"Song Ben, be on guard in battle. You are authorized to command as you see fit. All high-level martial artists, follow me!"

After giving the order, Sun Fanggao leaped down into the valley and rushed toward the altar.

Behind him were Huang Tao, who had somehow produced a long knife, and Xu He, who was holding a short sword.

Pale-faced He Yanfeng instinctively stepped back, but was pressed against his waist by a cold touch.

"Principal He, let's go together!"

Behind him, Li Ziyan, holding a sharp blade, said with a half-smile.

He Yanfeng gritted his teeth and could only pull out a shield and sword set, then jumped down with Li Ziyan.

The ten top martial artists leaped down the valley together, while many students were still unaware of what had happened. Even Ouyang Fei and the others were somewhat bewildered and came over to ask Shen Qian for clarification.

"We have to destroy that altar, or something terrible will happen!"

He couldn't explain it clearly beforehand, so he could only tell the others the conclusions he had reached.

"What's that?" Gu Zifang was about to ask when her pupils suddenly contracted, and she pointed to the snow below and shouted.

Shen Qian had already turned his gaze over first, and then gasped as the light shone.

The depression in the valley suddenly changed after Sun Fang and the other ten people jumped down.

Suddenly, hands covered in flesh and skin emerged from the snow and grabbed his feet.

Sun Fang's expression changed slightly. He swept away the hand with a shot, but three more hands reached out from different directions and grabbed his legs.

Not only Sun Fang, but Huang Tao and others also encountered a sudden attack.

The snow in the depression receded rapidly, revealing large skeletal remains.

The ground of the valley was piled high with dead bodies.

At this moment, all the corpses seemed to come alive. They opened their unfocused eyes, which seemed to be shrouded in gray mist, and silently got up from the ground.

Looking ahead, Shen Qian saw that from the bottom of the slope to the altar, it was densely packed with "people" who slowly approached Sun Fang and the others.

At a rough estimate, there are at least several thousand.

The scene of the dead coming back to life greatly shocked the students on the hillside, and Ouyang Fei and others were also somewhat stunned.

The wary Shen Qian had considered all the possibilities, and although he was also shocked, he quickly calmed down.

"roll!"

With a loud shout, Sun Fang, whose expression remained unchanged, unleashed a burst of light from his spear. With a sweeping motion, he instantly sent dozens of corpses flying.

Huang Tao and his team also performed admirably, striking down hundreds of corpses in the blink of an eye with their full strength.

He breathed a slight sigh of relief before sinking.

Although they hadn't seen many high-level martial artists make a move, their explosive power started at 5000 kg, making them exceptionally strong. The dead scavengers' cultivation levels were unclear, but their strength was weak, posing no threat to Sun Fang and his group.

The students on the hillside cheered.

But the next second, all the cheers fell silent.

Because the corpses that had been swept away got up again as if nothing had happened, and then pounced on Sun Fang and the others with even greater speed.

"There's something strange about these dead people!" Huang Tao's expression changed.

"Do you need to tell me that?" Li Ziyan shouted, "Try cutting off my head!"

Xu He gritted her teeth as the sharp blade in her hand painstakingly pierced the head of a corpse, but the corpse did not stop its attack. It opened its mouth and bit her arm with its yellow and white teeth.

Xu He had no choice but to kick the corpse away.

However, even more dead bodies surrounded them.

"It doesn't work!"

"Cut off their hands and feet, get through quickly, don't get entangled!"

Sun Fang roared and struck the joints of the surrounding corpses with his spear, finally managing to tear a gash open.

But Sun Fang's steps soon faltered again; the speed at which he knocked down the dead was far slower than the speed at which the dead surrounded him.

"No, these dead people's bodies are like thousand-year-old ice, their defense is too strong. We won't make it in time. That woman is already almost at the altar!" Li Ziyan roared.

Sun Fang looked back and, sure enough, the woman carrying the child and walking slowly was less than a hundred meters away from the altar.

The nine cloaked figures standing around the tree stump chanted even louder.

"Teams Two and Three, continue to stand guard and protect the students. Team Nine, provide fire support. The remaining seven teams, enter the battlefield and clear the way for us!"

Sun Fang gave the order in a loud voice.

The soldiers of the Right Battalion, who had been standing silently on the hillside, sprang into action the moment Sun gave the order.

Led by Song Ben, the military warriors lowered ropes from the hillside and slid into the valley one by one. They then drew their standard-issue longswords and charged into the battlefield with shouts.

Boom! Boom!

Meanwhile, the nine squads of military warriors on the hillside set up ten small psionic cannons and bombarded the group of corpses in front of Sun Fang and the others.

The psionic cannon should have been incredibly powerful, but for some reason it seemed to have been weakened considerably in this valley. Despite its impressive appearance, it did little damage to the horde of zombies.

Shen Qian intuitively felt that this might be related to the existence of that "door".

After all, both the psionic cannon and the psionic gun work on the principle of highly compressed spiritual energy, and the light spot also looks like it is made of spiritual energy. It's as if the bullets from the psionic gun were absorbed by it.

Fortunately, the soldiers of the Right Battalion who rushed into the valley played a very important role. With their indomitable spirit, Song Ben and his men were like a sharp knife cutting into the horde of corpses, advancing hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye.

Sun Fang and his men pressed forward, but as the dead men who had fallen to the ground rose again, the soldiers, having lost their initial momentum, were plunged into a fierce battle.

Shen Qian saw a military soldier being dragged into a horde of corpses and disappear amidst painful screams. He also saw another military soldier being bitten on the neck by a corpse, yet still clinging tightly to it, and falling to the ground together...

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