The Undead Calamity Begins with a Graveyard Demon

Chapter 96: Chapter 96: Waiting for Daybreak

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While Gu Su was assigning the Walking Dead to the large Gravepile and giving them their work, Suburban Wolf had already gathered all the Skeletons, freshly replenished from the Soul Summoning Ceremony, and hastily departed the graveyard.

Even the Magic Skeletons, and that one Corpse Witch, were all incorporated into the team by Suburban Wolf. He took every last one of them with him.

After all, this was a critical time for transporting supplies. The various spoils of war scattered across the battlefield and all the items left in the Kobold lair required a large workforce to move and sort. Every extra hand increased efficiency and reduced the chance of accidents.

Gu Su watched the direction Suburban Wolf’s team had gone, never once speaking up to stop them. There wasn’t even a hint of surprise on his face.

’I know perfectly well why I prioritized risking my Undead Squad to bring the dead Kobold bodies back to the graveyard as quickly as possible.’

The core objective was to complete the Soul Summoning Ceremony, rapidly expand his Undead forces, and have enough manpower to transport the hard-won spoils of war, ensuring not a single thing went to waste.

Now that all the corpses had been successfully turned via Soul Summoning, was he supposed to let them sit idle in the graveyard instead of sending them out to work? ’Should I just wait for things to fall from the sky?’

Only after Suburban Wolf and Acid Wind had led the massive Skeleton host far into the distance, their figures gradually disappearing over the horizon, did Gu Su subconsciously look up at the sky.

He then realized that, without his noticing, the sun had mostly set. The afterglow was fading, and the sky was slowly being enveloped by a hazy twilight. The surrounding light grew dimmer and dimmer; another day was about to pass.

Thinking back on the entire day, he had barely had time to deal with any trivial matters. He had spent the whole time glued to the Undead’s visual broadcast, closely monitoring every detail of the combat situation with the Kobolds. When he finally snapped out of it, the day was gone.

Gu Su felt a bit exasperated with himself. He thought for a moment, then called to the crow-like creature circling above his head. "Crow’s Caw, what’s the situation with Bone Ash?"

Crow’s Caw ruffled its feathers, landed lightly on Gu Su’s shoulder, and responded in a clear, respectful tone.

"Master, Bone Ash has successfully retrieved those two items. He is now leading his forces back toward the graveyard."

Unlike Gu Su, who had been completely focused on the battlefield all day with no time for distractions, Crow’s Caw could be considered meticulous and thorough.

Besides providing a real-time broadcast of the battle with the Kobolds so Gu Su could grasp the front-line dynamics at all times, it had also used its own methods to maintain close contact with all its subordinates.

It was perfectly clear on everything, from the slightest movements in the surrounding areas to the real-time progress of the Ash Squad and all sorts of other key information.

Gu Su raised an eyebrow, a faint look of surprise on his face. He clearly hadn’t expected Bone Ash to be so fast. He immediately followed up, "That fast?

Did the Corroding Mycelium I had sent over get to Bone Ash on time?"

"Replying to Master, the Corroding Mycelium was successfully delivered to the designated location before the Ash Squad had even finished processing the giant turtle’s remains and preparing to return.

Bone Ash poured all the Corroding Mycelium evenly into the giant turtle’s shell, but because he was in a hurry, he didn’t analyze the situation inside."

Crow’s Caw continued its report in an orderly fashion.

"Additionally, the giant turtle’s eggs have been placed in the Treasure Chest Wagon and can be transported directly, which saved a lot of unnecessary trouble."

"However, the giant turtle’s heart is simply too large. It far exceeds the capacity of an ordinary Treasure Chest, so there was no way to pack it directly.

Based on their current speed and an estimation of the road conditions they might encounter, they should be able to return to the graveyard by dawn tomorrow."

"Tomorrow, huh..."

Gu Su repeated the word softly, his eyes glinting. He then nodded slowly. "That’s not slow at all."

’But that’s not what I’m really thinking,’ Gu Su thought. After all, the timing was quite a coincidence.

Just a moment ago, when Suburban Wolf returned to replenish his Skeleton Soldiers, he had also brought Gu Su a crucial piece of news about the supplies in the Kobold lair.

The number of various supplies scattered within the Kobold lair and the interconnected sewers was staggering, and the variety was immense.

Although the Kobolds were influenced by the clown, their instincts remained.

They always liked to collect this and that.

And they always liked to hide these things, since they were what they used to survive.

The Kobolds weren’t necessarily willing to hand these things over to their superiors.

That’s why the sewers were filled with so many hiding spots for Kobold stashes.

The most baffling thing was the Kobolds’ idea of wealth.

Most of the items were just scattered bits of ore, crude tools made of bone or stone, and a lot of junk discarded by the Kobolds, all strewn about in a chaotic mess.

What made it more troublesome was that many of the supplies had been scattered widely due to the fierce fighting. Some had even been washed by the sewer water into hidden corners deep within. Finding and safely transporting all of it back would indeed take a lot of time and effort and could not be rushed.

Gu Su was also well aware that Ordinary Skeletons lacked the ability to make their own judgments. With their limited intelligence, their efficiency would plummet without a boss giving real-time commands and coordinating their efforts. They might even miss supplies or fall into disarray. They simply weren’t very reliable.

Therefore, according to the initial estimates from Suburban Wolf and his Minions, it would take the better part of a day to find and transport all the supplies from the sewers, requiring constant reallocation of manpower.

Based on this projection, they should be able to complete about eighty percent of the transport mission by dawn tomorrow. The small amount of remaining scattered supplies could be collected later by a small Skeleton Squad sent back for a supplementary search, so it wouldn’t delay the overall deployment.

Of course, this all came with one condition.

Suburban Wolf and his crew could not run into any extra trouble while searching for and transporting the supplies.

For example, a sudden attack by other wild monsters that could disrupt their established transport rhythm and cause unnecessary losses.

Or, an emergency on Gu Su’s end that would require him to urgently pull them from the transport site, delaying the planned progress.

Gu Su naturally understood the unspoken message behind Suburban Wolf’s words.

For this period, they needed to focus wholeheartedly on transporting the supplies, striving to complete the task as quickly as possible. They hoped that Gu Su wouldn’t casually disturb or redeploy them unless it was an absolute emergency, so as not to disrupt the overall progress.

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