Chapter 58: Zombie

  An hour later, Qiu Shen woke up.

  "Has he come?" These were the first words spoken by Qiu Shen after opening his eyes.

  The three men did not know who Chou Shen was referring to.

  "Who are you talking about?" Tian Qi asked.

  "Ma Wen, I was in a daze and it seemed like he had arrived."

  Next, Chou Shen ate something and finally recovered his physical strength. The effect of Ma Wen's herbal medicine was very obvious, and it also owed to his good physique.

  Tian Qi also learned about the ins and outs of the matter from Ou Shens narration.

  That night, he kept watch, standing on the outer platform of the temple, looking down. He didn't know if it was because it was dark at first and he hadn't seen it, or if it was coincidental, but anyway, he discovered a black shadow just standing not far from the platform, looking up. Obviously, he had noticed Qiu Shen. Just as Qiu Shen was about to take action, the black shadow that looked like a person ran away.

  At that time, Qiu Shen indeed wanted to go back to the ancestral hall and wake everyone up to tell them about this matter, but his intuition told him to follow the black shadow immediately, or he might miss something.

  Next, Qiu Shen's speed was very fast, but he could never catch up with that black shadow. Just in the process of chasing, Qiu Shen felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck, and then lost consciousness.

  What happened later he didn't know, when he came to his senses a bit, he was already near the temple.

  After listening to Qiu Shen's narration, Tian Qi also discovered several problems and had some speculations.

  The dark shadow that was chasing Qiu Shen might be Ma Wen, and Ma Wen knew that Qiu Shen was following him, but it's unclear why he didn't attack Qiu Shen. Perhaps it was because he discovered that Qiu Shen was also human. Unaware, Qiu Shen got stung by a scorpion and fainted.

  Around the same time as Qiu Shen's conversation, Tian Qi found that they met Ma Wen's time was almost after Qiu Shen fainted, perhaps Ma Wen knew that Qiu Shen had fainted and hadn't come to rescue him yet, but heard the various sounds made by the mutated animals surrounding Tian Qi and others at that time, and rushed over to take a look.

  This also explains why he suddenly ran away at that time, and should have gone deep into revenge.

  "This makes sense, but Qi Ge, is Ma Wen really a ghost? He seems like a normal person except for not having a heart," said Yingying.

  Chou Shen was already sitting up at this moment, except for the remaining poison in his body, he had basically recovered. His face was still a bit pale, which was normal after being poisoned. The body needed time to recover. Yingying wanted to give him another dose of glucose, but he refused. These medicines were used once and then reduced by one, it was better to save them for emergencies.

  Upon hearing Yingying's words, Qiu Shen said: "If it's really like you said, his heart is gone, hollowed out, but he can still have the rationality to do these things, then Ma Wen may no longer be in the category of ghosts, but rather a zombie."

  Fatso immediately said: "How can it be a zombie? I've seen zombies before, they're all without intelligence, just physically strong, because they don't know pain, and they also don't run on two legs, but jump with both legs." What Fatso said made sense.

  When Fatso said he had seen a zombie, Yingying and Tianqi were both shocked. But after hearing him out, they knew where he had seen the so-called "zombie".

  "You saw it on TV, right?" Tian Qi didn't even need to ask.

  The fat guy looked a bit embarrassed, as if he knew he had spoken out of turn again, but his mouth wasn't so easily admitting it. "What's wrong with TV? Isn't TV derived from life?"

  Yingying was amused by Paozi's words. To be honest, with Paozi around, the atmosphere easily becomes lively.

  "What you said isn't wrong either, the kind on TV might be zombies too, but even if they are, they're probably low-level ones. Although I've never seen them, I heard that's how the corpse drivers in Xiangxi do it." After all, during their school days, Tianqi and the others mostly engaged in theoretical research, not like other majors, with many opportunities for practice. How could there be so many zombies to see in the world? Otherwise, it would have been chaotic long ago.

  "As you said, he should come back to us tonight, and I still have some questions to ask him."

