Chapter 161 The Remains of the Queen

Governor’s Office of the Provisional Government, Armed Forces Office.

The morning sun shone through the window. Li Nanke, Shadow, Heavy Artillery and other nightmares from the Undead camp sat in the office waiting quietly.

Several people had either no expression on their faces, or looked solemn, or had ugly faces. The atmosphere was quite depressing and dull.

“What an idiot!” The black-robed man codenamed ‘Styx’ couldn’t help but curse under his breath.

He is a member of the Shadow Secret Society, proficient in summoning spells and very powerful.

At this moment, Minghe’s face was filled with anger and his expression was very ferocious: “It would have been fine if those two idiots didn’t come to the gathering, but they were killed by the nightmares of the human side. They are so stupid!”

“That’s enough.” Youying also looked unhappy, with a hint of helplessness in his tone, “It has already happened, complaining is useless.”

Everyone waited in the safe zone all night, waiting for two undead nightmares who had not yet assembled to join the team.

As a result, not only did he wait for a whole night in vain, but he also received bad news from the other side: his camp’s points were reduced by two, becoming negative two points, while the human camp’s points were increased by two.

Now, everyone hasn’t even completed the key node one, and their camp has inexplicably lost two people, and the ranking has directly fallen to the last position.

Under such circumstances, it would be a miracle if the group could be in a good mood.

The reminder broadcast of the Great Other Side sounded at dawn. No one knew what happened to the two nightmares, which delayed them from joining the safe zone for the entire night.

But the ending of the two was obvious – they finally encountered the nightmare of the human side, and gave away two heads without causing any death to the enemy.

With a creak, the door of the armed office was pushed open. Undead guards were standing on both sides of the aisle, and an undead walked in.

He was wearing a black military uniform with intricate and gorgeous epaulettes, and seemed to be of a high rank.

According to Shadow, this undead was a high-ranking officer at the rank of colonel, and he paid a lot to get this connection.

The Undead officer glanced at everyone and nodded calmly: “I am Oliver. If you can complete the mission, those who come back alive will be given an official position as a member of the Undead Squad.”

Oliver looked routine and didn’t say anything special to the crowd. He just coldly told them to register their information. After entering it into the file, they could set out to execute the crusade order.

It seemed that he didn’t have much hope that they could succeed in the conquest.

Compared with the official Undead Squad, this temporary expeditionary force is more like outsourced temporary workers. Not only do they need to provide all their own equipment and weapons, but the government will not bear any responsibility or compensation if any casualties occur during the expedition.

Oliver saw that everyone had filled out the information forms. He glanced at them quickly and was about to put the stack of forms into the file bag when he suddenly stopped and his eyes rested on a certain form.

“Blood code ‘Eos’…” Oliver looked at the white-haired woman in the expedition team and stared at her carefully for a long time. The more he looked at her, the more strange her expression seemed.

Oliver suddenly said, “You stay, everyone else go out.”

As soon as these words came out, everyone’s eyes were focused on Iris.

After two Nightmares on our side were killed, two spots on the expedition team became vacant. The Shadow’s initial status was higher than that of an ordinary Undead. In addition to the three Nightmare team members, there were two other Aboriginal team members of average strength.

Youying was planning to let two indigenous team members join the expedition team, but Li Nanke asked him for another spot. Youying learned that Iris was a powerful support-type nurse who was of great significance to the team, so he was naturally happy to give Li Nanke a favor.

As for the other indigenous team member and Chris, because of their relatively weak strength, they can only become reserve members of the expedition team. If the expedition mission is successful and there are casualties, they can get official places in place of the deceased.

Now the undead officer wants to leave Iris alone, I don’t know what the deeper meaning is.

Li Nanke’s heart moved. He had heard from Chris before that Iris’s blood code was extremely rare and was a powerful support-type blood code that was enough to be specially recruited into the Undead Team.

Could it be that this Colonel Oliver wants to recruit Iris specially?

He winked at Iris calmly, and the woman cooperated and pulled Li Nanke and said, “He and I are together. I will go wherever he goes.”

Oliver frowned and looked at Li Nanke, as if he wanted to see through him: “Everyone else, get out.”

Youying and the others looked at each other in confusion, gave Li Nanke a look, and then left the office silently.

