Doomsday Roulette

Xia Lei stood in front of a pale red mist, her gaze solemn.

After several days of travel, she had led her army to their destination.

The journey had been exceptionally perilous.

While they were not attacked by other factions' evolvers, the route was filled with massive amounts of evolved creatures.

There were hordes of zombies, groups of monsters, and swarms of mutated plants and animals.

In order to occupy this desolate land, Xia Lei had sent people to scout in advance, and it was clear that someone had deliberately lured so many evolved beings here.

Although humanity now had rich experience in dealing with these dangerous creatures lurking in the wild, these were merely methods; they could not avoid unexpected incidents entirely, and sometimes success depended on luck.

Thus, from the departure from Cloud Summit to reaching the desolate land, the 20,000-strong expedition lost more than one-tenth of its members!

How could Xia Lei, who had never suffered a significant loss, be happy about this?

Moreover, among the 3,000 warriors from Cloud Summit, over a hundred had perished, and those were precisely the ones Xia Lei had personally selected and nurtured!

However, with no clues to identify the culprit, she could only swallow this bitter loss.

With Xia Lei's temperament, which was even harsher than Ye Zhongming's, one could imagine how much resentment she harbored.

Nevertheless, she felt somewhat better thinking that at this moment, Little Tiger and Mo Ye should already be taking action.

While it was uncertain whether it was the Radiant World Army or the divine hall behind this, she would take it as their doing and use their blood to commemorate the two thousand fallen.

"Are you ready?"

Xia Lei turned to her deputy behind her.

"We're ready. Each person has been issued the candy-made potion, and the Silver Box Grenades have also been distributed."

Xia Lei nodded: "What about the magic crystal cannons?"

"They are fully assembled and ready for combat at any time."

"Good, inform Bai Feng that we are entering!"

With that, she was the first to cross through the pale red mist, which was the Chaos Barrier, and entered the desolate land.

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A girl with smooth long hair sat on a stone behind a ridge, cradling a black cat. Under the moonlight, her long hair seemed to shimmer.

One of her snow-white arms extended out, so delicate that it was somewhat enviable, smoother even than a baby's skin.

The black cat in her arms blended seamlessly with her hair, as dark as the deepest night.

A gust of mountain wind blew, causing her long hair to flutter and revealing her figure, which perfectly illustrated what it meant to be flawless.

Little Tiger glanced at his watch, then at the girl sitting beside him, and turned to look at Tang Tian beside him, still deciding to… communicate with her.

He truly didn’t know whether to address her as "Miss," "Lady," or "Corpse."

"Y-you, spirit woman, miss… young lady."

With a somewhat erratic personality, facing such a seventh-level great corpse king who embraced a mutated cat on par with her, Little Tiger couldn’t express how uncomfortable he felt.

However, he had no choice; both in strength and aura, he was being suppressed. This was the first time they were exchanging words after meeting up in the left gate city.

It was not that Little Tiger didn't want to speak; rather, the spirit woman had previously ignored him completely.

The spirit woman lifted her head, and under the bright moon, the purple magic crystal on her forehead shone brilliantly, with hints of faint orange-yellow inside.

Combined with her imposing presence, it was evident that this anomaly among the mutated zombies was on the verge of an eighth-level evolution.

Perhaps, if she were not ‘trapped’ in Ying City, adhering to the rules set by Boss Ye, she would have already reached level eight.

This was something Little Tiger could not comprehend; such a formidable corpse king, controlling the lives and deaths of a million zombies in Ying City, while Boss Ye was not often in Cloud Summit.