Yue Jiuling was plotting something, but the zombie was also on guard against her. As soon as the zombie saw Yue Jiuling draw her weapon, it immediately raised its claws again, roared, and pounced on Yue Jiuling. It was clear that it intended to strike first!

"Hey~ Come on, let's see how I deal with you!"

When Yue Jiuling saw the zombie rushing towards her, she immediately drew her sword and fought it. Actually, she shouldn't be called fighting; rather, she was unilaterally bullying the zombie the whole time.

Yue Jiuling raised her sword and swung it at the approaching zombie, who immediately screamed, "Ah!~" as one of its already blue arms was severed.

"Ouch~ Ouch~ Does it hurt a lot?~ Hahaha~"

Hearing the zombie's screams, Yue Jiuling suddenly became very wicked. Before the zombie could recover, she lunged forward again and chopped off its other arm!

"Ahhh!~"

The screams rang out again, so loud that even Ya Zi, who was standing nearby, frowned upon hearing them.

On the contrary, Yue Jiuling felt very satisfied. It was as if she was venting all the anger she had suffered recently on the zombie. Yue Jiuling gripped her sword with both hands and said with a wicked smile, "Hmph! Aren't you very good at dodging? Let's see how you dodge after I cut off your hands and feet!"

As she spoke, she swung her sword again to slash at the zombie, but just as she was about to strike it, Ya Zi suddenly called out to her!

"Wait! Jiuling, wait a moment~"

Ya Zi suddenly remembered that when they first arrived here, they were told at the first crime scene that the body was dug up by the archaeological team, so if it was found, it would be sent back to the archaeological team.

"What's wrong?"

Yue Jiuling stopped wielding her sword and turned to ask Ya Zi what was going on and why he had stopped her. But in that instant of her pause, the zombie seized the opportunity to escape!

Yue Jiuling panicked when the zombie escaped without her noticing. She yelled at Ya Zi, "What are you doing? He's getting away!"

When Ya Zi saw this, he hurriedly said, "Wait a minute, you can't cripple him. Have you forgotten about the archaeological team? They said they would send him back to them."

"Send them back, fine. I can cut off my limbs and send them back anyway!"

Yue Jiuling grew anxious as she watched the zombie run further and further away. She rushed over to chase after it, shouting, "Hurry! It's about to get away!"

"What's your rush? Didn't I tell you? There's a barrier here; you can only enter, not leave! Hey, remember to leave him a whole corpse, don't whittle him down any further!"

Seeing Yue Jiuling hurriedly chasing after the zombie, Ya Zi helplessly followed behind.

Upon hearing Ya Zi's words, Yue Jiuling remembered that they had already set up a barrier here, so she wasn't in a hurry. However, she still wanted to chase after him. She said, "Alright, since we don't need to deal with him, I'll just catch him directly. Once I catch him, I'll send him back to the archaeological team. We'll return what they dug up to them."

Ya Zi, following behind her, nodded in agreement: "That's right, that's more like it!"

"Stop right there! Don't try to run away!"

On the other side of the forest where Yue Jiuling was chasing the zombies, a cloud of black mist was burrowing into the barrier, and behind the black mist was a person, who was Yue Jiuli, who had followed them all the way from the hospital.

"Hey~ Why are you chickening out? If you're so tough, why don't you fight me?"

Yue Jiuli was exhausted from chasing the black mist all the way from the hospital into this forest. She found it amusing to look at the black mist fleeing desperately ahead. The thing was a dark mass, and she couldn't even see what it was, but it was running fast. She was almost exhausted from chasing it.

"Hey, can you stop for a second? There's something ahead..."

Upon reaching the barrier, Yue Jiuli seemed to sense something. She squinted at the barrier and said, "Strange, why does this aura feel somewhat familiar? And it seems like there's something else here."

As she spoke, she reached out and touched a spot in the air. The barrier immediately appeared upon contact, and it was a transparent barrier radiating white light.

"Huh? How come there's a barrier here?"

When Yue Jiuli saw the barrier, she hesitated. She was worried that this was the territory of something and that going in might cause trouble.

But since the black mist had already gone inside, and she had chased it all the way here, it would feel like a waste of effort not to go in, but if she did go in, she was afraid there would be trouble.

So, after thinking for less than three seconds, the conflicted Yue Jiuli finally decided to go in. She reasoned that since she was already here, she would be unwilling to leave. At worst, she could just go in and fight the owner inside. She had never lost a fight before.

"Huh? This aura, wow!"

Just after Yue Jiuli decided to enter the barrier, she made a major discovery: she discovered a very familiar aura, and this aura was inside the barrier!

"Oh my god~ I'm suddenly so excited, what should I do?"

Yue Jiuli muttered to herself in the woods, "I never expected to run into Jiuling here. It must be Jiuling! Oh my god! I'm so happy!"

Yue Jiuli originally came here to catch the black mist, but she didn't expect to have an unexpected gain, so she was very excited and started looking for someone along that familiar aura.

Yue Jiuling had already discovered Yue Jiuli the moment she entered the forest, but she didn't have time to look for her yet. She only knew that one of her soul fragments had entered this place, but it didn't affect her work.

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