Chapter 53
Shi Buyi, who said there was nothing he couldn't handle, cried in his sleep because his master beat him with a rattan stick.
In the bright main hall of Taiyuan Temple, Shi Buyi was kneeling upright, with the kind-hearted ancestor sitting right above him. Beside him was an angry old man holding a rattan stick, who would occasionally hit the young man's legs, expressing his disapproval of him.
"You are the legitimate successor of the Zhengyi Sect. Have you forgotten to ward off evil and uphold justice? How can you marry the Corpse King?" The master cursed, but from time to time he would steal glances at the ancestor who was sitting in the main seat.
"Okay, you think I don't know you're drawing clothes?" The Grand Master glanced at his pretentious disciple and said calmly, "We Taoists believe in following our hearts. As long as he likes it, it's fine. Don't invite me if there's nothing else."
As soon as he finished speaking, the master disappeared from the spot, and a figure appeared on the blank portrait hanging on the wall in the middle.
"Master." Shi Buxi blinked back his tears. He stared at his master eagerly. Although his master had tried his best not to hit him, he still hit him twice when he didn't use enough force. It was very painful.
"Get up! You've finally made it." The master waved his hand. While they, the Taoists, valued following one's heart, this disciple's matter was too big. Now that the Grand Master had spoken, Yuhua felt more confident when he saw his master and fellow disciples. "That's all! I'm leaving."
As soon as he finished speaking, the hall was filled with bright light and Shi Buxi woke up.
The faint orange light from the candle adds a touch of warmth to the dim room and illuminates the entire room.
Red, red wedding characters, red candles, red quilts...
So dazzling.
Shi Buxi couldn't help but feel his face flush. He tried to move, but he froze. Unspeakable memories flooded into his mind, and his entire body flushed.
Obviously, he didn't feel so uncomfortable before he fell asleep. It must be after he fell asleep that this person...
Shi Buxi gritted her teeth and turned her head in anger, only to be met with a face of breathtaking beauty. The man's breathing was so soft that even through the blanket, she could still sense the coldness emanating from his body. An ordinary person might have thought they were being hugged by a corpse.
My heart twitched slightly, my anger disappeared, and my heartache surged up.
Shi Buxi struggled to pull his hand from the quilt, made a hand gesture, and reached around the man's neck, touching the back of his head. He then tore off the Moon Soul Talisman. The yellow talisman paper had already turned black, emitting an ominous aura. Holding the talisman, he stood up, struggled to put on his clothes, and from his bag, he pulled out the Sun Soul Talisman he had drawn earlier and placed it on the back of the man's head.
The Moon Soul Talisman nourishes the soul, and the Sun Soul Talisman nourishes the spirit. Both are indispensable if you want him to wake up quickly.
Shi Buxi moved very slowly. After he had done everything, his muscles and bones felt a little looser and he could walk a lot more easily.
"I'm going out for a while and will be back soon. When I come back, I'll set up the formation tomorrow and you'll be able to recover." Shi Buxi stood by the bed, rubbing the man's eyebrows lightly with her fingertips. After a moment, she turned and left.
It was very dark outside, and you couldn't see your hand in front of you, but you could see a figure huddled under the treasure tripod of Taiyuan Temple. The camera next to it was flashing with light, which looked very strange.
"Xiao Xi, you finally came out. I thought you had forgotten about it." Zong Ziyu was so cold that he hugged his chest with his hands and stamped his feet.
"How could that be?" Shi Buxi said uncomfortably. In fact, if his master hadn't spanked him in his dream, he might have really slept until tomorrow.
"Then let's go quickly. Even though His Majesty has placed them on the 80th floor, zombies and monsters might smell the scent and go up there." Zong Ziyu finished speaking and looked back at the live broadcast room. "Is this the level?"
Your Majesty has already announced the zombie incident to the public, so it doesn’t matter whether it is broadcast live or not.
【Ahhh, don't turn it off, I'll be very quiet. 】
[Wow, Mr. Zong, why did you remind Xiaoxi? You are so mean.]
We also want to know if Academician Liang and his colleagues are alright. Please.
"Let's not turn it off!" Shi Buyi glanced at the live broadcast room and felt that it didn't matter whether it was turned off or not.
Zong Ziyu nodded after hearing this.
