Chapter 280 The Undead Spying From the Sea

However, after he used his core ability to cover up and returned to everyone's sight, he found that Cracked Skull was observing some traces.

"It seems that the second-level Filthy Sea Dead have appeared."

"Second-level?"

Yao Yan repeated.

And Black Arms and Black Wrists immediately moved closer to Cracked Skull.

"Yes, the Undead."

The Undead?

Black Wrists and Black Arms looked at each other.

They fell from the second level and had directly faced the second-level Filthy Sea Dead.

They can still deal with the first-level dead, but they can only deal with the lowest level.

Unlike the Gray Sea Dead and the Black Sea Dead, the size of the Filthy Sea Dead will become larger and larger as the stage is upgraded.

Compared with the Black Sea Dead, the "Living Dead" is only slightly larger, only half a head to a head.

But the "Undead", just in terms of body length, is at least the size of two white bones.

And more importantly -

"The 'undead' have harder scales and bones."

Cracked Skull squatted beside the corpse left by a living dead, watching the corpse gradually turn from soft to hard, and said.

Yao Yan glanced at the corpse and asked:

"How do you know for sure?"

Splitting Skull called his bone bird down, and let it turn over the zombie corpse on the edge of the ship. Pointing at the back of the zombie corpse, he said:

"Why are zombies called 'floating corpses'? One of the reasons is that they move on the sea by drifting."

"But the 'undead' are not like that. They move by stepping on the floating corpses, and their body surface secretes a strange mucus that can corrode bones, so they are also called 'rotten corpses'. Look here, there are signs of corrosion on the back of this floating corpse."

Yao Yan took a few steps forward and saw that there were indeed signs of corrosion on the back of the zombie corpse-

There were some concave marks on the scaly bones on the back of the zombie corpse, but a closer look showed that it was not deformed, but the result of corrosion. The thickness of the bone scales was thinner than the surrounding bone scales.

And it roughly presents a strange nearly circular shape. A bit like a hoof?

Splitting Skull turned to another zombie, asked the bone bird to flip it up, and then pointed to the marks on its back and said:

"I remember that this zombie came ashore much later than the previous one. In terms of the movement of the zombies, this zombie was farther away from our ship at the beginning, and the corrosion marks on its back were relatively deeper-"

"When a zombie is injured, as long as its heart is not damaged, it will recover slowly like a living person."

"Although the difference is small, the corrosion marks on the one on the night boat are relatively deeper."

"After comparing the corrosion marks on the other zombies, it can be ruled out that this 'undead' stayed on the back of a zombie for a long time."

"Then it means that this 'undead' was moving away from the ship before. . "

"Why?"

When asking this question, Cracked Skull's eyes swept over the three people:

"Remember how our ship was damaged?"

At this moment, Black Arm and Black Wrist paused slightly, as if they realized the reason:

"Is it because of the 'broken teeth'?"

"Yes."

After a brief answer, Cracked Skull turned to look at Yao Yan, and the mask on his face shook slightly:

"Although the dead in the dirty sea destroyed their voices, their memories and cognitive abilities have not completely disappeared."

"The living dead will instinctively look for the dead with voices to attack, and they themselves have certain cognitive abilities, but they don't have more complex thinking."

"And the 'undead' have recovered some cognitive abilities and thinking. They will actively avoid enemies they can't face, and they may also disguise themselves as living dead and wait for an opportunity to move."

After saying this, Yao Yan also understood what he meant.

Just talking about the living dead, they will feel that they are irrational monsters, not even beasts.

And the "undead" already have a beast-like consciousness.

Later, the words of the Split Skull also verified Yao Yan's judgment:

"This 'undead' avoided the bone ship of Broken Tooth, but it should not be too far away. It should still be near this sea area and may even have discovered us."

He shook his fingers, and the bone birds he created flew in all directions, flying around the bone ship in a spiral trajectory, scouting the surrounding sea area.

