152: The most important thing in life is to cling to powerful figures!

Puchi!

The Shura Bloodblade stirred violently inside the Ghostface King's eye socket.

This Level 6 leader, who had nearly caused the entire back mountain defense line to collapse, had its final wail choked in its throat. After a couple of twitches, it completely slumped into a pile of rotten mud.

Dead.

The raging flames on Zhou Hai's body instantly extinguished. His layers of fat seemed like a deflated ball as he slumped directly onto the ground.

In the next second, he scrambled on all fours toward Zhao Ze, his large hands covered in black ash trembling as he tried to cover the bloody hole in Zhao Ze's shoulder.

"Old Zhao!"

Zhou Hai's voice trembled, roaring with a sob, "Don't sleep! Whatever you do, don't sleep! Do you hear me!"

Zhao Ze's face was deathly pale as he leaned against a rock, gasping for breath, his chest heaving like a broken bellows.

He struggled to lift his eyelids, looking at Zhou Hai's tear-streaked, pathetic appearance, and grinned while cursing, "What are you wailing for... cough cough..."

Su Li rushed over, not even bothering to wipe the blood from her face. She tore off her cuff and nimbly tightened it around Zhao Ze's wound to stop the bleeding.

She didn't say a word, but her hands were shaking violently, and large tears splashed onto the back of Zhao Ze's hand.

"Stop crying."

Zhao Ze reached out with his intact right hand and roughly wiped the tears from Su Li's face. "My body is tough; this little injury... won't kill me."

The three were covered in blood, with corpses strewn at their feet.

They hadn't retreated a single step.

Chen Yan stood not far away, leaning on his battle-axe, watching the three figures supporting each other. His grip on the axe handle tightened repeatedly.

These were the soldiers Lu Sheng had trained.

No words were needed; they trusted each other completely with their backs.

This was a true wolf pack.

"The back mountain is stabilized."

Chen Yan took a deep breath and turned his gaze toward the Harbor, where flames lit up the sky.

The commotion over there was growing louder, and the tremors in the ground could even be felt here.

"Now, it's up to Major Lu."

...The Harbor's main battlefield.

The atmosphere here was weirdly out of place.

In the distance, artillery fire roared and the sounds of battle were deafening.

Yet, in the very core of the Corpse Tide, a vacuum zone had been forcibly carved out.

Lu Sheng held his spear in one hand, walking leisurely. He didn't look like he was in a slaughterhouse, but rather like he was strolling through his own back garden.

A human-shaped ornament was clinging to his back.

Li Han was deathly clutching the corner of Lu Sheng's clothes, his waist bent like a large shrimp, his eyes wide and bulging, his head spinning like a rattle.

"You're a Level 6 Spirit Source User, what are you shaking for?"

Lu Sheng casually flicked his spear, sending a pouncing Floating Corpses flying. With a shake of the spear tip, not a single drop of black blood splashed onto him. "Since your eyes work, keep a sharp lookout for me."

Li Han had a bitter face, his teeth chattering. "Lu... Lord Lu, I'm just a bloated Level 6 Spirit Source User. In the past, Lei Lie would beat the monsters half to death and I'd just land the final blow to leech experience... This place is too terrifying, it's full of monsters. Can we back off a little?"

"Back off?"

Lu Sheng glanced at him, his golden pupils devoid of warmth. "I kept you because you can act as radar. If the radar is broken, there's usually only one outcome—throwing it out to feed the Floating Corpsess."

"Don't!"

Li Han shuddered, imagining himself being devoured by Floating Corpsess. His survival instinct instantly seized the high ground.

He forced his eyelids open, frantically searching within that dense energy vision.

"There!!"

Li Han suddenly pointed to the front right, his voice shrill. "Three o'clock! Two orange markers! High danger! They're charging up!"

Before his voice could fade.

Bang!

The ground beneath Lu Sheng's feet exploded, and his figure instantly vanished.

