After eliminating the living dead that had rushed into the hall and arranging for the only seriously injured person to be transported away, Tie Zha’s mind moved. The scouting ants that were lurking around immediately flapped their wings and flew into the power generation room. They danced in the air and crawled on the machine, quickly returning the situation inside to Tie Zha’s mind.

Through the thick stone wall, Tie Zha could vaguely “see” a group of living dead, about twenty. He didn’t dare to tempt them with ants, because Alvar had said that the living dead would act together and move their entire bodies.

A few minutes later, Tie Zha returned to the main hall and informed Alva about the situation in the generator room.

“Blow them to death.” The Black Pig King, who was standing at the side, suggested in a rough voice.

“No … I can’t.” Alva hurriedly waved his hand and explained. Although the hearing of the living dead was limited, if a large-scale explosion occurred, the living dead on the lower floor would be alarmed and rush up following the sound. Not to mention whether they can deal with the entire refuge’s living dead at once, if the explosion causes a landslide, the rescue operation will immediately turn into a pit operation …

“Then what should we do? We don’t have much bullets left.” The Black Pig King crossed his chest and asked with a frown. Just now, in order to kill a few living dead, each of them had conducted at least five rounds of shooting. If they used up more ammunition on this, it wouldn’t be long before they would engage in a hand-to-hand battle.

“One step at a time.” Tie Zha quickly made his decision. Afterwards, he arranged everyone’s formation and led the living dead out of the hall. Then, he used the advantage of open terrain and speed to exhaust them.

After cleaning up the generator room, Alva immediately brought a few members with knowledge of electricity to inspect the generator set and try to start it.

Meanwhile, Tie Zha arrived at the entrance of the stairs. This was a stone staircase that circled downwards. Under his control, the soldier ants tilted down like flowing water and flowed deep underground. In the silence, hundreds of tiny knuckles lightly tapped on the stone surface, giving off a soft rustling sound.

He left fifty on each floor and drilled into the cracks, while the rest continued to dig deeper into the ground. However, his movements were quickly obstructed. The stairs between the third and fourth floors had collapsed, and the ant colonies were unable to pass through. Shortly after, a soldier ant wandering on the third floor discovered that the elevator entrance had been forcefully pried open, so Tie Zha gathered a colony of ants and went down the elevator shaft on the third floor. However, just as the ant colony left the elevator on the fourth floor, it encountered a large number of living dead people. They were stupefied at the elevator entrance on the fourth floor. As soon as more than 50 soldiers from Tie Zha rushed out, they were surrounded and killed.

Fortunately, a few soldiers escaped the attack of the living dead and flew to the ceiling. Through their field of vision, they could see that the exit of the elevator was a narrow passageway, about the width of five to six adults walking side by side. At first glance, the passageway was packed with living dead people, and there were at least fifty of them. However, this was not the most shocking thing. If one looked closely, one could see that one of the living dead was especially tall and sturdy. It was about three meters tall, and its head had already reached the ceiling. Therefore, it could only stoop its back. According to Alva, this should be the leader of the living dead, commonly known as the “Corpse King”, with a certain IQ. The living dead would normally gather around it and act in unison with it.

At one end of the passage was the dining hall, and at the other end was a tightly shut metal door. Most of the living dead were facing the door, as if there was something they were interested in.

Tie Zha commanded the soldiers on the ceiling to quietly climb closer, trying to find a gap to the back of the metal door. Suddenly, several black shadows jumped up from nowhere. Sensing the abnormal flow of air, the crawling soldier’s antennae suddenly stood up and flew vigilantly. However, it hadn’t even flown half a meter when a black hand appeared in the sky and grabbed it!

“Squeak!” The next second, it let out a miserable scream and was crushed into pieces by the dense teeth.

Tie Zha felt a pain in his brain and couldn’t help but frown. These agile little things, commonly known as “corpse monkeys”, were another variant of the living dead. Although their bodies weren’t strong, they were extremely flexible and difficult to aim at.

Seeing that the road ahead was blocked, Tie Zha stopped his reconnaissance, withdrew his soldiers and ordered them to drill into the ventilation pipes connected to the elevator shaft. However, not long after they climbed out, the pipe in front of them broke. Judging from the traces on the scene, they might have been blown up by a grenade not long ago.

Tie Zha could only temporarily abandon the fourth floor and focus on investigating the second and third floors. Not long after, he discovered that there were no traces of human movement on the second and third floors. Apart from a pile of living dead people gathered in front of the elevator door on the third floor, there was no movement anywhere else. It seemed that the expedition team did not explore the second and third floors, but directly went down to the fourth floor. In order to confirm this, he sent the soldiers back to the collapse of the stone staircase.

