Chapter 158 Temporary Recruitment of Successors

The people surrounding them were not ragged, pale-looking human survivors, but undead with unfriendly expressions and full of hostility.

They wore purification masks and held various weapons. Some of them were even equipped with Hell Blood firearms specially designed for the undead.

The blood of the undead is different from that of humans and carries a special powerful power, which is called “ghost blood”.

The power of the underworld blood attached to gun bullets is extremely strong. The destructive power of a low-level underworld blood gun is comparable to that of an anti-material sniper rifle.

“Dude, this is a good harvest.” A leader of the wandering undead came out, with a long and narrow scar on his face, making him look particularly hideous.

Chris tightly grasped the long-handled axe gun in his hand and said in a deep voice: “You destroyed our car?”

“Your car… No, no, no.” The leading undead grinned, revealing sharp blood-sucking fangs. “This is my territory. Everything belongs to me, including this car.”

“You came to my territory to plunder supplies without my permission, and even found a human.” He continued, his eyes greedily sweeping over the three people, “Hand over the human and the Blood Tear Crystal, and you can leave now.”

As he spoke, his eyes fell on Iris, his eyes lit up, and he laughed: “What big breasts… Let’s keep this woman too, for the brothers to enjoy.”

Chris has always been cautious in his actions. Before getting off the car to search, he had already taken valuable items such as blood tear crystals with him.

Obviously, this group of wandering undead did not find any valuables in the car, so they simply destroyed the vehicle and ambushed nearby waiting for them to return.

There are many unruly guys among the undead in the folk, and their actions are almost the same as those of fallen ghosts.

These undead are not only evil to humans, but also cold-blooded and ruthless to their own kind. They will drive their own kind to the area where the fallen ghosts are located and force them to help them collect blood and tear crystals.

Or they would stay at the edge of the buffer zone and specifically rob those of their kind who have just risked their lives to collect Blood-Tear Crystals. They would not only rob them of their money, but also kill them to silence them.

Chris had a solemn expression. There were eight people in total in this gang of evil undead, and his side was completely at a disadvantage in numbers.

Even though the newly joined Iris is quite powerful, she is ultimately just a supporting undead and can hardly influence the outcome of the current battle.

And with just himself and Ryan… With his own abilities, he was confident that he could escape alone, but Ryan was probably in great danger.

After all, the opponents are not crazy and demented fallen ghosts. They are also undead. They know that attacking the heart can make the mist rebirth ineffective and completely kill their own kind.

“Prepare for battle!” Chris’s eyes were extremely solemn, and he whispered softly, “Ryan, you run first later, I will create a chance for you to escape…”

Before he could finish his words, he heard a loud roar in his ears and the earth suddenly trembled and shook.

Li Nanke’s fierce figure was like a cannonball fired from a gun, and in the blink of an eye he blasted into the four enemies in front of him!
The leading undead only felt a surging wind blowing in his face, and a ferocious beast-like figure pounced in front of him.

Although this man’s body did not appear to be unusually tall and strong, he gave people the feeling that he was an unstoppable heavy chariot charging. Even if there was a solid iron wall blocking the way, it would be crushed by this chariot!
The giant sword in Li Nanke’s hand turned into a war hammer at some point, and with the powerful force of the charge, it blasted out!

The leader was completely shocked by the ferocious charge, and before he could dodge or evade, the heavy hammer had already hit his chest…

“Boom!”

The blood mist suddenly exploded, and like a golf ball, a figure flew backwards without any resistance.

When he landed on the ground, his limbs were twisted and dislocated, like a broken rag doll. A big hole was blown open in his originally thick chest, and the heart that was the BOR parasite had turned into blood foam and flesh paste… It was obvious that he was deader than dead.

“There is active energy… but not much.”

Li Nanke looked at the stunned undead and said softly, “But a mosquito leg is still meat, it’s better than nothing.”

