NOVEL NEXT Chapter 124 - 122, Small City_1
Chapter 124: Chapter 122, Small City_1
Previously, during their ‘interrogation’ of corpses in prison.
One of the corpses mentioned that Chen Jinlong might have awakened his superpower.
At that time, Wu Heng still doubted the reliability of this information.
After all, he had ingested the Corpse Core himself. The effects weren’t noticeable, but the side effects were quite significant.
Without the Detoxifying Potion, the chances of being infected by the virus were extremely high.
On the other hand, awakening superpowers was entirely a matter of luck.
But the abilities shown by Chen Jinlong were clearly those of an awakened superpower.
His luck and ruthlessness were indeed more suitable for this post-apocalyptic world.
“Kill him!”
Seeing Chen Jinlong jumping out of the window, Wu Heng immediately ordered.
Bawudong took a step forward and followed him, jumping down.
Meanwhile, Big Head controlled the skeleton warriors outside to start converging towards Chen Jinlong’s location.
They had no intention of letting him go in the first place, and now it was even less likely to let him escape.
A huge number of skeletons started closing in from all sides.
Chen Jinlong’s face looked even worse.
He changed his location, attempting to escape towards an area where fewer skeletons were present.
But just after he had run a few steps, the horde of skeletons blocked his path as if they knew what he was planning.
More and more skeletons wielding kitchen knives, slowly advanced forward.
They surrounded him and gradually tightened the circle.
“Damn it! What kind of monster is this?” Chen Jinlong continued to curse.
Bang Bang~!
The shotgun slung on his back was swung forward and he fired two rounds, instantly shattering two skeletons.
The sound of gunfire acted like a signal.
All of the skeletons began to charge.
The sound of rattling bones could be heard.
Shit~!
Chen Jinlong cursed again and smashed a skeleton with his gun.
He kicked off the ground.
Like a swift cheetah, he quickly rushed into a weak spot in the group of skeletons.
His fists continuously struck out, knocking down several skeletons.
It could be seen that Chen Jinlong did have a certain foundation in combat, and his fighting consciousness was a notch stronger than most.
In the brief exchange, he managed to knock down all of the surrounding skeletons.
Something any regular person could do.
Suddenly, a strong sense of danger rose from his heart. Chen Jinlong instinctively ducked and shifted half a step to the right—an iron-grey skeleton fist brushed past his ear.
The strong wind whistled past him.
High-level opponent!
Bang~!
Just as this thought crossed Chen Jinlong’s mind, a second punch landed on his abdomen.
Puk~! Blood and bile gushed out from his mouth.
His body was sent flying backward, knocking down a crowd of skeletons behind him.
Seeing an array of kitchen knives descending towards him, he quickly rolled to dodge.
The iron-grey skeleton was approaching him again.
Chen Jinlong gritted his teeth and rushed into the middle of the Kitchen Knife Skeletons at his rear.
He intended to forcefully break out.
Bang Bang~!
Just then, Wu Heng and his men arrived.
Seeing Chen Jinlong trying to break out, he fired two shots into the crowd of skeletons.
The bullets passed through the hollow skeletons and hit Chen Jinlong.
Blood splattered, and two bullet holes appeared in his chest.
Chen Jinlong glared at him fiercely, the red veins on his body became denser, the muscles around the bullet holes squirmed, slowing the bleeding.
“Kill him!” Wu Heng continued.
Thud Thud Thud~!
Big Guy and Second Chunk directly charged up.
The crowd of skeletons in the front instantly cleared a path.
With a thud, Big Guy sent Chen Jinlong flying and crashing to the ground.
Immediately afterward, Big Guy and Second Chunk followed. Without waiting for him to get up, their fists, wearing iron gloves, directly pounded down on him.
Like a pile driver, they rained down blows on him.
“We can… *cough*… talk!”
“It was my fault…”
“I surrender, I surrender, give me… one chance!”
Chen Jinlong still kept shouting, trying to communicate with Wu Heng’s side.
But there was no response.
He never managed to stand up again.
Soon, the notification of gained experience appeared.
It confirmed the death of Chen Jinlong.
Wu Heng ordered Big Guy and Second Chunk to stop. If they continued, they would turn the body into mush and not even a skeleton could be summoned.
“Let the skeletons clean the battlefield. Kill everyone wielding a weapon.” Wu Heng ordered directly.
Rattle Rattle!
The surrounding skeletons were once again dispersed, spreading over the entire prison area.
They began to move the bodies and collect scattered guns and ammunition.
Chen Jinlong was dead, the entire prison was now under their control.
The few who had hidden would be found by the skeletons sooner or later.
As soon as a sound of a fight arose, they would be besieged by the skeletons.
…
The skeletons dispersed.
Wu Heng once again headed towards the building where Chen Jinlong had been previously.
From a distance, he saw Li Yahong standing on the lower floor, in front of her was a woman lying on the ground.
