Chrysalis

Chapter 1146: The Bad Feeling Again

“How do you want me to make up to you?” Lan Lu asked Lin Qiao relaxedly. Since she had solved the problem, the rest would be easy. The compensation was totally negotiable.

Lin Qiao cut the entire bear into small pieces, then put it in the buckets and covered the lids before putting the buckets into her space. After finishing doing that, she looked at him and said, “I’ve also helped you to knock your Chief out this time, and your zombie friends are still in my base. Their faces have almost recovered, so it’s time for them to come back. To pay me back and make up to me, you can get me a level-eight nucleus.”

“Oh,” Lan Lu understood what she meant, “You want me to get you the wolf king’s nucleus, don’t you? You are really greedy. You already have the level-eight fire bear’s nucleus.”

“No,” Lin Qiao shook her head and said, “I’ll get the wolf by myself. You need to get me a level-eight nucleus from somewhere else. You can get it from a zombie, a beast, a human being, or a mutated plant.”

Wherever the nucleus might come from, Lan Lu had to harvest it by himself or get it through some other ways.

Of course, his Chief could get him a level-eight nucleus if the man woke up and regained his power within a short span of time. However, that would be impossible. Dong Xiaowei, who had been out-of-control for months, wouldn’t wake up so quickly. And after he woke up, his power wouldn’t come back within a short time.

Therefore, Lan Lu needed to do the hunting himself.

After putting all the buckets into her space, Lin Qiao waved at Lan Lu and said, “Alright, your problem has been solved. I’ve got to go. You should seize the time and take your boss back to your base.”

After saying that, she waved at her zombies, then turned and darted out toward where the wolf’s vibe came from.

Watching Lin Qiao and her zombies leave, Chang Qingqing couldn’t help but ask Lan Lu, “Is she really going after that wolf? The wolf ran away long ago. Can she still find it?”

Lan Lu carried Dong Xiaowei, the turned and said to her, “I don’t think there’s a good chance for any of her preys to run, because she’s a zombie emperor now.” After saying that, he leaped high and disappeared with his Chief.

Chang Qingqing glanced at the road that Lin Qiao and her zombies took, then disappeared as well.

Soon after they split up, the entire forest abruptly quaked. Clouds of gray mist rose from the ground, and then the mutated insects in the forest were startled, desperately crawling toward the higher places.

Not long after she parted with Lan Lu, Lin Qiao stopped moving on top of a tree, then raised an arm to signal for her zombies to stop as well. Then, she narrowed her eyes and spent a few seconds looking down at the ground. After that, she looked at the sky.

Xie Dong and the others landed on the trees behind her, looked at her quietly without uttering any sound to disturb her.

Lin Qiao spent a short while observing the surrounding environment, then lowered her head and looked at the dense forest in front of her, “I have a bad feeling.”

Xie Dong and the others glanced at each other. They didn’t really understand what she meant, but they believed that she said that for a reason. Lin Qiao rarely sounded so serious. Her serious tone of speaking made the other zombies take her words with a serious attitude.

As same as Lin Qiao, Mo Yan, who had been pursuing a level-five mutated fox, abruptly stopped and raised his head to look at the sky, with a faint purple light glowing out of his eyes.

“Roar!” As Mo Yan stopped attacking it, the lightning-powered mutated fox seized the opportunity to run. However, once it made a movement, a white figure pressed it down. Before the fox could let out a scream, a claw sank into its skull and dug out a purple nucleus.

The zombie girl in a white dress walked to Mo Yan’s side and handed him the nucleus.

Mo Yan lowered his head and glanced at her, then raised a hand and took the nucleus over. After that, he found a clean spot to sit down and started to absorb the nucleus. The zombie girl stayed by his side, standing on a rock and paying close attention to the surrounding environment while brushing her long and smooth hair with her fingers. Not a slight sign could escape her eyes.

Mo Yan spent less than half an hour to absorb the level-five nucleus. He clapped off the dust in his palm, then brought the zombie girl to the tallest mountain nearby. Before long, they arrived at the mountain top.

Standing on top of the mountain where provided him with a wide view, he narrowed his eyes to observe the forest down the mountain. He was, in fact, not far away from where Lin Qiao was. Lin Qiao let him hunt freely for nuclei to improve his power, but he had been following her all the time.

After spending a short while looking into the forest, Mo Yan started to feel some special vibes coming from a few different directions. A mysterious and dangerous vibe was spreading speedily. Clearly, something strange was showing up. Those vibes made Mo Yan, a zombie emperor, feel under threat. Without a question, that something was definitely dangerous.

He glanced at the area where Lin Qiao was and figured that she might have sensed the special vibe as well.

About a hundred miles away from where both Lin Qiao and Mo Yan were paying attention to, the bottom of a dried river in a valley was covered in cracks. And from those cracks, a weird vibe gushed out.

The river had been dried for a long time. The largest earth crack was about five meters wide, and the smaller ones were two or three meters wide.

Puff! A weirdly-looking claw reached out of a crack and inserted itself into the ground.

“Gooo… rooo…” A head slowly stuck out of the crack and let out a strange sound. The round-headed creature soon reached out its other claw and slowly crawled out of the earth.

The creature had round, basin-sized head which was thickly covered in blinking eyes. Its body was slim, and… it had no legs. The round-headed creature had a pair of forelimbs and a flat, bucket-sized, leech-liked body. It was about four meters long.

The multiple-eyed creature crawled out from underground and looked around, then bared its sharp teeth.

“Goorooooo…” With its pair of forelimbs which were as thick as an adult’s thighs, it ran left and came back, then ran right. Before long, it ran back again. Then, it quickly moved to the edge of the earth crack, reached its head down, and let out a series of gooroo.

“Goooorooooo…” The sounds of countless creatures were instantly heard from deep down the earth crack. Soon, countless creatures that had round heads, multiple eyes, and large mouths crawled out from underground, letting out waves of gooroo sounds. As more and more of those creatures crawled out, the ‘gooroo’ sounds grew louder and louder, traveling to farther areas.