Chapter Thirty-Three: The Corpse Monster Demands Life

  I was with the village chief, and when night fell, we lit torches. At first, our procession was grand and noisy, with rustling sounds all around us. But as we walked on, the surroundings became increasingly quiet. It was then that we entered a small forest, and when I turned my head to look back, those villagers had vanished into thin air.

  I panicked instantly and stood still, asking the village chief: "Where did the others go?"

  The village head turned around and saw the situation, his face also changed instantly. We couldn't care about finding the person who killed Xiaoliang anymore, and rushed back into the weeds of the tomb. As a result, we searched in the weeds for a while, but still didn't find anyone.

  Our group, apart from me and the village chief, had a few other people. These few people were also anxious, someone pulled out their throat to shout loudly. However, in the empty wilderness, there was not even a slight response.

  I suddenly felt a little uneasy in my heart, and my intuition told me that something might go wrong.

  The village chief was after all the village chief, so he remained calm. He told us not to panic and then led us out of the bushes and started searching around them.

  However, we still haven't found anyone.

  Just then, a villager suddenly shouted and ran towards a clump of wild grass. We immediately followed him. When we arrived at the clump of wild grass, we saw that inside the grass were several hunting guns and lanterns, which were exactly what those villagers had been carrying with them.

  The village chief suddenly softened and stared at something in the grass nest. His old face changed: "They won't have gone bad, will they?"

  I stood by in silence, my heart growing increasingly uneasy. I followed the direction of the grass nest and found that all around it were scattered other things, all of which belonged to those missing villagers. At this point, I too softened.

  The village chief and the other villagers were a bit flustered, but they were more anxious. They crouched down, picked up several guns from the grass nest, and then beckoned me to continue searching.

  I didn't have time to blame myself, and I followed them to look around. I don't know how long we walked, we passed through the wasteland, entered the forest, and then came out of the forest again. At this moment, I suddenly stopped, because I vaguely felt a strong aura of evil energy approaching from all sides.

  And this yin energy seems to be right next to us.

  Suddenly, I was shocked in my heart and violently pushed the village chief to the ground. And just at this moment, something burst out from behind the village chief's back, and then slipped into the darkness again.

  The rest of the villagers were also frightened by this sudden situation, their faces changed greatly, standing in place and trembling.

  One of the villagers stammered: "It's a person."

  My heart skipped a beat, and at this moment, that dark energy reappeared, its speed was incredibly fast. Before I could react, the villager who had just spoken suddenly had an additional pale face on his neck. The face opened its mouth wide and took a big bite of the villager's neck.

  Ah

  The rest of the villagers saw this situation and shouted loudly. The villager who was bitten struggled with all his might at the moment he was bitten.

  The villagers around were in a panic, the guns in their hands went off in a burst of chaotic shooting, but the outcome was still heartbreaking. That pale face suddenly retreated back into the darkness, but the villager who had been bitten was already lying on the ground, convulsing uncontrollably.

  Everything happened too fast, without giving people even a little time to prepare.

  The village chief yelled and rushed to the villager who had fallen to the ground, then knelt down and loudly called out the person's name. But that person was slowly losing signs of life.

  "I feel so cold, am I going to die?" Every person who is about to die likes to say this sentence, and this person said it too.

  The village head grasped his hand: "No, you won't die, we'll save you."

  But the village chief's words were not yet finished, that person had thoroughly died, his hand relaxed and he was out of breath. The village chief yelled twice, stood up and rushed to shout at everyone: "Everyone stand in a circle, we're going to do it with him."

  Then they stood back-to-back in a circle and pulled me into the center of the crowd.

  At this time, I quietly pulled out the Soul-Cutting Knife from my bosom and placed my hand on the human skin drum. Suddenly, the grass around us moved, rustling loudly. Then, a woman with a pale face crawled out of the grass. Her crawling movements were extremely eerie, giving people the feeling that she was not even human.

  The gunfire rang out immediately, a burst of crackling sounds, and everyone's guns were fired at the woman. However, this woman was covered in bullet holes all over her body, yet she seemed to be fine, continuing to crawl forward. Suddenly, everyone gasped and retreated in unison.

  The village head happened to be standing in front of me. At this moment, I gently pushed the village head aside and walked towards that woman with the Soul-Cutting Knife in hand.

  As she crawled in front of me, the woman suddenly stood up, and at this moment I stabbed her with a fierce knife. The Soul-Cutting Knife was extremely sharp, whether it was cutting living or dead things, it was just one cut.

  My knife sliced directly across his neck. The woman's neck was severed in an instant, but what happened next was a scene that made one's hair stand on end.

  The woman's neck was broken in half, and only the skin and flesh were left connected. Her head hung from her neck, suspended by these few strips of skin and flesh. However, the woman's mouth still opened and closed.

  The scene in front of them made these villagers completely stunned. At this time, I took out a few silver needles from my body and suddenly stabbed them into the woman's brow. Suddenly, the silver needle pierced the woman's brow, her body softened, and she fell directly to the ground.

  After falling to the ground, the woman's corpse quickly deflated and turned into a mummy in an instant.

  I silently stared at the woman's corpse on the ground, and I already understood what this thing was. This woman was indeed a female ghost, and she had been dead for many years. It seemed that Xiaoliang was right, this place was indeed a place of great evil.

  After the corpse was gone, the villagers finally came back to their senses, one by one wiping away cold sweat.

  I said to them at this time: "I suspect that there are no fewer corpses like these around, we must make an effort, and try to save as many people as possible."

  Saying this, I am also very helpless and can only say that we can save a few more people. When encountering such a corpse monster, these villagers are fundamentally unable to resist at all.

  Next, we continued to search around. The corpse of the monster was not found, but a villager's body was found. This villager also died with his neck bitten, and his body had already stiffened. I knew this villager, it was the old man who told me that Xiaoliang was an idiot that day.

  As I looked at him, a surge of pain welled up inside me.

  But time is pressing, and there's no leisure to indulge in sorrow now. A surge of anger welled up inside me, and I found myself becoming extremely terrifying. Walking through the dark night, I was like a demon god.

  As I walked and walked, I stopped. Not far away, something appeared, a thatched hut.

  That thatched hut was hidden in a grass nest, but it was still discovered by me. Because a strong eerie aura came from the thatched hut, I involuntarily turned my gaze there.

  Just because I killed an undead creature a moment ago, these villagers suddenly put their hopes on me. Seeing me walking towards the thatched cottage, they followed suit.

  I stepped closer and closer to the thatched cottage, feeling the yin energy inside growing thicker. Apart from the yin energy, I also caught a whiff of a strong foul odor.

  Through the grass hut's door, which was open, I saw an old man sitting in front of a lamp, and this old man was the same one I had seen before.

  Apart from the old man, behind him in the pitch blackness, there were at least three people hiding. Although they hid in the darkness, I saw that all three faces were deathly pale, obviously the same corpse monsters we had just encountered.

  The old man just sat there, motionless.

  I turned around and glanced at the village head, saying softly to them: "You don't move, I'll go and come back."

  Then I walked around the grass nest and went to the gate of the thatched cottage. I soon arrived at the door. At this time, the old man was still sitting under the lamp motionless. But I felt that he had already discovered me, and he was waiting for me.

  I finally walked into the house and suddenly the old man turned his head sharply.

  "You've finally arrived."