Otherworldly Desert Dust-Chapter 534 - 489: The Largest Corpse Tide
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On the wasteland wilderness, gray-green toxic rivers cut across the undulating land, corrupted forests, blood-colored factories, towns turned into nests...
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Everything has been polluted, and even the soil and vegetation seem to have sprouted the Devil's Buds, predatorily eyeing any living thing that passes by.
On this terrifying wilderness, there is a huge landmass moving like the ocean, and from afar, it looks like a boiling, black-red ocean of oil at high temperatures.
When you get closer, it turns out to be an enormous Hell Furnace. Within this furnace are Corpse Mountains, Corpse Forests, Bone Mountains, Bone Forests, with billions of Corpse People flowing, forming a shockingly horrifying scene that would cause any living person to mentally collapse.
It's as if a planet of the walking dead collided with this wasteland, and all such zombified creatures on it began to sweep across, leaving no grass or soil unconsumed where they passed.
The largest Corpse Tide, with a diameter of a thousand miles, has lust for slaughter reaching the heavens, forming an atmosphere of hatred that corrodes all living matter, not to mention humans—even an earthworm would zombify in a very short time!
The Corpse Tide moves not slowly; it's like a typhoon in the homeland, sweeping over otherworldly lands with speeds of hundred kilometers per hour, its destructiveness tens of thousands times that of natural disasters.
This greatest Corpse Tide is a terror of otherworldly proportions, unlikely to be unraveled for hundreds of years!
"A thousand-mile diameter, it's almost the size of a province back home. I can't even imagine how terrible it would be if this Corpse Tide appeared in our homeland." Wu Hen stood atop a towering Snow Mountain.
From the summit of Snow Mountain, what Wu Hen saw was a world mad with corpses, shrouded in a dense atmosphere of hatred, like gazing upon a terrifying planet.
"That small Corpse Tide trapped us for four or five days; this one in front of us is thirty times that size. If we go in, can we live to walk out?" Lu Xian was already pale with fright.
Compared to Hell, she would rather go down right now than come into contact with this Corpse Tide.
"I... I feel like vomiting." Taiya was already feeling unwell.
Luckily, the atmosphere of hatred had a visual haze, and the excessive density of the Corpse Tide presented a seascape view, making the fear of clusters less visually obvious. Otherwise, a glance from her would send her kicking and returning to the afterlife.
"Taiya, you need to be strong. Only an inheritor to Lan Guang Temple like you can face beings such as the Corpse Queen. Your temple has succumbed to illness, and Lan Guang Temple is entering a dark period. If you don't stand strong, who else can restore the temple's glory? When the internal struggle for Divine Power in the temple does not cease, you will return powerfully, holding the head of the Corpse Queen. Who then can criticize you?" Wu Hen was giving Taiya a harsh dose of reality as usual.
Mainly because Taiya had become dependent on Wu Hen's tough love; uncomfortable without his grand plans every day.
Taiya nodded, suppressing her physical reactions, "The future of Lan Guang Temple depends on me alone."
"That's right." Wu Hen was very pleased with Taiya's usual naivety—she was willing to buy into any grand narrative he spun and drank through her discomfort, truth be told Wu Hen quite liked such a new teammate.
"Lord Wu Tian, the Invisible War Car has finished absorbing. Shall we depart now?" Guo Hong inquired.
In Oasis City, Wu Hen had paid a great sum for an Invisible War Car.
This war car's shell was made of a special color-changing metal. The metal absorbed environmental particles from its surroundings, blending the entire vehicle into its environment, similar to a phantom tank.
The War Car, with the size of a recreational vehicle, had its front transformed into a gaping maw, its headlights like blood-red lanterns, and its wheels made of Transformable Metal, which could morph into powerful limbs of a monster car crawling through a Corpse Tide, or into crushing tracks, squashing tomatoes in the Corpse Tide.
Since they were entering a Corpse Country, walking was not feasible, the Invisible War Car could also merge with the horde of corpses, allowing those hiding inside to rest. As long as they had enough supplies, they could navigate freely in the Corpse Tide.
"Let's depart; we need to push deep into the center of the Corpse Tide, where the Corpse Queen resides," Wu Hen said.
"But we could easily get lost, right? Without any point of reference, we could spend months, even years, just circling the fringes of the Corpse Tide," Lu Xian said.
Determining direction was itself a difficult issue.
The sky was hidden by the massive atmosphere of hatred, and the vortex force of such scale could likely drag down satellites, so scouting from high altitude was impossible. On the ground, layers upon layers of Corpse Mountains and seas stretched endlessly, constantly shifting and changing, impossible to use as reference points.
"Don't worry, I can hear the direction," Wu Hen said confidently.
At Fifth-Rank Listening, Wu Hen had become half an adept at Hearing—focusing within this vast Corpse Tide, he could lock onto that unique Corpse King...
And as leaders of the Corpse Tides, these Kings were evenly distributed, like ancient marquises with their own territories.
Wu Hen just needed to use these Corpse Kings for directional guidance to reach the Nemo Point of the Corpse Tide.
Preparations complete!
