"He's always smiling?"
"What the hell!"
...
Zhou Lin's smile also caught the attention of others.
Everyone else looked bewildered.
The Taoist priest asked with a dark expression:
"Zhou Lin, do you have a way to deal with the corpse guardian?"
Zhou Lin, who was receiving system rewards, heard this and let out a sound, then feigned surprise:
"What, corpse guardian? What kind of thing is that? It sounds terrifying just from the name. Run, run..."
Live stream audience: ??????
Old Tang: ??????
Taoist priest: ??????
Olympic champion: ???!!!
Gymnastics champion: !!!!!!
Master architect: ..................
History professor: I'll be damned...
Others: emmmmmm!
Live stream audience: Demon, take my staff!
...
Zhou Lin said with a straight face:
"Don't look at me like that. I was just smiling because I like to grin foolishly!"
Everyone in Daxia: ...
Zhou Lin gave up struggling:
"Alright, I didn't intend to smile, but when I heard 'corpse guardian,' I couldn't help but laugh!"
Old Tang and the others were completely baffled, feeling as if their intelligence had been insulted.
Old Tang said:
"Young friend, do you perhaps have a way to deal with it?"
Zhou Lin was surprised:
"Fighting monsters? Pfft, such a powerful monster, how could I possibly have any ideas? If we encounter it, we'll just fight it. My only goal is 50 million!"
"Of course, if you're willing to pay more, I'll definitely smile even happier!"
Everyone was speechless again.
The corpse guardian was so powerful, a mutated creature, yet in Zhou Lin's eyes, it was just a monster to fight!
If Zhou Lin had said this at the beginning, anyone on the archaeological team would have wanted to slap him!
But Zhou Lin was genuinely strong!
He looked so frail, yet he solved one difficult problem after another with his seemingly random attacks.
Who could they even complain to?
The Taoist priest and the gymnastics champion wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, they sighed inwardly:
This time, you've really managed to show off!
At this moment, the biologist said:
"Everyone, I just contacted an old colleague and received some very bad news."
"This type of creature, the corpse guardian, evolves once every three hundred years!"
"Each evolution nearly doubles its strength, and this ancient tomb is clearly at least a thousand years old!"
"So, if we encounter a corpse guardian, it's likely to have at least three times its original combat power!"
"Therefore... everyone, please be prepared to fight at any moment and write your wills!"
"It's possible our lives might end here!"
Old Tang and the others listened and nodded solemnly.
But no one wrote a will.
After all, the crisis hadn't materialized yet!
Everyone began to walk cautiously towards the waterway.
The water in the waterway was about a meter deep, reaching about waist level.
All the guards had their firearms loaded, one guard every two meters, their eyes fixed on the water surface with full concentration.
After about ten minutes of walking.
Just as everyone was starting to relax, they suddenly felt a disturbance in the water!
The Taoist priest, walking at the front, was the first to see it and immediately shouted:
"Not good, something's coming! Alert!"
*Swish*
Almost simultaneously, all the guards drew their guns!
And immediately began firing rapidly towards the source of the disturbance.
*Da da*
*Da da da*
Bullets poured out as if they were free.
Soon, a lot of blood appeared in the water, and everyone let out a collective sigh of relief.
Seeing blood.
It meant this thing could still be defeated.
There was still a chance, and things weren't as dire as they had said.
After about a minute.
The disturbance in the water disappeared.
Everyone quickly ran towards the bloody area and saw a huge rat floating in the water, more than half the size of a person!
The moment they saw the rat, the Taoist priest calculated something and shouted:
"Everyone, get on alert immediately!"
The biology and history professors' faces turned pale.
If the corpse guardians hadn't appeared before, it might have been because they were sleeping or something.
But now, smelling the blood, there was no reason for them not to come out!
Blood was a universal lure for all creatures!
Especially the biology professor's face changed dramatically:
"The scent and smell of fresh blood can ignite the bloodlust of all creatures! The corpse guardians are no different. Now, we might not only face mutated corpse guardians, but also bloodthirsty, mutated corpse guardians!"
As expected, as soon as the words fell.
Several ripples appeared in the water not far behind them.
At the same time, ripples from other areas were also heading in their direction.
The captain of the guards, walking at the forefront, glanced behind him and shouted, "Run forward, we'll cover your retreat!"
No need for reminders, everyone desperately ran towards the area where there were no corpse guardians.
Soon.
Gunfire erupted again.
However, after this round of gunfire, it wasn't the sound of bullets hitting flesh, but rather a dull thud.
As if something was blocking it.
The guards' faces changed. One of the guards pulled out an RPG from his back and fired a shot at the water surface!
*Boom!*
The explosion sent water splashing, creating a temporary vortex.
In their sight, a python-like monster appeared, its sharp mouth agape, its eyes blood-red. On its forehead, a giant, dragon-like horn was particularly conspicuous!
That corpse guardian was only injured!
A roar echoed.
After the water churned, a guard let out a scream.
To everyone's horrified expressions, that guard had his waist bitten off!
"Xiao Li!"
The captain of the guards roared with grief and anger:
"Damn it, let's fight!"
"Captain, run!"
"Retreat!"
The brief exchange of fire sent chills down everyone's spines.
The captain of the guards wanted to charge, but was held back by others.
At this moment.
The people at the front shouted towards the guards:
"There's shore ahead, get ashore quickly!"
The live stream audience was also gripping their clothes tightly:
"Guards, run quickly, danger, danger!"
"Run, every one saved is one saved, this thing is too strong!"
"Is this the legendary corpse guardian with dragon blood? This thing is too powerful!"
"I'm willing to call this one of the strongest monsters in history, no one can deny that, right?!"
"Too terrifying, it could withstand an RPG, is its body made of metal? And it bit a person in half with one bite, what kind of monster is this!!!!!!!!"
"My god, so scary, the water is all blood-red!!!!"
"Mom, help me, I can't watch anymore!"
The concentrated firepower only slowed down the corpse guardians' attack speed.
By the time everyone retreated to the shore!
Another guard was bitten in half by the behemoth in the water!
Looking at the scarlet blood, everyone's faces turned pale.
Before the people on shore could catch their breath.
A huge splash of water erupted from not far away.
Then, a massive corpse guardian emerged from the water, its blood-red eyes staring at everyone.
This corpse guardian was three to four times larger than the previous one.
Its sharp teeth were stained with fresh red blood!