Chapter 44: The Undead in Panshi Village

  Out of the police station, Ze Hong and Shi Teng returned to the hotel to make up for their sleep. Where did I go? This time, I didn't attend class again. It seems that I am not destined to study... Suddenly, I had an idea to sneak into Zhang Ting's classroom. As soon as I thought of it, I ran over directly. Before the bell rang, I didn't even talk to Zhang Ting, and just waited outside until the end of the class. When the bell rang, I ignored others staring at me and walked in directly. I saw Zhang Ting still sleeping on her desk.

  I quietly sat down beside Zhang Ting and looked at her sleeping face, pinching her cheek.

  She moved vaguely for a while, and I didn't wake her up either. I just sat beside her listening to the class. Instead, I saw some familiar faces, like Lin Yifan and others. They stared at me but didn't dare say anything.

  I saw Zhang Ting woke up, tidied her hair and looked at the podium with sleepy eyes. "Lingling, when is the class over?" I heard Zhang Ting say, and then she rubbed her eyes again. "Ah, Zichuan, didn't I see it wrong?"

  I pinched her face, "No mistake, it's your favorite Nakagawa, heh heh."

  Zhang Ting patted me twice, "Zi Chuan, what happened last night?"

  "Last night... received a tip that someone was robbed, so we followed." I casually made up an excuse and she believed it.

  "What does this have to do with you moles?"

  "Our undercover agents also do some very ordinary things."

  At the end of class, I pulled Zhang Ting to go eat, feeling a bit showy in their class. Everyone seemed to have hatred towards me.

  "Heh heh, didn't expect I'd end up in your classroom today."

  "Ah, scared me to death. I thought I wasn't fully awake yet when I saw it was you." No need to say more, just directly pinched up, happiness is in these little details.

  "Wait a minute, Tingting, I'll answer this call." Just as we were having dinner, the phone rang. When I looked at it, it was Director Jiang's call.

  "What's wrong, Director Jiang?"

  "Zi Chuan, come to the police station quickly, it seems that zombies have appeared in Pan Shi Village!"

  "Alright, I'm coming." I hung up the phone. Jiang's urgent tone made it clear that this was no small matter. What was going on with another zombie appearing?

  "Tingting, I've got another task, might not be able to accompany you," I looked at Zhang Ting with a bit of guilt, but she didn't say anything, and was quite supportive. "Mm, go ahead, be careful, anyway we're full." I saw her pat her belly too, this way is really cute. I sent her off to the dormitory building and then rushed out to hail a cab to head to the police station.

  "Zehong, quickly call Shang Shitian to go to the police station together, there's another zombie!"

  "I knew it earlier, I'm on my way to the police station now, let's meet there."

  When I arrived at the police station, a group of policemen were already waiting at the door. Director Jiang saw me and directly pulled me onto the car, several police cars then headed towards Pan Shi Village.

  "Zi River, just received an alarm call saying that there are zombies appearing in Pan Shi Village. It seems like a considerable number of them, and it happened suddenly, no time to prepare, so I directly called you guys over." Looking at Director Jiang speaking so urgently, I'm still not quite clear about the situation.

  "What's going on? Why are there zombies again?"

  "I'm not clear either, the villagers of Pan Shi Village said that there is a person on that side who bites people when he sees them, and the bitten person also loses his mind. Now the villagers are trapped inside and can't get out. The provincial authorities have arrived, let's rush over first."

  I saw Ze Hong and Shi Teng were also quite nervous, if it was really a zombie, then we would have a hard time dealing with a whole village of zombies! I'm not good at dealing with zombies at all, and Ze Hong and Shi Teng are limited in their abilities, what should we do?

  Panshi Village is located at the junction of Ma Kou City and another city, crossing a mountain to get there. Panshi Village is situated right under this mountain. I've heard about this village before, it's said that this village was the hometown of an ancient hero, and even his tomb is on the mountain, but I'm just hearing rumors.

  When I arrived at the entrance of the village, I saw a helicopter parked next to it! Who's here? People kept walking back and forth inside the village, is everything okay? I thought so, but then I saw those people seem to have noticed us and turned their heads. Only then did I realize that they couldn't be called human beings. "They're zombies!"

  I heard Ze Heng exclaim, and I also guessed it. Those zombies had a ferocious expression on their faces, with the blue veins on their skin bulging out. They walked slowly, as if intentionally, but when they reached the village gate, they kept waving their hands, yet couldn't come out. "What's going on?" Why can't they get out?

  "There is a high-ranking person here who has set up an array, trapping them inside." A high-ranking person has arrived? The few of us followed Director Jiang to the entrance of the village and he directly took us to another place where a tent was pitched. Upon entering, we saw that there were already four people inside.

  "Captain Luo, I'm late," I saw Jiang Director say apologetically to a stout middle-aged man in front of him. Captain Luo? "Zi Chuan, this is Captain Luo from the Provincial Criminal Police Brigade." Director Jiang introduced us, and it turned out he was from the provincial government.

  The Emperor's Heavenly Road

  Everyone is here?

