Total annihilation.
The demon race was wiped out just like Master Tong's Black Cat Gang, hacked into chunks of flesh by the surging monsters. Their deaths were even more gruesome.
Yet their powerful vitality allowed them to keep wriggling, trying to revive even after being chopped into pieces.
Gong Qiying stopped the monsters that wanted to keep attacking. This group consisted of over twenty heavily armed Living Dead knights, including one heavyweight character—the Black Knight.
Making sure anyone caught in the trap would be wiped out in one reckless charge.
Black Knight (Greatsword) Spirit Power required per unit: 650 Health: C, Strength: C+, Intelligence: D, Endurance: C, Speed: C, Overall Combat Power: C
After a slow, lengthy period of wriggling, the demon race members barely re-formed, but their consciousness had fallen into a coma.
Gong Qiying picked out two that looked smarter and kept them. He had the monsters throw the rest outside the portal.
Outside the portal, adventurers preparing to enter Zane Dungeon stood in a long line.
"Could the people up front hurry up? I've been waiting forever!"
Vierde shouted impatiently. He had come to challenge the dungeon today as well, and he would not rest until he saw Sakaki.
After all these days of dying and coming back to life, his survival time in the Swamp Area had risen to a full half hour. It was a small step for him, and a small step for humanity!
But after the Gourmet Area was discovered, the number of people flooding into the dungeon had exploded. He used to wait at most an hour before getting in, but now?
He had been waiting the entire morning! And he still had not gotten in!
Pikachu clamored to come out from inside the Poké Ball, but Vierde felt that now was not the right time. People should not see Pikachu.
The person ahead of him turned back and shot him an irritated look. He had intended to start an argument, but after recognizing who Vierde was, he shrank his neck and said nothing more.
After another half hour, well past lunchtime, Vierde finally stood before the portal.
"Wasn't easy." He took a deep breath and rallied himself. "Today, I'll definitely find that person again!"
He had just stepped one foot into the portal and poked his head through when he saw several unidentified objects charging toward him!
"Ah?"
The next second, there was a wet splat, and the flesh ball formed from the demon race members smashed straight into Vierde's face, sending his entire body flying backward.
"Wah! That guy just flew!"
"What flew out of the portal? Is anyone going to take a look?"
"What the fuck is that?"
Vierde lay on the ground, his body twitching. He had clearly been knocked unconscious.
The culprits that had knocked him out were piled on top of him, still squirming unconsciously. This was the first time anyone had seen something run out of a portal in reverse. Zane Dungeon had two portals, one for entering and one for leaving, and the two had never been confused.
Everyone crowded over to witness this once-in-a-century sight, but when they saw what had flown out, the expressions of everyone present changed.
"Hey, why do these things look so strange? Could they be dem—"
"Hurry and notify the City Lord!"
Compared to the commotion outside, Gong Qiying's side was much quieter.
The two unconscious demon race members lay beside him. To be safe, he had transformed into a Hero Gargoyle in advance. There was still some transformation time left, so it would be a waste not to use it.
Even fatal wounds were difficult injuries for the demon race to recover from. After their flesh had healed, they had remained unconscious. At this rate, even questioning them would be a problem.
After thinking for a moment, Gong Qiying took out an ordinary Healing Potion and gave each demon race member half a bottle. Incidentally, he had bought this potion from the outside world.
As soon as they drank the potion, the demon race members' complexions immediately improved, and even their breathing became long and steady.
He found thick iron chains and fastened them around their necks, then immediately dumped a basin of cold water over them. Slapping their faces, he urged, "Get up already. Sleep any longer and I'll throw you into a shit pit."
The two demon race members opened their eyes in confusion, then saw Gong Qiying.
He had expected them to react emotionally to the Hero Gargoyle's fierce appearance, but strangely, they only stared blankly at Gong Qiying.
"Did they go stupid?"
Gong Qiying held out a finger and waved it to the left.
The demon race members' heads followed it to the left.
He waved his finger to the right.
Their heads followed it to the right as well.
Back and forth it went. Their heads were practically shaking like rattles, yet they refused to speak!
"These two things are idiots, aren't they?!"
Gong Qiying got so angry that he slapped them both, hitting them hard enough to make blood spill from their mouths.
That slap seemed to have worked. The demon race members' eyes cleared slightly, and they actually reached up to fiddle with the chains around their necks. They appeared to be trying to free themselves.
"Hey." Gong Qiying poked one demon race member in the head, holding back his strength. "Where did you come from, and what are you doing here?"
The demon race member said nothing and kept fiddling with the chain, making it rattle loudly.
Gong Qiying sighed and tried poking the other one. The result was the same.
No wonder these demon race members had seemed so dull earlier. They were idiots.
He tried many things, but he simply could not communicate with them. These guys seemed to have lost their ability to speak. No, it was not just their ability to speak—they might have lost their intelligence as well.
"If only there were magic that could read minds." Gong Qiying looked through the Available Monster list, searching for monsters with abilities such as mind-reading.
While he was looking, the two demon race members finally realized that their remaining strength was insufficient to break the chains. They sat there blankly, seemingly unsure what to think.
Not long after, a little steam began to rise from their bodies, and their temperatures slowly increased. As their body temperatures rose, strange changes began to occur in their appearances.
Their deformed bodies were slowly melting?
Their surfaces melted like candles exposed to heat, gradually turning into puddles of flowing slime that boiled and bubbled across the ground.
Gong Qiying frowned. The scene was a little sanity-draining. Perhaps he could consider adding it to the dungeon's monsters.
After the demon race members' muscular yet deformed bodies melted away, what lay inside was revealed. It was—
"Humans?"
Gong Qiying crouched down and pinched a human out of the slime between two fingers, turning him over and examining him carefully.
No matter how he looked at him, the appearance was human. He was a shady-looking young man with blackened hands, the kind of person who reminded one at a glance of a certain man with an overwhelming sense of weightlessness.
If Si Telan had been here, she would have recognized him as Morgan, one of the thugs who had once caused trouble for her.
The human revealed after the other demon race member melted was one of Morgan's followers, Ya Yi.
"Humans... can turn into demon race members too?"
At that moment, Morgan's eyelids twitched.
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