There were only three people left in the office. Li Nanke thought Oliver was going to mention the special recruitment, but he didn’t expect the other party to say, “If I’m right, you should be the partner of the God’s Skeleton, right?”

Iris didn’t say anything, but tilted her head to look at Li Nanke, her eyes seemed to be saying, “Should I tell him the truth?”

Li Nanke was shocked. Not only did he ask Chris about the matters of the heir and companion of the God’s Skeleton, he also asked Chris to inquire about it secretly after arriving at the safe zone.

But ordinary undead have never heard of these two names and don’t know what they mean.

Now the official government colonel Oliver seemed to know something about this, and he even stayed behind to talk to the two of them. It seemed that he had no ill intentions.

Li Nanke said calmly: “Colonel Oliver, may I ask what a divine skeleton companion is?”

Oliver glanced at him and explained calmly, “The God’s Skeleton Companions are a peculiar type of artificial creature. They have only one mission after they are born, which is to find the God’s Skeleton Successors and help them slow down the process of being eroded by the God’s Skeleton.”

Artificial creatures, divine skeleton erosion…they, the divine skeleton heirs, it seems that there are far more than one or two divine skeleton companions and divine skeleton heirs.

The more Li Nanke knew, the more questions he had.

“Are you still wondering what the Heirs of the God’s Remains are?” Oliver seemed to know what he wanted to say. “They are a group of respectable heroes who sealed the Queen’s remains with their own bodies. They knew that they would inevitably be corroded and die, but they still sacrificed themselves for our world.”

“The governor of our safe zone government is a Divine Skeleton Successor… Since this Divine Skeleton Companion has been following you, it means that she has already determined that you are the Divine Skeleton Successor.”

Oliver took out a large map from the drawer of his desk and slowly unfolded it. There were several eye-catching red circles marked on it, with a red dot in the center of each circle.

“The red circle represents the range of the ‘coffin’ that limits the heirs of the God’s bones, and the red dot represents the heirs of the God’s bones.” Oliver pointed to the map and explained, “The queen’s remains are limited, and each heir has sealed a part of the remains. Currently, all the heirs of the God’s bones are recorded. There are no remains of the queen left outside, and there are no unrecorded heirs of the God’s bones.” “So…” Oliver looked directly into Iris’ eyes, “Why did you mistake him for the heir of the God’s bones?”

Li Nanke also had some doubts about this.

At first, he thought that Iris judged him to be the heir of the divine remains because of his initial identity “Ryan” in the dream world. Perhaps Ryan’s identity itself was not simple.

“I have forgotten a lot of things.” Iris answered truthfully, “But I can smell the special scent of his blood. My intuition tells me that he is the heir of the God’s Skeleton.”

Blood… Could it be that the main characteristics of blood can be affected by “Blood Moon” or “Blood Contract”? Li Nanke couldn’t help but ponder.

“Now I am sure that you are really mistaken, and you have forgotten too many memories due to multiple deaths.” Oliver smiled gently, pointed to a red dot on the map and said: “The Blood Skeleton Heir is here. Another God Skeleton Companion has found him and has been accompanying him in the coffin.”

Iris was unmoved: “I don’t believe what others say. I only believe what I see with my eyes, smell with my nose, and feel with my heart. You want me to leave him… Impossible, unless I completely turn into ashes and die.”

Oliver was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and his eyes looked at Iris with pity and sympathy.

“That’s right…” Oliver murmured in a low voice, “This is your mission. Having a goal to protect and accompany is much better than withering and dying in aimless wandering and searching.”

He rang the summons bell on the table and a guard pushed the door open.

“Go to the armory and get a set of ‘vine-type’ blood-sucking fang suits, and pick out an A-level Hell Blood Spear.”

“Yes, sir!”

The guard took the order and left. Feng Ling on the walkway outside the door was staring in a daze at a strange and weird tree outside the window.

This big tree was “planted” in the courtyard of the Governor’s Mansion. It was about as tall as a three-story building, as thick as a man’s arms could hold, and as white as snow.

The tree has lush branches like crystal ore, reflecting the glittering light in the early morning sunlight. It has no leaves on its entire body, but instead has scattered and sparse fruits, reflecting the red glow as rare as morning stars.

