Zombie Life Begins in Hongxi Village

As the gates of hell opened, Lin Yi's gaze pierced through them, revealing the scene inside.

Zhong Jiu opened the Yin-Yang passage at a very opportune moment, right on the route Zhong Kui took to marry off his sister.

At this moment, Zhong Xiaomei sat listlessly on the sedan curtain.

She was surrounded by a group of ghosts and spirits who were escorting her to the wedding—

Some carried lanterns, others held banners, making quite a spectacle, but everyone wore a nonchalant expression, as if it were just a routine matter.

This is Zhong Xiaomei's eighteenth marriage, and the spirits who escorted her have long lost the enthusiasm and joy they had for the first time.

Not far in front of the sedan chair, Zhong Kui and Lu Pan were locked in a fierce battle.

The leopard-headed, ring-eyed judge of evil wielded a demon-slaying sword, its blade flashing like lightning, each strike carrying the power to split mountains and shatter rocks.

Lu Pan, dressed in a blue judge's robe and holding a judge's pen, fought and retreated, clearly no match for Zhong Kui.

Lin Yi watched this scene quietly, but the plot of "Zhong Kui Marries His Sister" came to mind.

Zhong Kui's younger sister's lifespan in the underworld was coming to an end, so Zhong Kui had to hastily marry her off so that she could meet the conditions for reincarnation.

The woman kneeling in the hall was a wealthy woman, while Brother Jiaqian, Li Shimin, was a male escort.

The rich woman's deceased husband keeps appearing in her dreams, telling her not to find another man. But the rich woman has taken a fancy to "Cash Guy" and offers to pay him HK$100,000 for a month.

In order not to be disturbed, she even came up with the bizarre idea of ​​taking Li Shimin to the underworld to settle scores with her dead husband.

So they found Chung Kau and asked him to take them to the underworld to find their dead husband.

However, Li Shimin, who was originally on his way to meet his deceased husband with a rich woman, ended up on Zhong Xiaomei's bridal sedan chair by a twist of fate, and Zhong Xiaomei also fell in love with Li Shimin at first sight.

In order to be with him, Zhong Xiaomei begged Zhong Kui to steal the Book of Life and Death.

The two found the Book of Life and Death and discovered that Li Shijie only had three days to live.

Zhong Xiaomei wanted to alter the Book of Life and Death, but at the crucial moment, Lu Pan discovered the anomaly in the Book of Life and Death and came to stop her. However, because he was no match for Zhong Kui, Zhong Kui took away the Book of Life and Death that recorded Li Mingmin's information.

Zhong Xiaomei went to the mortal world to find Li Shimin, but Li mistook her for a rich woman who wanted to seduce him. After a night of passion with her, he asked Zhong Xiaomei for a fee for the night.

Although Zhong Xiaomei was heartbroken, she still couldn't let go of Li Shimin and told him that he only had three days left to live.

After Li Shimin learned of this, he used sweet words to persuade Zhong Xiaomei to change the Book of Life and Death for him. Zhong Xiaomei fell for the trick and used ghost blood to modify the Book of Life and Death, which helped him extend his life by ten years, but Zhong Xiaomei's original essence was greatly damaged.

As a result, Li Shimin, who had changed his fate, immediately turned his back on them and tricked Zhong Kui, who had lost his magic power in the mortal world due to violating the laws of the underworld, and Zhong Xiaomei, whose strength had been greatly reduced, to the Taoist priest Zhong Jiu, hoping to subdue them through Zhong Jiu's hands.

Zhong Jiu used a black dog blood net to trap Zhong Kui and Zhong Xiaomei. At the critical moment, Judge Lu arrived and wanted to take Li Shimin, who should have died, to the underworld.

Zhong Jiu tried to stop him, but he was no match for the ghost god Lu Pan. At the critical moment, a little ghost under Zhong Kui brought Zhong Kui's ghost-slaying sword, and Lu Pan left, fearing that he might harm the ghost.

Li Shimin was also afraid, realizing that only Zhong Xiaomei could save him. He used sweet words to coax Zhong Xiaomei into marrying him, but in reality, he wanted to find a protector.

When they went to the church to get married, Lu Pan appeared and kidnapped Li Shimin.

Enraged, Zhong Kui and Zhong Xiaomei, with the help of Zhong Jiu, opened the Gates of Hell and returned to the Underworld. Back in the Underworld, Zhong Kui regained his strength and went to Judge Lu to cause trouble for him.

After a fight, Judge Lu was stabbed to death by Zhong Kui, who then changed Li Shimin and Zhong Xiaomei's records in the Book of Life and Death to show them as husband and wife...

