Apocalypse: Mad Necromancer’s Troops

Chapter 79, Love, You Don’t Understand

 

The next day.

 

After breakfast, Wu Heng used the Portal to travel to the Zombie World.

 

After confirming that there were no special incidents last night, he took the skeletons downstairs.

 

He released Xiaoxiao, letting her play on her own.

 

Wu Heng then walked directly towards the mountain of zombie corpses.

 

These untransformed corpses were piled between two buildings, forming a slope.

 

It’s the Zombie World and his Necromancer profession that made him accustomed to corpses and the dead.

 

Otherwise, this hellish scene would scare someone to death.

 

Holding his staff, he directly cast the newly unlocked skill 【 Battlefield of the Dead】.

 

The moment the skill was activated, a gray-white halo rapidly spread from his body, sweeping over the piled-up corpses.

 

Rustle~!

 

In the next second, the flesh on the corpses began to peel off.

 

Skeletons slowly crawled up from the corpse mountain.

 

Unsteady on their feet, they rolled down the slope.

 

They wobbled as they stood up, entering a standby mode.

 

After casting the spell, Wu Heng also entered a state of emptiness.

 

It felt like a sage's time, his mind blank, with no thoughts.

 

This should be due to the 80% mental energy consumption mentioned in the skill description.

 

But the effect was indeed efficient.

 

He looked again at the standing skeletons, roughly counting them.

 

There were about three hundred, nearly four hundred skeletons, transforming roughly a quarter of the corpse pile.

 

According to the ‘Book of the Dead’, the normal transformation would be around a hundred.

 

It seems his mental energy is indeed a bit higher.

 

"Move over there," Wu Heng ordered.

 

The skeletons that stood up walked to the side.

 

"Sword One and Sword Two, distribute weapons to them."

 

Sword One and Sword Two, following orders, began handing out cleavers to the approaching skeleton warriors.

 

Wu Heng drank two bottles of mental potions and sat down to rest for a while.

 

Then he continued casting 【 Battlefield of the Dead】, this time only about a hundred skeletons stood up and joined the ranks.

 

It’s hard to clearly feel how much excess mental energy there is.

 

It seems that resting for a while didn’t recover much.

 

Wu Heng sat on the side, reading the ‘Book of the Dead’ and waiting for his mental energy to recover, occasionally casting the spell again.

 

Increasing the number of conversions.

 

No matter what, it’s much faster than transforming them one by one.

 

In the afternoon, Li Yanhong delivered iron spears; since there was a two-day backlog, she brought over more than 240 of them today.

 

Wu Heng gave them a brief glance and then led the skeletons to fetch food.

 

When bags of grain and canned goods were brought down.

 

Li Yanhong's face still showed a difficult-to-hide joy, her eyes even shining a bit.

 

The radio could connect with the outside world and hear about the situation in some places.

 

Food is a resource lacking in any survivor camp, even the central station is spreading knowledge about identifying wild grasses and vegetables that can be used to stave off hunger.

 

At the moment, her small camp might not be the richest, but they definitely had enough to eat and drink.

 

Maybe in a few days, they could all gain a few pounds.

 

The original plan was to trade some food with Wu Heng, then modify the car and head to the nearest survivor camp.

 

But now... everyone was starting to waver.

 

They were somewhat afraid of Wu Heng, who could control so many skeletons, but at the same time, working under his protection, with food and drink, felt safer.

 

It was a difficult decision.

 

"Thank you." Li Yanhong sincerely expressed her gratitude.

 

"As agreed, you should also speed up your progress." Wu Heng replied.

 

Li Yanhong nodded, then continued, "I want to take in some nearby survivors."

 

Wu Heng glanced at her.

 

He had no objections to accepting survivors; the more people, the more workers.

 

But Li Yanhong and her group would have to share a lot of their food.

 

"Can you manage that many people? Not everyone is willing to follow the rules now." Wu Heng reminded her.

 

"Just the nearby ones, if anyone can make it here, we'll temporarily take them in."

 

"Alright, I have no objections."

 

"Good."

 

After chatting for a while, Li Yanhong took the food and left.

 

Wu Heng also returned to his apartment complex, studied his skills for a while, then headed back to Blackstone Town.

 

.........

 

Afternoon, Blackstone Town.

 

As Wu Heng just walked out of the crowded area, he saw Yuli approaching, eating a grilled cake as she walked.

 

Seeing Wu Heng, she waved from a distance.

 

"Where are you headed?" Wu Heng asked.

 

"I’m coming to find you. Where are you going?" Yuli asked back.

 

"Uh, I’m heading to a shop. Do you need something?"

 

"Nope, I’ll go with you."

 

Here she comes again, mooching food off me.

 

The two of them walked together towards the commercial street.

 

Wu Heng bought over 20 bottles of mental potions in one go at the 'Antler Shop,' which Barson carried in his arms.

 

Yuli looked at him curiously.

 

She asked, "Why are you buying so many potions?"

 

Wu Heng didn’t like participating in missions or doing magical research.

 

She was curious why he was buying so many potions. Drinking them like water wouldn’t taste good, not better than that red tea at his place.

 

"Buying them for someone else."

 

"Oh, you’re pretty nice, not like a Necromancer at all. You should become a Cleric and bless people every day."

 

"It’s just a profession, whether someone is good or bad depends on the person..."

 

"Hey~!" Yuli suddenly grabbed him and pointed ahead, "Isn’t that the Captain? And Turisa."

 

Wu Heng followed her gaze and saw Captain Otruluk and Second Squad Captain Turisa walking side by side on the street.

 

Neither of them was wearing armor, dressed very casually.

 

They were walking close together, chatting and laughing.

 

"Capt..." Yuli raised her hand to greet them.

 

Wu Heng quickly covered her oil-stained mouth, "Don’t shout!"

 

"What are you doing? Why are you covering my mouth?"

 

"Don’t interrupt the Captain’s business."

 

"What business?"

 

Wu Heng glanced at her and said, "Love, you’ll understand when you grow up."

 

Yuli was stunned, then exclaimed in surprise, "You’re saying they’re..."

 

"You couldn’t tell?"

 

"Now I can." Yuli said with a sudden realization.

 

"Let’s head this way and go back for dinner."

 

"Okay!"

 

The two of them took a small detour to avoid the two chatting Captains and headed towards their home.

 

.........

 

The next day, Zombie World.

 

Wu Heng stood before the pile of corpses and began casting the skill.

 

The gray-white energy ring spread out, and skeletons slowly stood up one by one.

 

The empty-headed feeling hit him again, making Wu Heng feel a bit fatigued.

 

He took out a few potions and gulped them down.

 

After a burp, he continued casting 【 Battlefield of the Dead】, transforming the remaining corpses.

 

The mountain of corpses was entirely transformed into skeletons.

 

The empty space between the buildings was now densely packed with them.

 

After Sword One and Sword Two finished distributing weapons, Wu Heng roughly counted; there were around two thousand five or six hundred of them.

 

That was a sizable force.

 

If these skeleton soldiers appeared near Blackstone Town.

 

They would probably keep the City Hall folks up at night.

 

His skeleton army was finally starting to take shape.

 

Just as Wu Heng was about to take the skeletons out to level up by killing monsters.

 

Xiaoxiao floated back from the distance, shouting, "Uncle, it’s bad, a lot of zombies are coming!"