Chapter 294: A Desperate Gamble
Taotie, carrying the Mo Dao on his shoulder, walked side by side with Tom towards the tomb chamber where the old zombies had come from.
Arriving outside the tomb chamber, they peered inside and couldn’t help but gasp.
Most of the terracotta warriors in the tomb chamber were shattered.
The lids of all eighteen stone coffins were blown off.
They were scattered haphazardly throughout the tomb chamber.
Seventeen zombies wearing armor and holding Mo Daos were hacking at the terracotta warriors.
From the shattered terracotta warriors, white worm eggs occasionally spilled out, hatched, and turned into corpse-controlling parasites, flying into the air.
They swirled around the old zombies.
Seeing this scene, Taotie and Tom’s expressions changed drastically, and they looked horrified.
“Taotie, what do we do?”
Tom rarely looked so lost.
Obviously, facing so many reanimated corpses was beyond his comprehension.
Even with Taotie’s explanation of the corpse-controlling parasites, this almost supernatural event was still hard for Tom to accept. The impenetrable armor and the bizarre corpse-controlling parasites made Tom feel powerless.
“Burn them with fire!”
Taotie said in a deep voice.
“Quick, make fire bottles!”
“The more, the better, and bombs and fuel.”
“We must kill all these zombies and corpse-controlling parasites before they run out of this tomb chamber!”
“Otherwise, none of us will survive!”
Taotie said with a solemn expression.
“Okay!”
Tom nodded and responded.
He unloaded his backpack and began to quietly take out materials, afraid that making too much noise would alert the corpse-controlling parasites.
Taotie glanced at Tom and then at the zombies and corpse-controlling parasites in the tomb chamber. He was anxious but could only wait, silently praying that Tom would be quicker.
Suddenly!
A zombie, holding a Mo Dao, walked towards the tomb chamber door.
Taotie’s heart skipped a beat, and he thought, “Not good!”
Taotie took the Mo Dao off his shoulder.
He put his hand into the handguard connected to the Mo Dao.
“Tom, hurry!”
“A zombie is coming!”
Taotie urged Tom in a low voice.
Hearing this, Tom looked up.
Seeing an old zombie staggering towards them, he also looked anxious.
“You take care of it!”
Saying that, Tom picked up a finished fire bottle and handed it to Taotie.
One fire bottle could take care of a zombie.
The real problem was the flying corpse-controlling parasites, which was a big trouble.
“No way!”
Taotie shook his head and didn’t take the fire bottle.
“Once the fire starts, all the corpse-controlling parasites will be alarmed. You need to be quick.”
Taotie said in a deep voice.
Taotie glanced at the fire bottles Tom had made. There were already more than a dozen, but it wasn’t enough.
Seeing the old zombie getting closer, Taotie frowned, thinking about how to deal with it.
But no matter how many ways he came up with, he couldn’t perfectly solve the current crisis.
Taotie grabbed his hair in frustration, feeling helpless.
Without the corpse-controlling parasites, Taotie wouldn’t be afraid of these zombies. He would dare to rush up and fight them to the death with his knife. But with the corpse-controlling parasites, even if he could kill the old zombies, he would be surrounded by the corpse-controlling parasites and become a container for hatching eggs.
At this time, the old zombie was still less than ten meters away from the tomb chamber door. Taotie could already smell the stench mixed with a strange medicinal fragrance coming from the old zombie.
“Stop making them!”
“We have to act now!”
Taotie said in a low voice.
“If there aren’t enough fire bottles, use bombs!”
“I’ll take care of this old zombie. You throw all the fire bottles into the terracotta warriors and burn all the eggs first. Use bombs to blow up the corpse-controlling parasites in the air. It should have a similar effect.”
Taotie quickly explained his plan.
“Okay!”
Tom nodded and responded.
He immediately stopped making fire bottles and put all the super-concentrated fuel and bottles of fire oil into his backpack. He said, “We don’t need these either. Throw them in when you’re cutting up the corpses. Make the fire bigger!”
Hearing Tom’s words, Taotie’s eyes lit up.
“Okay!”
“Let’s go!”
Taotie took the backpack and said in a deep voice.
Before he finished speaking, Taotie rushed towards the old zombie with the backpack.
Taotie kicked the old zombie over with a flying kick.
He threw the backpack at the terracotta warriors and then chopped off the old zombie’s head with a swift strike.
After succeeding with one strike, Taotie quickly retreated.
He withdrew from the tomb chamber, grabbed a fire bottle, and smashed it against the old zombie.
With a “crash,” the fire bottle shattered.
The old zombie was instantly engulfed in flames.
The corpse-controlling parasites in the old zombie didn’t have time to crawl out before being surrounded by the fire.
At the same time, Tom started throwing bombs.
He threw all the twenty or so finished fire bottles at the terracotta warriors.
As the fire bottles fell, raging fires immediately broke out in the terracotta warriors. Several old zombies were hit by the fire bottles and turned into human-shaped torches.
The corpse-controlling parasitesthat had been flying around them were also ignited.
In an instant, the dense corpse-controlling parasites were thrown into chaos.
They flew around the tomb chamber.
Seeing this scene, Taotie thought, “Not good.”
“Throw the bombs quickly!”
“It’s best to detonate them all at once!”
Taotie shouted to Tom.
Now that the corpse-controlling parasites were scattered, it would be difficult to kill many with individual bombs.
Only by detonating all the bombs at once could the powerful shock wave knock down the corpse-controlling parasites in the air and send them to a fiery grave.
Tom understood Taotie’s intention and immediately took off his coat, wrapping all the bombs in it.
He activated a bomb and, listening to the “beep” countdown, threw the bomb-wrapped coat towards the area with the most corpse-controlling parasites.
“Close the door quickly!”
Tom shouted.
Taotie, who was already prepared, immediately closed the stone door of the tomb chamber, shouldered the Mo Dao, and turned to run.
Tom followed closely behind, running towards the tomb chamber where Fang Xiaocao and the others were.
Taotie and Tom hadn’t run far.
A loud explosion came from behind them.
In an instant, the entire ancient tomb shook.
Even the entire mountain began to shake.
The tomb chamber showed signs of collapsing.
Beams kept falling from the tomb ceiling.
Cracks appeared on the stone slabs on the ground.
Taotie and Tom were immediately shaken to the ground.
Seeing that it was too late to run, Taotie and Tom quickly rolled over to the corner of the tomb chamber where they had killed the first old zombie, took off their bulletproof vests, held them high above their heads as shields, and protected their heads.
“Rumble~”
The huge explosion echoed through the ancient tomb.
Stones kept falling from the sky, hitting the bulletproof vests, forcing Taotie and Tom to squat in the corner with their heads in their hands, not daring to move.
