Master Zheb was just an ordinary chanting monk. He was completely defenseless against this sudden attack.
Lin Ruhu opened his large mouth full of yellowish and stinky mucus and lunged at him. Master Zheb didn't even have the chance to retreat. Fortunately, the Iron Rod Lama beside him was quick - witted. He struck Lin Ruhu hard on the head with his two thick wrought - iron rods as thick as tea bowls, knocking his head clean off the ground.
Even without his head, Lin Ruhu still wildly flailed his arms around. If Master Zheb hadn't been yanked by his disciple, he would have been scratched by Lin Ruhu's bluish nails.
"How could there be such evil things in our Buddhist temple?"
Looking at Lin Ruhu, who was still trying to attack people even without a head, Master Zheb's face showed a pained expression.
As the abbot of the temple, he hadn't even noticed that there was such a hidden and evil tunnel in the Red Snail Temple. Just now, he had been sent out of the tunnel by the soul - soothing talismans of Si Jiangchen and me. But he was reluctant to let us take risks alone, so he led his people back into the tunnel gropingly.
In the tunnel, Master Zheb and his people met Lin Ruhu's wife who had escaped. Master Zheb used the yellow talisman paper bird that was guiding her to successfully find this small secret chamber hidden by an illusion.
"Abbot Master, it's them!"
As soon as Danba got out of danger, he pointed at Si Jiangchen and me and said, "Layman Lin was a devout donor of our Red Snail Temple. I saw with my own eyes that they broke a man's neck, and soon the man turned into a zombie!"
The action of pointing at us tugged at the wounds on his shoulders, and he instantly gasped in pain, baring his teeth.
"Mr. Si, is what Danba said true?"
Master Zheb couldn't quite believe that the powerful Si Jiangchen would do something like killing someone. But... there were only four people in this secret chamber. Apart from the mutated Lin Ruhu, there were only Si Jiangchen, me, and Danba, who had been attacked by the zombie and was almost bitten to death.
"Master, they are monsters."
Xue Shuo, who was pretending to cry while holding his mother, wiped away his tears and showed a pitiful and innocent look. "Just now, my mother and I saw them controlling the zombie to attack Master Danba. They also wanted to attack my mother. My mother fainted from fright... What should we do, Master?!"
Children are always considered innocent and honest and not likely to lie. Now that Xue Shuo was possessed by the One - Eyed Buddha Mother, he even mixed a few lies with the truth, which made Master Zheb believe nine - tenths of it.
"Come on, take Mr. Si and the others to the dormitory above first and wait for the police to come and handle this."
After all, Master Zheb was the "leader" of a big temple and had to deal with secular units.
I glanced at Si Jiangchen. I definitely couldn't let him be taken away by the police! After all, with his status, his appearance in the police station would definitely cause a huge sensation. Those guys who were eyeing Leng Shan covetously would definitely make a big fuss about this incident. Maybe it would ruin Si Jiangchen's reputation!
"Master Zheb, what you said is wrong!"
I stepped in front of Si Jiangchen and said, "Lin Ruhu was still alive when you came in. It was you who knocked his head off with the iron rods!"
I always had a lot of fallacies for arguing.
After all, I had always been a feng shui master. I had encountered many scoundrels. If I didn't rely on some fallacies, how could I do business in my own shop?
"Nonsense. The man was clearly already dead!"
Not only was Master Zheb stunned by my words, but the two lamas who had struck also angrily said, "Layman Lin's head was already cut off. We just didn't let him attack the abbot master."
"You are the ones who are talking nonsense. If a man is dead, how can he attack others?"
I was just waiting for them to say this. Tibetans only believed in the afterlife and didn't believe at all that a person could turn into a zombie after death. As long as I grasped this point, I could leave them speechless.
While we were still arguing, Danba on the other side suddenly opened his mouth wide and let out strange "ho - ho" sounds. Then, his eyes rolled up with a layer of white film, and the nails on his fingers quickly turned bluish - black.
He also jumped up like Lin Ruhu without bending his knees and reached out his straight arms to grab the neck of an Iron Rod Lama who was closest to him.
"Ah!!"
Watching the lama's neck being penetrated and blood gushing out, with a look of disbelief on his face, I finally understood why Si Jiangchen and A Wen had always been so cautious.
It turned out that our blood was so highly contagious. In just a few seconds, Si Jiangchen had already turned three people...
The lama was standing right beside me, and the warm blood splashed on my cheek.
"Get out of the way!"
By this time, Master Zheb also understood how terrifying Lin Ruhu, who was still groping on the ground trying to find his head, was. He had just scratched Danba with his fingers, and Danba had actually become as inhumane as him!
Master Zheb was truly a heart - cultivating monk. Even though he was on guard against us, he still couldn't bear to see me turn into the same kind of zombie as Lin Ruhu and Danba.
He reached out and pulled me behind him, and his long monk's robe sleeve wiped the blood beads off my face.
"Si Jiangchen, control them!"
Seeing Danba pull out his blood - stained fingers and pounce on another Iron Rod Lama, I couldn't help but shout.
But Si Jiangchen seemed not to hear my words. He just slowly walked behind Lin Ruhu and leaned against the earthen wall obliquely. In the dim light of the light bulb, his dark eyes were like those of a merciless wolf waiting to pounce on its prey!
My heart trembled.
That guy Lin Ruhu had already lost his head. Now he was crawling on the ground constantly groping, and the blood from his neck cavity was gushing out like a spring, smearing the ground all over with dirty red blood.
The blood on my face had been wiped onto Master Zheb's clothes. And the Iron Rod Lama, whose neck had been stabbed by Danba's ten fingers and was already dead, immediately rolled around like a stranded fish on the ground and tried to get up.
Danba was chasing after another Iron Rod Lama. Seeing the tragic death of his comrade, the lama was so frightened that he was waving his iron rod wildly while trying to get out of this secret chamber!
But to his surprise, the earthen wall in the illusion on the way in had now turned into a solid wall, firmly blocking his way back.
"Aaaah!!"
He desperately rammed into it with his shoulder, but the solid earthen wall stood there as immovable as if it had been there since ancient times. The lama shouted desperately and struck the wall with his iron rod, but only knocked off some dirt.
Danba had already pounced on his back with outstretched hands and still tried to insert his stiff fingers into the Iron Rod Lama's neck as before.
"I'll fight you!!"
The lama had really run out of options. He shouted desperately and swung his iron rod hard at Danba's head.
With a "pop", a part of Danba's head immediately caved in. It seemed that a part of his skull had been smashed to pieces!
"Si Jiangchen, save them!"
I knew that neither Si Jiangchen nor I would turn into such low - level zombies. But there were still Master Zheb and the Xue family mother and son in this secret chamber. Did Si Jiangchen want all the people in this room to die a violent death?!