"Ghost, ghost!"
"Run! The monster is coming!"
Chen Xin said that, just like Tang Chen's crow mouth said, some things should not be said too confidently. Two days ago, he was still saying that the capital was safe and there were no zombies. Now it seems that his words were too early. "Butler, you and the guards stay and make sure to guard the Duke's Mansion."
When the housekeeper heard that Chen Xin only brought Hong Yu, a girl, to check the situation, he suddenly became excited: "What about you, son-in-law?"
Chen Xin said: "I have my own way. I will hand over the people in this mansion to you."
The steward's eyes, which had become somewhat cloudy due to age, now seemed to have regained the brightness of his youth: "Don't worry, sir. Even if it costs me my life, I will definitely protect the safety of the Duke's Mansion!"
Chen Xin and Hong Yu saw that there were too many people on the street and it was a bit chaotic, so they simply jumped onto the wall. However, the direction of the crowd was a bit confusing, and for a moment they really couldn't figure out where the ghostly thing was discovered.
After observing from the top of the wall for a while, Hong Yu jumped down and brought an armored soldier from the crowd to the rooftop and asked, "Big brother, may I ask what happened in Jingji City? Why is there such chaos?"
The soldier calmed down and confirmed that he was indeed standing on the street to clear the flow of people. After being pulled up, he asked in a trembling voice, "Who are you?"
Chen Xin watched Hong Yu pull the soldiers guarding the city up and quickly replied, "We are from the Duke of Liang's Mansion. We just heard some noise outside, and the Duke asked us to come out and see what happened."
When the soldier heard they were from the Duke of Liang's mansion, he quickly bowed to them and explained, "A group of poisonous monsters have suddenly gathered near the city gates in the east, south, west, and north of the capital. Although the city gates have been urgently closed, the soldiers who were scratched by the monsters are in a strange state."
Chen Xin continued to ask: "Who is the general guarding the city now?"
The mention of the generals guarding the city filled Brother Bing with rage. While the previous generals weren't as victorious as the great generals on the battlefield, they were at least paid to do their jobs. But then, Tianshu Tower accused them of conspiring with Princess Shuyang to murder Emperor Gan Zhao, and they were all replaced.
"Alas, what generals are there? They are just a bunch of useless trash promoted by Tianshu Tower. Seeing that the situation was not right, they actually rode away on their horses!"
After thinking for a moment, he said, "Isn't the eldest prince in the palace? Now is the time to let him take charge of the situation."
Brother Bing said helplessly: "It's easy for this gentleman to say. Even if I want to, I can't enter the Forbidden Palace with my status!"
Chen Xin handed him his token and shouted, "Take this, and bring the people you can gather. I think the imperial guards will not dare to stop you."
"...Is this the token of the Qingliang Palace?!"
By the time Brother Bing reacted, Chen Xin and Hong Yu had already walked on the rooftop towards the East City Gate, leaving him with only their increasingly smaller figures.
Before Chen Xin and the other two reached the city wall, there were already wails near the city gate. Although the city gate was locked, a few zombies were still allowed in. These zombies scratched and bit people when they saw them. If there were not a few reliable soldiers guarding the city, there would be more injured people than what they saw.
Hong Yu glanced at the injured people and quickly awakened the bloodthirsty insects in the blood jade: "Chen Xin, these things are different from the ones we encountered before. Be careful and don't let them touch you."
When Hong Yu was cleaning up the zombies, she inadvertently glanced at those who were bitten. Their eyeballs had become chaotic and their joints had undergone strange mutations. Only then did she realize that the poisonous insects that might have been immature before had now been raised to maturity by the master behind them.
After Hong Yu killed a zombie that had grabbed an innocent passerby, the passerby thanked her and was about to flee this dangerous place. However, Hong Yu grabbed the passerby and picked up the weapon left by the soldiers on the ground. With a wave of her hand, the passerby's injured hands fell to the ground from the shoulders: "Ahhh!"
Hong Yu pushed the man towards the stunned guard and ordered, "You, send him to bandage his wound."
“Yes, yes, yes!”
By the time they'd dealt with all the zombies at the East City Gate, their clothes were soaked with sweat. Hong Yu wiped the sweat from his forehead and panted, "With just the two of us, by the time we've cleared all four gates, I'm afraid more than half the people in the city will be infected with the zombie poison. These zombies aren't as numerous as we encountered before, but they're still much more difficult to deal with."
Chen Xin straightened up and saw the butler's short stature, which was very conspicuous among the crowd, from a distance. He said, "It's okay. The Duke's Mansion has sent people to help. Let's go up to the city wall and see what's going on outside."
After a quick inspection of the capital's perimeter along the city walls, the two men discovered that the situation seemed better than they had imagined. Capital wasn't completely surrounded by zombies; in fact, aside from the four city gates, there wasn't a single sign of zombies anywhere else.
Seeing that the situation wasn't completely dire, Chen Xin and the others sat down on the tower to catch their breath. Taking advantage of their break, Hong Yu analyzed, "The zombies at the four gates combined aren't numerous, but the exits are blocked, so they appear numerous. Furthermore, these creatures possess hideous features, carry a deadly poison, and possess no regard for life or death, never tire of fatigue. Therefore, their deterrent power is quite formidable."
After Shen Xin sighed deeply, he said, "Thank you for your timely help to those people in the city who were poisoned by corpses."
Hong Yu was stunned for a moment before saying, "I was forced to do so. Those whose limbs I cut off will probably encounter many setbacks in the rest of their lives."
Chen Xin smiled and said, "But they are very grateful to you for allowing them to survive as a human being."
After hearing what Chen Xin said, Hong Yu felt a lot less guilty. She even felt a little embarrassed by what he said. She quickly changed the subject with red ears and said, "Well, speaking of which, Shi Zairong, what exactly do you want to do?"
Chen Xin snorted coldly and said, what they wanted to do has been clearly laid out on the table from the beginning, right? "Their ultimate goal has always been only one."
Hong Yu saw that it was getting late, and the zombies in several city gates had been dealt with with the help of the guards of officials who still had some public awareness.
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