Chapter 26: The Evil Corpse Appears
Yuanbao opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something about the platoon leader's decision, but in the end he did not refute it.

The six people hurriedly picked up the opium paste that Big Zui carried with him, identified the direction roughly, and then plunged into the depths of the dense forest.

They didn't dare to go back the way they came at this moment, as they didn't know if there were any pursuers behind them.

After the platoon leader and six other men left, several figures walked out of the dense forest from different directions.

Facing the corpses scattered all over the ground, one of them spat and said angrily: "What are the Eight Evils of Lingnan? In my opinion, it is more appropriate to call them the Eight Bears of Lingnan.

A bunch of opium dealers who were born as soldiers cannot be dealt with, so who else will die if you don’t?” Although he cursed fiercely, he had no intention of chasing after the platoon leader and the other six men.

After the battle just now, they have already found out the strength and background of the platoon leader and others.

It's quite difficult to deal with. If you try to bite it without good teeth, you will definitely get a mouth full of blood.

Although the platoon leader and his men were all injured, they seemed easier to deal with.

But anyone with a little common sense would understand that at this point they are like trapped beasts fighting desperately. If you want to eat them, you must be prepared to be fought back.

Several people came out of the dense forest, looted all the belongings of the Eight Evils of Lingnan, and left the scene without any reluctance.

From the beginning to the end, the two groups of people did not notice a strange phenomenon. The blood on the ground was quietly gathering in a low-lying area.

As time went by, the pit at the root of a big tree was gradually filled with blood.

Under this blood, a corpse tightly wrapped in blood-colored linen was transformed.

Its nails grew back, becoming dark and shiny, and its cheeks gradually became sunken, but its two sharp canine teeth stood out abnormally.

If the sunlight had not occasionally shone through the dense leaves onto the tree roots, limiting the speed of the corpse's alienation.

This corpse may become the first zombie to resurrect in daylight in thousands of years.

As time passed, night fell quietly and the light in the dense forest gradually dimmed.

After the platoon leader and six other men crossed the dense forest, they temporarily found an abandoned pagoda and began a short rest.

They couldn't run anymore. If their injuries were not treated in time, the bleeding alone could cost them their lives.

Under the cover of night, the six platoon leaders helped each other to simply bandage each other's wounds.

After treating his wounds, the platoon leader and the other five men sat around the fire and discussed why they were being targeted.

"Platoon leader, do you think the soldier at the city gate saw through our disguise? His attitude was very strange when he inspected last night." Aying guessed that they might have been exposed when they left the city last night.

"It's unlikely. We did a perfect job with the soldiers guarding the city. If we were really exposed when we passed the checkpoint, they would have opened fire. How could they let us leave?" The platoon leader denied Aying's guess.

"Platoon leader, could it be that something went wrong when you were looking for a buyer at Yong'an Inn?" The shadow warrior proposed another possibility.

"That shouldn't be the case. We didn't mention the matter of opium paste in the lobby yesterday." The platoon leader was a little uncertain. They were just gathering information in the inn yesterday and didn't reveal that they had opium.

After thinking about it for a long time, even though their scalps were about to burst, the platoon leader and the other six people still couldn't figure out why they were targeted.

As the night fell and everyone gathered around the fire to rest, the doubts in their hearts still lingered for a long time.

If Ding Hai were here, he would tell them honestly that their unprofessionalism exposed them from the very beginning.

Apart from sending their clients home, corpse drivers rarely carry corpses near towns.

It is rare for a platoon leader to bring five bodies into the town at once, unless these five bodies are to be delivered to customers in Ma Xiangping.

Furthermore, they chose the wrong place to stay.

Although Yong'an Inn is the preferred place for people traveling between Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Huzhou, corpse drivers rarely choose to stay in such a mixed place.

In western Hunan, corpse drivers usually only stay at the familiar Xishen Inn.

Because everyone in Xishen Inn, from the shopkeeper to the servants, are in the same industry, they would not make low-level mistakes that would allow the walking dead to resurrect and become zombies.

In places where there is no Xishen Inn, corpse drivers usually choose to stay at the local charity cemetery.

The charity cemetery is a place full of death and silence, with few people coming and going on weekdays.

As long as you communicate properly with the person guarding the village, you can avoid accidents that could lead to corpse transformation.

Therefore, when they first stepped into Yong'an Inn, the guests had already seen through their true identities.

They were all thousand-year-old foxes, and after a little thought, the tenants roughly guessed the intention of the platoon leader and his group pretending to be corpse drivers.

If the Yong'an Inn had not maintained a strange balance at that time and no one wanted to be the first to stand out, they would have become delicacies on other people's tables the night they entered the inn.

At three o'clock in the morning, everything was silent.

Suddenly, a zombie tightly wrapped in bright red linen broke through the thin blood scab and roared loudly towards the moon vaguely visible between the leaves.

It instinctively began the moon worship ritual.

As the zombie continued to roar, strands of moonlight sprinkled into its throat. At the same time, wisps of white hair emerged from its body.

It didn't stop worshiping the moon until a dark cloud came and covered the moon.

At this moment, most of its body was covered with white hair.

After the moon worship, the blood-red zombies jumped to the scene of the morning battle.

