Chapter 821: If living people are hard to get in, let the dead get in

If living people are hard to get in, let the dead get in

"I don't know... I really don't know."

Barto collapsed. He shook his head with tears and snot, suddenly broke free from the state of extreme struggle, like a deflated ball, hanging his head on Cheng Shi's hand, and never moved again.

Only his mouth was still muttering: "Don't kill me... I don't know... Don't kill me... I really don't know."

"..."

Truth.

Although it was the truth, it was very embarrassing.

Cheng Shi thought this deputy could still be useful, but he didn't expect that besides being a handrail, he was really useless.

What should be done?

Cheng Shi frowned and threw Barto under his feet, pondered for a moment, and began to ask the surrounding scavengers about the current situation.

But he didn't have much hope in his heart. After all, even Wells's handrail didn't know Wells's secrets, so how could these small fry know?

His current idea was to master all the intelligence he could get and leave here quickly, go to the nearest eastern or western stronghold, find other scavenger group leaders who understood the Land of Piety and the Faith Theater, and see what secrets could be pried out of their mouths.

But to his surprise, this question actually yielded an unexpected harvest.

A thin young man wrapped in rags and dressed like a water bucket poked his head out from behind a pile of waste metal in front of the barbed wire, his eyes uneasy and trembling:

"I know a method..."

"!?"

Cheng Shi raised an eyebrow, Zhang Jizu narrowed his eyes, and Watching Ai Si turned her head instantly. The three looked at the thin young man together.

"Come over and talk, what's your name?"

"My name is... Prott." The young man clearly didn't dare to come over. He shrank his head and hummed, "I can tell you, but... I only have one request."

Cheng Shi smiled. He walked quickly behind the pile of abandoned metal, picked up the terrified Prott, and looked at this brown-haired, blue-eyed scavenger happily:

"As long as you have a method to get us in, I can satisfy any request you have.

Hmm, let me think, the southern stronghold now has lost its master, why don't you be the new master here.

How about it, Mr. Prott?"

Although Cheng Shi's words were gentle, Prott was still scared.

He felt a huge threat from these three people and seemed to regret popping up, but thinking of his wish, he gritted his teeth and endured the fear, took a deep breath and said:

"I don't want to be any boss, I just ask the three lords to agree to one request."

"Very good, I like people with firm positions." Cheng Shi smiled, put the trembling Prott on the ground, patted his shoulder, and straightened his crooked collar for him, "But before saying your request, you might as well say this method first, let me verify the goods, how about it?"

Prott was clearly an immature scavenger. Under the fear of death and subtle induction, he didn't consider at all why this transaction started from him, and directly threw the answer to Cheng Shi.

"Wells once said, if living people are hard to get in, let the dead get in.

He and the scavenger leader of the East District, Ye Nuoli, had a plan. They were trying to restore the creations of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Tower of Rationality from the waste, wanting to use these creations to push open the door of the theater.

I know where those mechanical creations were hidden by them..."

Before he could finish, Cheng Shi and Watching Ai Si turned their heads directly to look at Zhang Jizu.

Dead people?

We happen to have a Gravekeeper here who is very knowledgeable about dead people.

Cheng Shi raised an eyebrow and laughed: "Old Zhang, perform one for everyone?"

Zhang Jizu narrowed his eyes, looked at Prott for a long time before nodding: "Performance needs props..."

Before he could finish, Watching Ai Si moved. She stabbed Barto's chest with a sword and threw the liberated deputy's corpse in front of this 【Death】 God-Chosen.

"Here, fresh."

"..."

Seeing this, Zhang Jizu's eye twitched, feeling that he was the one furthest from 【Death】 on the scene.

"I can indeed create some undead puppets through props, but this consumes a lot and is time-consuming and laborious.

Cheng Shi, you have a simpler method, let you do it this time."

"?" Cheng Shi's expression froze. He stared at Zhang Jizu suspiciously for a long time. He really wanted to ask if you were really Squinty Old Zhang, but after thinking for a moment, he endured it.

Then he nodded slightly stiffly, reached out, and gave a huge thunder to the corpse on the ground.

"Boom—"

The dazzling purple light and the exploding roar scared all the surrounding scavengers to their knees, and Prott, who was closest, was even more pale and crawling backward frantically.

Just in the gaze of everyone's fear, a skeleton emerged from the corpse and rushed toward the barbed wire without hesitation.

I saw it agilely cross the high wall and plunge into the fog, but not long after, it collapsed with a bang without warning, turning into a pile of broken bones, falling in the Land of Piety.

Cheng Shi's expression turned solemn instantly. He felt the feedback of the skeleton and said in a deep voice:

"A dead life stained with the breath of a living person also doesn't work. Although its consciousness is not completely independent, it seems to count as a 'living thing.' It lost contact with me after rushing in.

It seems that we can only try Wells's mechanical creation plan. I hope... it can be useful."

"Lead the way, Prott, take us to see your 'new assets'."

Cheng Shi pushed the terrified Prott and walked away. The scavengers left behind looked at the backs of the four disappearing, a flash of heat in their eyes. Of course, this heat was definitely not envy of Prott's new boss status, but envy of whether they would push open that door with the help of these powerful outsiders!

You know, whether it is from the perspective of wanting to leave this "garbage pit" of Sandlais, or to satisfy their desire to become gods, the only hope in the hearts of the old scavengers here is to push open the door of that theater.

This door clearly stood not far away, visible to the naked eye, but this distance in the middle was like a natural chasm, burying countless scavenger corpses over the years.

That wandering ghost was like a gatekeeper before the door to becoming a god, ruthlessly rejecting all guests who visited rashly.

Cheng Shi didn't want to be this rash guest, so he felt that he should give the traditional and old theater in the fog some technological shock from the Tower of Rationality.

The three walked through the stronghold under Prott's leadership. To be honest, the central area of Sandlais was quite large. It could be seen that this place was also a prosperous place in the past.

It's just that the past prosperity was all frozen under the garbage heap and waste, becoming the most eye-catching stain in this ice and snow world. ===== CHAPTER 822 =====