Chapter Twenty-Four: Mountains and Villages

Seeing someone coming, the seven survivors panicked slightly, and one of them pointed in a direction in the darkness and whispered, "It seems to be there." ”

Zhang Xujing took two steps forward and stood up, he had already heard a strange sound from over there, compared to the frequency of the insect demon walking on all fours, it was basically certain that it was the insect demon.

He was about to open his eyes to observe, when he heard the noise suddenly become clear, and he could clearly perceive that the insect demon in that position was rapidly approaching!

As soon as Zhang Xujing recited the spell and picked up the talisman, he heard a scream, and a one-meter-tall insect-like creature pounced out in the darkness.

The people around exclaimed, and saw Zhang Xujing's eyes and hands fast, and his steps stepped back, and at the same time, the talisman in his hand was quickly pressed down. The power of the talisman and the superposition of the qi machine, the insect demon head armor cracked without resistance.

His subordinates kept going, and another talisman was pressed, and the insect demon finally stopped moving. The shattered skull was empty, and there was no crystal nucleus like an evolved zombie.

Zhang Xujing was about to leave, suddenly thought of something, turned the insect demon over, stepped on its upper abdomen, and saw that there was a red crystal flashing in the broken upper abdomen, which was copied into his pocket with great speed.

A middle-aged man behind him looked stunned, and leaned over in three or two steps, "Senior brother, you just was, is this a rune paper?" ”

"Well, the Breaker." Zhang Xujing said lightly.

"Breaking the charm, breaking the evil, breaking the ...... Isn't this a talisman? Kong Linghai suddenly reacted, and his expression became exaggerated, "Senior brother, you ......"

Zhang Xujing was not in the mood to discuss, just in case, he still opened his eyes and watched, the thin dark green gas was slightly blurred, and the demonic qi above the highway seemed to have a tendency to come to his side.

If the insect demon is scattered without a purpose, it is easy to deal with, but if it is concentrated, it is a few hundred, even if he can only run away with his sister on his back, and he may not be able to run away.

Zhang Xujing turned around and walked to the front of the team, seeing his sister's weak body carrying a big bag, but he didn't say a word, he sighed in his heart, and asked Shen Dongling to return to the back to protect, and he took the lead in speeding up the pace and continuing to set off.

"Senior brother, junior brother, tell me about the talisman." Kong Linghai couldn't help but come up.

"Let's talk about it in a safe place."

"Hey, okay."

The weeds under his feet kept swinging, the wind was blowing, and he blew into the distance with a heavy wheezing sound, and the sky continued to show an oppressive blackness, and the mountains that could not be seen at a sight brought only a sense of suffocation.

"Brother Zhang, have you figured out where to go?" Liang Annie swallowed a dry and sore throat and looked at the endless mountains in front of her, they had been walking for four or five kilometers.

"We can go around to the highway and see if there is a car that can be driven at the highway." Zhang Xujing said, calculating the distance in his heart, from this past, he could just bypass the place with demonic energy, but this road will not be easy to walk.

"I wish there was a car." Liang Annie licked her chapped lips.

"Zhang, Brother Zhang, I can't walk anymore, let's take a rest." Qian Nan's originally delicate face had already lost its color, if it weren't for Zhang Ning pulling her and Pei Yan supporting her several times, she would probably have fallen behind.

Tang Bo gasped, his slender legs seemed to be filled with lead, and he heard him snort: "Brother Zhang Ning, what Qian Nan said is, let's rest, I'm almost tired." ”

Zhang Xujing looked at her sister who was also tired, and her heart was full of unbearable, this girl was very stubborn, and she wouldn't let others help no matter what.

Looking at the others, the physical fitness has actually reached the limit, but this place.

Zhang Xujing opened his dark eyes and looked back, a faint demonic aura always lingered in the air, I don't know if the insect demon is chasing other survivors, and I don't know if there are scattered insect demons coming here.

He looked around, it was a barren mountain overgrown with weeds, the terrain was relatively flat, except for a few boulders embedded in the mountain, there was not even a single tree, if the night did not affect the vision of the insect demons, they would be easily discovered, it was not safe here.

