Chapter 79

The chaos began.

The continuously collapsing building debris of the auction house fell straight into the ground from the mezzanine dug by Gu Hongying and his team, stirring up puffs of smoke and dust. The suddenly appearing black fog man and crazy shrubs occupied the underground space, creating a scene of chaos and disorder.

In the comics, strange colors occupy people's entire field of vision, and the chaos above and below the ground is drawn side by side, as if it is the end of the world.

The broken pieces of the mirror reflected fierce red light in every corner. The collapsing space, the rescuing bushes, the biting zombies, the panicked ordinary people... everything was covered with layers of strange red.

As if this situation wasn’t chaotic enough, the comic montage shows an auctioneer introducing the mirror—

"Golden light is good fortune, white light is normal fortune, black light is bad luck, and red light is disaster..."

In the dim underground, the red light was as thick as blood, and ordinary people showed their desperate eyes through the gaps in the bushes; on the brighter ground, smoke and dust rose up, and red light projected from the cracks, reflecting the various tribes crawling and rolling to avoid danger—

In the rolling dust, a bush ball suddenly jumped out!

This bush ball has a pair of long legs made of bushes similar to those of a human. It is now running desperately towards a safe place. When the view zooms in, Yu Tu, who looks confused, is sitting inside the bush ball. When the view zooms out, people of various races who are trying to avoid danger are following the ball and rushing out all at once!

After the last person who followed disappeared, a long-legged bush ball suddenly jumped out from the underground space!

The people in this bush ball are Gu Hongying, Lu Susu and Yin Li. Maybe the ball was made hastily, so the three of them were forced to squeeze into a small space. Lu Susu's right front paw squeezed Gu Hongying's cheek and twisted it into a pout. One of his tails was tangled with Yin Li's hair, and the other was tied around Gu Hongying's neck. His left hind leg was hooked on the inner layer of the bush ball. The whole fox was squeezed to the point of being deformed!

The bush ball jumped on the shaky building without caring about the life and death of the people inside. The two people and the fox saw mosquito coils in their eyes. They were carsick... No, they were ball sick.

[嘤嘤 As expected, this is the treatment of the protagonist~]

[Hahahahaha, their treatment is worse than that of ordinary people in the underground space. At least ordinary people have a safer temporary passage hahahaha! ]

[Is this a blessing from heaven, Tutu? The first time, Yingying was even worse than him, hahahaha!]

[Tutu: Escape safely and peacefully.JPG

Yingying: A safe and dizzy escape.JPG]

Two sets of parallel images are still continuing. One set shows the bush ball running to the bush ball where Yu Tu is. The two bush balls stick together and then merge instantly, and Yu Tu and the dusty trio merge. The other set of views follows an ordinary girl who is lifted up by vines, and witnesses the process of an ordinary person suddenly falling to the ground and instantly transforming after reaching the safe top of the mountain.

The scene of Gu Hongying's group ended temporarily after he was sent to the bush ball, and was replaced by people that comic readers had seen in the previous chapters - the beautiful elder whom Yu Tu met in the cafeteria after returning to the Plant Clan, and the special team nine who rushed to rescue after Huapi self-destructed.

Each of them looked serious and alert. After the zombies in the underground space were killed accurately, bushes suddenly grew out of thin air under the feet of the beautiful elder, sending her to the ground space. Her figure disappeared in a few breaths, and only one sentence echoed, occupying the entire speaking frame of the screen, with sharp edges on the edges—

"The spiritual energy on the ground is fluctuating abnormally. Someone among the ordinary people may be mutating!"

Next to the dialogue box, in another set of pictures, the girl who witnessed the transformation was caught up by zombies while escaping. The comic gave a close-up of her psychological activities—

[The Jade Emperor, Tathagata Buddha, Jade Emperor, Queen Mother, Great Saint, Three Pure Ones, Mysterious Shop Owner, Beautiful Beauty, who among you has time to come and save me? I am in dire straits!!!]

Comic readers were nervous for her at first, but soon they were amused by her psychological activities.

[Hey, girl, don't be nervous. I calculated that if the comic book gives you a storyboard like this, you won't be surprised!]

[Hahahahaha, I am dying of laughter at her mental activity! The mental activity without punctuation seems familiar~]

[嘤嘤: Who cued me? ]

[I understand the prayer at the beginning, after all, it is what everyone is used to. I also know who the beautiful woman at the end is. The mysterious shop owner... can't be who I think she is?!]

[I ordered ten packs of spicy noodles, it must be my wife! ]

The comic was not prepared to whet the readers' appetite. When the zombie was only two or three steps away from the girl, the bracelet on her wrist suddenly emitted a faint green light, and the bracelet with black beads instantly turned into a sprout. The sprout continued to extend, passed over the girl's shoulder, and gave the zombie behind her a big punch!

[? ? ? ]

[I also want to say——this method seems familiar!]

[Just now, Elder Guiyu of the Plant Clan also used a bush to give a big punch to the foul-mouthed person, right?!]

