Chapter 221
Chapter 221: Running Into Something New, It Eats Rotten Corpses
At the last critical moment, Jiang Tea Tea leaned her body down. She floated out of the way with ease, and the shadow snapped at empty air. It shot past her and hit the wall on the other side, then merged into it like it had never appeared.
Jiang Tea Tea’s gaze swept across the walls around her. She had expected something at the bottom of the pool, but she had not expected things on all the walls as well.
If that shadow had not come to ambush her, she really would not have noticed that these dark, uneven walls were not bricks at all, but some kind of inhuman creatures packed together.
Jiang Tea Tea jumped up. The Flame Staff under her feet followed its master, shrinking into a slim rod about one meter two long and shooting into her hand.
Jiang Tea Tea gripped the Flame Staff and swung hard at the place where the shadow had been clinging.
Carrying her Spiritual Power, the flaming staff flew like a death sentence. Sensing danger, the figures clinging to the wall scrambled away, jumping to the other walls.
Those that did not escape in time were hit by the staff. Flames clung to them. They let out wolf-like, tiger-like shrieks as they fell into the pool below.
One, two, three, four. As they fell into the pool, something in the pool rolled them into its mouth and swallowed them up as food.
Jiang Tea Tea could finally see clearly.
The shadows clinging to the walls were naked, their skin and flesh rotten, white bone showing through. They gave off a foul stench. Their limbs were flexible, climbing like monkeys. They were Living Dead.
Jiang Tea Tea hovered in midair, holding the Flame Staff in one hand. With the other, she pressed the earpiece at her ear, wanting to report to Chong Ming out of habit, then remembered there was no signal down here.
With no signal, there was no point reporting. She would just leave one alive and wipe out all the others. Jiang Tea Tea tightened her grip on the Flame Staff and attacked again, sweeping flames across the walls in a huge burning massacre.
Any Living Dead touched by the flames caught fire in an instant, as if they were soaked in oil. The fire wrapped around them and burned hot.
The smell of rot, the smell of blood, the smell of burning meat all mixed together into one choking stench that made people gag.
Jiang Tea Tea almost threw up. Luckily, she held her breath in time. Otherwise she could have vomited enough to fill the pool.
“Sister Tea, what are these things?”
“Roommate, what are these things?”
Sui Xuan Chu and the other two slid down on the ropes. When they saw human shaped bodies burning, falling, and dropping into the pool, they shouted up to Jiang Tea Tea.
Because they spoke, the Living Dead that had not yet been touched by fire let out hoarse howls. They pressed their hands and feet against the walls and jumped off, darting through the air like streaks of shadow, mouths open and reeking as they lunged at the three men.
“Shit, what the hell is that, watch out…”
“Ahhh, swing the rope, dodge!”
“Don’t let them touch us…”
Seeing those dark things pounce at them, Sui Xuan Chu and the others grabbed the ropes and swung hard to avoid them.
To be honest, fools have their own kind of luck. The three of them twisted the ropes into one big braid. Not only did the shadows fail to touch them, they even had time to yell.
“Sister Tea, help, help, these things stink so bad!”
“Sister Tea, what are these, they don’t really look like the New-type Mutants the Leader told us to catch!”
“Roommate, stop standing there watching the show and help us! Our ropes are about to snap, my dear uncle in heaven!”
“Your ropes won’t snap.” Jiang Tea Tea was amused by the way they dodged the Living Dead. She swung the Flame Staff and joined the fight.
The Flame Staff hit every Living Dead it touched with perfect accuracy.
Every Living Dead she struck fell into the pool below and was eaten by whatever lived in the pool.
Sui Xuan Chu and Huang Da Zhuang turned into fanboys and fangirls on the spot. They shouted and cheered for Jiang Tea Tea: “Sister Tea, go, left side, right side, wow, hit its head!”
“Roommate, watch your back, nice hit!”
