"Little Master, what's going on? The phone... I can't make a call!" Lu Erzhong was so anxious that big drops of cold sweat trickled down the tip of his nose.
I pursed my lips...
It was really a cliché plot! Whenever there were demonic creatures around, the phone network would never work!
"It seems that the people of Lu Village have done too many heinous things. Even the internet gods don't want to protect you guys!"
As I spoke, I carefully stepped out of Lu Erzhong's front gate. Those zombies were all dirty and greasy, emitting a nauseating stench.
"Little Master, save us!" Lu Erzhong followed behind me. Uncle Li and Aunt Li had already carried Lu Erzhong's daughter - in - law, with a yellow talisman stuck on her, into the main hall and bolted the door tightly from the inside.
Lu Erzhong's house was the first one at the village entrance. Those zombies, suppressed by Si Jiangchen's blood, were all kneeling on the cement road leading into the village.
The commotion we made had alerted the other villagers, and they all came out of their houses to watch.
"Go back!! Lock your doors! There are zombies in the village!!" Lu Erzhong waved his hands behind me and shouted at those peeping villagers. At his shout, those people immediately shrank back into their houses and there was no more sound.
For a moment, Lu Village, shrouded in the hazy red moon, was deathly silent. Even the chirping of summer insects could not be heard.
I walked along the line of zombies towards the outside of the village. Lu Erzhong followed behind me, thinking that I was really going to leave the village and run away. He couldn't help but clasp his hands in front of him and plead repeatedly, "Little Master, you can't leave. Such a thing has never happened in our village! How much money do you want? I'll give it all! Please save our hundreds of villagers!"
I pursed my lips slightly and ignored Lu Erzhong's pleas.
I did want to leave, but... it seemed that someone wanted to trap me here!
The road outside the village was not wide, and the street lamps on both sides had all gone out.
While talking to Lu Erzhong, we had walked out of the line of prostrate zombies. The gray - colored cement road stretched forward into the darkness. It was so quiet all around that I could hear the heartbeats of Lu Erzhong and myself. If it weren't for the tall shadow beside me, I wouldn't have felt Si Jiangchen's presence at all!
"Heh, we're back again." In the darkness, Si Jiangchen's lazy voice sounded, "Xiao He, you can't get out this way."
Sure enough, as Si Jiangchen finished speaking, there was a faint light in the distance. Under the light, there were many ragged "people" kneeling motionless...
Ghostly maze?!
After walking for a while, we had actually returned to the front gate of Lu Erzhong's house!!
Looking at those well - behaved kneeling zombies, I was even more surprised. I pinched my nose and bent down to check them one by one.
It could be seen that these corpses had died at different times. Some had died less than a month ago, while others were so rotten that only the fascia held the skeletons together. Their ferocious faces kept twisting and changing, and their bodies were trembling slightly. It seemed that they were about to rise from the dead!
Someone was controlling these zombies and trying to break free from Si Jiangchen's suppression?!
I looked up and my eyes fell on the mountainside of Miaofeng Mountain at the end of the village, where there were faint phosphorescent lights. That was probably the location of the old cemetery of Lu Village.
"Take me there!" I pointed to the dark mountains and said to Lu Erzhong who was following behind me.
Lu Erzhong was almost scared to death just by looking at these crawling corpses. When he heard that I wanted him to lead the way, he just sat down on the ground with his legs too weak to stand up again.
"No, no!! Little Master, I have high blood pressure and heart disease. Going to the cemetery now will scare me to death..."
The village head of Lu was scared. No one dared to go to that cemetery even during the daytime. On this zombie - infested night, he was really afraid that if he was bitten, he would turn into one of them.
"Alright! Then go home!" I pointed to the toppled front gate.
Lu Erzhong was relieved as if he had received amnesty. He scrambled towards his home.
I stood behind him and calmly took out the small yellow porcelain bottle that had sealed the weasel from my pocket.
With a "pop", I removed the yellow - talisman roll that was blocking the bottle mouth. Immediately, a faint yellow shadow "whooshed" out and crashed into Lu Erzhong's back.
"Hehe!" Immediately, Lu Erzhong stopped in his tracks and slowly turned his head.
Under the dim yellow light at the front gate of the Lu family, it could be clearly seen that Lu Erzhong's face suddenly became pointed, and there was a thin layer of fluff growing on it.
"Little bitch, why did you let the old immortal out? What are you up to?" The soul of the weasel, whose entire clan had died, rolled its eyes twice, "The old immortal won't argue with you. The old immortal is leaving!"
Without waiting for me to say a word, it turned around and scurried into the darkness.
"Humph!" Before I could take action, Si Jiangchen beside me suddenly raised his hand and grabbed its neck. Without seeming to use much force, he lifted it off the ground.
"Don't... don't eat it!" I had seen Si Jiangchen devouring souls in the ghost market. Seeing the faint black qi lingering around his arm again, I quickly said anxiously, "I need it to lead the way!"
Since this weasel was a native of Miaofeng Mountain, it must be more familiar with the mountain paths than Lu Erzhong.
Those people from the Du family were willing to be cowards and wanted to use these innocent deceased to catch me. Well... I would fight back in self - defense, take them by surprise, and let them know that I, Du Xinghe, was not someone who only knew how to run away!
"Xiao He, how many times do you owe me?" Si Jiangchen's smile was enchanting under the dim light, but the words he said were extremely annoying.
"I... I don't need you! I can handle it myself!" I summoned up my courage and waved the demon - suppressing talisman in my hand, "Who told you to be so quick? I was prepared!"
"Oh?!" The arc of Si Jiangchen's thin lips rose even higher, "Daring to raise an objection. Not bad, not bad..."
I felt a chill run down my spine, as if a snake had crawled into my collar.
I immediately shook my head and apologized, "No objection... I, I'm grateful to you!"
"Don't just stop at words!" Si Jiangchen raised his eyebrows but didn't tease me anymore. He just threw Lu Erzhong's body heavily on the ground and stepped on it.
"Sir... Sir, spare my life!!" The weasel was already screaming in fear, hugging Si Jiangchen's leg with both hands and trembling all over.
As a beast in cultivation, it was even more sensitive to all kinds of dangers. Once caught by Si Jiangchen, it immediately realized that he was an extremely terrifying existence!
It still wanted to enjoy the incense in the human world. It still wanted to cultivate into a true immortal. It didn't want to have its soul devoured by a monster and disappear forever!
"Whatever the sir asks me to do, I'll do it! I'm just a dog of the sir..."
Under Si Jiangchen's feet, the weasel, who called itself the "old immortal", was even better at being a sycophant than I was!