Chapter 3349: Ghoul Friend

The small boat did not slide on the ground, but gradually rose as Xia De waved the oar. It sailed forward in the white fog at a position half a meter from the ground, which looked quite similar to the mounts of those undead knights just now.

After Xia De, who had recovered his human form, waved the oar lightly again, the boat accelerated and sailed toward the front above the tombstones.

Although the speed of this boat was not as fast as Xia De in the silver wolf form, at least it was much faster than the speed of his legs.

"She" gently guided Xia De back to the position where he had just separated from the witches. The small boat didn't sail far before seeing the battle traces left on the ground. Undead creatures would be absorbed by the wasteland after being defeated, so the corpses of the monsters could not be seen here, and Xia De didn't know what they encountered again, but it didn't look like an opponent that was easy to deal with.

The cat had been released by Xia De again, because it was very obedient and wouldn't run around, so Xia De was happy to let the cat with a keen sense of smell play a certain degree of warning role.

After continuing forward, one or two ghouls would occasionally jump out from both sides of the darkness and pounce on the small boat, but they were all cut to pieces by the moonlight Xia De swung. It was just that ghouls appeared more and more densely, and more and more mutated individuals appeared among them.

If it was just flying or invisibility, it didn't matter, but limb mutation caused some ghouls to still be able to move forward even after being cut to pieces. They really brought Xia De a lot of trouble; of course, the most disgusting enemies were the ghouls that would self-destruct. Although the small boat was not afraid of damage, Xia De really didn't want his clothes to be stained with too much corpse oil.

Xia De suspected that the witches had plunged into a ghoul nest, but this was indeed the direction of moving forward.

"Found it!"

Soon Xia De heard the sound of spellcasting, so the small boat crashed into the undead blocking the way ahead and rushed over. More and more ghouls appeared from the front and were blown into stumps by Xia De's "Lei Sheng Wave," while the witches who were standing back-to-back facing the ghouls pouncing like a tide from all directions, after hearing the sound from behind and feeling the ghoul group behind them diverting, also moved rapidly toward Xia De's direction.

"Boat?"

They didn't expect Xia De to get a small boat that could fly, but under the siege of such dense undead, it was of course very good to have a means of transportation. The hounds were thrown onto the boat, and then Miss Liard and Theresa jumped up together.

Sister Belen followed behind them, and Miss Violet, who used the 【Eternal Sleep Scripture】 power to manipulate some ghouls, boarded the boat last. Little Mia even let out a meow at Miss Violet. After everyone boarded the boat, the hundreds of ghouls around pounced on the small boat that was surrounded, and then the dazzling golden light that erupted blew them all away.

Xia De's Hilton Seal, Sister Belen's Primordial Fire Secret Art - Ring of Blazing Flames, and Miss Violet's Chaos Witch Secret Art - Disorderly Protection, made the three-layer shields of gold, red, and seven-colored colors overlap on the small boat, and also wrapped the whole boat in it.

Theresa cast spells to speed up the movement of the small boat, so under Xia De's control, the whole boat pierced into the ghoul group like an arrow, and then flew rapidly toward the front.

"Is this boat the boat in death?"

The sister asked softly amidst the calls of the ghouls around, and Xia De, who was maintaining the shield and letting it burst and then re-casting the seal at the appropriate time, nodded:

"Yes, summoning this boat in this wasteland now, I even feel there is no consumption at all."

He said while pushing out "Lei Sheng Wave" toward the side with his left hand, not requiring to hurt the enemy, as long as he could push away a large group of ghouls every time, it was enough. Facing this kind of scene, the moonlight power that was easy to erupt with too much light was not very useful.

And Miss Violet, who was standing at the bow of the boat holding 【The Eternal Sleep Scripture】, reminded at this time:

"Get ready, I sense that there seems to be a terrible big guy ahead."

"Can we detour?"

"There is no way to detour. In my perception, that thing directly blocked the way we were moving forward from a conceptual sense... That thing has the power to manipulate the wasteland."

The density of the ghoul group began to decrease after reaching a certain limit, so the pressure on everyone on the small boat was also reduced. Then, in just a few minutes, as the small boat continued to move forward, the density of the ghouls around also dropped to the point where it was almost unnecessary to use shields to cover the small boat.

In the end, those ghouls appearing between the tombstones didn't even attack the group, just wandering in the wasteland.

The stench had become so thick at some point that it was almost impossible to breathe, and the cat, with its keen sense of smell, had long since hidden deep inside Xia De's pocket. That heavy, putrid odor of a corpse was as if they had already pressed their noses against a body that had severely decayed in the summer heat, and so Xia De guessed what they were about to face.

