noffsinger Chapter 613 The Bone-Carrying Team, the Corpse-Lifters
Chapter 613 The Bone-Carrying Team, the Corpse-Lifters
In front of the large stone house in the very center of the valley.
As soon as Ye Kang followed Wu Peng inside, a foreman with a goatee said disdainfully, "Butcher, it's not time to collect your monthly wages yet, what are you doing here?"
Wu Peng smiled憨厚ly and pointed at Ye Kang, saying, "He's new here and wants to join the bone-removing team."
"Hmm? New here? Who did you come with?"
“Shi Motong, Commander Shi,” Ye Kang said.
The foreman narrowed his eyes and said rudely, "It's her again. How many useless people has she brought back this year? Oh well, what can we do? She's the leader. Anyway, the bone-removing team has a lot of work. If you want to go, go ahead. What's your name? What's your cultivation level?"
"Reporting to the steward, my name is Ye Kang, one of the Eight Pillars of the Divine Sea."
"Bazhu, judging from your appearance, do you want to be a corpse carrier or a butcher?"
The manager looked at Ye Kang with a smile.
The latter asked in confusion, "What's the difference between the two?"
"That makes a huge difference. The corpse carriers have to go to the front lines to move the corpses of sand monsters, which is hard and dangerous. The butchers have it much easier. They only need to dismantle the corpses. Sometimes they come across unwanted offal or scraps, which nobody else wants anyway, so they can just...hehehe..."
The steward's smile was cunning, but after a moment, he noticed that Ye Kang hadn't made a move.
His face immediately darkened: "Judging from your appearance, you definitely can't do the job of the butcher. You can go and carry the corpse."
As he spoke, he waved his hand and threw a blood-stained iron token to Ye Kang.
"Five mid-grade spirit crystals per month, and you must attend one trip per day. You can go now."
After saying that, the steward snorted coldly and turned to leave.
Ye Kang took the token, a smile playing on his lips.
This manager is quite shrewd; his words just now were a hint that if he gave him some benefits, he could be placed in the safe team of surgeons.
But Ye Kang pretended not to understand. He thought it would be more beneficial for him to go to the front line and observe the battlefield than to dissect the corpses.
The most urgent task is to figure out the distribution of combat power in this world.
The honest and simple-minded Wu Peng naturally didn't understand this implication. He happily said, "Great! This way we'll be colleagues. Commander Lian said that as long as we work hard and cultivate diligently, we can work in his personal guard after breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage!"
"Really? Then I'll have to do a good job."
Ye Kang smiled slightly, thinking to himself that someone actually believed such a classic pie-in-the-sky promise.
With work every day, where do I find the time to cultivate myself?
"Brother Ye, I'm off today. How about I take you to meet the captain of the bone-removing team?"
"Then thank you very much, Brother Wu."
"It's okay, it should be."
Wu Peng patted his chest and, true to his loyalty, led Ye Kang to a huge barracks in the valley.
Upon entering, a strong, pungent smell of blood assaulted the nostrils.
There were also many severed limbs of monsters and dried meat laid out on the open ground.
As soon as the two entered, a burly man with a full beard roared, "Wu Peng! Who did you bring in!"
"Hey, Ma Bantou, this is the new corpse carrier, Ye Kang. I'm bringing him here to familiarize himself with the environment."
"Newcomer? That's perfect. I just had a hapless guy get swallowed by a sand monster. You can fill in for him."
Ye Kang was completely dumbfounded. Was he going to be treated like a beast of burden so soon?
"What are you looking at? Can't you understand human language? My name is Ma Tiandou. From now on, you'll work for me. We're going to be on night shift anyway, so come with me."
"Yes, Brother Ma!"
"Who's your brother? Call me Ma Bantou! If you dare call me that again, I'll use you as bait to feed the sand demons."
"Understood, Chief Ma."
Ye Kang smiled obsequiously, his tone extremely humble.
Ma Tiandou adjusted his belt and led Ye Kang to the back of the camp, where about five people were already ready.
Ye Kang glanced at them and saw that the men carrying the corpses were almost all emaciated and looked malnourished, clearly exhausted.
Wanting to cultivate in this state is just wishful thinking.
They were just making empty promises.
Ma Ban Tou roared, "A bunch of useless trash! We're on night shift tonight, so you better watch yourselves. If you die, nobody will care. New guy, you're paired with that little brat."
Ma Bantou pointed to a slender figure. Ye Kang walked over and found that it was actually a little girl.
He was covered in dirt, and there was a horrible scar on his face, running from his eyebrow to his chin.
She nodded to Ye Kang without saying a word.
"Alright, we need to be quick today. Remember to keep your mouths shut. Anyone who makes a sound and ruins the commander's plans will be the first to be killed!"
With a roar, Ma Ban Tou turned and flew away.
The others immediately followed, while Ye Kang lagged behind, feeling puzzled.
He couldn't help but sever a wisp of his divine sense and enter the Ink Jade Realm to chat with Lord Slaughtering Whales.
"Senior, have you ever heard of the Wu Dynasty?"
"What the hell? Ten thousand years ago, Leizhou was still the territory of the Wanlei Sect. There was no such thing as the Martial Dynasty."
"Didn't you say that Leizhou was in internal strife back then?"
"Internal strife is the business of the Wanlei Sect; I've never heard of any martial dynasty."
Ye Kang nodded. It seemed that the Martial Dynasty had only appeared within the last 100,000 years, probably due to internal strife. The Ten Thousand Thunder Sect had disappeared and been replaced by the Martial Dynasty.
He left the Jade Realm and devoted himself to following the team ahead.
The five corpse carriers were also mostly eight-pillar warriors, just like him, but they all looked exhausted, probably because they had been exploited for too long.
A full hour later, the group finally arrived at their destination.
Behind a large sand dune, many torches were already lit, and a group of warriors in leather armor stood in mid-air, watching the dune nervously.
Ma Tiandou raised his hand, signaling everyone to stop.
Ye Kang also bent down, found a sand dune where he could hide, and lay down.
About fifteen minutes passed before the group of martial artists finally made a move.
One of them raised his hand and threw out half of a huge piece of flesh, which looked like the foreleg of some kind of camel, as thick as three people.
The camel's leg, mixed with the smell of blood, seeped into the sand dunes. In a short while, the dunes suddenly began to move, sinking into the middle.
The leading warrior reacted swiftly, lifting the camel by a chain binding its leg.
Immediately afterwards, a gaping maw emerged from the sand dune, its black carapace reflecting a cold light, and two large pincers swung around, snapping the iron chain in two.
It was a giant black scorpion nearly a hundred feet long!
"The Ironhead Scorpion is out! Attack!"
The leader shouted, and all the warriors raised their spears and unleashed a powerful burst of spear energy downwards.
A flurry of spear shadows swept across the sky, leaving white marks on the Ironhead Scorpion's carapace, but none of the attacks managed to break through its defenses. Instead, they only enraged the scorpion.
Boom!
The Iron-Headed Scorpion darted out with incredible agility, its hundred-foot-long tail sweeping out in fury.
"No! Get out of the way!"
All the warriors dodged in unison. The scorpion tail strike missed its mark, but without pausing, it turned and charged towards the nearest person.
Everyone was terrified; being struck by that terrifying scorpion stinger would likely shatter them on the spot!