Chapter 44 Corpse Explosion, Sacrifice

After finding the base of the Death Hand Bandits, everyone spent some time changing into the standard equipment of the Shrek Supervisory Group.

Everyone was dressed in dark green clothes. It could not be said that Shrek Academy had made no progress at all in the past ten thousand years. At least the shit green aesthetic had been slightly modified.

However, the set of leather armor equipped by the Shrek Supervisory Group only has physical capabilities roughly equivalent to the Soul Master level, which is better than nothing.

Although the areas covered by this leather armor can provide a certain degree of defense against physical blows and soul power attacks.

However, this kind of clothing, which is made solely by relying on the advantages of materials, is not as defensive as a real soul guide shield when facing those tricky or all-pervasive soul skills because it is not completely integrated.

In addition to the tight leather armor and cloak, he was also equipped with a cloak with the same defensive capabilities. However, in Huo Yuhao's opinion, the cloak's effect of hindering movement far outweighed its defensive effect.

As for the mask on his face, it really has no other function except covering his face. It might be better if it was made into a gas mask that could completely block out the outside world.

The operation officially began only after everyone was dressed. However, they were changing clothes right in front of someone else's lair. If the enemy's scouts were better, I'm afraid all the Shrek people would have been wiped out by now.

"This mission is mainly based on the regular team. Dai Yuheng, you will command the frontal battle, and I will be responsible for commanding and protecting the reserve team."

"Okay, Teacher Wang." Dai Yuheng nodded, and the other members of the regular team except Ma Xiaotao also followed Dai Yuheng and acted quickly.

Ma Xiaotao, the strongest member, is in the center of the formation. Given Ma Xiaotao's strength and personality, she is always so self-centered even when she is not the captain.

It was impossible for her to obey the command of Dai Yuheng, who was weaker than herself, because she had absolute confidence in her own strength.

Everyone attached their martial spirits to their bodies, and with the help of soul power, they moved towards the target location silently and quickly.

At this time, the night has faded and is approaching dawn. The sky is slightly brighter. This is the time when humans are most sleepy physiologically. Although their body structures are different, ordinary people in Douluo Continent also follow this rule.

Huo Yuhao used the ability of the Eye of Truth to see through layers of obstructions and watched as the regular team at the front killed all the guarding and alert bandits.

At the same time, Huo Yuhao's spiritual erosion was launched silently, subtly influencing and hinting at Dai Yueheng.

It did not directly control Dai Yuheng's actions, but gradually influenced Dai Yuheng's subsequent judgment and fighting style from the subconscious.

Dai Yaoheng, Chen Zifeng and Xixi took the lead, Ma Xiaotao was in the middle to coordinate, Gong Yangmo released his soul skills behind Ma Xiaotao to bless everyone, while Ling Luochen and Yao Haoxuan were at the end of the team.

In the reserve team, Xu Sanshi was at the front, Beibei and Jiang Nannan were on the left and right sides, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Ning Tian, ​​and Xiao Xiao were in the middle, and Wang Yan followed closely behind Huo Yuhao and the other three, covering the rear and protecting the four weakest members.

At the entrance of the cave, there were five or six bandits lying in a mess. The wounds on their bodies were charred, but they were not burns. They must have been killed instantly by Xixi.

There was a fierce battle sound coming from the cave. Wang Yan said in a deep voice, "We must have been discovered. Let's go in. Everyone, be careful."

"So why was there so much tension and lurking and being quiet before? Among the seven soul masters, there is only one agile attack type, and that one is a lightning agile attack type. If it was a Nether Spirit Cat that could hide and lurk, it would be fine. Can't we just charge in head-on?"

Huo Yuhao was somewhat speechless. "And judging by the situation, the Death Messenger must be a fool to have shown his head to fight with you. If he was a real scoundrel, wouldn't he have run away long ago? And why didn't you arrange other people to surround and guard him to prevent him from escaping?"

As the saying goes, it's no good meddling in other people's business when the dog is trying to catch the rat. This is exactly what the Shrek Supervisory Group is talking about. The martial soul configuration and soul skill combinations of the Shrek students are all for frontal combat, commonly known as the fighting arena type. As a result, they were sent out to suppress bandits in such a complex terrain. It is no wonder that they suffered heavy casualties.