Looking at the nine corpses scattered on the ground, attracting countless flies and insects, it leaned over and bit them one by one.

Don't get me wrong, it's not spreading corpse poison to create followers. Dead people bitten by zombies cannot turn into zombies.

It simply absorbed the remaining blood and energy from the nine corpses to facilitate its own evolutionary path.

A moment later, the blood-red zombie, leaving behind nine mummies, was driven by instinct and walked towards the depths of the jungle.

There, it seemed that there was a force calling it.

Even though the bloodthirsty instinct in its bones kept reminding it that it needed more blood to continue evolving, the blood-red zombie was still unable to resist the call of this mysterious power.

As the moonlight shone down, a figure covered with white hair quietly disappeared into the dense forest.

In the blink of an eye, another new day has passed.

Under the cover of night, six people of different heights, weights and bodies were running frantically in the dense forest, as if their butts were on fire.

The fat Yuanbao fell at the end of the team and felt uneasy.

From time to time, he couldn't help but look back, trying to see how far the strange thing chasing him was from them, but under the cover of night, he could only see dark trees.

"Yuanbao, don't look back and waste time. Watch your step." The shadow warrior reminded anxiously, running at the front of the team: "That weird thing will not let us go."

In fact, apart from the "dong, dong, dong" sounds made by heavy objects falling to the ground, there were no other unusual sounds at the back.

However, it seems too quiet here.

After all, we are in a dense forest. Even though it is late at night and the birds have gone to their nests, there should usually still be the sounds of insects and frogs.

However, at this moment, there was no other sound in the entire dense forest except the breathing of the platoon leader and his group.

"If we run faster, we will have a chance to escape its pursuit only if we reach the gate of Maxiangping City.

The soldiers guarding the city have so many guns that even if they can't kill it, they can force it back." The platoon leader in the team whispered something he didn't even believe, his voice was low and trembling with fear that was difficult to conceal.

Hearing the plan drawn by the platoon leader, everyone silently quickened their pace, but the thump, thump, thump sound that kept approaching from behind the dense forest made their legs tremble uncontrollably, making it difficult for them to run at the fastest speed.

Suddenly, a black shadow jumped out from the woods behind him and rushed towards Yuanbao.

Before Yuanbao could react, two dark and sharp claws pierced his chest.

After a low roar, Yuanbao's originally fat body began to shrink rapidly. His flesh and blood were quickly devoured by the thing behind him, and soon he turned into a dried corpse covered with skin and bones.

After seeing this scene, the five survivors all looked despairing. Could they really escape from this monster?
"We can't run together, split up and escape. Whoever can escape is the best!" The platoon leader, who had been at the front of the team, gritted his teeth and shouted loudly as he looked at Yuanbao's skinny body, then rushed in one direction first.

After everyone came to their senses, they followed closely, each choosing a direction and running as fast as they could.

The monster behind them was getting faster and faster, and they couldn't escape its pursuit no matter what.

If we continue to run away together, we will fall into its mouth one by one and become its food.

In this case, why not each of us fight on our own and see who has a tougher life.

Looking at the five people fleeing in all directions, the monster that had sucked all of Yuanbao's blood, flesh and essence randomly chose a direction with richer blood and energy, and chased after it, jumping on the ground.

Under the moonlight, the zombie that had shed its bloody linen clothes did not look tall, but its body covered with black hair was enough to scare anyone who saw it.

After running all night, the platoon leader didn't know how far he had run.

He only breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the checkpoint at the gate of Ma Xiangping City from afar.

At this moment, he would rather be shot to death by the soldiers guarding the city than face the invulnerable monster from last night again.

He quickly ran to the soldiers who were withdrawing from their posts, raised his hands high, and prepared to inform the soldiers guarding the city that a monster had appeared in the dense forest around Ma Xiangping.

However, as soon as he raised his hand, he saw a familiar face.

It’s Aying.

He was dancing with joy and telling the soldier what he had just intended to say.

The platoon leader was a little surprised when he saw Ah Ying's mature face.

In his mind, anyone could have escaped from the monster last night, but Aying was definitely not one of them.

Aying's physical fitness is the worst among the seven of them, and her ability is also the weakest.

He doesn't look like someone who can escape from the monster.

The Shadow Warrior is the one with the best chance of escaping besides him.

"Captain, there really was a monster outside Ma Xiangping. It's okay if you don't believe me, but my senior brother fought with that monster last night.

The revolver in his hand hit the monster, but it didn't even scratch its skin. He is here now, if you don't believe me, you can ask him in person. "

The soldier on night shift felt uncomfortable listening to Aying's incoherent words.

Seeing that the soldier's face was getting worse, Aying immediately pulled the platoon leader in front of the soldier and asked the platoon leader to testify for him to prove that he was not lying.

　The second chapter is delivered today. After twelve o'clock, Lao Xiong will be in the first round of recommendations to compete with new books in the same batch. Various data will be very important next week, especially for follow-up reading and the new book period. Due to the exposure and new book list restrictions, Lao Xiong cannot update more frequently. But as long as Lao Xiong can get through the new book period and put it on the shelves with good results, Lao Xiong guarantees to update more frequently to make you all happy.

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