Chapter 160: Vampire Descendants

The artillery fire stopped abruptly.

Flames burned fiercely on the ground.

A large number of monster limbs were crackling as they burned, with thick smoke billowing and mixing with the heavy Calamity Mist.

The thin air was filled from time to time with a pungent, fishy stench and the smell of burning.

With the aid of her rocket thrusters, Li Er rushed out from the mist and hovered in front of Zhou Chu.

At this moment, the roar of monsters came again; a giant black bat, staring with a pair of blood-red eyes and flapping a pair of wings that seemed to cover the sky, whistled toward the space behind Li Er while shrieking.

Bang!

With a crisp gunshot, Li Er did not look back; the Ion Pistol shot through the head of the large bat behind her, punching a transparent hole through it.

The bat monster let out a whimper, fell from the air to the ground, and then transformed into a pale-faced man wearing a black tailcoat.

His gaze was already unfocused, and there was no more life in his body, save for the fist-sized black hole in his forehead from which wisps of blue smoke occasionally rose.

Vampire descendant, a Main General-Rank Calamity monster.

These guys feed exclusively on human blood and possess bodies that do not rot for a hundred years, remain unbroken for a thousand years, and have lifespans reaching ten thousand years.

Generally speaking, they can only be completely killed by using special methods or the blood of more powerful monsters.

Otherwise, they will revive again.

However, this vampire descendant showed no signs of reviving under Li Er's Ion Pistol, and its body immediately turned into a pile of paper scraps burned to black ash, scattering on the ground.

It seems that the Psionic Power within Li Er has a strong restraining effect on these undead creatures, which is why these guys did not revive.

Before discussing matters with Long Aofei, Zhou Chu had already let Li Er go to the Nightmare Land in advance to detect the specific location of the Demon Cave.

Not only did Li Er determine the specific location of the Demon Cave early on, but she even stirred up a bloody slaughter in the Nightmare Land.

In less than an hour, she leveled up three times directly from level 15.

From this, it can be seen that Zhou Chu's trip was not without a plan.

His so-called lack of a plan was the plan; at most, it was just used to fob off Long Aofei and Jia Mengshan.

Sure enough, the Nightmare Land is different from those previous Demon Caves; it actually has so many Main General-Rank monsters.

It is no wonder that many Scout Team members never returned.

Facing such a large number of Main General-Rank vampire monsters, they were no different from sheep entering a tiger's den, completely unable to resist.

At this time, it is estimated that those Scout Team members had long since been sucked dry.

Therefore, Zhou Chu no longer held hope for whether Jiang Chen was alive; it could only depend on his fate.

But Zhou Chu dared to be certain that there must be a more powerful vampire monster in that Demon Cave, perhaps one of the Ten Great Evil Demons.

As the saying goes, know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles.

I do not know how much more powerful this evil demon is compared to the Lich King.

Thus, under Li Er's guidance, Zhou Chu relied on Void Shuttle to quickly penetrate into the deepest part of the Nightmare Land.

In front of a steep rocky cliff, a vortex emitting a blood-red color appeared before their eyes.

Perhaps sensing the scent of living humans, a large number of vampire descendants transformed into vampire bats, like gusts of black whirlwinds, flying out from the vortex.

They surged toward Li Er, who was leading the way in front.

"Detestable human, you actually dare to hurt my kin; I will definitely suck you dry and present your beautiful skin to Lady Lucita!"

A bat with red fur was clearly larger than the others; the next moment, it revealed its true form in the air, which was actually a red-haired man dressed in gorgeous aristocratic attire.

He stared with a pair of incredibly eerie eyes, looking at Li Er with some anger, the corners of his mouth curling slightly to reveal a cruel expression.

This red-haired vampire was actually a Lord-Rank Calamity monster; in terms of strength and rank, he was considered to have a relatively high status among his so-called kin.

A vampire aristocrat like this had existed for at least a thousand years.

He could simply be called a thousand-year-old demon.

However, the vampire aristocrat mentioned a person named Lucita, and Zhou Chu felt a bit familiar upon hearing it, as if he had heard of it before.

Very quickly, he recalled it.

Once, at the No. 15 Demon Cave on the Southern Front, that Ghost Lord Ni Made had mentioned this name.

And it is said that his god-level servant Gadi was quite fond of this Lady Lucita.

Perhaps, when it comes to knowing Lucita, no one is better suited than Gadi.

At this moment, Gadi, who was in Soul Entanglement with Zhou Chu, had his voice appear in his mind.

"Master, Lucita is the Vampire Queen ranked eighth among the Ten Great Evil Gods, and she possesses extremely high prestige in the Abyss."

"And I once served as a Vanguard Scout in Lucita's Vampire Legion; although I had improper thoughts, it was merely the Loyalty Gu that Lucita planted in her subordinates."

"Lucita is well-versed in the arts of bewitchment and hypnosis; when facing her, you must never look into her eyes."

"Her Nightmare Pupil can make people fall into endless hallucinations and become her puppets without realizing it."

After listening to Gadi's account of Lucita, Zhou Chu had a general understanding of the situation regarding this evil demon.

This Vampire Queen's specialty is hypnotizing people and then manipulating them.

Hypnosis also falls into the category of mental types, so whether it is her hypnosis method or her bewitchment technique, neither has any effect on Zhou Chu.

As for Li Er, it was even less effective.

Li Er is a Mechanical Intelligent Being carrying the highest-grade intelligent core, and to a large extent, she is not an ordinary human.

Precisely because of this, at the Peak Elite Tournament, Li Mengyao's Spirit Butterfly Illusion Powder could not have an effect on her.

If nothing unexpected happens, the situation in the Nightmare Land can be handled.

Just at this moment, under the lead of this Lord-Rank vampire aristocrat man, all those low-level vampire descendants transformed into human form and pounced toward Li Er.

Zhou Chu also saw in the void that among these vampire descendants, there were a few wearing the uniforms of the Exorcism Army Scout Team.

Clearly, they had just been transformed into vampires by this vampire clan, so their rank was currently only Soldier-level, even lower than proper vampire descendants.

It seems that the possibility of survivors among those Scout Team members previously sent to the Nightmare Land for reconnaissance is almost zero.

According to the intelligence in the document, the last location where Jiang Chen was tracked was right around here.

Therefore, there are likely two reasons.

One is that Jiang Chen may already be dead, and the other is that he has already entered the Nightmare Land.

Watching these ferocious Vampire Descendants shrieking as they charged forward, Zhou Chu was just about to strike, but saw that two azure Light Swords had already appeared in Li Er's hands.

The next moment, the God-level Ion Blade Storm was unleashed ferociously.