Chapter 42: The Zombie Biting Incident

  "Master." I called out from the doorway.

  "Are you guys okay?" Mao Shi Jiu looked over and asked with a smile.

  "Are you bird-watching?" I said casually.

  Nineteen years old with a head full of black hair, what's this so-called bird-watching? Can't they think wildly about it?

  "What I'm talking about is appreciating birds, what are you guys thinking?" I said innocently.

  "Yang Guo, you're so bad!" A slap landed on my chest.

  "Sister, let's see our guest off!" Lin Yu suddenly said.

  "What? Brother, let them eat and go!" Lin Mo said.

  "It's okay, we have something urgent to attend to, let's go first," said Mao Shi Jiu.

  "What? Just leave?" I had just been intimate with Lin Mo for a short while and was about to leave, but I felt extremely reluctant in my heart.

  "Let's go, Li Jian Tian must have some new information." said Mao Shi Jiu.

  "Alright then, I'm going." I reluctantly let go of her hand.

  "Alright." Lin Mo lowered his head, somewhat reluctantly.

  At this time, Lin Yu took the initiative to walk up and said to Mao Shi Jiu: "What you said, I agree with you, but it's not the right time yet."

  Cao nodded at 19 points and then walked away without looking back.

  "Wait a minute!" I was still reluctant to part with Lin Mo, and hastily caught up with Mao Shi Jiu, turning around to bid farewell to Lin Mo as we walked.

  "You little rascal, can't always be infatuated with love, must study Taoist doctrine seriously, only then will you have a way out." Mao Shi Jiu continued to speak grandly.

  "You're acting like my master and restricting my private life too?" I snorted coldly.

  "As long as you don't corrupt your moral integrity." Mao Shi Jiu seemed somewhat solemn and different from when he came.

  I was so absorbed in my own romantic sweetness that I completely forgot about the purpose of our trip. Suddenly, I remembered, "Oh no, didn't you say we were going to take blood? Lin is furious with me, and I just forgot." My head hit the wall, and I cried out in dismay.

  "You rascal! Now that you have a girlfriend, you've forgotten about your responsibilities!"

  "What's going on?" I asked anxiously.

  "After you left, only he and I were left in the hall. I asked him some questions and learned a few things."

  "What did he say? I felt like I heard you guys talking about birds from far away, but I couldn't understand what you were saying. Something about cuckoos and something about longing for each other, it's got me completely confused." I asked in puzzlement.

  "Don't worry, he doesn't have any malicious intentions." Mao Shi Jiu said briefly.

  "So he's not really Lin Yu?" I asked in surprise.

  Mao nodded slightly.

  "Lin Mo will really be okay, right?" I asked worriedly.

  "He won't, he not only won't, but he will be very good to Lin Mo."

  I have many doubts in my heart, what kind of person is fake Lin Yu? Why would the Taurus Group send a non-hostile person to Lin's side, and what about the real Lin Yu now? What I'm most worried about is whether Lin Mo is in danger.

  "Is the real Lin Yu also a victim of soul stripping as you said?" I continued to ask.

  "Half right, half wrong."

  "He did indeed have his soul ripped out, only it wasn't half of it that was taken away, but all of it, and he did so voluntarily."

  "What? Voluntarily, why?" The more I listened, the stranger it sounded.

  "For Lin Mo." Mao Shiying's words were clear and concise.

  "Lin Mo?"

  "This thing you can't know for now. When the time is ripe, it will naturally be revealed." said Mao Shi Jiu.

  No matter how I asked, Cao Shi Jiu remained silent, and in the end, I couldn't ask anymore, so I had to bury this question in my heart.

  The phone rang.

  "Yang Guo, you and Mao Dazhao come quickly to the east of the city, a corpse has been found here, it's very strange."

  "Alright, I'll be right there." I hung up the phone.

  "Master, Li Jian Tian called and said something's happened in the east of the city! The corpse is very strange."

  Ma Xiangru's eyes gazed eastward with a single glance.

  We hailed a taxi and arrived at the east of the city. The police had already set up a cordon, and forensic experts were examining the body.

  We stepped forward into the restricted area, "What's going on?" I asked Li Jian Tian.

  "It seems like there are zombies around, come and see the wounds on the corpse."

  The upper body of the corpse was, with several large gashes on the chest, the edges were blackened, and there were uniform livor mortis around, it looked like it had been dead for several days. There was a dark-colored bite mark on the neck, the bite mark was deep, and the tooth marks were uneven, it seemed to have been bitten multiple times, and in the same spot, which was at the carotid artery. In addition, the corpse's eyeballs were all white, with no black pupils, and the body's vital energy had completely dried up, making the whole person look more like a mummy.

  "Look? Is it that thing that bit you?" Li Jian Tian asked Mao Shi Jiu.

  Cao Jingyu didn't say a word, walked forward and opened the collar of his clothes to take a look at the wound. It seemed like he had already understood what was going on in his heart.

  "It's a zombie!" Mao Shi Jiu said with certainty.

