261: Golden Eyed Corpse King, Indestructible

The moment Tian Ming released his grip, the carbon fiber on the Corpse Emperor was directly decomposed by him, and his figure flashed. This guy wanted to escape.

Tian Ming sneered. How could he let the Corpse Emperor escape so easily? His figure instantly vanished, appearing behind the Corpse Emperor, and he grabbed his neck.

The Corpse Emperor let out a piercing shriek, his body instantly stiffening, unable to move. Tian Ming's right hand was like a chain, tightly locking the Corpse Emperor's throat. He wanted to struggle but found his body completely locked, unable to move.

"Kill me then. Anyway, I'm not the only Corpse Emperor of this level, am I?" The Corpse Emperor said to Tian Ming with a hint of mockery on his face.

Tian Ming's eyes narrowed. He held the Corpse King with his right hand, and a very sharp dagger appeared in his left hand. With a clang, he found that his dagger couldn't penetrate at all; the dagger broke into two pieces.

Even a nanoblade couldn't harm this Corpse King in the slightest. His body surface was covered with a force field that directly magnified the strong interaction force between atoms beyond the atomic gap.

This Corpse King in front of him was like a human-shaped water droplet. Perhaps only the gravitational tides of a black hole could directly tear apart the Gold-Eyed Corpse King's body.

Tian Ming directly released the Corpse Emperor, and the Corpse Emperor did not immediately run away.

"I can't do anything to you, and you can't do anything to me. How about we cooperate? You humans can live peacefully; we'll only eat humans over 60 years old. How does that sound? Also, you can directly absorb Red Crystal Cores, and I can promise you five Red Crystal Cores every month."

Tian Ming gave a cold laugh and said, "Do you think I'll believe you?"

The Corpse Emperor's expression remained unchanged as he continued, "You don't have to believe me. The human race's reproductive capacity can't compare to ours. We don't need brains; just by consuming various substances, we can evolve bodies far superior to yours. How can you compare to us? In terms of numbers, we are nine to your one. Although you still have the advantage of technology now, this advantage won't last long."

What the Gold-Eyed Corpse King said was basically true. Zombies only needed a portion of their leadership to possess intelligence; other ordinary zombies could achieve physical evolution just by ingesting various elements and their dead counterparts. Like an ant colony, zombies could almost infinitely expand their numbers.

Tian Ming did not answer immediately. He pondered for a moment, then said, "I'm very curious, what kind of Red Crystal Core will you produce? What kind of abilities will I gain after absorbing your Red Crystal Core?"

The Corpse Emperor's face sank, and he said, "You can't kill me. Even your human atomic weapons can't do anything to me. I'll ask you again, do you choose alliance or confrontation?"

"Confrontation!"

The Corpse Emperor's expression changed; Tian Ming's answer made the Corpse Emperor's face extremely ugly.

Static came through Tian Ming's earpiece, faintly Li Feng's cry for help.

"Commander, Commander, if you hear me, please respond."

Tian Ming's heart tightened. He glanced at the Corpse Emperor, and his figure instantly vanished. Nothing could restrain this Corpse King except his own right hand, so Tian Ming directly gave up the idea of capturing the Corpse King. He couldn't just keep holding his neck and dragging him back to the base, could he?

Besides being unseemly, if he let go, the base would definitely be in chaos. Tian Ming prepared to return for support. Two trainees had already been lost. Tian Ming planned to lead them to retreat; if all the people were wiped out, the alliance would have something to say.

The moment Tian Ming rushed back to the defense line, his heart instantly sank to the bottom. The defense line had been breached, the ground was piled with zombie corpses, and of the dozen or so fire points, only half were still roaring; the heavy machine guns at the other fire points had been largely chewed away.

Boom!

A Nitrogen Bomb exploded around the defense line. When the bomb detonated, a huge amount of energy was instantly released, the surrounding air was instantly compressed, and then rapidly expanded outwards, forming a deafening explosion.

The buildings and facilities on the defense line instantly collapsed under this energy, with rubble, dirt, and debris flying everywhere. The shockwave generated by the Nitrogen Bomb's explosion spread around the defense line, knocking a large number of zombies to the ground. Some zombies were even directly torn to shreds by the shockwave.

After releasing the Nitrogen Bomb, Tian Ming instantly appeared within the defense line, and a thirty-meter radius shield instantly formed, protecting his trainees like an inverted pot lid.

After the explosion, raging fires burned everywhere, but some special zombies had, however, endured the dense explosions and staggered up from the piles of corpses, continuing to charge towards the defense line.

Of the forty-eight people within the defense line, thirty remained. Eighteen had been entangled by a small Corpse King during the process of collecting Red Crystal Cores and were instantly submerged in the zombie horde.

Tian Ming condensed more than a dozen Nitrogen Bombs and initiated another round of bombardment.

Li Feng looked at Tian Ming. In the zombie horde and continuous combat, his originally clean face was already covered in dust and bloodstains.

Seeing the severe reduction in personnel, Tian Ming questioned, "Why didn't you call me for rescue?"

"After you left, a Corpse King appeared. It stayed about eight hundred meters away, constantly releasing electric arcs from its head, and our communication channel was directly disabled. We couldn't reach you, nor could we contact you."

Li Feng thought of his brothers whose bones were gone, feeling extremely unwilling.

"Where are Chen Xi and Qin Lu?" Li Feng then reacted.

"Couldn't save them. I encountered the Corpse Emperor of the entire Beidu, and I couldn't do anything to him."

Li Feng's face changed again and again, veins bulging on his forehead. He grabbed Tian Ming's clothes and roared, "What did you say? You said Qin Lu is dead?"

Tian Ming looked at Li Feng's agitated expression. He silently nodded, confirming Li Feng's question.

Li Feng instantly released Tian Ming's clothes powerlessly and slumped to the ground, tears mixing with dust on his face, tracing lines of sorrow. His companions around him also lowered their heads; they saw Li Feng's pain and felt endless sorrow in their hearts.

"Let's go, retreat. I'll take you back to the base," Tian Ming said in a deep voice. Before he had fought with the Corpse Emperor of Beidu, he always felt that the alliance was too cautious, but only after truly engaging did Tian Ming realize that he had been overconfident.

The communication signal being blocked was probably done by the Corpse King under the direct command of the Corpse Emperor. A Corpse Emperor of the Corpse Emperor's level could communicate directly with his subordinates through a psychic bond.

Tian Ming showed a bitter smile on his face. Now, the alliance would definitely blame him. Although more than 40 Red Crystal Cores were collected this time, from the perspective of the casualty ratio, Tian Ming's side was not at a loss. But after all, it was an act of insubordination, and the loss of team personnel would naturally be counted on his head.