If Huo Yuhao himself was the messenger of death, in addition to the corpse explosion technique, he could have equipped more traps to lure people. He would probably be able to keep all of these people here intact, and it would be impossible for them to have a head-on confrontation with the people from the Shrek Supervisory Group.

Anyway, to the members of the Hand of Death bandit gang, except for the messenger of death, everyone else is just a puppet controlled by them.

Even the other soul masters in the bandit group were the same. They wouldn't feel sad if they all died, because as long as the messenger of death was still there, they could easily recruit another batch.

After entering the cave, it was quite spacious inside. After walking for a distance, there were scattered corpses lying on the ground. Judging from their clothes, they were obviously members of the bandit group.

In addition to these fresh corpses, there was also a strong smell of blood, which came from the stone walls on both sides of the cave. There were more than a dozen human skins hanging on the walls.

However, in Huo Yuhao's real eyes, this human skin is just human skin. Unlike those corpses with alien soul power buried in their bodies, it is probably just some strange hobby of the messenger of death.

In addition to human skin, there were also fresh corpses of babies pierced and hung on the stalactites at the top of the cave, and the blood flowing from the corpses just dripped onto Jiang Nannan's body.

Seeing this, everyone except Huo Yuhao changed their expressions, and Jiang Nannan screamed.

However, from Huo Yuhao’s perspective, corpses? Human skin? Blood? These were all directly separated by him through his true eyes. Who would have a physiological reaction to a bunch of cells piled together?
"This baby's body has no soul power fluctuations either. Everything is normal. But for an evil soul master, isn't this a resource? It's such a waste. No wonder you are only a soul king."

In fact, for the members of the reserve team and Wang Yan, they had seen a lot of corpses and blood. After all, the battle between soul masters was bound to be bloodless, and they had seen even more corpses when hunting soul beasts.

The reaction at this time is more of an instinctive reaction of feeling grief for one's own kind.

But for soul masters, what is the difference between what they do to soul beasts and what evil soul masters do? Hunting soul beasts to obtain their flesh and blood for nourishment, and absorbing soul rings to break through their own cultivation, aren't these all pulling out tendons and skin, refining souls and taking away spirits?

But as high-ranking soul masters and the vested interest class, they don’t care. All they want is a concept that they agree with.

This is not wrong, or rather, this is the reality of Douluo Continent, a social structure that cannot be defined by concepts from other worlds.

For the strong people who grew up in this world, the stronger they become, the more their egos will expand. They will try to make up for their values ​​that are only for satisfying themselves. It can never be me who is wrong, it can only be others.

Soon, everyone adjusted themselves, but their eyes were filled with anger. However, no one knew whether this anger really came from the heart or whether they were just angry for the sake of being angry.

Wang Yan said, "Come on, these people are all evil. Don't be soft-hearted. Killing one of them may save countless others."

As they went deeper, the traces and noises of the battle became more and more intense, and everyone became more and more nervous. Wang Yan's words at this time shocked everyone, but also calmed everyone's emotions and they were no longer so nervous.

By the time they reached the open terrain ahead, they should have been close to the center of the cave. They saw soul rings and soul skills flashing alternately, illuminating the dim and narrow cave to the point of being dazzling.

The most ferocious killers at this time were Dai Yaoheng and Ma Xiaotao.

Beside Ma Xiaotao, golden-red hot flames were erupting wildly. Every eruption would take the lives of several or even dozens of people.

How could these low-powered soul masters in the Death Hand Bandits, or even just ordinary bandits, be qualified to confront the regular team head-on?

Dai Yaoheng rushed the deepest and stopped dozens of bandits alone. Under the command of Dai Yaoheng, the others were located near the cave passage and did not go deep, but only provided assistance.

Gong Yang Mo's colorful light burst out from his body and fell on Dai Yueheng and Ma Xiaotao. Since only two people needed to be assisted, it seemed quite easy.

Ling Luochen and Yao Haoxuan cooperated with Dai Yuheng to suppress the bandits who rushed out, making them gather at the entrance of the passage and unable to rush out.

