Gunfire, Punk & Necromancers

Implants of the dead constantly emit signals of polluted spirits, a phenomenon that caused widespread mental problems among soldiers during the Corporation War.The solution at that time was to cremate him as soon as possible after identifying his identity, and let ashes return to ashes.It's just that later generations didn't expect that in order to earn more money from cremation fees, they would dare to store a large number of corpses.

Despite the dormant martial arts protection, Zhuang Xuteng still felt uncomfortable, mainly manifested by a buzzing in his head, and an unstoppable nausea lingering in his chest and abdomen.He thought it would be better to act as soon as possible, so he quickly opened the freezer and found a corpse.

This is an old man, his expression is painful, and his frown tightly seems to indicate that he still has residual muscle strength.Zhuang Xuteng looked at his hands, clenched into fists, as hard as steel, almost impossible to break apart.This shows that the old man had shadow implants in his body and worked for a while after his death.

"If you have money to buy implants, don't you have money to cremate them?" Zhuang Xuteng was a little puzzled, apparently ignoring the fact that some people didn't buy their implants themselves.If the environment were changed, he would definitely be able to figure this out quickly, but in this room full of mental disturbances, his brain was not so bright.

Hurry up, don't waste time - Zhuang Xuteng put his hands on the corpse, and began to mobilize the energy and resentment from the body.He had transmuted the necromancy runes of the Lich Master into the runic form used by the Shadow Followers, pouring energy into the corpse and trying to control it.

The corpse trembled slightly, and an even more painful expression appeared on its face.Zhuang Xuteng was taken aback, and hurriedly took a closer look, only to find that the corpse's expression had not changed. "It's probably the mental influence of the surrounding environment..." Zhuang Xuteng exhaled slowly, and focused on the control of the spell again.

The necromancy of the Lich Master treats the corpse as a lifeless flesh-skeletal system and animates it by supplying it with energy and control signals.In order to be able to adapt to the different rules of the current world, the spell has been modified, adding shadow energy in addition to resentment, and treating the corpse as a shadow weapon at the same time.

Under the effect of continuously strengthened spells, the corpse's ability to move became stronger and stronger, from simple trembling to being able to move its hands and feet.Zhuang Xuteng ordered it to open its clenched fists and relax its expression, and the corpse did it immediately.Then Zhuang Xuteng ordered the corpse to sit up...

The corpse raised its upper body, then fell heavily on its back, and the back of its head hit the stainless steel bed with a "boom".Zhuang Xuteng was startled, and quickly pricked up his ears to listen, and he let out a long sigh of relief after making sure that no one else was disturbed.He continued to cast spells, and after several failures, he gradually realized that the action of sitting up was a bit "difficult" for the corpse, and it seemed that it didn't know what to do.Only by strengthening the control and letting him understand the support of the arms and the movement of the center of gravity can it sit up correctly.

There is no problem with the spell, and the energy provided to the corpse is also no problem, but the operation is not skilled enough-this is obviously the best result.Zhuang Xuteng held his temper, and trained the corpse bit by bit according to the model of teaching children how to act, and soon managed to make it stand up, stand on the ground, and walk around the field twice.

Through these exercises, he can build a bridge of communication between necromancy and corpse action.The more he practiced and the more corpses he used, the smoother he would be able to control the corpse, and the more movements the corpse could make.Zhuang Xuteng has done as much training as his grievance and shadow mana can support, and he has already made the corpse squat and push-up - he is very satisfied with today's training.

"Go back and lie down, you can sleep in peace."

Zhuang Xuteng was just being polite, and it also contained a little thought to embolden himself. He didn't expect that this sentence would have other effects.I saw the corpse lying back on the stainless steel bed, with its hands crossed in front of its chest, its body relaxed quickly, and then it actually took a breath and then spit it out.Following this breath, a large amount of resentment spewed out, the concentration of which was about the same as killing seven or eight people.

Zhuang Xuteng was stunned for a moment, and immediately activated the magic circle in his left hand to absorb the resentment.In this way, not only all the grievances consumed before were replenished, but the total reserves actually increased a little.

It was definitely a surprise.In order to defeat Palovich in the heads-up, Zhuang Xuteng almost exhausted his resentment reserves, that is, he recovered a little during the rest of the past few days, but it was less than a quarter of the total.He had only heard that people would generate a lot of resentment during the tragic death process, but after death, there is no consciousness, so there will be no resentment.The Lich Master called the remaining energy of the corpse "negative energy", which was strictly separated from "resentment", but the current situation obviously did not match the theory.

