Chapter 49: Chapter Forty‑Nine: Bronze Armored Corpse

Thud thud thud!

It sounded like a huge hammer being swung and slammed hard onto the ground.

It's hard to imagine that a human body hitting an iron door could produce such a sound.

Or rather—a dead corpse.

Actually, a corpse's strength is supposed to be low.

Being able to produce such a tremendous noise, it's obviously not an ordinary zombie.

The corpse handler hiding somewhere must be far more skilled than the driver.

"Bent!"

"Bent!"

Shufen pointed at the latch and shouted loudly.

You could see that, due to the impact, the latch was visibly bent a little.

The iron door is very sturdy, but the latch is not as strong as the door.

At this rate, in about five minutes we could "break through the south wall".

K's face darkened; then he suddenly rushed toward the side room.

Soon after, the K who had run out ran to the bus parked on the other side.

The bus started up, lights off, lurching toward the iron door.

The front was turned, parked sideways in front of the door, directly blocking it.

"Ha!"

K jumped off the bus, gleeful, and ran into another bus.

This time, no need to turn the front; just drive straight in.

Originally there was a gap between the bus body and the iron door, but with this impact they came into intimate zero‑distance contact.

It was blocked solidly.

"Now they won't get in so easily." K felt immensely proud of his invention.

The red scarf on his chest—no, it was that his formerly limp limbs had become much stronger.

Shufen also didn't hold back, giving a thumbs‑up and praising: "You youngster, your mind is still pretty quick."

"Monk, this is far more useful than shooting wildly." K said to Tang Luo.

Tang Luo said: "We can block the door, but it's not necessary."

"Hmph." K snorted coldly.

Just being stubborn, he unconsciously looked toward Mi Ke.

Compared to the auntie, a normal man would surely prefer to gain the favor and support of a beautiful woman.

But there was no scene as K had imagined.

Mi Ke did not look at him with admiring eyes.

On the contrary, she gazed toward the iron door, her eyes showing undisguised fear.

"How..."

K followed the direction of Mi Ke's gaze.

The remaining two syllables "matter" were hard‑swallowed back into his mouth.

He saw that on top of the bus parked sideways blocking the door, a zombie had appeared.

"Zombies may lack intelligence, but corpse handlers probably have it. Since they could just set up a ladder and climb in, there's no need to block the door." Tang Luo said.

"Then what was the point of their ramming just now!"

K couldn't help but roar.

"Before fetching the ladder, why not ram it a bit? If it bursts open, that'd be simpler than climbing a ladder." Tang Luo said.

Trying it wouldn't hurt.

As they spoke, that zombie had already fallen from the bus roof.

It crashed to the ground in a terrible posture.

It seemed to have hurt its leg, its posture becoming a limp.

Its movement slowed considerably.

The walls and iron door at the terminus are a bit higher than the bus.

Zombies crawling in couldn't all have the strength of that one that nearly rammed the door open.

If it just fell straight to the ground, ending up paralyzed on one side would be normal.

But having the bus actually reduced some of the height.

The fall damage was greatly reduced.

"Bang bang!"

Tang Luo fired several shots, shattering the zombie's limbs.

There was hardly any splatter of flesh and blood.

Only shattered white bone and "wind‑dried cured meat".

Typical of an old, desiccated corpse.

Losing its limbs successfully stopped the zombie's movement, but the corpse handler's command still held.

Its body writhed like a caterpillar, still trying to creep toward Tang Luo and the others.

Under the moonlight, its twisted posture was chilling.

At that moment, a second zombie also landed on the bus roof.

These zombies are not like the hopping zombies in zombie movies.

Their manner of movement is closer to the zombies in Western films—not the slow type; they likely have speed not inferior to that of an ordinary person.

"Get on the bus." Tang Luo fired a few more shots, blasting that zombie into several pieces, then said.

"Get on the bus?" K didn't understand Tang Luo's meaning.

Do we have to get on the bus again now?

"That bus full of corpses." Tang Luo said, "Originally there was a relatively clean one, but you wasted it."

K's face looked grim.

What's called wasting? If he hadn't used the vehicle to block the door, those zombies would have rushed in already, alright?

"You drive." Tang Luo walked over to the bus they had approached, stepped on the tire, easily jumped onto the roof, "Drive around with this group of zombies, I'll shoot."

"..."

There's still this kind of maneuver?

Before K could react, Auntie Shufen had already run onto the bus, with Mi Ke closely following.

Auntie Shufen opened the window and shouted at K: "What are you standing there for, kid! Hurry up and drive! We're all on the bus!"

"Where should we drive to!"

This mission, everything's going wrong; K feels a headache.

"Just drive in circles! I know more about it than you!" Auntie Shufen said.

A terminus the size of a football field is enough for a not-so-large bus to drive circles and walk those zombies.

Besides, we can even drive the bus to crash into and kill a few.

"..."

Enduring the smell of corpses emanating from the bus.

K started the vehicle.

At this moment, a few more zombies entered the terminus.

The sound of pounding on the door has also stopped.

Knowing how to drive doesn't mean knowing how to drive a bus.

Unlike just casually driving earlier, actually having to control this large vehicle makes K feel quite difficult.

The vehicle was swerving all over the place.

It looked like there was a danger of tipping over.

Monotonous, mechanical gunfire rang out.

Each zombie had its limbs precisely taken out by Tang Luo.

