NOVEL NEXT Chapter 36
On a normal occasion, Zhang Baoyi would not hesitate to choose to retreat.
If Jia Xinyue did not lie, then the current situation had exceeded his abilities!
But this time, he was just accompanying. So whether to retreat or not still depended on Lin Yuan’s decision.
“Have you all found it strange?”
A brief silence, Lin Yuan suddenly said, “With such a commotion, why does it seem like the entire Jia Family Villa hasn’t allowed anyone else to hear it, and no one has come out?”
“Yeah! Where are they?”
Zhang Baoyi was suddenly shocked. Not to mention he had just chased a few little ghosts in the courtyard a big circle, but just at the beginning when Lin Yuan’s palm shattered the huge door with a deafening sound, the entire Jia Family Villa should have heard it! But up until now, outside was still dead quiet, not a single sound.
“Could it be…”
Jia Xinyue also realized, her face turning white again.
“Right, next door is Xiao Cui’s room, she is my personal maid, she usually wakes up at the slightest noise.”
She suddenly remembered something.
“Then let’s go check next door.” Lin Yuan turned out of the room, Zhang Baoyi with dual knives in hand closely followed, and Jia Xinyue quickly followed as well, not daring to stray a step.
Bang!
Zhang Baoyi kicked the door open. The stench of decay rushed in, Jia Xinyue took a glance up close and then turned around, bending over and vomiting violently. “Exactly.”
Lin Yuan stared at the body on the bed, judging by the degree of decay, it had been dead for at least seven or eight days. But just today during the day, she stood perfectly fine in front of everyone, looking no different from a living person.
“Ugh, Xiao Cui… ugh… ugh…”
Jia Xinyue cried and vomited, showing that she had a good relationship with her personal maid.
Bang!
Zhang Baoyi successively kicked open several doors, soon he walked back with a dark face, saying in a low voice, “They are all dead, and probably all died at the same time… What Jia Family Villa, this is clearly Villa of the Dead!”
Suddenly, his face changed: “The food we ate today…?”
“The food is fine.”
Lin Yuan calmly shook his head. He had long noticed that everyone was shrouded in a faint gloom, but he never imagined they were all corpses. After all, in this town where willow trees were everywhere, heavy gloom was quite common.
“Could it be…”
Lin Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly. Even if they were corpse demons, he could quickly see through them when he was vigilant, but during the day, in his eyes, these corpses were completely alive!
“That’s good!”
Zhang Baoyi heaved a sigh of relief, “I almost thought I had eaten maggots.”
Beside him, Jia Xinyue had just recovered slightly, but upon hearing this, she started vomiting again, almost throwing up bile. As a sign of her importance, the food today was prepared by her personally, but usually she ate food prepared by the household staff…
At that moment, not far away, a door suddenly began to shake violently, as if someone inside was desperately trying to open it, but was being blocked by something.
Opened, but was blocked by something.
“It’s that room of Liu Zongming!”
Zhang Baoyi’s gaze sharpened as he tightly gripped his dual blades.
Bang!!
The door suddenly burst open, and Liu Zongming rushed out covered in blood.
His clothes were tattered, hair disheveled, and upon seeing Lin Yuan and the others, his expression turned joyful. Just as he was about to call for help, dense willow branches suddenly emerged from behind, viciously wrapping around his mouth and limbs, forcefully pulling him back.
Boom!
The door slammed shut heavily.
Only the despair in Liu Zongming’s eyes flickered by.
“What the hell is that?”
Zhang Baoyi was dumbfounded, feeling a chill all over his body.
“It seems like… willow branches?”
Jia Xinyue seemed completely dumbfounded, murmuring.
“Willow Demon?”
Lin Yuan’s eyes lit up.
It is well known that plant-based monsters have the longest lifespan, so how much simulated lifespan could be gained from them?
“Brother Lin, should we still…?”
Zhang Baoyi’s scalp tingled.
From what he witnessed just now, the blood energy erupting from Liu Zongming seemed even more vigorous than his, yet he was rendered helpless in front of the willow demon, unable to fight back!
In other words, if he had been attacked, the outcome would be the same!
Before he could finish his sentence, he suddenly noticed that the figure standing next to him had disappeared.
Raising his head in surprise, he saw Lin Yuan standing outside the door that he had just kicked open, charging inside.
In the next moment, the dense willow branches securely sealed the entire door.
“Brother Lin!?”
Zhang Baoyi was shocked.
Struggling for a moment with his gaze, he was about to grit his teeth and rush forward, but suddenly his expression changed and he turned back to cleave down with his dual blades.
Puff!
The blades plunged into the flesh without any obstruction.
But then they seemed to be blocked by something hard, unable to move an inch.
“Xiao Cui!?”
Jia Xinyue took two steps back in fear.
It was Xiao Cui, who had already died six or seven days ago, and was struck by Zhang Baoyi’s dual blades.
At this moment, she was twisted into abnormal angles, her limbs and neck bent unnaturally, with her eye sockets, now rotten, twinkling with a greenish light.
“Corpse Puppet?”
Zhang Baoyi pulled out his blades, kicking her away with a grim expression.
He looked around.
One after another, doors opened, twisted figures emerging from each room, converging towards the group.
“This is bad!”
Zhang Baoyi took a deep breath.
The flesh and bones of these corpse puppets were incredibly fragile, yet for some reason, they couldn’t be cut, as if there was something controlling them from within.
Gripping his blades tightly, Zhang Baoyi shielded the nearly fainting Jia Xinyue behind him, staring intently as the figures closed in on them steadily…
“If you want me dead, then come at me!!”
Zhang Baoyi’s eyes glared angrily as his blood boiled.
Just as he was preparing to make a desperate stand, the approaching corpse puppets suddenly stopped in unison, then turned around and madly charged towards the room Lin Yuan had entered moments ago.