Chapter 026: A Gluttonous Feast

Hmm, that's a familiar name.

When Wang Bo was watching the plot, he had seen this name before—it was the place where the main characters went to school.

Although Highschool of the Dead was a生化危机 that swept the world, its plot focused on a group of students led by the protagonist Komuro Takashi.

And the story told of their struggle to survive in this apocalypse.

At this moment, zombies had already entered the school, infecting the entire campus, and the school had fallen into chaos.

Oh, right, the people in this world liked to call zombies "corpses," but whether it was zombies or corpses, it was just a name after all.

However, Wang Bo preferred the term "zombie."

Then, Wang Bo casually snapped his fingers, and a zombie that was attacking appeared on the rooftop.

Wang Bo carefully observed the zombie.

Although the zombie could still move, its internal organs had mutated, and its brain had necrotized. Even if a cure were developed and injected into the zombie's body,

the zombie could not be restored to a human; instead, it would become a motionless corpse.

A real corpse.

In other words, when the virus invaded the human body, that human was already dead.

The next second, Wang Bo released the demons from the Time Villa. This time, Wang Bo released about five thousand demons, most of which were lower-ranking demons.

After these demons came out, they densely occupied the entire school—the rooftop, corridors, playground, classrooms—everywhere was filled with the figures of demons.

For a moment, the entire school's students were stunned, trembling as they looked at the suddenly appearing demons.

Only those zombies without reason would walk around indifferently, and when they sensed the demons, they even tried to pounce and bite.

Faced with such fools, the demons merely raised their arms and killed these zombies. Their entire bodies were crushed into pulp, the scene extremely bloody.

The surviving students were terrified, their scalps tingling. Many fell to the ground, soiling themselves.

Even though they were only lower-ranking demons, killing a group of zombies was effortless for them.

Then, Wang Bo's voice spread throughout the school.

"Go, and wipe out all the zombies in this city, this country, this world!"

With Wang Bo's command, each demon let out earth-shattering cheers, their demonic aura released like flames, causing the entire school to boil over.

One by one, the demons quickly left the school. Some demons soared into the sky, some merged into the ground, others plunged into the shadows, or vanished into thin air.

In just a dozen seconds, most of the demons that had filled the school had left.

But before leaving, they also killed all the zombies in the school, rescuing the surviving students.

Wang Bo swept his gaze across the school and found that after these zombies died, the souls that had originally resided in their bodies were freed. But unfortunately, this was a world where the supernatural was not evident.

There was no active spiritual energy, or magical energy, or any supernatural energy in the air for these souls to absorb. So after leaving their bodies, they could not stay long in this world and would turn into specks of light, slowly disappearing.

"Master."

Standing beside Wang Bo, Malthus revealed a look of longing. As his butler, he had been summoned earlier, but instead of leaving, he remained by Wang Bo's side, awaiting orders.

Seeing these slowly dissipating souls, Malthus's eyes were filled with reluctance.

Although these souls were very ordinary, without any special features, their strength lay in their quantity.

Malthus could see these slowly dissipating souls from the city almost every moment. If he could devour them before they dissipated, he would surely advance further.

What Malthus saw, Wang Bo could naturally see as well.

This world had no supernatural power, nor did it have an underworld. After the soul left the body, it would slowly break down into particles and gradually merge into the world.

But with the birth of life, these soul particles that had merged into the world would spontaneously integrate into new life, giving birth to a brand-new soul.

This was a natural cycle. Basically, every world without an underworld followed this natural cycle. Although some worlds might be slightly different, they were not too far off.

Moreover, the total amount of soul particles was not fixed.

It was like humans: at birth, they weighed only a few pounds, but as the body developed and food was consumed, most adults weighed over a hundred pounds.

The soul was roughly the same. If the total soul of a newborn was one, then with development, the soul would grow larger. By adulthood, most people's souls were around ten or so, equivalent to more than ten newborns.

When they died, their souls would decompose and merge into the world.

Providing souls for more newborns.

Because of this, with the development of the world, the total amount of human souls had been constantly expanding, expanding, expanding.

Unfortunately, these souls split and merged into the world, becoming part of it, and did not gather together. Otherwise, Wang Bo would have seen a vast... ocean of souls!

After all, throughout history, the number of humans born was not merely a paltry few billion.

But a much broader, much larger number.

Compared to that vast number, a few billion souls were nothing.

Hearing Malthus's longing, Wang Bo hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "Alright, but you are only allowed to absorb those soul particles."

Malthus was overjoyed, "Thank you, Master."

Then he leaped into the air, took a deep breath, and those slowly dissipating soul particles, like rivers returning to the sea, rapidly converged toward Malthus.

When a large number of soul particles gathered together, the particles that were normally invisible to ordinary people collided and merged with each other, gradually forming golden specks of light.

Countless people saw above the academy, a demon devouring these specks of light.

"Master."

Seeing Malthus begin to absorb these souls, the other demon standing beside Wang Bo, the head maid Caroline, also felt tempted.

Wang Bo nodded and said, "You go too."

Caroline bowed to Wang Bo, "Thank you, Master."

Then she also began to inhale these soul particles, silently strengthening herself.

With the actions of the two demons, the demons scattered throughout the city also saw this scene and couldn't help but laugh heartily, for they knew that the master allowed their behavior.

They killed the zombies, waited for the souls to decompose, then absorbed these particles, beginning this grand feast.