Zhuang Xuteng carefully observed the corpse he had just tossed about: it looked peaceful now, there was no painful expression on its face, and its hands were no longer clenched into fists.The posture of hands folded in front of the chest gives people a sense of tranquility and calmness, making people feel that what is gone is gone and there is no need to pursue it;

Scratching his scalp, Zhuang Xuteng felt that he must have been affected by the side effects of the surrounding implants again - his head was buzzing.He briefly tried the Wraith Servant, and found that the resentment absorbed this time was very useful, and there was no problem.In this way, he must want to make more grievances.

Open the next cabinet, pull out the stainless steel bed, and look at the corpse on it.This is a girl who apparently died of trauma—the sunken head must have been trauma.Now that Zhuang Xuteng has set his sights on resentment, he must first figure out what he did wrong before he can repeat it.

Simply put, he needs to repeat the previous behavior, and then do the subtraction.I won't go into details about the specific process, Zhuang Xuteng tossed and tossed with fourteen corpses for a whole night, and finally found a pattern.

In order to gain resentment from a corpse, first of all, the corpse must have a shadow implant, and then its death is either very sudden or very miserable.This kind of corpse is easier to identify. On the one hand, you can rely on the shadow eye to find the faint shadow energy residues, and on the other hand, you can also see their posture.After death, corpses whose implants have been working for a period of time will look more painful, angry, struggling, unwilling, tortured... If there is such an expression or body language, it is basically unmistakable.

After that, Zhuang Xuteng had to use the corpse control in necromancy to make it move, sit up, walk and so on, so that it seemed to be alive.The last and most important step is to let the corpse lie back and ask it to die well and peacefully.After this set of ritual-like procedures are all completed, resentment will emanate from the corpse, as if the corpse had just died.

"There is not so much resentment when a living person dies. Could it be that this thing will ferment, accumulate and increase?" Zhuang Xuteng was a little uncertain, but he must first believe the facts rather than the Lich Master's theory.The Lich Master also admitted that his necromancy will definitely encounter new problems and challenges in the current world, and there will also be unknown situations.Zhuang Xuteng thought that the unknown situation really happened, and it was beneficial to him.

It only took one night for Zhuang Xuteng to restore the stock of resentful spirits.Since he has been practicing, on the one hand, he has expanded the total amount of wraith storage, and on the other hand, he has to use it to pay for the consumption of the deer hunter's device, so he has never fully stored it.Now he finally has a chance to inflate his "wallet".Now that he has found a pattern, he will be able to absorb enough resentment after another night, or half a night.

After a whole night of work, his complexion must have been unsightly the next day, but this was exactly in line with the expectations of his colleagues.Zhuang Xuteng seized all the time to take a nap, and put on an attitude of "I will hold on tonight".Everyone ignored him. Anyway, the temporary workers in that position usually only work for three days, so there is no need to invest too much affection.

This was just right, and Zhuang Xuteng didn't want to impress them too much.He kept yawning during the day, and barely finished his work. After switching to the night shift, he said that he could finally sleep.

"Sleeping with a headache will make people stupid." His colleague finally expressed a little concern.

Zhuang Xuteng was just talking, he was busy absorbing grievances, so he would definitely not sleep.This time, he was targeted, looking for the most suitable target based on the shadow signal and the state of the corpse, and then completed the process of controlling the corpse to take two steps and letting the corpse rest in peace as quickly as possible.

The overall progress was faster than Zhuang Xuteng expected, which also made him discover a phenomenon: the longer the corpse is stored here, the heavier the resentment, and these resentments seem to drive the shadow implants to still be able to move after death power.After he sucked away the resentment, the corpse would no longer have shadow energy signals, and the room's shadow side effects would also be reduced.He believes that there is a special interdependent relationship between resentment and shadow implants, resentment drives the implant, and the side effects of the implant generate resentment.

This reminded Zhuang Xuteng of dormant martial arts.Dormant martial arts can transfer the side effects of implants to small animals next to them. Currently, this transfer only involves physical burden.And the side effect of the corpse is only the mental burden - after all, the body is dead - if one can figure out how the mental side effects turn into resentment, then the dormant martial arts can be made stronger.

This is not all that Zhuang Xuteng has gained. He found that the total amount of grievances he has is actually much more than the theoretical number.Except for being able to support himself when he first started, Zhuang Xuteng practiced and exhausted later, and never really filled up the theoretical value.Now that it has exceeded the theoretical value, he still doesn't feel "full."This is good news, which means that he can use more grievances to create more wraith servants, and at the same time, he can start trying to make the wraiths have more functions.

And on the third night, there was another surprising discovery waiting for Zhuang Xuteng: After his tossing, the side effects of shadows in the morgue became significantly weaker. Will there be side effects?