The man's eyes were closed, and he didn't look like a living person.
"This person..."
Luo Jiutian turned his head in confusion, and when he saw Li Muyuan's expression, he immediately closed his mouth.
The clear moonlight in Li Muyuan's pupils was trembling violently, and his pale face gradually overlapped with the full moon, making it look like ripples on the water reflecting the moon.
Luo Jiutian elbowed his father next to him, and Lao Luo said dissatisfied, "I saw it."
"Muyuan, do you..." Luo Jiutian's eyes flickered back and forth between Li Muyuan and that face, "Do you really know this person?"
"...senior brother..."
A cry like a sob came from deep in Li Muyuan's throat.
"What?" Luo Jiutian didn't hear clearly.
Xia Hua frowned and stared at that face with pursed lips.
"Mu Yuan...call this man Senior Brother," the expression on Lao Luo's face was somewhat similar to Xia Hua's, "But I have seen all the people in Shuanglin, but I have not seen this man."
"Senior...Senior brother," Li Muyuan's voice became louder, he called hoarsely, and took a step forward, "Senior brother, is that you?"
The Taoist priest looked at Luo Jiutian and raised his eyebrows in question. Luo Jiutian shrugged, indicating that he didn't understand either.
As if hearing Li Muyuan's voice, that pale face actually made some movements.
The man's eyelashes trembled slightly, and the corners of his mouth also trembled.
"Senior brother!" Li Muyuan shouted loudly and stretched out his hand directly towards the face, "It's me! Muyuan! Senior brother, it's me!..."
The second before Li Muyuan's hand touched the face, the eyes suddenly opened.
Several other people took a breath of air-conditioning, and even Li Muyuan's movements were delayed for a moment.
Those were a pair of blood-red eyes.
Those eyes were so wide-eyed that they seemed to fall out of their sockets in the next second. It could be said that they were no longer a pair of eyes, but something made of solidified blood.
Li Muyuan's hand stayed where it was, and he looked at each other with those bloody eyes for a long time.
After a long while, the cracked mouth finally opened a gap oozing with blood.
"Mu Yuan..." There was a hissing sound in the man's voice, almost like a voice passing through hell, "Mu Yuan, is it... is it you?..."
"It's me!" Li Muyuan shouted with a cry, "Senior brother! It's me! Senior brother, why are you here? How could you..."
"Muyuan, listen to me..." The man interrupted Li Muyuan and continued, "Please...please don't tell others about what I'm doing here, please don't..."
"Brother! What happened to you?!" Li Muyuan hugged that terrible head, "Where did you go five years ago? Why did you disappear suddenly? I can't find you... How could you do this?
become……"
"Muyuan, I'm sorry..." Two tears of blood flowed from the man's eyes, "I was wrong..."
"Brother!"
"You... don't ever become like Senior Brother..." The man's face seemed to become blurry, "Muyuan, Senior Brother... Senior Brother is already dead, and I have died here..."
"No, he's going to disappear too," Lao Luo said nervously, "Look at his face."
The face looked a little different from just now, as if there were two faces that were constantly overlapping—separating—and reuniting again.
Looking carefully, this other face seems a bit like Zhou Ye.
"I understand." Luo Jiutian suddenly realized.
The corpse possessed by Zhou Ye and eaten by the corpse-turning bug is Li Muyuan's senior brother. Now, the host is about to disperse, and Zhou Ye will soon be back.
The question is, how could Li Muyuan's senior brother die here and be eaten by the zombie insects?
It seems that even his junior brother Li Muyuan doesn't know this.
"Senior brother! Senior brother!..."
"Muyuan, calm down first," Xia Hua grabbed Li Muyuan's shoulders, looked at the face, and asked, "Did you die here?"
The man glanced at Xia Hua and said nothing.
"Then can you tell us how to escape from here?" Luo Jiutian stepped forward and asked, "We are trapped here too!"
"If I knew how to escape, I wouldn't die here..." The man's voice was full of sadness, "But you... must be careful... Mu Yuan, you can't die here..."
"Then do you have any clues?" Luo Jiutian stamped his feet anxiously, "Even...even if you don't care about us, you should at least take care of your junior brother..."
"I only know that... the way out is in a place that no living person can reach..." The face had almost completely changed back to Zhou Ye's appearance, and the speaking voice also switched back and forth between senior brother and Zhou Ye.
"Mu Yuan... tell Master... I... I was wrong... Mu Yuan was wrong..."
Amid Li Muyuan's painful cry, his blood-red eyes closed tiredly. A few seconds later, when he opened them again, his face had completely transformed into Zhou Ye.
Zhou Ye looked at Li Muyuan in front of him in confusion. Li Muyuan was crying and rubbing Zhou Ye's face. Zhou Ye blinked and it took him a long time to react.
"I...ah!" Zhou Ye was about to move, but then he realized that his legs had been numb for a long time, and he almost collapsed on the ground, "Thank you... thank you..."
Everyone hurriedly helped Zhou Ye up, but Zhou Ye's body was still very hot, as if he had just run out of the oven.
"Great, you're okay," Xia Hua said sincerely, and then she hugged the absent-minded Li Muyuan and walked to a nearby room, "Muyuan, are you okay? Can you hear my voice?"
"He may need to rest," the Taoist priest held Li Muyuan's other arm with one hand and Zhou Ye's upper body with the other, "We'll talk after we go in."
Everyone stumbled into the hut. Fortunately, Miaozhen and Zhuge Shou were still lying on the bed. A few people temporarily settled Zhou Ye and Li Muyuan. Next, it was time to reveal the secret.
"What exactly happened?" Zhou Ye hammered his leg, still looking confused, "I...I am indeed still alive, right?"
"You don't have to worry about that," Xia Hua said, "You're not dead."
Zhou Ye breathed a long sigh of relief.
"At least he's not dead yet." Xia Hua added.
"Then what happened to him?" Zhou Ye pointed at Li Muyuan and asked, "He is poisoned? Isn't he not poisoned?"
"He's just...a little surprised," the Taoist priest said, "Muyuan, are you feeling better?"