"What about other areas, is there any need for our assistance?" Wang Xiyi asked.

"Not for now... Wait a moment!"

Before Yang Qi finished speaking, a piercing alarm sounded in the communication channel!

"A11, A13 areas have a large influx of unknown entities, requesting support!"

"Encountering entities in A19 area! We're engaged in battle!"

"Communication lost in A35, B09 areas!"

"Communication lost in B14 area!"

Almost simultaneously, the Hunters responsible for sweeping various areas all encountered entities. The battle had just begun and had already entered a fierce stage!

"The auxiliary drone detected abnormal meme frequencies!" Yang Qi spoke quickly, "Below your feet! And... there are many!"

"Figured," Wang Xiyi looked down at the ground, "Only underground can they be hiding."

Sun Hang smelled the unique scent of the entities... but this time, it was a nauseating stench of rot.

In other words, these entities hiding underground are despised even by the indiscriminate Taotie.

"Here they come!" Wang Xiyi shouted softly, black scales instantly covered her two long arms, ten fingers transformed into sharp dragon claws—this was the semi-beast transformation state, its combat strength is weaker than full beast transformation, but its control difficulty is much higher. The only advantage is that semi-beast transformation has less impact on the deceit process.

In Wang Xiyi's own words, she was a "desperate" individual.

The next second, countless entities crawled out from cracks in the ground—these entities looked like a group of malformed children, with large heads typical in sci-fi alien imagery, disproportional skinny bodies wrapped in skin, and sharp claw-like nails.

Their skin had a sickly greenish-white hue, covered with various sized corpse spots and decaying wounds. Some wounds even spanned almost half of their bodies, exposing the walnut-sized shriveled heart inside the chest cavity.

The eeriest part was their faces—these humanoid entities had no facial features, only two lines of dried blood-red tear marks extending from where the eyes should be to the jawline.

"Corpse ghosts." Wang Xiyi crushed the head of an entity lunging at her with a squeeze and then kicked another trying to attack her from the side, splitting it in half.

"Sounds like zombies or ghouls," Sun Hang stood still as a multitude of mycelium rose behind him, swiftly piercing the few corpse ghosts approaching him.

"Almost, corpse ghosts are actually corpses buried deep underground, reanimated by the deceit virus," Wang Xiyi slaughtered continuously more corpse ghosts crawling out from underground while she explained, "Their individual strength depends on the power they had during life, the actual threat is weaker than ordinary adults... Those who fall victim to corpse ghost attacks either are scared and don't react or are elderly or children. Records show they are bullies that rarely attack adults actively."

"Are there many records of corpse ghost appearances?"

"Many, throughout the Xiazhou Federation, there are at least a few hundred cases of corpse ghost attacks on humans a year," Wang Xiyi replied, "These cases are usually handled by the Public Security Bureau, Hunters only take on corpse ghost tracking tasks if they're very idle."

"But the numbers here are really too much..."

Before Sun Hang could finish, the next batch of corpse ghosts crawling out from underground started changing.

Some wore ragged armor, and a significant number of corpse ghosts carried weapons like ring-headed sabers and iron halberds—though these ring-headed sabers were rusted beyond recognition, and the iron halberds only had the head remaining, compared to the previously unarmed corpse ghosts, their threat level was undoubtedly much increased.

"I feel like... we are facing a resurrected ancient army?" Sun Hang easily shredded a corpse ghost brandishing a ring-headed saber with mycelium, he wanted to grab the saber to inspect but as soon as it left the corpse ghost's hand, it instantly turned to dust, scattered by the wind.

"Sun Hang, I've checked, you are located in an ancient battlefield from the Three Kingdoms era, these corpse ghosts might be 'resurrected' ancient soldiers by the deceit virus!" Yang Qi's voice came through the communication channel.

"Three Kingdoms era?" Sun Hang was stunned, "That's over 1800 years ago, can the bodies from then be preserved this well?"

"Don't look at entities with normal logic!" Ye Xuan's voice joined in, "Although there are many corpse ghosts, their fighting ability is weak. Clear the area quickly and support other Hunters—they are facing much tougher enemies!"

Four auxiliary drones spread out from the sky, using machine guns mounted below to shoot through the swarming corpse ghosts—their outdated armor was practically paper against modern weapons, the efficiency of the drones clearing corpse ghosts even surpassed Sun Hang and Wang Xiyi's. Watching the corpse ghosts fall in waves, Sun Hang felt like he was playing a mowing game.

But soon, a presence far stronger than ordinary corpse ghosts entered Sun Hang's perception range—after Wang Xiyi ripped apart two armored corpse ghosts, the ground beneath suddenly split open, a burly figure crashed out and sent Wang Xiyi flying with a swipe.

This "corpse ghost" stood five meters tall, even "Iron Wall" looked like an underdeveloped dwarf standing next to it, its entire body clad in heavy metal armor... no, to be precise, not clad, but the armor plates were embedded in its flesh... not equipment, but part of the massive corpse ghost's body.

"Mr. Wang, still alive?" Sun Hang wove a large net with mycelium, blocking the massive corpse ghost, turning to shout at the airborne Wang Xiyi.

"I'm fine, just a little dizzy," Wang Xiyi quickly got up from the ground—a pair of wings covered in scales unfolded from her back, scales gradually covered her body up to the neck.

Complete beast transformation.

"This guy is tough to deal with," Sun Hang watched as the giant corpse ghost tore the mycelium net apart with its bare hands—the net was strong enough to hold a 100 km/h gravel truck, but in the presence of the massive corpse ghost, it was no different from a regular spider web.

"Damn," Wang Xiyi spat out a mouthful of burning blood, wiped her mouth with a claw, "I underestimated it."

"Could Three Kingdoms have a five-meter giant like this?" Sun Hang asked, "Or is this thanks to the deceit virus?"

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