Chapter 1547: Battle of the Undead
“Undead creatures…”
Meng Chao’s reflexes gave him a faint headache.
Undead creatures were terrifying existences that humans were most unwilling to encounter on the battlefield.
In essence, they could no longer be considered monsters. Instead, they were Blood Flower fungi that gathered and manipulated the corpses of monsters to form a killing machine that was even more terrifying than regular monsters.
Their abilities were not limited to their speed and strength, which were one level higher than that of the monsters they controlled. They possessed extremely crafty attack methods and a mysterious characteristic that prevented them from being killed no matter what. Even if they were dismembered into thousands of pieces, they would regenerate over and over again.
More importantly, they carried large amounts of Blood Flower spores in their bodies, spreading them freely like bacteria and viruses. When humans got exposed to them for a long time and breathed in air that was filled with Blood Flower spores during a fierce battle, or when they were not careful, they would allow the Blood Flower spores to enter their bodies through their wounds.
Even if they killed the undead creatures completely and burned their corpses to ashes, the infected humans would most likely become zombies in just a few minutes, driven only by their appet.i.tes.
“Fei Qingyun’s nickname, ‘Doctor Monster,’ suits him. This guy really is a monster in human skin. Any ordinary person would avoid the Blood Flower spores, but in his hands, the spores have become raw materials to create biochemical weapons. This is probably the first time that humans have personally ‘created’ an undead creature, right?”
Meng Chao seemed to see Pandora’s box slowly opening.
This magic box was like a demon, opening its b.l.o.o.d.y mouth and devouring Dragon City’s future.
Even though the kingly Tiger Dragon was awe-inspiring, the Demonic Halberd Pigs’ corpses had rea.s.sembled into incomparably terrifying appearances as if they had just crawled out of a boiling blood pool in the depths of h.e.l.l.
Seeing that, the Tiger Dragon’s natural instincts also caused a hint of hesitation and even fear to appear on its face.
However, as a ferocious h.e.l.l Beast, its pride of killing the Tyrant Mammoth instantly ignited a more vigorous flame of war. That crushed all of its hesitation as well as fear, and it took the initiative to attack the four undead creatures.
One could see that the Tiger Dragon had become much more cautious in its attacks.
It was quite wary of the cl.u.s.ters of spores and flagella that the undead creatures were waving around. It only tried to tear the undead creatures in half from a dozen meters away with its golden claws.
However, after being “st.i.tched” by the cl.u.s.ters of Blood Flower spores, the toughness of the undead creatures’ flesh was ten times stronger than when they were still alive.
Even if a piece of flesh was torn by the Tiger Dragon, it would still connect back to the body. Following a series of “chi, chi, chi, chi” sounds of the mycelium growing and becoming entangled, the undead creatures’ flesh would reunite.
The four undead creatures laughed and squeaked strangely as they approached the Tiger Dragon from four directions.
The leading two-headed undead creature, with its crisscrossing golden claws, pounced on the Tiger Dragon.
It was no accident that it ended up with deep cuts that went all the way to its bones.
However, in the depths of each wound, a large amount of flesh and intestines shaped like tentacles sprouted like a fountain.
The Tiger Dragon firmly clawed the joint between its two heads, splitting it all the way from its shoulder to its waist.
However, the two halves of its b.l.o.o.d.y body both had independent lives. Controlled by its two heads, it still desperately bit at the Tiger Dragon’s vital parts.
Before the Tiger Dragon could fly into a rage, it pulled the two-headed monster that was pestering it off its body.
By then, the second Demonic Halberd Pig had already come up from behind.
It had a strange tail that had mutated from its spine.
All of its offensive power seemed to be gathered at the strange tail with countless bone spikes and bone blades.
Its bared fangs and brandished claws were just a distraction.
Its true goal was to send its strange tail through the wounds on the Tiger Dragon’s skin to make contact with the Tiger Dragon’s spine.
By the time the Tiger Dragon discovered its intentions, it was already too late.
The undead creature had already pierced seven or eight sections of its spine into Tiger Dragon’s body.
Moreover, it coiled around the h.e.l.l Beast’s spine.
Snakes had their core weakness, as did flood dragons.
The Tiger Dragon with a tiger’s head, as well as a boa’s body and tail also had its own weak point. Its most vulnerable point was where its strong tiger body connected with its boa form, which was as thick as a bucket.
The spine of the second undead creature just happened to wrap around the Tiger Dragon’s Achilles heel.
The bone spikes that were filled with barbs were all stuck between the joints of the Tiger Dragon’s spine.