He found the movie quite interesting when he watched it, but now, looking back, the plot makes his blood pressure skyrocket.

Zhong Kui, the judge of the underworld in Fengdu, is upright and incorruptible. He has captured countless ghosts and has served in this position for thousands of years. He is fair and impartial and never shows favoritism.

His demon-slaying sword has slain countless wicked ghosts and evil spirits, and even many corrupt and lawless spirits have died by his blade.

Yet this seemingly impartial person transformed into the very thing he hated most for the sake of his sister.

He stole the Book of Life and Death, set fire to the storeroom, altered lifespans, and even killed his colleague, Judge Lu.

Each one is a serious crime, and each one violates the ironclad rules he believed in when enforcing the law.

His thousands of years of good reputation were ruined by his sister and his scumbag brother-in-law.

Calling Chung Siu-mei "love-obsessed" is an understatement; she's practically lost her mind.

Li Shimin used her from beginning to end, first treating her as a wealthy woman, then as a tool to prolong his life, and finally as a protective shield.

Every time he revealed his true colors, she was heartbroken, but as long as he said a few kind words, she would immediately forgive him.

For a scumbag she'd only known for a few days, she ruined her brother's reputation and caused Lu Pan to lose his life.

This isn't infatuation, it's foolishness. Lin Yi had seen people who were love-struck before, but this level of love-struckness truly pushed the boundaries of his understanding.

Li Shimin was a scoundrel, openly and honestly so.

This male escort never had any genuine feelings for Zhong Xiaomei from beginning to end. Every act of kindness was a calculated move, and every sweet word was meant to exploit her.

He demands an overnight fee after sleeping with someone, turns hostile immediately after prolonging life, and then quickly coaxes them back when he senses danger—the epitome of scum, a textbook example of a scumbag.

Even Ma Guangshen, who caused a great disturbance in Guangchanglongli, paled in comparison to him.

As for Judge Lu, he is probably the only relatively normal character in the entire movie.

It is true that he was lax in managing his subordinates, and he was indeed responsible for failing to supervise their embezzlement, but this is not a reason for his execution.

He arrested Li Shimin because Li Shimin's lifespan had ended but he was still active in the mortal world, and this was his duty.

He stopped Zhong Kui from altering the Book of Life and Death because it was a crucial instrument of the underworld, and anyone who altered it was punishable by death according to the law. This was also his duty as an investigating judge.

Everything he did was within the rules, yet he was killed because he blocked the protagonist group's path.

In any normal judicial system, Judge Lu would be a dutiful and responsible official, while Zhong Kui would be the criminal who abused his power for personal gain.

But Lin Yi also noticed a problem: the Emperor of Fengdu should not be in the underworld at this time.

Otherwise, if Zhong Kui and Lu Pan were to cause such a ruckus, He would have intervened long ago.

Moreover, the internal workings of Fengdu Underworld may not be as harmonious as one might imagine.

The two judges were locked in a fierce battle, and neither of them stepped in to stop them.

Although Lu Pan was eventually killed by Zhong Kui's sword, Zhong Kui's fate was not necessarily much better.

If the Emperor of Fengdu were to investigate and hold those responsible accountable for stealing the Book of Life and Death, burning down the treasury, and murdering his colleagues, he would be punished for all three crimes. He would definitely lose his position as the Judge of Punishment, and even if he didn't die, he would be severely punished.

There must be some ulterior motives behind this.

Putting everything else aside, the fact that Zhong Kui temporarily lost his magical powers due to violating the laws of the underworld is clearly the work of Cui Yuqian, the judge of the underworld.

Lin Yi had absolutely no interest in Zhong Kui and Lu Pan.

Recruiting them is impossible, after all, they are already judges, and judges of the Fengdu Underworld who control most of the reincarnation in China. How can Lin Yi, a small underworld in Hong Kong, compare?

Moreover, Lin Yi didn't want to recruit such a seasoned veteran into his underworld, lest he corrupt his underworld team.

However, Zhong Jiu, who looks very much like Uncle Nine, is quite talented. He was able to force Lu Pan to retreat with the Ghost-Slaying Sword.

Although Lu Pan was hesitant to act rashly, his courage and potential should not be underestimated. It would be perfect to let him be a night watchman!

At this point, Chung Kau's ceremony was nearing its end.

Chung Kau picked up the last two Fengdu talismans and slapped them hard on the backs of the two people kneeling in the soybean circle.

The moment the talisman touched their bodies, their souls were slapped out of their physical forms.

