The total population of the Gyudondond Tribe was less than five hundred... How could they be a match for the Royal Army? Although they relied on the terrain and familiar environment, and used very primitive fighting methods, the Gyudondond Tribe put up a tenacious resistance, but they were still slaughtered by more than half within an hour.
Just when the army thought they had victory in their grasp, a turning point appeared... Those Gyudondond Tribesmen who had fallen on the battlefield and should have died suddenly stood up again. They had no thoughts, and were purely corpses. But the power and speed they unleashed, including their aggressiveness, were like those of wild beasts!
They were like two completely different creatures!
The Gyudondond Tribesmen began to counterattack madly against the bullets... Even if their bodies were riddled with holes, it still couldn't stop their actions.
Only by completely destroying their flesh and blood, and completely disintegrating them... Would they seem to truly die in the real sense.
But this alone wasn't enough to make the king mobilize heavy troops.
After these corpses of the Gyudondond Tribe were destroyed, a small bug would be born inside their bodies... If soldiers were bitten by these bugs, they would also turn into mindless zombies, and start shooting or attacking their own people. Moreover, after they died, the number of bugs crawling out of their flesh and blood would double, becoming even more numerous.
Therefore, as time passed... The situation took a sharp turn for the worse.
Those mysterious bugs were very small, and not easy to detect. They could not only fly, but their vitality was also particularly tenacious... Smoking, roasting, and disinfecting them didn't do much good.
Moreover, their target wasn't just humans, but all living things with blood and flesh... The Jagged Mountains were originally a natural environment with extremely rich wildlife species.
In the end, the army was no longer just fighting the Gyudondond Tribe... But also countless wildlife, large and small.
"Parasitism, control, transmission, reproduction... Four characteristics!"
Oboro and Hisoka exchanged a glance.
Hisoka snapped his fingers: "We can be sure that it's not a Nen user doing it... This kind of transmission and scope is definitely not something that ordinary Nen abilities can do."
Indeed.
If it was the work of individual power... This level was too far beyond the norm.
There were no quantity restrictions, and no distance restrictions... For Manipulator-type Nen users, there was one most obvious element, which was distance.
You could control toys or puppets on a large scale, or you could have extremely strong individual combat power... But if the things you were controlling were too far away, they would most likely disconnect from you.
What's more, it wasn's just one, but thousands or even tens of thousands... Or even more.
In addition, the brainpower and spirit of a single person or a few people couldn't handle this workload.
"The king has issued a death order... To eliminate the Gyudondond Tribe at all costs."
The soldier added panic.
"So many people have died... He really hasn't realized the seriousness of the situation at all... And he's still thinking about acquiring resources? What a waste..." Lance said with a sneer.
Without Oboro's instructions, he directly shot this person in the head.
"Kaki, Lance, you two stay here and protect them!"
Oboro thought that the key point at the moment was to first find the parasite, and catch a 'bug'.
From where they were standing, they could already vaguely see the endless black shadows rising from the ground under the starry night sky... That was the Jagged Mountains.
"Yes."
The two responded.
It was obviously very dangerous to go deep into the mountains... It was safer for Dangre and the other three to stay here.
Immediately, Oboro and Hisoka both swept out a trail of afterimages, and disappeared.
In a moment, two side-by-side black training suddenly rose on the flat ground.
Oboro and Hisoka's speed had reached a terrifying level. Instantly, they passed through the town guarded by the army, stirring up a gust of wind, and even the air made a tearing sound, scaring a group of soldiers into raising their guns, preparing to fight... But they couldn't see what it was at all.
When the wind died down, the view was empty. There wasn't a single living thing.
Seeing this, the soldiers were surprised... And had to treat it as a hallucination.
The scenery around the two was constantly pulled back at high speed, like a revolving lantern.
"Since it's not an individual's Nen ability, what's your idea?"
While running, Oboro asked Hisoka.
"It must be Nen... But it's not ordinary Nen abilities. Looking at your expression, you seem to have a clue?"
