Uncle Nine: You were supposed to drive corpses, so you summoned the Monkey King!

Uncle Jiu nodded and gave instructions to Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai.

"Qiusheng, bring your weapons and come to the yamen tonight to see me."

"Wencai, you stay at the Ren residence and protect Tingting."

After everything was arranged, Uncle Nine was escorted out by several security guards.

Awei waved triumphantly.

"Bring my uncle's body back to the government office! I want to perform the autopsy myself!"

Several men quickly brought a stretcher and lifted Ren Fa's body up.

Lin Chen stood to the side, watching Awei's smug and self-satisfied face.

"Captain Awei, just a friendly reminder."

Lin Chen spoke slowly.

"Master Ren's body is already starting to stiffen. If there's any noise at night, you'd better stay far away."

Awei curled his lip in disdain.

"Don't try to scare me with these superstitious nonsense!"

"I, Awei, have trained in divine combat; I'm invulnerable to blades and spears. Why would I be afraid of a dead man?"

Awei led his team away.

Only Ren Tingting and Wen Cai remained in the main hall of the Ren residence.

Wen Cai looked at the beautiful and delicate Ren Tingting, and his mouth was practically watering.

"Cousin Tingting, don't be afraid. With me, Wencai, here, no zombie will dare come near you!"

Wen Cai patted his chest, trying his best to appear as an expert.

"Snapped!"

Master Simu slapped Wencai on the back of the head, making him stagger.

"Don't embarrass yourself here. With your skills, you'd be faster than anyone else to run away when zombies come."

Master Simu cursed irritably.

Ren Tingting was startled by the slap and flinched back, her eyes filled with distrust as she looked at Wen Cai.

Lin Chen stepped forward and spoke calmly to Ren Tingting.

"Miss Ren, things aren't going to be peaceful in this house tonight."

"You'd better lock all the doors and windows on the first floor and stay in the bedroom on the second floor and don't come out."

Ren Tingting's eyes were red, and she looked at Lin Chen as if she were grasping at a straw.

"Master Lin, my father... will he really turn into one of those zombies?"

Lin Chen nodded.

"The corpse poison has reached the heart; even a god couldn't save him."

"Your cousin won't listen to advice; there's definitely going to be trouble at the yamen tonight."

"As for the Ren family, now that your grandfather, Old Master Ren, has escaped, the first thing he did was come back to leech off you."

Upon hearing this, Ren Tingting's legs went weak and she collapsed to the ground.

Wen Cai quickly reached out to help, but Ren Tingting instinctively dodged him.

"Then... what should I do?"

Lin Chen unfastened the lightning-struck wooden sword from his waist and weighed it in his hand.

"Don't be afraid, I will stay at the Ren residence tonight."

"Brother Wencai, go to the kitchen now and find all the glutinous rice. Spread it on the threshold and windowsill."

Wencai scratched his head.

"Junior Brother Lin Chen, those are zombies! Can the two of us handle this?"

Master Four Eyes snorted coldly from the side.

"If you can't do it, my apprentice can!"

"That old fox Fengjiao left the most dangerous work to my apprentice and ran off to the yamen to relax."

"Lin Chen, can you handle things here by yourself?" Master Simu asked, turning his head.

Lin Chen smiled.

"Don't worry, Master. It's just an armored zombie that hasn't reached its full potential yet."

"You should take Senior Brother Qiusheng to the yamen tonight."

"Although my master is highly skilled in magic, he can't use it effectively in the prison cell. If Captain Awei does something reckless, it could end up killing someone."

Master Simu thought it made sense.

"Alright, then I'll take care of things at the yamen."

"Qiusheng! Come back to the mortuary with me!"

Master Simu gave a greeting and led Qiusheng out of the Ren residence.

Only Lin Chen, Wen Cai, and Ren Tingting remained in the hall. Seeing that his Uncle Simu had left, Wen Cai became bolder again.

"Cousin Tingting, come on, I'll go upstairs with you to rest."

Lin Chen grabbed Wen Cai by the back of his collar and pulled him back.

"Don't try to slack off, go to the kitchen and get some glutinous rice."

With a bitter face, Wencai could only obediently walk towards the kitchen.

Lin Chen looked around the main hall of the Ren residence.