It gave the Tiger Dragon a deep taste of having its lumbar intervertebral disc protruding.
The Tiger Dragon was in so much pain that it jumped up and down.
It no longer cared about its principle of not coming into close contact with undead creatures.
It ruthlessly swung down its tiger claw that was the size of a cattail leaf fan.
In an instant, the brains of the two undead creatures that were clinging to it were smashed into pieces.
However, the Blood Flower fungus cl.u.s.ter that was parasitic on the two undead creatures took the opportunity to spread to the Tiger Dragon’s body.
Moreover, the severed tail of the second undead creature seemed to have a life of its own as the Blood Flower fungi controlled it. The tail turned into a scarlet venomous snake and continued to drill into the Tiger Dragon’s waist.
Not only were the Tiger Dragon’s sharp claws not suitable for precise operations such as “lumbar surgery,” even if it wanted to grab the undead creature’s tail that was shaking nonstop and drag out the d*mned intruder, but the Tiger Dragonwould not be able to do anything either.
The tail was already interlocked with Tiger Dragon’s spine, and it would probably break the latter’s spine.
At that moment, the third undead creature, which looked like three or four Demonic Halberd Pigs were charging forward like a giant reptile.
“Hu!”
The upper half of the Tiger Dragon’s body was corroded by the Blood Floor fungi, and it seemed to be out of its control.
It was as thick as a water bucket and twenty to thirty meters long. Its lower body was like an anaconda, still possessing unbridled destructive power.
At the end of its slightly expanded tail, hundreds of bone spikes popped out, turning its tail into an extremely large meteor hammer. With the speed of sound, it swung toward the third undead creature.
This undead creature did not have the ability to fight back at all.
In an instant, it was smashed into a skin bag as thin as a cicada’s wings.
However, the moment it was smashed flat, it borrowed the other party’s pressure and shot out a large amount of yellowish-brown, dark-green, dark-purple… multicolored mucus from its body cavity.
The mucus, which emitted a pungent smell, struck its head, splashing onto the Tiger Dragon’s head and body.
The Tiger Dragon itself contained strong acids and poison.
It was not afraid of the corrosion of most acids and poisonous fog, yet the colorful mucus made the Tiger Dragon scream in pain.
It struggled and danced crazily as if it had fallen into an invisible pot of oil.
As for the Blood Flower fungi cl.u.s.ters attached to its body, the colorful mucus stimulated their growth like nutrient fluids full of spirit energy.
Soon, the cl.u.s.ters turned into a layer of dense red hair that spread around the Tiger Dragon’s body. It covered the Tiger Dragon’s magnificent golden fur and scales.
The last undead creature, the giant meatball that seemed to be a malignant tumor, finally rolled over.
One could see that the Tiger Dragon was most wary of the “malignant tumor.”
It would rather let go of the other three undead creatures’ frenzied corrosion. It waved its tiger claws crazily and released streaks of crisscrossing golden strikes, trying to sweep the “malignant tumor” dozens of meters away.
However, as the red hair gradually covered its tiger head, boa body, and serpentine tail like a red flood, its strength and rhythm also decreased at a speed visible to the naked eye.
With the help of its flagella and tentacles, the “malignant tumor” spun around randomly—sometimes left, sometimes right, sometimes front, and sometimes back, as though it was moving in a random brown motion. It was impossible to lock onto it.
At last, when the Tiger Dragon waved its claws, it slowed down by another step.
An ear-piercing screech suddenly erupted from the “malignant tumor’s” body.
The screech, which carried a mental attack, not only made the Tiger Dragon shiver, but it even opened nine air holes below the “malignant tumor,” which released nine powerful air currents.
With the help of the air currents’ reverse thrust, the speed of the “malignant tumor” increased by at least 300%.
It leaped up high and jumped on top of the Tiger Dragon’s head.
The Tiger Dragon then hurriedly waved its claws.
Pa!
It never occurred to anyone that when the Tiger Dragon’s claws touched the rapidly expanding meatball, the “malignant tumor” would explode next to the Tiger Dragon’s head.
It was like a suicide bomber that had sacrificed itself, but it had used the Demonic Halberd Pigs’ organs, which had been contaminated by the Blood Flower fungi cl.u.s.ter. They acted as biochemical weapons once they were sprayed onto the Tiger Dragon’s head and torso.
The bulging organs of the monsters, which had been covered in the Blood Flower fungi cl.u.s.ter, seemed to be extremely weird. They wriggled and spread crazily on the Tiger Dragon’s body. Together with the blood-red mycelium that had “landed” a long time ago, the Tiger Dragon was fully covered.