I Have a Dragon in My Body - Chapter 20

Chapter 20: The Darkness Hidden in the Sewers

Because the day was occupied by theory lessons, Mark did not expend too much physical strength.

He grabbed a fruit from the table and ate it. After changing into combat equipment, he headed towards the Empire’s slums.

Most of the people in the Empire were ordinary, but a few were very poor.

Therefore, this group of people moved to the northwest corner of the slums.

Their treatment was not as bad as he had imagined, for there were not many people who were truly poor here.

Most of them were people who did not want to work and only wanted to have fun.

This was because after living in this region, they could receive lunch and dinner from the cafeteria at the Empire’s designated location every day.

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Although it was only some dry bread, it was enough for anyone to live normally.

When he arrived in this region, it was already night. The streets of the slums were not as dirty as he had imagined, but they were not very clean.

Through the city guards in this area, Mark quickly arrived at the location of the accident.

According to the surrounding people, the corpse had floated from the sewers to the river last night!

The entire corpse had been eaten, leaving behind very little flesh.

The only reason it could float was because of the floating trash. When the person who dealt with the trash discovered this corpse, he immediately reported this to the city guards.

“Only a small amount of flesh is left?”

“Only monsters like ghouls would do such a thing!”

“If it were a magical beast, this person would have been reduced to nothing.”

After obtaining the complete information, Mark prepared a torch and touched the channel of the sewers by the river.

In the sewer tunnel, there was trash floating around. The deeper he went, the more unbearable the smell became.

Various feces and the smell of fermented trash mixed together.

This did not harm Mark much.

Before coming to the academy, he had been killing in the wilderness and was already immune to all kinds of stench.

After walking for about 30 minutes through the complicated sewers, Mark finally found a trace.

This was because there were traces of a creature walking in these places, but these footsteps did not look like the footsteps of a ghoul, but the footsteps of a human!

“Human?” This made Mark even more confused.

According to reason, after what happened last night, no one could have entered the center of the sewers.

After squatting down, Mark carefully looked at the footsteps in front of him and found that they were abnormally fresh. It had not been more than half a day.

He stood up and chased after the person.

After walking for about 30 minutes, Mark followed the path to a sewage treatment room.

When he reached this point, his footsteps had completely stopped, but there were traces of someone in the room.

Someone had slept in this room before, and there were still traces of life around.

Entering the sewage treatment room, Mark carefully looked at the items piled up on the ground.

He realized that these old wooden boxes were all filled with metal items picked up from the river.

There were also some valuable items.

Most likely, these items belonged to the dead man. This explained why he was only discovered when he floated out.

Then whose footprints were these?

With this doubt in mind, Mark searched the other side of the room.

Soon, he found new footprints!

But this time, it was not one person’s footprint, but countless footprints.

With this pile of footprints, Mark quickly found a huge, dug hole.

The scene before him stunned Mark!

He had not expected that there were so many zombies in the sewers where he lived!

Yes, zombies. These people were all zombies transformed from undead magic.

Looking at the clothes on these people, they were all wearing old and tattered clothes. From this, it could be inferred that the people who had turned into zombies were previously from the slums!

Because the basement was filled with zombies, Mark could not investigate further.

He could only turn and leave.

At this moment, a very good hidden trap on the ground was triggered by him!

After hearing the sound, the zombies behind immediately went crazy and ran towards Mark.

“Damn it!”

After cursing, Mark ran out.

As he ran, he took out his magic communication device and contacted the Garrison Guards to ask for reinforcements.

However, because the Empire’s sewers were dug very deep, there was no connection here.

Facing so many zombies, Mark could only jump into the smelly ditch and swim away in the dirty water.

Fortunately, none of these zombies could swim. It took Mark more than two hours to escape from the sewers.

After coming out, he used water magic to rinse himself, but it was not very useful.

The stench of dirty water continued to emanate from his body.

“Forget it! I have to hurry up and send the news to the Garrison Guards!” With that, he took out the magic communication device from his waist.

After dialing, Mark simply reported the situation in the sewers to him.

Upon hearing Mark’s news, the other party jumped up in shock.

“What! There are countless zombies in the sewers?”

“I’ll report this matter to the higher-ups now. Wait there for a while. Soon, someone will come to receive you!”

After hanging up, the person in charge of the Garrison Guards immediately changed his clothes and ran out of the room.

He arrived at the entrance of the Garrison Guards and knocked.

Hearing the hurried knock on the door, Leslie Victor, the one in charge of the Garrison Guards, immediately sat up.

He shouted, “It’s so late already, who is it?”

“Sir Victor! According to the news from an adventurer, a large number of zombies have appeared in the sewers…”

Before he could finish, Leslie Victor jumped out of bed. After putting on his clothes and pants, he opened the door and brought the person in charge into the office.

“Is this true?”

“Because it’s urgent, I haven’t sent anyone to confirm it.”

“But this adventurer is a student of the Empire’s Magic Academy, there should be no problem with his information!”

After hearing the words of his subordinate, Leslie Victor immediately made a few calls. The entire Garrison Guards immediately became lively.

On the other side, Mark was sitting by a small river, waiting.

Although his body was dry, the stench did not dissipate.

At that moment, there were footsteps. Mark turned around and saw a few armed adventurers walking towards him.