Only a white wave of compressed air remained where he had stepped off.

A second later, fifty meters to the front right.

Two Level 5 Elite Floating Corpses, which had just puffed up their poison sacs to spray, had their heads burst instantly like watermelons hit by a sledgehammer.

Lu Sheng's figure appeared. Without even looking back, the two headless corpses vanished into thin air, stuffed into the System space.

[Killed Level 5 Elite Floating Corpse, energy points +20!]

[Current Rank: Level 6 Spirit Source User (450/2500)!]

[Killed Level 5 Elite Floating Corpse, energy points +20!]

[Current Rank: Level 6 Spirit Source User (475/2500)!]

"Next."

Lu Sheng returned to his original position, his tone as casual as ordering food at a vegetable market.

Li Han was dumbfounded.

Just like that... gone?

Those were Level 5 Elites!

Back at the association, those were tough nuts that required full equipment and perhaps even a few cannon fodder deaths to take down.

In this lord's hands, what was the difference between them and swatting two mosquitoes?

Moreover... watching those monsters that usually gave him nightmares being slaughtered like vegetables, a perverted sense of satisfaction actually rose in Li Han's heart.

Is this what it feels like to hold onto a powerful thigh?

It's so damn secure!

Li Han's originally hunched back straightened an inch, the fear in his eyes receding, replaced by a sort of excitement from borrowing someone else's authority.

"Nine o'clock! Orange marker! Trying to sneak attack? Lord Lu, get it!"

"Twelve o'clock! A group of purple markers gathering! Trying to surround us? Smash them!"

"Six o'clock! That disgusting thing with tentacles... eh, it's already dead?"

Li Han was calling out targets rapidly, even adding a few comments. Anyone who didn't know better would think he was commanding a vast army.

Lu Sheng, meanwhile, became the most efficient grim reaper.

Striking wherever he was pointed.

The spear struck like a dragon, always claiming a soul.

Behind them, Qin Yue, Lin Hu, and Zhang Yi, who had rushed to support with the determination to die, were now standing awkwardly in place.

They didn't know whether to hold up their weapons or put them down.

"This... what are we here for?" Lin Hu looked at the golden, flashing figure ahead, the Thunder Halberd in his hand feeling a bit hot.

Qin Yue gave a bitter smile and silently put away her bow and arrows. "Probably to be cheerleaders, or... to prevent any blind small fries from disturbing Major Lu's amusement."

Zhang Yi swallowed hard, his eyes almost popping out. "One person... really held a whole defense line. How is this a person? This is a Vicious Beast in human skin!"

System notification sounds were frantically spamming in Lu Sheng's mind.

energy points surged, the myriad things furnace operated, and the spirit source crystal core inventory skyrocketed.

Lu Sheng was in a good mood.

This rhythm of having someone with a full-map hack calling out targets while he just focused on mindless mowing was simply too satisfying.

At this rate, after tonight, he would definitely have saved up more than half of the spirit source points needed!

Just as Lu Sheng pierced through a Level 5 Elite that was trying to play dead and was about to ask for the next target.

Li Han, who had been shouting excitedly beside him, suddenly let out a hideously unpleasant scream, like a rooster being strangled by the neck.

"AHHHHHH!!!"

This shriek was extremely piercing, startling even a few Low-Level Floating Corpses that were sneaking up.

Lu Sheng frowned.

He saw Li Han slump to the ground, his face turning from ruddy to ashen in an instant. His whole body twitched violently, and his crotch was suddenly soaked.

His hand trembled as he pointed toward the deep sea, his eyeballs nearly bulging out of their sockets as if he had seen something extremely terrifying.

"What's wrong?"

A sense of warning rose in Lu Sheng's heart.

Li Han's upper and lower teeth chattered frantically. It took a long time before he could squeeze a complete sentence out of his throat.

"Black... everything is black..."

"In the sea... there are so many black light clusters... rising up!!"

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