Chapter Five Xu Man

  I got off the train, which was already the third transfer.

  The night color has already started to turn a bit dark, I took out my mobile phone from my pocket, the signal bar is still empty, but to be honest there's no one to contact anyway so it doesn't feel uncomfortable.

  This small bus was almost all shuttling in the mountains, and the road was basically bumpy. After rushing for two days, I felt a bit tired, but I couldn't sleep at all, so I was a bit irritable for a while. The dust outside was quite heavy, and when the car started, the rumbling engine sound brought dust into my ears and nose, making me feel uncomfortable.

  But I just didn't want to close the window because those rural women in the car were really noisy.

  When I first got on the bus, there was only the driver, who looked like an old hand and didn't seem to be very talkative. As soon as I got on, he asked me where I was going, and after I replied "Xu Village", he took a glance at me and told me to get off at Tun 2nd stop. He wasn't a driver who liked to chat, and I didn't sit in the front either, instead sitting all the way at the back.

  The car drove for a while, and the sky gradually became less bright. As autumn arrived, it got dark early. I looked at my watch and it was not yet six o'clock.

  Then maybe passing through some village entrances, there were a few people who got on the bus, looking like rural women, and they should be selling vegetables and fish in various villages. So, they all carried some unsold items with them, and they looked very familiar. As soon as they got on the bus, they put their things by the door and started talking loudly, discussing nothing more than today's vegetable prices or some ordinary things.

  There is a woman who I think is quite unusual, doesn't seem to be from around here, wearing all white short sleeves, those hiking pants, carrying a big backpack, and also wearing a Puma hat, looks like she's out on an adventure or traveling, but what kind of mindset would bring someone to this godforsaken place.

  I couldn't see the woman's face clearly, but her skin tone was slightly wheat-colored and looked very healthy. At first glance, I thought she must be someone who exercises regularly. But when she stood up to get something from her bag, I finally got a clear look at her face - it was very pretty, with a nose that wasn't too small or too big, and eyes that weren't too large either. It was just a very pretty face with a strong Eastern flavor, like Zhang Ziyi's in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

  I looked at her, and she also saw me. I think she could feel that my aura was different from this area, so as a fellow kindred spirit, I waved at her, but she just gave me a glance, didn't respond to me, not even a nod or a smile.

  I admit that this is one of the reasons why I am more annoyed. After all, being rejected by a beauty is not a good omen. Mobile phone mobile terminal first launch address:

  The women on the bus had a very heavy accent, but I could still make out a little bit.

  One of them made some sense, a fish-selling woman said that someone in their village had recently sold a baby girl for 3,000 yuan. I knew she was a fish seller because her body smelled strongly of fish. Others were also amazed, not because they found it strange to buy and sell children, but because they didn't believe the baby could be sold at such a high price.

  I didn't know what to say, so I just kept quiet. It seems that 3,000 is enough to buy a life here. I never knew human lives were so worthless. All I dare do is grumble in my heart. Since it exists, it must be reasonable, and to some extent, this is also the reason for its existence.

  I had a slight aversion to this in my heart, but I didn't know when their gaze gradually fell on me.

  "Where are you going, young man?" one of the women in her thirties asked me with a mouthful of big yellow teeth, but she smiled very sincerely. The other women also looked at me. I didn't like being asked questions in public, but I still replied: "Xu Village."

  At this time I found that the adventurous woman heard me and the women talking, turned her head to glance at me, then continued to turn back to eat what was in her hand.

  I don't know if it's because I'm not familiar with the local customs or what, but when that woman saw me responding, she shifted her massive buttocks and sat down beside me. What left me speechless was that several other women also gathered around, suddenly swarming in front of me.

  I'm even getting a bit fed up with them, but I couldn't possibly tell them all to get lost.

  Some people might think that I've had a romantic encounter at this point, but if it were a group of bikini-clad beauties rushing up to me, maybe I would have thought so. However, all I felt was a sense of revulsion and oppression, and the various smells on those women's bodies became increasingly indistinguishable. At first, I thought it was the smell of food or fish, but now it seems like it could be the smell of sewage or rotten meat. The fishy smell doesn't even seem like it's from fish anymore.

  "I'm also from Xucun, follow me and you won't get lost, this mountain road is hard to navigate..." said the woman who first spoke to me.

  This bridge section is a bit like a human trafficking woman, but I'm a big man and really don't want to have anything to do with these people at this time. So I stood up, grabbed my bag, raised my voice and said: "Sorry, no need, I just want to get off the bus now."

