"Da da da~ da da da~"

"Hmm, has someone arrived?"

Ye Dongfeng found it strange when he heard the footsteps. He said, "That's strange. It's late at night. Are there other people on the mountain besides us?"

"Should we go and say hello to them?"

Mu Xiaoyi also said.

However, before she could go and greet the owner of the footsteps, Yue Jiuling stopped her.

"Shh, wait a minute, something seems off."

"Yes, everyone, please be quiet for now."

They've become a bit more cautious about hiding themselves.

Upon seeing this, Ya Zi immediately raised his hand and set up a barrier before saying, "Something's wrong with them. I can't sense their presence."

"No way, does that mean they're not living beings??"

Ye Dongfeng was startled by everyone. He said, "That footstep sound is really strange. I want to see what it is."

Bai Xinyu and Yue Jiuling stood close together, with Mu Xiaoyi also following beside Yue Jiuling. Bai Xinyu said, "The footsteps are very steady, but very slow. They sound like humans, but not quite..."

"You'll know when they get here, won't you? You can't guess now anyway."

Hidden interrupted Bai Xinyu's speculation. He stood beside Ya Zi and said, "If it's something evil, we'll deal with it depending on the situation. Some things can probably be left here."

"Okay, we understand."

Ye Dongfeng nodded.

The meaning of "hiding" is actually quite simple: even if something is unclean, it doesn't necessarily mean you have to kill it. Some things can stay in the mountains, such as the ghosts they encountered. They are local ghosts, waiting in line to be reincarnated, so there's no need to worry about them.

They were waiting for the owner of the footsteps, and the footsteps gradually grew closer and closer. Before long, everyone saw the owner of the footsteps.

They only saw four or five soldiers dressed in ancient battle armor lined up, walking towards them as if on patrol.

Those soldiers were clearly not human. Their bodies were tattered and torn, the flesh inside was rotten and black, and their walking posture was also very strange, as if they had difficulty walking and were about to be unable to walk, but they still insisted on walking.

Therefore, they walk slowly, but each step is steady because they won't fall.

"Holy crap, are these soldiers without souls?"

Because everyone is currently inside Ya Zi's barrier, those outside cannot see what's happening inside or hear the sounds from within. Therefore, Mu Xiaoyi said without restraint, "Tsk tsk, how strong is this obsession? Otherwise, how could he have died? He doesn't even have a ghost anymore, yet he's still patrolling."

That's right, these soldiers have no souls in their bodies, but they can still continue to live like zombies because they have a strong obsession within them. After they die, that obsession will continue to support their bodies to do the things they didn't finish in life.

In other words, they are soulless walking corpses that can still walk and do things.

"Um, should we just burn them down?"

When Ye Dongfeng saw the walking corpses, he asked Yinni, "Since they don't have souls anymore, there's no point in keeping the corpses; they can only scare people."

After hearing Ye Dongfeng's words, Yinni considered for a moment and said, "Alright, their souls are probably already dead, but their bodies look like they're from hundreds of years ago. How come they haven't completely decomposed after hundreds of years? Could it be that they lived in some good place, a feng shui treasure land that can preserve corpses?"

"Wow, if such a wonderful place really exists, we should go and check it out."

Upon hearing this, Mu Xiaoyi immediately said, "Let's not burn them yet. Let's follow them and see if there really is some kind of auspicious place. Otherwise, how could they not have completely rotted for hundreds of years?"

"Okay, let's follow them for now."

Yue Jiuling also agreed to follow those zombies, because she was also curious as to why those zombies did not rot.

However, just as they were about to follow the zombies, they received a talisman from Little Cabbage.

"Huh? That's the talisman I left for Xiaobaicai and the others. Oh no, Xiaobaicai used the talisman. Could something have happened to them?"

As soon as Mu Xiaoyi saw the talisman appear, she immediately caught it and opened it. She said worriedly, "No, I want to go back and see Xiaobaicai, and bring them back with me."