The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 263 You're still alive?!
While biting her arm, the demonic fetus asked indistinctly, "You said that if you found that Qilin Stone, you could recover? And even become stronger? What exactly is the Qilin Stone?"

The zombie did not answer it.

The demonic fetus didn't care and asked to itself, "You said your junior brother was on the mountain, so how come he's here now? That's strange."

"They're not here to arrest you, are they? Look at you, you're neither human nor ghost now, your sect definitely won't recognize you. Before, when you were fierce enough, your junior brothers wouldn't dare to cause you trouble, but now you're like this..."

The zombie let out a ferocious roar, turned its head slightly, and looked at the demonic fetus.

"Okay, okay, I won't say anything, alright?" The demonic fetus shrank back.

Although the zombie hadn't recovered much, the demonic fetus wasn't much better off, having lost half of its body.

It would only be a little troublesome for the current vampires to eat it.

However, the vampire didn't seem to want to eat it.

After walking forward for a while, the demonic fetus couldn't help but say, "What's wrong with you? It turns out that you... I'm not talking about you, but the zombie you're possessing. It didn't have much rationality before, and I couldn't communicate with it."

"But you've also become a zombie, so why are you able to regain your sanity occasionally?"

"Being crippled might not be a bad thing, I think. You can maintain your rationality for longer now. Although you're still brutal, it's much better than before."

"You have no idea how terrifying you were when I first met you."

"Sigh, you need to get stronger as soon as possible, otherwise we'll both be refined to death by him."

The zombie uttered a muffled voice: "Junior...brother..."

The demonic fetus threw down the arm it was holding: "Your junior brother is very powerful?"

The zombie opened its mouth, and after a long pause, it finally uttered a sound: "Impressive..."

"How good are you? Are you as good as me?"

"sharp……"

"That's strange. Why did you come here in the first place? You said you weren't close to here. Were you attracted by that flying zombie or something else?"

"attract……"

"Chatting with you is so tiring. I have to guess everything. What's so attractive about that?"

"people……"

"A person? Who? My master... no, the original owner?"

"Yes……"

"Why would he attract you? To be honest, the more powerful your junior brother is, the more dangerous you are. Think about it, seeing you like this, wouldn't he just take you in? Even if he doesn't, he'll at least seal you off first, right? Then you're finished, and you'll drag me down with you..."

The vampire's eyes turned even redder, and it exhaled a breath of corpse energy as it turned to look at the demonic fetus.

Upon seeing the vampire's eyes, the demon fetus immediately shut its mouth and dared not say another word.

After spending some time with this zombie, it naturally learned to tell when the zombie was somewhat rational and when it was completely irrational.

When the zombie has reason, it can talk to the zombie.

However, when the zombie loses its mind, it knows it's best to keep quiet and remain invisible, otherwise the zombie might very well use it to fill its teeth.

The zombie leaped into the air, gliding as if it were flying, and appeared several feet away in front of it.

At this point, it no longer cared about the rain and the lightning, and instead sped northward at an even faster pace.

The demonic fetus, having noticed this, guessed that the thing inside the zombie could sense where the so-called Qilin Stone was.

That thing was so attractive to the zombie that it instinctively chased after the Qilin Stone.

This zombie has many secrets...

Without taking any further detours, the zombie quickly led the demonic fetus out of the fog-shrouded area.

The vampire suddenly stopped.

Its eyes flickered uncertainly as it looked in the direction of the Jiang family.

Suddenly, he took a deep breath towards the Jiang family's direction, inhaling a large amount of corpse energy into his mouth, and then turned his head to exhale it into the mist behind him.

The fog, which had begun to thin, became thicker again, and its coverage area expanded rapidly.

After doing all this, the vampire, while absorbing the corpse energy, quickly headed north.

The demonic fetus knew that the zombie had regained some of its sanity.

It spoke, "You can't recover by absorbing this corpse energy? You've already drunk a lot of essence blood and absorbed some corpse energy these past few days. You're much stronger than before now."

"Do not……"

"What exactly is the Qilin Stone?"

"..."