  "Look, this corpse's face is completely gray and has no blood color, it must have been sucked dry of blood. Although it's possible that some kind of mutated animal did it, but looking at the bite wounds, they're all even and not like any animal would do. However, this still can't be confirmed as a zombie, because in the West there are also vampires, who are similar to zombies but more advanced with their own consciousness. But after I took another look at the corpse's chest and saw several claw marks, it was undoubtedly a zombie. Only zombies have claws like that, and where they were scratched would lead to the spread of corpse poison and the appearance of corpse spots."

  "Is this the zombie that Toros Corporation is supposed to transport? Or has the zombie already escaped? I have ordered increased police presence and real-time monitoring in this area."

  At this time, Cao Zhen noticed a patch of mud under his feet. The mud was very tight, while the surrounding soil was loose, and there were neatly arranged footprints every few steps.

  "Look, these are the footprints of zombies. Since zombies hop when they walk, their footprints must be side by side. And hopping makes the soil underfoot alternately tight and loose. Every few steps there is a pair of side-by-side footprints. Let's follow the footprints together." Ma Shi Jiu pointed at the footprints on the ground and led us to follow them.

  After walking for tens of meters, footprints suddenly disappeared, and the mud became very even, without any heavy marks.

  "The footprints stopped here, let's take a look at this last footprint. Isn't the footprint deeper than usual? This shows that the zombie stayed longer in this place than before. So why did the zombie's footprints disappear after arriving at this place? It is very likely that the zombie was taken away by someone. To be precise, there was a Taoist priest who controlled it with talismans and then had it transported away by cart. Do you see the wheel track marks on the side?" Ma Shi Jiu said in one breath.

  I knew Mao Shi Jiu was clever, but I didn't expect his analytical skills to be so strong. I never thought of that possibility.

  "Are you saying someone is controlling zombies to kill people?" Li Jian Tian asked in surprise.

  "It's still uncertain now, it might be that the zombie's talisman fell off and it ran out on its own."

  "You don't need to search this area anymore, I think they just passed by here, and continuing the search won't be of any use. This has already shown that the Taurus Group successfully transported the zombies, you should spend more time on the Taurus Group." said Mao Shi Jiu.

  "Alright, Yang Guo, let's go." Mao Shi Jiu said to me.

  Li Jian Tian asked us to go to the police station and wait for further understanding of the situation.

  "Master, I didn't expect you to be so clever, able to analyze all this. It seems that my impression of you is getting better and better."

  "That's right, I grew up watching Detective Conan, so I still have some detective skills. But honestly, I don't understand how Li Jian Tian became the police chief when he's so stupid?" Mao Shi Jiu said with a proud smile.

  "He naturally has his own strengths, you can't deny his advantages." I felt a bit displeased.

  "Alright, I guess I'm just too out of place in this world, I'm too excellent, and can't help but stand out." Mu Shiying started being narcissistic again.

  At that time, just ignore him and it's fine. On the road, he talked for half a day and I didn't respond to him. As a result, he himself also ran out of energy and shut his mouth with a "plop".

  "Hey, you Taoist priests are really good at chasing zombies, just a casual talisman and it's settled." I finally came up with an irrelevant sentence after he finished speaking.

  "What's with 'we Daoists', don't you forget, you're a Daoist now too, just a little one." Mao Shi Jiu laughed loudly.

  I stared at him with a black face, this was completely humorless, how could he laugh so happily, had his funny bone been poked?

  Mao Shi Jiu smiled and then said.

  "Grabbing zombies is indeed fierce, but when it comes to dealing with the opposing Taoist, we need to differentiate between levels. If the opposing Taoist is very powerful, I'll have to think of a way to deal with them. If they're not that powerful, then it's easy to capture them."

  "What levels do you Taoist priests have?"

  "The Taoist practitioners are roughly divided into Entry-level Tao, Minor Accomplishment Tao, Major Accomplishment Tao, Sect Tao, Honorable Master Tao, Supreme Tao, and finally the Immortal Tao." Mao Shi-jiu was giving me another lecture.

  "What path do you belong to, Master?"

  "As for me, I belong to the Orthodox Taoist school. Not too humble, nor biased, and you will be taught thoroughly."

  I'm still a bit disappointed, it seems that the higher the level, the more powerful. Who doesn't want their own master to be more powerful? But thinking about how powerful our sect's Tao is already, I'm quite excited.

  "What is Li Shibo's Tao? I asked angrily about Master Shibo's level."

  "He is unfathomable, and when he first left the sect, he was already a Daoist master. I don't know what level he is now, but after so many years, at least he is a respected master, or even a supreme master, which I am not yet clear about. He is the most talented among our fellow disciples, so he is the eldest senior brother, and I am second to him, with no ordinary talent either." It can be seen that Mao Shi Jiu has great faith in his elder brother, but still doesn't want to admit it verbally.

  "What path do I belong to now?"

  "You're not even considered a beginner." Mao Nineteen said bluntly.

  "Damn it, don't give up!"