After saying that, he was like a tiger or a flock of sheep, and blood mist exploded as he swung his bloody hammer.

The bullets fired from those dark blood guns approaching him seemed to hit an invisible iron wall, and the ‘Ring of the Lady of Eternal Pain’ weakened all the long-range damage for him.

The powerful Dark Blood bullet, which was far more powerful than ordinary firearms, lost a lot of kinetic energy, leaving a shallow blood hole on the body surface, and then got stuck between the muscles and could not move forward even a bit.

Iris frowned slightly upon seeing this, a ball of blood light appeared on her left hand, and the blood refining skill ‘Immovable Contract’ was already performed.

A faint blood-red mist appeared around Li Nanke, providing him with an extra layer of protection.

The Dark Blood bullets that attacked again couldn’t even break his skin. When they hit his body, they had already lost most of their kinetic energy and fell to the ground with a clang.

In the blink of an eye, the four undead in front, including the leader, all died tragically at the hands of Li Nanke.

The four undead who were blocking the group finally reacted, screaming in fear and running away in all directions.

This was not the first time that they followed their leader to rob and kill lone undead beings, but they did not expect to hit a wall this time.

These wandering undead couldn’t understand why the other party, with their powerful strength, was more than enough to join the official undead, so why did they come to the buffer zone to scavenge for supplies…

Chris was stunned for a moment.

Aren’t we at a disadvantage… When did Ryan become so strong?
“Don’t let them get away!”

Chris woke up as if from a dream, and quickly picked up his axe gun to chase and kill several people.

Before he could catch up with them, he saw flashes of purple lightning, which turned into thorns and shot at the fleeing undead, causing their bodies to stiffen and twitch.

This is Iris’s blood-refining skill – ‘Lightning Thorns’.

The lightning stimulation paralyzed several people and they were soon caught up. The situation that was originally extremely dangerous, such as ambush and encirclement, turned around in an instant.

Li Nanke interrogated a survivor and learned that there was a vehicle in the enemy’s base.

“Take me to your base.” He said coldly, and the hammer in his hand gently hit the ground, making a dull sound, reminding the other party not to play tricks.

The surviving undead was trembling all over, his eyes filled with fear. He knew he had no choice. If he wanted to save his life, the only way was to obey.

He could only lead the three of them towards the stronghold.

“Does it hurt?”

Iris, who was standing beside him, was carrying the newly seized Dark Blood firearm, but her attention was not on the new weapon. She gently stroked the bullet hole on Li Nanke’s arm with her fingertips, her eyes filled with some heartache.

“It’s okay, just a minor injury.”

Li Nanke smiled nonchalantly, and as his muscles moved, several twisted bullets engraved with patterns were squeezed out.

The wound has closed with blood and flesh, and although it has not yet healed, not a drop of blood has flowed out. It looks like it will recover soon.

“It must be very painful…” Iris blew gently on the wound, and blood appeared on her fingertips.

Li Nanke didn’t know what blood-refining skill she had activated. He only felt a slight itch at the wound, and his body’s healing ability increased dramatically.

With the super recovery of ‘Pain’ and the enhanced healing ability of ‘Blood Contract’, his recovery speed from injuries is countless times faster than that of ordinary people. Minor injuries like these don’t even need band-aids and will heal automatically in a few hours.

Now with the blessing of Iris’s blood refining, the speed of recovery from injuries has been greatly improved again, and the superficial wounds are healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Chris followed the two silently, feeling very redundant, even more redundant than the unconscious human being tied up in his hands. “How can these two people be so familiar and close without even knowing each other for half a day… Are they siblings who have been separated for many years?”

A few people walked along a narrow alley and came to an abandoned factory. The surrounding walls were covered with vines and the gate was locked with rusty iron chains.

However, the noise coming from inside indicated that there were indeed people living here.

“This is it.” The undead said tremblingly, with a strong fear in his voice, “There are twelve people left in the base… I will tell you everything I know, please don’t kill me.”

