Chapter 16 Zombie Horde <TOC> Chapter 18 Water Dispute
Translator: SumTLMan
Faced with the sudden appearance of the zombie, Li Mu didn’t swing his knife to chop but instead blew a whistle.
Due to the relationship with the Sun Spring, his psychic energy wasn’t exhausted so he was able to clearly feel a certain abnormal and eerie psychic energy infiltrating his brain.
This zombie was the phantom created by that Ascendant Diver, who was disturbing his sense of smell and vision!
The zombie suddenly pulled something out from his waist and then roared, aiming his hand at the horde of zombies that were rushing up below.
“Get down!”
“Boom!”
A loud explosion, as if a grenade had been detonated indoors, led to a fierce explosion which erupted in the middle of the horde of zombies, and in an instant, over twenty zombies were blown to pieces as their limbs and pus were splattered everywhere.
“Such destruction.”
Li Mu was shocked by the destructive power of this shot, and under the impact of psychic energy, the figure of the zombie became blurred and turned back into the appearance of Li Mei.
A sharp falcon cry suddenly came from the sky, and the Fei Lian in the sky fell at a shocking speed, turning into a pale blue phantom, like a diving bomber.
It opened its powerful wings and scooped its claws on the roof of a ruin, then flapped its wings and rose up, soaring into the sky.
Li Mu raised his arm and the Fei Lian flew into the building, dropped the prey from high up that it had already captured to its death on the ground, and perched on his arm.
That was a very ordinary looking snake, which should have originally been a spearhead viper that had adapted to the post-apocalyptic environment, with regular triangular markings distributed on its gray body. The head looked like the tip of a very fierce spear.
Fei Lian’s sharp talons directly grabbed its head, killing it with one strike.
Li Mei used the gun barrel to poke the snake that was still wriggling on the ground. She could feel that a very gloomy psychic energy was slowly dissipating. She originally thought of killing it from a distance, but she didn’t expect Fei Lian to easily complete the hunting and killing.
“It is indeed that Ascendant Diver, who was caught dead by Fei Lian before he could react. If it is allowed to continue to grow in the wilderness and seize a more powerful body, it may repeat the zombie disaster of thirty years ago.”
Low-level Ascendant Divers, when they first enter the wasteland world, usually choose to take the bodies of small animals such as snakes, lizards, or birds because they are not strong enough. They can absorb power from the Source Ocean day and night to strengthen themselves and then take more powerful bodies. This cycle repeats until they become disasters in the wasteland world.
Those powerful Ascendant Divers will no longer be able to die even if the possessed body is destroyed, and can directly possess other bodies or even reside in inanimate objects.
“I was thinking of using the psychic energy beam to reverse lock it, but I didn’t expect Fei Lian to complete the hunt alone,” Li Mei said.
A small snake is too inconspicuous in the wilderness, especially in the dark of night.
Li Mei was a little envious. Mutated creatures are usually difficult to tame, especially the formidable falcons, which are usually unyielding and stubborn when being tamed.
“Can it be eaten?” Li Mu’s mind floated the worm that he had swallowed when he first crossed as he tentatively asked.
“This snake was just possessed by the Ascendant Diver, and after death, it just goes back to becoming a common venomous snake,” Li Mei explained.
“Then…what if I were to swallow a live Ascendant Diver?” Li Mu’s heart lifted.
“That’s what an Ascendant Diver is most willing to see. It would be happy to exchange its body, swallow your soul, take over your body, and replace you in this world. No one would ever eat an Ascendant Diver alive. In fact, some Ascendant Divers will actively drill into the bodies of the dead to make it easier to invade the source,” Li Mei said, looking at Li Mu with some surprise.
“I just wanted to feed it to Fei Lian, in case it hasn’t died yet,” Li Mu cut off the snake’s head with a knife, picked up the snake’s tail, and lifted it up.
【Item detected, extracting…】
A string of black worm-like words slowly appeared below his field of vision.
【Loot: Excellent rating, legendary mount of the holy lord, summoned by the great existence】
A black divine horse appeared in the Exile Realm.
Li Mu suppressed the shock in his heart and fed the snake in his hand to Fei Lian.
“This deep-diving creature is not strong enough, its essence dissipates after being impacted. Unfortunately, deep-divers are not like descenders, the harvest is very little after finishing a hunt, only third-level existences can a holy relic be peeled off from their souls.”
Li Mei said.
“Your wounds need to be treated as soon as possible.”
Li Mu was already very careful, but while fighting with zombies, he was still left with many scratch marks on his body, leaving his flesh torn, and his body suit being torn apart.
Some wounds have already begun to turn purple and black, which is a sign that the bacteria and toxins from a zombie’s body has started to infect his own.
Li Mei took the water bottle, carefully poured a little Sun Spring water on the towel, and wiped the wounds.
Under the infiltration of Sun Spring water, those wounds quickly returned to a normal shade of skin color with fresh blood gushing out from the wounds, and after a moment, even the blood stopped seeping out.
Admiring the magic of Sun Spring water again, Li Mei covered the bottle with the lid and returned the water bottle to Li Mu.
“This water bottle is a wonder, it can produce a certain amount of magical fluid every day. This ability is too practical, don’t expose it to others. Even third-level existences will not be able to resist robbing you.”
Only a few awakeners above the third level can make wonders, they can forge the holy relic with various materials, or directly beat the holy relic into desired objects.
The strange and various abilities of wonders are mostly determined by the holy relic.
Li Mu originally had a headache about how to explain the origin of his Sun Spring, but he did not expect Li Mei to find a reason all on her own for him, allowing him to take advantage of the situation.
“This is a treasure passed down from my ancestors, it can automatically fill a bottle of Sun Spring water every day.”
He drank a sip of Sun Spring, and a flow of heat came from his wounds, speeding up his recovery.
“You should rest first, I will be on duty later tonight.”
Li Mei held the rifle in her arms, sat against the wall, showing that the zombie bodies on the ground in front of her had no effect on her.
Fighting with zombies consumes a lot of physical energy, even with the Sun Spring to boost morale and recovery, Li Mu is still exhausted.
He burrowed into his sleeping bag as his eyelids soon became heavy and could not be lifted. Continuous thoughts kept popping up in his mind, tormenting him and making it impossible for him to fall asleep.
【Who am I really? Are all my memories real?】
“How can one distinguish if someone is an Ascendant Diver?”
Li Mu turned over.
“It’s difficult to distinguish. Ascendant Divers can inherit most of the memories from the one they originally possessed, and only high-level awakened psychic beings can detect abnormalities in their souls. Not only do humans suffer from Ascendant Diver’s possession, but even descenders have had individuals whose bodies have been taken over by Ascendant Divers. “
Li Mei replied.
“However, they usually don’t stay hidden for long. Their desire for life is engraved in the depths of an Ascendant Diver’s soul, and they can acquire source essence through killing. It is difficult to restrain their instinct to kill. Almost all Ascendant Divers, no matter how well they disguise themselves, will be exposed due to their uncontrolled killing.
Whenever there is a celestial phenomenon where thr Source Ocean and our wasteland world overlap, the governors will perform a carpet search and hunt down Ascendant Divers, not giving them the chance to possess human beings.”