“Is there… any hope for her?” Li Yahong asked.
This woman was used by Chen Jinlong as a cushion when he jumped from the fourth floor.
Her chest had caved in, and fresh blood was constantly gushing out from her mouth and nose.
It seemed like he wouldn’t make it.
He looked to be in his twenties, quite young.
Whip marks of a dark red color were still visible on his exposed skin.
He must have suffered a lot while he was alive.
He kept vomiting fresh blood, laying on the ground, looking at the two of them.
He didn’t fear the skeletons around him, his eyes reflected helplessness, confusion, and a sense of liberation.
There were many emotions contained in his gaze, silent, complex.
Wu Heng walked over, gently touched the collapsed chest, the injuries were too serious.
It seemed like his ribs had even pierced his organs.
Even in the modern world, it would be difficult for him to survive.
Wu Heng sighed, took out a healing potion, and said, “Drink this potion, whether you can live or not is up to you.”
He pried open her mouth and poured the potion in.
The woman was vomiting fresh blood and swallowing hard at the same time.
It seemed like she didn’t want to die.
“Find her a room, let’s see if she can manage to survive till daybreak,” Wu Heng said.
Li Yahong nodded, let the skeletons carry her and settled her into a room on the ground floor.
…
The sky gradually brightened.
The skeleton, clad in leather armor and holding a spear, took its place by the wall, standing still like a statue with its hollow eye sockets facing forward.
The entire prison still remained silent.
During the battlefield cleanup, a few gunshots rang out at some places, but they quickly subsided.
The bodies, along with their weapons, were dragged here.
The cement floor was littered with piles of bodies, filling the air with a heavy smell of blood.
Wu Heng’s gaze first fell on Chen Jinlong’s body.
He immediately activated the Bone Manipulation Skill.
The Necromancy wrapped around the body, the flesh fell off, revealing a grisly white skeleton.
Skeleton Warrior (Level 7)
Level: 7
Attributes: Constitution 17, Strength 16, Agility 14, Intelligence 12, Perception 11, Charm 5.
Features: Hollow Skeleton, Basic Soul.
Expertise: Combat Specialization (Basic), Weapon Specialization (Basic).
Ability: Potential Outburst.
Potential Outburst: Temporarily enhances the body, improves physical state, and reduces pain and other negative effects.
Chen Jinlong’s attributes looked rather ordinary.
He was at the same level as Basen.
The attribute panel was much simpler.
Apart from higher attribute values, there was nothing special.
But it also conformed to the characteristics of the people in this world.
The Potential Outburst ability should be his superpower that allowed him to suddenly exhibit strong combat abilities.
This ability seemed to be able to temporarily increase combat power.
It seemed quite useful.
“You are still called Chen Jinlong, go stand over there!” Wu Heng said.
The Chen Jinlong who had become a skeleton walked out of the rotting flesh and stood aside.
Wu Heng pulled out an iron rod and searched in the fallen chunky flesh, but there was no Corpse Core.
It seemed that upon death of superpowered men, there was no drop like a Corpse Core.
It was no big deal.
If there were Corpse Core drops from superpowered men, that would be truly terrifying.
After converting Chen Jinlong, Wu Heng continued to use ‘Dead Bones Battlefield’ to convert all other bodies into skeletons.
There weren’t many bodies, less than a hundred in total, all converted in one go.
And through ‘Communicate with the dead,’ it seemed that there were just over a hundred people in the prison.
Probably not many were left after this.
…
Inside a room that looked like an office.
Wu Heng found a layout map of the prison.
The entire prison could be divided into three areas.
The prisoner area, guard area, and the functional area.
In the prisoner area, there were cell buildings, isolation rooms, a dining hall, medical room, library, recreational room, and labor reform rooms.
The guard area consisted of offices, dormitories, as well as an armory and ammunition storage.
The functional area comprised buildings like garages, warehouses, generator rooms, changing rooms, boiler rooms, pumping rooms, etc.
Seeing this layout plan, Wu Heng was quite surprised.
The environment inside this prison seemed to be better than where he used to live.
Was everything so complete?
It even had separate generator rooms, pump rooms, and so on.
It was like a self-contained small city.
No wonder the spotlights here were still on.
Wu Heng took a look, marked the location of the armory, and led the skeletons there.
The ammunition store had been tampered with, and the door was locked with an old lock.
After instructing the skeleton to break it open with a fire axe, he entered the room.
Opening the weapons cabinet, Wu Heng’s eyes gradually widened.
There were over two hundred rifles and submachine guns left in the weapons cabinet.
Adding up those collected from outside made it more than five hundred in total.
“Seems like this trip wasn’t for nothing.”
Packing up all the arms, he continued to lead the skeletons towards the ammunition storage.
Similarly, they broke open the lock and entered the room.
Boxes of ammunition were stacked up against the wall, piled half a person high.
As Wu Heng opened one box after another, his face lit up with barely concealed joy.
This would be enough for a while.