A tide of horrors!

"Boss, something's wrong!"

Hawkeye scrambled out of the modified off-roader and reached Lu Hanxue's vehicle in a few strides.

"Hmm?"

Lu Hanxue gave him a questioning look.

"Lots of them, lots of horrors are closing in on us!"

"They're coming from every direction!"

Hawkeye's voice was loud enough for almost everyone to hear.

The survivors all turned to Hawkeye, lingering fear on every face.

"Go, get moving!"

Wu Ke hastily scrambled into the off-roader and shouted.

The survivors frantically climbed onto the wolves' backs as well.

Vroom, vroom, vroom!

Engines roared, and the convoy that had only just stopped to rest set off again.

Two packs of wolves swiftly cleared the snow ahead.

The convoy accelerated to full speed.

"Baa..."

A sheep's bleat rang out abruptly.

Deep in the darkness on either side, humanoid creatures with sheep's heads and glowing green eyes rapidly closed in on the convoy.

"Storm!"

"Freeze!"

Lu Hanxue cried out sharply.

A blizzard swept past, freezing the horrors into ice sculptures and halting their advance.

"Help me, help me..."

Cries for help came from ahead.

A dozen or so students, water constantly dripping from their bodies, stared blankly at the convoy, waiting for it to approach.

Whoosh...

Lin Yi emerged from the darkness.

The Blade of Greed trailed a bloody glow.

Riding the Wolf King, Lin Yi slaughtered all dozen or so Drowned Wraiths in the blink of an eye.

However.

This was only the beginning.

All manner of eerie, sinister cries rose and fell in the darkness.

Ghostly silhouettes flickered, constantly approaching the convoy.

"Goddammit. Copper Wall, Iron Rampart!"

Li Jie activated his supernatural ability, watching the horrors on all sides with a grave expression.

"Awooo!!!"

The Wolf King let out a furious howl.

The wolves set the survivors down and protected them in their midst.

Any horror that approached was bitten to pieces.

The wolves could not handle powerful horrors, but they could still deal with the weaker ones.

"The horrors showing up now aren't very strong. More powerful ones are on their way!" Hawkeye's voice sounded over the radio, and everyone's expression darkened further.

"Want to compete in numbers?!"

Lin Yi snorted coldly, and a boundless sea of blood came surging in with a bloody stench.

Countless vengeful ghosts writhed within the sea of blood, screaming shrilly.

Every horror that approached was surrounded by vengeful ghosts, then dragged into the sea of blood to become one of its own.

With the sea of blood's appearance, everyone felt the pressure ease considerably.

Riding the Wolf King, Lin Yi stood atop the sea of blood, his icy eyes scanning every part of the darkness.

The endless horrors rushing forward fed the sea of blood an unceasing supply of nourishment, sustaining it without end!

As one side dwindled and the other grew, the vengeful ghosts in the sea of blood actually seemed poised to outnumber the horrors!

"Holy shit, how-how did he steal Blood Ghost's ability?!" Watching the towering sea of blood, Li Jie could not help drawing in a sharp breath.

Even now, he still could not understand how Blood Ghost had died.

The survivors were somewhat frightened when they first saw the sea of blood.

Once they heard it was Lin Yi's ability, and saw that the vengeful ghosts were not attacking them, their gazes filled with admiration as they looked at him.

Lin Yi looked over in puzzlement and saw every survivor's contribution rising rapidly.

What's going on?

The situation left even Lin Yi somewhat baffled.

He clearly had not done anything, so how was this even more absurd than farming contribution with Elder Qi?

But he did not have much time to think about it now.

A terrifying horror was rapidly approaching from afar!

Amid the pitch-black snow.

A barefoot woman was walking toward the convoy step by step, her eyes vacant.

Her belly was huge, so large that it took up fully half of her.

Perhaps because of her belly, she swayed from side to side even as she walked barefoot through the snow...

As she drew closer, the woman's condition became clearer.

Her hair hung loose and disheveled, and her entire body was an unnatural purplish blue.

Corpse spots covered her from head to toe.

Her mouth had been sewn shut with black thread, and she constantly made muffled sounds of no discernible meaning.

A single glance sent an aura of terror washing over him.

The woman's appearance stirred no emotion in Lin Yi.

Yet the instant she appeared, every hair on his body stood on end.

It had been a long time since he had felt anything like this.

"Something formidable has arrived."

Lin Yi's expression was solemn, and the Blade of Greed in his hand flashed incessantly.

"Can you beat her?"

Lu Hanxue appeared beside Lin Yi, her gaze cool.

"Don't worry about me."

After speaking quietly, Lin Yi vanished into the darkness with the Wolf King.

Lu Hanxue took a long look in the direction Lin Yi had gone, then turned to attack the horrors within the survivors' convoy.

"Mmph, mmph..."

"Mmph, mmph..."

It sounded like sobbing, yet also like whimpering.

The woman simply continued forward step by step, her eyes vacant.

Just then, space rippled.

Lin Yi appeared beside the woman without warning, riding the giant wolf.

Squelch!

The Blade of Greed plunged swiftly into the woman's head.

Then he twisted it violently.

"Mmph, mmph..."

Before the woman could react to what was happening, her head had been churned to pieces.

Is she dead?!

No!

Lin Yi had no time at all to confirm whether the woman was dead.

An intense sense of danger warned him to leave immediately.

Without any hesitation, he activated Otherworldly Walking, instantly escaping a hundred meters away on the Wolf King.

At that very moment.

Bang!

The woman's body suddenly exploded, spraying blood across the sky.

A pitch-black infant sprang out of her belly.

Like a shadow in the darkness, the infant shot toward Lin Yi at tremendous speed.

"The Ghost Infant is the real body?!"

Lin Yi's expression changed, and he vanished again.

The Ghost Infant's attack missed, and the infant stopped where Lin Yi had been.

But unexpectedly, when Lin Yi reappeared, he was already behind the infant.

The sea of blood enveloped the Ghost Infant.

Countless vengeful ghosts tugged at the infant's limbs.

The Blade of Greed shone with a deep red glow as it stabbed fiercely toward the Ghost Infant.

"Waaah, waaah, waaah!!!"

The Ghost Infant's wails rang through the night sky.

Lin Yi felt his head spin.

Damn it.

Lin Yi cast Otherworldly Walking almost instinctively.

As Otherworldly Walking activated, the entire world fell silent.

That instant of disorientation allowed the ghostly shadow to escape the sea of blood.

Beneath the night sky, the infant became a black shadow, darting into the survivors and vanishing.

"Ah! My belly, my belly!"

A piercing scream came from the convoy.

Lin Yi raced forward on the Wolf King.

When he returned to the camp.

He saw a survivor staring at her own belly in utter panic.

Her belly was rapidly swelling.

"Help, help!"

The woman's cries for help grew quieter and quieter.

Her belly was already half the size of her body.

Just like the woman at the start, her entire body became covered in corpse spots.

"Help me..."

"Help me..."