Academician Liang and his companions were being held at the foot of the main peak. Yesterday's wedding had taken place at the top, and at Shi Bushi's usual pace, it would have taken him nearly three hours to walk down the mountain. But now, Shi Bushi was having trouble, walking only slightly faster than a tortoise.
"Xiao Xi, what's wrong with you?" Zong Ziyu was afraid that His Majesty would wake up suddenly, so he was anxious to go down the mountain. But looking at Xiao Xi, it seemed that he was not in a hurry, but seemed to be delaying time.
"I'm fine!" Shi Buyi tried hard to make himself look innocent.
"No, you..." Zong Ziyu looked Shi Buxi up and down, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Did you sprain your ankle, or are you feeling unwell somewhere?"
【Hahaha, I know why. 】
[Hehe, it's obvious at first glance that Emperor Zong is a virgin.]
Zong Ziyu: “…”
Shi Buyi blushed and looked towards the live broadcast room, "I think we should close the live broadcast room."
[Ahhh, I sprained my ankle. I sprained my ankle.]
[Right, which bastard has dirty thoughts? Get lost! It's clearly just a sprained ankle.]
Zong Ziyu listened for a while and understood. His face couldn't help but feel a little hot. Because of his appearance, he was often rumored to have affairs with the media, but in fact, he had never had a girlfriend.
"Let me take you down the mountain!" The doctor didn't expect that he would encounter such a thing when he got up to walk around in the middle of the night because he couldn't sleep, but, "You sneaked away in the middle of the night, aren't you afraid that His Majesty will go crazy?"
"I told him to go out for a while." Shi Buyi said righteously.
The doctor smiled and said nothing. His Majesty's mental strength is very high. The little queen was able to sneak out in the middle of the night. I guess she must have done something.
The place the doctor took them to was a bit far away. After walking for almost five minutes, they left the residential area and arrived at a large square. This square was filled with military aircraft. The flame-shaped water waves representing the Red Water Army were painted on the fuselage, and the word "Red" was written in large letters on both sides of the wings. It was the Red Water Army's space battleship.
They lined up in rows in the square, waiting for the hopeless order to fight, just like the Red Water Army living here. They longed to enter space again and fight for humanity again.
The audience in front of the live broadcast room were stunned. It had been eight years, and seeing the warships of the Chishui Army again made everyone's eyes tear up.
[Do they still have a chance to go to the battlefield again? ]
"Yes," Zong Ziyu said. The Human Empire may appear peaceful now, but in reality, wars rage on the border planets. A large-scale war is inevitable for true peace and stability. Previously, due to the disparity in power between humans and aliens, large-scale wars had to be avoided. But now, with Xiaoxi, as long as the Chishui Army can take to the battlefield, humanity is certain to win.
[Mr. Zong, you don't have the final say.]
I believe in children.
"If humans are at war, it will definitely have a chance to join the battle," Shi Buxi replied. He knew that humans and aliens had always been in conflict, but he wasn't sure about the specifics.
"Let's go, our aircraft is behind us." The doctor reminded them when he saw the two of them stop.
The doctor's aircraft is a civilian, small aircraft that can fly automatically.
After the three of them got on, it took less than three minutes from takeoff to landing.
The aircraft landed directly on the rooftop, and the audience in the live broadcast room were terrified and kept commenting: "This building is thousands of years old, isn't it afraid of collapse?"
"This was built ten years ago. They used to live here," the doctor replied. Before the poison took hold, they'd lived at the foot of the mountain, making it easier to train. Later, they returned to live up the mountain.
"There are corpses roaring." Zong Ziyu's legs almost gave out as he listened to the sounds below. "Are they starting to come up?"
"It's okay. There are 80 floors, enough for them to climb." The doctor didn't care. He took the two people into the stairs and asked Zong Ziyu, "Which floor are they on?"
"It should be on the seventy-eighth floor!" Zong Ziyu replied.
"How did you get up here?" the doctor asked. The ladder on this floor was no longer usable.
"I climbed up." Zong Ziyu burst into tears when he said this. Who would have thought that in such an advanced interstellar age, he would have to climb almost seventy-eight floors of stairs.
"If you hadn't climbed to the 78th floor, you would be fighting zombies and monsters now." Shi Buyi said.
"Xiao Xi, you're turning your back on me so soon? You don't want to criticize His Majesty?" Zong Ziyu was shocked.
