Qin Dynasty: They've all turned into zombies, what's there to fear about a rebellion?

"Yu Ji! Come out here!"

"You can't drink that stuff! It's for zombie breeding! People will die!"

Su Ming ran around the side hall like a headless fly, shouting until his voice was hoarse.

He's really panicking now.

That bottle of [Love Flower Corpse Poison] was a strategic resource he used to solve the problem of the Qin Dynasty's population... oh no, I mean, the problem of the zombie army's numbers.

The system manual clearly states: one drop can turn a docile zombie into a teddy bear, and two hundred milliliters is a nuclear-level catalyst!

"Don't drink it...don't drink it..."

Su Ming pushed open the door to the last storage room, and a strong, sweet-smelling medicinal smell immediately hit him.

It’s over.

Su Ming's heart skipped a beat, and his gaze pierced through the dim candlelight, settling on a corner.

Yu Ji was slumped on the ground, her plain white dance dress already somewhat wrinkled, and she was tightly clutching the empty crystal bottle in her hand.

The bottle was turned upside down, and not a single drop remained.

"Two hundred milliliters... all dried up?"

Su Ming felt a chill run down his spine; this dosage would drive even an elephant crazy!

Hearing the noise, Yu Ji slowly raised her head.

That stunningly beautiful face now carried a resolute air of facing death with a hint of... eerie flush.

"The tyrannical Qin dynasty..."

Yu Ji gritted her teeth, her voice weak yet filled with piercing hatred, "You won't dare humiliate me... I, Yu Ji, was born a citizen of Chu, and I will die a ghost of Chu!"

"I've just ingested the poison you concocted. Even if I die, I'll drag you down with me!"

As she spoke, she tried to stand up and fight Su Ming, but as soon as she moved, her legs went weak like noodles, and she fell back down.

"Highly poisonous?"

Su Ming looked at her like that and was both amused and exasperated, wishing he could slap himself twice.

"Hey lady! Are you illiterate? There's a label on the bottle! It's 'Love Flower Corpse Poison,' not arsenic!"

"That's an aphrodisiac! A supercharged, perverted version, an aphrodisiac specifically for corpses!"

Yu Ji paused for a moment, her eyes looking somewhat confused.

Aphrodisiac?

impossible!

She could clearly feel a fire burning inside her body, her internal organs boiling, and her blood flowing so fast it felt like it was about to burst through her blood vessels.

Isn't this kind of pain a precursor to death from poisoning?

"Don't try to fool me..."

Yu Ji was panting heavily, and her vision began to blur.

The originally dimly lit storage room suddenly changed color in her eyes.

The surrounding walls seemed to have turned into pink clouds, and the air was filled with an intoxicating floral fragrance.

Even the hideous demonic cultivator Su Ming in front of them began to distort and overlap in appearance.

In a daze, the black Taoist robe transformed into a majestic suit of armor, and the handsome face with a wicked smile slowly transformed into the person she had been longing for day and night.

Resolute, domineering, and arrogant.

"Brother Xiang...?"

Yu Ji murmured, her eyes, which had been filled with hatred, instantly turning into a pool of spring water.

That was the person she loved deeply.

He was that hero whose strength could uproot mountains and whose spirit could cover the world.

"I knew it... you would come to save me..."

Yu Ji's consciousness was completely consumed by the drug's effects, and her rational defenses collapsed at this moment.

She struggled to her feet and stumbled towards Su Ming.

"No! Don't come any closer!"

Startled, Su Ming took three steps back, his back pressed against the wall. "Look carefully! I'm Su Ming! I'm the perverted imperial advisor who wanted to dissect you for research! Not your Xiang Yu!"

But Yu Ji was not listening to any of this at that moment.

In her eyes, the man in front of her was opening his arms, waiting for her to throw herself into his embrace.

"Brother Xiang... I'm so hot..."

Yu Ji's legs went weak, and she fell directly into Su Ming's arms.

Scalding hot.

It's like a branding iron that's just come out of the furnace.

Su Ming felt a sudden weight in his arms, followed by a rich, subtle fragrance mixed with the girl's unique body scent, which entered his nostrils like a poison gas bomb.

Holy crap!

Su Ming froze, raising his hands high in a gesture of surrender, not daring to touch her at all.

"Calm down! Girl, calm down! I'm a respectable person! I'm only interested in your blood, not your body!"

However, Yu Ji clung to her like an octopus.

Those hands, which should have been used to wield a sword and kill, were now tightly wrapped around Su Ming's neck, her burning cheeks rubbing against his chest.

"Brother Xiang, take me away... take me back to Jiangdong..."

Yu Ji's voice was charming and alluring, with a hint of sobbing, which made Su Ming's bones melt.

"Take you with me my ass!"

Su Ming was on the verge of tears. "You're leading me into a fire pit! If Xiang Yu finds out, won't he chase me to the ends of the earth with his cauldron?"

[Beep! Warning! Warning!]

[Abnormal vital signs detected in the target!]

[Body temperature exceeds 42 degrees Celsius, heart rate reaches 200 beats per minute, and blood vessels are under critical pressure!]

The system's cold red pop-up window suddenly flashed wildly in front of Su Ming's eyes.

[Host, please take immediate action! Otherwise, the target will die within three minutes from a ruptured blood vessel and cerebral hemorrhage!]

"Die? No! I absolutely cannot die!"

Su Ming instantly regained his senses.

This is an extremely Yin body! It's the cooling core of the Epang Palace's corpse energy reactor! It's a non-renewable strategic resource!

If someone were to die from a "dose of aphrodisiacs" and their blood vessels burst, it would be an utter disgrace to the history of corpse technology!

"There's no other way!"

Su Ming looked at Yu Ji in his arms, who had begun to unconsciously tear at her clothes and whose skin was so red it was almost bleeding. He gritted his teeth, and a resolute look flashed in his eyes.

Detoxification?

Those potent drugs specifically for zombies are completely ineffective against ordinary antidotes!

Yin and Yang in harmony?

What a joke! Although Su Ming isn't a saint, he would never take advantage of someone in distress! This is a matter of principle!

That leaves only one option.

"Physical cooling!"

Su Ming suddenly scooped Yu Ji up in his arms, ignoring her struggles and her little hands groping him, kicked open the door to the storeroom, and rushed out like a bandit kidnapping a bride.

"Bear with it! It might get a little cold!"

Su Ming roared and headed straight for the huge ice cellar outside the side hall, which was used to store experimental water.

"For the sake of Qin's scientific research, please bear with it!"

He rushed to the entrance of the ice cellar and kicked the ice block sealing the door.

A chilling atmosphere pervaded the air.

Inside was a huge wooden barrel, originally used to freeze body parts, now filled with a mixture of partially melted ice and water.

"Get down!"

Su Ming showed no mercy and threw the scalding "furnace" in his arms, along with her clothes, into the bucket of ice water with a "plop".