Chapter 147: Meat Ball

A total of fifty-six Zombies rushed out from within the Valley; among them, fifty Zombies had stiff bodies, and as they moved, a series of clicking sounds of bones rubbing against each other echoed from within their bodies, just like machinery that had not been used for years and had rusted, suddenly starting up, with the various parts operating inflexibly.

The muscles of these fifty Zombies were like rock, overall appearing pitch-black, as if they had crawled out of a coal pile, and the energy fluctuations released from their bodies were comparable to a First Grade Martial Artist.

There were also six Zombies whose bodies appeared iron-blue, their movements were more coordinated, their speed was faster, and the energy fluctuations on their bodies were even more powerful, comparable to a Second Grade Martial Artist.

That Zombie using the Big Iron Hammer, the Zombie using the Big Guan Blade, and that Zombie using the twin blades—the bodies of these three Zombies appeared a faint silver, and the energy fluctuations on their bodies were already comparable to a Third Grade Martial Artist.

Ghost Soldiers belong to the Yin Soul Body; ordinary people cannot see their appearance, and it is also very difficult to kill a Yin Soul, but Zombies are different; they also belong to special lifeforms of the Yin Attribute, their eyes are filled with deathly stillness, yet they are able to see the appearance of Ghost Soldiers and Ghost Generals clearly.

The Zombie army rushed out and instantly clashed in battle with the Ghost Soldiers.

The Ghost Soldiers were ethereal and their movements were flexible and varied; the weapons they used were similar to the big machete of Zhang Butou, also refined from the essence of Divine Soul, and could damage the control centers of the Zombies; they utilized their speed advantage to circle around the Zombies.

After finding the defensive weaknesses of the Zombies, they would rush up to fight the Zombies for a few rounds; as long as they could break through the Zombie's physical body, the Yin Attribute energy on the weapon would go on to destroy the internal Control Array of the Zombie and the Spiritual Power left behind by Zuo Moyan; as long as these two points were destroyed, the Zombie would operate inflexibly and fall into a stagnant state.

The Zombies' movements were stiff and their speed was not fast, but Zombies of the same grade had greater strength and their defensive power was also very powerful.

Their fingernails had mutated and grown to be a full foot long, just like ten sharp Daggers, with black light swirling upon them, and their lethality was extremely fierce; as long as they grabbed a Ghost Soldier, they could tear the Ghost Soldier into fragments in one go.

Zuo Moyan discovered the characteristic that Ghost Soldiers would reassemble after being shattered, so he manipulated the Zombies to tear the Ghost Soldiers apart and place them directly into their mouths, chewing repeatedly; the Ghost Soldiers wanted to condense their soul bodies, but were continuously torn by the Zombies' sharp fangs, and very quickly they completely dissipated.

The Ghost Soldiers and Zombies were entangled with each other, and both sides suffered casualties.

Zhang Butou led ten Second Grade Ghost Soldiers and held off the twin-blade Zombie, but the twin-blade Zombie's blade technique was very powerful and had already begun to suppress Zhang Butou in the fight.

Meng Yifan blocked those two big-bodied Third Grade Zombies, while Zuo Moyan hid in the rear, waving a Command Flag to direct the Zombies in battle.

"Eh!" In the process of fighting, Meng Yifan had been carefully observing the situation around him; he keenly discovered that as those fifty-plus Zombies joined the battle, the movements of these two big-bodied Zombies slowed by a beat, and their coordination seemed to have a hint of stuttering.

"Could it be because the Wanxiang Tower Master's Spiritual Power is limited, and he cannot command so many Zombies to fight at the same time?"

Meng Yifan had also played games on Earth; commanding Zombies to fight was similar to playing a game and commanding characters to fight monsters.

Logically speaking, the most ideal situation is to use a mouse and keyboard to operate one character, so that one can fully exert the character's skills and achieve ideal battle results.

Perhaps there are experts on Earth who can multitask and operate two characters at the same time, but try having him operate five characters simultaneously to fight a team battle against an opponent.

