Chapter 120: The Despair Serpents Desperate Disguise

Chapter 120: The Despair Serpent's Desperate Disguise

Yu Xian and Zhang Shou sat atop the enormous dragon-like Perfect Lifeform's head, gradually putting distance between themselves and the Supreme Martial Zombie King. Only after more than ten minutes had passed did Zhang Shou start gulping down air. Sweat poured off him like rain.

He muttered, "Holy shit! I nearly pissed myself. That zombie was terrifying."

Zhang Shou did not have Appraisal, so he did not know the Supreme Martial Zombie King's background. But when a weak creature encountered one far stronger than itself, it would naturally develop a strange kind of instinct. It was just like how a person would feel fear upon encountering a tiger, even if they did not know how powerful the tiger was.

Zhang Shou had felt suppressed by the Supreme Martial Zombie King's terrifying presence. It was why he had not said a word the entire time. He had been afraid that the zombie would take notice of him.

Seeing how unfazed his friend was, Zhang Shou wiped the sweat from his brow and eyed him suspiciously. "Hey, Salted Fish, you weren't scared at all?"

Yu Xian looked as composed as Grand Lord Jiang [1]sitting firmly at the fishing terrace. With an indifferent expression, he said, "He was a hero. What's there to be afraid of?"

He told Zhang Shou the Supreme Martial Zombie King's background. Zhang Shou fell silent for a while. Then, with admiration pasted all over his face, he said, "Damn! Now that's a real man!"

To hold the passage alone against a legion was an absolute dream, a primal fantasy buried deep in the souls of countless men. Although the Supreme Martial Zombie King had failed to protect anything in the end, he had given his life for his world. No one had the right to condemn him for that.

Zhang Shou looked ahead at the dim sky and the pitch-black earth and asked out of nowhere, "Someday, if our world really reaches its end, Salted Fish, would you choose to leave or would you stay behind like him?"

Both of them possessed extremely long lifespans. As long as nothing unexpected happened, they would surely live to see the end of the world.

Yu Xian smiled bitterly. "I don't know. If I had to choose right now, I would definitely stay behind and fight to protect Huaxia, even at the cost of my life. But people change. If my future self has too many things he cannot bear to lose, I might not be as resolute as I am today."

If he and Nora had children in the future, there was no way he could simply stand by and watch them wait for death. Once a person had attachments, it was no longer possible to remain selfless.

The moment he said he did not know, his Super Brain had already given him the answer. He simply did not want to accept that answer.

Zhang Shou let out a long breath and looked up to the sky. "Man... suddenly, everything just feels so hopeless."

At that moment, a city appeared on the horizon. The lights within the city made Yu Xian's eyes slowly brighten. "Precisely because there is despair, we need to search for hope even more. This world's ending may not necessarily be our world's ending!"

Zhang Shou also saw the city. He excitedly stood up. "Holy shit, holy shit! There's a city! There's light!"

Yu Xian stared at the city ahead. The city had no walls, and its outskirts were full of broken walls and ruined structures. But the closer it got to the center, the more intact the buildings became. Many windows shone with the light of hope.

Suddenly, he caught a faint, unusual scent. The originally blank model in his mind rapidly spread open. His eyes slowly widened. A bubble at his fingertip immediately expanded, covering both him and Zhang Shou. He was about to teleport. However, at that moment, a dark green light shot out from the city and flashed past them. The dragon-like Perfect Lifeform was instantly split into two, its flesh rapidly dissolving within the light.

At the same time, the bubble Yu Xian had created was shattered. The terrifying shockwave separated the two friends. Zhang Shou's body was twisted like a pretzel on the spot, which killed him, while dragon scales constantly flashed across Yu Xian, perfectly blocking every attack.

The two fell to the ground. Yu Xian immediately looked toward his friend and shouted, "Zhang Shou!"

Red light covered him, and he instantly teleported over to Zhang Shou. Just as Zhang Shou revived, Yu Xian grabbed him and teleported again, this time to a spot a thousand meters away. The next instant, another green beam blasted out from the city, swallowing the place where the two of them had just been.

Still badly shaken, Zhang Shou stared at the bombarded ground. "What the hell just happened?"

Yu Xian did not answer. He kept teleporting away, putting more and more distance between them and that city. Three seconds later, the city "came alive." Pupils appeared in the dense rows of windows, and a brilliantly colored serpent covered in "windows" raised its head. Countless eyes all over its body had already locked onto Yu Xian and Zhang Shou.

There had never been any city at all. It was only a giant serpent disguised as a city. The serpent had coiled motionlessly on the ground, the patterns across its body perfectly imitating the appearance of a city. One could imagine, in this world's most desperate hour, how overjoyed countless refugees fleeing their homes had been on seeing a city and the utter despair they had felt when they discovered the truth.

When Zhang Shou saw the giant serpent drop its disguise, his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. As Yu Xian dragged him away like a kite on a string, he cursed nonstop. "Fuck, Fuck, Fuck!"

Yu Xian was constantly teleporting away. He did not dare remain in one place for too long. The giant serpent's attacks were too fast.

The giant serpent moved at incredible speed. It swallowed the corpse of the dragon-like Perfect Lifeform in one bite, then rapidly gave chase.

Yu Xian did not need to look back. Through his Super Smell, he had already detected the giant serpent drawing closer. "So fast!"

He gritted his teeth and sped up, but in his perception, the distance between them was only shrinking. Without spatial bubbles, he had to rely solely on the special energy from the Dragon Shield core, and each teleportation required him to lock onto his destination in advance.

Unfortunately, aside from on the giant serpent, his Super Smell worked very poorly in this world. Most of what he sensed was blank, which meant he could only rely on his eyes to lock onto a location. The result was that his reaction speed became a serious drag. Each time he teleported, he covered only about a thousand meters, and that was already the most efficient result.

Utilizing a spatial bubble was out of the question. What had happened on the top of the dragon-like Perfect Lifeform was the best example. He would probably survive, but Zhang Shou would definitely die again. They still would not be able to escape.

Countless beams of light shot out from the giant serpent's eyes, almost completely sealing off every direction Yu Xian could escape in. Fortunately, Yu Xian was not running on his legs, but teleporting, so each time, he was able to appear in the blind spots of its attacks.

The giant serpent's first attack had actually been aimed at the dragon-like Perfect Lifeform, not Yu Xian and Zhang Shou. The two of them had only been caught in the aftermath.

Yu Xian seriously doubted the Dragon Shield could withstand a direct hit from the giant serpent, as it was far too powerful, almost comparable to the Extreme Dragon he had once encountered by accident. As Yu Xian fled, he knew that their only chance of survival lay in the ruins!

Just as the giant serpent was about to catch up, Yu Xian's eyes lit up. Looking at the back of the figure that stood like an impregnable fortress, he immediately accelerated and teleported over. He instantly appeared within the ruins. Behind him, the giant serpent roared and crashed toward the Supreme Martial Zombie King.

1. Grand Lord Jiang, or Jiang Ziya, is a legendary strategist associated with the story of calmly fishing until King Wen of Zhou recognized his talent. ☜