I, the undead, save the world with the dolls

The mottled stone wall gradually turned into a mud wall. After turning a few corners, a cave appeared in front of him. Sun Yang poked his head out of the cave and looked outside.

The whistling mountain wind made the helmet rumble. Before me were towering peaks and bottomless valleys. Tenacious plants could be seen taking root and sprouting among the rock walls. As for the way forward, there was only a narrow mountain path that crossed the cave entrance.

"Shit, which direction should I go?" Sun Yang was at his wit's end. He grabbed a rather large drone and started it up. The drone operator at the base immediately guided the drone into flight.

The drone climbed rapidly. At first, all it could see were mountains. But as the altitude gradually increased, the camera passed over the mountains, penetrated the clouds, and looked into the distance.

A mountainous landscape stretched out in a dense forest, covering the entire horizon. Scattered built-up areas were surrounded by trees and shrubs. The mountains stretched into the distance, dotted with a variety of scattered landmarks, but to the southeast, a deep crimson hue lingered.

That should be the Molten Iron City. Sun Yang instructed the base to try to fly in the direction of the crimson color. During the flight, the drone captured a building that resembled the broken ancient Roman Colosseum.

But when Sun Yang tried to make the drone fly higher, the camera was filled with thick fog, and then the drone lost contact.

Have we reached the boundary of the chaotic space-time structure? Anyway, as long as we can determine our location, it's fine.

Sun Yang sent out another drone, which took off to locate the correct direction, and then launched other small drones to explore the route. Dozens of small drones took to the air, flying in various directions along the mountain road. It took a while for the drones to map the correct route.

Of course, Sun Yang also tried to fly the drone to the bottom of the valley, but after flying deep into the valley and in the fog for a while, the drone suddenly lost its signal.

After about half an hour, the drone navigator finally found a human in a cloak. He seemed to live deep in a valley and rarely went out.

Ah, I'm looking for you. Now that I've found you, I'm on the right track. This damn complicated terrain! Luckily, I have a drone to help me find the way. Sun Yang leaned his head slightly to peer into the valley. The bottom was shrouded in thick fog, and even with a laser rangefinder, he couldn't see the bottom.

My legs are so weak! If I fall down, I'm doomed! Sun Yang asked the drone to mark the location, then he felt the wall and started walking along the path less than a meter wide.

Mountains are connected to mountains, roads are connected to roads. From outside the cave back to the depths of the cave, there are still narrow paths of varying widths. Sun Yang keeps moving forward with a flashlight.

The scenery around him slowly changed. Dense trees appeared before his eyes, the path widened, and the steep slope became gentle. Sun Yang finally found a place with relatively flat terrain and a large open space.

"Although the oil is not enough, time is urgent..." Sun Yang asked the agent to check the remaining fuel, and immediately shook out the helicopter and M14.

M14 drank the green juice in his hand, and then suddenly came to his senses.

"Hey? Where is this? Why are there trees everywhere? And it's so cool? Isn't that the Commander? Didn't you say there's no rush?" M14 rubbed the plastic cup in his hand and stuffed it into his bag.

"I'm sorry, I encountered a sudden situation and need someone to help me fly the helicopter. You see, I really don't know how to fly." Sun Yang patted the Griffin official helicopter next to him.

It might seem like a waste of fuel, but being in a cave is completely different from trekking through the mountains! I can't drive an excavator in a straight line in a cave, but now that I'm outside and the wind isn't strong, why shouldn't I use transportation?

"Ah, I see. I see. Let's get on board, Commander." M14 swiftly climbed into the driver's seat, and Sun Yang quickly climbed into the co-pilot's seat. The surrounding drones had already sent the predetermined coordinates to M14.

"By the way, what is that green juice you drank? Is it delicious? Is it kiwi?" Sun Yang fastened his seat belt and asked M14.

"That's cactus juice... Honestly, it's not very tasty. Miss Spring and her friends at Oasis are working hard to improve it. After all, right now we only have cactus, green fruit, and a little fresh meat for easy replenishment... But honestly, no matter how we improve it, it still tastes terrible."

M14 frowned and commented, then started the helicopter and took Sun Yang to the designated location.

There are no updates today.

I'm going to put some time aside for the manuscript and see if I can sign a contract to publish it...

I hope someone will continue to watch it.

One hundred words, one ...!

55 Is this the Elite Immortal? I’m so scared!

The helicopter's rotors whipped up a strong wind, and M14 slowly stabilized the helicopter. They were now landing on the hillside near the solitary dweller.

[Is it okay to put it here?] Because the rotor noise was too loud, M14 turned to the voice communication to convey the message to Sun Yang.

