AWB Chapter 239 Gathering Hall
Chapter 239 Gathering Hall
Swish!
The Gu corpse's head slid off its neck, and blood dripped onto Chen Ergou's face.
"Brother Fan, thank goodness you were quick, otherwise if you had arrived any later..."
Lin Fan looked at the zombie that Chen Ergou had almost smashed into a pulp with a large wooden hammer and twitched his lips. "Yeah, any later and I wouldn't have been able to get this kill. Where did you pull out such a big wooden hammer?"
Chen Ergou remained silent, only expressing his gratitude.
Lin Fan examined the mangled flesh and blood on the ground, or more accurately, the clothes on it.
He used a twig to pick up the clothes stained with bits of flesh. "The low-level Gu corpses in the Path of Fate were all wearing tattered clothes, while the high-level Gu corpses were wearing armor. But this clothes are obviously new, and it even looks like they were washed not long ago."
Lin Fan tossed aside his clothes and continued to wander around the area.
Although the thick fog obscured their view, they quickly grasped the general situation.
When the protagonist and his group arrive at this island surrounded by water, all the organization members on the island have turned into zombies. How can they escape this zombie-infested island?
Is that right? Of course not!
"Ergou, are you hurt?"
Chen Ergou casually waved his hand, revealing a tooth mark on it.
Lin Fan's heart clenched, but he quickly calmed down. He had also been injured by the Gu zombie and bled, but he didn't feel anything unusual.
Although the scenes are similar, this shouldn't be the usual scenario where the villainous organization goes too far and ends up with zombies everywhere.
However, there are indeed many Gu corpses wandering around this island. Judging from the clothes these Gu corpses are wearing, they have not been zombified for long. If it weren't for their strange limb movements and the pustules all over their bodies, they would look no different from living people at first glance.
Lin Fan used the Iron Elephant to smash a Gu Corpse wielding a meteor hammer. "Many of them are carrying various different weapons, and their strengths vary, but there are no white or black Gu Corpses with hardened skin like before. Hmm, another thing is, what's with these pustules? They feel like the smallpox outbreak that happened in Wujiang County before."
By this point, Lin Fan was basically certain that the Gu corpses here were not from the same group as those in the Path of Fate. Knowing that it wasn't Lan Hanyu who had chased after him was a relief. However, he was even more puzzled about what had happened here.
The three of them casually cleared away the Gu corpses on the road. Unable to distinguish directions in the fog, they could only rely on Lin Fan, who acted as their human radar, to navigate and climb to the halfway point of the mountain.
The banner proclaiming "Acting on Behalf of Heaven" fluttered in the wind, and the plaque of the Hall of Gathering Righteousness hung in front of the desolate hall.
The tables and chairs in the Hall of Righteousness were overturned, and the culprits, the Gu corpses, were wandering aimlessly.
"Brother Fan, could it be that these mountain bandits, no, the river bandits, have gone too far with some kind of cult ritual, and now we don't even need to suppress them anymore?"
Lin Fan shook his head. He didn't know, but he felt that the possibility of this unfolding was very low. Moreover, why had they only encountered low-level water bandit-gu corpses so far? Clearly, some of these gu corpses still retained some of their former martial arts skills, so it was unreasonable for them to be so weak. Could it be that these gu corpses deliberately kept the weaker ones out?
"No, that can't be it. But the clothes on these Gu corpses aren't tattered, so something must have happened recently," Lin Fan said, frowning.
“Brother Fan, this doesn’t add up.” Upon hearing this, Niu Dadan wiped the table with his hand, showing Lin Fan his hand covered in dust. “This Gathering Hall hasn’t been used in a long time.”
Lin Fan shook his head. "Maybe they don't usually use this place."
Lin Fan jumped onto the Guan Yu statue in the center of the Gathering Hall, where only this area seemed to have relatively little dust.
Sure enough, there was a large hole behind the statue of Guan Yu, and looking inside, there was another cave.