Then the bus ran over them, completely depriving them of mobility.

But K's face showed no hint of joy.

He hadn't forgotten the existence of that thing that almost rammed open the iron door.

If it were that kind of zombie, a small handgun certainly couldn't take out its limbs, then have the bus run over it.

The zombies encountered so far.

Rather than calling them zombies, they're more like moving corpses.

After keeping their numbers in check, the threat isn't great.

K believed this mission couldn't possibly be that simple, just letting them pass time driving in circles.

What you fear will come.

K's premonition was quite accurate.

A tall figure leapt over the iron door and heavily smashed onto the bus roof.

Just landing on the bus roof.

Actually caused the metal skin to dent inward.

Showing its weight.

Under the moonlight, one could see the hue of this zombie's body, different from the bluish-gray, bluish-white, gray-white of other zombies.

But it displayed a metallic-like luster.

Like bronze ironware.

Over two meters tall, with thick arms and legs, truly having fan-like large hands.

"Bronze-armored corpse?"

K thought to himself.

Various products of fantasy, appearing in god-and-demon games, are quite normal.

That "standing out among chickens" skin tone closely resembled the bronze-armored corpse K knew of.

"Ding ding ding!"

The clear bell sound came through the night wind.

This confirmed everyone's speculation that "a corpse herder is lurking somewhere."

After the bronze-armored corpse, no more zombies crawled in.

It's unknown whether they were all exhausted, or the corpse herder needed to focus on controlling this bronze-armored corpse.

No time to control other zombies.

It's also possible the corpse herder felt this single bronze-armored corpse was enough to deal with the uninvited guests at the terminus.

The bronze-armored corpse's movement was slightly sluggish.

From landing on the bus roof to the ground altogether took about 10 seconds.

It also gave K a chance to adjust his direction, step on the accelerator, and slam hard toward that side.

Boom!

A loud bang sounded as the bus pressed against the vehicle beside it.

The bus's front collided with the copper-armored corpse.

The glass instantly shattered into a large sheet of 'snowflakes'.

The driver's seat was crushed into a mass.

Fortuitously, K had prepared ahead of time and had already 'run away' before the impact.

Meanwhile, Mi Ke and Auntie Shufeng were thrown sideways.

K crouched low, staring fixedly at the windshield ahead that remained intact.

A hand extended, a blue aura appeared, and he was ready to use his skill.

Just then, the bus suddenly reversed.

K couldn't keep his balance, instinctively bracing his hands on the ground to avoid falling.

With a 'whoosh'.

The windshield fell away, revealing the copper-armored corpse unharmed.

K reached out again, about to unleash his skill, aiming at the copper-armored corpse's chest.

If luck is on his side, that would be enough to cleave the copper-armored corpse in two.

K refused to believe it, that this copper-armored corpse was truly as solid as bronze and iron armor.

Before experiencing six missions and receiving full enhancement, God Demon Walk was typically a 'high attack, low defense' state.

It was easy to kill opponents, and just as easy to be killed by them.

Seizing the initiative is extremely important in battle.

Of course, if the mastered skill is difficult to pierce defenses, the situation becomes extremely awkward.

It's easy to fall into a state of being at others' mercy.

Just as K was about to strike.

A white shadow fell from the bus's front, directly pressing down the copper-armored corpse.

'You go, I'll handle it.'

Tang Luo's voice came over.

K's motion paused; he hadn't yet had time to react.

He saw the monk who had just pressed down the copper-armored corpse being flung to the left, striking the parallel bus beside him with a boom.

That sound was not lower than the one when K had just driven the bus to crash into the copper-armored corpse.

K caught sight, out of the corner of his eye, of where the monk and bus collided, which had directly caved in, forming a 'shallow pit'.

The copper-armored corpse's body reappeared in K's line of sight.

But with a sudden urgent chime, the copper-armored corpse ignored K inside the vehicle.

It slightly turned, lowered its body, shifted sideways, and aimed its shoulder at Tang Luo.

A standard Iron Mountain Lean stance.

A close-quarters technique from the Eight Level Fist.

Fine stone fragments flew; K felt that what rushed past was not a 'person' but an out-of-control large truck.

Boom!

Another loud bang.

The parallel bus beside it was directly lifted up, like a toy car encountering a destructively enthusiastic child.

It flipped several times and crashed heavily to the ground.

Its wheels pointed skyward, turning in the moonlight; one of them rotated a few times before falling off.

However, this strike was comparable to that of a siege hammer.

It did not truly have an effect; one second before impact, Tang Luo sidestepped and successfully evaded.

The copper-armored corpse turned, 'looking' at the evading Tang Luo.

With a slightly stiff motion, it silently charged at him.

Like a moving iron tower.

Meanwhile, Tang Luo's movements were much more graceful and agile, retreating to increase distance from the copper-armored corpse.

Striving not to lose it.

After getting off the bus, under the moonlight, K saw the white-clad monk engaging with the copper-armored corpse.

Each attack of the copper-armored corpse emitted a muffled tearing-through-air sound.

Unfortunately, its speed was slightly slow.

They were all narrowly dodged by Tang Luo, who could still counterattack.

However, the monk's skill 'Tathagata Divine Palm', when slapped onto the copper-armored corpse, could only produce a crisp sound.

The copper-armored corpse barely swayed at all.

One couldn't land a hit, the other couldn't break through defenses.

The situation immediately reached a stalemate.