124: Chapter 124 The Yandere Corpse King's Food Protection Battle

The team continued to push forward.

Hazi walked at the very back.

His arm, worsened by mud-sickness, caused him agonizing pain, making his steps unsteady and chaotic.

"Click."

Hazi's right foot came down, stepping on a loose bluestone slab and depressing it by half an inch.

The sound of the mechanism triggering was exceptionally clear in the deep, gloomy tomb tunnel.

The bronze everlasting lamp fixtures on both walls instantly flipped over, revealing pitch-black launch holes one after another.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

The dense sound of air being pierced suddenly rang out.

Innumerable short bone arrows burning with dim green phosphorus fire shot out wildly from both sides of the walls in a crossfire grid toward everyone.

These bone arrows were quenched with vicious, fatal-upon-contact venom, and the arrowheads frictioning against the air emitted piercing screams like weeping ghosts and howling wolves.

Second Master Lei's expression changed drastically, and he shoved Hazi down to the ground.

Dazhuang and Yaba hurriedly raised the bulletproof tactical backpacks on their backs to shield themselves.

Lin Ye stood at the very front, a sharp light bursting from his eyes.

He was just about to swing the soul-suppressing copper coin sword to cut down these incoming hidden arrows.

A dim blue light danced wildly in front of his retina.

"Ding! "My Lord, Please Behave Yourself" System prompt: Detected that the host's squad has encountered a large-scale yin-fire mechanism ambush. Traditional sword slashing and axe chopping truly lacks the demeanor of an expert."

"Please finalize the formation-breaking strategy within three minutes and turn this crisis into a unique evening snack!"

The light screen unfolded, and three options directly jumped into view:

[Option A: Movement Master, Positioning and Dodging — — Shouting out 'Everyone get down!', you display supreme lightness kung fu to shuttle back and forth in the rain of arrows, saving only yourself.]

[Reward: Obtain the 'Parkour Expert' medal. Consequence: The grave robber squad along with Ayugu are shot into hedgehogs and drop dead on the spot, and you lose all your guides and logistical labor force.]

[Option B: Pure Yang Cleansing, Violent Suppression — — Consuming a massive amount of true qi, cast the Taiyi Heavenly Thunder Talisman. Use explosive thunder to blast the entire tomb tunnel along with the mechanisms straight into the sky.]

[Reward: Taoist spell proficiency +50. Consequence: The tomb tunnel collapses, the retreat route is completely cut off, and you will be buried alive two thousand meters underground in an oxygen-deprived environment.]

[Option C: Feeding a Glutton, Waste Utilization — — Put away the magic sword. Hand over the battlefield initiative to the ravenous mutant Corpse King beside you, point at the sky-full of toxic fire bone arrows, and domineeringly order, 'Frost Star, time to eat.']

[Reward: Husband points +300, Frost Star's evolution degree rises significantly, obtaining the limited-time title [Food-Protecting Mad Demon].]

Facing such a giveaway and effortless option, Lin Ye did not hesitate at all.

"I choose C."

Lin Ye made his decision in his heart and slung the soul-suppressing copper coin sword that he had just raised back onto his back.

With his arms crossed over his chest, he stood casually in front of the arrow rain and turned his head to look at Frost Star by his side.

"Frost Star, midnight snack time has arrived. Leave all these flaming skewers to you to handle."

Hearing the two words 'time to eat', Frost Star's pair of heterochromatic pupils instantly lit up with a dazzling light.

The little girl let out a cheer of excitement.

Instead of retreating, she advanced, facing the sky-full of dim green fire rain and striding right into the very center of the fire grid.

Frost Star spread her arms, her petite body leaning backward, and her small mouth opened to an exaggerated angle.

The Nether Corpse King's instinct to devour all things was thoroughly stimulated.

A visible deep blue extreme cold frost vortex roared into formation in front of her oral cavity.

The vortex erupted with terrifying, peerless suction, forcefully pulling all the air inside the tomb tunnel along with those incoming bone arrows.

An extremely bizarre scene occurred.

Those bone toxic arrows burning with green phosphorus fire, which were enough to pierce steel plates, completely lost momentum when they approached within half a foot of Frost Star's face.

They were forcefully sucked into that extreme cold vortex, turning into a stream of green fire that was continuously swallowed into Frost Star's belly.

"Crunch! Crunch!"

Crisp chewing sounds echoed in the tomb tunnel.

Frost Star closed her eyes, her cheeks bulging high on both sides as she vigorously chewed those bone arrows.

The highly toxic green phosphorus fire flickered between her teeth, yet it couldn't cause her a shred of harm; instead, it became an excellent seasoning.

"Crispy! The taste of meat attached to bone! And a little minty mild spiciness!"

The little girl gave her food review incoherently, grabbed two escaped bone arrows with both hands, and stuffed them into her mouth in large bites like eating sugar cane.

