Chapter 49: The Flying Corpse

  "This mirror was Father's most treasured thing, usually wiped clean and tidy, never allowing us to touch it. But last night, Father smashed this mirror." The girl started talking in a very weak voice.

  Just then, the little kid shouted "Dad" and ran quickly towards the outside of the cave. We were attracted by his voice, looked up and saw that in the sky outside the cave, there was actually a person floating.

  Suddenly, I felt a chill run down my spine, because that person was too strange.

  The person floating in the sky, with both hands by his sides, like a carved statue, his face wooden and dull. Just floating in mid-air, flying back and forth, like a kite.

  What's even more terrifying is that on the back of this person floating in mid-air, there was actually another person sitting. That person also had no expression, staring stiffly in our direction. Upon closer inspection, I was shocked to find that the person sitting there was none other than the Hanging Corpse Old Man.

  The girl suddenly shouted "Dad" and followed the little kid rushing out, I stood up, staring at the two people in the sky, and slowly walked out.

  When I came out of the cave, my whole body felt a chill run down my spine. The person sitting under the hanging corpse had a face as white as paper, with several dark green fangs growing in his mouth, and a ferocious expression on his face. He was clearly not a living person, but a corpse.

  The old man hanging on the back of this corpse is also very terrifying, especially his eyes.

  The little boy and the girl knelt down on the ground as soon as they came out of the cave, shouting "Dad" loudly while crying. The hanged old man in the sky still had no expression, silently watching.

  After a long time, the old corpse slowly raised his right hand and waved it, issuing a hoarse and ancient voice: "It's time, you can go down the mountain."

  After finishing this sentence, the corpse fell head over heels and flew out towards the cliff. The girl and the little kid got up and chased after the hanging old man, their voices hoarse from crying. But the hanging old man in mid-air didn't stop at all, flying farther and farther away until he disappeared into thin air.

  The girl and little brother fell down at the edge of the cliff, crying out loud until they were hoarse, darkening the sky.

  I stood behind them, silently staring at the sky and then looking at the girls, feeling a bit at a loss. I felt a sense of unease, this hanging old man was very strange, fearing that something big was about to happen.

  After crying for a long time, the little brat got up from the ground and rushed towards me, punching and kicking me: "It's all you, it's you who hurt Dad, it's all your fault."

  He beat me, at first I didn't react, he beat for a while, beating me all over my body in pain, I slapped him and knocked him to the ground. This little kid got up, turned around and ran away.

  I walked to the girl's side, at this time, the girl was crying and muttering: "You also saw it, my father left, that flying corpse has not moved for over a decade, now he rode on the flying corpse and left."

  "Corpse?" I stared blankly: "Flying corpse?"

  The girl's expression was wooden: "My father is called the Hanging Corpse Old Man because of this flying corpse. My father was a master at refining corpse monsters back in the day, and he knew how to refine all sorts of corpse monsters. One type of corpse monster could even float in mid-air, which is why my father got the name Hanging Corpse Old Man."

  This corpse can float in the air, which is really amazing. But in fact, it can be explained. Because heaven and earth form a yin-yang, within this yin-yang, if there appears a thing that reverses the yin-yang, it will suffer rejection.

  For humans, it is likely that the gas operation becomes worse and yin and yang are reversed. The corpse is different from human beings, the corpse belongs to yin things, if there is a reversal of yin and yang, anything can happen.

  Take zombies for example, among them there is a flying zombie that can fly in mid-air, and also the drought demon. When the drought demon appears, the earth becomes barren for thousands of miles.

  The girl stopped crying, but her voice was still choked. He stood up and walked very stiffly. She walked stiffly past me, swaying towards the cave.

  I entered the cave and saw a girl picking up things, while the child was still crying on the dinner table. I walked to the child's side, the child glared at me and ran away.

  I saw the girl picking up things and asked inexplicably: "What are you doing?"

  The girl smiled: "Father won't be back, I'll take my brother and leave this place."

  I was stunned for a moment, and I was at a loss. After a while, the girl had packed everything up into a bundle. He walked towards the little brat and called out "little brother". But the little brat shouted back at the girl: "Dad will definitely come back, I want to wait for him here."

  The girl also scolded: "Father has already told us to leave, he himself rode the flying corpse, don't you understand his intention? He said that he won't live for much longer, this is him going to fight to the death with his enemy."

  As I listened to the girl's words, my heart was racing. In a flash, the eyes of the old man riding on the flying corpse appeared in my mind. Those eyes were too resolute. As if he had made up his mind, as if he was determined to die.

  It seems the girl was right.

  I don't know why, but when I heard that the old man who hanged himself was going to die, I didn't feel a single bit of happiness in my heart, instead I felt extremely depressed.

