116: Zombies

From Li Tianliang's perspective sitting on the ground, the heavy coffin lid was almost in zero contact with the ground, not at the height it should be if it were pressing down on a person.

Coupled with the scene of a large amount of blood splattering, it wasn't hard to imagine what the Deputy Captain looked like under the coffin lid.

"Uh ah..."

"..."

Before Li Tianliang could react and think it through.

From behind him came bursts of very low panting sounds.

The sound didn't seem quite right.

At least in Li Tianliang's understanding, this wasn't a strange noise a normal person would make.

"Gulp!"

His Adam's apple bobbed, and Li Tianliang's neck, like a machine part that hadn't been oiled in years, turned his head very sluggishly.

In the process, he slowly raised his head, and after seeing clearly what that thing was.

His pupils constricted rapidly!

A "person" wearing an old, faded grey, black official robe stood perfectly straight in the coffin.

The patch on its chest was too blurry to discern the specific pattern, making it impossible to determine its rank.

The multicolored court beads hanging around its neck also lacked their former luster, appearing completely dull.

On the front of the official hat was a yellow talisman paper full of holes, where only specks of cinnabar color could be seen, swaying back and forth with its breath.

Its face was full of wrinkles, perfectly illustrating what it meant to be skin and bones, dry and black.

"A Zombie?" Li Tianliang wasn't sure.

His understanding of the word Zombie only existed in movies and TV shows.

After death, due to holding a breath of resentment, they don't decay, move by hopping, fear sunlight, are mostly active at night, and strengthen themselves by sucking human blood.

Those whose blood is sucked by Zombies will also turn into Zombies, and they need Taoist magic to be destroyed.

The Zombie slowly lowered its gaze; under the yellow talisman, its narrowed eyes emitted a eerie, phosphorescent green light.

Immediately, it suddenly raised both arms, stretching them out straight.

"Hah!" Baring its fangs, it let out a roar.

It flew and hopped towards Li Tianliang.

Li Tianliang's eyes widened, not daring to hesitate. Enduring the pain, he quickly picked up the firearm that had fallen beside him.

He chambered a round, raised the gun with both hands, aimed the muzzle at the pouncing Zombie, and pulled the trigger.

Da da da da...

His finger dared not relax in the slightest, prepared to empty the magazine.

After hitting the Zombie, the bullets surprisingly sounded like they were hitting steel plates, emitting dull thuds, flashing sparks, and splattering a lot of white corpse powder.

The official robe was shot to tatters, fabric flying.

The bullets did stop the Zombie's advance, but unfortunately, they didn't cause any substantial damage.

Da da da!

Da da da...

Soon, the gunshots became more frequent, echoing incessantly.

Li Tianliang knew without looking that the number of these things was far greater than he had imagined!

"Get away! Get away! Go to hell! Go to hell!"

"Save me! Save me! I don't want to turn into a Zom..." The sound stopped abruptly.

"What do we do? Bullets seem to have no effect on them at all, they're like having copper skin and iron bones."

"Lure them all into a corner and blow them up with grenades!"

...

Click! Click!

"Tsk, damn it! Why am I out of bullets right now?"

Seeing the Zombie hopping closer and closer.

Li Tianliang quickly dropped the rifle and reached for the pistol on his waist.

However, just as he was about to raise the muzzle.

Splat! Splat!

The Zombie had already used its joined, blackened, long-nailed fingers to stab into his chest flesh.

Li Tianliang was forcibly lifted, his feet leaving the ground.

The excruciating pain caused his features to contort and twist together.

He quickly aimed the muzzle at the Zombie's head, intending to kill it with a headshot, just like dealing with Zombies.

Bang! Bang! Bang...

All the bullets were fired, but they only left faint, unremarkable marks.

Seeing the Zombie open its mouth, revealing sharp, ghastly white fangs, and pulling him closer.

Li Tianliang was utterly panicked and struggled desperately.

Unfortunately, the Zombie's arms were like pliers, incredibly strong, making him unable to move.

...

When the sharp pain of teeth piercing his neck came, at that moment, Li Tianliang knew his life was over!

The infection and spread rate of the corpse poison was much faster than the Zombie virus.

After absorbing enough life essence, the Zombie flung Li Tianliang away.

During the fall, it was actually already possible to detect that Li Tianliang's body had become severely stiff.

Immediately, his arms lifted straight, his entire body also tensed up tightly, and he sprang up from the ground like a spring, clearly invaded and assimilated by the corpse poison.

Such instances were still increasing.

Special Ops Soldiers soldiers armed with modern advanced weapons had no advantage when facing Zombies.

Heavy firepower couldn't be used at all, fearing it would cause the tomb chamber to collapse, failing to kill the Zombies and instead burying themselves alive.

After receiving the news, the official side immediately dispatched helicopters to rush for support and launch a rescue...

"Damn it, die for me!"

The person who suggested using grenades to deal with the dozen or so Zombies, luring them into a corner to gather, quickly pulled the pin and threw it.

Then he shouted, "Run!"

Almost the moment it landed and the horde of corpses started hopping.

Bang! Boom!

Flames and black smoke surged simultaneously, and a powerful blast threw the Zombies flying in several directions.

They hit the walls, fell to the ground, lying haphazardly.

Their clothes were shredded, exposing their gaunt, fatless bodies.

But soon, they sprang back up stiffly, acting as if nothing had happened.

"How are these guys so tough?!"

Seeing the horde of corpses gathering in a surrounding formation, he subconsciously pulled the trigger, only to realize the bullets were long gone.

Drawing the close-combat dagger worn on his calf, he gritted his teeth and glared fiercely, "Brothers, let's fight them!"

"Bullets can't even penetrate them, can this thing work?"

"Then what do we do? No way, stand here and let them bite? Anyway, death is certain, might as well kill them once and for all!"

This sentence convinced everyone, and they all drew their knives.

Although they had no confidence, they gripped their daggers tightly, just waiting for an order to charge forward and fight the Zombies! Fight to the death!

Buzz!

Just then, a sound like a fierce wind whistling came from beside their ears, moving incredibly fast.

Subconsciously following the sound with their gaze, they saw a flying knife easily pierce the head of a Zombie that had jumped two or three meters high and was pouncing towards them, carrying it seven or eight meters away and pinning it to the dirt wall, where it swayed back and forth.

After completing the kill, it was pulled out, flew back, and quickly made a horizontal slash, cutting off the heads of several Zombies in a straight line as easily as a hot knife through lard, letting them roll away.

...

Watching the Zombies they couldn't kill no matter what they did, being taken care of several at a time by one knife.

Everyone stared at each other, all feeling disbelief.

The one who made the move was Bai Yuan.

She was alone, using four knives, simultaneously clearing four outer tomb chambers. Her fighting technique had improved overnight and was now superb and incredibly refined.

And all Chen Ming needed to do was silently extract the long-awaited Zombie Undead!