Who told him to make the cards!

Even as he rushed toward Shen Qinglian, he kept a sliver of his gaze on the old servant, ready to defend himself at any moment.

Until Liu Bai's voice rang out:

"Luo Xiao, captain of the fourth guard team of the Blackstone Mine, Tier 3, activated a card in a secret mining chamber on the sixth floor of Well No. 13 and launched an attack on the investigators."

After writing that line, the pen in his hand flew out with a "whoosh".

Luo Xiao turned around, but it was too late.

Liu Bai's pen was like a black arrow, instantly shattering his scales, piercing his chest, and bringing with it a cloud of scarlet blood.

Luo Xiao's forward momentum came to an abrupt halt.

He opened his eyes wide, never imagining that the person who would attack him would be the bookish recorder Liu Bai.

Isn't he an office worker?

As a result, he didn't guard against Liu Bai at all.

Preventing it won't help.

To be able to penetrate his defense so easily, Liu Bai's pen must be at least a fourth-tier weapon!

The pen returned to Liu Bai's hand. He twirled it around and then wrote down: "The assassin was incompetent; the attack failed."

"Disarmed."

"Boom."

Luo Xiao fell from mid-air.

The scales covering his entire body disappeared, and the spear in his hand scattered into specks of light.

The three cards landed one after another, and Luo Xiao himself also fell down, ending up kneeling in front of Shen Qinglian.

Liu Bai stepped on the back of his neck and stuck a black card onto his back.

Chain-like patterns quickly crawled across Luo Xiao's limbs, binding him tightly.

From the moment Luo Xiao made his move to the end of the battle, only five seconds elapsed.

Chen Zhi exclaimed, "Wow!"

He peeked out from behind Shen Qinglian's shoulder, looking at Liu Bai in surprise:

"Your Qinggong Academy, even the people recording the itinerary are this good at fighting?"

Liu Bai adjusted his glasses and said casually, "It's so-so."

“When we’re out doing business, the roads are usually not safe, so we learn some self-defense techniques.”

In my heart I thought: This feels so good!

He finally found a chance to show off, otherwise Chen Zhi would have really thought he was a good-for-nothing who could only record things.

Luo Xiao's forehead veins bulged, but he couldn't move. He gritted his teeth and said, "You are not ordinary students at all!"

He realized what was going on.

The people of Qinggong Academy may have noble status, but status does not equal strength.

For a normal student, mastering Tier 3 cards at this age is already genius-level, how could they possibly break through to Tier 4?

"Each each other."

Liu Bai gave a forced smile, "Isn't Captain Luo just an ordinary guard too?"

If they dare to actually lay a hand on the students of Qinggong Academy, they must have some powerful backing.

He took out a new record card.

"Give me an explanation, Captain Luo."

"What exactly were Ding Mao's instructions to you?"

"When was this drilling rig modified, and when was it shut down?"

"After the mine accident, how many people did he send into Mine No. 13?"

Luo Xiao remained silent.

Liu Bai kindly reminded him, "Captain Luo, you were using the standard mining area card just now, right?"

“I have a complete record of the attack, including Ding Mao, whom you mentioned before.”

"You can no longer take all the blame yourself. Why don't you tell everyone you know? Maybe you can redeem yourself that way. What do you think?"

Luo Xiao sneered.

"Let's talk about it when you can get out of here alive."

No sooner had he finished speaking than a knocking sound rang out inside the mine.

It looked like someone had used a pickaxe to chisel through the rock face.

A second later, another sound rang out, this time from another direction.

Then came the third tone, the fourth tone... and more and more.

The sounds came from all directions, blending together.

Liu Bai squinted.

"The fight just now... was it a signal?"

Luo Xiao knelt on the ground, letting out a sinister laugh.

You think I'm all alone?

The pile of rubble next to Liu Bai's feet suddenly loosened.

A withered arm covered in mineral dust reached out from the ground and grabbed his ankle.

Chapter 8 Living Corpse

The withered hand gripped tightly, the nails almost digging into Liu Bai's flesh.

The pen in his hand flew out again, spinning at high speed like a fan, and without hesitation severed the withered hand.

But it doesn't seem to be of much use.

The hand was still gripping his ankle tightly.

Immediately afterwards, a person dressed in tattered miner's clothes slowly crawled out of the pile of rocks.

His neck was broken, his head was tilted to the side, and his chest was sunken inward, with an ID card embedded in it.

The name on the card is gray, which means he is dead.

But he is still "alive".

His eyes had no pupils; in the center of the whites of his eyes were the same fringes as those inside the flowing blue stone.

The only difference is that the fringes are black.

"Whoosh!"

The mine chamber suddenly trembled, and a large amount of gravel fell from above, raising a thick cloud of dust.

The walls on all sides were broken open, and one after another, miners, both dead and alive, appeared before the crowd.

Dragging their broken legs and arms, they held the pickaxes they used in life, swinging them around as if they were mining, gradually closing in.

They are no longer miners, but walking corpses with only the instinct to mine left.

The laws revealed by the shift of the boundary crystal and the mining of the flowing bluestone merged with the spiritual imprints and lifelong contracts within these miners' identity cards, preserving their most profound actions and memories from their lives, and ultimately forming a kind of legal life similar to a calamity beast.

Liu Bai had no choice but to activate the second card.

Chen Zhi then realized that the recorder's book was a card box.

Each page has a different card embedded in it.

Liu Bai turned to page five.

Chen Zhi was curious about everything related to cards, even the scientific name of a particular card.

Unfortunately, this guy doesn't play by the rules at all; he doesn't even call out his name when he makes a move.

Chen Zhi only saw several ink-like black lines intertwined and flew out from the pages of the book, straightening and instantly severing the nearest miners in half.

But he couldn't kill them as quickly as they came.

The undead kept pouring out from the various tunnels that had been dug out, and their numbers kept increasing.

A few black lines could not stop their progress. Even with their heads separated from their bodies, their remains continued to crawl forward without feeling pain or fatigue.

At this moment, Liu Bai had to suppress Luo Xiao, control the cards, and keep an eye on Shen Qinglian's safety.

He was finding it hard to cope with this seemingly invincible "sea of ​​corpses" tactic.

The taut black line began to tremble.

"Destroy their identification cards," Chen Zhi shouted.

Liu Bai: "?"