However, watching the bone birds fly away, the voice of the Split Skull did not feel any relief:

"If it is just disguised as a living dead and approaching in a floating posture, it is okay, but the undead often choose to destroy the bone ship from the transmission, so that we fall into the sea."

Yao Yan already understood that the sea water in this ocean would swallow the "spirits" and make the dead lose consciousness, and he knew very well how dangerous this situation was.

The Split Skull continued:

"Before, when I was still a second-level ship, I was on another ship, following a fleet. That time, we were attacked by the living dead."

"It was a large group of living dead floating on the sea. Because of the distance, it was impossible to tell whether they were ordinary bones."

"At that time, there were many third-level dead and one fourth-level dead on our ship, but the bone ship was still destroyed."

"The reason was that several undead destroyed the hull of the bone ship from under the sea."

"Except for the fourth-level dead and the two 'death birds', only I and another ferryman escaped danger--"

Ferryman?

If Yao Yan remembered correctly, it was the Black Sea dead of the scavenger branch--

Scavenger, Tide Caller, Ferryman.

And the death bird was the Black Sea dead of the corpse poet branch--

Corpse poet, ghost musician, death bird.

As for the fourth stage, he was not clear yet, and the crack skull only mentioned it briefly before.

The Black Sea dead of the two branches will merge when they reach the fourth stage, but the fourth stage promoted by different branches will have different abilities.

The fourth stage of the scavenger branch will retain the abilities of the scavenger branch, but will not have the abilities of the corpse poet branch?

However, the ferryman

If he remembered correctly, the ferryman was the boatman of the underworld in ancient Greek mythology? Responsible for taking the dead across the Styx?

At this time, the Split Skull seemed to think that they did not realize the degree of danger his words represented, and explained:

"The ferryman can directly control the sea water as a ferry, and is not affected by the sea water. He can use the sea water as a weapon to attack. However, they will not be in any danger if they fall into the sea. However, the three ferrymen were still killed by the undead."

"Undead?" Yao Yan seemed to understand what the other party meant.

And the Split Skull nodded:

"I hope that the number of undead appearing in this sea area will not be too large."

PS: I should be spending the New Year in a different place.

Compared to this, I have read a few PM articles and pet articles recently, and I want to turn out the outlines of my previous two exotic pet articles and write them.

However, the original article can be written in this book, and there is no need to open a new book.

In fact, you are very familiar with the previous Silver Crow's Dream Sequence and Blood Dragon Sequence, which were set up by dismantling the settings of these two books.

It was a long time ago, before I entered the society and started working, I made the settings, one book "Nightmare Tamer" and one book "Dragon Tyrant"

When I read novels at that time, I always had a feeling of "I can do it too", so I wrote a lot of settings, wrote in all kinds of cool writing routines that can be seen on the market, and wrote an outline.

I had planned to write it before writing Night Crow, but I really couldn't get over that hurdle and didn't want to write a routine cool writing.

Oh, I didn't mean to say that routine cool writing is not good. After writing the book, I knew that it is also very difficult to organize the routine coherently and set up various climaxes and foreshadowings.

Moreover, who said that routine is a brainless and naive writing? It's 2022, and there are many routines that are not brainless.

It's just that my writing is not good and I can't do it.

If there is anything else, it's probably because there is more "desire to show off" in my motivation for writing books.

That's the so-called "literary disease".

That's why I don't want to write commercial routine articles.

Now let alone.

Back and forth.

Compared to original exotic pet stories, I don’t have enough energy right now, and original stories need to refine the settings.

If I write PM fan fiction, the settings are ready-made, which can save a lot of trouble.

In addition, there are more "emotional" elements.

After all, PM is also my childhood and teenage memories?

What do you think I should do?

Well, actually, after writing this, I actually have a tendency in my heart.

If you analyze the psychology carefully, it should be because of "not wanting to be responsible for my own decisions" and having no opinion.

It feels quite ridiculous. Although I have dug out the outline of the nightmare book during this period to recast the settings and spend time refining it, I actually still prefer the other book.