Chapter 28: Finding the Black Zombie
After getting the direction pointed by the paper crane, the two men left Ma Xiangping and immediately used their own methods to rush away.

Soon after, they arrived at the place where the platoon leader and others were ambushed yesterday.

This place is closest to Ma Xiangping, and the platoon leader once bleeds here, so Zhihe first brought Ding Hai and the others here.

Looking at the mummies scattered all over the ground, Ding Hai and Lin Jiu both frowned.

These corpses were so clean! There were obvious bite marks on their necks, but there was no corpse poison in their bodies, nor was there a trace of resentment.

The Black Zombie definitely doesn't have such ability!

"Brother, it seems that some of our colleagues have dealt with this place before us." While speaking, Lin Jiu kept scanning the surrounding dense forest, trying to find traces left by his colleagues.

"It's a good thing that someone can help clean up these things. Junior Brother Lin, use the Paper Crane Searching Technique to collect the aura here. We may not be able to find the bodies of all the victims just by the fat man's hair."

Ding Hai didn't care about the fact that the corpses on the ground had been dealt with by others. He was very open-minded about dealing with the black zombies. No one intervened. He and Lin Jiu worked hard and tried not to leave any future troubles.

It would be nice to have someone intervene so that I can spend less effort.

After instructing Lin Jiu to collect the breath, Ding Hai followed the dried black bloodstains on the ground to a big tree. Looking at the blood scabs scattered around the edge of the pit under the tree, he reached out and took a piece and wrapped it with talisman paper.

Judging from the situation at the scene, the vengeful corpse brought out by the platoon leader and his group should have completed its first evolution here and turned into a real zombie.

After collecting the blood scab, Ding Hai observed the ground around him.

Seeing that there were no footprints left by zombies jumping on the surrounding ground, he roughly guessed the level of strength that zombie had reached when it first evolved.

If there is no external force involved, the wandering zombies will also jump forward, but their speed will be very slow. Even an old lady with bound feet may be faster than a zombie of this level.

After evolving to the jumping corpse stage, zombies can already have a preliminary contact with the earth's magnetic force. Zombies at this level are already as fast as ordinary people, but their flexibility is much worse than that of ordinary people.

If an ordinary person is brave enough, it would not be difficult to kill him after paying some price with seven or eight strong men with suitable equipment.

Going further up, there are the white zombies commonly known as Baisha.

The white zombie is already able to connect with the magnetic force of the Earth Demon.

Therefore, its jumping speed and distance far exceed those of ordinary people.

Moreover, if the white zombie does not jump and chase with all its strength, the noise it makes when landing will not be loud due to the influence of the Earth Demon's magnetic force.

When the resentful corpse left this place, if nothing unexpected happened, it should have evolved to the white zombie stage.

Faced with zombies of this level, ordinary people have no power to fight back, and ordinary houses cannot stop them. They can only allow themselves to be slaughtered.

"Brother, have you found anything?" After collecting the breath, Lin Jiu quickly walked to Ding Kai's side and asked Ding Kai who was standing under the tree thinking.

"I have a little clue, but there is too little relevant information. I don't have any idea for the time being." Ding Hai did not hide it from Lin Jiu. A hint of inspiration did just flash through his mind, but he couldn't grasp it.

"Okay." Seeing that Ding Hai didn't find any useful clues, Lin Jiu didn't say anything more.

Just according to the plan made before, another paper crane was conjured up.

Under the guidance of the two paper cranes, Ding Hai and Lin Jiu quickly found the platoon leader's other five accomplices in the dense jungle.

Without exception, they were all cleaned up by magic.

Lin Jiu felt a little unhappy as he had made a wasted trip. If he had known this would happen, he would not have gone deep into the forest under the scorching sun.

Ding Hai didn't care. With his strong physique, he was immune to cold and heat. He wouldn't feel any discomfort even if he stood in the sun at noon.

However, he now had a slight interest in the colleague who had always been ahead of them.

It was not too difficult to dispose of the corpse before him and Lin Jiu. After all, when he and Lin Jiu learned about the appearance of the black zombie, the matter had already been widely circulated in Ma Xiangping.

The news from the two brothers was at least delayed by an hour.

As long as that colleague has some attainments in spells such as finding people and objects, it would not be difficult for him to purify all the corpses before them.

What really made Ding Hai look up to this colleague was that, so far, he had not found any traces left by this colleague around the purified corpse.

This is incredible!
As the saying goes, people leave their names behind, and wild geese leave their voices behind.

But this colleague completely broke this rule.

There were six places in a row, but not a trace was left.

Even Ding Hai was amazed by such means.

Anyway, Ding Hai, who is not good at keeping things hidden, doesn't have such ability.

"Since someone has helped us clean up the mess ahead of time, let's go straight to that unlucky black zombie.

Of course, it would be even better if we could also take care of the fellow who was ahead of us and the black zombie that was causing trouble."

As Ding Hai spoke, he took out the blood scab he had picked up not long ago from his arms. Although he was a little curious about his colleague, this curiosity was not enough to make Ding Hai give up what he was doing and chase after his colleague.

This time, Ding Hai did not let Lin Jiu use the paper crane searching technique again. Compared with his improved paper crane searching technique, Lin Jiu's paper crane searching technique was a bit rigid.

