Chapter 49
The breathing sound behind me was very even, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep.
Shi Buxi didn't dare gamble. He placed his index and middle fingers together at his side and drew a few strokes in the air. A silvery array appeared, then quickly vanished. The Moon Soul Talisman affixed to Zong Zhengqing's head lit up. The man, his eyes closed, groaned twice and passed out.
Shi Buxi was not in a hurry. He lay quietly in the cool embrace. When he felt that the person behind him was fine, he carefully took away his arm from his waist and sat up.
"I'll be back in a while." Shi Buyi reached out and touched his chin, which was as white as mutton-fat jade. Reluctantly, he took his hand back, stood up and walked out.
The camera followed, and as it came out of the cave, a beam of light shot out, illuminating the road in front of Shi Bushi.
[Where are you going?] Zuo Yue’s small voice came from the camera.
"Go find Academician Liang and the others." Shi Buyi replied. Since Zong Zhengqing was going to announce the zombie incident, there was no reason for Academician Liang and the others to come in again.
"Okay, hurry up. I don't know what's happened to them." Zuo Yue sighed and asked, "Where did you buy this terminal? How come there's signal here?"
If he could buy them outside, he would quickly have someone send him a few.
The silenced audience nodded repeatedly; they had forgotten to ask this question.
"I don't know, maybe he gave it to me." Shi Buyi wasn't sure. He still hadn't recovered his memory, so everything was just speculation.
Zuo Yue was satisfied with this. However, the audience had questions, and they kept commenting on the live screen, asking Zuo Yue to start the barrage reading. They wanted to communicate with Shi Buxi.
[I was keeping my mouth shut earlier because I was afraid my only camera would get crushed. Now that the Zombie King is gone, I can open it now!]
[I have a lot of questions to ask, hurry up! ]
[The Zombie King isn't here right now, but monsters will definitely appear soon. Don't distract the children!]
The camera's light screen was not turned on, so Shi Buxi couldn't see what the audience was saying. He looked around and found that the paper crane that had been released earlier to look for someone was huddled under a small tree, shivering.
"Come here." Shi Buxi waved to it, waited for it to fly to the palm of his hand, drew a talisman on its head, and the shaking paper crane finally became normal, its little mouth opening and closing as it spoke silently.
[Pfft, why is the paper crane also afraid? ]
[Is it afraid of the Zombie King, so it stayed outside and didn't dare go in? ]
【I really want to know the principle behind this paper crane. 】
[Hey, there's a sound.]
After Shi Buyi heard the paper crane's message, he retracted it and followed it deeper into the forest, replying to the comments, "Metaphysical speaking, the paper crane's soul is the local spirit. Scientifically speaking, it's a microscopic particle with consciousness."
[I seem to understand, but I also seem not to understand.]
Are particles alive?
The human body is also made up of particles, so there's no problem.
My head is about to explode. Is the end of science metaphysics?
Shi Buxi listened to the audience and laughed, "It's better to say that metaphysics is another way of saying science. Of course, superstition doesn't count."
Wait, so you mean you can move particles?
[Oh shit, no way, this is scary.]
“Rustle!”
What's that sound?
[Wow, is it coming again? What will it be this time?]
"It seems to have everything." Shi Buyi stopped, reaching for the bag at his side. His eyes seemed to be looking forward, but his peripheral vision was paying attention to his surroundings. "This place is really dangerous!"
As he finished speaking, pairs of cold eyes appeared in the pitch-black forest. A massive shadow loomed, at least five or six meters tall. Vines as thick as arms slithered across the ground and tree trunks like snakes, scraping with a chilling sound. A humanoid figure swayed and lurched as it approached from a distance, its hollow eyes and tattered skin revealing the bare bones.
[So scary, woooo!]
[Monsters, mutant plants, and zombies are coming in droves.]
Shi Buyi held a peach wood sword in hand, and with his other, he drew a talisman in mid-air. He struck the peach wood sword, and instantly, a burst of silver light shone, transforming the short peach wood sword into a bronze sword about 1.2 meters long and half a foot wide. The hilt was engraved with the sun, moon, and stars, and the blade was entwined with runes. Its awe-inspiring righteousness pierced the approaching evil spirit.
【How, how did it change? 】
【Okay, that's awesome.】
The audience was stunned by the scene before them. Before they could recover, Shi Buxi slashed his sword, and the approaching monsters disappeared in the sword light. However, perhaps there was something about Shi Buxi that attracted them, but the forest was filled with the roars of corpses and beasts, and they rushed towards Shi Buxi like hungry wolves, wanting to tear him into pieces and devour him.
Both the audience and Zuo Yue on the aircraft turned pale with fear, terrified and helpless.
He instinctively stammered, "Hurry, run..."
