"I'll go in with you to have a look. Besides, the infection level in the cave is abnormal. Drink the potion first."
Qiu Yaokang was also very curious about the leak of Breath of Plague. He took out a bottle of purple potion from his backpack and poured it into his mouth. He also gave a bottle to Weilun beside him.
Fang Heng also wanted to go up and pick up the medicine, but Qiu Yaokang stopped him with a look.
"Huh? I don't have to?"
At the moment, he can still be immune to the Breath of Plague in the outer area thanks to his special constitution, but that won't be the case once he goes deeper into the cave.
Qiu Yaokang shook his head and said: "No need, the medicine was developed using your blood. If you don't use it, it will be a waste."
"Forehead……"
Fang Heng was silent, then reached out and took out the Book of Beginning, and summoned three balls of light in front of everyone.
The light ball floats into the air, shining all around.
"let's go."
Fang Heng walked out of the bushes and took the lead towards the depths of the mine.
Lord Chadwick couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he saw Fang Heng using the tactics of sacred science.
It's strange, why does this move look so much like the Holy Court's move?
Looking at the entrance of the mine exposed in front of him, illuminated by Fang Heng's holy light technique, Chadwick couldn't help but pray in his heart.
Come on! Whether you can keep the mage tower in your territory depends on you!
…
Stepping into the cave, the concentration of plague breath was obviously higher.
Three holy light balls rotated above everyone's heads, providing a faint light to illuminate the surroundings.
Qiu Yaokang kept scanning the surrounding area with the detector in his hand.
"The viruses here are different from those we have encountered before, and their ability to mutate and infect is limited."
Then, a line of game prompts appeared on Fang Heng's retina.
[Tip: When the player enters a special area, due to the player's current special physique, the player's current infection index is slightly increased, please be careful].
"Well, speed up."
Fang Heng glanced at the slowly increasing infection index. He just took two steps forward and suddenly squinted his eyes again, staring into the darkness in the distance.
"Ka, ka..."
Footsteps came from far away in the darkness.
Huh? Zombie?
Fang Heng was alert.
The creatures that stumble out of the Breath of Plague are very similar to zombies, with hollow eyes and slow movements.
"Be careful, it's a corpse."
Weilun explained: "I have seen records of the Breath of Plague in some books, which can resurrect infected creatures."
Qiu Yaokang looked at the corpse from a distance and whispered: "I'm afraid it's also the effect of the alienated virus."
More than a dozen corpses gradually emerged from the darkness shrouded in the plague ahead, and gathered towards Fang Heng and his party.
"Let me test it out."
Fang Heng nodded and controlled the two lickers behind him who had just resurrected not long ago to greet them.
"Swift!!"
Two lickers flew towards the corpse one after the other!
"Card!"
The sharp claws streaked through the air with a streak of white light, easily making a huge gash in the body of the corpse at the front and knocking it backwards.
[Tip: The player’s zombie clone-Licker successfully killed the corpse].
The Licker pounced on the next corpse again.
Fang Heng stood in the distance and observed carefully.
The combat capabilities of the corpses don't seem to be high, and are about the same level as ordinary zombies.
It took the two lickers less than a minute to clean up a nearby pile of corpses.
Qiu Yaokang stepped forward, squatted down and carefully examined the dismembered corpse, then took out a sample collector to extract some samples, and murmured to himself, "It's interesting."
With that said, Qiu Yaokang stood up, put the sample into his backpack, and said to Fang Heng: "What's interesting is that the corpse cell body has not died. It is still being 'resurrected', and it can be completed in one minute at most."
"resurrection……"
Fang Heng frowned.
Weilun said solemnly: "Don't worry about them. I have seen in my notes that the corpses, like the protophage we encountered before, can absorb the breath of plague and resurrect without limit. Please hurry up and let's check the seal internally first.
"
"okay."
Fang Heng nodded and continued to control the licker to walk at the front to clear the way, walking deeper into the passage he had walked through before.
…
Soon, the corpses were cleared along the way, and Fang Heng took the lead in stepping into the room at the end of the passage.
The concentration of black plague breath in the room is extremely high.
A large amount of plague breath leaked from the alchemical magic circle seal in the center of the room.
After confirming that the room was safe, Weilun quickly walked forward, squatted beside the alchemy magic circle to explore for a moment, and frowned.
"How about it?"
Weilun looked a little unhappy and said in a deep voice: "It's very bad. The outer seal was deliberately destroyed. Judging from the degree of breath leakage, I'm afraid even the inner seal of the abyss has been greatly affected."
"I suspect that the damage to the sealing magic circle in the depths of the abyss caused a large amount of plague breath to leak out, which in turn caused the outer seal to be corroded at an accelerated rate. The leaks of plague breath encountered across the empire today are probably related to the seals in the depths of the abyss.
It’s related to damage to the array.”
Fang Heng frowned and analyzed: "We also encountered the Breath of Plague in the Royal Underground Palace last night, so that passage is also one of the entrances to the abyss?"
"Well, at least it's connected to an entrance to the underground abyss."
While the two were inspecting, Qiu Yaokang collected part of the Breath of Plague and then followed to check at the entrance of the Sealed Abyss, and also collected some remnants outside the cave.
Fang Heng asked: "Is there a way to suppress the breath of plague?"
"The degree of damage to the inner magic circle requires in-depth exploration to confirm. It is very dangerous to rush into the exploration under our current situation. We can only find a way to slightly repair the outer alchemy magic circle and control the leakage and spread speed of the Breath of Plague."
Weilun thought for a while, then nodded and added: "In addition, we can also cooperate with the external mage tower to purify the breath of plague. During the decades of being locked up underground, I partially transformed the magic runes inlaid on the magic tower.
The effect should be greatly improved.”
Fang Heng's eyes lit up when he heard this.
By the way, there’s also the Mage Tower trick!
"I'll stay here to repair the magic circle first, and I'll leave it to you to run the mage tower outside."
"Okay, Licker will stay here to protect you, so be careful."
"Well, it's just an ordinary corpse. Resurrection is a bit more troublesome, so it doesn't pose much of a threat."
Fang Heng nodded and looked at Qiu Yaokang again.
"I've almost collected the information here."
Qiu Yaokang saw Fang Heng's gaze and nodded: "Generally speaking, the Breath of Plague itself is not very toxic. It has two specific abilities. One is to infect the human body and cause death, and the other is to resurrect dead corpses. These two points are somewhat
Similar to the zombie viruses in our world, the corpses are similar to ordinary zombies in terms of combat capabilities."
"In terms of differences, the plague virus has a distinct black aura that is easier to identify, and corpses are not secondary contagious. However, corpses can be resurrected indefinitely, which zombies cannot do."
"I judge that the Breath of Plague is the product of the alienation of the Abyss Demon. I am afraid that we will be affected by the Breath of Plague when we fight against the Abyss Demon in the future. It is particularly important to purify the Breath of Plague. I will find a way to prepare it as soon as possible after I return.
The corresponding antidote, and regarding the resurrection ability of corpses, I judge that the Abyss Demon is very likely to have similar abilities..."