The three of them quietly approached the factory, and with the help of the surrounding cover, they carefully observed the situation inside. Through the broken windows, they could see several undead people carrying supplies, and there were also several modified rugged off-road vehicles parked in the factory.

“It looks like there are still a lot of good stuff hidden here.” Chris whispered, a hint of excitement flashing in his eyes, “We have to be careful, there may be more than twelve undead here.

Li Nanke formulated a simple action plan: “Chris and I will be responsible for the frontal breakthrough, Iris, you follow behind us to provide support, but don’t get too close.”

Chris raised his axe gun and was about to kick the door open, but he heard the sounds of gunfire and fighting coming from inside the factory, and the screams of the undead echoed.

“What’s going on?” Chris raised one foot, not knowing whether to kick or let go.

Li Nanke quickly came to the window to observe, and saw that the undead who were carrying supplies were now fighting each other. There were already several corpses lying on the ground, and the scene was in chaos.

He frowned and realized something was wrong.

There were three people who launched a surprise attack on the undead. Their weapons and equipment were obviously different from the style and specifications of this dream world, and their abilities were not to refine blood, so they slaughtered the undead in the stronghold as easily as chopping melons and vegetables.

They are nightmares!
Li Nanke dragged the captured undead to the window and whispered, “Are these three people outsiders, or are they your companions?”

The undead widened his eyes in horror and said, “Ivan, Drake, Emilia… they are all our own people, why would they suddenly attack their companions?”

Companion…his initial identity is undead, which means that he and Li Nanke both belong to the undead camp and are friendly forces that need to unite to fight against other camps.

The three Nightmares were well-equipped, and the hastily resisted Undead were clearly no match for them.

In the nightmare, a short woman suddenly had a strange device similar to a cannon barrel in her hand.

The device flashed and fired a shot at the ground.

A strange pillar, as thick as a bowl and about half a person’s height, appeared out of thin air, and it was covered with unfamiliar totemic patterns.

At the same time, a faint red light appeared on the three people, as if they were receiving a buff.

“what?”

Li Nanke was very familiar with this prop; it was the ‘Battle Totem Pole Generator’ that he had made himself using alchemy.

He made more than ten of this prop for sale, but he didn’t expect to meet the buyer in the forbidden dream by chance.

The three Nightmares were much stronger than ordinary undead. They resolved the battle extremely quickly with clean and neat movements.

The man holding the longbow hung the bow back on his back, took out two bulging bags from a supply box and handed them out, saying:
“Captain, we have enough blood-tear crystals here to pay the registration fee. We have also got the route map and car keys to the Provisional Government Safe Zone. When are we going to set off?”

“No hurry. It’s already night time if we rush back to the safe zone. Let’s look in the buffer zone first to see if there are any friendly troops from the same camp.” The burly man holding a big axe took the two bags of blood-tear crystals and turned to the short woman in the pointed hat: “Feng Ling, our money was well spent. You can use this item to greatly improve the combat benefit effect.”

“Captain, you have good taste.” The girl called ‘Wind Chime’ smiled slightly and was about to say something else…

Suddenly, the longbow man’s face changed, as if he had eyes on the back of his head. He turned around abruptly and said to the broken glass window in the distance: “Who is it?!”

As he spoke, a longbow appeared in his hand, the arrow was on the string, and the bow was like a full moon!
Li Nanke, who was leaning against the window, raised his eyebrows, summoned the puppet boy Pinocchio, and said to Iris and Pinocchio: “You stay here first to coordinate, and if the situation is not right, rush in to support… Chris, come in with me.”

After saying that, he turned over and jumped into the window.

“Heavy artillery, what a coincidence…”

Li Nanke held a bloody war hammer and brought Chris, who was also an undead, to show his camp.

“You are…” The burly man codenamed ‘Heavy Artillery’ breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the person coming was an undead ally. Then he saw the war hammer wrapped in thorns in Li Nanke’s hand, and he suddenly realized: “It turned out to be you, Dream Master!”