"I'm telling the truth." Shi Buxi insisted.
As soon as the three of them went down one floor, they heard the anxious voices of Academician Liang and Professor Terrence. It seemed that the zombies below had already reached more than seventy floors and were about to attack the door.
Shi Buxi breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. Fortunately, he came here tonight.
"Why are there footsteps upstairs?" Academician Liang was holding a laser gun and was shocked when he heard the footsteps above his head. Can zombies fly now?
"No way!" Professor Terrence stood up and picked up the laser gun beside him. Most of the bodyguards had been sent downstairs to block the monsters and zombies. Only the two of them, Feng Shen, Lu Feng, and the two bodyguards, were left in the hall. If zombies or monsters really came down from upstairs, would they still be able to break out?
"Let's go downstairs!" Feng Shen's face turned pale. Judging from the footsteps, there were quite a few of them.
"Wait, those footsteps must be people!" Lu Feng listened carefully. They were getting closer and louder until Shi Buyi and the others appeared in front of him. "Why are you coming upstairs?"
"The aircraft has landed on the roof." Shi Buyi saw that everyone was facing a great enemy and asked, "Did it scare you?"
"What do you think?" Feng Shen sat down. This Blue Star is too scary. It's better not to come here again.
"Sang, where is that guy? Did he ask you to come?" Academician Liang wanted to say Zombie King, but changed his words.
"Yeah!" Shi Buxi responded. Zong Zhengqing had a special identity, so he didn't elaborate on why he had put him to sleep. He walked closer to Academician Liang and the others, asked them to sit down, and told them what had happened in the past two days.
"Are you married?"
"Is the Zombie King really His Majesty?"
"The Chishui Army is actually zombies?"
Several voices came out at the same time, each with their own focus.
"I've always wanted to notify you to return, but since we are here, why not go to Kunlun Mountain first!" Shi Buxi suggested.
"I didn't expect it was really His Majesty." Feng Shen sighed. Although there had been rumors before, he still didn't believe them. "Haha, when I participated in the program, I was thinking about whether I could form a team to capture the Zombie King and become famous!"
"Forming a team to capture the zombie king? Quite interesting." The doctor had never seen this show, but after Shi Buxi was brought back, he went to learn about it. Didn't he expect the show to be so interesting?
"Xiao Xi, without a team, can you capture the Zombie King on your own?" Academician Liang asked curiously. He studied physics and was curious about Shi Buxi's talisman, hoping to study it further. If Shi Buxi could use the talisman to defeat His Majesty, a highly spiritual zombie, it would be a major advancement in the study of human spiritual power.
"I don't know. I've never fought with him." Shi Buyi shook his head.
"How about giving it a try? If that doesn't work, we can form a group," Academician Liang urged. He wanted to see how far Shi Buyi could go if he used all his strength.
Shi Buxi: "...there is a chance."
"Then I'll wait for your notification." Academician Liang's anxiety after being trapped by zombies for a day was relieved.
"It's already early morning, why don't you rest up first? We'll be back at Taiyuan Temple tomorrow morning," Shi Buyi said. He'd asked the doctor before arriving if they could take everyone back tonight. Later, he told him that with so many people and so late, they didn't know if they'd dare share a place with zombies. The houses without zombies were still unkempt and dirty, so why not spend the night here?
Shi Buxi thought about it and agreed. It would not be nice to wake someone up in the middle of the night.
"There are still zombies crawling downstairs," Professor Terrence sighed. The gunfire downstairs was too frequent, indicating that there were still many zombies and monsters.
"I'll go down and take a look. You guys take a rest first. It's okay." Shi Buyi said.
"Okay, I'll go to sleep first. By the way, we've cleaned out five rooms on this floor, you can pick one." Academician Liang waved his hand and went to sleep without worry. Since entering the miasma forest, he had slept less than two hours a day, and his energy had reached its limit.
Shi Buxi nodded and turned to walk downstairs. After only three floors, he saw the bodyguards retreating step by step. He was frightened when he heard the voice behind him, but when he saw Shi Buxi, the tall man almost cried.
"Mr. Shi, why are you here?" Captain Huang was so surprised that his hands were shaking.
"I'm here to pick you up." Shi Buyi responded, took out a talisman from his bag, and said, "Go upstairs, leave this to me."