Second Master Lei and his three subordinates lay on the ground, staring wide-eyed at this scene, completely forgetting to breathe.

The little girl in front of them was simply a humanoid black hole!

In a mere ten seconds.

The thousands of toxic arrows in the mechanisms on both sides of the walls were eaten completely clean by Frost Star alone.

"Hiccup~"

Frost Star patted her round little belly and let out a loud, satisfying burp.

A ball of dim green residual fire drifted out from the corner of her mouth, turning into tiny ice crystals in the air and dissipating.

The little girl turned around, opened her arms, and threw herself directly into Lin Ye's embrace like a little cat seeking credit.

She lifted her head, her fair and tender little face full of pride, her heterochromatic pupils watery as she stared at Lin Ye's lips.

Lin Ye chuckled softly, his large palm comforting and patting her back twice.

He lowered his head and planted a warm kiss on Frost Star's cool, smooth forehead.

"I'll credit you with a contribution, well done. When we get back to Jiangzhou, I'll take you to the supermarket and buy you ten boxes of Häagen-Dazs ice cream for you to eat to your heart's content."

Having received the promise, Frost Star cheered and leaped with joy, wrapping her arms around Lin Ye's neck and refusing to let go no matter what.

"Ding! Option mission completed, Husband points +300, current points: 6600."

"Title [Food-Protecting Mad Demon] activated, team morale has risen to unprecedented heights."

Leng Yue quietly watched the two from the side.

She stepped forward half a step and stretched out her fair hand to tidy up the lapel of Lin Ye's clothes that had been mussed up by Frost Star.

The mechanisms were destroyed, and there were no more obstacles in the tomb tunnel.

Everyone quickened their pace, guided by the flashlight beam, walking all the way to the end of the tomb tunnel.

The view ahead suddenly opened up.

A giant white marble stone gate had been forcibly blasted apart by external force, and rubble was scattered all over the ground.

Everyone stepped over the ruins of the stone gate and entered a massive main tomb chamber.

This tomb chamber was octagonal, with an extremely high dome embedded with hundreds of luminous pearls emitting a soft glow, illuminating the entire space as bright as day.

In the center of the tomb chamber, no coffin was placed.

The ground depressed downward, forming a huge pool with a radius of a hundred meters.

This was the legendary Yellow Springs Pool.

The pool water presented a pitch-black color, and the surface was as calm as a black mirror, exuding biting coldness and deathly aura.

This chill exceeded that of the Ten Thousand People Mud Swamp outside.

Right in the dead center of the Yellow Springs Pool stood a lotus-shaped white jade high platform.

Upon the high platform, there was no corpse.

Only half a section of a backbone emitting dazzling white light floated quietly in mid-air.

That section of the backbone was crystal clear throughout, as if carved from top-grade suet jade.

It had no rotting flesh and blood, only the purest power circulating within the bone marrow.

A terrifying might that defied heaven and earth, immortal and indestructible, rippled outward layer by layer centered around this broken bone.

Unfading Bone!

The peerless fierce entity that King Zhou spent a hundred thousand troops to suppress in legends turned out to have only this half-section of the backbone left!

When Frost Star saw that glowing backbone, her eyes instantly burst out with fanatical light.

She broke free from Lin Ye's embrace, pointed at the lotus platform, and drool couldn't stop flowing down.

"Such a big glowing piece of candy! It smells ten thousand times more fragrant than the ice cream just now!"

Just at the moment she was about to rush onto the white jade high platform to snatch that 'candy'.

The calm black surface of the Yellow Springs Pool suddenly churned violently.

"Glug glug—boom!"

A water column soared into the sky.

A Headless Corpse General standing five meters tall, covered all over in tattered bronze heavy armor, holding a Xuanhua broadaxe the size of a door panel, stepped on the black pool water and abruptly emerged from the bottom of the pool.

A ferocious ghostly face grew on its chest cavity, and those blood-red eyes born on its chest locked onto everyone on the bank with a dead glare.

This was a tomb-guarding blood general refined from the remains of ancient fierce generals.

It had always been dormant at the bottom of the Yellow Springs Pool, guarding that Unfading Bone.

"Whoever dares to snatch my candy, I will chop him into pieces!"

Frost Star was thoroughly enraged.

The yandere Corpse King's food-protecting instinct erupted roaringly.

The little girl gripped the dim blue bone saber, transforming into a blue lightning bolt as she stepped directly across the water surface and rushed toward the Headless Corpse General.

"Wife, watch those few good-for-nothings behind."

Lin Ye dropped a single sentence.

With a reverse grip, he pulled out the soul-suppressing copper coin sword, and pure yang flames burst roaringly onto the sword blade.

Lin Ye's figure followed closely behind, charging head-on to kill that terrifying tomb-guarding blood general.