The treatment ended not long after.
However, several awakened individuals with lower talent levels still died here. These people had no visible injuries, but their brains had been completely consumed by that bizarre entity!
"It devours flesh, blood, and brains. What kind of strange life form is this?" Yang Shu frowned.
Zombies also ate people, but they were not picky eaters; they consumed whatever they encountered. This black mist, however, selectively consumed flesh, blood, and internal organs. It was truly monstrous.
What was even more terrifying was that, aside from light, fire, and lightning abilities, ordinary powers were useless against them!
Wang Luo shook his head. "The internal organs, flesh, and brains of those three people before were all eaten clean, leaving only a layer of skin and bones!"
"And this thing seems to be able to grow. I just don't know if it has other transformations and abilities!" Even Wang Luo felt a sense of unease. If the enemy could split into a dozen or so, it would be manageable. But if it grew to split into hundreds or thousands, it would become a thorny problem.
This was because the vast majority of abilities had no effect on such creatures. This meant that most awakened individuals were defenseless against the black mist. And within the base, how many awakened individuals possessed light, lightning, or fire abilities?
It was likely less than a tenth of the total!
"What happened in the underground world? Why did such creatures appear?"
"It seems I'll have to find an opportunity to capture some underground mutated beasts and question them!" If these things came from underground, they should know about it!
Following this, all awakened individuals in the base received another notice: in the future, they must be extremely cautious when engaging zombies, lest they fall victim to the schemes of those despicable creatures!
Meanwhile, at the volcano's crater, a group of zombies let out triumphant laughter upon hearing that human awakened individuals had died. In the current stage, it was incredibly difficult for them to kill even a single awakened individual.
[What a pity. If that bizarre entity weren't so few in number, we would have made the human base suffer heavy losses this time!]
[Forget it. Let's just pray we don't encounter that thing again!]
Even the zombies were reluctant to encounter those creatures. While humans and mutated beasts still had some means of resistance, they, the zombies, were at the mercy of those entities.
...
The fog continued to persist and would not cease in the short term. However, as time passed, no more strange things accompanied the mist.
During this period, some people did manage to obtain some valuable items. Unfortunately, apart from extraordinary materials, they did not recognize most of the items and dared not try them, especially after the appearance of the black mist. These strange objects were exchanged for supplies like cigarettes, alcohol, and fruits.
The zombie attacks also entered a phase of truce, as if waiting for something!
Wang Luo sat cross-legged in his room on the city wall, continuing to comprehend the laws. With the assistance of the celestial oddities, he had progressed from having no clue to having a faint sense of understanding.
Then, half a month later, with a roar, a pig-like mutated beast emerged from a large fissure. Upon discovering the base, it let out an excited bellow.
Immediately, it was stabbed in the neck by Zhou Yiming. Hot blood gushed out, and with another swing, the beast was cleaved in two.
"Haven't killed a pig in years, my skills have gotten rusty!" "How dare a mere SS-class legendary mutated beast harbor any ambitions towards our base!" Qi Sheng rode over on his mount, looking at the pig beast cut in half by Zhou Yiming and then at his own companion beneath him. He wondered, "Why are the mutated beasts from the underground world all so enormous? What do they eat to grow so large?" Even as a corpse, it lay there like a small mountain. Yet, his own mount was only slightly larger than an ordinary pig, and a bit stronger.
"What good is a large size? Their strength is weaker than the SS-class mutated beasts here!"
"How can it be useless? At least a large size means more meat!"
"Indeed, that's true! Hahaha, it seems the base won't be lacking mutated beast meat from now on!" Zhou Yiming licked his lips. Mutated beast meat was a rare delicacy! Since they couldn't hunt the base's mutated beasts, they had to rely on these underground ones! The meat from that Godzilla last time was truly unforgettable! Especially that giant python, which he had coveted for a long time, but the creature had never reappeared.
Mutated beasts began to emerge from the underground fissures, and so did the zombies! Both the volcano's crater and the underground fissures had become their entry points.
[Roar, roar, roar! The demigod powerhouses should be coming up soon, right?] A zombie asked a fellow zombie who had just emerged from the fissure. Once the demigod powerhouses appeared, this base would surely fall!
[The underground is currently launching a fierce assault, and the demigod powerhouses are still tied up. However, after this battle, all underground forces, except for the twenty powerful beings who have merged with world imprints, will become our zombie race!]
Hearing that the demigod powerhouses could not come, many zombies in the volcano were slightly disappointed!
[What about the humans above ground?] A zombie asked. The humans on the surface were making them extremely vexed and helpless!
[The humans underground, without supreme beings who have merged with world imprints, have suffered heavy casualties. I heard they are already seeking refuge with other races, but regardless, their fate will not be good!] Seek refuge with mutated beasts? The price would be to offer a large amount of blood food to the mutated beasts every year! If that continued, the humans in the underground world would eventually be unable to escape the fate of racial extinction. It wasn't just humans; many races in the underground world were in a similar situation. If they could not find powerful protectors, their only path would be to become zombies!
[But it won't be long now. At most one or two years, the war underground will be over!]
[One or two years? Dammit!] A zombie let out an angry roar. Wouldn't that mean this human base would take several more years to be destroyed? Such a long time was truly agonizing for them!
[We can completely lure those mutated beasts over to destroy this base. After all, mutated beasts have always looked down on weak humans!] The zombies who had just ascended from underground said.
[It's useless. We've tried that method before, but it failed!] And now, even with celestial oddities, it would likely be of no use! Those mutated beasts had probably already obtained celestial oddities from the mist. They likely had no time to concern themselves with celestial oddities elsewhere at this stage.
Indeed, as the zombies suspected, those mutated beasts that had obtained celestial oddities, upon sensing that nothing more was emerging from the mist, had already begun to comprehend the laws with the help of the celestial oddities. If they could seize this opportunity to step into the demigod realm, their strength would increase significantly! At that point, they would have a better chance of seizing any opportunity.
Just then, a roar echoed from a vast abyss fissure, and a half-orc angrily climbed out of the crack.