In the afternoon, the news of the Yang family's property being confiscated spread throughout the capital. Chu Nian admired the emperor's swift action, thinking that he was probably afraid his mother would soften her heart if too much time passed.
Yang Jie was sentenced to be executed three days later for poisoning the late emperor. Although his wife, Lady Li, was unaware of Yang Jie's deeds, she had helped to bribe palace eunuchs and later dealt with all the palace maids and eunuchs involved in the matter. She was also sentenced to be executed.
The rest of the household members were either exiled to the army or sold into slavery or prostitution.
This matter even implicated the Li family, the Duke of Li's household, who were stripped of their titles and reduced to commoners.
On the day Yang Jie and Li were executed, Chu Nian went to witness the execution.
Seeing the couple who had killed the original owner beheaded, Chu Nian felt the anger in her chest completely dissipate, indicating that the original owner's resentment had been successfully eliminated.
She had been thinking that because of her time travel, the female lead's romantic storyline had developed much more slowly. Should she try to bring the female lead and the male lead together? But as soon as she felt relieved, she suddenly felt a blur before her eyes.
Having learned from her previous experience, she already guessed that she had been removed from this world.
Whispers sounded in her ear, as if someone was talking. She could tell that they were very far away at first, but they quickly got closer. Chu Nian also recognized one of the voices as familiar—it sounded like the computer notification sound she had heard when she was forcibly put into this transmigrated world.
Chu Nian didn't have time to hear what the "computer notification tone" was saying, but she was certain that this time the other party wasn't speaking in the manner of a "computer notification tone," but rather in the manner of a normal person speaking, seemingly talking to a superior, because the tone sounded somewhat obsequious.
The reason the voice sounded like a "computer notification tone" before was probably because the owner of the voice had specially processed it to make it impossible for Chu Nian to trace it afterward. But the other party would never have imagined that Chu Nian now distinguishes voices not simply by tone, speed, etc., but by frequency bands.
This was something Chu Nian would never have dared to imagine in her lifetime. This made her even more convinced that the memories that appeared in her mind after her soul entered the underworld were her own.
These sounds only lasted for two breaths before she was far from the underworld. After a dizzying, unsteady feeling, she felt herself fall heavily. Having experienced this twice before, she knew that she had entered another body this time.
It seems that the underworld is just a transit point for her now, which feels strange.
Regardless, Chu Nian immediately sensed that this was not only a healthy body, but also that a special energy was flowing within it. This struck Chu Nian as somewhat novel.
However, in addition to the influx of the original owner's memories, due to the fluctuation of this special energy, some special memories also appeared, just like the memories that appeared in her soul when she was in the underworld. She felt that these memories were the awakening of her past life's memories.
However, that was irrelevant to her life in this world. After confirming that these memories wouldn't disappear, Chu Nian decided to sort them out slowly later. She quickly focused her attention on the present. Because when she transmigrated, she sensed a deep fear in the original owner's heart, and guessed that this body was likely in a dangerous situation at this moment.
Although Chu Nian guessed that even if she died in the worlds of these books, she would probably only return to the underworld, she did not want to die so soon, thanks to the memories she had awakened.
For her, who was dying from a terminal illness, a healthy body was more important than anything else. If she could maintain her health indefinitely, then the underworld wouldn't be so bad as just a transit point.
Chu Nian found herself in an underground shopping mall, but for some reason, the mall was dark and there were no lights on. Because it was underground, there were no windows, and only a sliver of light shone through the entrance in the distance.
The original owner was probably afraid of danger and was hiding behind a counter.
As Chu Nian sorted through the original owner's memories, she held her breath and kept a close watch on her surroundings, because she heard faint footsteps, indicating that the original owner was definitely not alone here.
A moment later, a man's voice, like that of a demon from hell, rang out sinisterly: "Niannian, little darling? Where are you? Stop hiding, you know you can't escape. Even if you survive today, don't you plan to rejoin the team? Without our protection, aren't you afraid the zombies will catch you?"
The man must have been completely unaware of Chu Nian's location, as he had already moved in another direction and the sound was fading into the distance.
Chu Nian secretly breathed a sigh of relief; she had finished organizing the original owner's memories.
The original owner of this body, Li Nian, was in her second year of university when the apocalypse struck. Many of her classmates awakened superpowers, but Li Nian, despite clearly feeling an unusual energy flow within her body, was unable to unleash any of her powers.
What's even stranger is that no matter where she goes, even in places her teammates have carefully scouted and confirmed are free of zombies, zombies will soon appear.
Soon after, Li Nian's teammates discovered that the zombies were particularly obsessed with her. Li Nian was like a zombie magnet. They initially wanted to kick her out of the team, but when they discovered that they could absorb zombie cores to enhance their abilities, they changed their minds and forced Li Nian to attract the zombies.
Li Nian didn't want to continue being their zombie magnet, so she found a chance to escape and joined another human team composed entirely of strangers.
However, a member of the team named Zhang Gang, who possessed superpowers, quickly discovered her special physique and also found that Li Nian's superpowers were a "delicacy" for other superpowered individuals.
Those with superpowers could directly absorb Li Nian's abilities, which was easier to enhance than refining and absorbing zombie crystal cores. Zhang Gang made Li Nian act as his "power bank" and threatened her, saying that if she dared to tell anyone, he would make her the "power bank" for all those with superpowers. Fearing that she would be drained dry, Li Nian dared not utter a word and could only let Zhang Gang take whatever he wanted.
But as the abilities of both zombies and superhumans continued to improve, the zombies began to develop human consciousness, resorting to trickery and organizing low-level zombies into an army. Zhang Gang was captured by a zombie king, and he offered Li Nian up. After the zombie king drained Li Nian of her superhuman abilities, it ate her completely, leaving not even bones behind. This caused the zombie king's physique to mutate, allowing it to break through and become a zombie holy emperor.
The female protagonist of this book, Zhang Lan, is Zhang Gang's younger sister and the team leader. She had actually discovered that Zhang Gang was threatening Li Nian long ago, but she had kept quiet and even secretly helped Zhang Gang cover up the truth. For this, Zhang Gang gave her a lot of zombie crystal cores.
In fact, if Zhang Gang hadn't been absorbing Li Nian's superpowers, Li Nian would have grown up long ago and might have been able to fight the Zombie King.
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