  "I said who set up the formation outside! It was you, Ye Zilin!" I saw Ze Heng say to the other two people, is that the expert? I took a closer look at him, he's dressed very ordinary, but there's an inexplicable feeling about his demeanor, making one feel like he's dignified and elegant.

  "Yeah, the person who locked the door is here too, that's a bit better," Ye Zilin said very calmly, making me feel like he didn't get close to people easily.

  "Who is he?" I asked Ze Hong in a low voice, "He is Ye Zilin, the eldest disciple of Zhang Daofan, the ninth-generation master of Mao Mountain." Mao Mountain? This reminded me of Jing Rong...

  "This must be San Ye's apprentice." I saw Zi Lin's gaze fall on me.

  "How did you know?" I'm Ge San's apprentice, have all of you found out?

  "Hmph, you killed Pan Tai of the Yin Soul Sect. Everyone in the circle knows about it now. Although the Yin Soul Sect is busy revising their internal personnel, they have made a rule: to become the Eastern King, one must first kill you." I feel that Zi Lin's words are subtly terrifying, the Yin Soul Sect is too ruthless! They're making me the primary condition.

  "Zi Lin, I'm sorry about your junior brother's death. It was my fault." I saw Ze Huan looking a bit downcast as he spoke to Zi Lin. He said his junior brother's death? Was it Jin Rong?

  "It's nothing, Junior Brother Wei died defending the way, it has nothing to do with you." But mentioning Jin Ruan, I feel like my heart is blocked...

  "What have you found out?" I, Zehong and Shiteng looked at Zilun together, seeing him take two deep breaths before slowly saying: "I suspect there are hopping corpses on the mountain, and the first walking corpse was bitten by a hopping corpse. We need to ask the surviving villagers about this."

  Seeing Zi Lin like this, I didn't think Ze Huan was that kind of person who loved to joke around. Who would have thought there would be a zombie here?

  "Captain Luo, for now let's just rescue the remaining villagers. The rest will be burned to death by the Zhengyang fire at noon tomorrow." "Burned to death? They're all villagers! I see Captain Luo's expression is also very uncomfortable. 'Isn't there another way?'"

  "No, they've been bitten by the undead and the poison has already entered their bodies. There's no way to cleanse it out, only burning them to death will do!" Why can he talk about life and death so calmly?

  I felt a bit tired of listening and walked out, Ze Hong and Shi Teng accompanied me to smoke outside. Shi Teng doesn't know how to smoke but wants to learn. We watched him coughing all the time just to pass some time.

  Not long after, the people inside came out, and Zilong walked over to our side: "Don't blame me for being ruthless, it's just that if you don't eliminate them, they will harm even more people. Let's go, follow me into the village to rescue the villagers." Although what Zilong said made sense, I still felt it was too cruel...

  There were five of us, plus one person next to Zilong that I didn't know what he was doing. I saw Zilong and the person next to him holding a peach wood sword and carrying a bag. "Be careful when you go in, don't get bitten by the zombies. If you see villagers, rescue them." Everyone's expression was very serious, and I had no idea what would happen when we went in.

  It's strange to say that this formation can actually allow people to walk in, but the zombies can't get out?" "This is the Miao Shan's Xuan Ji Kun Shi Formation."

  "Mystic Extreme Corpse Formation?"

  "Hmm, using the heavenly stems and earthly branches corresponding to the five elements, I'll set up a formation that will trap the vengeful spirit inside. When Ze Heng heard me say this, he felt that the people of Mao Shan were quite mysterious."

  "Heavenly spirits, earthly spirits, the true fire of the Three Pure Ones' decree burns away evil! The Great Supreme Elder Lord hastens to give the order!" I saw that in an instant, the four directions and eight sides were surrounded by the walking corpses! Zi Lin took out the things from the package, I saw that it was a talisman! I saw Zi Lin throw the talisman into the air while holding the peach wood sword, reciting the incantation, and instantly all the talismans landed on the bodies of the walking corpses and started burning!

  Have you settled everything all at once?

  "Everyone be careful, don't get bitten by a zombie!" This didn't need to be said, we would have been careful anyway.

  "Alright, I and my junior brother will go this way, you guys go that way, if anything is wrong just shout out." We arrived at a fork in the road, Zilong told us his idea, we also agreed.

  Along the way, we also encountered many zombies, but Ze Heng and Shi Teng took care of them. I suddenly felt like I was just here to make up the numbers... When we parted ways, Zi Lin told Ze Heng that applying blood to the knife could cut off the zombies. He said human blood is a yang object, especially the tongue tip blood. It's impossible for Ze Heng to get tongue tip blood, who wouldn't be afraid of cutting their own tongue with a knife?

  I saw Ze Hong and the others walking into the house to check if there were any normal villagers, I felt like I was useless, so I walked into the house alone and took a look around. The inside of the house was in disarray, it seemed that the zombies had been here before. Just as I was about to leave, I heard a child's cry. "Little sister, don't be afraid, brother is here to save you." I said this, but probably no one would believe me anyway.

  I followed the sound of crying and found a little girl crouched under the table. I picked her up, "Little sister, don't be afraid, it's okay." She looked like she had been frightened quite a bit.

  "Where's your family?"