As soon as the mutant queen ant died, the entire ant colony immediately went out of control. Skeleton slowly walked in front of it. It could be seen that although this monster had a broken arm, its mental state was very happy. He began to silently chant spells on the mutant queen ant's body, absorbing the chaotic power from it. Soon, the mutant queen ant's body quickly shriveled up and emitted smoke. In the end, only a piece of black jade-like bone remained. This soul bone was a part of the skull, and it was in the shape of a flat round plate, which looked creepy.
Skeleton picked up the soul bone and attached it to his own body. His entire body creaked and his bones grew one or two inches taller as they twisted and deformed. Then, Skeleton put on his large, tattered wizard robe again, turned his head and glanced into the mist, and said in a muffled voice:
"I mean what I say. As long as you are willing to cooperate with me with all your strength, I will let you go. You can go now. Of course, I have another suggestion, which is that we can cooperate with each other and get what we need. I can cover you with my own chaotic aura, and then you can gain unprecedented freedom of movement in this sealed land. Your chances of getting what you want will naturally increase greatly. At critical moments, I can even help you."
"At the same time, I absorb the power of chaos generated after the prey dies, and your Hess bone absorbs the power of chaos hidden in the prey's body. We each get what we need and there is no conflict between us. We are a perfect partner."
The soul fire in Haide's eyes jumped as he looked at the fog not far away. Then Du Yuqi slowly walked out of it, and Haide threw the Bone of Hess to him.
It turned out that after the mutant queen ant launched a soul curse at Du Yuqi, it was the Skeleton who was lurking in the dark who quietly took action and helped Du Yuqi block the attack. Otherwise, Du Yuqi would have been seriously injured even if he didn't die from this attack.
But at the same time, Haide also placed a ban on Du Yuqi, threatening Du Yuqi to obey his orders and do two things. The first thing was to let Du Yuqi show up and then lead away an ant guarding the mutant queen ant. The second thing was to ask Du Yuqi to consume his own blood and inject it into the evil weapon, the Bone of Hess, to temporarily activate it and use this powerful evil weapon to break the enemy's defense.
If the Bones of Hess had not easily broken the protective shield around the mutant queen ant's body, there was no way that Skeleton would have been able to succeed in his surprise attack in such a short period of time. Not to mention anything else, he would have been unable to handle the return of another ant guard.
When Skeleton felt that cooperating with Du Yuqi was indeed twice the result with half the effort, he naturally wanted to replicate this model - after being activated, the Bones of Hess had a very strong suppressive force on the mutated monsters here. However, for Skeleton, an evil thing like the Bones of Hess could never be controlled and used by him as an undead creature, so he had to have the full cooperation of Du Yuqi.
The monster Haide also knew that Du Yuqi was definitely not someone who could be easily fooled, so the conditions he proposed were all sincere. In this situation, Du Yuqi's brain was also busy weighing and thinking about various things. After a long while, he gritted his teeth and said:
"good."
…
A few days later, the wind was howling and the sky and the earth were dark.
Although there is no distinction between day and night in the sealed land, there is a natural phenomenon called chaos tide that occurs regularly.
This terrible tide is probably equivalent to the power of a sandstorm and a tornado on the ground. Once it appears, it is almost impossible to move freely outdoors. This thing was not obvious when the Black Priest and the White Priest entered, and because of their powerful strength, they should have just skipped it. However, it has now become a major disaster.
According to Haide, the Chaos Tide lasts for twelve hours from high tide to low tide. During this period, even the powerful Chaos Creatures that are able to move freely in it will return to their nests and stay there. The reason is that in the Chaos Tide, all perceptions will be greatly affected, and most of the Chaos Creatures will hide in their nests and will not go out.
Du Yuqi felt that the Steel Bear Knights and Xi and others were protected by the magic circle left by the White Priest, and should only suffer some hardships in this chaotic tide. However, the Zero Organization that followed the path of the Black Priest would most likely be overwhelmed and exhausted.
At this time, Du Yuqi was staying in a horizontal cave under a rift. Although the exit of the cave had been blocked by several rocks, with the whistling wind, a gust of wind carrying the power of chaos would still slip in from time to time, falling on Du Yuqi's skin and causing pain like a knife cut.
The owner of this cave was a mutated flying squirrel. It had grown to be as fat as an adult wild boar, and its fur was covered with porcupine-like sharp spines. Although it had amazing strength, it could not survive more than ten seconds at the hands of Deadman.
At this time, the four legs of the mutant flying squirrel had been cut off and roasted on the fire, making a greasy and squeaking sound. However, even after being roasted for nearly half an hour, the muscles on the four legs were still twitching violently. If it weren't for the foresight of Skeleton to tie it up tightly, it might have fallen off the shelf.
After a while, Haide raised his chin to Du Yuqi and pointed at the meat on the fire.
"eat."
After Du Yuqi picked it up and took a bite, his brows immediately frowned. This thing looked roasted, but it was actually quite fishy. And when he took a bite, he felt that every muscle fiber was resisting angrily. Eating such a thing was not enjoyable at all, but a pure physical work.
Therefore, Du Yuqi shrugged and said to Haide:
"It tastes terrible, and I brought food with me, so thank you. I'll just let it rest in peace."
Haide said coldly:
"If you start eating local food now, there will be some chaos power left in your body. This is a good thing in the short term because it will make it more difficult for predators to identify you, and I can save more energy."
"So, if you want to have a better chance of survival, you have to eat all this food!"
After hearing what Haide said, Du Yuqi could only sigh, shrugged his shoulders, and picked up the bitten hind leg again helplessly. After hesitating for a while, he took out a pack of instant noodle seasoning from the dimensional ring and sprinkled it on the leg, then frowned and started to tear it apart.
While he was eating, he asked Haide:
"I came to the depths of this sealed land, but my main purpose was not to gain power, but to find someone. What is your purpose?"
The soul flame in Haide's eyes was beating slowly, and after a while he said:
"My goal is to transcend, evolve, and break away from my current life form. The undead have no pain, no happiness, no appetite, no excitement. The whole world is a weird color. Living in such a state is simply a kind of pain. As long as I have enough chaotic power, I can evolve into a chaotic creature, which is at least much better than my current situation."
After listening to Haide's words, Du Yuqi nodded and said:
"Understood."
Then he continued to tear the food in front of him with a frown.
While eating, Du Yuqi couldn't help but miss his friends again: Are you all okay now? I hope you are all alive and well!