Seeing the bewildered look in Li Mao's eyes as he rushed back, Zhao Hongwei began to explain.
"All zombies are formed because of lingering resentment in their hearts."
"I just drew out the resentment within him, and the flesh corpse naturally died completely."
Upon hearing this, Li Mao nodded repeatedly, while simultaneously asking another question that had been on his mind: "Hongwei, does this mean you can't eat walnuts anymore?!"
Zhao Hongwei: "......"
......
On the other side, the expert sitting alone in the police car saw Zhao Youliang and the others wanting to "return home" after completing their mission, and couldn't help but curse under his breath.
"You brats, are you all stupid?!"
"You're going back already? Don't you know you should check it carefully?!"
"If you go back like this, then all my efforts to lure you here will have been for nothing!"
After speaking, he grabbed at the air with a face full of anger.
Just as Zhao Youliang was about to take a step, he suddenly felt something grab his ankle and immediately fell face-first into the dirt with a thud.
"Holy crap, how did I slip and fall on flat ground?"
Zhao Youliang cursed as he brushed the dirt off his body and got up.
Liao Zhiyuan immediately stepped forward with concern: "Brother Quantum, you... oh my god!"
Before he could finish speaking, he also tripped and fell face-first into the mud.
Immediately following was the fat zombie Zhao Hongwei: "What are you doing... Ouch, that hurts!"
Seeing the three of them fall one after another, Li Mao was so frightened that he dared not move.
At the same time, he quickly took out the soot from the bottom of the pot that he carried with him, smeared it on his eyes, and looked around.
"Could it be something dirty? I can't see it!"
Liao Zhiyuan was extremely clever; instead of getting up, he lay on the ground and spoke.
"It's probably not something dirty; there's something strange about this place."
"Firstly, we didn't sense any yin energy. Secondly, if it were something evil harming us, it wouldn't be as simple as just tripping us up."
Liao Zhiyuan was clever, and Zhao Youliang wasn't too stupid either.
Upon hearing this, he pondered for a moment and guessed the gist: "Could it be that some force is secretly preventing us from leaving here?!"
"But what is his purpose?!"
As Zhao Youliang spoke, he looked around and just then noticed a rusty iron box protruding from the soil beneath his feet.
This thing was probably buried in the ground before, but it was dug up again recently when the government was leveling up the messy graveyard.
Because it was so badly rusted, the lock on the box broke off easily, revealing a "book" wrapped in oilcloth inside.
"What is this? Could it be a secret manual?!"
Zhao Youliang had experienced many hardships since childhood, so he did not know how to read traditional Chinese characters at all, and could only hand the "book" to Liao Zhiyuan.
Liao Zhiyuan, having studied under a renowned master, naturally recognized him, and after observing for a while, his expression changed slightly.
After looking around, he spoke softly.
"Brother Quantum, it's not convenient to talk here. Let's go back and talk!"
"Go back? Can you move now?!" Zhao Youliang said as he tried to take a step, and this time nothing pulled him back.
As they relaxed, they didn't forget to clasp their hands in a gesture of respect to those around them.
"This junior thanks you for your guidance, sir. Farewell for now!"
"I will always remember your reminder today!"
After saying this, the group felt relieved and drove back to the town.
Inside the police car, the expert was clearly quite satisfied with Zhao Youliang's attitude, nodding and smiling repeatedly.
Then he reached up and wiped his face, revealing his true appearance.
It was the old Taoist priest who lured Zhao Youliang here, the same unscrupulous driver the young general had mentioned.
"Young man, if you hadn't always been so respectful of your elders, I wouldn't have helped you time and time again."
"Alas, although the master has arranged a great opportunity for you, it is also a great danger."
"If you don't make it through, you'll be doomed..."
......
Inside Li Mao's unlicensed car, Zhao Hongwei asked Zhao Youliang with a puzzled expression.
"Quantum, how do you know that a master is secretly helping us?"
"The master's goal is to make us discover that iron box?!"
Zhao Youliang nodded slightly upon hearing this, though he spoke with a hint of embarrassment.
"I'm not sure if there's a master helping us, but I just feel that it's never wrong to be polite."
“Hongwei, you don’t know, when I was a child I was a homeless person, and I avoided a lot of beatings by being polite.”
At this point, Zhao Youliang suddenly stopped and turned to look at Liao Zhiyuan.
"Xiao Liao, what exactly is written in that book? Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Liao Zhiyuan's expression was complicated, and he finally let out a long sigh after a long while.
"Alas, Chu traveler, do not speak of the limitations of the mountain; the human heart is more treacherous than the mountain."
“Brother Quantum, the matter between the town’s ancestors and the Wu warlord is not simple.”
Through Liao Zhiyuan's account, Zhao Youliang and others finally gained a deeper understanding of the phrase "the wickedness of human nature".
It turns out that the "book" we just discovered was actually a book of heretical practices and a diary.
The owner of the diary was none other than the warlord surnamed Wu.
After his defeat, he went into hiding in a small town. The reason he was so kind to the townspeople was actually because he had malicious intentions.
The goal was to take advantage of the residents' complacency and turn them all into "corpse soldiers" to help him make a comeback.
Unfortunately, people are treacherous, and the town's ancestors, driven by greed, preemptively struck before the Wu-surname warlord could act.
Of course, the ancestors of the town's residents were unaware of these events, so they were not good people either.
After listening to Liao Zhiyuan's explanation, Zhao Youliang finally uttered a single word of exclamation after a long while: "Damn!"
"So they're just dogs fighting each other, aren't they? Not a single one of them is any good!"
"But the 'expert' went to all this trouble just to let us understand the truth? That can't be right!"
Liao Zhiyuan shook his head with a smile: "Brother Quantum, the reason why vengeful ghosts are so powerful is because of their overwhelming resentment."
"Where does resentment come from? It's nothing more than feeling wronged and having a heart full of grievances."
"And now? They themselves weren't good people, or rather, the warlord father of those puppets wasn't a good person, so what's the point of accusing them!"
"They're just harming each other!"
"If we tell these things to the evil spirits in the town, even if they don't disappear on the spot, their resentment will dissipate by more than half."
"Wouldn't that make things much easier to deal with?"
Liao Zhiyuan's words were like the sun breaking through the clouds for Zhao Youliang.
"Haha, let's stick to what we said: as long as we can save the kind people in the town, that's good enough."
"As for those whose ancestors were immoral and who still bully honest people now... hehe!"
"Yes!" Liao Zhiyuan nodded deeply.
"Anyway, the vengeful ghosts will first target the five major surnames. We only need to protect Brother Zhou, Brother Chen Wei, and a few others."
"However, it seems that only a few households of the five major surnames are left."
When Zhao Youliang and the others returned to the paper-making shop, they ran into Huang Yu, who looked very worried.
After recounting everything that had happened, Huang Yu appeared deep in thought.
"Quantum, that blind man must be a master; you've missed him."
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