Sun Yang gave M14 a thumbs-up. M14 nodded, landed the helicopter smoothly, picked up his weapon again, and jumped out. Sun Yang also quickly took the helicopter back. This thing was very valuable. If it ran out of fuel, he would have nowhere to cry.

"Are the people living here important? Should we recruit talented people?" M14 moved her arms. She replaced all four limbs with the latest model of rune limbs, which had even better performance than before.

"I remember he has something to sell. Let's talk about whether to recruit him or not." Sun Yang touched his chin and walked quickly towards the residence of the lone man.

It's different from the game, where the creator was so lazy that he just put a chair for people to face the wall and reflect on their mistakes. The people living alone here built a small shabby house for themselves and lived a self-sufficient life.

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There were footsteps coming from the shabby house, and a man wrapped in black rags walked out. He looked like an ordinary wanderer.

"You, who are you?" he asked stutteringly.

"I asked around and heard that there's someone here who has a unique understanding of darkness." Sun Yang started making up stories.

"Commander, you clearly flew all the way here." M14 complained calmly.

"Hmm? Since you are interested in darkness, please come in and talk in detail." He pointed to his small room and turned to walk in.

[Isn't he on guard?] M14 thought he'd have to fool around a bit more.

Sun Yang shrugged without saying anything and followed the man in front of him inside.

The man found a worn chair and sat down, then moved two stools in front of him and casually placed some dry food on the table. This was his way of entertaining guests.

When Sun Yang sat down to write some lyrics, the man in front of him started talking.

"The darkness stirs. I understand. You are drawn to it, too, right? My name is Firkin. I can trade something with you. What do you need?"

Is that so direct? So your name is Firkin? Sorry, I didn't remember your name. Sun Yang said he had a lot of souls and could spend lavishly.

Firkin laid out the things he had on hand: the Chaos Rapier, the Chaos Shield, the Ancient Dragon Court Staff, various dark arts, and an exquisitely shaped ring.

His equipment wasn't important, but Sun Yang still had a lot of souls left in his pocket, so he just bought them and kept them as a collection. The key points were the dark arts and the ring he was selling.

In Dark Souls 2, dark arts seem to be defined as the technology of manipulating the souls in the bodies of undead people. Sun Yang is not very clear about the specific settings, but in short, in the game, dark arts can accomplish various things by consuming accumulated souls.

For example, increasing health limit, strengthening spell damage, reflecting spells, adding buffs to weapons. Or simply shooting out the soul. The principle of this can be referred to the money darts in some games.

One is that the more money you have, the higher the damage; the other is that the more souls you consume, the higher the damage.

In short, this man named Firkin was a wizard who delved into the dark arts. Among the spells he sold, there was a technique that consumed souls to attack.

It's called Soul Resonance, and there's also an upgraded version, Powerful Soul Resonance. It seems to work by converting temporarily stored souls into active energy, releasing it through a catalyst. Sun Yang once used this series' most powerful dark technique, Hyper, on a high-level character. It expended all the souls in the body in a single shot, but the damage was also devastating.

"These are the fruits of my research while delving into the dark arts. I named it Soul Resonance. Next to it are the ability to temporarily strengthen your body with the soul, attach the soul to a weapon, and shoot the soul out like an arrow..."

"Finally, there is this ring, sir. When you are eroded by the curse, this ring will bear the curse on your behalf. But when the curse accumulates too much, it will break."

Soul resonance, body resonance, weapon resonance, soul protection ring. Ultimately, it all comes down to different ways of using the soul.

"I'll buy them all. By the way, does it take a long time to learn this?" Sun Yang said as he counted the souls in his body.

"I think it will take quite a long time. Many people act too recklessly and manipulate the souls in their bodies at will. The result is usually that they kill themselves." Firkin spoke the truth casually.

"This is your deposit. We're in a hurry, so come back later." Sun Yang placed a large group of souls next to Filkin. He paid a portion first to steady him and prevent him from running around.

Although Firkin didn't know what a deposit was, he could still understand what the soul in front of him was and what it meant to come back later. He waved his hand and let Sun Yang leave.

After bidding farewell to Firkin, Sun Yang left the dilapidated house. This was also why Sun Yang had the nerve to promise the farmer a week's work. Since helicopters were available in Endgame, why not in Dark Souls? I'm not a traditional undead.

At the same time, more drones were released. This time, Sun Yang had unleashed the majority of his drone inventory. Thanks to the scrap metal he'd scavenged from the apocalyptic world, the number of drones at the base had doubled. He was no longer the penniless, frugal man he had been long ago.

