Chapter 242: Sinister
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[Blood Energy +30%]
As the zombie roared, chewing and swallowing the monster's heart, such a prompt also popped up in Li Muyang's field of vision.
At the same time, he regained control of the zombie's body once more.
Smelling the intense, pungent scent of blood in the air, Li Muyang sighed.
Everything about this zombie's skills was good, except that its attack mode in a frenzied state was too bloody, leaving everything drenched in blood.
However, in the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, two Demon Suppression Magi had become demonized?
Or could it be that all the missing Demon Suppression Magi had undergone demonization?
Li Muyang looked up at the night sky and shouted again.
"Dan Xiaolian! Are you dead? If not, make some noise!"
In the pitch-black night sky above, it was unknown if there were other Demonic Sorcerers.
But after Li Muyang shouted a few times, there was no response from the night sky, instead, sounds emerged from the streets not far away.
Hearing the noises, Li Muyang immediately turned his head to look at the street on the left.
That street was hundreds of meters away from the Imperial Astronomical Bureau's office, where many people had been watching and chasing the parade of prisoners being escorted, and Li Muyang had come from that direction earlier. Enjoy more content from empire
He remembered clearly that it was very lively, with the street teeming and the crowd fiercely indignant.
However, when Li Muyang looked over, he found that although the street was well-lit, identical to how it was before,
there wasn't a single soul in sight, the place eerily silent and empty.
The people who had crowded the streets, roaring their denunciations, had all vanished without a trace, as if evaporated from the earth.
On the desolate street, only two dark red streaks of blood wriggled into visibility under the dim light of the lanterns.
[Demonic Sorcerer]
[Demonic Sorcerer]
Seeing the eerie shadows emerge under the distant lanterns, Li Muyang's heart skipped a beat as he suddenly noticed something strange.
——The city of Sanhe had inexplicably quieted down.
The once bustling city of Sanhe was silent except for the street outside the Imperial Astronomical Bureau's office.
But now, as Li Muyang stood at the highest point of the office and looked out over the entire city, he saw that although the city was still brightly lit and many streets were adorned with lights and decorations,
there was no more rage-filled shouting of the citizens or the desperate pleas for mercy from the nobles.
Under the dark shroud of night, the city of Sanhe gleamed with lights, yet it was deathly quiet.
This silence under the blackness of night seemed rather ominous.
Li Muyang suddenly felt a chill.
"...Where is everyone?"
What happened to all the people in the city? How come they were nowhere to be found?
This bizarre and inexplicable situation sent a shiver down one's spine.
However, the two menacing creatures that wriggled into view under the distant lanterns didn't give Li Muyang time to ponder.
After the creatures appeared, they ripped their mouths open fiercely, like pythons, stretching them to terrifying angles.
Chunks of dim yellow flames were spewed forth by the two creatures.
A series of fireballs flew toward Li Muyang with fierce momentum, and he promptly dodged.
However, in the instant he dodged the fireballs, Li Muyang felt a sudden chill in his heart as a claw pierced through his chest from behind.
——The two creatures had somehow crossed the hundreds of meters distance and appeared right behind him!
[You have died, game over]
Li Muyang, who opened his eyes in the private room of the tavern, spoke in shock.
"These two creatures can perform Instantaneous Movement?!"
Just a second ago they were hundreds of meters away, and in the blink of an eye, they had silently appeared behind him.
Li Muyang didn't even get the chance to use his skills before he was stealthily killed.
He frowned slightly, sensing trouble.
The whole city of Sanhe had become eerily sinister, with its citizens mysteriously gone, vanishing in the blink of an eye.
And the Demonic Sorcerers that jumped out in the city were getting stronger and more unpredictable by the minute.
This game with a three-day time limit, which he thought would have a simple process.
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The first instance he entered the game since it began, Li Muyang was saddled with a big task.
"What happened to the rescue of the Glass Immortal Maiden? Why have I run into evil spirits again..."