A huge black shadow appeared in the fog ahead, like a dark mountain range blocking the direction of the small boat's advance. The continuous mountains were like barriers in the wasteland. Looking up, even if one didn't have megalophobia, one would be terrified by it.

But what was even more panic-inducing was that as the small wooden boat approached, everyone saw that the surface of the "dark mountain range" was wriggling rotten flesh. Afterward, they saw from the general shape of the mountain range that it was not a mountain range, but a huge fat humanoid sitting in the wasteland.

"Ghoul Hou Jue."

After the hound finished speaking, she hugged her daughter and hid under Theresa's skirt. The small boat stopped at this time. Although there were still tombstones densely packed around, the ghouls wandering around could no longer be seen.

No one had ever seen a giant ghoul as big as a mountain range before, and the power it contained was even more terrifying than its size. Xia De even felt that the chimeric undead evil thing that appeared above the city at the end of the Battle of Midhillburg was not as terrifying as the undead blocking the way at this moment.

The stench almost changed the color of the surrounding air. Everyone held their breath, and the two sides were in a silent confrontation. But Theresa had already grasped the 【One-Hit Kill Pistol】, Miss Violet was also clutching the last soul tear, the cracks of the Primordial Fire Embers on the sister's hands spread inch by inch, and Miss Liard was watching the luggage that could not be turned into toys and squatting in the small boat.

Rumbling thunder suddenly sounded from high altitude, but then Xia De realized that it was not thunder but a voice—

"Ghoul, friend."

The vague words probably meant these two meanings. The Outsider was shocked, thinking the next sentence would be something like "friend, delicious," but that "dark mountain range" moved toward the side after this. The giant object with a huge body moved silently and strangely. It took only tens of seconds for the "mountain range" blocking the way to disappear completely into the fog.

The ghouls around also disappeared, and the way forward was cleared.

Everyone on the small boat didn't quite understand what happened. Miss Violet even moved forward to cast a spell to test whether the disappearance of the "mountain range" was an illusion. After confirming it was safe, she let Xia De set sail again.

"Do you have any ghoul friends?"

Amidst the doubts, Miss Liard, who was squatting, asked in a low voice:

"Could it be that someone here has been friends with a ghoul, so that giant ghoul is willing to let us go?"

The hound, who crawled out from under Theresa's skirt, agreed with this view very much:

"The Ghoul Hou Jue only cares about corpses. It was originally one of the few powerful existences in this wasteland that had no conflict with you. If you have obtained the friendship of other ghouls, it is very possible that it let everyone go."

"I wouldn't provoke such disgusting and ugly things."

The Witch Empress said first, and Theresa also nodded. Although Miss Liard often went in and out of tombs, she didn't have the hobby of being friends with ghouls, and Sister Belen was the same.

So the witches all looked at Xia De, and Xia De didn't know either:

"My friends are all living people, could it be..."

He originally wanted to say that he had the mark given by the Chosen One of Death on the back of his hand, but suddenly thought of another thing in the gentle laughter of "She":

"Last Friday, I mean two days ago, I once helped a corpse ghost..."

He described the story of the corpse ghost Mr. Otto and Mrs. Otto about the fifty-year wait while sailing. Of course, he omitted the name of Chloe in the background story. And "ghoul" and "corpse ghost" are actually undead creatures of the same kind, and the two can be almost equated.

The young girls—referring to Theresa and Miss Liard—sighed after hearing the story, while Miss Violet believed that this was the reason they were let go:

"You said you personally drove the boat to send it to death, and obtained a gift after the soul left. Then, was the gift brought on you?"

【Ancient Fairy Tale · Snow White】 was of course on him; as for the ice-blue Heart of the Living Dead, it was now in the suitcase held by Miss Liard, and of course, it was also there.

"They are all on this boat... Does this count as good people getting good rewards?"

Xia De fully understood only then, but although the Ghoul Hou Jue did not make things difficult for them, it did not mean that the road back to the world of the living would be smooth sailing. On the contrary, the appearance of this giant ghoul, which should have been uninterested in them, explained some problems:

"The Ghoul Hou Jue and the Swollen Lady have both appeared. Will the last one appear?"

The hound answered softly:

"The Gravedigger of the Underworld Coffin is a guard placed in the wasteland by the owner of the kingdom. If we encounter it, we can only fight it head-on to have a chance to leave."

"But why would they all appear?"

Theresa asked in a low voice. Miss Violet glanced at her and shook her head without speaking, but everyone on the boat guessed the reason. If it wasn't because everyone's luck was bad, then of course it was because a stronger existence than them had issued an order.

So Miss Liard's face turned as white as if she had also become an undead. Among everyone present, her situation was the worst, and the possibility of her being left here forever was the greatest.

?? PS: The picture of this chapter "Ghoul Hou Jue."