Soma woke up in shock, panting for breath.

He didn't expect that so long had passed, and he would still remember the beginning of the incident in his dreams.

Before dawn, he lay on the branch at the highest point of a great tree, with a rain-proof burlap shed hanging over his head, and on the branch beside him were hams, dried vegetables, and jars of all kinds of wine, hanging everywhere, and a change of clothes.

He lives on this tree.

On the other high branch of the tree, three bows and arrows were tied, a large wooden crossbow, and on the side were six or seven large bamboo baskets, all of which were bows and arrows, and there should be hundreds.

The weather was fine, so Xunma tore off one of the six or seven gourds on the side, drank a few sips, and found that there was not much water, so he shook the other gourds, and they all seemed to be empty.

Under the tree is the Horse Race Temple in Zhongzhou, with a large piece of Happy Valley. This tree is called Huang Sakura, it is a 700-year-old cherry tree, last year, when the cherry blossoms first bloomed, it was still a place for couples in Zhongzhou City to make a wish to see the lanterns. When the cherry blossoms bloom this year, there are not many people living in the city.

A few walking corpses walked slowly on the racetrack. The horses here have long been eaten by these living corpses. The corpses had not eaten again for three months, and had been moving very slowly.

Since he and Tilgan found the walking corpses in the cave in the clear mountains nine months ago, this kind of corpse with charcoal characters written on their bodies has appeared one after another at checkpoints in all directions of Zhongzhou. The bodies were usually frozen to death by walking feet and peasants, who were found lying on the road at dawn. When passers-by or guards go to check, the walking corpse will suddenly move and attack the living people around them, and some of them will be bitten immediately. In addition, when the corpse was taken to the post station to be retracted, it suddenly came to life at night and attacked the traveler.

The bite force of these walking corpses is very strong, and sometimes its bite can cause its jaw to dislocate. People who are bitten by it will die quickly, because there is no doctor to conclude, so it is not known whether most people died of excessive blood loss, or were bitten to death, or whether they were poisoned after being bitten.

Between about an hour and seven hours after death, the dead person becomes a walking corpse and starts to move again. At first, the emperor did not believe in these things, although the people were full of rumors of the resurrection of the dead, but the days were still the same, only until a line of corpses bit the guards of the palace, and the corpses changed during the autopsy at night, and more than a dozen eunuchs were bitten in the palace all the way, and the emperor saw it with his own eyes and began to investigate.

By that time it was already late.

Nine months later, one-third of the entire city of Zhongzhou has been occupied by the walking corpses. I don't know how many people are still alive, but when I look up, there are walking corpses everywhere I can see.

Now I don't know the situation of the other two-thirds of Zhongzhou City, as the area where the outbreak began, the urban area where he is located was the first to lose control, because Zhongzhou City, except for the imperial city in the middle, is managed by each of the three saints, and there are high walls between the three areas, so after the incident, all the gates of the city were locked and blocked, and ordinary people could no longer know what was happening on the other side. But when you see the huge black smoke and the smell of burning flesh behind the high walls, you know that something is not good.

Hunting for horses came to the bow and arrow, took a longbow, drew the arrows, and shot down the walking corpses on the racetrack with one arrow. His archery skills were accurate, and every arrow hit the head of the walking corpse.

After waiting for a while, when no walking corpses reappeared, Xunma jumped down from the tree with his sword on his back, and under the tree there was a pair of armor of his, and he put on the armor and pulled the arrow off the corpse.

Just shoot the walking corpse in the head to stop the corpse and die completely.

He stared at the corpse, which he observed every day, and the corpse was showing signs of high decomposition, but it was still able to move. The people he shot down were all nearby villagers, all men. It is very strange that there are very few female walking corpses, and so far, he has only seen three or four female walking corpses. I heard that after a woman is bitten, it is not easy to be a corpse, but a man is almost 100% corpse.

But for some reason, he didn't see many female living people, or rather, he hadn't seen real living people for a long time.

He touched the body of the walking corpse and collected all the coins on it, not that the money was of any use, but that it could be used to make arrows for bows and arrows. Then he walked out of the horse farm and began to walk out into the streets.

This area is an urban area managed by the Fa Sheng, and the Fa Sheng itself rarely appears, and now it seems that it has been completely abandoned, and there are no living people or walking corpses on the street. Outside the racecourse was originally a flower street, and now all the brothels are almost like haunted houses.

Xunma had six or seven gourds with him, and he was looking for clean water, and many wells were filled with rotting corpses, and there were only two or three clean wells he knew.

He entered a brothel that had a lower-level patio in which a dozen prostitutes and turtles were now standing, all of them walking corpses, and this patio was full of water, which had been used for them and the girls to play in the water, but was now overgrown with moss and aquatic plants. And they stood in the water, waist-deep, and they could not go up, and they could not die.

It was difficult to retrieve the arrows after shooting them, so the horse ignored them and passed through here to the back compartment, where the old bustard hanged himself in the middle of the hall in the back carriage. The corpse did not turn into water, but dried up, and there were flies before, but now there are no flies. It's just that all the feces and urine after hanging are piled up under the corpse, and they are covered with mushrooms.

He went out through the window of the back compartment and came to the yard, where there was a flower well, which used to be very fragrant, and during the festival, a naked girl would be put down, and then the water from the well would be mixed with wine, which was called fragrant wine, and now the girl is of course gone, but the well water is still clean. He put down the bucket, hit it, and began to fill his gourd.

At this time, suddenly he heard the sound of arrows breaking through the wind, and he immediately turned over and hid under the eaves, and saw many arrows falling from the sky, and the arrows were tied with whistles, swishing, and falling to the ground, on the trees in the yard, on the eaves, and on the pillars. There are at least a dozen of them.

There was a note on each arrow, he pulled one out, turned it over to the eaves, and saw that in the Fa Sheng's Mansion four or five streets away, I don't know which courtyard, was shooting out a rain of arrows all over the world, aimlessly diverging in all directions.

He spread out the note, which read, "I am the Situ of the Mansion, trapped in the house, the little girl Su Rong, is also trapped in the library of Jiujie Lane, there is still a candle signal last night, if there are warriors to the rescue, send out of the city, sixteen miles away there is a refuge station of the Fa Sheng, there is a gold gift, be a marquis." ”

Situ is the clerk of the Fa Sheng, and his official position is very large. It seems that Lord Situ is trapped in the Fasheng Mansion, and Xunma knows that there are "crowds of people" of walking corpses there, there are probably thousands, all surrounding the Fasheng Mansion. The people inside will definitely not be able to get out. He didn't know why this Su Rong was trapped in another place, but Situ saved the girl and shot such a letter arrow to the outside world.

Xunma thought about it, but decided to take a look, he didn't have a good impression of Fa Sheng, but Miss Su Rong, he had heard of it, was a famous female doctor in Zhongzhou. Although it is said to have a mediocre appearance, he has the longest legs in Zhongzhou, and he is also famous in the Betelgeuse Army, and he is the object of verbal indecency.

He pulled out all the arrows and didn't want to waste them. The library building in Jiujie Alley, a very narrow alley, is also in the downtown area, I am afraid it will be difficult to pass, so he began to run on the roof.