Chapter 561: Blood Corpse

His posture stalled.

Even Zhang Tie, from the earlier roar, understood its meaning.

He couldn't help but exchange a glance with Lin An, his eyes full of shock.

What the hell!?

The explosion just now clearly came from a technological weapon explosion!

How could this be a blood corpse!?

Dodging the blood corpse's attack...

This statement simply confirms that the explosion indeed came from the blood corpse's means.

Could this blood corpse be a human controlling modern weapons?

Unlike Zhang Tie's thought of this layer, Lin An's heart skipped a beat.

At extremely fast thinking speed, he instantly thought of a more absurd fact.

This world cycles time; the flow of time is extraordinarily strange.

Combining system prompts, there are other players entering this point.

He subconsciously linked the two together.

Suppressing the shock in his head, Lin An without hesitation activated "step into the void", simulating the Ascetic Practitioners' movement method and flew straight over.

"Boom!!"

"Boom!!"

Within a few short breaths, the deafening explosion sounds continued nonstop.

Hearing the familiar explosion sound, Lin An was absolutely certain this was the effect of technological side weapons.

Ring-shaped shockwaves continuously generated, mixed with the cries of many people.

Orange-red flames devoured life.

As the distance rapidly closed, he could already see limbs continuously being thrown by the blast.

"Kill!!! Cone-shaped charge! Follow me up!!!"

The army heading out ahead is a mixed infantry-cavalry force, about three or four thousand strong.

Infantry and cavalry each make up half.

At this moment, the cavalry commander leading the charge roared as he led the cavalry forward in a charge.

War horses neighed, somewhat agitated from the explosion's stimulation.

These cavalrymen wore heavy, crudely made but extraordinarily sturdy armor, and the remaining war horses likewise wore heavy armor.

Like the Iron Wing Cavalry, the neat, dense hoofbeats sounded like war drums.

At the very front was a levitating man dressed in gray cloth.

Seeing him, his expressionless face, he opened both hands, his whole body as if having suction, continually attracting incoming cannonballs to his flesh.

His not-so-tall physique resembled a black hole, swallowing the fragments and flames produced by the frontal explosion into his body.

First time seeing the Ascetic Practitioners' combat style, Lin An couldn't help but observe every detail intently.

The flesh is very strong... yet also very fragile.

While the Ascetic Practitioners in the army "blocked" the flames and shockwaves, their flesh, like ordinary people encountering an explosion, was rapidly destroyed and burnt.

Large patches of carbonized flesh fell.

Limbs blown apart, exposing bloody abdominal cavities.

But in an instant, his flesh returned to its original state.

Flesh strength is no different from ordinary people, but regenerative power is extremely strong.

Just don't know how damaging his attacks are.

Lin An quickly gave his judgment.

This flesh-healing speed, probably not much worse than Xiong Hanzi.

But lacks the effect of absorbing energy.

After first observing the most conspicuous Ascetic Practitioner, Lin An then activated mental power diffusion, locking onto the blood-red figure at the center of the smoke and dust.

Shrouded in smoke and dust, one could only vaguely see that figure was about four or five meters tall.

Around the blood-red figure, hundreds of stiff-bodied, limb-deficient infantry stood guard.

Just seeing the bloodlust in these infantrymen's eyes and the wounds capable of killing, Lin An instantly realized.

These soldiers are probably infected into beings similar to zombies.

What the heck is this?

Initially, the suspicion that it might be a player was somewhat dispelled.

If it really were a player, how could they infect soldiers to become zombies?

Moreover, looking at these soldiers transformed into zombies, they differ considerably from real-world ones.

"Judgment's Eye!"

Dark blue mist rose.

Both sides' supplementary information, in an instant, under the lock of Judgment's Eye, transmitted back swiftly.

"Beep, detected ordinary humans: 3992"

"Beep, detected special human individual: 1 (near death)"

"Beep, detected bioforms: 113"

"Beep, detected *****?"

"Huh?"

Biochemical body?

The blood shadow cannot be detected?

He had planned to gather more intelligence, but by now he and Zhang Tie had already entered the periphery of the battlefield.

But the information for the first three came through, while the data on the blood-red silhouette appeared as garbled code.

Apart from having experienced isolation when facing the spider maker, this is the first time he cannot obtain information via the Judgment's Eye.

Does this 'monster' possess the ability to block mental power detection?

"Lin Dui!!"

"Is that blood-red monster a player!!"

Xiong Hanzi clenched his fists, ready to strike at any moment.

Watching the cavalry ahead, fixated on the explosive impact as they charged forward, he couldn't help but feel a sense of absurdity.

This army.

Besides, the ascetic practitioners on the front were blocking part of the bombardment.

Other infantry and cavalry, when mixed in the charge, would be overturned by the strong airflow.

Shrapnel sprayed in all directions pierced the body, severing hands and feet.

In the real world, it is clearly common to see humans operating cannons against zombies.

Yet now it has turned into flesh-and-blood bodies opposing controlled weapons as 'blood corpses'.

"This thing is definitely not a zombie!"

Xiong Hanzi quickly gave his own judgment, his eyes fixed on the blood-red giant shadow shrouded in smoke and dust.

A large number of shell-like weapons are fired from the center of the smoke and dust.

If it weren't for the faintly visible silhouette appearing humanoid, he would almost think that inside lay a rocket armored vehicle.

Lin An could not answer Xiong Hanzi's question for a moment.

Player, is that possible?

If it is a player, then it would mean their mental power attribute must at least overwhelm his to achieve perception shielding.

Not likely.

Leaving aside whether any player at this stage can surpass him,

If he truly were that high, why would the blood shadow need to use technological weapons to attack these ordinary people?

A single mental shock can instantly kill an entire area.

If it's not a player, could it be that I was mistaken in my preconception?

This isn't an ancient-background dungeon, is it?

In the midst of thought, Lin An and Xiong Hanzi have drawn ever closer.

Just silently approaching, the ordinary soldiers did not notice them.

The ascetic practitioners at the front also seemed not to intend to look back.

Under the barrage of artillery fire, the cavalry regiment charged fiercely into the smoke and dust.

"Hiss!"

Continuous metallic clanging sounds rang out.

Only a vivid red blood shadow rushed out of the smoke and dust, bypassing the ascetic practitioners and charging toward the army's center.

Extremely fast, the giant blood corpse's afterimage trailed as its hands crossed, like claws, wildly slashing.

Almost simultaneously, Lin An also locked onto the blood corpse upon hearing the sound.

"That is!?"

In the cavalry's center, the huge blood corpse charged into the troops like a tiger into a flock of sheep.

Mixed cavalry lances and blade tips in the desperate soldiers' hands fiercely stabbed into its body.

The blood corpse's appearance resembled a skinned frog.

The muscle tissue stripped of skin spread over the whole body, the thick limb muscles bulged and throbbed.

Just.

On the muscle tissue of the shoulders and chest, there were black holes everywhere, obviously mechanical constructs, like the existence of launch ports was closing.

Blood corpse...

The blood corpse is a mixture of machinery and flesh and blood!?

Or is it a flesh-and-blood mech!?