Everybody was dumbstruck by this strange and terrifying scene, including Zhao Yongkun and me. We were speechless.
At this moment, the calmest ones were Old Zheng and his son.
Old Zheng didn't seem to notice our expressions. He continued to nag, "When you step on those corpses, you must be careful. Don't bump into those old skeletons."
It was a new way of addressing those corpses as' old skeletons'.
However, he didn't need to remind us. Anyone who crossed the river while stepping on so many corpses would be very careful.
Little Zheng was proud of himself. He shouted, "Didn't you say that you weren't afraid when my father tried to talk to you?
Why are you so scared that you don't dare to move now? "
Young people weren't shrewd. They couldn't hold their anger back. As soon as they got the chance, they returned the favor to us.
Chief Liu and Zhao Yongkun were experienced people. Of course, they didn't care about what he said. They just frowned and stared at the floating corpses on the river, their faces dark.
The fatty and I didn't mind him. We focused on studying those corpses.
Tang Mingyang's team's veteran subordinates couldn't keep their composure. A short, sturdy, big-headed veteran stood up and pretended to be disdainful. "What's there to be afraid of? It's just a pile of corpses, right?
When I was a soldier at the border, I've crawled through mountains of corpses and seas of blood many times. Why would I be afraid of these corpses? "
As soon as he finished talking, he stomped on the riverbank and jumped toward the corpses in the river.
"Come back!"
"I don't dare to go down there …"
Chief Liu and Old Zheng's voices arose at the same time. However, it was too late. The big-headed veteran had jumped into the air. He couldn't turn back and directly landed on the corpses on the riverbank.
Lao Zheng anxiously waved his hand at him. "You little boy, I haven't finished talking to you. Why did you go down? Come back quickly, don't offend Old Gu."
When Big Head first stepped down, he still looked a little scared. He looked around carefully, but when Lao Zheng finished speaking, he saw that everything was fine, so he became proud. He stretched out his foot and stomped on the corpse he was stepping on. He grinned and said, "What else is there to explain? Isn't it just stepping on these things? Don't tell me, this person's body is quite hard. It's like stepping on a wooden board."
This guy was really stupid and bold. As he spoke, he stretched out his leg to kick the corpse beside him. It seemed like he wanted to explore the way forward.
But at this moment, the dried corpse under his feet suddenly swayed. He stood there with one leg and his body immediately became unsteady. He staggered and fell onto the corpse next to him.
Before his body fell, the dried corpse that had been lying flat on the river suddenly stood up and pounced on Big Head.
When the people on the riverbank saw this scene, they all let out a cry of surprise and subconsciously took a step back.
By the time they reacted, Big Head had been tightly hugged by the corpse. He fell on the other corpses and struggled desperately.
This guy may have seen mountains of corpses and seas of blood, but he had never been hugged by a corpse. He struggled and screamed in fear.
Tang Mingyang's veterans were the first to respond. Several of them rolled up their sleeves and prepared to go down to save people, regardless of why the dried corpse was moving.
It could be seen that these people had deep feelings for each other.
At this time, Lao Zheng shouted again, "Don't move. You can't go down there!"
Just now, they didn't listen to Lao Zheng's arrangement. Now that he said it again, Tang Mingyang and the others did not dare to act rashly and stopped.
Lao Zheng hurriedly ran to the river and shouted at Big Head, who was still entangled with the dried corpse, "Don't move. Slowly move Master Gu's hands and feet away. You'll be fine. Hurry up and come back."
After all, Big Head was a retired veteran. At first, he was scared and struggled. Now that he heard Lao Zheng's words, he quickly calmed down. He reached out and slowly moved the dried corpse's arms and legs away. Then, his body shrank little by little and ran back to the shore like a dog.
When he came up, Lao Zheng knelt on the shore and muttered to Master Gu, "Please don't blame me."
Tang Mingyang and his people quickly surrounded Big Head and checked him for a long time. Except for his clothes being a little wet, there was nothing serious.
Boss Liu walked over with a gloomy face. After waiting for Lao Zheng to atone for the corpse in the river for a long time, he asked, "Old friend, what's going on? Didn't you say that we can cross the river from here?
Why are these corpses moving? "
Old Zheng got up from the ground. He looked angry and said, "We can cross the river from here, but I haven't finished talking yet. These Old Skeletons won't harm people. However, when people walk, some of them will touch human energy and jump up to attack them.
I was about to tell you about this, but your people just jumped up. You can't blame me for this. "
After listening to Old Zheng, I nodded. According to the 'Death Scripture', when the moon shone on a corpse, this could happen. However, these corpses weren't 'Old Skeletons' as Old Zheng had mentioned. They were called 'Shadow Corpses'.
After the Shadow Corpses came into contact with people and inhaled human energy, they could move. However, they didn't have consciousness and couldn't bite people. They could only follow the smell of living people and jump on them.
These Shadow Corpses weren't really scary. They just used their Yang energy to move a little. However, there were too many corpses in front of us. If they all got up, it would be troublesome.
Chief Liu wanted to discuss with us, but Old Zheng said, "These corpses can only appear before 3: 00 AM. After that, the corpses will scatter. We must cross the river immediately."
We didn't have any objections, but Zhao Yongkun shook his head. "It's not good to cross the river like this. I need to check the corpses first."
I understood that he was worried about the Soulless Corpse he had seen earlier. If all these corpses were Soulless Corpses, when we crossed the river, we would encounter a large number of ghosts.
Little Zheng was worried. "Several generations of my family have stepped on corpses to collect herbs in the mountain. At most, they would encounter the Old Skeleton's people. But, there's no danger."
Who was Zhao Yongkun?
He didn't care about Little Zheng. He directly asked his men to go to the shore and drag the corpses up.
Tang Mingyang's men went there and hooked a corpse. However, they couldn't drag it up. The lower part of the corpse was tangled by something that looked like seaweed.
Eventually, Zhao Yongkun had no choice but to go to the shore. He asked his men to tie the corpse to the shore with a rope. Then, he used the Soul Searching Seal to search the corpse's soul.
When I saw him make a hand seal to guide his Dao energy, I suddenly remembered something in the Death Scripture. If a corpse shone on by the moon took a breath of Qi, it would become a Shadow Corpse. However, if it took a breath of Dao energy, it would become a zombie!
Zombies weren't like the Shadow Corpses, which didn't have any intelligence and only knew how to pounce on people. Zombies were brutal and liked to eat human blood. They would kill anyone they saw.
If they really created a zombie, it would be a big problem.
With this thought, I hurried to stop Zhao Yongkun. "No matter what, don't use your Dao energy to touch the corpse. You might create a zombie!"
After Zhao Yongkun's hand seal was interrupted, he frowned and turned to look at me. "Are you from the Xiangxi Corpse Raising Sect?"
I didn't know why he asked that. Instinctively, I shook my head.
Zhao Yongkun asked again, "Are you from the Miao area?"
I shook my head one more time.
Zhao Yongkun swung his sleeves and said unhappily, "Kid, if you don't know about zombies, why are you talking nonsense?"
It turned out that he didn't believe me.
I couldn't blame him. The Corpse Raising Sect was very mysterious in the metaphysics world. They didn't have much contact with the outside world. Moreover, the method to create zombies was a secret technique that outsiders couldn't easily learn.
If it weren't for the records in the Death Scripture, I wouldn't have known about it.
I was worried about how to explain it to Zhao Yongkun, but he didn't say anything and continued to make hand seals.