"Where is your sect located? Are there any dangerous people in your sect?"

"..."

"Why did you run away as soon as you saw him? You may be a little weak now, but he is even weaker... He just crawled out of the ground... If you hadn't run away, you might have been able to eat him directly. That way, we would all be safe."

"you also……"

"I was terrified at the time, but looking back now, something seems off. If the two of us had worked together, we wouldn't have needed to be afraid of him."

"..."

"You're just going to go find your junior brother like this? Will he really give you the Qilin Stone? You're still sober now. If you don't come up with a solution, you'll just end up crashing into it when you lose your mind."

The vampire's eyes began to flicker.

After jumping, the span was only half of what it had been before.

The demonic fetus continued, "I heard before that you and your junior brother don't get along? You want to prove that you are better than him?"

The zombie stopped in place and turned to look at the demonic fetus.

The demon fetus said innocently, "You two don't get along. What if you run into him and get captured? Do you think he'll recognize you like this? I think we need to make a plan, otherwise it will definitely not end well."

The zombie's eyes flickered a few times, and it nodded to the demonic fetus.

The demon fetus became happy.

Although this zombie is powerful, it is definitely not as intelligent as this one.

……

The panting wind and electricity cautiously stopped to rest in a patch of grass.

The fog in the air grew thicker, making them somewhat uneasy.

Having not seen the terrifying zombie chasing them for a long time, the two remained vigilant, not relaxed.

Yu reached out and felt some mist. He said to Dian, "The corpse aura is stronger now. I'm afraid none of the thugs who came with that Boss Huang will survive."

Dian said indifferently, "We might not even survive ourselves, how can we care about them? Besides, those people aren't good people, they deserve to die." Yu smiled bitterly, "I'm not worried about their lives, actually it doesn't matter if they die, the problem is that if that zombie eats their essence blood, it will definitely become even more terrifying. If we are caught up a few more times, we probably won't survive either."

Electric's expression turned ugly, and he gritted his teeth, saying, "That brat is despicable, he's full of evil intentions. If I had known he wasn't a good person, I should have found a chance to kill him sooner."

“It can kill us now,” Yu pondered. “Did you see that just now? That zombie almost bit Zhou Le’an, but then it got scared by something.”

Dian touched his chin and recalled, "I saw the buried corpse appear at the zombie's feet. Maybe it was frightened because it saw its former owner?"

Yu shook her head: "That zombie lost control and became so ferocious. How could it be scared away by its master's corpse?"

Dian frowned and said, "I don't know if I saw it wrong, but I think I saw... the corpse's hand actively reach out to the zombie. Do you think... it's possible that the one wasn't actually dead?"

Yu's heart skipped a beat, and she shook her head again: "The corpse was maimed, how could it still be alive? Have you ever seen this situation? If it really moved, wouldn't that be even more terrifying? That person was so powerful in life, and after death it turned into a demon, that... just thinking about it is terrifying."

Dian shuddered, then said, "This zombie is definitely not right. We originally thought it was a backlash after its owner died, but... if things were normal and it was the original zombie, although it would still be terrifying, it couldn't have recovered so quickly."

He looked at the mist beside him: "It can also control the corpse energy of the Jiang family. What's even more terrifying is that it seems to understand the little ghost's words, and it doesn't just obey the little ghost's commands."

Yu frowned and said, "The zombie and the little ghost were both created by that person, so they should be together often and can communicate with each other to some extent."

"What if it's not like that?" Dian asked gravely. "What if that zombie could maintain its sanity?"

He didn't finish his sentence, but Yu understood what he meant.

The two of them had actually noticed something was wrong with the zombie before, and suspected that the zombie might have undergone some changes that they had not noticed.

That zombie originally had no reason, and it's impossible for it to suddenly develop reason now.

If it truly possesses reason, then it must be because something has taken over the zombie's body.

As far as they knew, the zombie king that arrived at the Jiang family later had some semblance of reason...

Thinking about it that way, things become...

Yu said, "We can't hide this anymore. We need to tell our master. We should have killed this zombie on that day. It's too late to regret it now."

