Chapter 67: Some Clues

Someone's lamp fell on the ground and he uttered a terrified scream. I quickly told Ling'er and Chunu to take out their weapons and stay closer. We didn't rush to fight the zombies unlike Du Aini.

I first closely analyzed how they looked. The zombies moved slowly. Feng Yi had a lamp on her hand. When she saw Lou Shila among the growling people whose eyeballs were all white, with blood on their necks and lips, her expression froze.

She only recently made Shila her friend. Now seeing the woman who laughed with her just this morning in this state, she didn't know what to do.

''Feng Yi, don't stand there! Come here!'' Ling'er quickly pulled the stunned girl and got behind the craoca. The beast didn't like these zombies and had turned hostile to them.

I had thought that only the people who had disappeared were among the zombies but there were more unknown walking dead bodies and even skeletons behind them. 

''No, my sister! How could this happen to you?!'' Some merchants were relatives and they were unaware that getting bitten by zombies would make them turn into one. 

Even the Viscera Purifying practitioners didn't know about this. These creatures only appeared in folktales, afterall. And were always defeated by powerful and mysterious cultivators. Oftentimes, people were not informed about the dangers of such creatures even though that was the purpose of folktales, instead of being bedtime stories for children.

The woman who called out was bitten by her own sister and she also joined the horde of zombies. The children who had disappeared came beside their parents, hugged them. They were innocent but they were as good as dead now. 

There was no saving them but these people still tried. Maybe by shaking their body, will they recognize their parents? Oh, why do they not have any pulse? What has happened to these poor kids? This… this…

And they bit their parents, their blood cold and unmoving.

Du Quignsan suddenly shouted, ''Don't let them get near you. They have a strong grip strength and you'll turn into one of them, if they manage to bite you!''

This saved some lives but there were only 8 of us remaining by now.

Two were nothing to a Viscera purifying practitioner, not even three or four were enough. However, when five zombies teamed up to take down one person, not even Viscera Purifying body such as of Du Aini could fend them off.

She could've held on if she was above rank 5 but with such a crappily tempered body (in my immortal opinion), she couldn't match the zombies in terms of strength. She tried running away, zombies were slow but they held her body and dragged her away from her brother who was trying to help.

Du Gering called to ask for the rank 8 guard's help, only to find out that he had already turned into a zombie.

''Aaaaa! Get away! Get away! Don't come any closer!'' Feng Yi shrieked and I lent her a helping hand. These zombies were not supposed to be fought with. They didn't die from a sword cut and also grabbed a practitioner's weapons when attacked.

''Get on the beast, we're getting away from here!'' I shouted, mounting the craoca.

The chief hysterically began calling for my help, it seemed the zombies had gotten her as well.

''What about them? Should we not help them.'' Chunu asked and that was when she found out what kind of man her brother truly was.

''They will act as distractions for the zombies while we escape.''

She should've already known by now but this was the confirming factor. She looked deep into my eyes and I frowned. In the end, Chunu bit her lips and got behind me.

Ling'er had already run ahead, she preferred her own safety above everyone else's. Well, she had been a lone wolf, so I really couldn't blame her.

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''Did that Shu Lingling just abandon us?'' Feng Yi asked, sitting ahead of me.

I didn't answer her and pulled on the craoca's furs. It started running. It had a great charging momentum and with its horn, it swatted away any zombie that tried to block us.

"Don't drop the lantern, Feng Yi!"

"I know! I know!"

We couldn't see the trees and couldn't see what lied ahead. The lantern only illuminated until a meter far and the oil in it was quickly running out.

"Ling'er! Where are you!?" I shouted. I knew we would come back to this place if we kept on going. She was alone and she could be bitten.

'What made these people into Zombies in the first place?' This question plagued my mind.

"Water… water…"

"No, fuck! He's here again!" Feng Yi cursed seeing Hao Gosai.

Zombies ignored him, as if they knew he had no body. It didn't seem like he was controlling them. I could be wrong, though. 

I got down from the beast and approached him. I had a sword in my one hand. I knew it would do nothing, but but I still brought it in case the passing zombies decided to make me one of them.

''What the hell are you?'' I tried pushing Hao Gosai but my hand went through his translucent body. 

One of the zombies noticed me. There were less of them here ahead but they were catching up. Instead of fighting, I dodged the clumsy attack of the white-eyed man. A low growl came out of the zombie's throat as I went behind him.

Just like us, these zombies couldn't see in the dark. However, they located us with the help of our smells and the sounds we made. As long as we were out of their enhanced noses' detection range and made as little sound as possible, the chances of us being located were low.

Feng Yi came to me holding the lantern and Chunu followed behind her. I was ignoring Hao Gosai's pleas for water, carefully inspecting him instead when he said something different this time.

''I will tell you three things you ask if you give me water.''

''Interesting, you don't look like some kind of knowledge fairy to me. Stop this drama now.''

Of course, I didn't know what he was but I had found something about him that told me he was also a human like us and not some ghost. Something was peculiar about him but he still had a shadow!

I was about to tell Feng Yi to bring the water bottle which Ule gave us yesterday. But I saw Ling'er running towards us. She had fortunately not been bitten until now. Seeing us, her face showed a bit of guilt.

She was about to speak when I frowned. I had sensed someone else approaching. Beside me, Feng Yi suddenly shouted, ''A zombie! Behind you, Lingling!''

That face… It was none other than Hu Shuo.

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