“Ding Ding…Boom…Ding!!”
The heavy tank swayed left and right as it moved forward on the road. When it reached the entrance of the village, it shook violently and then stopped.
After a while, the cabin door opened, and the girls climbed out one by one as if fleeing.
“I’m never riding this again!”
Misaka Mikoto looked distressed.
“I think it’s better to walk…”
"Me too, onee-sama..."
At this moment, Shirai Kuroko also looked listless.
"Although we already know Mr. Fang Zheng's driving skills, but this time... still... still..."
Shirai Kuroko kept saying "still" for a long time but couldn't find a word to describe it.
On the other side, Riri Saotome gently patted Lei's back and looked at her with a worried look on her face.
"Are you okay? Lei."
"Yeah... not bad..."
Lei turned her head, her pale little face looking a little weak, and smiled at Saten Ruiko.
"I said, do you really have to do this?"
Fang Zheng climbed out and curled his lips at the girls in front of him.
"I'm not familiar with the front part, but you see I'm familiar with the back part, so I can drive over. What's the problem? I used to be a domineering person in the level 10 room. Learn from Alyssa and Fili. Look how soundly they sleep in there. You guys are just spoiled..."
"Sleeping well?"
Shirai Kuroko's figure flashed and she returned to the tank. The next moment, her scream rang out.
"Oh no, onee-sama, Saten-san, Alisa-san, and Felli-san fainted!"
"What?"
"Hurry up and carry them out!!"
A group of girls worked together to carry the two unconscious guys outside. After a while, Fili and Alyssa finally woke up.
"Ah, people are just too fragile."
Fang Zheng shook his head, then looked towards the village in front of him and squinted his eyes to take in the situation.
"Why does it feel like there's no one here?"
At this moment, the others also reacted. You know, the sound of the tank is very loud. In addition, they just tossed around for so long. If there were people in the village, they would have come out to check the situation. But now, the village in front of them was still dead silent, and there was not even a single light.
"Ugh... I feel a little bit scared."
Lei Zi couldn't help but rub her arms and looked around anxiously.
"I remember that there was often such a scene in the horror movies I watched before, where a group of people came to an uninhabited village and waited until midnight..."
"Aaaah, stop it, stop it, Saten-kun!"
Before Saten Ruiko could finish her words, Misaka Mikoto covered her ears and Shirai Kuroko sighed helplessly.
"Onee-sama, you are really something. You believe this kind of thing to deceive children... But this place is indeed not normal."
Ignoring the girls behind him discussing, Fang Zheng casually walked to one of the houses, stretched out his hand and pushed open the door. With a harsh "creaking" sound, the wooden door slowly opened, revealing the furniture inside. Then Fang Zheng snapped his fingers, and soon, a ball of light appeared in front of him, illuminating the originally dark room.
"It doesn't look like it was abandoned a long time ago."
At this moment, Alisa and Fili also came over with all their strength, carefully observing the situation here. Abandoned settlements are not uncommon in the end times, but the situation here is obviously different. Although the furniture inside looks old, it is very clean and complete, and...
Fang Zheng reached out his hand, gently stroked the table, and looked at the thin layer of dust on it.
"No one has cleaned the place for two or three days at most, which means that just two or three days ago, there were still people living in this village."
"But now he's gone, and...it seems like he left very suddenly."
Shirai Kuroko walked to the table and picked up a cup - a sticky substance could be seen in it. Although no one knew what it was, it was obvious that just a few days ago, someone was drinking something from this cup, and then because something happened, he put down the cup in his hand, and then... he never came back.
"Let's go in and take a look."
Fang Zheng made a gesture, and then the group of people continued to walk towards the village.
Everything seemed normal along the way, with nothing unusual at all. But when everyone walked along the village road to the square in the center of the village, everything finally changed.
"This is……!"
Looking at the broken windows and doors around them, as well as the blood-spattered ground, the girls widened their eyes in surprise. Without much thought, it was clear that a fierce battle must have taken place here before.
"So, there was a battle in the village. Was it an internal fight? Or was it an external enemy?"
Fang Zheng folded his arms, stared at the battlefield in front of him, and then his eyes suddenly widened.
The next moment, time began to go back.
In Fang Zheng's eyes, the square in front of him changed rapidly, and then the battle began.
He was a white-haired young man wearing a black windbreaker, holding a pistol in his hand. Opposite him were dozens of villagers holding weapons. They were dressed no differently from ordinary people, but the knives and guns in their hands clearly showed that these people were not just simple and kind villagers.
