Chapter 597: Chapter 421: One-Sided Battle_2
Just like Yara was able to obtain the complete version of the video, for some unknown reason, the confidentiality of this video wasn’t well maintained. In just a daytime’s span, all those well-informed people in Kyoto knew about it.
Some people felt that since these skeletons only appear at night and have been continuously slaughtering each other, as long as the skeletons do not launch an attack against humans, the issue could be simply avoided by not going out at night, after all, most people do not usually go out in the evening.
But there were others who thought that even though the skeletons now only appear at night and are fighting each other, the saying "Those not of our kind must have a different heart" holds true, and it’s only a matter of time before those skeletons attack Pengcheng.
Rather than waiting for them to suddenly attack at night, we might as well take the initiative and eradicate them all with missiles or bombs.
With these two approaches emerging, more and more survivors began to discuss the matter, until eventually, even the ordinary people who were not particularly fond of gossiping were involuntarily made aware of it.
Just as Dong Tianyu resolved himself to go see the situation firsthand during the night, little did he know that many people within Kyoto City were also making preparations in advance, ready to go out to the scene to see for themselves.
When Dong Tianyu rose into the sky with Sword Control in the evening, he saw that the city area of Kyoto remained speckled with lights. It was only after scanning with Spiritual Sense Scanning that he realized those people, like him, were prepared to go out that same night to witness the skeletons.
Seeing that so many people below shared his thoughts, Dong Tianyu did not change course or destination. Instead, he continued to gain altitude and chose an already-departed Hunting Team to stay above and observe the situation below.
While dawn still lingered, the fully-armed Hunting Team reached the area where the video was filmed. To their surprise, despite their arrival at the destination before nightfall, there were already survivors who had come earlier and set up a temporary camp.
In addition to the self-organized survivors, the Officials also deployed a group of professionals to the site. In fact, the earliest intention of the Officials, upon discovering the presence of civilian members, was to send patrolling soldiers to drive them away.
But at this time, the Hunting Teams that could receive the news all had strong backers, and they had come on the mandate of those backers. So when the Officials arranged for their expulsion, they simply relocated to a different stationing point, away from the Officials’ camp.
The Officials quickly noticed their disobedience, and though they had originally prepared to continue the expulsion, as more and more survivors arrived, they ultimately had to abandon their initial plan.
As Dong Tianyu watched from above, a temporary camp resembled an encircling ring on the ground below, and suddenly, an unsettling idea occurred to him.
However, considering his current low influence in Kyoto, he knew that even if he spoke out to warn them, they might not take him seriously. Therefore, Dong Tianyu decided to respect the fate of others, watching with amusement as they made their choices.
With nightfall upon them, the skeletons, which had been hidden underground, once again crawled up to the snow’s surface. Unlike the video where skeletons immediately attacked their kind as soon as they emerged, this time, the skeletons did not immediately attack. Instead, they stood still as if waiting for something.
As more and more skeletons crawled out of the snow, the Soul Flame blazing in the eyes of those standing inertly on the snowy ground grew more and more intense.
Then, from the campsites below, a muffled sound suddenly emerged. In a bustling street, this gunshot with a Silencer might have gone unnoticed.
But now, with the emergence of the skeletons, everyone was holding their breath and very quiet. Even the muffled sound of the gun with the Silencer, not loud at all, was quite clear to the ears of those sharp-eyed Martial Artists present.
Although Dong Tianyu had been keeping his Divine Sense open, he hadn’t paid attention to where the gunshot came from. But since he had been watching the skeletons emerging from the snow, he saw which ’unlucky soul’ was hit by the bullet.
The bullet did not strike the skull of any skeleton. Instead, it hit the joint of a skeleton’s arm.
The bullet’s tremendous impact destroyed a piece of connecting bone on the skeleton’s arm, causing it to lose its limb.
However, after the skeletal arm fell to the ground, the skeleton immediately bent over to pick it up, then reattached it to the break point on its arm.
Perhaps those left in the camp couldn’t see due to the distance, but Dong Tianyu could see clearly with his Divine Sense. When the skeleton’s broken arm was repositioned at the fracture, a new section of bone exactly like the one shattered by the bullet suddenly grew out, and in just a moment, the previously severed arm reconnected, looking as if it had never been broken.
But Dong Tianyu noticed that as the skeleton repaired its arm, the Soul Flame in its eye sockets was not as intense as before the repair, indicating that although skeletons can repair their bodies at will, they still need to consume their Soul Flame to do so.
Just as Dong Tianyu confirmed this information, a stern shout suddenly came from the camp: "Who’s the idiot who just shot? Don’t you know to stay put and observe? With that shot, you’re just asking for trouble!"
Although this stern shout voiced what others were thinking, upon hearing it, they couldn’t help but silently complain: "Talk about calling someone an idiot, you barking like that makes you no better.
Originally, their task was simply to observe in secret, but thanks to these two idiots, the situation has become uncontrollable."
While others were still cursing under their breath, whether it was because of the stern shout or not, the once still skeletons suddenly stopped killing each other like the night before, and instead directly began to attack the Hunting Team’s campsite.
The Hunting Team members in the makeshift camp couldn’t help cursing under their breath, "Misfortune."
Then a part of them decisively chose to retreat, while others actively went on the offensive, wanting to test the combat abilities of the skeletons.
The first skeletons to approach the camp were humanoid, and none of the Hunting Team members who made it there were weak, so those skeletons were smashed to pieces as soon as they got close by the team members who had prepared defenses in advance.
Looking at the shattered bones strewn about, the Martial Artist didn’t care and just continued attacking the other skeletons.
The Hunting Team members fighting below felt that these skeletons were incredibly frail, so as the fight progressed, they became more and more careless.
However, Dong Tianyu noticed that although most of the skeletons attacked by the Martial Artist below were shattered to pieces, the majority of the skeltons’ head bones remained unharmed, which meant that these skeletons hadn’t really died in the true sense; they could revive at any moment.
Besides, as the fighting went on and everyone got into the flow, many no longer stayed close to their campsites, but instead started to push further into the direction from which the skeletons were coming.
Although they left a trail of shattered bones, Dong Tianyu keenly observed that the head bones scattered on the ground were not only largely intact, but the Soul Flame within those skulls was mostly white.
In Dong Tianyu’s memory, the undead with White Soul Fire were supposed to be at the lowest rung.
But given how long the disaster had been going on and how much time had passed since the nightly skeleton battles, if the skeletons in this area were all low-level undead, that simply didn’t make sense.
After all, among the three great disasters, the undead were the race that could increase their individual strength the fastest with ample resources, because their ability to level up simply by consuming Soul Flame was a talent hard for other races to have.