  What I said was true, and those women's expressions suddenly didn't look very good. I felt a bit terrified, so I picked up my bag and moved towards the car door.

  "Driver, let me get off here." I found that those women were staring at me, the sky was already completely dark, and there was only a small white light in the car, shining on the faces of those women, you could see those women staring at me with wide eyes, and two of them were gazing at me with ambiguous smiles.

  "Driver, let me..." I repeated my shout, actually at that time my heart was already somewhat anxious, and I vaguely felt a chill beside me. But suddenly I discovered that the bus had stopped at some unknown time, and the driver was slumped over the steering wheel, not moving at all.

  At this moment, I felt a chill on the back of my neck and subconsciously wanted to walk away. However, that group of women suddenly rushed up, each with a cyan-green face, swollen to the point where their original appearance was no longer visible. My hand holding onto the car door couldn't even steady itself, but I hadn't lost consciousness yet. In my heart, there was only one thought - to leave this place.

  But the faces of those women began to change again, their skin was like dry ceramic pieces, slowly cracking and falling off, revealing a bloodless, stiff face inside, deep eye sockets, all black holes where eyes had been dug out, withered cheeks deeply sunken, even the neck suddenly shrunk in an instant, leaving only a layer of old wrinkled skin wrapped around the bones, what was this, clearly not human, but rather freshly baked zombies.

  Suddenly one of the zombies raised its hand and thrust its dry palm towards my heart at lightning speed.

  Do I have to dig out my heart and lungs now? My brain was completely stunned, where did I have time to react, but suddenly a dagger appeared in the air, and with one slash, the zombie's wrist was cut off directly. A thick, transparent liquid with a greenish color splashed onto my face, like snot.

  The one wielding the dagger was none other than the adventurous woman who had just been on the carriage.

  Before I could admire the woman's bravery and kindness, the other four women who had transformed into zombies pounced on the explorer.

  The woman dodged the zombies' group attack with a roll, raised her hand and pressed it against the back of the zombie that was charging at the front. The dagger flashed in an instant, stabbing into the zombie's brain, but this time the dagger came out stained with black blood. The stabbed zombie stopped moving instantly.

  But the other three did not hesitate at all because their companions were killed, and they still pounced on the woman with their mouths wide open.

  I was looking around for something, hoping to find a stick or some hard object. Since I knew that the zombies' weak point was the back of their heads, I thought I could be of some help. But in the next moment, I just swallowed my saliva and felt somewhat unbearable.

  Because the woman rushed to her own bag, suddenly pulled out a black curved knife-like thing, about 50 cm long, and with a casual swing, a zombie's head was directly cut off. The zombie's head fell to the ground, and the woman didn't hesitate at all. She lifted her foot and used her martin boots to step on it. With a crunching sound, what a huge force, the skull was directly crushed, and black ** splattered everywhere.

  The other two were almost one knife per head, all cut parallel from the temple position, and the whole car was filled with a strange smell. I felt a headache when I smelled it.

  "Let's go." The adventurous woman slung her bag over her shoulder, kicked the car door twice, and it fell off. I didn't dare hesitate anymore, and could only follow behind the adventurous woman in a state of shock, running for my life.

  My mind didn't even have time to think about what was going on, all I knew was that without this woman I would've been dead a long time ago, so I could only follow her from behind with my head down.

  I didn't know how long I had been running, anyway the woman was running and I was running too. Suddenly she stopped, and so did I. Only then did I feel my calf muscles suddenly stiffen, and I fell to the ground, it was a moment of dizziness.

  "Thank you, Miss, for saving my life. I am Lin Suo, may I ask your esteemed name?" I felt that these extraordinary people should have some special way of greeting each other, having read a lot of Jin Yong's works before, so I also made a bow.

  The woman probably thought I was making a joke about what had happened, so she looked at me suspiciously and said: "My name is Xu Man."

  "Oh Xu Man female knight......" I said, but suddenly felt that this name, "Are you also going to Xu Village?"

  Xu Man nodded, took out a bottle of water from her bag, and poured it onto the blade of the dagger and the black curved knife. The black substance was washed away to the ground, and Xu Man covered it with some mud.

  She saw my curious look and said: "This corpse oil has a strong smell and can easily attract some trouble."

  I nodded vaguely, but became even more curious about Xu Man's background.

  "Xu Man female knight, what are you going to Xu village? Go home?" I asked tentatively.