Jiang Tea Tea’s Speed-type Ability was faster than the Living Dead. In a short time, the walls that had been packed with Living Dead were almost empty. Only two remained.
She tied the last two Living Dead up with branch-like whips from the Flame Staff and then tossed the branches upward. Sui Xuan Chu and Huang Da Zhuang each grabbed one.
The bound Living Dead struggled. Rotten flesh fell from their bodies like it was free, dropping in chunks. In some places, bare bone was already showing, but they still thrashed and howled.
“Roar!”
A roar came again from the pool below.
Sui Xuan Chu shuddered: “Sister Tea, I think there’s a dragon down there.”
Jiang Tea Tea planted the Flame Staff downward: “You’re sure that roar is a Dragon Roar? It doesn’t really sound like one to me.”
Sui Xuan Chu hesitated: “I’m sure, and also not sure. It sounds like a Dragon Roar, but also not like a Dragon Roar.”
Jiang Tea Tea replied with a warning: “Alright, I’ll go down and look. You stay up here and do not get in the way.”
Feeling disliked, Sui Xuan Chu, Huang Da Zhuang, and Orange Sparrow tugged on the branches holding the Living Dead even harder. They also threw a bolt of lightning at the two Living Dead, shocking them unconscious so they stopped struggling.
Jiang Tea Tea dropped again, stepping on the Flame Staff. The staff stood in the pool. Flames flowed and started to expand.
As the Flame Staff grew bigger, the water in the pool began to overflow more and more. With the flames in the water, it was like someone was boiling it. Bubbles rose everywhere.
The black and red water spilled over, stinking like it was soaked with countless corpses and endless blood.
The thing in the pool roared louder and louder, but it never came out. Even when the Flame Staff grew large enough to fill the entire pool, the thing inside stayed hidden. They could still hear its roar, but it did not appear.
Jiang Tea Tea frowned slightly and slowly shrank the Flame Staff back down. As the staff shrank, the water in the pool overflowed again.
That meant the water in this pool was alive, not dead. It was endless. Even using the Flame Staff, she could not force it all out.
Jiang Tea Tea formed several hand signs in a row, casting several layers of protection on herself. Then she jumped and dove into the black and red pool.
Sui Xuan Chu and Huang Da Zhuang stared so hard their eyes almost popped out. The water smelled that awful, and their Sister Tea, their Roommate, had dived in without a second of hesitation. She was too fierce.
Jiang Tea Tea had Water-Avoiding Art on her body. When she went into the water, the dirty water did not touch her. She could breathe freely. She followed the water and dove down, down, down…
The top layer of water was black and red. As she swam, the water turned pure black. As she dove deeper, the water slowly became clear and normal in color.
Under the water, she did not bother to hide her demonic aura. It spread out like a great oppressive aura, filling the water and making every sound from the creature below grow weaker and weaker.
Following the sound, she dove for another five minutes. Her view suddenly widened. The connection point between an underground river and the pool appeared in front of her.
At the connection point, there was a large platform. It looked like an underwater altar, or an underwater high stage. Chains were tangled all over it.
The thickest chain tied down a jiao, a black-gold scaled flood dragon. It had a snake’s body, black-gold scales, two legs with four claws, a dragon head, and short horns.
It already had the basic look of a dragon, but it was not a true dragon. It was a jiao. In the Demon Clan, a creature like this, if it focused on cultivation practice, could not only control water, but also had the potential for Dragon Transformation.
Jiang Tea Tea landed on the underwater platform. The black-gold jiao opened its huge mouth toward her, ready to swallow her whole.
Jiang Tea Tea stood where she was. Even under water, she raised her hand and slapped the black-gold jiao across the face.
The black-gold jiao’s head snapped to the side from the blow. It straightened its upper body and changed from beast form into human form. One eye was black and the other was gold. It stared at Jiang Tea Tea: “You are not human. Who are you? Who sent you here to kill me?”