If you take a closer look, you can see that those fruits are actually blood-tear crystals, but these blood-tear crystals are not even the size of a fingernail and are sparsely distributed, and it seems that the yield is extremely limited.

This strange mineral tree called “Blood and Tear Crystal Spring” is the basis for the survival of many undead. The Blood and Tear Crystal Springs in irregular distributions in the Red Mist area produce bright red crystals that can perfectly replace human blood to suppress thirst.

However, why these strange mineral trees grow for no reason in various regions remains a mystery.

Soon, Feng Ling saw the guard come back and walk into the armed office again carrying two military briefcases.

The nightmares waiting outside the door looked at each other, not knowing what had happened in the office.

The guard opened two suitcases, one of which contained a black shawl with wide blood-red ribbons hanging on both sides. The fabric was engraved with intricate patterns, looking mysterious and beautiful.

“This is a ‘vine-type’ blood-sucking tooth suit, which is more suitable for your blood code. You can launch a blood-sucking attack on the fallen ghosts during the battle and restore your own blood… You haven’t forgotten these basic combat skills, right?”

Seeing Elise nod, Oliver pointed to another suitcase, which contained a long rifle with complex blood-red patterns engraved on the barrel. A sharp bayonet as long as the forearm was fixed on the front end.

“This is a new type of Nether Blood firearm. It can be loaded with live ammunition with special functions, or it can consume Nether Blood to generate energy ammunition. This firearm is a single-shot rifle. Although the firing rate is slow, it has high shooting accuracy, long range, and great power.”

Oliver handed two high-level weapons that only the undead could possess to Iris, and said slowly, “This is all I can do to help you.”

“Thank you.” Iris took off her tattered cloak, put on a brand new vampire fang suit, and picked up the advanced dark blood firearm. For a moment, she felt like she was trading in a musket for a cannon.

Li Nanke, who was standing by, took a look at the two pieces of equipment, both of which were of rare quality, and couldn’t help but feel jealous.

This kind of weapons and equipment given by plot characters have a high probability of obtaining ownership, and can be exchanged for free at the other side after the dream ends, just like the chainsaw sword given to him by the armed monk in the dream “Sea of ​​Abes”.

Even if you cannot use the weapons and equipment yourself, selling them in the trading house in the Deep Dream World can also bring in a considerable income.

He looked at the fully armed Iris, then looked at himself with empty hands, and then looked at the officer Colonel Oliver… The other also looked at him, but did not express anything.

Oh, she is the real God’s Skeleton Companion, and you are just a lucky fake, and you want to get benefits from me? Oliver ignored his gaze and waved his hand, saying, “Okay, you can go now.”

Although Oliver told him a lot of information about the companion and successor of the divine skeleton, and also mentioned terms such as erosion, coffin, and the queen’s remains, the more he explained, the more related questions arose.

Li Nanke keenly realized that this was probably related to hidden nodes.

“Sir, I still have some questions.”

“Cannon fodder is not worthy of knowing the truth. If you want to know more, you must first prove that you have enough strength… Go and carry out the subjugation mission, kill the fallen demon leader, and then come back to ask me.”

Oliver ignored him and buried his head in official documents.

Li Nanke knew that the time was not right, so he took Iris out of the office.

“What happened?”

A group of Nightmares from their side were guarding outside the office. When they saw the two people coming out, Shadow immediately stepped forward and asked with concern.

Everyone saw Iris’s two new equipment and realized that this indigenous character had probably gained a lot of benefits from Oliver.

“Nothing. Oliver thought she was a promising talent and wanted to recruit her into the Undead Team in advance. He also gave her two pieces of equipment…”

The group knew that this powerful support-type nurse was popular, but they didn’t expect her to be so popular that they could directly exchange her for two pieces of equipment. This made Feng Ling, who was also a support-type assistant, somewhat tempted.

“The critical node has a time limit of three days. One day has already passed. We must hurry up and complete the subjugation mission.” Shadow glanced at everyone and said in a grim tone, “After completing the critical node one, we will have ample time to deal with the enemies in our camp and make up for the points and ranking that have fallen behind.”

Now our camp is at the bottom of the ranking, like a gloomy black cloud silently across everyone’s head. The shadow of death and annihilation hangs over everyone, forcing the Nightmares to start a bloody and cruel killing.

(End of this chapter)