Master of Kaidan
Chapter 129: The Resurrection Scam

Chapter 129: Chapter 129: The Resurrection Scam

In the pitch-black cave, only a faint light was cast from above. A girl named Vera stood in front of Feng Xue’s bloodied corpse, holding a bloody pipe in her hand.

"What the hell, I thought you had some special ability..." Vera looked at Feng Xue, who seemed really dead, with a weird expression on her face, and in the end, she could only shake her head and say,

"Thanks to you, though, I think I finally understand what killing intent is. Teacher Feng Xue, I will remember your name."

After Vera left, something within Feng Xue’s corpse began to pulse slowly.

The garbage pile started to tremble, and the cracks in Feng Xue’s body, whether small or obvious, began to heal quickly.

Suddenly, just like in a classic scene from countless zombie horror movies, the garbage heap serving as the tomb collapsed abruptly. Feng Xue instinctively took up a defensive posture before he opened his eyes, slightly dazed, and after a moment of silence, he finally came to—

"This damn kid, I thought he would hesitate at least a bit. Could it be that kids in the garbage mountain are this decisive when killing? But then again, so this is what death feels like... Last time, I died too quickly to really experience it... Tsk, even though I’ve gained quite an understanding of death, it seems I didn’t awaken some ’Eyes of Direct Death’ or anything..."

Feng Xue muttered nonstop like a newbie who had just finished an extreme sport, but his body didn’t stop for a second as he started to rifle through his belongings. Sure enough, he found the card that had gone into cooldown in the card pack (note, just a Pseudo Artifact)—

Name: Phantom Object·Resurrected Tomb

Elements: [Resurrection], [Regeneration], [Card], [Trap]

Description: When an allied target dies due to combat, this can resurrect the deceased from the tomb. Consequently, it will also resurrect an enemy unit in the enemy’s camp.

Remark: It doesn’t resurrect an already dead enemy unit but transforms the resurrected subject into an enemy unit.

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"Still, who knows what kind of ghosts can be resurrected from this garbage heap..." Feng Xue quickly checked his equipment and got ready to leave.

The biggest advantage of the [Resurrection Tomb] card was its trait as a trap card. Unlike ’Revival of the Dead’ types of cards that directly target the deceased, this one could be triggered while he was still alive. As long as he died and there were no other targets on his side, it could activate itself, making it possible to resurrect oneself.

However, correspondingly, this card had a seriously tricky aspect—it would resurrect an enemy unit.

As the remark stated, it didn’t pick an enemy unit to resurrect from the enemy’s camp but randomly resurrected a unit and then made it an enemy unit.

When he first created this card, to ensure its resurrection function would work on the "Unknown," he used collected corpses to test it. The result was the simultaneous resurrection of two corpses, and the "enemy unit" that resurrected as a supplement crazily chased after the main resurrected body as if it had lost its mind.

"Fortunately, there probably aren’t any viable targets for resurrection in this cave... Forget it, tomorrow is garbage day, and I must leave this damned place early." Feng Xue remembered the information Vera had told him and felt a headache coming on.

The reason he changed his mind and let Vera cut him down, other than the new insight he had gained on "Divine" matters, was mainly due to garbage day, which Vera had mentioned.

As everyone knows, on garbage day, not only garbage but also a large amount of the "Unknown" would cross into this world. For the garbage mountains, this day also signified something else—

The garbage sites would cease operation.

Whether it was the Four Major Landfills or just ordinary landfills, they all depended on a special garbage site that continuously broke down the trash. The decomposing power of this garbage site was also the core reason for the collapsing phenomena at the garbage mountains.

For ordinary landfills, the ceasing of operations meant that Scavengers could enter them to pick through the trash. However, for the garbage mountains, this day meant there would be no sinkholes or landslides.

In other words, villages like the one Vera lived in, built in the "easy-collapse zones," would be without natural defenses on that day. Greedy Slave Catchers would comb through areas that were normally too dangerous to search. With Feng Xue’s semi-incapacitated state, he would obviously only be suitable for enslavement.

Feng Xue was not afraid of being caught by outsiders, for outsiders did not understand Kaidan or the "Infinite." All it would take is to show a bit of benefit to create an opportunity for escape; it would be a piece of cake.

However, he was very cautious when it came to organizations from Infinite City that had Kaidan as a part of their structure, for their existence was in itself a crystallization of the Infinite City system.

Although Feng Xue possessed a decent Golden Finger, it was essentially just a more "convenient" forging ability and wasn’t irreplaceable. This meant that in the face of those organizations, he had no bargaining power. Once he fell into their hands, he wouldn’t have a chance to turn things around.

Not to mention, compared to the people of the real world, Infinite City had daunting things like Contracts.

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"All my stuff is still here. Vera didn’t even search me... Hmm, maybe she planned to leave it here and come back to search after garbage day passes?" Before long, Feng Xue checked his equipment and immediately got up. But as he made this move, a strong sense of crisis suddenly exploded within him.

Feng Xue, always wary of the so-called "enemy target," almost instantaneously activated his "Now you see me, now you don’t" ability. As his body turned into a shadow, the flickers of red light in the darkness caught his eye.

"Damn!" The moment he saw the red light, Feng Xue cursed subconsciously, although at this point, he still hadn’t seen clearly what it was. But without saying more, just the sheer size of over twenty meters in height was enough to earn Feng Xue’s outburst.

The red light spread throughout the cave, and the source of the glow was revealed—a colossal construct twenty meters tall, wrapped in an armor replete with ferocious spikes, embodying the dual characteristics of Middle Ages Knight Armor and future Mechanical creations.

Feng Xue knew that this thing had probably revived with him, and why it only started moving now, he could only attribute it to the "Resurrection Tomb" card’s setting, which dictated that both resurrected parties "exist in a state of readiness."

"Does that mean that because I changed the form of expression on my own, I’ve attracted the attention of this thing?" Feng Xue watched as the massive creature that was over twenty meters tall and weighed who knows how many tons stood up. He immediately dropped any thoughts of fighting it and in his mind, he added one more item to his future combat checklist—

"I need the ability to take down large monsters!"