The wheels of the Invisible War Car morphed into giant claws. It now resembled a towering monster car, striding on limbs through the flowing tide of corpses.
Corpse People had no sense of life or camaraderie.
Even when a claw struck down crushing several Corpse People, their companions showed no reaction.
Throughout their journey, hundreds of Corpse People were crushed into pulp beneath the war car, but relative to the entire tide, this made not the slightest difference; the horde still maintained the speed of an Africa animal stampede.
Once the war car fully entered the Corpse Tide, with no land in sight, Wu Hen had already begun brewing tea at the spacious front of the vehicle.
He once dreamed of traveling the world with a sword, parking his RV in a place with flowers and sea.
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The little dream of youth had come true in such a strange and unique way.
Driving a scenic vehicle through a sea of corpses, enjoying the billowing clouds of resentful spirits, gazing at the majestic waves of the Corpse Mountain, sipping a cup of tea; an inexplicable feeling of relaxation and comfort welled up within.
"Gaga gaga~~~~~~~"
The vehicle shook a few times, nearly causing Wu Hen to spill his tea.
"What's going on?" Lu Xian quickly asked.
The driver of the combat vehicle, Guo Hong, was nonchalant, "Just crushed a few hard bones."
"There seems to be a strange sight up ahead." Lu Xian took off the viewing instrument and spoke to the others.
"Let me see." Wu Hen took the viewing instrument. Without using Spiritual Vision, he had to rely on these devices.
After putting on the viewing instrument, Wu Hen's visual accuracy increased, and the once-blurry distant objects gradually became clear.
Objects were rising from the ground, towering far above the horizon of the Corpse Tide.
Furthermore, large chunks of material were floating on the horizon of the Corpse Tide, looking a bit like—streets?
How could there be streets on the horizon of the Corpse Tide?
As the Invisible War Car drew near, Wu Hen realized those rising objects were actually skewed buildings.
Streets? Buildings??
Had the Corpse People evolved a sense of urbanization, even building residential communities on top of the rapidly moving waves of the dead?
But very quickly, Wu Hen dismissed this bizarre conjecture.
Houses, skyscrapers, streets, slabs of steel-reinforced concrete, shattered glass, and abandoned cars…
More and more floating debris from a destroyed city emerged ahead. The wreckage of a city, floating like shattered pieces of a ship on the sea.
Wu Hen couldn't help but sigh at such a scene.
Clearly, there had been a city in the path of the fast-moving Corpse Tide. It had been swallowed up not long ago, and its fate was to be reduced to fragments of buildings, streets, steel bars, bridges, indistinguishable from the large chunks of wooden eaves and broken beams within the vast flow, just that the scene was shockingly tragic.
It was as if a city had been disassembled into countless pieces and then carried away by the Corpse Tide, drifting into an unknown abyss.
"It's the remains of a city, we can't avoid it. Let's drive straight through," Wu Hen told the driver, Guo Hong.
"That would require switching to the track mode," Guo Hong nodded in agreement.
Activating the track mode of the Invisible War Car, the wheels resembling monstrous claws quickly retracted, and the durable treads started to move. This lowered the vehicle's overall height closer to the "ground," slowing the speed of the car, but allowed it to better avoid the oncoming city debris.
The Corpse Tide was already fast, and the vehicle was going against its flow.
Thus, the shattered buildings and streets were coming at high speed, and Guo Hong, piloting the Invisible War Car, began to weave deftly through them, like a top driver in an off-road obstacle race.
Watching the giant ruins whizz by on either side of the combat vehicle, Taiya and Lu Xian tensed up. They felt as if they were dreaming—how else could they find themselves in such an absurd scenario, racing on a Corpse Tide or playing a game of dodgeball with debris from a city.
"Uh!!!!!!!!"
Suddenly, amidst a large expanse of city ruins, Wu Hen heard a roar.
The roar was at the ultrasound level, undetectable to those without Auditory Awakening. In fact, the roaring noises of the Corpse People in the Corpse Tide had also become a powerful ultrasonic explosion, swirling with the Corpse Tide Vortex Force in the atmosphere. As his Hearing grew stronger, Wu Hen felt that the Corpse Tide Vortex Force might be formed by those ghastly howls.
Wu Hen could sensitively filter out the ultrasonic vortex of Corpse Howls while catching the voice of the Corpse King. The frequency of the Corpse King's roar was very distinct because if it had to command the movement of the Corpse Tide, its voice had to be different from the other Corpse People.
"There's a Corpse King in the city ruins, and it might be able to smell us hiding in the vehicle... We need to deal with it," Wu Hen said.
"Go out and fight?" Lu Xian was already covered in goosebumps.
"It might already be ordering the horde to intercept us; we need to act fast and decisively," Wu Hen decisively drew out a silk ribbon.
Without waiting for Taiya to speak, Wu Hen tied the silk ribbon over Taiya's eyes, transforming her into the Light-blind Girl.
"In a moment, wherever I say to attack, just bomb it. Her Highness, the temple concubine, the human-shaped Light Cannon," Wu Hen said.
"Mm!" Taiya obediently nodded her head.
With her eyes covered, she felt completely secure; she wasn't afraid of anything anymore!
