152: Chapter 152 Mutant Corpse Beast

It was unknown when the night rain stopped, but the fog around the inn grew even thicker.

The grayish-white smog was like a thick quilt, tightly shrouding the undulating mountain peaks.

Outside the Laoya Ridge inn, only a few early-rising crows let out hoarse caws on the bare branches.

Inside the master bedroom, the light was dim.

Lin Ye opened his eyes and let out a long breath of turbid air carrying a faint shimmer.

The heavy pressure on his chest prevented him from getting up right away.

Leng Yue still maintained that overbearing posture from last night.

Her entire body was wrapped around Lin Ye like an octopus.

That dark-black and dark-red patchwork lace silk nightgown had long since disappeared.

Her cold-white skin pressed closely against Lin Ye's Pure Yang Dao Body.

A strand of long silver hair draped over Lin Ye's collarbone.

She was sleeping deeply, breathing evenly, and her chilly breath rhythmically brushed against Lin Ye's neck.

Lin Ye did not forcefully push her away.

He merely reached out and gently stroked her smooth, jade-like back twice.

His fingertips slid all the way down along the curve of her spine.

"Husband..."

Leng Yue let out a lazy murmur.

She did not open her eyes; relying on instinct, she rubbed her cheek against Lin Ye's chest.

"It's dawn, time to get up and work."

Lin Ye spoke in a low voice.

Hearing these words, Leng Yue then reluctantly opened those dark gold eyes.

The daze in the depths of her eyes instantly dissipated, returning to her usual aloofness and indifference.

But when looking at Lin Ye, she was still full of unmasked reliance.

She sat up, uninhibitedly displaying her flawless, top-tier figure in front of Lin Ye.

Leng Yue reached out her pale, slender hand, pulled a large white men's shirt from the end of the bed, and slipped it on.

Buttoning it up one by one.

Her movements were as elegant as performing some sacred ritual.

"I'll go get a hot towel. Husband, wait a moment."

Barefoot, she stepped on the solid wood floor and walked toward the bathroom.

After washing up, Lin Ye changed into a set of black tactical assault jacket.

This clothing was custom-made by someone specially found by Fatty Wang.

The fabric was blended with heavenly silkworm silk, waterproof and fireproof, and ordinary blades couldn't leave a trace on it at all.

At his waist still hung the lightning-struck peach wood sword and soul-suppressing copper coin sword.

Pushing open the room door, there was already movement in the courtyard.

Fatty Wang was squatting under the eaves, carefully wiping the vicious boning knife with a piece of deerskin.

The blade shimmered with a heart-palpitating eerie light.

Ayugu was sitting on a stone stool nearby, holding a black bamboo tube in her hand.

Rustling sounds came from inside the bamboo tube.

That was the scouting Gu worms she raised eating.

"Brother-in-law!"

Frost Star's voice came from another guest room.

The little loli was wearing pink overalls, carrying that small backpack filled with rations, and ran out pitter-patter.

The corners of her mouth still retained a bit of dark blue ice shards.

Clearly, she had just secretly eaten a piece of Yin Qi crystal from the freezer behind everyone's backs.

"Boss, morning."

Ayugu stood up and tucked the bamboo tube into the cloth bag at her waist.

She pointed at the depths of the mountains shrouded in thick fog in the distance.

"This fog is not right; it's thicker than any miasma I've ever seen in the village before. The commotion those people from the Yellow Springs Market made last night was too big, and it might have awakened the poisonous creatures that have been sleeping in the Ten Thousand Mountains for hundreds of years."

Lin Ye looked along her finger.

His Pure Yang eyes narrowed slightly.

In his vision, deep within the grayish-white fog, there was a trace of hidden dark-red blood light.

This blood light was not a naturally formed miasma.

"It seems the thing inside that giant bronze coffin has a rather bad temper."

Lin Ye sneered.

He walked to the center of the courtyard, loosened his muscles and bones, and the Pure Yang True Qi in his body circulated, making crackling bone-popping sounds.

"Fatty, check out and return the room. Get ready to enter the mountains."

Ten minutes later.

The innkeeper, along with several attendants, stood outside the main gate bowing and scraping to see them off.

That fully modified black george patton off-road vehicle let out a deafening engine roar.

The thick exhaust pipe spewed a plume of black smoke.

This steel behemoth crushed the puddles on the ground and plunged headfirst into the rugged dirt road leading to the depths of the Ten Thousand Mountains.

The space inside the carriage was extremely large.

Lin Ye sat in the passenger seat, his gaze fixed on the thick fog ahead torn open by the high-beam searchlight.

Fatty Wang held the steering wheel with both hands, stepping on the accelerator extremely steadily.

Leng Yue and Frost Star sat in the back row.

Frost Star hugged a glass jar filled with gloom-wood marrow ointment brewed by Fatty Wang using Pure Yang fire.

She was using a small silver spoon to feed it into her mouth spoonful by spoonful, eating with great relish.

Leng Yue closed her eyes to rest.

She felt extremely disgusted by the low-level toxic miasma aura around her, and simply blocked her sense of smell.

Ayugu sat on the single seat in the very back.

She held the black bamboo tube in her hands, her brows tightly knitted together.

"Boss. My Gu worms are very restless."

Ayugu stared at the tiny holes vibrating continuously on the lid of the bamboo tube.

"This road is rarely traveled by anyone usually. The scouts of the Mud and Water Travelers said that the hundred-plus people from the Yellow Springs Market went in from here."

"Yet we've driven so far, and haven't even seen a living person's footprint, and even the sounds of insects around have vanished."

Lin Ye looked outside the car window; the towering ancient trees on both sides of the road were becoming denser and denser, and thick vines wrapped around the tree trunks like pythons.

The visibility in the air was less than ten meters.

"Not only are there no footprints, even the living aura has been sucked dry."

Lin Ye said in a calm tone.

The moment his words fell.

The thick fog ahead of the off-road vehicle suddenly churned violently.

"Bang!"

A muffled impact rang out.

The massive body of the george patton shook slightly.

"Boss, we hit something!"

Fatty Wang slammed on the brakes.

He looked forward through the bulletproof glass.

Under the illumination of the high-beam searchlight, a huge black bear comparable in size to an adult water buffalo was clinging tightly onto the hood of the off-road vehicle.

But that was definitely not a normal, living bear.

Half of the black bear's head was completely rotten, revealing the grayish-white skull inside.

Its body was covered densely with purple poisonous mushrooms.

Two turbid eyeballs without pupils were staring fixedly at Fatty Wang in the driver's cabin.

It opened its bloody maw, revealing two rows of jagged fangs stained with black slime, and let out a piercing roar.

"Clang!"

The thick bear paw slammed fiercely against the bulletproof glass.

The seven-centimeter-thick special glass didn't even leave a single scratch.

"What the hell is this thing! Can a dead bear still rise from the dead?"

Fatty Wang cursed, his hand already reaching for the boning knife at his waist.

"No need to get out of the car."

Lin Ye sat in the passenger seat, not even lifting his eyelids.

"It looks obviously like a mutant corpse beast infected by extreme Yin Qi."

"The Yellow Springs Market carried that bronze coffin all the way through, and the overflowing fierce aura turned all the beasts in this forest into the living dead."

Lin Ye pointed to the center console of the off-road vehicle:

"Try out your toy that cost millions to modify, don't waste the money I put in."

Fatty Wang's eyes lit up, he immediately withdrew his hand, and excitedly tapped a few times on the keyboard:

"Got it! Let these blind beasts taste the iron fist of the Industrial Revolution!"