Book 1: Chapter 200


    The stench made me cough almost immediately. It wasnt the rancid smell of fresh corpses, but more like the huge stink caused by old mold. Fatty smelled it from outside at almost the exact same moment and started cursing, "Shit, is this zombies sweaty foot sticking out?!" I wanted to retort, but I couldn''t even open my mouth. My eyes began to ache and I had to squint as I looked at the earthen clump with my shlight.


    There seemed to be a mass of tanned leather inside the clump, but I didnt know what it was. The skin was dull and covered in short, moldy hairs.


    I still wanted to take a closer look, but the smell was so horrendous that I could only use my shlight to quickly continue smashing those copper poles.


    Every time I hit them, the clump would continue cracking and fragments would keep falling down. It mustve been these dirt fragments that were falling into the water earlier and made us look up. Fatty reminded me to get rid of the spells first; otherwise, it would limit the yer''s performance. If the thing couldnt beat whatever was in the water, then the show wouldnt be as good.


    I didnt believe in spells at all, but I still loosened the silk satin and kept smashing. The stench inside was getting stronger and stronger, and I almost vomited. It really was like sweaty feet, but more like those sweaty feet were stuck inside my mouth. I was so dizzy that I couldn''t see anything inside the dirt clump clearly. Fatty shouted from outside, "Mr. Nave! Its a biochemical weapon! A biochemical weapon! Come out quickly, we can''t do it!"


    I clenched my teeth and persisted until finally with the help of thebined weight of the clump and supporting copper rods the whole clump began to crack a lot. As chunks of the earthen clump kept falling, the leather inside was exposed more and more, revealing a strange animal carcass encased in dirt.


    I tried to identify it carefully, but I couldn''t tell what it was. There was a lot of dirt on its head, but I could see that it was a huge thing that had been dead for a long time. Its skin had turned to leather and many ces had rotted and worn away, leaving a lot of big holes. There was ayer of ck mold on it that made it look like a giant ck-haired zombie, but I knew it wasnt.


    This thing definitely wasnt a zombie. Although it smelled terrible, it would never be a revived corpse. I rxed and examined it some more. If things were like this, then it showed that the people who designed this ce were actually just average, and the underwater thing may also be a fake ghost.


    As I continued to knock on the bronze poles, I could finally see that they were actually stuck in this dead animals skin. But this thing was very heavy, so as long as I continued breaking some of the poles, gravity would take effect and the skin would eventually tear. At that point, the thing would fall down.


    I clenched my teeth as snot and tears were running down my face. But at this time, I suddenly heard Poker-Face shouting from outside, "Wait a minute!"


    <em>It doesnt matter if you can''t stand it anymore. Just bear with it</em>, I thought to myself. Poker-Face lit a cold firework outside and threw it down.


    When I looked through the gap, I saw the cold firework fall into the pool and sink into the water. At this time, I suddenly noticed that the water wasnt the same as before.


    I didnt know when it had happened, but all the child corpses had floated up to the waters surface. There were many strange bumps on them that were constantly increasing.


    "Whats going on?" I heard Fatty ask.


    "Theres something in the dirt, Poker-Face said. The dirt dissolved when it fell into the water, and that thing came alive. Its drilling into the bodies and eating these childrens flesh."


    I really couldnt see clearly from this distance, so I looked up at the remaining dirt. The only thing I saw was those white shell-like things. My heart thumped and I asked myself, <em>so this huge smelly corpse isnt the key? Its actually the white shells in the dirt clump?</em>


    Poker-Faces quiet voice came from just outside, "We were wrong, let''s go!" But before he had even finished speaking, the bell suddenly shuddered. The earthen clump in the middle couldnt hold up under its own weight and finally tore off and fell, causing the whole bell to tremble. I gripped the edge hard, but at that moment, I found that the gold silk satin strip I had pulled off to make my belt hadnt actually been torn offpletely.


    And it was still attached to my pants.


    I was dragged into the air in an instant. Before I even had time to think, I had fallen into the water and smashed into those childrens corpses.


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    <strong><em>Happy 200 chapters darlings! I was going to stop for the day on thest chapter but felt bad since that was a cliffhanger. Boy was I wrong lol. My cliffhanger senses must''ve honed in on this one instead hehehe. We''ve got about 200 pages to go overall and about 77 pages of Part 1 left (in case you guys were curious). </em></strong>