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Chapter 389 Living Dead

This uncontrollable, subconscious breath, although not much, still startled Zhu Yu, who hurriedly and nervously checked her body for any abnormalities.

She soon discovered that, apart from being a little choking, the smoke didn't seem to have any significant effect on her.

She turned to look at Yan Daoxin, whose martial arts skills were only slightly better than hers, and he was already getting impatient.

He remained calm and composed, breathing normally through his nose while reaching into his robes, presumably to prepare antidote pills in advance.

However, he stopped halfway through touching the pills, looking at Zhu Yu with a surprised expression, clearly also surprised by the fact that Zhu Yu was completely unaffected and showed no signs of poisoning.

They weren't the only ones who couldn't hold their breath; the others who relaxed their breathing quickly realized this as well.

"It's alright! We'll be fine if we inhale that smoke!" One of Lu Yan's soldiers patted his chest, then turned around and saw that his companion's expression was a bit strange, so he comforted him.

But his words did not improve his companion's expression in the slightest; on the contrary, he looked even more terrified, his eyes wide open, pointing frantically behind him.

The soldier slowly turned around in the direction he was pointing and looked behind him, but before he could get a good look, a rusty cleaver pierced through his guard's robe and stabbed a bloody hole in his body.

The unfortunate soldier didn't even have time to see the pair of blood-red eyes clearly before his body went limp and he collapsed to the ground. Blood seeped from beneath his lifeless body and spread along the cracks in the stone slabs.

Zhu Yu has also realized what's wrong.

She felt nothing unusual, Yan Daoxin beside her was perfectly normal, and Lu Qing, Lu Yan, and the soldiers under Lu Yan's command all showed no signs of distress.

But those able-bodied men who volunteered to stay and help now seemed to have completely changed their appearance.

Their eyes were bloodshot, their faces were ferocious, and the veins on their faces and necks were bulging. Even the arms and backs of their hands that were holding knives were the same, with veins that looked like small snakes coiled on them. Their whole bodies exuded a murderous aura that had never been seen before.

And those people's eyes had a familiar emptiness about them, looking fierce and menacing yet seemingly empty.

"Didn't you help them detoxify before?" Zhu Yu's heart tightened, and she quickly asked Yan Daoxin in a low voice.

Just as Yan Daoxin was about to answer her, a burly man with bloodshot eyes charged at them, brandishing his weapon.

Those people seemed to have suddenly changed their appearance, completely different from their previous honest and simple manner. They all seemed to be fearless and wanted to eat people as they pounced on the soldiers and others around them.

The already small courtyard was suddenly thrown into chaos.

The talismans stood in front of Zhu Yu, one on the left and one on the right, grabbing the strong men rushing towards them like chickens and throwing them away, while also knocking down a few more.

Although the able-bodied men were clearly acting strangely now, they had all witnessed how pitiful they had been before. They suspected this situation was the "masterpiece" of the fake fortress lord. While the talisman could easily crush them one by one, they couldn't bring themselves to do it. The other soldiers initially shared the same thought; they had all seen these abducted villagers constantly subjected to drugging potions and incense, never having a proper meal, practically being tortured to death.

These able-bodied men were lucky; they had only been abducted for a short time, so they hadn't suffered any serious injuries. They had only been rescued by Yan Daoxin and had just eaten their fill for a few days, and their bodies were only just starting to feel weak again. Now, they were being bewitched by some unknown green smoke. It would be too cruel to kill them.

However, such thoughts did not last long. After several soldiers who couldn't bring themselves to do it were stabbed through one after another, the pity in the hearts of the rest was burned away by anger, leaving very little.

Yan Daoxin blocked the arm of a strong man who lunged at him, and skillfully dislocated the man's arm. He then did the same to dislocate the other arm.

He pressed the man to the ground. Although the strong man struggled to get up, he had no arms to help him and hadn't eaten a lot of food, so he was still very weak and didn't have much strength.

Although Yan Daoxin was able to easily pin the other person to the ground, the person struggled desperately like a wild beast, still trying to attack.

Yan Daoxin pressed the man firmly to the ground, reached out and pried open his eyelids, and found that his pupils were indeed dilated, just like when Zhu Yu inspected the servants in the fortress.

Yan Daoxin grabbed the man's wrist and quickly examined him, finding that the man's pulse was extremely weak, but his blood vessels were bulging all over his body, which was very abnormal.

His eyes darted around, and he probably had a guess. He quickly took out a pill from his pocket, and while the strong man was grimacing, he stuffed it into his mouth, then pressed his mouth down to prevent him from opening it.

Yan Daoxin's pills usually have a "melt-in-your-mouth" effect. After swallowing one pill, the person quickly reacted, his whole body convulsed violently, and his eyes rolled upwards.

Seeing this reaction, Yan Daoxin tightened his grip on the man's mouth, pressing him down firmly to prevent him from escaping.

At that moment, the talisman also helped Yan Daoxin knock away several strong men who were rushing towards them.

After struggling for a few moments, the man's body gradually went limp and he soon fell silent.

Yan Daoxin quickly took out a jade gourd the size of a thumb from his sleeve, opened the lid, and stared intently at the strong man's nostrils.

A short while later, something seemed to "flow" out of the person's nostrils. It was like a very thin, white thread that flowed smoothly out of the nostrils.

Yan Daoxin reacted quickly and caught the "thin thread" with the jade gourd. Once it had completely fallen into the gourd, he hurriedly plugged the mouth of the bottle.

The strongman who had been so fierce just moments before now lay stiffly on the ground, his eyes rolled back, lifeless.

Yan Daoxin's face was rather grim. He stood up, sighed, kicked a strong man who rushed in front of him to the ground, and shouted, "Don't worry about anything. They're all already living dead, beyond saving."

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