Zhang Xujing felt a little helpless, and was about to take Qian Nan's backpack, but when she saw Kong Linghai glancing at Qian Nan, she stepped forward and said, "Come girl, give the bag to Brother Kong." ”

Qian Nan looked at Zhang Xujing, and then at Kong Linghai, who had a smile on his face, and still took off his backpack, "Thank you, Brother Kong." ”

"No thanks." Kong Linghai smiled and took it.

The group continued to set off, climbing over two hills and over a low ravine, where a path of distinct color in the darkness came into view.

It is a road paved with loess.

If there is a road, it means that there is a village or a town, and if there is a village, there will be people, and if there are people, there will be zombies.

More than a dozen physically and mentally exhausted men and women walked on the loess road, the floating soil stained the trouser legs, and the stickiness into the shoes was uncomfortable, and a few raised mounds and tombstones could be seen on the side of the road from time to time, which was very gloomy against the backdrop of the environment.

More than ten minutes later, the outline of a village came into view, the outline of a black hole like a lifeless portrait.

When everyone came to the vicinity of the village, there was an infinitely spreading silence all around except the sound of the wind, and in the dark night, the loess road stretched into the silent village, which seemed so strange.

"Senior brother, will there be zombies here?"

"I don't know, it's not far from the highway, I'll take a break here tonight, senior brother, let's go inside and take a look first."

"I'm going with you?" Kong Linghai hesitated.

"You can not go." After Zhang Xujing finished speaking, he stopped caring about Kong Linghai, and said to Shen Dongling in the back: "You watch here first." ”

"Uh-huh." Shen Dongling nodded.

Seeing Zhang Xujing walking away alone, Kong Linghai sighed and followed.

"Senior brother, now that the end of the world is becoming apparent, how can you think of protecting these people, let's not talk about purifying sentient beings." Kong Linghai said while watching the movement of a few zombies at the entrance of the village, "Have you ever heard a sentence, the Bodhisattva in troubled times doesn't ask about things, Lao Jun carries a sword to save the vicissitudes, don't you also want to save the vicissitudes."

Zhang Xujing shook his head and said, "In principle, I will only protect Youning alone, save the vicissitudes of life, and I will talk about it later...... It's just that now you see it, and you can't help it. ”

"Oh yes." Seeing Zhang Xujing take off the peachwood sword from his back, Kong Linghai was a little stunned and asked, "What are you doing?" You wouldn't be thinking about fighting zombies with a peachwood sword, would you? ”

"Not so." Zhang Xujing carried his sword and strode towards the entrance of the village.

Behind a few black and thick poplars, several zombies staggered out when they heard the movement, but unfortunately they didn't have time to get excited when they smelled human flesh, and they were stabbed by a peachwood sword, and their already somewhat broken bodies were even more loose under the wash of yang energy.

"Same as I thought." Kong Linghai was a little stunned, although he had left the Taoist temple for many years, but the Taoist priest of twenty years now knew how much the principle of yin and yang conflicted, but he didn't understand it, and it was very uncomfortable to think about it.

The two fought from the north of the village to the south of the village, and just in case, every house was searched, killing no less than 100 zombies along the way, all of them were villagers who had been here before.

"Senior brother, why don't you leave." Kong Linghai watched Zhang Xujing stop in front of a courtyard, not knowing what he was looking at.

"Senior brother, there's something weird here." Zhang Xujing's tone was strange.

"Weird, what's the situation?" Kong Linghai came over when he heard this, but he didn't see why he came after watching it for a long time.

"Here." Zhang Xujing pointed to the courtyard door, the door was split in half, half was thrown on the ground, half was hung on the wall pillar, and on the hanging half of the door, there were obvious holes with the thickness of ten fingers.

Kong Linghai was still puzzled when he saw it, and said, "Something? ”

"There's a problem." Zhang Xujing's tone became a little serious, "These holes should be poked out by hand." ”

"Hands? How can it be? This wooden door is also three centimeters thick, wait, wait, junior brother, don't be kidding. Kong Linghai seemed to think of something incredible, and his expression became very exaggerated.