If one player controls five characters at the same time, casting different skills and walking on different routes, the five characters would definitely be a mess, which greatly tests the player's micro-management ability; if not controlled well, the combat power exerted by the five characters might not even be as good as commanding one or two characters.

If one were to let a high-level player on Earth operate fifty or sixty characters at the same time, that would simply be an impossible mission; unless one directly hacks the backend, it is fundamentally impossible to control that many characters simultaneously.

Zuo Moyan is an Immortal Cultivator, and his Spiritual Power far exceeds that of game players on Earth; he knows some secret techniques to distribute Spiritual Power to control different Zombies, but there is also an upper limit to the number of Zombies he can control.

Now, controlling fifty-nine Zombies to fight at the same time had already reached his limit; precisely because of this, Meng Yifan was able to discover that the movements of those two big-bodied Zombies had some stuttering.

Thinking of this, Meng Yifan's eyes lit up; the Ghost Head Blade in his hand flickered, and the Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat Shuke was also released.

Shuke now also possessed the strength of a Second Grade limit; after coming out of the mysterious space of the Ghost Head Blade, it lowered its head like a little dog and rubbed against Meng Yifan's calf, seemingly expressing affection.

Meng Yifan smiled and took out a large piece of flesh and blood containing energy from his pocket; Shuke swallowed it in one gulp, and very quickly evolved again into a Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat comparable to a Third Grade Martial Artist.

"Shuke, go attack that dwarf holding the Command Flag." Following Meng Yifan's order, Shuke nodded, and then its four hooves flew, rushing toward Zuo Moyan as fast as lightning.

"Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat!" Zuo Moyan's expression changed drastically; he never expected that besides having so many Ghost Soldiers and Ghost Generals, Meng Yifan also had a Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat comparable to a Third Grade Martial Artist.

Zuo Moyan recognized the Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat and knew that the Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat's claws and teeth were sharp and its destructive power was very great; more importantly, after the Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat was killed, it would explode violently, comparable to a cannonball moving at high speed.

If Zuo Moyan let the Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat explode beside him, he would be severely injured if not killed, so he absolutely could not let the Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat get close to him.

"What should I do?" Zuo Moyan felt a headache; he wanted to pull the twin-blade Zombie away to intercept the Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat, but Zhang Butou was leading ten Second Grade Ghost Soldiers and was in a bloody battle with the twin-blade Zombie; the twin-blade Zombie simply could not shake off the entanglement.

Seeing the Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat approaching rapidly, Zuo Moyan could only wave his Command Flag, and another group of Zombies rushed out from behind the Valley; it seemed that within that black-mist-shrouded Valley behind him, there was an endless Zombie army.

The Zombies that rushed out this time included over a dozen that were comparable to a First Grade Martial Artist, while the energy fluctuations of the others were very weak, only a little stronger than ordinary people.

After these Zombies rushed out, they did not go to kill the enemy; those dozen or so First Grade Zombies stood in front of Zuo Moyan, connecting their hands and feet to form a large meat ball, protecting Zuo Moyan in the middle.

The other Unranked Zombies also connected their hands and feet, forming an even larger meat ball, forming a large meat ball outside the First Grade Zombies once again.

If the Bloodthirsty Ghost Rat wanted to come and bite Zuo Moyan, it would first have to break through these two layers of Zombie protective shields.

Zuo Moyan's Spiritual Power was limited and no longer sufficient for him to control more Zombies to fight at the same time; he now had the Zombies form two layers of large meat balls, and since the Zombies no longer moved, he did not need to consume excessive Spiritual Power.

"Damn, Zombies can even be used like this." Zhang Chao of the Divine Machine Battalion used Condensing Qi into Steel to cast the Divine Bell Cover to protect his body.

Zuo Moyan, this Immortal Cultivator, directly used Zombies to form a protective shield, which left Meng Yifan dumbfounded, feeling more and more that the methods of Immortal Cultivators were mysterious and unfathomable.