  After saying that, Qiu Shen felt a bit tired and lay down, saying that he must be woken up when Ma Wen came. Tian Qi insisted on letting Yingying give Qiu Shen another injection of glucose, only then did she feel at ease. You should know that at this time they had to conserve their strength as much as possible to deal with some unexpected situations. Everyone should maintain their best state, let alone Qiu Shen who could always react quickly at critical moments.

  I don't know what will happen tonight, the most important thing now is to conserve energy. Tian Qi let Yingying and Pangzi rest too. Who knows if it's going to be another all-nighter? At first, I thought the ancestral hall was a bit awkward without windows, but in fact, it provided them with a good shelter. As long as they guard the door, they are basically safe.

  Perhaps seeing hope, they all slept very well, several hours passed, the first to wake up was still Qiu Shen, he had fully recovered his physical strength, at this time the sky was already darkening, here it is like this, dawn comes late and night falls early.

  "Isn't he coming?" After dinner, several people sat together waiting for Ma Wen's arrival, but he didn't come. In fact, Tian Qi was also uncertain in his heart, and all of this was just his speculation.

  "He will come," Qiu Shen said.

  Everyone knows that Qiu Shen has the ability to predict, although not everything can be predicted now, but as long as he says it will happen, so far there have been no mistakes, so Qiu Shen's words also make everyone feel more at ease.

  Around nine o'clock in the evening, it wasn't long after Tian Qi checked the time that the sound of knocking on the door came from outside.

  "I'll go open the door!" Fatso had been waiting impatiently, actually he had brought several martial arts novels in his bag to read when he was bored. However, Tianqi said that although they had brought a lot of power sources and spare batteries, they should try to save electricity whenever possible. Since there was no place to charge here, even Fatso's attempt to use his phone to read the novels he had previously downloaded was stopped by Tianqi.

  Fatso was unhappy on the surface but deep down he knew Tian Qi was right, however this couldn't dispel his feeling of boredom.

  "Don't be in a hurry, Fatty. Let's do it like before and first open a gap to take a look." Tian Qi said as he stood up, fearing that Fatso would get excited again and push the door open all at once.

  The fatty discontentedly hummed a sound, "You look down on me too much, after all I am several years older than you, being cautious and careful is something I still know."

  Tian Qi didn't care, and stood on one side of the door, while Fatso instinctively stood on the other side.

  "It's him, it's Ma Wen!" said Yingying.

  With the moonlight, I can see his face clearly, it is undoubtedly Ma Wen.

  But when Tianqi and Paozi opened the door, they still scared a few people. Ma Wen was standing in front of the door, without any change from before, but next to him was a large scorpion, one of those mutated ones. If it stood up, counting its tail, it would be about as tall as Tianqi.

  The scorpion just looked very honest, lying there motionless.

  The fat man suddenly took out his weapon, and the others also retreated a few steps.

  Seeing Tian Qi and them like this, Ma Wen began to gesture with his hands.

  "Are you saying that scorpion is dead?" asked Yingying.

  Ma Wen nodded and picked up the scorpion, lifting it slightly, indeed it was dead.

  But then he started drawing again, and before Yingying could guess what it meant, he dragged the scorpion away again.

  After Ma Wen left, Tian Qi and the other two looked at Yingying, who was likely to guess the general meaning.

  Yingying turned back and thought carefully about Ma Wen's series of actions, hesitated for a moment, and said: "I also can't accurately guess what he means, but it seems like he wants to send that scorpion somewhere, let's wait for him for a while, it seems to be this meaning."

  Unfortunately, Ma Wen has already run away, and now it is impossible to prove whether Yingying's guess was correct or not. All we can do is continue waiting.

  Yingying said so, Chou Shen furrowed his brow, and he thought of what happened that night again.

  Tian Qi noticed Ou Shen's change in expression, "Is something wrong?"

  Chou Shen thought for a moment, but then shook his head. "Let's wait a bit longer, I'm just guessing and have no basis for it. I have some questions to ask Ma Wen."

  Tian Qi knew Ou Shen's personality, what he said was uncertain, that really had no certainty at all, so he didn't ask again.

  Less than twenty minutes later, Ma Wen indeed came back, bringing with him the secret of this mountain valley.