Zhong Jiu didn't give them time to be stunned, and used his talisman power to send their souls into the passage.

At the same time, two transparent threads extended from the talisman, connecting the souls and bodies of the two people.

Once their time in the underworld is up, Zhong Jiu can use these two threads to pull their souls back.

If the thread breaks, the soul cannot return, and the physical body will become a vegetable.

Therefore, this thing is extremely risky, and Chung Kau taking this job was indeed taking a huge risk.

After Li Shimin and the rich woman's souls entered the underworld, Lin Yi's gaze turned to the underworld once again.

Just then, Lin Yi's all-seeing eye caught a subtle movement.

Li Shimin, who was originally flying to the other side, was suddenly changed direction by a sudden gust of wind, and his whole body flew uncontrollably towards Zhong Xiaomei's ghost sedan chair.

This crosswind came very strangely—it wasn't the shockwave generated by the battle between Lu Pan and Zhong Kui, nor was it the normal flow of yin wind in the underworld.

Lin Yi clearly saw a ghost dressed in black robes hiding behind a boulder by the roadside, making hand gestures and chanting incantations.

That side wind was its spell, with a clear target and skillful technique; it was definitely not a spur-of-the-moment decision.

At the same time, another ghost official in the wedding procession also made a move.

It's the little devil who always followed Zhong Kui and Zhong Xiaomei in the movie.

He quietly took out a jade bottle the size of a thumb from his sleeve, opened the cap, and gently blew on it through the gap in the sedan curtain.

A very thin, faint pink wisp of smoke drifted out of the bottle's mouth, like an invisible snake slithering into the gap in the sedan curtain.

Zhong Xiaomei, inside the sedan chair, was completely unaware of anything amiss.

The next second, her eyes changed.

Her eyes, which had been clear but tinged with numbness, suddenly became moist and hazy, and her pupils remained unfocused for a while before refocusing.

She raised her hand and touched her cheek. Her fingers trembled slightly when they touched her skin, as if she were startled by some unfamiliar sensation.

Her breathing became rapid, her cheeks flushed an unnatural red, and her demeanor changed from the previous aloofness to a kind of restlessness that she could not suppress.

"There's definitely more to the story!"

Lin Yi narrowed her eyes slightly; the pink smoke was definitely not a drug or aphrodisiac.

Countless creatures, smaller than dust particles, were suspended in the smoke.

Each one is translucent pink, with two pairs of thin wings on its back, resembling some kind of specially bred miniature Gu worm.

Love potion.

Lin Yi found relevant information in Uncle Jiu's memories. It was a kind of Gu that even ghosts could be infected with. The Love Gu was not lethal and was harmless to the body.

But there's only one thing about it: it can make someone fall hopelessly in love with someone.

Unexpectedly, the other side even bribed Zhong Kui's confidant. It seems this game is far more complex than depicted in the movie.

Seeing this, Lin Yi finally understood why Zhong Xiaomei acted so irrationally in the movie.

An old ghost who has lived for thousands of years, and the younger sister of Judge Zhong Kui, what kind of handsome men hasn't she seen?

How could a judge's sister, who has seen countless men, fall in love at first sight with a male prostitute and insist on marrying him in just a few minutes?

If it were a case of being ambushed, that would make sense.

Strictly speaking, Zhong Kui himself also bears some responsibility for this incident.

Throughout his life, he was fair and impartial, never showing favoritism. Although he doted on his sister, he never compromised on matters of principle.

The rules of Fengdu Underworld stipulate that the positions of ghosts and gods must be determined by the accumulation of merit and assessment.

As the judge who punishes evil, Zhong Kui has the power to make recommendations, but he feels that his sister has neither merit nor qualifications, and he is afraid that if he makes a strong recommendation, it will give others grounds for criticism.

Thousands of years have passed, and Zhong Xiaomei is still a commoner, without even the lowest-ranking divine office.

If she were to become a formal deity, even the lowest rank, with divine talismans protecting her, these Gu worms would be unable to get close to her. No matter how powerful the love Gu is, it is impossible for it to invade the body of a deity.

In addition, even if Zhong Kui didn't want to secure a divine position for his sister, he could plead with the King of the Underworld in Fengdu to pull some strings and allow his sister to be reincarnated ahead of time.

At least Zhong Xiaomei won't have to waste thousands of years in the underworld, unable to get married even after seventeen marriages, watching her lifespan in the underworld gradually run out.

In the end, in order for his sister to be reincarnated, he repeatedly violated the laws of the underworld, even committing a grave mistake by killing Judge Lu, and there was no turning back.