With a worried look on his face, Dian said, "If that zombie king really didn't die, but instead hid in this zombie in a special state, then things will be very serious."

“These past few days, we’ve been trying to find an opportunity to get rid of it, but we haven’t succeeded. Instead, it has found a chance to devour our life essence and become stronger and stronger.”

"We must tell Master, otherwise we will all die once it regains some of its original ferocity."

“But Master is seriously injured, and Senior Brother Feng and Senior Brother Lei have not recovered. I am very worried about their health if we ask them to deal with this zombie again.”

"So many of our fellow disciples went down the mountain, and now only Master and the five of us are left. Alas, if Master... Master... the sect would have really fallen apart."

Yu opened her mouth: "That shouldn't be the case. Even if Master is gone, there are still a few of us, so the sect can't possibly fall apart."

"Why not?" Dian said lazily. "To be honest, during the days when Master wasn't back, I had this urge to take the treasure and settle down here. Didn't you think about that too?"

He looked at the rain.

The rain seemed to want to speak but then stopped.

Dian continued, "Too many people have died... If Master isn't here, I really don't want to take any more risks. Even if we die, it doesn't seem to make any difference. There are still so many zombies in this world, so many people are still dying, it's really tiresome."

Yu said in a deep voice, "Don't overthink it. We've been following Master since we were little..."

The sound stopped suddenly.

He suddenly turned his head to look in front of him and whispered, "They're here!"

Dian immediately rolled over, changing from a half-lying position to a squatting position, looking warily in the direction Yu was looking.

“Rustle…rustle…”

A faint friction sound came from that direction.

This doesn't seem like the commotion caused by the zombie; it sounds more like a commotion made by humans.

Rain and lightning exchanged a glance and tacitly hid in the lush weeds nearby.

Their movements were so small that they were barely audible.

Parting the weeds in front of them, the two saw two blurry figures slowly approaching.

As the other person got closer, the two could see that they were two people, one tall and one short.

The fog was so thick that even when the two approached to within about three zhang (approximately 10 meters), they still couldn't make out the person's appearance or clothing.

As the person got closer, the two confirmed that the short man was Zhou Le'an.

Who is that person next to him?

Judging from his gait and clothing, this person was not someone they knew.

The two stared intently at the man's blurry face.

However, the man suddenly stopped and did not move forward.

Rain and electricity became somewhat strained.

Just then, they heard the man on the other side say, "Gentlemen, is Master Ji's injury very serious?"

The moment they heard the sound, both Yu and Dian felt a jolt in their hearts.

Not only because this person seemed to know Master Ji, but more importantly, both of them felt that the voice sounded somewhat familiar.

Although the voice was somewhat muffled, the two were certain that they had heard it somewhere before, based on its quality.

The stench of decay that gradually emanated from the other person made them both frown.

Having cultivated for many years and come into contact with countless corpses, the two were no strangers to the smell that only decomposed corpses would emit.

This made the two of them more wary.

"Thank you for your concern, Master's injuries have almost healed," Yu said.

He emerged from the bushes with the electricity, brushing the grass clippings off his clothes as he walked forward.

When they reached a distance of about half a zhang from the person, Yu and Dian's bodies trembled almost simultaneously.

"You...you're still alive?!" Dian exclaimed in astonishment.

Before them stood Li Zhen and Zhou Le'an.

Large patches of flesh were rotting on Li Zhen's body, head, and even face. Worms could be seen wriggling in those gruesome wounds, making it almost impossible to see Li Zhen's face clearly.

But the rain and electricity confirmed that it was Detective Li.

Not only were Li Zhen's clothes unchanged from when he died, but his demeanor was also exactly the same as before.

This kind of temperament is very special; they have never seen it in anyone else.

The two were also certain that what appeared to be a corpse was actually a living person, because they both sensed the presence of a living person emanating from Li Zhen.

However, they witnessed Li Zhen's death in battle and saw him buried by Zhou Le'an...

Is it possible for the dead to come back to life?
Or perhaps the person in front of you is no longer human, but some kind of demon?

(End of this chapter)