Drones, swarms of drones flew in every direction. Some lost signal when they encountered unstable spacetime structures, but the vast majority of drones still completed their missions perfectly.

It's a drone at cost anyway, so a cheap drone can be made. It wouldn't matter if someone picked it up. With Dolan Gureg's current technology, there's no way to analyze these things.

The zombies were annoyed by the drones flying all over the sky. They angrily wanted to attack the drones in flight, but they had no good enough shooting weapons. They could only wave their weapons in vain.

Passing through valleys and caves, the drone slowly revealed traces of the area's past civilization. The Roman-like Colosseum, houses built into the mountainside, and broken stone bridges all silently testified to the area's past prosperity.

Considering the winding and rugged mountainous terrain here, it is hard not to suspect that a strong earthquake destroyed the country overnight. Then, over the long years, everything here was abandoned by its former citizens, and then the new empire transformed it into a kind of prison for the undead.

After a thorough carpet search, the drone has explored the surrounding terrain as much as possible and retrieved any recoverable supplies.

However, the drone has only mapped a path to the arena. Due to the unstable structure of space and time, exploring the route is still quite difficult and lossy. Sun Yang has the drone search along a route that humans can walk, so that there will be more traces to follow.

If a drone was responsible for finding the route, Sun Yang wouldn't have to worry. There was no point in worrying, as the drone was much more efficient than him alone.

Now, Sun Yang was heading to the place that looked like the Colosseum. There were some things to be gained there, and a map-loving person like him wouldn't miss it.

"M14, we have to go to that arena now." Sun Yang pointed to the large arena standing on the top of the mountain, connected only by a dilapidated bridge.

"Is there something over there?" M14 glanced around. The zombies, startled by the drone, had become active. Many of them had already spotted Sun Yang, or more precisely, the vibrant aura of his soul.

Several large, obese zombies rushed out, carrying two sickles. However, the M14 had already started shooting.

"It's a soul, M14, a powerful soul. We have a very important experiment to perform." Sun Yang also drew his weapon and charged in. Following the drone's guidance, he killed dozens of zombies, dealt with the Four Famous Constables outside, crossed the suspension bridge, and arrived at the outer edge of the arena.

At the entrance of the arena, a red spirit was blocking the door. He stood there majestically, wearing simple metal armor, holding the same giant sword as Gazi in one hand, and a ten-centimeter-thick shield made of pure metal in the other.

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He seemed to have seen M14 and Sun Yang running over a long time ago. He was already prepared for the battle, hiding himself behind the metal shield, holding the giant sword in his other hand and carrying it on his shoulder.

[Commander? That, you mean, the strong soul?] M14 carefully examined the shield and weapons in the opponent's hands. Even if he was a humanoid, he wouldn't move around with that kind of thing.

"No, he is the goalkeeper, but he seems to have become much stronger than before. Why don't you shoot him and see how effective his defense is?" Sun Yang said.

[I sincerely hope that thing is made of wood.] The M14 fired a test shot, and the armor-piercing round left a hole in the shield but did not penetrate it.

[Commander, the defensive performance of this shield is almost the same as that of a military tank...] The M14 fired several more shots, but none of them could repel the enemy in front of it.

Damn, that numerical game in Dark Souls really can't be trusted completely. This guy is pretty bad at the low end of the original game.

"You have to get used to it, M14. That gold digger you fought last time, Strider I met a while ago, and Filkin I just met, all of them are traditional mages. They wear frail cloth and look frail. But in reality, they are a minority."

Sun Yang pointed to the undead in front of him holding a huge weapon.

"That's the strong man who has experienced countless battles and finally survived. Although I originally planned to let Xian and Soul beat Porsche's sperm... but there's no other way. This guy has to be a dedicated combat T-doll! Soul! Xian! Answer my call!"

[Professor, you look a bit pretentious...] Xian, who was on standby at the base, picked up her shield and weapon to show that she was ready. Next to her, Soul grabbed her hair and posed exaggeratedly.

Ding-ling-ling! With the sound of the holy bell, Sur and Xian were already standing before Sun Yang. Meanwhile, Hong Ling, standing opposite, realized something was amiss. He roared to the heavens and charged forward, shield in hand. Sur and Xian also rose to the occasion.

Sur was the first to collide with the red spirit. She swung her electric sword, exerting her full strength, attacking the red spirit from the side. Sur knew that equipped with such a huge weapon, the red spirit would move very slowly, making it a completely inert target. So she prepared a fatal blow.