[My wife is from the Plant Tribe, even her way of beating people is exactly the same!]

[I laughed so hard! I feel like I learned something new!]

But these teasing did not last long, and soon turned into a unified aaaaah, because in the comics the tender buds fell to the ground and quickly grew into a tree. White light suddenly rose from the tree and turned into a vortex, and people familiar to the readers walked out slowly and calmly.

[Aaaaaaaah, this appearance is so cool! She is worthy of being my wife!]

[The second-year soul is burning! ]

[Is this the legendary plants vs zombies?]

[The one about plants vs zombies is over, now I have a picture in my mind!!!]

Amid the comic readers' screams of "Ahhh" and "Ahhhh", the white whirlpool and the tree turned into spots of light all over the sky, converging into the chain of the Nevernight Marquis's monocle. Then vines broke out of the ground and easily trapped the zombie.

The rescued girl held a rose in her hand and bowed to the back of the Hou Ye. There was a hint of piety in her mumbling voice, and the comic readers burst into laughter.

[Hahahaha, at the critical moment we still have to thank our wives!]

[My wife is the most reliable! yyds!]

[Gemstone baby gives roses, wife personally rescues people, I feel jealous, what kind of heavenly treatment is this? I want it too!]

[What do you want? Do you want to get close to the hairy zombie?

[Dog head holding a rose.JPG]

In the comics, it was easy for Buye to subdue zombies. After killing a hairy zombie that had hurt someone, the vines rolled out a black fragment from the zombie's forehead and placed it in the heart of the rose in the girl's hand.

[Hahahahahaha I can even imagine what that girl is thinking!]

[Hahahahaha it’s dirty! The rose is dirty!]

[My wife’s vine is so cute = v =, it put the fragments on it and patted it considerately, is it afraid that the fragments will fall off?]

[I suspect this is my wife’s bad taste…]

Amid the laughter of the commentators, the two parallel pictures finally merged into one. The girl, who was bewitched by Guiyu's smile, dazedly handed over the rose in her hand. The moment the rose fell into Guiyu's palm, the smile disappeared from her face.

The comics present her psychological activities on paper—

[Is this... an unmelted bone fragment? ]

Yu Tu's hand that was turning the page paused.

The black bead on Wu Yulan's bracelet turned out to be an incorruptible bone fragment?

Thanks to the training during this period, Yu Tu also has an intuitive understanding of the zombie system. Zombies gather the resentment of heaven and earth, absorb the death energy of heaven and earth, and are born with bad luck. Those that do not turn into bones are one of the highest levels of zombies.

After a person dies, certain parts of the body become infused with spirits, causing the corpse to not decay. The parts that do not decay are the unmelted bones. After absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, the unmelted bones have the ability to cause trouble.

Maybe it's to make zombies more powerful, and ordinary people will turn into zombies after long-term contact with fragments?

Yu Tu could only speculate based on his previous experiences and observations, but seeing Guiyu's serious expression in the comics, he felt that it was not that simple.

Yu Tu turned the page of the comic book. The comic book briefly explained the follow-up of the handling of this incident—the simultaneous collapse of the ground and underground space caused a small-scale landslide. The movement was too loud to be concealed, so after the emergency handling, the Special Affairs Bureau characterized the incident to the outside world as "because the vegetation on the mountain suffered serious damage, resulting in soil erosion and loose soil, resulting in a small-scale collapse of the mountain."

The world is vast, and different disasters happen in different places every day. A small landslide is absolutely normal. Except for the county where the mountain is located, not many people pay attention to this insignificant news.

It is easy to solve external problems, but it is troublesome internally.

Yu Tu saw that in the comics, everyone who participated in the follow-up meeting had a heavy face, even Tu Jiaojiao, who had big red cheeks and brows so wrinkled that they could pinch a fly to death.

———This is a projection conference.

The person sitting in the most central seat had only a faint halo, and only a vague outline of a woman could be seen. With her as the dividing line, on one side sat the demon clan headed by Guiyu, and on the other side sat the nine special groups. On each side there were many unfamiliar faces that Yu Tu did not recognize.

The dialogue boxes were piled up together, making the atmosphere seem a bit tense.

The first to attack was the member on the right. His clothes were similar to those of the special forces, but different. He pulled out a few pieces of paper with words printed on them from a thick blue folder: "I would like to ask you, why did the unmelted remains appear in the surface world after 18 years?"

His attitude was extremely polite, but the content of his words was not friendly, and even a little aggressive: "According to the agreement eighteen years ago, Bu Hua Gu was moved from Chang'an Academy to Kunlun to suppress him again after the incident. Is Kunlun neglecting its duties?"

"Just speak your mind, don't make random accusations here!" A burly man with a king mark on his head slapped the table on the left, "Who knows whether these fragments are from Kunlun, or whether you didn't collect all of them after they escaped from Chang'an Academy eighteen years ago, and now you're blaming them for something that happened?!"

