Zombie Life Begins in Hongxi Village

"Dayong, go get some food."

"Yes, Commander." Ma Dayong turned and left the inn room, closing the door behind him.

While Ren Tingting was washing up, Lin Yi took out two military water bottles from her Qiankun Ring.

The jar was also marked with Japanese military insignia and contained his war trophies.

He unscrewed the lid of the pot, tilted his head back, and drank the entire pot of blood in one gulp. Then he unscrewed the lid of the second pot and poured it down.

The blood in the Qiankun Ring was still steaming and had a slightly sweet taste.

My stomach felt a little warmer, but that warmth was only superficial.

"As expected, since it's not fresh blood that's being sucked directly, it doesn't provide any nutrition at all; it can only fill your stomach and relieve your hunger."

Lin Yi wiped away the non-existent bloodstains, frowned, and threw the kettle back into her Qiankun Ring.

Zombies suck blood, but they suck more than just blood.

Blood is merely a vessel; what truly sustains zombies is the vital energy and spirit contained within it.

These three things are integrated in a living person's body. Once blood leaves the body, qi and spirit begin to dissipate, and in the end only a portion of essence remains.

Although the Qiankun Ring can preserve freshness and lock in the temperature of blood, it cannot stop the loss of qi and spirit.

After bleeding for several days, drinking the blood felt like drinking water; it quenched my thirst but didn't satisfy my hunger.

He finally understood why Kuang Tianyou was still malnourished even after buying blood plasma from the hospital.

The hospital's blood plasma has not only expired, but it has also lost all its essence and energy, leaving only an empty shell. No matter how much you drink, it will not fill the void in your blood vessels.

Kazuo Yamamoto once told Kuang Tianyou: "If you want to fight against me, you have to be willing to suck the blood of living people."

After being forced to drink human blood once, Kuang Fusheng refused to touch expired blood packs again—who would drink soy milk after tasting freshly squeezed juice?

This may also be why Kazuo Yamamoto did not aggressively pursue the development of his descendants.

Each time it bites someone, it not only consumes its own essence and blood to complete the transformation.

After all, third and fourth generation zombies drink the blood of one or two people every day, and each zombie consumes at least three or four hundred people a year.

Five zombies can kill about two thousand people a year, so in ten years that's twenty thousand...

This was alright during times of war, when countless people died on the battlefield every day, and no one would bother to investigate if thousands or tens of thousands went missing.

In peacetime, this number would be enough to cause panic across the country and even the world.

If it weren't for Yamamoto Kazuo's wealth and power, and his secret practice of raising a bunch of blood pigs, it might have already caused panic.

Lin Yi hesitated to bite Ren Tingting and Michelin for two reasons: first, she didn't want to deplete her bloodline, which wasn't yet fully perfected; and second, there was the issue of the food.

His own bloodline was only less than 80% full, and he couldn't even activate the "Battle Rune Form." If he rashly developed his descendants at this time, he might end up degenerating himself.

This is probably why the number of zombies in Jiang Chen's lineage is so small.

For a second-generation zombie to produce offspring, its bloodline must be fully developed, and it's unknown how many people's essence and blood it consumes need to replenish itself.

After the first bite, the animal still has to feed a bunch of hungry offspring, turning the food supply burden from one person to a group of people.

How many descendants did Kazuo Yamamoto have? Xu Fu only had one Qin Shi Huang, while Levi's had none.

The number of zombies in Jiang Chen's lineage is so small that even Uncle Jiu doesn't know about them, which shows how rare they are.

However, there are many ways to achieve immortality in this crossover world, and you don't necessarily have to go down the zombie path.

He wouldn't turn Ren Tingting and Michelle into zombies unless absolutely necessary.

There's a slim chance that second-generation zombies might rise up to become first-generation zombies, but third-generation zombies have absolutely no chance of evolving back to first-generation zombies.

If you can't evolve to the next generation, you'll be trapped in the yellow-eyed or blue-eyed level forever, and the longer you live, the more people you'll kill.

Even if Blood Angels are developed in the future, they will never be able to replace human blood.

Without an iron will and a strong heart, immortality is a form of torture.

Ren Tingting pushed the door open, leaned close to him, and sniffed him, her brows furrowing slightly.

"Ayi, what did you drink just now? It smells fishy."

Lin Yi pinched her nose without changing her expression:

"This is deer blood wine that someone gave me. How can I subdue you two little vixens without replenishing my energy?"

"Ugh." Ren Tingting slapped his hand away, looking incredulous. "You want more treatment? If it weren't for that damn secret technique, Lian-jie and I would have been tortured to death by you."

"what?"

Lin Yi suddenly raised his hand and touched her forehead. His fingertips touched something slightly cool, not ice, but the coolness that jade has after being left in a shady place for a long time.

"Why do I feel that your body is a little cold? Are you feeling unwell?"

"No," Ren Tingting shook her head blankly, but straightened her back instead. "I feel very refreshed right now. If you ask me, it's still better to live in the countryside; the air is fresher there."

"You want to stay here?" Lin Yi asked, slightly surprised.

Ren Tingting used to yearn for a glamorous life and loved experiencing new things. Not long ago, she even dragged him to learn some Western dance.

Why would someone suddenly become interested in a cliff in a remote, impoverished area? That in itself is strange.

And if he wasn't mistaken, the blood in her body was indeed a bit colder than usual.

The coolness seeped through his skin into his fingertips, making his back teeth itch slightly—there was an inexplicable attraction that made him want to get closer and smell it a few more times.