Shi Buxi turned a deaf ear to the enemy, holding a sword in one hand and a talisman in the other, and engaged in battles with various monsters. However, these monsters came one after another, with thousands and tens of thousands of them forcing Shi Buxi into an endless battle. No matter how powerful he was, these monsters could wear him down.
[Ahhh, what should I do? Starship, quickly send a starship to rescue them!]
[Holy crap, that's a terrifying number! What's going on? What's going on?]
[Zuo Yue, save him. He might be the young queen. If he dies, you'll be gone too.]
[The program team's aircraft should be equipped with basic weapons, right? Throw them down!]
[This is crazy! The kid is down there too. He'll be blown up too.]
[Distant water cannot quench a nearby fire. Call upon His Majesty!]
[Before leaving the cave, Shi Buxi should seal His Majesty! ]
[Wow, it's over, it's over. I feel like the kid's energy is running out. We've been fighting for almost an hour.]
Shi Buxi didn't know how much time had passed, but he felt his wrist begin to ache. The sword was too heavy. His ancestors had always killed ghosts and monsters in a short time, but he had never thought that one day, he, Shi Buxi, would be able to turn this into a protracted battle.
He has entered a den of monsters.
Shi Buxi switched from wielding the sword with one hand to holding it with two, his mind racing to figure out how to destroy such a large group of monsters. Suddenly, his ankle tightened. A vine had wrapped around him, pulling him back. The weight of the sword on his upper body caused him to lose balance and fall backwards. The sword's light faded, and in an instant, his fighting power was reduced to zero.
Endless zombies opened their bloody mouths, and mutated animals and plants bared their sharp fangs and rushed towards Shi Buxi, vowing to bite a piece of the young man's flesh.
"roar!"
The earth-shaking roar of corpses broke through the gloomy night. The monster that was about to devour the boy seemed to have encountered something more terrifying and disappeared in an instant.
In the blink of an eye, Shi Buyi, who was staggering and about to fall to the ground, was grabbed by the waist by a pair of cold hands and lifted up, trapped in a familiar embrace.
The huge bronze sword lost its spiritual power and turned back into a small peach wood sword, barely hanging on the young man's finger.
"Where are you going?" The Zombie King's voice was as cold as ice, and a hint of madness shone in his eyes as he looked at the boy. Was his little queen going to disappear again? His dead heart beat with fear, giving him the urge to destroy the world.
"Go find Academician Liang." Shi Buxi was stunned by his eyes. He instinctively didn't want to lie, so he spoke frankly.
"You don't want me anymore? You want to go find him?" The Zombie King frowned tightly. In his memory, the boy seemed to have followed someone like this, and he went to heaven and earth, but could never find him again.
"I'll be back." Shi Buyi said carefully.
"I won't come back. I'll leave and won't come back." The Zombie King shook his head with a painful expression, as if recalling something he couldn't accept.
"I will." Shi Buxi's heart ached. One arm went around his neck, the other hand covering the back of his head. Was the power of the Moon Soul Talisman too great, and it hurt him?
"Get married." The Zombie King didn't seem to take Shi Buxi's words to heart. He picked up the boy and walked forward. There was only one thought in his simple mind: as long as they got married, the boy would not be able to escape.
"No, I have to go find Academician Liang." Shi Buxi was a little anxious. The number and strength of the monsters today frightened him. Academician Liang and the others were really going to get into trouble.
The Zombie King turned a deaf ear to him, holding the boy's waist with one hand and pressing his head to his neck with the other, "Sleep."
Humans should be sleeping at this time.
Shi Buxi's power was too different from his opponent's, and he didn't want to hurt him with the talisman. After struggling for a moment, he lost most of his strength. His eyes rolled around, and an idea came to his mind. He immediately said, "You said you want to get married, but doesn't marriage require witnesses? Let's go find them to be witnesses!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the Zombie King paused slightly, but quickly recovered, still pressing the boy's head against his neck, and said briefly, "Sleep."
Shi Buxi sighed deeply. There was nothing she could do. She simply relaxed and leaned into the man's arms. She clasped her legs around his waist and decided to sleep. She would think about it after she woke up. She had been fighting for over an hour and was exhausted.
Soon, the sound of even breathing could be heard, and the boy's hand loosened, and the peach wood sword fell to the ground. The man ignored it, walked forward for a while, and then, for some reason, turned back, picked up the peach wood sword, and continued walking forward.
[Is he planning to stay awake and keep walking? ]
Zuo Yue has turned off the sound again, which is good. I was too afraid to even breathe or post comments just now.
[Wow, I used to call the research institute useless. Human technology is so advanced, but they can't even get past a miasma forest. I was wrong. This place is terrifying!]
"I'm still vomiting when I think about it. Those zombies, with no eyes, no hands, no feet, and even losing flesh, how are they still alive?"
[They are different from beings like Your Majesty who have thoughts. They are truly dead bodies.]