"Go in and have a look." Zhang Xujing said quietly and pushed open the half-door and walked into the courtyard.

The courtyard of the black hole is very simple, with a two-square-meter vegetable garden, a canopy made of wood and grass, and the outer walls of the houses are also made of earth blocks.

Zhang Xujing just glanced at it and walked into the room. The door of the house was open, and as soon as I entered the house, I saw two corpses lying on the ground, both men, the bodies were intact, but the clothes on the body were torn, there were obvious scratches on the shoulders, and the eyes were staring at death.

Zhang Xujing leaned over and opened the deceased's head, and saw that there were two blood holes in his neck, the blood had dried up and turned black, he sighed and said, "Sure enough, senior brother, you are right, it is a zombie." ”

Kong Linghai also went to check on another corpse, and when he saw the same blood hole, he couldn't help but be in a trance, "Sure enough, this thing ran out of the deep mountains and old forests." ”

"This is the mountains." Zhang Xujing said, "In the past, they buried themselves deep in the place of the most yin, but now that the evil qi has returned, they will naturally come out." ”

He had heard from Master that zombies were neither demons nor ghosts, and that their bodies did not decay after they were formed, and that without the nourishment of evil qi, they would only affect their movements, not their survival. Although the Daomen killed many zombies during the Republic of China, some of them hid underground before the evil energy dissipated.

For example, there are often archaeological teams on the Internet who dig up dried corpses, marvel at the durability of their bodies, and put the dried corpses on museum display, but in fact, they are zombies, but they can't move because they don't have the support of evil energy.

"Let's go, zombies shouldn't be here, otherwise they would have jumped out when they smelled human." Zhang Xujing's expression returned to indifference.

Kong Linghai couldn't help but ask: "Senior brother, you, if you are really a zombie, can you beat it?" ”

"It's no problem after the Daoguang years, the ...... before the Daoguang years" Zhang Xujing muttered: "It's important to run away." ”

Kong Linghai opened his mouth and didn't speak.

On the other hand, after hearing that they were going to rest, more than a dozen men and women did not insist anymore, and sat down directly on the ground despite the dust on the ground. But soon, the sound of zombie roars came, and the spirits of more than a dozen people reflexively lifted slightly.

"Brother Zhang will be fine in the past." Qian Nan looked at the black village and said with some worry.

"There aren't many people in this kind of place, so it shouldn't be in the way." Pei Yan half leaned on his backpack.

"My sister didn't speak, so you were worried first." Liang Annie quipped.

Qian Nan lowered his head when he heard this, but did not respond.

Liang Annie thumped her sore, numb and sore legs, and every time she took a breath, the pain from her respiratory tract made her brows furrow, "Sister, I have never been so tired in my life." ”

"Fortunately, there were no bugs chasing after me along the way." Pei Yan said that as a policeman, although her physical fitness is much better than that of ordinary people, this kind of trek beyond the limit also makes her miserable.

On the other side, two or three people were already lying flat on the ground, staring blankly at the sky, and some people were staring at the backpack on Zhang Ning's back.

"Zhang Ning, do you have food in your bag? Is there water? Tang Bo sat down on the ground and crawled over with his hands propped up.

Zhang Ning raised his heavy eyelids, and said weakly: "I didn't bring water." ”

"Well, there's something to eat." With a green glow in his eyes, he was so hungry that he was about to faint.

"Don't move." Zhang Ning turned around forcefully, not letting Tang Bo touch the backpack.

"Tang Bo, you'd better get me started." Liang Annie's eyebrows raised, "Stay away from Youning." ”

"I, I'm hungry." Tang Bo shouted at Liang Annie, "Then, you wrap you up for me." ”

"Tang Bo, at least wait for Brother Zhang to come over." Qian Nan reminded that others were still fighting zombies in front, and if they ate it directly, it would be a little unauthentic.