Chapter 311 Poison Sacrifice: The Living Loquat Tree
I could only see a distance of about ten feet around me, but I could vaguely notice that as I walked further and further down, it seemed that I was leaving the mountains and entering the flat terrain, but there was still a muddy road under my feet, and it started to rain lightly from time to time, even though the umbrella was big
, the clothes were also wetted by the wind, and the cold and wet clinging to the warm body, the coolness and the warmth made people feel slightly uncomfortable.
"Lu Zhanfeng, come and see."
After a long silence, Tang Yejue suddenly spoke, his voice slightly hoarse.
Lu Zhanfeng walked to his side in a few steps and looked in the direction of his finger.
Not far away, in the thick fog and miasma, the sky was dark, and there was something vaguely hidden behind the fog. It was as tall as a tree. Because it had edges and corners, tall trees were excluded.
"It looks like a house." Lu Zhanfeng looked at it for a while and said, "But I'm not sure."
Li Qingjun took out the compass and pointed it forward. The pointer above it began to swing rapidly in the next second, and finally pointed straight ahead.
He shook his head and put it away: "There is a demon ahead."
Tang Yejue frowned slightly: "Is there a demon?"
Zombies are dead people and not monsters, so where does the evil spirit come from?
Everyone was puzzled and continued to walk forward.
Previously, it was a miasma that blocked much of the visible area. But after taking a few more steps, everyone felt suddenly enlightened. Because the dense fog seemed to suddenly dissipate and turned into a thin mist.
Tang Yejue immediately grabbed Lu Zhanfeng, who was continuing to move forward, and looked around: "This is not an ordinary miasma, it is a poisonous miasma contaminated by corpse air. You must be extremely careful."
At the same time, Li Yuan pointed forward: "Look! There is a village there."
Fifty meters in front of them, the village gate was built very high, and the last word on the plaque hanging above was vaguely visible. The front was washed away by something unknown and blurred together. But from this point of view, this is the name of the village that was picked up.
What the firewood girl said is a zombie village.
Li Yuan is a demon and does not need to cover his face, but Tang Yejue is not afraid of miasma. The remaining two people took out their masks, covered their mouths and noses, and went straight to the zombie village. Just as the girl described, there was a crooked neck tree next to the entrance of the village.
There are still many stumps hanging on them.
They were entangled in tree beards, and the blood from those stump limbs had long since dried up and dripped on the fallen leaves. Over time, it turned into dry dark brown matter. For a moment, it was not clear whether it was blood or what it was.
The wounds on the remaining limbs were tear-like, obviously caused by external pulling force, and many of them still left traces of threads where the texture was not completely torn apart after the tearing.
As far as the eye can see, mourning is everywhere.
Seeing this scene, an unconcealable smell suddenly filled the tip of his nose. Tang Yejue frowned: "I finally know why the miasma is spreading here. The terrain here is low, the climate is hot and humid, and those... corpses and remains gather to produce poison.
The miasma will only get stronger and stronger, Lu Zhanfeng, Lu Zhanfeng!"
At this time, Lu Zhanfeng keenly heard a slight noise in the village. He listened very carefully. When he came to his senses, he moved first and then said: "There is a noise inside. I'll go take a look first."
With that said, he ran into the village.
"This Lu Zhanfeng." Tang Yejue clicked his tongue, slightly dissatisfied, "Why are you running so fast?"
It is not an exaggeration to say that the zombie village is full of messes. The houses on both sides of the village road are like ruins, swaying in the wind and rain. The heavy wooden beams weigh down many beddings, clothes and other items that may have once been there.
It was a lively time, but I don't know what happened. There was no trace of strangers in this village.
And every tree every ten meters, like the one at the entrance of the village, is full of stumps hanging on it. From where Tang Yejue and the others walked into the zombie village, they couldn't find a complete corpse.
After a while, they saw Lu Zhanfeng standing tall and straight on the road ahead. He didn't move until Tang Yejue and the others approached.
Tang Yejue was teasing in his heart, but didn't show it on his face. He walked over and waved it in front of his eyes: "Hey, are you scared to death?"
Then he saw zombies crawling or falling in the dilapidated house in front of him. The bones were black from the inside to the skin, and they looked like they were deeply poisoned. Some had messy hair, and some were half-clothed. They were hesitating and peeping.
Passers-by.
"...Is he a human?" Li Yuan asked hesitantly.
Li Qingjun replied coldly: "If you are infected with corpse aura, you won't be able to survive even if you are a human being now."
The bones in his body are so black that no medical immortal alive would be of any use to him.
Over there, Lu Zhanfeng came to his senses and held down his hand: "You're the one who's so scared."
Tang Yejue was caught off guard and grabbed his wrist. He was stunned for a moment and immediately pulled back, as if nothing had happened: "It's not certain that someone was really frightened." Then he looked at the crawling ones, "But they are not zombies when I look at them.
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Lu Zhanfeng nodded without hesitation: "The corpse energy has invaded the lungs, bone marrow, and blood. Over time, they will all turn into zombies. But these...are indeed not."
These poor people on the ground are not zombies, but more like the living dead. Looking at the broken scenes everywhere, it will definitely be difficult to find out the truth. Besides, the other two people cannot stay in a place shrouded in miasma for too long, even if they are covered
Mouth and nose.
Cari Yuan felt pitiful. From the moment they were infected with corpse aura, they were destined to die, but they still had to go through a long period of torture, sometimes awake and sometimes chaotic.
She couldn't help but think of the word Lingchi.
But soon, Carp Yuan was frightened by the fierceness that suddenly appeared in the eyes of the corpse men, and blurted out: "They seem to be coming towards us!"
Sure enough, the next second the living dead lying under the table rushed out from the center of the hall.
Looking at this posture, I thought I was going very fast, but I didn't jump over the threshold in front of my house. In the end, I just slipped and fell to the ground. I guess it was to block the rain, so I stood high, but zombies can't walk on their knees.
Only then did a funny scene occur.
Even Li Qingjun couldn't help but sigh: "If he feels it now, he will definitely want to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it."
But the other living dead seemed to be attracted by the anger of the living people, and they surrounded them one after another. Because of the miasma, it was a last resort to take action.
So the four of them decided that it was better to walk. After walking a few steps, Tang Yejue accidentally caught a glimpse of a tree standing in this deserted village. It should be said that there was a tree covered with green leaves.
Half of the houses around the tree had collapsed.
And there was something on the tree, not a stump, but a golden... loquat?
Stopping in time, Tang Yejue took a closer look and saw that they were really yellow loquats, full of fragrance!
In this village surrounded by the corpse miasma, there was a loquat tree growing luxuriantly. He quickly stopped everyone and expressed his suspicion: "Is there anyone here?"
Several people changed directions and passed through the path next to the broken house. They soon discovered that the loquat tree was in a courtyard.
The courtyard is complete and the roof tiles added are brand new, as if it had just been renovated.
Lu Zhanfeng noticed that the "people" following him stopped one after another as they approached the courtyard.
It seems that he doesn't dare to go forward. Not only that, even if there is no hole in the miasma, he can't get into the yard.
Li Qingjun was quite knowledgeable about barriers. He took a look and quickly said: "There is a barrier here, and it is quite powerful."
In this village full of zombies, this is the only pure land. Not only is there a complete loquat tree in front of the house, but the house is also in good condition, and a barrier has been set up to prevent zombies from approaching.
There are actually living people living in a place like this?