"But, there are a lot of monsters and zombies here." Captain Li hesitated.
"Don't worry! Close the door, I'll just put up some talismans." Shi Buxi held the talisman and looked at the dozen or so bodyguards crowded on the stairs, not knowing where to start.
Captain Li and Captain Huang looked at each other, they seemed to be quite troublesome indeed.
"Retreat," they both shouted at the same time. The bodyguards, who had been stubbornly resisting the zombies, breathed a sigh of relief and retreated. As they passed by Shi Buxi, they all expressed their gratitude.
As soon as the gunfire stopped, zombies and vines quickly appeared.
Shi Buxi chanted a spell and threw the talisman in his hand out. Suddenly, a bright light appeared. Some zombies and monsters retreated in fear, while some with high mental strength continued to rush forward.
A few talismans were thrown out again, exploding into a shower of sparks.
Shi Buxi took advantage of this time to draw a few formations on the steps and retreated to the rest platform.
The rotten zombies and mutated vines broke through the talisman, but when they encountered the formation, they were injured and retreated repeatedly.
Seeing that it was useful, Shi Buyi turned around and returned to the 78th floor. Seeing the bodyguards and doctors standing in the hall and not yet asleep, he couldn't help but say, "You guys go to sleep, I'll keep watch."
"How can this be possible?" Captain Li and others spoke up quickly.
"Your bodyguard team has been protecting Academician Liang and the others for so many days. You haven't gotten much sleep, right? If you don't get some sleep, something might go wrong. As for you," Shi Buyi looked at the doctor and Zong Ziyu, "you can't help either."
Everyone: That’s very direct, but it’s the truth.
"Don't worry, I still have a lot of talismans to last until tomorrow." Shi Buyi said, and without waiting for them to say anything, he pressed the staircase door with both hands and closed it with a "click". He shouted outside the door, "I put talismans on the door, don't open the door or it will be torn."
Zong Ziyu, who was about to push the door, paused and looked at the doctor.
Doctor: "Go to sleep!"
He is just a doctor and can't deal with these things. But, did His Majesty really not notice that his little queen ran away?
"You should bring a blanket even if you're on night watch!" the doctor reminded. The floors here are too high, and with Kunlun never getting any sunlight, it can be very cold at night.
"Bang!" Shi Buyi opened the door and said seriously, "Trouble."
Seeing this, Zong Ziyu hurriedly ran to get a quilt and handed it to Shi Buxi, "How about I keep watch with you?"
Shi Buyi shook his head. He slammed the door shut again. Zong Ziyu hadn't slept much these past few days, and his eyes were almost panda-eyed.
[Ahhh, we can stay overnight, don't lock us in! ]
[Fuck, Zuo Yue, can you do it? Why don’t you just fly out?]
Zuo Yue: I didn’t expect Shi Buxi to turn the camera inside!
Shi Buxi affixed a few talismans to the door, drew a formation, and descended three stories, quilt in hand. Wrapped in the quilt, he sat on the resting platform. He yawned as he looked out at the howling zombies and mutated vines in the hallway, trying to break through the formation. He unfolded the quilt, wrapped himself in it, and leaned against the wall, feeling drowsy and a little cold.
cold?
Feeling a different kind of cold, Shi Buxi opened his eyes and a pale handsome face appeared, gloomy and dangerous.
"You want to run?" The man knelt on one knee on the ground, his eyes narrowed dangerously.
"That's not true." Shi Buxi shook his head quickly.
"Want to form a team to capture me?" the man asked again.
"If I say that I want to organize a group to deliver food to you, would you believe it?" Shi Buxi wanted to cry but had no tears. He had just heard so much when he arrived so early.
"No need, I'll eat by myself." The man put his hands on the buttons of his clothes, looking carefree and casual.
Shi Buxi instantly recalled the wedding night that happened a few hours ago and was about to cry. His waist hasn't healed yet! Grandmaster, why didn't you invent a waist-strengthening talisman?
"Wait a minute," Shi Buxi stretched out his hand from under the quilt, trying to reason with the unconscious man, "There are still zombies here!"
"It doesn't have to be stairs." The Zombie King leaned over, his breath cold. He lifted the young man, who looked as if the world had fallen, and held him sideways, a barely perceptible smile on his face.
Shi Buxi: How do you turn a question into an affirmative sentence?
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