Zombie Siege: Victoria

Under Gu Xi's questioning, Luna quickly explained the situation in Victoria City.

It turns out that the incident at Westminster Abbey last time added the final fuel to the fire in Victoria's already precarious situation.

This ignited a powder keg in Victoria.

The seventh urban transformation has begun ahead of schedule.

For the nobles of Victoria City, this was an opportunity and a celebration.

However, this is a big problem for the Aryadovi City, because a new Aryadovi City will appear again in this mirror world.

This will make the already chaotic Mirror Space even more chaotic.

If that were all, it would be alright; at most, there would just be a few more cities to conquer in the Mirror World where Aryadovi resides.

However, this chaos temporarily severed the connection between Aryadovi City and Victoria City.

This made the two cities unconnected, trapping Luna and Shaya in Victoria City from which they could not return.

If it weren't for the owl sent by Gu Xi risking its life to deliver the letter to Luna might have already planned to take Shaya through the Mirror Dungeon again.

After Luna explained the situation, Gu Xi turned to look at Shaya.

At this moment, Gu Xi noticed that several undead were following behind Shaya.

Apart from a Skeleton Magician Head, Gu Xi had never seen the other undead before.

Their skin looked like it had been burned with mud, and there were flame-like patterns on the surface of their skin.

Who are these people?

Gu Xi pointed to the spirits and asked.

"They are the housekeeper I hired to take care of the small building, the sheriff of Greenwich Avenue, and the young lady next door. However, something has happened to them, and I'm afraid their situation is not good."

Shaya explained the origins of these spirits.

Gu Xi glanced at them and thought to himself that their situation was not good. They had already become undead, so how good could they be?

However, Gu Xi didn't criticize these people, but instead asked, "What's the situation with Victoria now?"

"What else could it be but Coal Cinder Riot?"

Shaya pursed her lips.

"Cinders? The kind of steam-powered energy source behind the building? Why did they riot? Was it because the city lacked it?"

Gu Xi became even more confused as he listened.

"No, sir. Actually, their current condition is that the coal ash is not fully burned."

"Them? Coal slag?"

Gu Xi in astonishment at the undead before him, unable to discern any direct connection between them and the coal slag.

Perhaps sensing that Gu Xi was unaware of the connection, Shaya quickly began to explain.

"Actually, Coal Cinder Disease first appeared in Steam Factory. According to the church, those workers were constantly exposed to the power of steam, and their bodies were slowly carbonized."

This carbonization is irreversible and can only be resisted by taking the aura of other living people.

However, even those who are not workers in the Steam Factory but have their life force absorbed by the carbonizer will suffer from this carbonization disease.

They're going to absorb the life force of other people.

Furthermore, it was discovered that the bodies of workers who died from carbonization disease were the best fuel, so sick workers were generally not taken for treatment, but instead kept in the factory until they died.

Even if a few patients with carbon monoxide poisoning escaped from the Steam Factory, they could not escape the factory owner's pursuit.

"My God, even the bones of this worker are being sold."

Hearing Shaya's explanation, Gu Xi was stunned. Even as a necromancer, he thought the factory owners in Victoria City had gone too far.

"This was originally not a big deal. Many people in the whole of Victoria City knew about it, but in order to survive, everyone had to fight desperately."

The Coal Cinder Riot was caused by a number of factors, the most crucial of which was that someone was planning to rebuild Victoria City.

"Does the gentleman remember the land price increase in Camden District?"

"Remember."

Gu Xi definitely remembered this incident, because it was because of this that he became acquainted with Shaya.

"This is actually because some nobles have heard the news and are hoarding land."

As a result of the incident at Westminster Abbey, the attention of the Victoria City church, military, and royal family was focused on it, and some nobles began to have their own ideas.

They chose to forcibly demolish part of the building.

For example, if a neighborhood is burned down, and considering that it cannot be rebuilt after the fire, the government takes it back into its own hands to manage.

I've been staying in Victoria, mainly to deal with this problem.

"They're really good at this."

Gu Xi looked down on the methods used by those nobles.

"But they messed things up. They set fires but didn't have the ability to put them out. The fire spread to the vicinity of the Isis River, where people were transporting large numbers of poor people to the Steam Factory to work for.

Most of these poor people had already contracted carbon monoxide disease, but because they had been imprisoned, not many people knew about it. However, this fire released them.

Driven by their survival instincts, these poor people wandered aimlessly through Victoria City, frantically absorbing the scents of strangers. Carbon monoxide disease spread rapidly, from one person to two, from two to four, until it multiplied.

In the end, the entire Victoria was just walking cinders.

Gu Xi immediately understood that Victoria had Courting Death this upon herself.

The current situation is clearly a carbonized version of Resident Evil.

"How was Victoria when you returned?"

"I'm afraid the outlook isn't very optimistic. The Church and the Royal Family are all focused on Westminster Abbey, and they simply can't spare any attention for it."

Without orders, the army could not enter the city, and the nobles' private armies could not withstand the attack and could only defend their own territories.

So Victoria City is probably no longer viable.

Rebuilding after being razed to the ground by fire is already the best possible outcome.

Upon hearing this, Gu Xi finally understood why Aryadovi City had determined that Victoria City was undergoing its seventh transformation.

It seems that this city is not just undergoing earth-shattering changes, but is about to be completely flattened and rebuilt.

"Where am I in that little building over there?"

"The building was still there when we came here, but whether it can be preserved is uncertain."

Upon hearing this, Gu Xi fell silent.

He had already realized that the situation in Victoria City was quite complicated, and that it would probably be of little use to Gu Xi in such a small number of troops.

Just as Gu Xi was about to suggest giving up on Victoria City, he saw Luna.

Gu Xi understood that Luna and the Aryadovi City were closely connected.

Even if he could expand Aryadovi City through other means now, he still couldn't sever the connection between Aryadovi City and Victoria City.

If we forcibly abandon Victoria City now, it will be difficult to reconnect to it later.