Chapter 18 Zombies (Part 1)

"I have explained clearly what is going on here. Each person will receive a bag of water, a pack of march pills, a bottle of external ointment and internal medicine, and a map. It is up to us whether to give them or not, and it is up to you whether to use them or not. I just hope that you can return safely."

The old man who led the "inn" signaled the peddler to distribute various supplies, then walked in front and led everyone across the edge of this "tuntian".

Qi Xuansu put away these things, then unfolded the map and began to compare the surrounding reference objects.

After roughly browsing the map, Qi Xuansu was a little surprised, because this map was extremely accurate, not a map used by ordinary people, comparable to a professional map for marching and fighting.

But this is also reasonable. After all, it is a matter of life and death, and of course there can be no carelessness.

In addition, a point was circled on the map with a red pen, which was the place where Qi Xuansu was going. It seems that the marked locations on the maps in everyone's hands are different. Not long after walking out, everyone gradually dispersed.

"Weeding" requires efficiency, and everyone is responsible for their own area, rather than gathering together. Since the "inn" has demarcated the area, it can also prevent people from taking advantage of the situation. If there is a problem, the responsibility can be directly assigned to the person. Although the "inn" has a good reputation, it is a secret society after all, and it is not so easy to fool.

This is exactly what Qi Xuansu wants. He prefers to act alone rather than cooperate with others. Of course, Zhang Yuelu is an exception.

Qi Xuansu walked out alone for a while and found that the corpses on the ground gradually increased, and their shapes were strange.

Corpses can be roughly divided into three categories.

One is the black charred corpse, which is very "crisp", just like burnt charcoal. It will break apart if you touch it casually. These charred corpses died in the "Phoenix Eye Jia San" of that year. The zombies in the center of the explosion naturally had no bones left, and turned directly into green smoke, but the zombies in the outer area just turned into charred corpses under the aftermath.

One type is the zombies that were born after the Taoist sect cast the "Phoenix Eye Jia San" and then cleaned up by the people in the "Inn". The corpses can no longer be seen in their original appearance. They look like a pile of twisted black and brown intestines entangled together, piled up into a mountain. The coagulated black blood is particularly sticky, almost a paste, emitting a strange stench that makes people sick.

Even Qi Xuansu, who is used to killing and death, feels a little disgusted.

The last type of corpses is the most normal, probably maintaining a human form, but I don’t know where these unburned corpses came from when the Taoist sect used the "Phoenix Eye Jia San" to clean the ground. Did they hide somewhere and luckily escape the "Phoenix Eye Jia San"? Or did they die here later, or even these corpses were people sent by the "Inn" to weed before they died?

Qi Xuansu looked up and saw a dilapidated pavilion not far away. I don’t know what material it was built with. Although it was smoked black, the main body was still intact.

Qi Xuansu dodged various corpses and walked towards the dilapidated pavilion.

Just then, the wind and clouds suddenly changed, and it started to rain.

Located in the northwest inland, it was rare to rain just after the first month of the year. Moreover, this rain did not seem to be a drizzle of spring rain, but rather a rain in late spring or early summer, with a lot of momentum, and soon there was water accumulation.

Qi Xuansu turned his head and looked in the direction they came from, but the weather was still clear. It seems that only within the scope of "Tuntian" will the weather change unpredictably. I don't know if it is because of "Phoenix Eye Jiasan" or because of the corpse-raising land, but Qi Xuansu thinks the latter is more likely. After all, heavy yang energy will produce fire, and heavy yin energy will produce water. It is said that people have three fires, but no one says that people have three waters. Many ancient tombs with strong yin energy will have tides and dripping water, and the yin energy here is so strong that it produces rain.

Qi Xuansu released the "body-protecting true qi" to block the rain and continue to move forward.

Under the nourishment of rain, those well-preserved corpses stood up shakily, as if they were not stable, and their steps were even more strange, uneven from side to side, as if they were stepping on cotton.

However, the speed of these zombies was extremely fast, and they rushed towards Qi Xuansu like wild wolves.

Qi Xuansu raised the "Shenlong Hand Gun", pressed down the hammer, and pulled the trigger.

A bullet with an armor-breaking talisman pierced the forehead of a zombie.

However, this zombie just paused for a moment, and then continued to rush towards Qi Xuansu.

Qi Xuansu found that the penetration injuries that were very fatal to ordinary people had little effect on these zombies, so the fire gun was not easy to use, unless it was loaded with the "Dragon Eye" series that could explode, but spells and fists and feet were more convenient. No matter how weird these zombies were, they were still ordinary flesh and blood after all.

Qi Xuansu put away the "Dragon Hand Gun" and casually activated his palm power. He didn't need to hit them hard. He just released his true energy, which shattered the bones of these zombies. They fell heavily into the rain like a pool of rotten meat. Even if they were not dead, they could not stand up again.

Qi Xuansu knew where those twisted corpses with entangled internal organs came from.

At this moment, heavy footsteps came. Qi Xuansu looked in the direction of the sound and vaguely saw a tall figure slowly walking towards this place.

I don't know if it was the breath of the living that attracted this big guy, or Qi Xuansu's action of killing the zombies alarmed it.