The rubble here was a little loose, and the ants climbing on it would bring up some dust. All the signs indicated that the landslide had only recently been caused. From this, it could be seen that the expedition team was attacked by a group of corpses while walking between the third and fourth floors, to the extent that they accidentally or intentionally blew up the stone stairs. As for the ventilation duct, it was probably to prevent the Corpse Monkey from chasing after him.

After thinking about the situation clearly, the soldiers had died seven to eight times. Tie Zha returned to the power room and asked about the progress of Alva’s repairs.

“The generator set is in good condition. However, some of the circuit boards are aging. It may take another half an hour for manual soldering.” Alvarez reports.

“Hurry up, we don’t have much time left.” Tie Zha urged, then told everyone about the situation below.

‘”After activating the power system, we can take the elevator down. However …” Alva hesitated for a moment and analyzed. “According to your investigation, there is a group of living dead people led by the Corpse King gathered at the elevator entrance. I’m afraid that we are no match for them. Furthermore, the place is narrow. We can only charge out of the elevator and fight them in close proximity. This is completely disadvantageous to us.”

“Yes.” Tie Zha nodded in agreement. He and the Wild Boar King might still be able to face the living dead head-on, but it was hard for others to say.

“I don’t know how strong your close combat abilities are, but killing ten of my brothers is not bad.” Alva estimated.

“You guys are too weak. I can kill ten of these damn things by myself.” The Black Pig King, who had been silent all this while, spoke.

‘”I … I can kill a corpse monkey …” Lilith crouched on the ground and drew circles. She said embarrassedly.

“I’m about the same as the Black Pig King.” Said Tie Zha. Although he could quickly kill a living dead person with the help of a hidden parasite, the prerequisite was that his knuckles could pierce into the abdomen of the living dead person and directly inject parasite cells into the abdomen of the living dead person. Moreover, he wasn’t completely confident, because his previous target was already dead corpses. In addition, with the brute force of a living dead person, if he used such a method of combat, his knuckles would be broken very quickly.

Based on the current situation, apart from the Corpse King, they could only deal with 30 of them at full capacity. What should they do with the remaining 20?

While Tie Zha was deep in thought, Hagrid was sitting in the corner of the cabin on the fourth basement, closing his eyes to rest. When he and Tang De came down that day, they soon found that the stairs from the third floor to the fourth floor were blocked, so they pried open the elevator door and went down from the third floor to the fourth floor.

After prizing open the elevator door again, they immediately discovered that there were a large number of living dead people gathered in front of the cabin door, unable to pass through. Looking at the traces around him, he quickly deduced that the expedition team was trapped inside.

In order to save them, he and Tang De decided to separate the corpses and bring the Corpse King to another place. However, in practice, they accidentally alerted the living dead on the third and fifth floors. As a result, they swarmed over and blocked the entrances to the elevators on the third and fifth floors. Helplessly, they had no choice but to abandon their plan and hide in the ventilation pipes. After that, a large number of living dead followed him. In order to cut off his pursuit, he used shard grenades to blow up the pipes behind him and then fled into the accommodation cabin.

The members of the expedition were mostly here, but they were running out of water and food.

He had also been trapped here for three days, and the water and food he had brought had been divided up. According to his previous arrangements, Tie Zha should be on his way back by now. Thinking of this, he felt much more at ease.

Actually, from the moment he arrived at the southern cemetery, he hadn’t thought about how long he would live. He just couldn’t die without any value. He was a warrior and Northas. If he couldn’t pursue the Holy Flame and extend his bloodline, then it would add to Northas’ glory.

Twenty years later, his heart was still unable to calm down. He still remembered everything that happened that day. His beautiful home, dearest one, was gone overnight …

He bore a deep grudge against the sea of blood, but he was helpless. The heart-wrenching pain tortured him every night. It was as if he had been cursed. He could not live the life of an ordinary person, nor could he fall in love with anyone. Ever since the death of the raven, he was even more lonely. No one in this world could share his pain. He could not tell anyone, could not forget, could not not not hate, so the longer he lived, the more painful he felt.

“Boss, what should we do next?” In his thoughts, a tall and thin man in his thirties crouched down beside him and asked softly. His name was Quinn, nicknamed Poisonous Fang, and he was a friend he had brought over from Sand Wind Castle.

“What else can we do? If we really can’t, we’ll charge out and fight them.” Hagrid said casually.

“Sorry, I’m the one who dragged you down.” As he spoke, Quinn lowered his head and buried his thin face between his knees.

“Don’t forget, you saved me too.” Hagrid said as he hugged Quinn’s shoulder.

“But …” “Nothing. We’re brothers. If we want to die, we’ll die together.” As soon as Quinn spoke, Hagrid interrupted him roughly.

“Yes.” Quinn looked up at his old friend and nodded firmly. He had done many things he regretted in his life, but the only thing he had never regretted was making this friend.