Doesn't anyone care about Academician Liang and his friends? They really won't die in this terrifying forest.
[Fuck, am I the only one still lost in Shi Buxi's gorgeous battle? That sword is so cool!]
[Yes, yes. I want to ask, what kind of sword is that? It's so cool.]
[No, you've missed the point. The point is, they're getting married.]
[Your Majesty seems deeply in love. Does the child like him?]
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone fell silent.
The Zombie King carried Shi Buxi all the way into the depths of the forest, his pace so fast that Zuo Yue worried the camera wouldn't be able to keep up. Using remote control, he transformed the camera back into a terminal and clipped it to Shi Buxi's wrist. When he succeeded, Zuo Yue didn't dare breathe, staring intently at the Zombie King's movements, afraid he'd throw the terminal in the air.
Fortunately, he just glanced at it and took back the video.
Without the live broadcast function, everyone could only see a small moving dot on the big screen. It was normal at first, but then it got faster and faster, which made Zuo Yue tremble with fear. Fortunately, the terminal was back in Shi Buxi's hand just now, otherwise he would definitely not be able to keep up.
Around five in the morning, the positioning dot stopped moving. Zuo Yue waited for another half an hour and asked the technical staff to remotely control the terminal to return to shooting mode. As soon as the camera was turned on, the first thing everyone saw was a room with orange-yellow light. Only Shi Buxi was lying on the bed and sleeping soundly.
The room was modern, with a 5-foot-tall bed. On the bedside table sat a desk lamp and several crammed photo frames, each depicting a small child. At the foot of the bed was a cabinet with incense burning on top. To the right was a large floor-to-ceiling window, offering a view of the swaying trees outside.
What kind of place is this? It's a pretty ordinary place.
[Ah, will we enter the Corpse King's Palace? ]
[Look, there are so many photos hanging on the wall. It's a bit scary, isn't it? What kind of perverted hobby is this?]
[Zuo Yue, fly over quickly to see what it is.]
Zuo Yue didn't want to disturb anyone, so he kept the livestream silent and let the audience just post comments. He didn't agree to the audience's request, but simply left the camera where it was.
However, the audience had their own way. They zoomed in and were shocked.
The photos on the wall included not only the boys and young boys I had seen before, but also quite a few in military uniforms. There were photos of female generals and the late emperor wearing masks, female generals and the late emperor and the Chishui Army without masks, soldiers in Chishui uniforms and masks, and soldiers with bare faces and teeth bared...
"boom!"
Everyone was stunned, and it was confirmed.
The late queen is truly a zombie, His Majesty is also a zombie, and the Red Water Army is also a zombie...
[I was just joking before, how did it become real? ]
[No, that's impossible. This must be a frame-up. Who created these fake photos? Zuo Yue, please come out and explain.]
[Fuck, call me a half-immortal from now on. I guessed right.]
[Ahhh, His Majesty really is the Zombie King, and the Red Water Army really are zombies. Damn, I'm not afraid of aliens anymore.]
Thirty years ago, the Chishui Army had over fifty thousand men. Eight years ago, the Chishui Army had only over twenty thousand men. I had always thought the Chishui Army was being reduced because it was an eyesore. But that wasn't the case, was it?
Thinking of Academician Liang's zombie migration, I wonder if the Chishui Army has been reduced for this reason!
If they are truly the Red Water Army, I won't be afraid of zombies at all.
"Are zombies really this cute? They saved us, they're our heroes, how can they live in a place like this miasma forest? Come back, we have plenty of room on Canglang Star."
"Ah, your Canglang Star has plenty of space, but our Gemini Star doesn't, right?"
[Hehe, which planet is as rich as our Jiaokang Star? If you want to come, come to our Jiaokang Star!]
[Hehehe, our Emperor Star hasn't even spoken yet, what are you yelling about?]
Shi Buyi woke up slowly at the sound and sat cross-legged on the bed, his gaze turning to the French window, as if looking at Zong Zhengqing, who was now somewhere unknown. Humans actually love those who have saved them, even if those saviors are monsters or zombies. So your idea of letting them stand in the sunlight was right.
Shi Buxi stepped barefoot onto the ground and walked towards the wall. It was covered with photos, so many that it was almost terrifying. Besides the photos of the late emperor, the female generals, and the soldiers, the most common one was a familiar child. From the time he tottered to the time he could run and jump, the whole wall was covered with them. Some were portraits, depicting the bodies of young men in long, blue robes, their faces blank.
[Brother, put all the photos on the wall, then when you wake up, you can see mom.]
This sentence suddenly rang in Shi Buxi's mind. Looking at the wall full of children, his heart ached and his eyes became moist.
You finally came into my dream again
The man's voice rang in her mind. Shi Buxi pursed her lips and tears fell uncontrollably. Has he been looking for her in her dreams?
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