Hisoka glanced at him.
"Nen, this kind of energy, isn't limited to humans..."
Oboro said.
"Of course."
Hisoka smiled in agreement.
"Also... Some ancient tribes may be involved in things far beyond the human world..."
Oboro had some guesses in his heart, but he wasn't very sure.
"Then that's interesting..."
Hisoka's lazy eyes became sharp.
His curiosity had also been piqued.
...
In less than a quarter of an hour, the two had stepped into another dense forest. Along the way, they also saw many rotten soldiers' corpses, and wild animals...
There were many of them, and there were traces of the battlefield everywhere.
One could imagine the bloodiness and cruelty of the war.
Six miles away from the town was the Royal Army's camp... There were at least a few thousand people.
But Oboro wasn't interested in them.
Therefore, he didn't stop.
"Have you noticed?"
Walking in the mountains, Oboro looked at the broken and overturned trees and the scorched grass around him, as well as the bones and broken corpses of various animals, and said lightly.
"Hmm... There isn't a single corpse of a Gyudondond Tribesman..."
Hisoka answered.
The corpses scattered all over the mountain were almost all with severed limbs, and there wasn't a single intact one... These should have all been parasitized by bugs, and had to be destroyed in order to destroy their mobility.
"Were they taken away by their tribesmen?"
Oboro found it a little unbelievable.
The battlefield range was so large. How did the Gyudondond Tribesmen accurately find the bones of each of their companions, and collect them?
According to what the dead soldier had said, there were still some Gyudondond Tribesmen alive now... Hiding deep in these mountains, there were no more than fifty people.
They were using the bugs to fight with the army, and their bodies would never show their faces. It was 'remote control'.
"It's not necessarily that they were taken away... Maybe they were eaten."
At this time, Hisoka seemed to have seen something, and sideways jumped into a pile of rubble, bent over and picked up a piece of clothing with blood on it.
It was the clothing of the Gyudondond Tribe.
"Eaten by the parasitized creatures? They only eat Gyudondond Tribesmen... Is it some kind of tribal custom?"
Oboro thought.
"Hey... My suggestion is, why don't you and I just go find them, meet them face to face, or catch one back..." Hisoka looked at Oboro, with a mischievous smile on his face.
"If you want to die, you can go yourself. I won't accompany you! If they can create this kind of scene of carnage and destruction, whatever power the Gyudondond Tribesmen have in their hands must be extremely dangerous, and even beyond common sense. Before we investigate clearly, it's best not to act rashly." Oboro warned coldly.
"Is that so..." Hisoka's expression was a little disappointed.
Then, his bright eyes turned, and his peripheral vision swept around.
He raised a smile, pinched a playing card, and said in a pleasant tone: "The deep mountains at night are really lively..."
Oboro also turned around and looked at the dense shadows approaching in the nearby forest.
Pairs of shiny pupils lit up from the darkness.
The two had been surrounded without realizing it...
"Hmm?"
Oboro's expression changed.
Because he found that the aura of the wild animals that walked out of the forest was a little unusual.
There was a very obvious increase... Or rather, strengthening.
"It doesn't seem like they've awakened Nen. It's just that their life energy has been stimulated... Is it stimulation?" Oboro thought to himself.
"Awoo!"
Swish.
Within the huge group of beasts in front of them, there were living ones, and there were also dead ones.
The dead corpses were emitting... Not Nen.
It was also a kind of energy... But its nature was different.
It was very weak, but even more solid!
"It's not post-mortem Nen... It's similar to resentment... But it feels different..." A group of creatures roared, and instantly rushed over. The ground was trembling, and the scene was frightening.
Oboro muttered, and prepared to take action.
However... Even though Hisoka's position was in the back, the first person to be attacked was actually Hisoka.
A gray-haired rabbit jumped up first. It repeatedly jumped like a spring, and in the blink of an eye, it jumped in front of Hisoka, and opened its teeth with a brutal aura to bite him.
Oboro noticed this, and was a little surprised.
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