Published: February 12, 2025
Every Cloud Summit warrior was waiting for Ye Zhongming's command.
Due to the elevated position of their formation, everything happening below was clearly visible. They could see the monsters rushing across the gravel ground, entering the small grassland, and everyone was ready to strike.
However, apart from the ten rows of attacking weapons at the forefront being pulled back by designated individuals, the order to attack was delayed, and in an instant, the monsters were not far from the Cloud Summit formation.
Those tall monsters were already close enough to see the grim expressions on their faces.
“Boss?!”
Little Tiger, who was impatient, was the first in the merit medal squad to speak up.
“Wait.”
Ye Zhongming’s response was straightforward, and upon hearing this, Little Tiger wisely fell silent. At this moment, if he asked further, it would only expose his lack of emotional intelligence and serve no purpose.
Watching the monsters rushing towards them, Ye Zhongming silently calculated the distance.
“One thousand meters!”
Suddenly, Xia Lei spoke up, and at the same time, Ye Zhongming silently issued a command to Red Hair. Originally in the formation, feeling the presence of the undead fish dragon, Red Hair opened her mouth with a silent roar.
Then, the Cloud Summit warriors saw a special team appear amidst the monster horde.
“So tired, so tired! Ye Zhongming, you treat me like a laborer; I want to eat you!”
The unique, piercing voice left many with a familiar feeling.
“Shut up, or I’ll kill you.”
Red Hair’s voice floated across the battlefield, accurately suppressing this noisy character.
The brain child tucked its head, hiding it on the shoulder of a giant corpse ape. It wanted to rest; the abilities it had just used had exhausted most of its energy.
The brain worm zombie, which had disappeared for a long time, reappeared in the eyes of the Cloud Summit group.
Not long after the first Cloud Summit regrouping, the brain child vanished. During this time, some said it had died, others claimed it had broken free from Cloud Summit's control, and some insisted it had left with the spirit woman. There were even many dubious rumors claiming to have witnessed its death.
The silence from Cloud Summit’s upper echelons and Ye Zhongming seemed to indirectly confirm these speculations.
If the brain child truly had died, then Cloud Summit no longer had a zombie army.
If one were to ask the water steward when they established the strength ranking of the national district, whether the zombie army was included as part of Cloud Summit, she would certainly say no.
In their eyes, the zombie army had indeed ceased to exist.
But did it really cease to exist?
No, it always existed.
The process had been incredibly arduous. It had secretly executed several tasks for Cloud Summit that humans were reluctant to undertake. Each time, it narrowly escaped death. The brain child possessed a high level of intelligence and naturally harbored grievances against Ye Zhongming. However, since it couldn’t detach from Red Hair and didn’t want to leave Cloud Summit, it remained.
Cloud Summit assigned it very dangerous tasks, but as long as it didn’t die, the benefits gained were substantial. This allowed such a being, which had no offensive or defensive capabilities and could only rely on controlling its kin to survive, to evolve early to the eighth level.
This time, Ye Zhongming entrusted the brain child with an extremely dangerous mission, one that could almost be considered suicidal... to teleport into the monster horde and snipe them.
The brain child had several main abilities: mental control, mental attack, and ability insight, among others. After evolving to the eighth level, it made significant progress in one ability—space traversal.
This ability was not like the Key of the Secret Realm, which connected two different worlds. Instead, it allowed for medium-distance travel within the same space while carrying a considerable number, akin to a space mage.