Then, a one-sided massacre began.
However, the villagers did not have the upper hand in this one-sided situation. On the contrary, they were easily blown off the head by the white-haired young man, and soon died on the ground.
Not long after the white-haired young man killed these villagers, a girl in her teens carrying a shovel came here. She obviously looked like she knew those villagers. After discovering that the villagers were killed, the girl was obviously very angry and immediately launched an attack on the white-haired young man, but was quickly knocked unconscious by him.
After knocking the girl unconscious, the white-haired young man carried her to a nearby house, then came out again and sat by the well to smoke until the girl woke up again. This time, the two sides talked for a few words, and then the white-haired young man grabbed the girl and walked out of the village. After a while, the girl was seen wiping her tears while walking back along the original path. Then she took out a coffin from somewhere, put the bodies into the coffin, and then dragged the coffin to the hill outside the village again...
"Let's go over there and take a look."
Seeing the girl disappear, Fang Zheng blinked his eyes, then walked towards the path.
When the group walked up the hillside, the scene before them shocked the girls speechless.
I saw dozens of tombstones standing on the hillside. Under the silvery moonlight, they looked extremely... weird.
“Woo…”
Misaka Mikoto couldn't help but hide behind Fang Zheng, and when Shirai Kuroko saw this scene, he pressed his forehead helplessly and sighed.
Fang Zheng walked slowly to one of the graves and stared at it. Then he raised his hand. Soon, the soil began to turn over frantically, revealing one of the coffins.
"Mr. Fang Zheng, what are you doing?"
Seeing this, Saten Ruiko couldn't help but ask. Fang Zheng waved his hand, signaling them not to speak, and then reached out and opened the lid of the coffin.
Soon, a strange odor emanated from it, which immediately made the girls cover their mouths and noses and step back. Fang Zheng frowned and stared into the coffin without saying a word for a long time.
"Mr. Fang Zheng, what on earth are you doing?"
At this moment, the others also looked at Fang Zheng in confusion, not understanding why he brought them to the cemetery to dig graves so late at night.
"Come over and take a look, and guess how long this person has been dead."
"Why--!?"
Faced with Fang Zheng's request, the girls immediately looked embarrassed. Misaka Mikoto, Shirai Kuroko and Saten Ruiko not only did not step forward, but also took two steps back - in all honesty, they were just a group of ordinary students and had hardly ever seen a dead body!
Of course, the monster’s corpse is another matter.
Alyssa was a God Eater who had undergone rigorous training after all. At this moment, she followed Fang Zheng's order, walked forward, looked carefully at the corpse in front of her, and frowned slightly.
"Judging from the state of decay, he has been dead for about two or three years..."
“Hehehe.”
However, facing Alyssa's answer, Fang Zheng laughed.
"If I tell you that this corpse was still moving three days ago, would you believe it?"
"Why?!!"
Hearing this, the girls screamed immediately. Now the others were no longer afraid of the corpse and stepped forward one after another. Riri Saten took a look and quickly covered Rei's eyes and took her aside. Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko also had livid faces and quickly retreated. Fili didn't even go up to take a look.
"How is this possible? Mr. Fang Zheng, judging from the degree of decay of this body, it is obvious that the body has been dead for some time."
"Yes, and it's not just a while ago. In fact, the person in front of me has been dead for almost ten years."
“This is impossible!”
At this moment, Riri Saotome screamed.
"If it took ten years, wouldn't it have turned into bones long ago? How could it still have... flesh on it?"
"Yes, that's true for normal corpses, but it's different for living corpses."
"What does living...corpse mean?"
After hearing Fang Zheng's answer, the girls all felt a chill around them, and at the same time, Fili and Alisa seemed to react.
"Mr. Fang Zheng, are you saying that this is the place that is protected by God? The place where people will never die?"
"Why?!"
Hearing this, the others remembered the news and stories they had heard on the road before. It was said that there was a place protected by gods, where people would not die and the gods would not invade...
“But these people are still dead.”
Misaka Mikoto also found the loophole in the story. If the people there would not die, then what was lying in the grave? Movie props?
"I don't know either."
In response to Misaka Mikoto's question, Fang Zheng shook his head and waved his hand again. Soon, the coffin closed again and slowly sank into the ground.
"But it's obvious that there must be something wrong with this place..."