The largest rat in the swarm, the golden-haired rat king, was clearly in a hurry. It pounced on a zombie next to it, and the huge impact knocked the zombie to the ground. Naturally, the zombie also lost its grip on the golden-haired monster rat.

The golden-haired rat king went up and started gnawing, the crunching sound of the bones being chewed making the ears of the two people in the tree hurt.

This guy is really fierce; the zombie is visibly missing several fingers.

The zombie struggled to get up several times, but was unable to succeed because it was pinned down by the Golden Rat King.

"Squeak squeak squeak!" The golden-haired rat king squeaked angrily at the zombie, whether it was to seek justice for its companion or to show off its power, it was unclear.

Its response was a large wooden stick!

Bang!

Another zombie appeared from the side, wielding a wooden stick and forcefully knocking the Golden Rat King into the air, sending it flying several times before finally landing on the ground.

"squeak!"

The golden-haired rat king was clearly annoyed, arching its back and its golden hairs standing on end.

"My goodness~" Zuan clicked his tongue in amazement after taking a look. This Rat King was obviously much stronger than his other companions. The thorns on the back of his head were now more than a meter long, each one shining with a golden luster, like a javelin.

Whoosh whoosh!

Several hard spikes shot out, and the zombie, whose movements were somewhat sluggish, had no chance to dodge them. Several hard spikes were shot directly into its body, and it was pinned to the mountain wall by the enormous force.

"Squeak!"

The golden-haired rat king was clearly quite pleased with himself, having finally avenged the blow he had just received.

Ji Xiaoxi couldn't help but exclaim, "If those huge, hard spikes had hit us, we would probably have been seriously injured even if we hadn't died."

Zuan nodded. In terms of individual strength, this Golden-haired Rat King should be at least a high-level third rank, and fourth rank is not impossible. He was not very familiar with the classification of murderers in this world.

If you fight it one-on-one without using any special abilities, you probably won't be able to beat it.

"What...what is that!" Ji Xiaoxi exclaimed, pointing in a direction, her voice trembling slightly.

Zuan looked in the direction she pointed and saw that the zombie that had just been nailed to the mountain wall had moved. It lowered its head and looked at its chest, and half of its half-rotten eyeballs fell out, whether to express shock or something else, it was hard to tell.

Then it reached out and pulled out the hard thorns on its chest one by one. There was no blood splattering or anything, only some mysterious stuff that was hard to tell whether it was bodily fluid or pus flowed out.

Zuan's face twitched. Luckily, he had already eaten something, otherwise he would have no appetite at all after seeing this scene.

As for Ji Xiaoxi, she had already turned her face away.

The zombie pulled out all the spikes, then charged at the Golden Rat King, brandishing its club.

"Squeak~"

The golden-haired rat king's fur stood on end, not because it was preparing to attack, but because it was terrified. It had used its ultimate move, but this guy was clearly hit but was completely unharmed. So what was the point of fighting?

So it took off running. If it had previously felt a sense of responsibility as a king to protect and rescue its people, the current situation made it realize that it was already a miracle if it could save its own life.

Watching the Golden Rat King vividly demonstrate what it means to run away with your head in your hands, Zuan couldn't help but frown. These zombies' defense was simply invincible. Even after being attacked like that, they were like nothing happened—oh no, like nothing happened. So how could he kill them?

"Xiao Xi, have there been any records mentioning these zombies in this secret realm before?" Zuan asked the girl beside him.

Ji Xiaoxi shook her head: "I've never heard of zombies in the Yao Guang Secret Realm. Not only is it not in the academy's records, but even my father has never mentioned it to me."

Zu An's heart skipped a beat. He suddenly remembered that the secret realm had opened ahead of schedule this time. Jiang Luofu had also mentioned that the secret realm was acting strangely. Could it be that the secret realm was starting to cause trouble because I was about to enter?

Damn, I'm getting the kind of treatment only a main character gets!

Despite his吐槽 (tu cao, a Chinese internet slang term for sarcastic or witty remarks), Zaun's most pressing question remained: "Could there be some kind of light magic in this world? How can we kill such a thing?"

“Light element?” Ji Xiaoxi frowned her beautiful eyebrows. “There are indeed cultivators who have awakened this element in legends, but they are extremely rare. In any case, there don’t seem to be any in Bright Moon City. As for methods to deal with zombies, there are some records. It seems that cutting off their heads and destroying them should work. In addition, there are rumors that fire element cultivators can inflict additional damage on them.”

"Fire?" Zuan frowned, clearly neither of them had that ability, and they didn't know if ordinary fire would work.

However, this valley is so cold and damp that it would probably be difficult to start a large fire.

He went through all the skills he knew and found that none of them could be used to deal with these zombies. Even his proud "Evil-Repelling Sword Manual" was only good for dealing with flesh and blood creatures, as every move was aimed at vital points. However, these zombies had extremely high defense, and the sword technique would be much less effective against them.

After all, even if you stab it in the head, if you don't completely destroy it, it still won't have much of an effect on the zombie.

Only about a third of the golden-haired rats managed to escape; the majority were caught and devoured by the zombies. After all, the underground was teeming with zombies, and these golden-haired rats couldn't fly, so they suffered heavy losses.

We were able to escape a third of the way thanks to the fact that not many zombies woke up at the beginning. But as their flesh and blood spread throughout the valley, more and more land began to stir, and zombies with rotting flesh crawled out from the ground.

"Do you have any medicine that can block out odors? Sprinkle it around quickly, or it will be too late," Zuan said in a deep voice.

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