Xixi was beside Gong Yangmo to provide support. It was obvious that the current tactical situation did not allow her, a quick attack soul master, to have any chance to intervene.

At this time, Dai Yaoheng was the only one blocking the entrance for the bandits to rush out, and cooperating with Ma Xiaotao's long-range offensive to carry out indiscriminate slaughter of the bandits.

Now, those ordinary bandits without soul power have been almost slaughtered. The corpses are piled up beside Dai Yueheng and blood is flowing like a river. However, in Huo Yuhao's eyes, these are just ordinary bandits, but there is a dark and evil soul power hidden in their bodies.

The other bandits all had bloodshot eyes at this time, obviously stimulated by some kind of soul skill. Even though a large number of their companions around them died, they still fought to the death.

While Huo Yuhao was watching from the sidelines, he continued to strengthen the effect of mental cannibalism on Dai Yueheng.

Because Dai Yuheng blocked the passage for the bandits to come out, even though the bandits were numerous and powerful at this time, they could not break through Dai Yuheng's obstruction, and the reserve team could not move forward either.

After all, in addition to those weaker bandits, there are three Soul King-level strongmen among these bandits. Although they all have soul rings of garbage years, they have white rings as the base, yellow rings as the main, and purple rings as the foil, and there are no black rings.

For safety reasons, Wang Yan said to the reserve team, "Long-range attack assistance, don't disturb Dai Yuheng's arrangements. You should adapt to the real battlefield situation here first."

Everyone in the reserve team nodded. Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan, who had no means of long-range attack, were responsible for protecting Huo Yuhao and the other four weaker second-year students. Xiao Xiao's San Sheng Soul-Suppressing Cauldron split into three parts and surrounded the people in the back, ready to respond at any time.

Ning Tian, ​​like Gong Yangmo, assisted Dai Yuheng. Although the current battle situation could only be said to be better than nothing, after all, Ma Xiaotao could not use the enhancement of strength and speed now.

Bei Bei and Wang Dong followed Ma Xiaotao's example and used long-range soul skills to bombard the bandits who were blocked at the entrance of the passage. Both of them had very good soul ring configurations, and the damage and power of these attacks were quite considerable.

However, when Huo Yuhao saw through his true eyes that the soul power in the corpses on both sides of Dai Yueheng was beginning to become restless, he knew that something big was about to happen.

After rushing in, in addition to the corpses piled up on both sides of the passage, there were also a few scattered corpses in the cave where Shrek and his group were. However, the amount of soul power contained in these corpses was such that even if an explosion occurred, it would not have much impact on the people who were in good condition.

Along with the massacre of a large number of bandits, a Soul King-level bandit leader also died at the hands of Dai Yueheng. Then a cold and sharp voice rang out from the depths of the cave.

"Damn it, who are you? How dare you go against me, the messenger of death!"

"You are all going to die! You are all going to become my corpse slaves!"

The other party's speech at this moment clearly revealed that he was the person that the Shrek Supervisory Group was looking for in this mission, the leader of the Hand of Death bandit group, the Messenger of Death.

Just by hearing this voice, the remaining bandits began to tremble all over, the blood-red light in their eyes faded, and after the influence of the berserk type spirit skills subsided, fear took over their bodies and minds.

Without the time to deal with the spirit skills of Shrek and his group, these bandits hurriedly retreated into the passage despite being injured and enduring the attacks.

Beside Dai Yaoheng, the bodies of the bandits who had been killed and thrown aside because they were in the way were growing at an alarming speed.

"This is... I seem to have remembered something." In Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea, the old voice of Alex sounded, which also meant that Alex had recovered the most critical part of his memory at this time.

However, it was too late for Huo Yuhao to respond to Alex’s will. He used his soul power to activate his fourth-order soul guide, the Glazed Shield. A spherical blue soul shield completely enveloped the reserve team in the rear.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom..." Following the expansion of the corpse, violent explosions sounded, and the explosions were mainly concentrated in the front half of the cave, near the entrance.

In addition to the direct power caused by the explosion, what was even more terrifying was the dark blood mist that spread after the corpses exploded, which contained an extremely terrifying corpse poison.

If someone is infected by this corpse poison after death, his or her corpse will become new material for the corpse explosion spell.

(End of this chapter)