After a while, I finally saw the true appearance of this tall figure. His appearance was no different from that of an ordinary person, but his skin was an ominous blue-gray color. He was eight feet tall, his eyeballs were gouged out, and a strange red light flashed in his dark eye sockets. He was like an evil ghost crawling out of hell, standing in the heavy rain, surrounded by fog.

Qi Xuansu was tall, but in front of the eight-foot-tall zombie, he looked like a young boy. Through the rain, he saw countless strange patterns on the zombie's exposed skin. The colors were deep, but different from any patterns he had ever seen. He felt dizzy after just one glance.

Qi Xuansu immediately retracted his gaze, suppressed his distracting thoughts, shouted angrily, and spit out a breath of turbid air in his chest, which was particularly harsh in the rain.

The next moment, Qi Xuansu began to run wildly, and instantly passed through the rain to the front of the huge zombie, and emptied his palms to strike.

The rain curtain was instantly shaken by the palm power to create a blank area.

The raindrops falling on the palms were shaken into more fragmented water splashes by the qi.

Facing this palm, the zombie swept out with one arm cleanly and neatly.

The two collided with a loud bang, and Qi Xuansu groaned. With his physique comparable to that of a warrior in the Yuxu stage, he actually suffered a loss. However, he was very experienced in fighting enemies in battle, so he retreated backwards, and then pushed out another palm, spewing out true energy.

The huge zombie moved stiffly but extremely quickly. He raised one hand with five fingers spread out, allowing Qi Xuansu's true energy to fall on him and grab Qi Xuansu's head directly.

Qi Xuansu's face changed, and his figure suddenly retreated backwards. At the same time, his feet kept kicking out alternately, kicking the corpse on the ground towards the huge zombie, hindering its movement.

With a loud bang.

The sound of bones breaking inch by inch was clearly audible. The corpse kicked out by Qi Xuansu did not seem to hit a person, but seemed to hit a cliff.

The eight-foot-tall zombie stood still, allowing the corpse, which was no longer in human form, to slowly slide off his body, and then shook it gently, shaking off the broken flesh stuck to his body.

Qi Xuansu, who was able to take a breather at this opportunity, ignored the zombie's invincibility and used his true energy to rush forward again, leaping in front of the giant zombie. He placed his palms filled with true energy on the monster's chest and pushed with all his strength. In the rain curtain, with the two of them as the center, countless raindrops exploded and turned into wisps of water mist, rising upward.

The true energy of a Jade Ding Realm Sanren poured out, causing the giant zombie to finally take a step back and sway.

But that was the end. The zombie swept his arm across Qi Xuansu's head again.

Qi Xuansu's hands slid back more than ten feet with the force of the recoil, barely avoiding the sweep of the iron arm, and his feet splashed the accumulated water on the ground high.

In the heavy rain, the zombie's blue-gray skin was wet by the rain, giving off a faint dark luster. It shook its head, and the strange red light in its eyes became stronger, staring at Qi Xuansu.

The fight just now seemed to be very powerful. The Qi energy that Qi Xuansu exuded from his body was enough to directly break an entire wall, and it was not difficult to knock down a house, but it could not penetrate into the body of the zombie at all, and was completely blocked by the strange patterns on its body surface.

After Qi Xuansu stopped, he took a deep breath of fresh air, and the veins on the back of his hands bulged, and his expression became extremely solemn.

He almost spared no effort to hit the target with his palm.

Qi Xuansu was sure that this kind of zombie ghost was not formed naturally, but someone led the Yin energy into the body to refine it, assisted by talismans and secret spells. Even if he was just an ordinary person in his life, he could forge his physique, muscles, and bones in a very short time. After refining, he could be called copper skin and iron bones, and it was difficult to be injured by ordinary swords and knives, and he could not be exposed to water and fire. Because he was already a dead thing, he was not afraid of internal energy penetrating his body. If you want to get rid of this kind of ghost, you need to use the technique of exorcising ghosts and evil spirits to succeed.

In this regard, the peach wood sword is the best choice. Peach is the essence of the five woods. In ancient times, it was the immortal wood that suppressed evil spirits. The essence of peach wood is at the ghost gate, which controls hundreds of ghosts. Therefore, peach wood swords are made to suppress evil spirits. This is also an immortal art.

It's a pity that the peach wood sword issued by Tiangang Hall was left at his home in Yujing, otherwise it would be much easier to have a handy weapon at this time.

Qi Xuansu took out his "Shenlong Hand Gun" again, loaded a "Dragon Eye B II", then took a step forward, pulled out "Qingyuan" with his right hand, and went straight to the huge zombie.

The two passed each other but didn't pass each other. Qi Xuansu dodged the zombie's punch and used the "Qingyuan" in his hand to chisel a gap on the zombie's chest.

Then Qi Xuansu aimed the "Shenlong Hand Gun" at the gap, almost close to it, and fired without hesitation.

The dark luster around the zombie suddenly dimmed.

The next moment, the flames of the explosion burst out from the zombie's heart.

The zombie roared incessantly, and tried to cover his heart in vain, but it was no use. Flames continued to burst out from between its fingers. Then smoke came out of its seven orifices.

Qi Xuansu kicked the giant zombie's chest with both feet and retreated backwards.

The giant zombie fell to the ground with a bang.