
The time froze on the morning of the second day.
The White Dragon’s speed was exceptionally swift, reaching the destination in just one night. According to Chen Feng’s original plan, he would land on the island for a thorough inspection, but when he was about to go ashore, he encountered a small accident.
He saw some corpses.
To be precise, a pile of corpses, crowded and floating by the coast. Corpses were not uncommon in this era. If they were simply corpses, Chen Feng wouldn’t care at all.
As is well known, once a corpse is soaked in water, the flesh swells and decays, turning the whole body white and almost unrecognizable.
However, these corpses showed no swelling, and the skin was a greenish color, speckled with foul-smelling pustules. The entire sea surface was polluted by the toxins, and not far away, many fish floated dead in the water, apparently poisoned.
These weren’t zombies.
Glancing at these corpses, Chen Feng muttered to himself: "Zombies... So this is the monster that team encountered?"
Zombies.
A type of undead, a level higher than Skeleton Warriors in the rank of undead.
They had the constitution to release plagues and possessed swifter speed and sharp claws. In battle, they preferred to pierce enemies’ bodies with their claws, then drench the poison into their victims.
Zombies, unlike zombies, although they possessed terrifying poisons, could not revive the dead. An ordinary person often found their body ceasing to function within one minute of exposure to the poison, completely turning into a corpse.
Some cruel Undead Mages summoned zombies to unleash plagues. The toxins of zombies were almost irredeemable for ordinary people; only some Light Energy had the potential to counteract the poison!
The survivors of the Dark Department had not mentioned this scene, evidently intentional as an alarm system installed by some city power to reinforce the surrounding security.
An overlapping mass of bodies, appearing thoroughly dead, but Chen Feng knew that once touched, these creatures would unleash their most terrifying destructive power, their roars alerting all other comrades in the town.
Beyond the coast, Chen Feng gazed upward at the town, where just like the sea, numerous zombies wandered. The terrifying toxins had ravaged this city. Unfortunately, Chen Feng sensed no trace of living beings here.
Which meant...
The entire town’s inhabitants had been transformed into highly decayed zombies.
This was somewhat intriguing; if an entire town’s residents turned into zombies, Chen Feng might understand, but instead, zombies had taken over here.
If not a planar fusion, then a powerful entity from the undead plane had personally transformed this place.
Transforming an entire town’s population into zombies was certainly a grand undertaking; even Chen Feng couldn’t help but feel a hint of coldness.
This represented the typical attitude of most planes towards the Human World; sympathy? It simply did not exist!
"Tap... tap..."
At this moment, some sounds suddenly echoed from a distant street, and three terrifying knights emerged from the corner, distinctive with no heads, broad longswords fastened at their waists, astride on skeletal steeds.
This scene made Chen Feng involuntarily clench his fists. At a glance, these were three Golden Tier Headless Knights; he needed to reevaluate the situation here.
It wasn’t just zombies; even High-tier Undead, such as Headless Knights, appeared here. Seeing this, Chen Feng couldn’t help but marvel at the luck of the surviving member of the Dark Department, who must not have encountered Headless Knights. Otherwise, not a single soul would have survived.
But the ensuing questions flooded Chen Feng’s mind. Beyond Undead Transformation, Headless Knights had emerged as well. This was no longer the Human World; it was plainly a true Netherworld!
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