If Ren Tingting weren't his woman, the sheer coolness alone would have been enough to make him want to take a deep breath.

He suppressed his instincts, carefully reviewed the Qinghai monk's memories, and roughly made a judgment in his mind—

Ren Tingting is currently in a state of bloodline activation. She herself is unaware that her body has already begun to change.

Lin Yi had long suspected that the Ren family's bloodline was not simple.

Old Master Ren was trapped in the Dragonfly Skimming Water Cave for twenty years and turned into a black zombie. Ren Fa was bitten and immediately rose from the dead. Nintendo's story is even more outrageous—

It was transformed by chemical agents into a mutant that is immune to magic, sunlight, and can be decapitated.

Three generations of male members of a family are turning into zombies one after another, each evolving faster than the last.

If this is just a coincidence, then God is being far too biased towards the Ren family.

The only explanation is that the Ren family bloodline contains some kind of hidden trait.

In fact, Ren Tingting's bloodline is not pure.

The ancestor of the Ren family was Ren Xiao, a general of the Qin Dynasty. When he followed Qin Shi Huang to pacify Lingnan, he accidentally entered an ancient sealed place during the southern expedition and by chance swallowed a drop of Ying Gou's essence blood.

That drop of blood essence made him incredibly strong, able to tear tigers and leopards apart with his bare hands. After leading his army to pacify Lingnan, he was appointed as the Commandant of Nanhai County and stationed in Panyu.

Later, for some unknown reason, Ren Xiao suddenly began to kill innocent people indiscriminately without his control, and was eventually killed by a passing Taoist priest with Zhong Kui's sword.

Although Ren Xiao is dead, that drop of Ying Gou's essence blood has been passed down.

More than two thousand years have passed, and the Ying Gou bloodline has become extremely diluted in the direct descendants of the Ren family.

People with this latent trait are no different from ordinary people while alive, but once they come into contact with evil energy after death, the Ying Gou energy in their bloodline may be activated, turning them into zombies.

This is not because the Ren family has a connection with zombies, but because the Ren family's bloodline itself contains a latent zombie bloodline.

The reason Ren Tingting showed signs of bloodline activation was entirely Lin Yi's fault.

For the past month, he has been practicing the "Joyful Double Void" technique with Ren Tingting almost every day.

The core of this esoteric Buddhist practice is the fusion and mutual support of Yin and Yang energies. During the dual cultivation process, the energies of both parties will flow to each other in the meridians.

Lin Yi's body is filled with the blood of a second-generation zombie, and its energy level is ridiculously high.

Even if only a tiny bit of bloodline energy is transferred into Ren Tingting's body through dual cultivation, it is enough to reactivate and purify the Ying Gou bloodline that was originally so thin as to be almost non-existent deep in her genes.

Her body had been getting stronger and stronger lately, and he thought it was a normal effect of dual cultivation, but in reality it was the awakening of Ying Gou bloodline.

Ying Gou is not a zombie that lives by sucking blood; he increases his strength by absorbing yin energy, evil energy, and the souls of living beings.

This method of obtaining energy is more efficient than blood-drinking, and has a higher potential.

However, the drawbacks of Ying Gou's evolutionary path are also obvious—

Yin energy entering the brain is extremely difficult to control. Once an excessive amount is absorbed, it can cause a drastic change in temperament, leading to coldness and violence, or even complete loss of control and indiscriminate killing of innocents.

The Ren family ancestor, Ren Xiao, serves as a cautionary tale.

Although Lin Yi guessed that Ren Tingting's bloodline might be related to zombies, she didn't know which kind of zombie bloodline flowed in her body.

Tantric Buddhism has a special secret method to stimulate the bloodline, called "Vajra Seed Empowerment," and Master Qinghai has a complete set of rituals in his memory.

This initiation method involves the guru guiding mantra power and chakra energy to impact the hidden bloodline seals within the disciple's body, activating dormant latent qualities.

The problem is that this secret technique has completely mutated in Lin Yi's hands—

The energy within him is essentially the bloodline of Pangu. He used this energy to break through Ren Tingting's bloodline seal, but the result was uncontrollable.

His Great Compassion Mudra was so powerful it was like a mortar shell. If he suddenly lost control halfway through the initiation, he might shatter all of Ren Tingting's meridians.

Sending his disciple Long Ci was even more impossible—firstly, Long Ci's cultivation was not yet advanced enough; he had only cultivated the Vajra Shakya for a month, and it wasn't even enough for his own use, let alone for others.

Secondly, and most importantly, this secret method requires the recipient to be naked. How could he possibly allow his wife to be naked in front of other men?

Since the Tantric approach was not working, Lin Yi decided to try a different direction.

Since Ren Tingting is comfortable in Hanging Coffin Town, let her stay longer in the future.

If she's lucky, her bloodline will awaken on its own, which would save her a lot of trouble.

He'll definitely be the first to bite her!

There was a knock on the door, and Ma Dayong returned carrying a steamer of steamed buns and two bowls of soy milk.

Lin Yi took the bun and took a bite. It was filled with meat, but the taste was just so-so.

Ren Tingting ate with great relish, finishing a bowl of soy milk in just a few sips, and then reaching for a second steamed bun.

He noticed that her appetite had increased significantly. Before, she would only drink a bowl of porridge in the morning and feel full, but now she could eat one steamed bun after another without even turning red or out of breath.

It seems things really are different now!