Published: February 7, 2025
Chapter 5:
"Ah, today's explosion ends here. Thanks to Brother Bai Kaishui for the nth time with the 1888 contribution, and to the other brothers who voted. Old Phantom bows in gratitude. The death game is about to begin, and the next explosion will be around mid-month~~~ Everyone, sleep well."
The Crimson Veil looked almost transparent. After covering the entire square, a strange scene unfolded.
Normally, a veil would get wet upon contact with liquid, but this one was different; it was 'sucking' the blood, becoming increasingly vivid in color while remaining dry.
Moreover, it absorbed not only blood but also the scattered limbs and flesh on the ground, whether human or zombie, all drawn into that layer of veil.
Once it drained all the blood and flesh from the square, nothing remained except for the damaged or abandoned equipment and magic crystals.
Having transformed into a bright red veil, it didn’t stop there. Slowly rising, just as it had descended earlier, when it reached a height of four to five stories, it began to constrict from the point above Ye Zhongming's head, shrinking little by little. Moments later, it transformed from a sheet of veil into a piece of red cloth about two square meters.
On it, indistinct patterns began to emerge.
At this moment, Ye Zhongming used a dagger to cut his wrist. The red cloth seemed to sense some delicacy and quickly wrapped around the wound, binding it tightly.
If someone was nearby, they would see tendrils of a deeper red color spreading inside, resembling veins. As these tendrils spread, Ye Zhongming's complexion turned pale, and his body swayed slightly.
This state lasted about a minute. Once the entire red cloth was filled with these tendrils, it floated back into the air, swaying gently, while onlookers watched with puzzled expressions.
Ye Zhongming didn’t know when a long blue bone appeared in his hand. After inserting it into the ground, the red cloth quickly dropped again, wrapping around the long bone, which seemed to be from some animal or undead lifeform.
First, it moved back and forth on the bone, then slowed down until it finally took shape. The red cloth slowly unfurled, beginning to flutter with the gentle breeze in the square.
"This... a flag?" Even though Bai Feng felt guilty towards Ye Zhongming and Cloud Summit Villa, he knew that while Ye Zhongming might not be easy to recognize, at least he kept his word. Since they had survived the previous intense battle, he shouldn't harm them, so he stayed and watched what Ye Zhongming was going to do.
Seeing the veil transform into a flag after a series of unbelievable changes, Bai Feng couldn't help but be astonished.
The flag flapped in the wind a couple of times, as if completing its final process, and then suddenly released a cloud of red mist that filled the square, reducing visibility to a minimum!
Within the red mist, countless ghosts emerged, writhing and twisting in the space filled with red fog, emitting soul-chilling wails. They wore bizarre white or black robes, with blue or gray-black claws, their hollow eyes and mouths wandering like restless spirits.
Many people screamed in fear and retreated. It was their first encounter with such bizarre phenomena; these ghosts seemed genuinely to linger around them and even suddenly scream down from above.
What was even harder to accept was that these ghosts were clearly the souls of those who had just died in battle. In their deformed and twisted faces, familiar features could be found, instilling fear in the living that they too might become such haunting spirits after death.
Screams echoed one after another, and the red mist thickened until it formed a red cloud above Ying City.
The sky was bright with sunshine. In the mid-air was a swirling red cloud of ghosts.
The spirit woman, who had been trying to keep her distance from Ye Zhongming, now looked up towards the red mist. Besides the previous fear, there was now a hint of admiration in her eyes. Perhaps she didn’t even realize that this feeling was admiration, a primitive form of submission. As a hybrid of human and zombie, she possessed a very high IQ, and the unknown mysterious things always made her instinctively weak in the knees.