  The little brat suddenly shouted: "I don't care what Dad says, I absolutely won't leave here, even if it kills me, I'll wait for Dad to come back."

  The little kid said, and suddenly ran out of the cave. The girl stretched out her hand to grab him, but couldn't catch up. Then, the two of them disappeared together at the entrance of the cave. I panicked, afraid that they would run away secretly, and hurriedly chased after them.

  As a result, when I ran out of the cave, those two people were gone. I was stunned, looking around everywhere, but still couldn't find their figures. I started sprinting outside the cave again, shouting their names while running, but there was only emptiness on the mountain top, with no response at all.

  In an instant, I was left alone on the mountain top. I looked around and felt a little panicked in my heart.

  Finally, I thought of a place that I hadn't been to and quickly ran towards the cliff. As a result, when I arrived at the edge of the cliff, all I saw were some footprints left on the edge of the cliff, big and small. That little kid and the girl were still nowhere to be found.

  The two of them seemed to have evaporated into thin air.

  I turned back to the cave, sitting uneasily at the dinner table. The empty cave was quiet and soundless. I didn't know how long had passed when the sky gradually darkened. I walked into the kitchen and made a meal for myself with the remaining ingredients.

  In the blink of an eye, the sky turned completely dark.

  Just then, I heard a continuous noise coming from outside the cave. I walked to the entrance of the cave and took a look, and cold sweat broke out instantly.

  At this moment, the outside of the cave was very lively. The corpses in the Hanging Coffin Cave had all crawled out. At this moment, those corpses were crawling on the ground in various strange postures. Some were jumping like frogs, some were slithering like snakes, with their hands and feet together, their bodies wriggling non-stop on the ground.

  There were also some like mice, hiding in dark corners, casting a cold glance at me.

  But these are all human beings. These people, like snakes or mice or frogs, have an appearance that makes one's hair stand on end.

  My heart was racing and I retreated back into the cave. I thought to myself, it's probably because the old corpse hanger has left, there is no one here to guard the corpses anymore, so all these corpses are now free.

  This mountain peak will soon become a paradise for zombies.

  At this moment, I am the only living person left on the mountain, and I am destined to become one of the undead.

  Crouched in the corner, I grasped the human skin drum tightly, my eyes fixed tensely on the entrance. Time passed, and by the next morning, the sounds outside the cave had finally subsided a bit, but I felt utterly exhausted, unable to hold on any longer.

  As soon as I saw daylight, I closed my eyes and fell into a deep sleep. When I woke up, it was already afternoon.

  In the cave, I'm still alone. There's some food left in the kitchen, and I only used a bit of ingredients to make a meal. Looking at these ingredients, I can already calculate how many more days I have left to live. At most four days, this stuff will last me at most four days.

  I walked in despair and silence on the mountain top, but no matter where I went, I still didn't see a single shadow. I had a feeling that the whole world was left with only me.

  Another day passed, and as usual at night, a corpse appeared outside the cave. I shrank inside the cave, afraid that the corpse would run into the cave, and dared not relax my vigilance for the whole night.

  Time flew by, and it was already the afternoon of the fourth day. The kitchen had no food left at all, I made a bowl of noodles for myself, and after licking the bowl clean, I finally put it down.

  After this meal, it means I will start counting down my own life. I slammed the bowl to the ground fiercely, and the whole person was like being thrown into cold water, so unbearable.

  On the fifth night, I hadn't eaten all day and felt weak all over my body, so I just quietly curled up in a corner.

  On the sixth night, I crouched in the corner of the wall and got through it. On the seventh night, I felt that I was about to die soon, and I couldn't even stand up at all. My stomach was like a ball, both hungry and painful.

  On the eighth, ninth and tenth days, and on the eleventh night, I huddled in my cave and somehow felt that my body had recovered a bit of strength, at least it didn't feel as painful as before. This was probably because I was starving.

  But although I've recovered a bit, I still feel weak all over. I'm still huddled in the corner of the wall, cautiously looking out at the cave entrance. The sound of fingernails scratching against the wall is extremely jarring. These past few days, the zombies have started entering the cave, sometimes wandering around my doorstep.

  I only saw one person, who crawled up from the entrance of my cave, extremely terrifying. Every time this happens, I beat the human skin drum and the corpse monster retreats.

  That night, another person appeared at the entrance of my cave. This person didn't crawl in, but walked in. The cave was very dark, and I could only vaguely see a figure standing at the entrance, his eyes staring at me.

  I used all my strength and pounded on the human skin drum. A strange thing happened, that person was still standing in place, not moving at all.

  I got up, took out the Soul-Cutting Knife, and slowly approached him. As I walked closer, I found this person to be very familiar. Then, I reacted. The person in front of me was actually the Hanging Corpse Old Man?

  The old man's corpse has returned.