Chapter 296 - 161: The Malignant Tumor’s Action (2)

Of course, there were other resources in the Underground City, but they weren’t of much help to Li Ziyu. What he needed most was still all sorts of corpses. Right now, he didn’t need to lay siege to anything. He just had to station his Undead in the tunnels, and the Demonized Creatures would deliver themselves to him wave after wave. Wasn’t that a sweet deal?

Li Ziyu was sure that the other side was definitely getting some benefit from the Undead. He could tell that the Demonized Creatures weren’t attacking the Undead just to take back the underground tunnels. If they really wanted the tunnels back, they would have at least dispatched a large army, right? After all this time, how could they not know how many Undead were in the tunnels?

But the number of Demonized Creatures sent into the tunnels each time was actually far from enough to clear out the Undead. They were even very scattered and lacked systematic training. They weren’t an army at all, more like Mercenaries or Hunters.

For a mutually beneficial situation like this, Li Ziyu wanted to keep it going for a while longer. It would be best if he could collect more Demonized Creature Skeletons. He already had enough Demonized Beast Skeletons on hand. The Undead’s ability to hunt Demonized Beasts was constantly improving, accumulating a massive amount of Wild Beast bones for him.

Night. The main building of the Undead Fortress.

"Boss, important intel!" Zhang Peng rushed in from outside, yelling as he ran.

Li Ziyu tore his gaze from the night outside and turned to Zhang Peng with a questioning look. During this time conquering the Underground City, Li Ziyu had been very relaxed. Whenever he had free time, he would huddle with Zhang Peng and Liu Xingxing around the system screen, watching the chat channels and catching up on major events in the Otherworld.

’Did the Demons and Angels get into a fight?’

’Did the Vampires ambush the Werewolves again?’

’Did the Sea King Race raid the Giant Beast Race’s coastal stronghold?’

Anyway, the three of them always had a blast watching the drama unfold. He wondered what Zhang Peng had seen this time to be making such a fuss.

"The Alliance Army of goblins, the Headhunter Race, and Lizardmen is on the move," Zhang Peng said with a grim expression, having reached Li Ziyu.

"Hm? Oh, what’s going on?" Li Ziyu was stunned for a moment before his expression changed and he asked.

He had been living too comfortably here for too long, so much so that he didn’t immediately realize Zhang Peng was talking about the Cancerous Tumor Alliance Army. He’d almost forgotten he even had such a major enemy. ’Sigh, I really need to be vigilant even in times of peace.’

’It’s been far too quiet lately, to the point where it feels like I’m on vacation. That’s not a good sign.’

While Li Ziyu was conquering the Underground City, the Cancerous Tumor Alliance Army had been searching everywhere for clues to his whereabouts, wanting to attack the Undead Fortress. But he had moved it quite far away, to a very remote location. On top of that, the Cancerous Tumor Alliance Army’s reputation was truly terrible—no better than that of the legendary Undead. Everyone was just watching the show. For the various Tribes living in this Wasteland, it was just a big dog-eat-dog drama.

They wouldn’t actively help the Undead, nor would they lend a hand to the Cancerous Tumor Alliance Army. This led to the Alliance Army searching for a long time without finding Li Ziyu’s location.

Not finding him was one thing, but the real problem was that the Cancerous Tumor Alliance Army was on the verge of collapse. They had gathered several hundred thousand people, and the daily cost of feeding men and horses was no small sum. Their supplies were about to run out. Starting ten days ago, a portion of the Cancerous Tumor Alliance Army had already begun to defy orders and started Plundering other Tribes, even extorting mid-sized ones.

This threw the Wasteland into chaos, and the Cancerous Tumor Alliance Army’s reputation, far from improving, became even worse.

Now, the Cancerous Tumor Alliance Army truly couldn’t hold on any longer. If they didn’t start a fight soon, they would fall apart on their own, no Undead required. Thus, they couldn’t afford to wait any longer and had to seek battle.

And for once, the Cancerous Tumor Alliance Army had a smart idea. They discovered that although the Undead Fortress had left the Wraith Mountain Range, there were still traces of Undead in the mountains, constantly gathering resources. So, they decided to stop looking for the Undead Fortress altogether. Instead, they marched out directly, preparing to wipe out the Undead in the Wraith Mountain Range.

’Even if we can’t take out the Undead Fortress, we can still eliminate the Undead. That’s worth something, even if it’s just for the effort, right? Besides, we’re attacking your old nest. Are you going to come back or not?’

The news Zhang Peng had received was that the Cancerous Tumor Alliance Army was on the march toward the Wraith Mountain Range. The public announcement was that they were going to eliminate the Undead remaining in the Wraith Mountain Range and remove the Undead threat.

After hearing this, Li Ziyu nodded and raised an eyebrow. ’Looks like I really do have to go back this time.’

The Wraith Mountain Range was his most important resource point. It was true he had left, but it was also true that he’d left Undead behind to mine resources. There was no way he could just stand by and watch the Cancerous Tumor Alliance Army wipe out his Undead and seize the Wraith Mountain Range and all the resources they had mined.

"Looks like it’s time. Let’s go. We should head back." Li Ziyu glanced outside. Through the bright Moonlight, he could see the bottomless chasm in the ground.

"Understood." Zhang Peng nodded and turned to leave, going to inform Liu Xingxing.

Return to the fortress and prepare for departure!

Li Ziyu issued a command to the Undead in the Underworld.

After only a short wait, there was movement from below. Skeleton Undead and Alien Undead continuously emerged, returning to the Bone Plate Platform. As time passed, more and more Undead came up from the ground.

The Undead retreat took a full day and night. It wasn’t until the evening of the second day that all the Undead had withdrawn from the underground and returned to the Undead Fortress. There were simply too many of them.

In the main building, he met with the five returning Tattooed Skeletons.