Li Muyang was somewhat irritated.
Though he knew that uncanny, evil spirits were an inevitable part of the local flavor one must experience in the Heavenly Origin Dynasty. Even within the land of the Heavenly Origin Dynasty, bizarre disasters could occur in the imperial palace itself.
Compared to that, it wasn't strange for the Astronomic Observation Division headquarters to experience supernatural disasters.
But time was of the essence for Li Muyang, and could these damn evil spirits not try to show their presence at such a critical moment!
Once entangled with evil spirits, things would become very troublesome.
Tangled with these evil spirits, could he really clear the game and rescue the Glass Immortal Maiden in three days' time?
Li Muyang closed his eyes and gritted his teeth angrily.
"Activate!"
He entered the game again.
But this time, after entering the game, Li Muyang did not make a show of himself.
After he leaped to the highest point of the Astronomical Observation Division, he surveyed his surroundings from a high vantage point.
The situation within the Astronomical Observation Division was extremely strange, and now, the city of Three Rivers within his view was also shrouded in a grim atmosphere.
But no matter how bizarre the situation, as long as it involved evil spirits, it seemed reasonable.
The Ancient Evil Gods underneath the ancient grudge well couldn't descend upon the real world, but their power continued to pollute and toxify this land incessantly.
Li Muyang looked down upon the silent, lifeless ghost town, the more he observed, the more certain he became that indeed, there was not a soul within the city walls.
No living people, and no corpses in sight.
It was only within the city's shadows that an unknown number of Demonic Sorcerers were lurking hidden.
The mission in the system bar remained unchanged.
Li Muyang believed in the system; since the system called him to find Dan Xiaolian, then Dan Xiaolian must be alive.
However, in the silent, dead Three Rivers City, how could he locate Dan Xiaolian?
Li Muyang frowned slightly, continuously scanning the city before him, attempting to find clues within the city.
He did not make a sound to alarm the malevolent beings, hence he stood on the rooftop for a long time without encountering an attack.
Yet, Li Muyang's silence didn't last too long.
He had been on the highest point of the official building for barely five minutes when suddenly, a muffled and terrifying rumble echoed from the night sky above.
Boom—
That muffled sound, as if a giant drum had been struck in the heavens.
The dull drumming wandered through Three Rivers City, Li Muyang instinctively covered his chest, even though he was supposed to be a zombie, at that moment he actually felt dizzy and breathless.
Li Muyang had a chilling feeling in his heart, guessing the possibility—there was some terrifying presence in the night sky above!
Just the sound of the drums alone made him feel so uncomfortable!
He stood rigidly, clutching his chest in place, he waited for a full thirty seconds before the dizzying and suffocating feeling dissipated.
However, the moment his vision cleared, Li Muyang was stunned.
On the rooftop of the building where he stood, four silent shadows loomed.
The four shadows, dressed in long robes, their pale faces with skin sagging down to their chests, were no longer recognizable as human.
They were scattered in four directions around Li Muyang, encircling him in the middle.
When Li Muyang's vision returned and he saw them clearly, the four eerie shadows let out a malevolent, synchronized laughter.
The next second, the sagging, dry skin on the faces of the four shadows flew directly towards him.
[You have died, game over]
"..." After a brief silence upon opening his eyes in the restaurant's private room, Li Muyang sat up straight.
"Things in the Heavenly Origin Dynasty are getting weirder and weirder..."
Li Muyang murmured quietly.
He could clearly feel that, as time progressed, the pollution from the Ancient Evil Gods in the ancient grudge well on the human world became more and more terrible, and things on the land of the Heavenly Origin Dynasty grew increasingly bizarre.
Although it was just in the game, he was still shaken by those things from the netherworld.
"Good thing I didn't get transmigrated to the Heavenly Origin Dynasty..."
He couldn't imagine the mental state of people living on that land.