Lin Fan tentatively calls this island Crab Island. It is surrounded by water, with a mountain in the center, which he'll call Crab Mountain for now. The Hall of Gathering Righteousness is built against the mountain, but there are no other supporting buildings nearby.
"Is the real hideout hollowed out of the mountain, like an anthill inside?"
It's another cave; this design seems to be consistent with the principles of destiny.
The cave was not lit by torches, but the walls were inlaid with the same fluorescent stones that Lan Hanyu had used before.
As soon as Lin Fan stepped into the cave, he felt a chill on the back of his neck.
boom!
He shifted his body slightly, and the rocks above his head were sliced open and fell to the ground with a crash.
Just as the long legs of a blade retracted, more flashes of light appeared.
Lin Fan reached out and grabbed at the air, his body vanishing instantly and flashing back to the ceiling of the Gathering Hall.
"Aaaaaah!" Chen Ergou screamed desperately, "Spiders! It's spiders again!"
The giant spider's blade-like legs seemed to defy gravity as they spun and crawled wildly on the walls and ceiling.
The wooden house creaked as it was poked.
"Painted Skin" Spider?
Not necessarily. Although they look alike, who knows if they are the same species?
This spider has cloudy white eyes and foul-smelling saliva; it seems to be a Gu corpse as well.
Lin Fan used spider silk to entangle with it in order to confirm whether it also had a "oyster"-shaped weakness on its forehead.
Unfortunately, its grayish-black forehead was completely smooth. Perhaps it really wasn't the same breed, or perhaps the location of its vital point (a point on its forehead) was different.
Ode.
Lin Fan held the ink sword and brushed it past the spider's side, causing four spider legs to slide off its body.
Just as the spider's body tilted and was about to fall, with a thud, a gush of foul-smelling, dark green liquid spurted out from the severed end, and two new spider legs immediately filled the missing places.
Lin Fan had seen this trick on "Shen Meng" before, but she only used it when she was desperate. This Gu Corpse Spider, however, didn't care about the cost at all when using it.
The long-accumulated sword energy did not have much effect when it struck.
Who knows how many more times it can recover?
Lin Fan is much stronger now than when he faced Shen Meng, but if he doesn't know the spider's weakness, dragging it into a war of attrition is not a good thing.
"Ah, ah, help! A spider monster is eating people!"
Chen Ergou shouted desperately and ran in one direction into the cave.
The Gu corpse was very simple-minded; upon seeing Brother Chen shouting, it immediately chased after him.
"Is Er Gou alright?" Niu Dadan, who was already prepared to fight the spider monster to the death, asked worriedly.
Lin Fan sheathed his sword and shook his head. "Er Gou's life is stronger than Xiao Qiang's. He won't die so easily. Let's leave now."
They chose the opposite direction from Chen Ergou.
After dealing with a few scattered Gu corpses, they soon arrived at an open space.
"Brother Fan, this...this..." Niu Dadan stared in shock at the corpses lying scattered on the ground, his mouth agape.
This is an extremely spacious area, illuminated as if it were daytime by fluorescent stones embedded in the ceiling and walls.
Several plaques hang in succession on the top of the cave: "Upright and Bright", "Moderate and Benevolent", and "Imperial Establishment".
In the center sat a large chair covered with animal hides, where the chief commander of Crab Mountain sat with his head bowed.
"Dead." Lin Fan stepped forward and touched the commander's nose; he was no longer breathing. A trace of black blood clung to the corner of his mouth.
These corpses made the situation even more perplexing. Why didn't these people turn into Gu corpses after they died? Another point is that they didn't have the smallpox pustules that Gu corpses have.
"Brother Fan, come quick, it's Doctor Lei!"
Lin Fan panicked and ran down from the main seat. Niu Dadan flipped someone over. Doctor Lei's eyes were closed, and he was no longer breathing, with a trace of black blood at the corner of his mouth.