Shocking Situation!

Chapter 28: Shocking Situation!

Fang Yuan couldn't help but smile after he ended his meditation. Feeling the changes in his energy made him excited. His eyes then fell on the covered plate.

He was hungry, so he didn't waste any time and immediately gouged into the plate.

Time flew by, and soon the deadline came to an end.

A feeling suddenly emerged in Fang Yuan's heart, so he excitedly thought of the pagoda. The next moment, he stood before the portal.

Fang Yuan then took a deep breath and walked into the portal. The sensation of discomfort returned, and the next moment, he found himself back in the forest.

Fang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief since it was now clear that the destination on the other side of the portal was Crimson Wood City. Due to that, he now had almost an endless source of Crimson Wood for the trade with Shengong Linfang.

The benefit of Mutou World was not limited to trees but also to the rich quality of wood-based techniques and cultivation arts. He was moving toward being a dual spiritual root user with a focus on the elements of wood and earth so he could learn many things from Mutou.

Last time, Fang Yuan had decided to stop at Five Trees for various reasons, but the sweet deal offered by Shengong Linfang was too much for his heart.

So he immediately sprang into action and cut down five more trees. He chose two shorter trees, which seemed higher quality, while the remaining three were usual.

After storing the trees, Fang Yuan walked toward the city. He hadn't walked very far when a shocking and heartbreaking scene appeared before his eyes.

The forest was full of Crimson Wood trees, and since it didn't have much value in the cultivation system of the Mutou world, people left it apart. But before Fang Yuan's eyes, there was a scene of destruction as dead trees sprang forth as far as his eyes could see.

The last time he came here, the jungle was as breathtaking as usual, so it could only be recent.

Crimson Wood was a source of resources for Fang Yuan, so he couldn't help but curse whoever did this to the trees, but as he walked farther, his heart felt chilled.

There were still dead trees, but there were now human corpses as well. They weren't in good condition at all. Some were half-bitten, some only had their legs or hands, and some didn't even have a full head left.

Fang Yuan's family had never been wealthy, and they had lived in backward areas of the city since early, but it was still a civil society, so the scenes were too much to take for him. Something seemed to force its way out of his throat as he puked. Whatever he had eaten before traveling had now been turned into vomit. What made Fang Yuan further aggravated and sad was that his vomit was the least disgusting thing on the scene.

After several minutes, he stopped, but the scene was still there. Tears started forming in his eyes when he saw the corpse of a one or two-year-old baby in a horrible situation.

It was too much for him to handle, and he wanted to immediately return to his world, but before the deadline, the portal would remain inactive, so he couldn't leave.

Since he couldn't leave Mutou, he dashed toward the city to find some people.

Several minutes later, Fang Yuan stopped and gasped for breath. His face didn't look good since the city had taken a turn for the worse from what it was the last time he came.

The city was now filled with dead people in horrible conditions, and it didn't take long for Fang Yuan to find the reason for it. Not very far from him, there was the corpse of a zombie.

He remembered that the last time he came to the city, he had seen a zombie attack, but that was handled well without any serious casualties.

Unfortunately, the time flow rate between his world and Mutou was ten times, so while only two days had passed for him, twenty days had passed for the inhabitants of the Mutou world.

Twenty days were more than enough to cause scenes such as the one before him.

The existence of zombies has been known to the inhabitants of the Mutou world since ancient times. They didn't appear out of nowhere but were caused by a mutation in the corpse of a Foundation Building level cultivator thousands of years ago.

It was a sentient force, but the madness was such that they would attack other cities from time to time. They couldn't reproduce, so they needed to have corpses to continue the existence of their race.

The existence of zombies could only come at the cost of Humans, so the two were mortal enemies. Wherever a zombie was sighted, irrespective of the relationship, Humans would join together to kill them.

Unfortunately, as long as Humans existed and had limited lifespans, zombies would also exist, so the war had been raging on for thousands of years.

Crimson Wood City became one of the targets of the zombie attacks, and since it was led by ten foundation-building level zombies, it wasn't much of a battle. Except for a minuscule population, the entire city had been razed to the ground.

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Clang! Clang! Clang!

Sounds of clashes rang as Zhang Feitian battled with a zombie. His eyes were red, and he was manically battling, not caring about the poison slowly devouring him.

Not far from the battle scene, there was the corpse of a woman who had half her face bitten off. If her face were to be recreated, others would be able to see the similarity between the woman and the middle-aged Zhang Feitian.

What should have been a glorious day for Zhang's family had now turned into a nightmare due to the zombie attack.

(Chapter End.)