61: The undead scourge! We're surrounded!

"The Pharaoh King has been awakened?!"

In the operations center, Su Yuan's heart skipped a beat as he looked at the warning on the system panel.

How could it be so fast?

According to the deductions made by him and the think tank, the Pharaoh King was the final boss.

He shouldn't have been disturbed until at least after the Dragon Team had entered the pyramid and solved layers of puzzles and traps.

But now, they hadn't even touched the pyramid's door, so how did this final boss come online ahead of schedule?

"It was Wang Yi's punch!"

Li Guodong's expression also changed. He pointed at the screen playback and said,

"That Thunder Punch of his was too powerful! The energy fluctuations traveled directly to the pyramid and disturbed that Pharaoh King!"

No one expected that Wang Yi's earth-shattering punch, which saved the whole team, would actually trigger such a chain reaction.

"This is trouble." Lin Zhan's brow furrowed deeply.

"Undead Army... those words don't sound like a good omen."

Su Yuan immediately pulled his Gods Perspective to the extreme.

He saw that around the black pyramid emitting a blood-red light, the yellow sand on the ground began to churn frantically like boiling water.

Withered, decaying arms wrapped in tattered bandages reached out from the sandy ground.

Then came their heads, their bodies... tens of thousands of mummies struggled and crawled out from beneath the yellow sand where they had slept for thousands of years!

Eerie blue soul fires burned in their hollow eye sockets, and silent roars issued from their mouths.

They had only one target—

The direction of the living who had disturbed the Pharaoh King's slumber!

In addition to the mummies, large patches of black shadows appeared in the sky.

Those were countless fist-sized black beetles, their wings flapping with a scalp-numbing buzz, converging into black 'clouds' that swept toward the Dragon Team!

[Monster Name: Undead Mummy]

[Rank: F-Rank (Elite)]

[Abilities: Undead Body, Corpse Poison Claws]

[Weaknesses: Fear of Fire, Light, Divinity]

[Monster Name: Scarab]

[Rank: G-Rank (Common)]

[Abilities: Flesh Devouring, All-Pervasive]

[Weaknesses: Fear of Fire]

Looking at the monster information provided by the system, Su Yuan's heart sank bit by bit.

The mummies were actually Elite-rank!

Although they were F-Rank like the mutated sand scorpions, the word 'Elite' meant their combat power was absolutely incomparable to those scorpions.

And those Scarabs, though only the lowest G-Rank,

Their 'All-Pervasive' and 'Flesh Devouring' abilities, combined with their horrifyingly large numbers, made them even more threatening than the mummies!

"Su Yuan! What's the situation?!" Lin Zhan asked urgently.

"It's very bad." Su Yuan's voice was somewhat dry.

"Tens of thousands of mummies and Scarabs have appeared from the direction of the pyramid and are closing in on the Dragon Team's position. They are undead creatures; conventional physical attacks might not be very effective."

"Moreover, from the Gods Perspective, they are converging from all directions. The Dragon Team... has been surrounded!"

Su Yuan's words caused the entire operations center to fall into a dead silence instantly.

The joy brought by the Dragon Team's great victory just moments ago vanished without a trace.

In its place was an unprecedented solemnity.

Surrounded by an army of tens of thousands of undead in the middle of the desert with no cover to defend.

This... this was simply a desperate situation!

..."Captain... it seems we... are surrounded."

Zhao Zihan's voice sounded in the team channel, carrying a faint, barely perceptible tremble.

Her supernatural vision allowed her to be the first to see the dense black dots on the horizon, surging like a tide.

"Same on my side!"

"Same here!"

Wu Qiong and Zhang Wei, who were on sentry duty, also sent out warnings one after another.

Soon, everyone saw it.

At the edge of their vision, from all directions, the figures of the Undead Army appeared.

The sky was obscured by clouds of black beetles.

The ground was occupied by staggering mummies.

An aura of despair began to spread through the team.

"Damn it! Why are there so many!" Chen Hu slammed his fist hard into the sand. "How are we supposed to fight this?!"

"Calm down!" Wang Yi's voice remained steady.

He looked at the Undead Catastrophe surging from all directions. Not only was there no trace of fear in his eyes, but an even more intense battle intent began to burn!

He knew this was a show of force from the Pharaoh King.

It was also the true test given to them by the national destiny arena!

"Everyone, listen to my orders!"

Wang Yi's voice was clearly transmitted to everyone's ears through the channel.

"Abandon the stationary defense! Our current position is a depression in the sand; once we are surrounded, we're as good as dead!"

"Our target is the pyramid fifteen kilometers to the northeast!"

"Now, what we need to do is not defend, but break through!"

"Carve out a path of blood and charge to the pyramid!"

Wang Yi's words were like a bolt of lightning, striking through the confusion and fear in everyone's hearts.

That's right, waiting for death in place was never the Dragon Team's style!

Only offense is the best defense!

"Zhang Wei! Liu Meng!" Wang Yi began calling names.

"Present!"

"What were your roles before?"

"Reporting, Captain! I was in charge of demolitions!" Zhang Wei replied.

"I was in charge of firefighting!" Liu Meng replied.

"Excellent!" A cold arc curled at the corner of Wang Yi's mouth. "Now, I order you: one in charge of starting fires, and the other in charge of explosions!"

"Take out all our incendiary bombs and high-explosive flashbangs!"

"Chen Hu! Wu Qiong! You two will be the tip of the spear, responsible for tearing through the enemy's formation at the front!"

"Zhao Zihan! You stay in the center of the formation and be responsible for sniping aerial and distant threats!"

"Li Bingyao! Protect yourself and be ready to treat the wounded at any time!"

"The rest of you, form the flanks and cover the center! Use your weapons, use your fists—tear apart every enemy that gets close!"

"We have only one goal!"

Wang Yi raised the infinite desert eagle in his hand and pointed it toward the blood-red pyramid in the distance.

"Charge through!"

"Yes!"

The twenty team members roared in unison, their voices shaking the heavens!

All the fear and unease, under Wang Yi's highly inflammatory pre-battle mobilization, transformed into a surging battle intent!

The blood in their bodies was boiling!

Every cell in them hungered for battle!

"Come on, you pieces of trash!"

Chen Hu shouldered his high-frequency battle blade and let out a bloodthirsty roar as he watched the approaching mummy army.

"Let's show you what Dragon Country speed looks like!"

The battle was on the verge of breaking out!

In the distance, the mummy army was already right before their eyes.

On their rotting faces, within their hollow eye sockets, the blue soul fires flickered violently, emitting an endless hunger for the flesh and blood of the living.

"Fire!"

At Wang Yi's command, Liu Meng, who was already prepared, pulled the trigger of the flamethrower in his hand!

Whoosh—

An orange-red fire dragon dozens of meters long roared and swept toward the crowd of mummies ahead!