Zombie Life Begins in Hongxi Village

"Stop! Don't hit him anymore!"

Lin Yi’s tone was casual, but it made King Ai of Zhou immediately withdraw his claws.

It took two steps back and stood still, its chest, covered by jade armor, still heaving violently, but it dared not make another move.

At that very moment, Ah Zhen also completed her transformation into a corpse under the infusion of King Ai of Zhou's corpse energy.

She opened her eyes, her dark pupils darted around twice, and stood up from the ground.

She didn't look at her husband, who was covered in wounds on the ground, nor at Lin Yi, who was standing not far away. Instead, she walked straight to King Ai of Zhou and bowed respectfully to him.

A soft growl escaped its throat—exactly the same as those zombies that had turned into corpses before.

She has completely lost her memories of Ah Zhen, and only knows that she was turned into a zombie by King Ai of Zhou, who is her king.

King Ai of Zhou looked down at A-Zhen and reached out a hand to touch her head.

Then it raised its head to look at the water corpse lying on the ground, and defiantly raised its chin.

The water corpse froze upon seeing this scene.

Its wounded body began to tremble violently, and a stream of dark green corpse blood gushed from its wounds.

It raised its head and let out a hoarse roar, the sorrow in its voice causing the chirping of insects around it to fall silent.

Then it suddenly lay down on the ground, making whimpering sounds in its throat, and dark green corpse blood flowed from its eye sockets, dripping down mixed with the mud.

A hopping corpse, beaten and bruised by King Ai of Zhou, refused to bow its head. But when it saw its wife recognize another man as her master, it lay on the ground and cried.

Lin Yi walked over to the water corpse and squatted down, asking it in the corpse's language, "Do you want to rekindle your romance with Ah Zhen?"

The water corpse raised its head to look at Lin Yi, tears of blood still streaming down its face.

It replied with a single word in its dry, hoarse, corpse-like language: "Want."

This word was spoken without hesitation.

"I want you to be my subordinate. As long as you behave, I'll make Old Zhou give Ah Zhen back to you."

Lin Yi spoke in a very flat tone, as if he were discussing an ordinary business deal.

"I agree." This time, the water corpse didn't even hesitate.

It was an honest person in life, and it remained an honest corpse in death.

Having its lifeline seized by Lin Yi, it had no room for negotiation.

Lin Yi nodded and instructed King Ai of Zhou to bring Azhen to the water corpse.

After being given instructions by King Ai of Zhou, Ah Zhen could not recognize the mud-covered zombie in front of her as her husband from her previous life.

But it still obeyed Lao Zhou's order, letting out a soft whimper and stretching out its stiff arms to hug A-Qiang.

The water corpse gently patted Ah Zhen's back with its wet hands. The movement was clumsy yet tender, a stark contrast to when it fought desperately against King Ai of Zhou in the desolate tower.

"Don't resist." Lin Yi opened the ghost painting and put the three zombies into the space within the painting.

The reason he went through all that trouble wasn't because he was bored, but because he had absolutely no idea how to place a restriction on the water corpse.

Wang Teng's corpse refining techniques didn't include any methods for refining rare species like water corpses; he only mentioned them briefly.

But it doesn't matter—he can control Lao Zhou, Lao Zhou can control A Zhen, and A Zhen is A Qiang's lifeline.

Once this chain is applied, its control is no weaker than that of a restriction.

……

A dozen or so breaths later, Lin Yi teleported back to the haunted house in Hanging Coffin Town.

Ren Tingting was still fast asleep in bed, her breathing long and steady, a faint smile on her lips, probably having a sweet dream.

Lin Yi didn't wake her. She quietly took off her coat, lay down next to her, and closed her eyes.

In his dream, he first looked at a bunch of mundane memories of his daily life and gained a bunch of life and military skills.

Then, the blue teardrop arrived as expected.

It hovered in the endless void, emitting a soft blue light, and a stream of information flowed into his consciousness.

"Complete the storyline of the Seven Heroes Chasing Ghosts."

Slay the five heroes, kill the steward and Master Miao, and subdue the water corpse A-Qiang and the female corpse A-Zhen.

Plot engagement is rated A+.

Rewards: The space of the Qiankun Ring has been expanded to 100 cubic meters; 100 large yellow croakers have been obtained; the ability to move with water has been acquired.

Lin Yi suddenly opened her eyes.

Startled by him, Ren Tingting mumbled something, turned over, and went back to sleep.

He stared at the mosquito net, his consciousness sinking into his Qiankun Ring—

The original ten cubic meter space was expanded to an exaggerated extent, a full one hundred cubic meters.

His previously crammed supplies are now huddled in a corner, the space resembling a new warehouse that hasn't been furnished yet.

Next to the Qiankun Ring, there was a pile of gold bars, neatly stacked into a small gold mountain, each one a standard large yellow croaker.

But none of these things excited him the most.

Lin Yi withdrew his consciousness from the Qiankun Ring and felt the newborn instinct within his body—the power of water.

He closed his eyes and carefully contemplated the moment, then a flash of green light appeared in his eyes, and he instantly disappeared from the bed.

After a few flashes, he appeared deep in the South China Sea.

The seawater pressed in from all directions; an ordinary person would have been crushed into a meat patty by the water pressure.

But Lin Yi was suspended in the deep water. She opened her eyes, the water was not glaring, she could breathe freely, and when she opened her mouth to speak, she exhaled a string of bubbles.

He tried swimming forward, his body tracing an arc in the water like a fish, without any resistance, and his clothes didn't even get wet.

He did two somersaults in the water and swam backwards a few times, moving as freely as if he were on land, completely free from the confusion of direction and the constraints of the water.

"So this is water travel." Lin Yi floated in the middle of the deep sea, surrounded by a group of fish that had been startled and scattered.

"It's not about controlling water; it's more like the water-avoiding spell from Journey to the West, making you feel like you've transformed into a fish that lives entirely in water—"

There's no need to deliberately hold your breath, no need to use an energy field to prop up the water flow; the water is no longer an obstacle, it's no different from air.

I feel just as free in the water as I do on land.

He thought of Ah Qiang, the water corpse from the Seven Heroes of the Ghost Chaser series.

Ah Qiang is slow on land, but swift and fierce in the water; this water-walking ability was clearly extracted from Ah Qiang.

Just like how completing the Mr. Zombie storyline last time granted the Black Zombie Physique bonus, completing the Seven Heroes of the Ghost Chaser storyline this time grants the Water Zombie's Water Movement ability.

Both rewards are related to zombies, and participating in zombie-themed storylines seems to make it easier to obtain rewards related to physique and abilities.

It's unclear what abilities he'll gain after the events of Maoshan Academy and Mr. New Zombie are resolved.

He decided to celebrate with something.

A tuna, about a meter long, swam past him. In the dark, deep water, the tuna was like an invisible ghost.

But Lin Yi could see clearly in the dark, and with one punch, the tuna fainted on the spot.

He grabbed the fish by the tail, a green light flashed in his eyes, and he teleported back to the haunted house with his spoils.

The sky was already beginning to lighten.

Lin Yi tidied up the kitchen and took out tools and seasonings from her storage ring.

He then tossed the tuna onto the kitchen counter, ready to make sashimi that would make you tremble with hunger.

He had profited from several people who knew how to cook Japanese food, and while he wouldn't call himself a master, he was certainly proficient in it.

Just as Lin Yi and Ren Tingting were enjoying a sashimi feast, Wang Daniu finally arrived at the Hanging Coffin Town with a hundred soldiers and several cars.