Chapter 857: The Reanimated Mummy

For a seventh-rank Thief Saint, killing was just a flick of the finger.

Terrified screams erupted from the crowd. A Wushen Dao practitioner in a black robe, who had been hiding in the queue, shot out like an arrow, cutting straight through the crowd and charging toward Mo Lian without hesitation!

"Run!!" This was his final testament in the mortal world.

This Wushen Dao practitioner was only fifth-rank, a member of a civilian Wushen Dao organization in the Wuji Domain. Unable to rest easy knowing these children were crossing the Gray Realm, he had volunteered to escort them... And now, he attacked without hesitation, like a moth to a flame.

In front of Mo Lian, he was no different from a slightly larger ant, but for the civilian Wushen Dao practitioners struggling to survive in the cracks of the domains, he was already among the strongest.

The men pushing the carts were ordinary people; they had never seen such a bloody scene and were instantly scared witless!

Screaming in terror, they completely forgot they were in the Gray Realm, let go of their dilapidated carts, and turned to flee into the distance!

The children walking further back also fled in a panic.

"Bai Ye, it's your turn."

Mo Lian, covered by the Wushen Dao practitioner's domain, didn't show a hint of expression change. He walked casually through it, leaning on his cane, while not forgetting to shout to the distance.

BOOM—!!!

A shadow centipede the size of a skyscraper burst through the Gray Realm earth, its sharp mouthparts chasing a figure wearing a white baseball cap. Behind it, three more rampaging shadow centipedes followed!

For some reason, these centipedes seemed to hold a deep grudge against Bai Ye. Their sharp roars echoed across the sky, and one of them, upon spotting Mo Lian, even changed direction and charged straight at him!

Mo Lian: ???

"It seems our luck isn't very good," Bai Ye said helplessly, holding his baseball cap with one hand to keep it from being blown away by the gale. "This seems to be the nest of these calamities..."

"Damn it, why now?!" Mo Lian cursed.

Mo Lian's long-range killing and the successive emergence of terrifying calamities scared the remaining children out of their wits. Most of them collapsed to the ground with weak legs, unable to make their bodies move even though they desperately wanted to run. Piercing cries and screams rose one after another!

But there were some exceptions among them.

Zhu Zhong, who had been hitting people earlier, was also pale with fright, but at least he could still move. He took off running in a certain direction in the Gray Realm, and several other older children followed closely behind, scrambling on their hands and knees.

"B-Brother Xiao Li..." A-Qian said, trembling, her legs completely unresponsive.

The boy in hempen clothes didn't say a word; he hoisted her onto his back again, scanned the surroundings, hesitated for a moment, and then locked onto the direction Zhu Zhong and the others had fled.

In a place like the Gray Realm, danger was everywhere, but traveling together was always slightly safer...

But first, they had to avoid the pursuit of the calamities.

The boy in hempen clothes strode toward the forgotten cart. A mummy-like figure was lying stiffly on it, motionless.

He tried hard to push the Holy Remains away, but no matter how much strength he used, he could only move the cart a few centimeters...

After all, this was a heavy object that required two grown men to push. With the boy in hempen clothes alone and carrying a girl, it was impossible to push it away easily.

"Damn it... damn it!!" The boy in hempen clothes was extremely frustrated.

Without the protection of the Holy Remains, running in any direction meant certain death, yet he couldn't push it... At this rate, whether it was the cane-wielding man who killed people or those terrifying centipede calamities, both could easily kill him!

Just as the boy in hempen clothes was on the verge of despair, the mummy-like figure lying on the cart suddenly sat up!

Both the boy in hempen clothes and A-Qian were startled, nearly falling to the ground.

"What a pain."

The mummy said gloomily, then performed a kip-up, jumping off the cart. He grabbed the boy in hempen clothes and A-Qian, tossed them onto the cart, and pushed it, sprinting into the distance!

Boy in hempen clothes: ???

For the first time in his life, the boy in hempen clothes truly experienced the feeling of "speeding like lightning."

The oncoming gale made it almost impossible for him to open his eyes, and the bumpy ground forced him to grip the edge of the cart to avoid being thrown off. While trying to keep his body pressed against the cart, he couldn't help but ask:

"Are... are you alive??"

"That's a bit rude," the mummy paused for a moment. "...Just like that group of people earlier."

"...I'm sorry."

The mummy pushed the cart in silence. About a minute later,

just when the boy in hempen clothes thought he wouldn't reply, he gloomily squeezed out a sentence:

"It's okay."

“……”

Just as the boy in hempen clothes was about to ask something else, the figures of those who had fled earlier gradually appeared in the distance. The mummy didn't say a word; he grabbed the boy in hempen clothes and A-Qian and tossed them off the cart...

Then, with a graceful leap, he flopped onto the cart and lay there stiffly, motionless, instantly "resting in peace."

Before resting in peace, he even specifically raised a hand and made a "shh" gesture at the boy in hempen clothes.

Rumble—

The cart, carrying the corpse-like mummy, slowly came to a stop due to inertia. The boy in hempen clothes and A-Qian followed behind, looking completely bewildered...

Zhu Zhong and the others turned to look in this direction. Supporting their knees with their hands, they panted and said in shock, "You guys are so strong, you actually pushed it over here?!"

“……”

"If we didn't push it over, we'd all be dead," the boy in hempen clothes replied, going along with it.

He didn't know why this mummy, clearly a living person, wanted to play dead, but since he didn't want to be exposed, the boy in hempen clothes wouldn't reveal his savior...

"They'll definitely catch up soon!" a boy said nervously. "We need to find a place to hide!"

"This way! There seems to be a hidden cave down here!"

Everyone turned to look. On the rugged, broken earth, a deep fissure seemed to extend into the darkness... like a pitch-black eye staring at the sky.

Seeing the entrance, everyone felt an inexplicable fear, and for a moment, no one dared to step forward.

"You! You go down first!!" Zhu Zhong, the tallest and strongest, shoved the thin boy beside him and said viciously.

Seemingly remembering how Zhu Zhong had almost beaten someone to death earlier, the boy's face turned pale. After hesitating for a long time, he didn't dare to resist, silently curling his body and crawling into the depths of the fissure...

"How is it down there?" Zhu Zhong shouted.

"It's... it seems quite large down here, there are many big pillars..." the boy's voice drifted up, trembling slightly. "On the wall... there seem to be words."

"Words? What words?"

"...Emperor... something... something... Treasury??"