"Seven fragments were destroyed that year, and twenty-six fragments were collected, totaling thirty-three fragments. If the thirty-three fragments can be successfully returned to their original positions, they can be restored without any incomplete changes." The provoked person reported the data coldly, "The twenty-six intact fragments were also transferred to Kunlun sixteen years ago. Chang'an Academy only sent people to assist in guarding them."

The burly man snorted coldly, with ill intent in his eyes: "You humans are full of cunning schemes, who knows if you have cheated or not? This auction is almost exclusively for the demon race, there are many little ones, if they all get killed in it, you should be secretly happy———"

"Hu Jing." Seeing that the tension was about to escalate, the person sitting in the most important seat, in the halo, spoke up, "Just talk, don't bring in your personal emotions. How are the children?"

Hu Jing withdrew his hand in dismay: "They are just superficial injuries, no big deal."

"I've participated in auctions for so many years, and I've seen shady auctions before, but this level of viciousness is rare." The thin and gentle-looking man next to Hu Jing spoke up, "We don't want to cause trouble. Director Jiang, we just want a satisfactory result."

[Jiang Bureau???]

[The leader of the square in the outer world has appeared!]

[Is it Jiang Jiang? One of the twin stars of the previous generation!]

[Damn, I'm so curious! Why do you have to be so mysterious! Old thief Tian Yan, let me see what Director Jiang looks like!]

Yu Tu was also surprised by the title in the comic.

Perhaps because Director Jiang's identity has been revealed, or perhaps in order to preserve the sense of mystery, the comics do not focus much on her subsequent actions.

With just a few words, she calmed down the possible dispute. In the end, everyone in the meeting waited together. The undissolved bone fragments had been sent to the place of their return for inspection. The result would soon be known as to whether they were the same fragments that were lost eighteen years ago.

While they were waiting, the comic also explained what happened to Gu Hongying. Lu Susu was taken back to the tribe by Lu Huanpei and put under house arrest, Yin Li was picked up by Kunlun's people, and Gu Hongying was taken home by his father Huo Hanzhi, who said that he would receive "special training".

Different from the lightheartedness of the previous few pages, at the end of the comic, the test results came out and there was a solemn atmosphere in the conference room.

There are a total of twenty-two undissolved bone fragments, of which nine are consistent with the spiritual power fluctuations that were lost and then found sixteen years ago, and ten are newly appeared.

In the comic, an impatient person has already asked: "Where are the other three fragments?"

"Our team was the first to discover the strange outbreak." Lan Huiyu, deputy leader of the special team group nine, answered his question, "We killed a hairy zombie and a piece of undissolved bone fragment fell off, and it was taken away by a blue-gray fur puppy."

Questioner: “???”

If a dog eats undigested bone fragments, it will die at best, or turn into a zombie dog at worst!

After he finished speaking, Guiyu, who had been sitting in the front without saying anything, spoke up: "I saved a little girl from the human race. She said that the incorruptible bone fragments on her bracelet were eaten by the puppy raised by the mysterious boss who saved her. But she refused to say who the mysterious boss was."

At this point, the whereabouts of two fragments have become clear, but the whereabouts of one fragment is still unknown.

"The last fragment whose whereabouts are unknown is the most important brow bone of the Unchanged Bone." Jiang Jiang said, "It is very likely to contain the blood of '犼'."

Guiyu spread her hands and said, "Don't ask me. I've already told you what I know. There's no need for me to hide anything like this."

After this conversation, the comic cuts to the police station again, and several scenes pass quickly. There are ordinary people who are lucky enough to survive crying in the police station; there are members of the other world who pretend to be "policemen" and use methods that can be explained in the surface world to rack their brains to make a science fraud; there are people whose relatives have transformed into zombies and come to claim the bodies with pain and despair on their faces; there is also the girl who experienced the most thrilling experience and takes her parents back, and the family reconciles on the way...

At the end of these scenes, she is thanking Lord Buye, and Lord Buye accepts her reward.

This scene overlaps with a scene in the meeting room - the people in the meeting integrated the data from the police station and came to a shocking conclusion. The only person who did not turn into a zombie after wearing the incorruptible bone fragments was the mysterious senior who inexplicably appeared in the surface world more than two months ago and whose origins could not be found!

In the conference room, someone asked Jiang Jiang: "Director Jiang, do we need to contact this senior?"

Jiang Jiang's projection was silent for a while, and gave a negative answer: "Not for now."

The comic ends here.

No one knew what Jiang Jiang was thinking about during that moment of hesitation, perhaps it was vigilance, perhaps worry, or perhaps something else.

But the [Plot Discussion Forum], which should have made a reasonable analysis of her hesitation, is now all paying attention to another thing - at the end of the comic, a scrolling announcement appeared!

Readers of the comic "Shan Hai Zhi Yu" can use their real-name accounts to participate in the monthly popularity vote. The first place in the monthly popularity vote will have a separate personal biography, which will be released along with the next comic update.