Tang Chen once heard that a person's true death is when they completely disappear from people's memory. She had also experienced so many separations and deaths that she was almost used to it. Besides, when Wang Ruo returned from the secret cave, she had vaguely sensed something, but she had never dared to convince herself to believe it.
Tang Chen asked calmly, "Is Xihe's death also related to Xiahou Qing?"
Wang Yanzhou saw that she knew almost everything, so he didn't plan to say anything to cover up. Whenever Tang Chen asked, he answered honestly, "Yes."
Tang Chen continued to ask: "Then why did you hide it from me?"
"So that you can rest well."
Looking at Wang Yanzhou's sincere eyes, Tang Chen didn't want to pursue the matter any further. Ultimately, it was all for her own good. If she continued to insist, it would be a bit too much.
After taking a deep breath, Tang Chen took Wang Yanzhou's arm and said with a smile, "...Huh, let's go home. We have your favorite eight-treasure duck tonight."
"Um."
The rare time together always passed by so quickly. Before I knew it, it was already dark. After Tang Chen finished drinking the medicine, he couldn't help but say, "Now that you've eaten and drunk enough, you should tell me what happened. If you don't, I'll ask Wang Ruo. Fang Zheng usually won't hide anything from me."
Wang Yanzhou smiled and said, "It's not something particularly urgent. Shen Xin and Shu Yi are safe along the way, so don't worry."
Tang Chen said, "I know this. The key is what you were talking about in such a mysterious way. Fortunately, I only heard the second half, otherwise I wouldn't have come to ask you."
Wang Yanzhou held his forehead with his hand helplessly and asked, "Do you still remember the haunted incident in Xiaoshan?"
Tang Chen was a little confused as to why Wang Yanzhou suddenly brought up this old story. He asked, somewhat bewildered, "Could it be that something strange has happened again? Isn't Yaochen already under house arrest in Tianshu Tower?"
Wang Yanzhou nodded and said, "This is a bit of a coincidence, but it's hard to say whether it has any specific connection with what happened in Xiaoshan before."
"Tell me about it."
After Wang Yanzhou told Tang Chen everything he had said to Wang Ruo, Tang Chen's focus was not on the zombies that suddenly appeared, but on the safety of Chen Xin, Liang Shuyi, Qinghe and others.
She wasn't a Taoist priest, and she didn't have the same medical knowledge as the walking corpses. Even if she paid attention to them, it would be useless. "Have you told Qinghe and Chenxin about this news? They're all fine, right?"
Wang Yanzhou said, "They are all very good. I immediately replied to one of their letters when I received one during the day."
After hearing what he said, Tang Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. Fortunately, I was careful to let Hong Yu go with us. If it really has something to do with the Gu worm, she can really help a lot."
As for the matter of Hong Yu, it was thanks to Tang Chen, a chatterbox who couldn't keep a secret, that he didn't reveal anything to him. If it weren't for Chen Xin's letter, he wouldn't have known about it.
He had originally considered asking Hong Yu to help escort them. Firstly, Hong Yu's martial arts skills were unquestionable. Secondly, although the Huangfu family wasn't very active in South Vietnam, they were still a century-old family. If they tried to touch them, Xie Zhuangshui and his men would have to consider their own weight first. "You, I told you to just be at peace and not worry about these things, but you just can't sit still."
Tang Chen said righteously: "After all, I am your wife and a Liang countryman. If something happens in Liang country, I won't be so generous as to ask you to stay at home and do nothing."
"Yes, yes, whatever the madam says is right."
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When the night completely dyed the sky into a gloomy black, the faintly rising fire in the woods became the only light in the quiet forest.
The blood jade in Hong Yu's hand shone brightly, and the bloodthirsty insect residing within it, aroused by its recent rampage, was now intoxicated. However, this was not a good sign. If the bloodthirsty insect's rampage became too frenzied for her to control, she would have no chance of subduing this insect, cherished like a treasure by the Huangfu family, unless she summoned her grandfather.
Hong Yu took out the small porcelain bottle he had carefully hidden away and poured the dark green liquid inside onto the blood jade. He said with a tired look on his face, "It's really endless. Why does it happen every evening? Have other teams reported the same situation as us?"
Although they were very unhappy with the zombies these days, fortunately, they were the only ones who encountered them. Although Shen Xin felt a little helpless, he was also thankful: "The communication of other teams is normal, there is nothing wrong, and they have not encountered these strange things."
Liang Shuyi said: "Their purpose is so obvious, it's really strange, it's like they have eyes."
The attendants also expressed that they had to be wary of sneak attacks from the South Vietnamese and some bandits along the way. Now, at dusk, when they should be resting, there are also zombies. They feel physically and mentally exhausted. "If this continues, we will die of exhaustion on the road before we reach the capital."
When Liang Shuyi mentioned the concept of purpose, Hong Yu suddenly remembered that if these corpses were driven by poisonous insects, the person who cast the poison must rely on some method to make these unconscious bodies achieve his predetermined goals.
If other teams didn't encounter this situation, that means they were the only ones carrying things that attracted those special poisonous insects: "I saw a stream not far away earlier. After daybreak, let's go sit there and check the things we brought with us."
Liang Shuyi still asked with a hint of doubt: "You mean, we have something that will attract those zombies to chase us?"
Hong Yu said as he sorted out his belongings, "What else could it be? If they were being controlled as puppets, the person controlling them would have to have a medium, and they'd have to be nearby. But judging by what's been happening over the past few days, there haven't been any sounds or things connecting these zombies."
Chen Xin said that the things they brought were basically packed by themselves or were uniformly equipped. Generally speaking, there shouldn't be any special situations. "Didn't you say before that they still retain a little bit of consciousness? Is that possible?"
Hong Yu said with certainty, "This situation is almost impossible, unless there really are ghosts and gods in this world."
This remark by Hong Yu reminded Liang Shuyi of Tang Chen. Although Tang Chen also claimed that there was no reasonable explanation for her appearance, she seemed to have the same attitude towards spirits and gods. Saints always say to keep spirits and gods at a distance; their thoughts seemed to differ from the saints' words. "Miss Hong Yu, are you so sure that there are no spirits and ghosts?"
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