Published: February 5, 2025
“Brother Ye has been gone for so long, is everything okay?” Daming, who was brought in for support, whispered to Little Tiger after waiting for a long time without seeing Ye Zhongming appear.
“What could happen to the boss?” Little Tiger carefully wiped the edge of the moon, showing great affection for the blade.
“Little Tiger, I treat you well usually, right?” Xia Lei walked over and plopped down beside Little Tiger, a big smile on her face.
Little Tiger immediately turned around, pressing the edge of the moon firmly beneath him, clutching his head and muttering, “Let’s be clear, Sister Lei, I know what you want to do. I'm telling you, you won't succeed.”
Seeing Little Tiger’s reaction, everyone laughed. Xia Lei helplessly tapped Little Tiger’s head, “I’ve studied knife techniques; have you? Can you handle it better than me?”
“I’ve studied, you taught me,” Little Tiger replied.
“You’re driving me crazy!” Xia Lei lightly kicked Little Tiger, feeling exasperated with him.
Xia Lei had previously studied under a famous knife master. While Mo Ye might be comparable to her in skills, Xia Lei was still the best with a blade. In fact, some of the knife insights and techniques that Mo Ye and Little Tiger had learned came from her.
“Isn’t it just a knife?” A voice came from the other side of the city wall, prompting everyone to stand up. They saw Ye Zhongming emerging from the darkness, followed by someone else.
He handed Xia Lei a new edge of the moon, which he had made while he was out.
Xia Lei received it, instantly beaming. This weapon was practically standard issue for their team; she just hadn’t been able to muster the courage to ask Ye Zhongming for one earlier.
“Who is she?”
With the faint light, everyone hadn’t noticed the strange-looking Iron Corpse behind Ye Zhongming, assuming it was just another person. Liang Chuyin came over to inquire.
Ye Zhongming didn’t answer but climbed up the city wall to look outside. He said to everyone, “In a bit, we’ll head down from here. Daming, you take people on both sides to make some noise and throw down the meat we gathered.”
Pointing to two directions, Ye Zhongming continued, “After attracting the zombies' attention, I’ll go down first to clear the surrounding zombies and create a better environment for everyone. However, this opportunity is very short-lived, so we must act fast.”
“No matter how much we gather, remember to follow me back when you see me return. We’re not going to fight; we’re just here to collect things!”
After he finished speaking, everyone immediately lowered the ropes they had prepared from the city wall. Ye Zhongming nodded to Daming, who quickly ran a short distance away, getting the people waiting there to start banging things to create noise. After attracting the surrounding zombies' attention, they threw down the prepared meat.
Seeing the horde of corpses gather on both sides, Ye Zhongming was the first to descend the rope, while the Iron Corpse jumped down from the city wall.
“What the heck is that? Its eyes are red, and its hair is also red!” Little Tiger leaned over the city wall to look at the person who had just jumped down, noticing something unusual with a fleeting glance.
“It looks like a zombie, but it seems to be controlled by Zhongming,” Le Da Yuan speculated uncertainly.
A whistle sounded, and everyone stopped discussing and began to descend the ropes, turning on the flashlights they had prepared and quickly started mining the magic crystals from the corpses left behind from the daytime battle.
Ye Zhongming, who had reached the ground first, was clearing nearby zombies and mutated creatures alongside the Iron Corpse.
As Ye Zhongming fought the zombies, he kept an eye on the Iron Corpse’s combat. He found that this being was truly a humanoid weapon; with just a casual grab, she could crush a zombie's head, or with a gentle thrust, she could pierce through a hard skull.
Moreover, the Iron Corpse had immense power. Just earlier, she had torn a mutated pig in half, its heavy body weighing hundreds of pounds thrown far away.