Ling Tian suddenly raised his hand cannon, aimed at the zombie in front of him, and pulled the trigger. The bullet, carrying a silver light, hit the zombie squarely in the abdomen.
Originally, the bullet striking a bronze corpse would only embed itself in the zombie's body, as the zombie's body was incredibly tough.
Especially this bronze corpse, its body was comparable to a person wearing two layers of Kevlar nylon bulletproof vests, plus two layers of ceramic armor plates.
But this time, the silver bullet easily pierced the skin on the surface of the bronze corpse's body.
Not only that, but after the bullet entered the zombie's body, silver ions were released in large quantities, burning the tissues within the zombie. A terrifying bowl-sized hole appeared in the zombie's abdomen!
The opening of this hole was still flashing with white light, and the smell of burning flesh emanated from within!
The silver ions continued to react chemically within the zombie's body, burning its flesh.
The reason this zombie was so severely injured by the silver bullet was rooted in the nature of combustion. Combustion wasn't simply about achieving a high temperature, as some might imagine, which could ignite anything.
In fact, combustion is a chemical reaction, or more precisely, a strong oxidation reaction.
Under high temperatures, oxygen combines with a substance, carbonizing it.
In reality, human burns, besides direct heat injury, also include chemical burns. When strong acids or alkalis come into contact with the human body, they undergo violent chemical reactions, releasing extremely high temperatures during this process. The byproducts of these reactions also cause significant damage to human tissues.
For Ling Tian's attack, using a fire talisman directly was akin to burning with flames. The damage caused by the silver bullet entering the zombie's body was chemical burning.
And this type of chemical burn could be even more severe than direct flame burns.
The immense energy contained within the silver ions reacted with the fragmented substances in the zombie's body, generating high temperatures that turned the originally stiff zombie body into a charred mess!
The understanding of these silver bullets and silver weapons wasn't something Ling Tian learned from the inheritance of the Mirror Space or from his masters. Instead, this knowledge came from Hell's Paradise Island.
Last year, while spending time in the island's taverns on Hell's Paradise Island, Ling Tian met psychics from all over the world, including a German named Reinhardt.
Reinhardt was a typical German, with a rigid and serious personality, meticulous in his work.
Such a person might seem difficult to approach, but in reality, if you possess great strength or extensive knowledge, it's easy to befriend them. Ling Tian happened to have both, and he quickly became drinking companions with Reinhardt, discussing many technical issues.
Reinhardt's background was very complex. His family was an old European noble lineage, and he himself was one of the shareholders of ThyssenKrupp, a renowned European steel and military industrial enterprise.
Reinhardt was also a professor at their country's prestigious industrial university, with over a dozen advanced metallurgy laboratories under his supervision.
Besides these roles, Reinhardt had a special identity: a demon hunter!
And the weapons he used to deal with European monsters and evil spirits were made of silver.
Reinhardt had a dedicated metallurgy laboratory that accepted external orders, primarily serving demon hunters. They accepted custom orders for various silver weapons and even for plating other weapons with silver.
Their laboratory also offered a very special service: customizing silver bullet heads for various ammunition. Ling Tian's silver bullet heads were custom-made from his laboratory.
This service alone brought in billions of euros for Reinhardt's laboratory annually.
Seeing that the silver bullets were effective, Ling Tian fired another shot, hitting the zombie's thigh.
After a few seconds, the originally fist-sized wound began to emit white light, followed by smoke. The foul odor of burning protein wafted out. The fist-sized wound suddenly enlarged to the size of a bowl, and then the zombie's left leg was directly burned off from its body. The one-legged zombie lost its balance and fell to the ground.
Seeing this, Ling Tian raised his hand again. The bullet from the Smith & Wesson M500 shot into the zombie's head, embedding itself in the skull. Then, the top of the zombie's head began to emit white light continuously, and soon the zombie stopped moving, completely dead!
"Excellent, excellent. Three bullets to take down a bronze corpse. Although these bullets aren't cheap, it's a huge profit!" Ling Tian nodded with satisfaction. Although the cost of these three bullets was over a thousand US dollars, this amount was nothing to Ling Tian.
Given Ling Tian's financial resources, he wouldn't even flinch at firing tens of thousands of such bullets a day. After all, Bing Tian Pharmaceutical was a money-printing machine!
Seeing his bronze corpse so easily dispatched by Ling Tian, Shi Xiaoyue was almost driven mad. In the Corpse Refining Sect, a bronze corpse was considered high-end combat power. Many disciples could only control iron corpses throughout their lives and never had the chance to interact with bronze corpses.
To witness Ling Tian take down a bronze corpse with just two shots was truly agonizing!
However, he also noticed that the hand cannon Ling Tian held seemed to have a very limited bullet capacity.
"Let's see how many bullets you have!"
Shi Xiaoyue immediately issued commands to these bronze corpses. Four bronze corpses rapidly charged towards Ling Tian and his companions, while the other several bronze corpses quickly retreated, positioning themselves in front of Shi Xiaoyue and Yin Tianxiong.
After all, Ling Tian was wielding a firearm. As the saying goes, even immortals can't dodge a swift escape. If Ling Tian fired a shot, their current cultivation levels wouldn't be able to withstand it, so they quickly placed these zombies in front of them as meat shields.
Ling Tian held the Smith & Wesson M500 hand cannon, his eyes fixed on the four charging bronze corpses. His mental power locked onto the four bronze corpses, and he could clearly judge the movement trajectory of these monsters.
Next, Ling Tian pulled the trigger, aiming directly at the zombies.
In fact, zombies at the bronze corpse level already possessed terrifying combat instincts. They would instinctively dodge projectile weapons.
Even if they couldn't dodge completely, they would avoid vital points. Moreover, for such tough-skinned zombies, being hit by projectiles would generally have little effect.
However, the firearm in Ling Tian's hand was modern technology. Before the bullets left the barrel, these zombies had no way of knowing when the projectiles would fly towards them.