As the explosion rang out, the corpse puppets surrounding Lin Yu and the others collapsed one after another.
Although the puppets had already been at an absolute disadvantage on the battlefield, with the Snakekin and Void God Attendant eliminating most of them, not all of them had fallen. Quite a few corpse puppets still retained the ability to resist.
But after the explosion rang out...
Those puppets that had still been standing abruptly stopped moving, as if someone had pressed a shutdown button, and slumped to the ground.
Even the corpse of Captain Gao Shan, whom Lin Yu was carrying and whom the mastermind had directly manipulated to speak with him, lost the strange power contained within it and became an ordinary corpse.
Clearly...
The mastermind had realized that these puppets could no longer accomplish what he wanted, so he had simply abandoned them.
The reason the other party could act so decisively was simple enough.
Just as the mastermind had said, whether the siege by these corpses succeeded or failed was of little importance to him!
If he could surround and kill the investigators there, naturally that would be ideal. But if he couldn't, it didn't matter.
Because elsewhere, he still had a "backup plan."
The violent explosion echoed across the Barren Realm. The boom could be heard even from several kilometers away, announcing that the explosion's scale and power had reached a terrifying level.
Flames shot into the sky, dyeing the grayish-yellow heavens of the Great Wilderness a blazing, brilliant scarlet as surging energy spread outward.
Watching the effects of the explosion, Lin Yu did not know what the other party's plan was, but he had already vaguely sensed its sinister nature.
Based on the sound and the scene, the explosion had occurred in the direction from which