Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 51 Zombie Crisis
When he woke up and opened his eyes, Ren Yuan saw his senior sister sitting on the bed with her eyes slightly closed. The morning light shone on her face, outlining her delicate and dreamy outlines, and also dyed her long and curled eyelashes light gold.

A Yao seemed to realize something, and slowly opened her bright eyes, with a happy smile on her lips: "A Yuan, are you awake?"

"I'm sorry to bother you again, Senior Sister, to protect me." Ren Yuan felt a warm current in his heart. Senior Sister was like this every night, silently guarding the Youxian pillow.

"Why is Yuan always so polite? It's too distant." The senior sister pouted and reached out to tap the tip of his nose.

"I feel very happy every time someone thanks me. So I think that the closer the people are to me, the more we should express our gratitude, right? Otherwise, wouldn't it be like saying that distant people are worse than close ones?" Ren Yuan said with a smile.

"That makes sense." Hearing this, the senior sister's eyebrows curved into a crescent moon and nodded in agreement: "Okay, then I thank you too."

"Thank me for what?" Ren Yuan asked.

"Thank you for coming back." Senior sister smiled sweetly.

"Haha, where can I go if I don't come back? This is my home." Ren Yuan said naturally as he got up and washed.

"Yeah, that's right! This is your home, and you are not allowed to go anywhere else!" The senior sister was very satisfied with his answer, so she rolled up her sleeves, showing her white arms and said, "To reward you, I will cook breakfast for you myself today."

"Puff..." Ren Yuan spat out a mouthful of toothbrush water. This is not a reward at all!
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Before Uncle Hu Sanye went up the mountain, Ren Yuan was the one who prepared breakfast and dinner in the temple.

It's not that his cooking skills are so good, but it's all because of his peers. The cooking skills of the senior sister are inversely proportional to her appearance. Ren Yuan has eaten it once and he never wants to eat it again in his life.

But this is normal. The elder sister used to eat takeout...er, offerings, and never cooked. But during that period, there was no incense in the temple, so they had to cook by themselves.

Fortunately, Master Hu San came up the mountain later. This fox fairy was a gourmet and a good cook, so Ren Yuan was freed.

But today, my senior sister suddenly felt like cooking and no one could stop her.

So during breakfast, no one had much appetite, and they just kept talking without picking up their chopsticks...

In order to prevent his senior sister from noticing this, Ren Yuan told her about the bottleneck he encountered at the dinner table.

As expected, the senior sister didn’t bother to eat. After listening to his story carefully, she explained: “You need to open the third orifice.”

"I guess so." Ren Yuan nodded.

"Once the mind orifice is opened, the Heavenly Gang True Qi can be drawn into the body, and the three lights gather together to condense into spiritual fluid. This is the true meaning of 'cultivating the three lights internally to achieve the Tao, and using the three lights externally as a talisman'." The elder sister said with a headache: "But the problem is, I don't know where the Jade Pivot Pill that opens the third orifice is?"

"Yes, I also asked Senior Tian Liangzi, but he didn't know either." Ren Yuan also sighed, then looked up and asked Liu Zhongjun, "Old senior, do you have any connections?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Zhongjun shuddered and said that a rare external elixir like Yushu Dan might not be found in the county town, so one would have to try his luck in a big city.

"That means there's no hope for now." Ren Yuan sighed again. He couldn't leave right now.

"A Yuan, I told you that it's better to be calm. Why are you so anxious?" said the senior sister.

"I haven't forgotten what Senior Sister said, but I can't control myself." Ren Yuan smiled bitterly and said, "Maybe it's because the crisis is imminent and I want to become stronger too much."

"A Yuan, don't put so much pressure on yourself." The civet cat gracefully came down from the wall and said, "I have good news for you. Xie Gui and his son just left Xiejiazhuang and are apparently back to the county town."

Xie Gui was the name of Lieutenant Xie. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this. The pressure brought by the master was too strong.

Only Ren Yuan was not happy but worried, saying, "This is not good news. Normally, after suffering such a huge loss, Xie should have dug deep underground to recover the money. He should also catch the arsonist to give an explanation. But he came here and did nothing, and just took his son back. This is too abnormal, I'm afraid it's the calm before the storm."

"You mean he wants to do something big?" The civet cat asked, "What can he do?"

"Have you seen Mr. Chen?" Ren Yuan asked back.

"No." The civet cat shook his head: "Are you worried that he is doing something secretly?"

"Yes. Now we have figured it out. Those six jars were made by Mr. Chen." Ren Yuan nodded and said in a deep voice: "And those guys wearing baskets and bamboo hats you saw before are most likely the living zombies he raised!"

"So the jar probably contains something that can turn people into zombies." Ren Yuan speculated with certainty: "As the saying goes, 'once, twice, but never three times.' After two failures, I think Mr. Chen will do it himself this time and spread the plague."

"So County Captain Xie took his son away to avoid the plague?" asked the senior sister.

"Yes, it's also to avoid suspicion." Ren Yuan nodded and said, "Wait until Mr. Chen sets up the stage, then he will go on stage to perform."

"People with the surname Xie have such dirty hearts." The civet cat's stereotype of the Xie family became even stronger.

"It has nothing to do with your last name." Ren Yuan smiled and said to Uncle Hu in a deep voice, "Please go and inform the village heads in the name of the mountain god that the autumn harvest is over and that the villagers should not leave the village in the near future. Organize able-bodied men to patrol day and night. If there is any situation, use the talisman to summon the gods immediately!"

His current identity does not allow him to show up in public, but fortunately, as the gatekeeper of the mountain temple, Mr. Hu Sanye has become very familiar with the village officials.

"I already made an agreement with Senior Tian Liangzi yesterday. He will be responsible for the northern part of the village and we will be responsible for the southern part. If anything happens, we will support each other and join forces to defeat the enemy!" Ren Yuan said in a deep voice.

"Okay!" Uncle Hu San responded, immediately changed back into his original form as an old fox, and ran down the mountain.

“It’s not too late to go after dinner…” The senior sister didn’t even bother to stop him.

“Sister, please ask those friends who can fly to help out and keep an eye on it from the air. Report to us immediately if anything unusual happens.” Ren Yuan instructed the sister again.

"Yes, no problem." Senior sister nodded.

"How can this kind of thing be missed? Where are my subordinates?" The civet cat volunteered, "I will also make the cats in each village stare!"

"That couldn't be better." Ren Yuan said with satisfaction: "By taking multiple measures and strictly guarding against it, we will definitely be able to minimize the harm."

"But Yuan, you're not overreacting, are you?" the civet cat reminded him.

"When it comes to matters of life and death, we should be prepared for the worst." Ren Yuan shook his head and said firmly, "If it turns out that I was overthinking, wouldn't that be better?"

"Okay, I'll go right away." The civet cat didn't say any more nonsense and jumped back onto the wall.

"Hey, is the food I cooked so bad that everyone seems to be avoiding it." The senior sister sighed, picked up the black omelet with chopsticks, took a big bite and tasted it.

Her expression froze as she chewed, and she finally dropped her chopsticks and ran away. "I'll go get the birds to help, too."

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