But Hong Ling's physical performance far exceeded Sur's expectations. His arms swung the greatsword swiftly, and the extremely heavy blade easily blocked the attack. Sur's high-energy electric sword and the mottled greatsword collided, and sparks burst out at the bite point.

Sur's body continued to exert force, but Hong Ling managed to block Sur's full-strength swing, then he groaned and used one hand to hold the sword and knock Sur out.

"How is this possible?! This is not human power at all! I have an upgraded military body!" Sur did a beautiful somersault in the air and landed safely on the ground.

"Sul?! Electric shock?!" Xian arrived a little late. Her shield was much smaller than the opponent's, but Xian's physical strength was no less than Sur's. She swung the pointed hammer in her hand, trying to hammer it into the gap in the opponent's armor.

But the opponent did not leave such a loophole, he took a step back and blocked the attack with his shield. The pointed hammer hit the shield, but it made Xian bounce the knife.

"I've already shocked him! He didn't respond!" Suer shouted.

The Red Spirit uttered a muffled groan of joy and continued to swing its weapon. Xian and Sur, having experienced the other's immense strength, didn't dare to engage head-on, and could only temporarily maneuver around the Red Spirit.

"How should I provide support?" M14 asked urgently. The enemy was a complete coward, and she had never worked with Sur or Xian before. Opening fire recklessly would only put them both in danger.

"Don't be afraid! Use this to score some points!" Sun Yang thought for a few seconds and pulled out a few familiar-looking M14 weapons. They were glue grenades and riot foam.

When dealing with the Cursed Binder before, Sun Yang's humanoid team used these things to restrict its ability to move, and then the humanoids driving engineering mechas clamped its joints, and then used cutting machines and other things to dismantle it alive.

Before, I faced the Cursebinder, and now I face the Red Spirit. Both are incredibly mobile and powerful. Facing such an enemy, of course, I must deliver a brutal sneak attack with gel grenades, letting them experience the true meaning of meanness and the miraculous power of modern technology!

[Commander! No need to read out the image file format at the end! Sur! Xian! We're about to launch glue bullets! Be careful to evade!] M14 took the glue grenade launcher and immediately communicated through the communication channel.

Sur and Xian immediately jumped apart in panic. M14 held the launcher and fired all the glue grenades, hitting Hong Ling's feet and under the shield, while Sun Yang sprayed riot foam at Hong Ling.

Hong Ling, who was just countering the opponent's moves, did not react immediately. He thought that the opponent wanted to create distance and regain the rhythm, so he simply hid behind the shield and prepared to make a shield charge.

Although he could feel the slight "dong dong dong" impact on the shield, he didn't take it seriously. He thought it was just some props thrown by the person behind him, so there was no need to pay attention to it.

Hong Ling took a deep breath and pushed forward. He felt a tremendous resistance, nearly causing him to fall. When he looked closely, he saw the orange-yellow super-strong gel had already coated the soles of his shoes, the underside of his shield, and even the greatsword. Sun Yang's riot control foam had exacerbated the stickiness.

"Uh-huh!!!" Hong Ling struggled mightily, managing to free a foot. But in combat, any flaw was fatal. While Hong Ling struggled, Sur and Xian had already circled behind him. Hong Ling could only hastily abandon his shield and weapon, drawing a spare weapon from his waist to try and fend off the attack.

But it was no use. Despite his immense strength, dodging the attack was impossible with his feet stuck to his chest. Without the protection of his shield and greatsword, Hong Ling's helmet was immediately smashed open by the combined efforts of Sur and Xian.

Under the helmet was a gloomy male face. Without thinking, Sur swung his sword and chopped at it. Caught off guard, Hong Ling was hit on the head by the sword.

But Sur's electric sword could not cut off his head. It only left a burnt scar on his face. Since Hong Ling could wield such a heavy weapon, his body naturally could not be fragile.

But Xian, who was following behind, didn't think so. When Hong Ling was trying his best to deal with Sur, he went around to the back, held the hammer with both hands, and hit him on the back of the head.

Puff! The pointed hammer hit the back of Hong Ling's head. In the distance, M14 also took the opportunity to raise his rifle and aim at Hong Ling's head, which was stabilized.

Bang! Bang! Bang! The first armor-piercing round tore open Hong Ling's skull, and the next two bullets blew off the upper half of his face. He was dead, his body rapidly turning to ash. And his abundant soul drifted into Sun Yang's body.

But before that, both figures tried to wrestle Red Spirit's weapon from her. Xi'an tried to pry the weapon free, but she held onto it tightly. Sur also tried to chop off her arm, but the strength of her bones and armor was astonishing.

Soon, the red spirit dissipated into the air, leaving only the panting Sur and Xian.