In the Forbidden Dream, the abilities and equipment of Nightmares are varied, including some sinister abilities that can be unleashed by locking onto real names and personal information.

Therefore, nightmares do not reveal their own numbers and real names, and they use pseudonyms when walking through various forbidden dreams.

The heavy artillery completely let down its guard. The dream master’s war hammer weapon had been displayed on the stall. He had coveted this weapon for a long time and asked the other party if they would sell it, so he was impressed and recognized it at a glance.

“At the critical juncture, you need to participate in the official recruitment of the undead. The registration fee is not cheap. Do you still need Blood Tear Crystals?” Chongchui took out a bulging bag. “If you still need, I can sell them to you at a lower price… Never mind, I’ll just give you some.”

The other party obviously wanted to do Li Nanke a favor. The strength of a Nightmare can be roughly inferred from the quality score of the weapons and equipment he possesses. A strong teammate is a popular figure wherever he goes.

Chris, who was standing by, saw that the three men were wandering undead who were robbing each other, and he held his weapon tightly with great caution. But after a while, he saw Li Nanke chatting enthusiastically with the other party, like old friends who had not seen each other for a long time.

Chris just felt confused. It was like this with Iris before, and now it seems… there are three more teammates?
The two sides exchanged brief greetings and introductions. The heavy artillery was a melee nightmare like Li Nanke, while the longbow-wielding ‘Eagle Eye’ and the specialized gain support ‘Wind Chime’ were both members of the C-level three-person team.

“Dream Master, we have to cooperate well in this forbidden dream. Our undead camp was already at a disadvantage, and now we have to face the temporary conscription from the other side…” Two modified rugged off-road vehicles drove out of the base factory, and Heavy Artillery spoke with a worried look.

Li Nanke had heard a little about the camp’s disadvantages.

In the faction killing mode, the Great Other Shore will balance the number and combat power of nightmares on each side according to the overall strength of each camp.

In Ryan’s memory, there is a huge gap in strength between the three camps of humans, undead, and fallen demons.

The strongest party is undoubtedly the countless fallen demons that are wreaking havoc on the Red Mist Land. The second strongest party is the undead who have formed a provisional government and opened up a safe zone. Humans are the weakest and have almost no ability to resist.

If the Great Beyond wants to balance the power gap between the three parties, then the nightmare of the human side must be quite powerful in order to make up for the inherent weakness of the camp.

Because the fallen ghosts’ camp itself is very powerful, the related nightmares can use part of the fallen ghosts’ power to attack the enemy camp, so the nightmares will not be too strong.

Otherwise, if a camp is extremely powerful and the nightmares within it are also stronger, then there is no need to play with the nightmares from the other two camps, just wait to be killed.

The nightmares on the human side must all be strong. Although the nightmares on the fallen ghost side may not be strong, they can be said to have the best advantage as they can draw on the power of the fallen ghosts.

Of course, how much power the camp can draw on depends largely on Nightmare’s own operations and efforts.

Only the Undead camp’s power is in the middle, so the overall strength of Nightmare will also be in the middle, which means it’s not even close. That’s why the heavy artillery says that the Undead camp is at a disadvantage.

In this case, if the nightmares in this camp do not cooperate sincerely with each other, the final elimination spot may very likely fall upon them.

Li Nanke understood the camp’s disadvantage, but he had never heard any relevant information about “temporary conscription”.

He pretended to be equally worried and sighed, “Yeah, a temporary call-up, how come we have to face it?”

Heavy Artillery sighed helplessly: “It can’t be helped, it’s just bad luck… I don’t know which camp the ‘Inheritor’ is in now, it’s better not to be in our camp.”

Li Nanke was shocked that the so-called temporary conscription was actually related to the inheritor.

And the nightmare type column shows that he is the inheritor!
(End of this chapter)