After his hands fluttered up and down for a while like butterflies flying through flowers, a lifelike paper crane slowly spread its wings in Ding Kai's palm.

After a breeze blew, the paper cranes with their wings spread out flew up easily with the help of the rising air currents. Looking at the paper cranes flying like birds, Lin Jiu, who was following Ding Hai, couldn't help but rub his eyes with his hands!

Is this still the paper crane method of finding people?
I’m afraid what I learned is fake, right?

Lin Jiu was extremely surprised and began to doubt his life as he followed Ding Hai through one dense forest after another.

After a cup of tea, the two men who had walked for more than ten miles in the mountains and forests stopped.

Looking at the paper cranes circling above a swamp, Lin Jiu looked at Ding Hai in front of him.

Is your paper crane broken?

Places like swamps are indeed prone to the accumulation of evil energy, but they are not places where zombies can stay at all, right?

Once trapped in a swamp, the zombies' perception will be obscured by the mud containing a large amount of water.

At that time, even if this zombie could continue to grow and evolve due to the abundant evil energy in the swamp, it would not be able to get out, right?

Unless the earth veins move abnormally, a strong evil energy will spew out from the ground, and this evil energy will happen to hit the zombie, knocking it out of the swamp and falling to the ground.

Otherwise, this zombie would be no different from a dead object.

But there is no such coincidence in the world.

"I'm really lucky this time. I just wanted to get rid of the evil for the people and kill the black zombie, but I didn't expect to find a node where the ground veins were moving by accident."

Ding Hai looked at the swamp pool in front of him that smelled of sulfur, and completed the entire process of the black zombie's evolution in his mind.

The black zombie should have stopped evolving after it turned into a white zombie under the tree, but the unusually active geomagnetic node here gave it another chance to evolve.

If he guessed correctly, the black zombie should have jumped into this sulfur swamp pool, endured the scouring and baptism of the evil energy accumulated below the swamp, and finally turned into a black zombie at the bottom of the pool.

Last night, this black zombie happened to encounter an unusual movement in the earth's veins that was rare in the past. A surge of evil energy gushing out from deep underground happened to bring it ashore again.

As a result, the platoon leader and his group who were closest to here met their doom and died one by one in the mouths of zombies.

Even though it sounds a bit coincidental, it's coincidence that opens the door to coincidence, and coincidence is home.

But I guess it's the truth.

Lin Jiu's ears were fine, but he was stunned for a moment after hearing what Ding Hai said.

The goal of his and Ding Hai's trip was to investigate the source of the unusual ground vein movements. Before they were ready to officially start their work, the clues automatically came to them.

With this luck, if I go to buy fish, shrimps, crabs or guess words and flowers, I will definitely bankrupt the dealer!
"Brother, were you always so lucky when you were trying to make a living in the north?"

"Do you have any tricks to boost your luck? If it's convenient, could you teach me, your junior fellow apprentice? I promise not to pass it on to anyone else, not even to my own son."

Lin Jiu has had average luck since childhood and occasionally encounters some bad luck.

He initially came into contact with Taoism in the hope of finding one or two methods that were both harmless and could slightly improve his personal luck, thereby escaping his occasional bad luck.

Ding Hai glanced speechlessly at Lin Jiu beside him, feeling that this guy was even more superstitious than him.

Although Lin Jiu may not believe it, Ding Hai feels that the reason why he was able to find clues in the sect mission so smoothly is all because of Lin Jiu's halo as the protagonist.

He had a rough idea of ​​his luck.

Most of his luck in his life has been spent on a few key things. His luck in daily life is like a roller coaster.

If he didn't turn Fujian upside down, he would never be able to complete the sect's mission by himself: "Junior brother, although the sun in the west is about to set, it hasn't set yet after all."

Lin Jiu had good reading comprehension skills and immediately understood the underlying meaning of Ding Hai's words.

If he had the ability to boost his luck, there would be no need for him to travel all the way to Fujian to complete the sect's mission.

He has been sitting at home waiting for the opportunity to ascend to heaven.

Stop daydreaming.

"Senior Brother Ding, what should we do next?" After knowing that Ding Kai did not have the luck spell that he had been dreaming about day and night, Lin Jiu was not discouraged. He knew how rare this kind of spell was, and it was even unclear whether he even had it.

"Take some time to dig up this sulfur swamp in front of you."

"Ah?" Lin Jiu was puzzled. Why did he do this?
"The aura of the black zombie has changed after being washed by this sulfur swamp. Our colleague did a very thorough job when purifying those corpses, so we couldn't collect any useful aura.

There is still one hour left before dark. If we hurry up, we can dig up this sulfur swamp before dark and get the evil energy accumulated underground."

"With the evil spirit that once interacted with the black zombie, I can cast a spell to find the black zombie." Without knowing the specific situation, Ding Hai did not dare to guarantee that he would be able to find the black zombie.

So when he left the city before, he could only plan to use himself as bait and try to hook out the black zombie.

But after finding this sulfur swamp pool, the plan of using himself as bait could no longer keep up with the changes.

　The second chapter is here today. Please vote and read on. I will continue writing. Let’s see if I can send another chapter in the early morning.

　　
　
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