The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 147: If You Don’t Burn Legs, Burn Heads
In terms of combat power, we are definitely stronger, but two fists cannot fend off four hands, and the other side has an overwhelming numerical advantage, attracting more monsters with the sound of the fight.
Professor Liu and Lu Xiaodao’s stamina is declining, and their reaction speed is slowing down.
Our side is already like this, so the situation for Old Shi who attracted most of the firepower can only be more tragic.
The ones firing guns outside the city are Old Shi and his team members because I heard him cursing loudly in a foreign language, and his team members were shouting teammates’ names in a foreign language too.
Among them are one or two Chinese words, it seems like it’s Meng Qingyu’s people.
Beauty Snake just ran past us towards outside the city, with her newly changed clothes covered in bat droppings, even her hair and face had some smeared on them.
She used this method to fool the monsters inside the city, running straight outside.
It’s not without reason that she has survived alone to this point. This woman may be very lucky but also very clever, and tough, able to smear crap on her face without changing expression. I respect her as a man.
Beauty Snake has no intersection with Old Shi’s team; she should be heading for Meng Qingyu when she reaches outside the city.
I pushed Professor Liu back into the small building, as he was exhausted, staying outside any longer and he would soon be devoured by monsters.
He just saw Beauty Snake’s disguise too, and when he entered the small building, he immediately rolled on the ground, covering himself with the bat droppings on the floor.
I led away the monsters chasing to the small building’s door, without needing to protect Professor Liu, I could finally fight freely, and also ran towards outside the city.
Although the monsters have no appetite for me, they are angry that I killed so many of their kind. Today, even if I’m just a pole, they would bite me into pieces.
I used the move ’Hatred’ to draw the monsters away, securing the small building, and then Lu Xiaodao jumped in, followed by Chen Qinghan chasing after me with a large treasure sword.
I sped up in front, and he chased with the sword behind me, his speed even surpassing the monsters chasing me. He jumped up, stepping on the backs of the monsters, and caught up with me in a few leaps.
Anyone unaware might think he was hunting me, but I know he is rather anxious, fearing we might be too late, resulting in Guan Hai and Cong Zhibo’s team being wiped out.
Even with ample ammunition, there comes a time when it runs out, not to mention they had consumed quite a bit of bullets along the way. The gunfire had stopped five minutes ago.
Chen Qinghan arrived slightly ahead of me, all sorts of monsters were surrounding a house by the city edge, pounding and battering it furiously.
The houses of White Jade City are made of large stones, with passageways buried underground. The statues and stone pillars are heavily weathered, yet the buildings within the city still appear newly built, ensuring sturdiness, enduring monster attacks half-day without damage or collapse.
But the city houses have no window panes, just a square opening. Though not large in area, it’s still a hole.
There are slim and delicate monsters among them, exactly fitting through, maybe the people inside blocked the window hole with furniture, and the monsters were taking turns to hit it but hadn’t breached it yet.
With Chen Qinghan charging ahead, I dealt with the pursuing monsters while running, conserving the Karmic Fire. I aimed at their bodies, not burning the whole monster to ashes but burning off legs or brains as needed.
Those with many heads and few legs, I burned legs. Without legs, they can’t walk on their heads.
Those with many legs, I burned the brain. Without the brain, their legs can’t run.
Gradually, they were left behind, even the few tenacious ones dragging themselves with hands were significantly slowed down, quickly being left far behind by me.
Chen Qinghan reached the city edge first but didn’t rush up, fortunately retaining his sanity.
We hid together on the rooftop of another small building. The monsters surrounding the house were three layers inside, three outside, and another three on the roof. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮
If Chen Qinghan had rushed up, he would have instantly been submerged in the sea of monsters, not even raising a splash.
The scene before us was no less than the undead surrounding city scenes in zombie movies. Without a weapon of mass destruction, we couldn’t save the people in the house.
Chen Qinghan checked his watch with a stern look. Although it’s already daylight, the sky over the island remained perpetually gloomy, like a storm brewing, yet the monsters followed their biological clock.
A few minutes later, they started to feel sleepy, yawning incessantly, but unwilling to give up the prey so close at hand, they rested right outside the house.
Soon, their breathing became uniform, with occasionally a snore or two.
The people inside the house were temporarily safe, but how could we dig them out of the sea of monsters?
Chen Qinghan wanted to leap down, and I grabbed him. He had just exhausted quite a lot of his stamina; if he woke up a batch of monsters, I feared he couldn’t handle it.
He understood my meaning, retreated, and whistled twice towards the house.
Two bird calls immediately sounded from inside the house without disturbing the monsters.
I climbed down the small building, reaching the periphery of the monster group. They surrounded the house tightly, forming a large encirclement, and I stood on its outer edge, grabbing a monkey-headed, leopard-bodied monster capable of walking upright, trying to drag it further away.
’Who? Who’s pulling me?’
Upon receiving the ’thought’ from the monster, I quickly lay on the monster next to it, pretending to be a monster myself.
These creatures determine whether something is food or another creature not by ’shape’, as expected, the monkey-headed leopard opened its eyes to glance around, saw nothing disturbing its sleep, closed its eyes, and continued sleeping.
As its gaze swept over me, it didn’t linger, meaning it hadn’t identified me as a non-kindred human-shaped creature.
Perhaps it’s by smell?!
I got an idea, looking around the surrounding monsters, picking a few human-sized ones, quietly burning off their heads, and dragging them into nearby buildings.
I found as long as I didn’t strongly drag the sleeping monsters, they wouldn’t wake, even if a sleeping monster beside them were dragged away by someone, it wouldn’t alert them.
I dragged the head-burned monsters one by one, leaving several blood trails on the ground. In fact, as long as Karmic Fire is used skillfully, handling corpses is more convenient and practical than axes.
I used the wound on the monsters’ necks as an entry point, burning into the interior bit by bit. The burned internal cavity became empty; their entrails were turned to ash by Karmic Fire, leaving bones and some muscle tissue.
I left their surface skin and flesh intact, handing the first two finished products to Chen Qinghan.
"Put these on Professor Liu and Lu Xiaodao." Even with extensive treatment, these Beast Clothes would still be smeared with blood. The monsters’ personal hygiene isn’t great, and with blood stains, the smell is enough to knock someone over.
With these odorous Beast Clothes, we could definitely fool other monsters; if they can sniff out a hint of human scent, I’ll lose!