This Western-style building is indeed impressive, but its feng shui layout is a complete mess.

A front door directly facing the stairs is called a "piercing hall evil," which is most likely to attract evil spirits.

If Old Master Ren were to arrive, he could simply march straight in.

Lin Chen took out several skilled-level corpse-suppressing talismans from his pocket.

These talismans were drawn using the magical power of the Shangqing Great Cave True Scripture, and their surfaces faintly shimmer with golden light.

He walked to the front door and pasted the talismans on the four corners of the door frame.

Then they brought in two armchairs and placed them behind the door.

it's dark.

The streets of Renjia Town were deserted.

Every household closed their doors early in the morning, and even the night watchman dared not come out for a stroll.

The news of Master Ren's tragic death spread throughout the town.

Everyone in town knows that an evil spirit has appeared.

The mortuary was brightly lit.

Qiu Sheng was bending over, rummaging through boxes and cabinets in the warehouse.

"That's strange, where does Master usually keep the glutinous rice?"

As Qiu Sheng rummaged through the trash, he threw unwanted junk all over the floor.

Master Simu sat on a grand chair in the main hall, wiping a bronze sword with a cloth.

"Can you hurry up, kid?"

"By the time you find the glutinous rice, your master will have been eaten away by those zombies, leaving only bones."

Master Simu urged impatiently.

Qiu Sheng emerged from the warehouse, covered in dust and dirt, carrying a cloth bag in his hand.

"Found it! Found it!"

"Uncle-Master Four Eyes, is this bag of glutinous rice enough?"

Qiu Sheng placed the cloth bag on the table and untied the rope.

Master Simu leaned over for a look, then reached into the bag and grabbed a handful.

The white glutinous rice leaked through my fingers.

Master Simu brought the rice in his hand to his nose and smelled it.

"You bastard, this rice has glutinous rice mixed in!"

"Glutinous rice won't cure zombies at all. Didn't your master teach you that?"

Qiu Sheng was startled and quickly went over to take a look. Sure enough, there were quite a few transparent sticky rice grains mixed in with the glutinous rice.

"This... I bought this at the rice shop the day before yesterday."

"That heartless boss, how dare he cheat me!" Qiu Sheng cursed.

Master Four Eyes snorted.

"Serves you right for getting ripped off; you're not careful when buying things."

"There's no time to choose now, go get the ink line and yellow paper! The people at the yamen are all roughnecks, relying on them is just asking for trouble."

Qiu Sheng didn't dare to talk back and quickly ran to get the ink line.

Master Four Eyes carried the bronze sword on his back and took several talismans drawn by Uncle Nine from the shrine.

"Feng Jiao, you've been so stingy, now you're getting your comeuppance."

"If I hadn't brought my apprentice this time, where would you put your face?"

Master Simu muttered to himself as he led Qiusheng out of the mortuary. By the moonlight, the two hurried towards the town's government office.

At the Ren residence.

Lin Chen had already placed corpse-suppressing talismans on all the windows on the first floor.

Wen Cai was carrying a bowl of glutinous rice mixed with sticky rice and was scattering it haphazardly on the doorstep.

"Junior Brother Lin Chen, is this much glutinous rice enough?"

Wencai asked as he scattered the seeds.

Lin Chen walked over and took a look.

"Brother Wencai, there's sticky rice in your bowl, it won't work on the zombies."

Wen Cai's hand, which was holding the basin, froze in mid-air.

"Oh? What should we do? I searched for ages to find this."

Lin Chen went straight to the kitchen.

Several bags of rice were piled up in the corner of the kitchen.

With his superior mental attributes and five senses, Lin Chen could tell at a glance which bag contained pure glutinous rice.

He picked up a 50-pound bag of glutinous rice with one hand and walked easily into the hall.

Use this.

Lin Chen tore open the bag, grabbed a handful of pure glutinous rice, and spread it evenly at the entrance.

Wen Cai looked at Lin Chen with envy as he watched him work so effortlessly.

"Junior brother, you are really strong."

Lin Chen didn't respond and continued to set up defenses on the windowsill and vents.

Ren Tingting came downstairs carrying two cups of hot tea and changed into some casual clothes.

"Master Lin, would you like a cup of tea?"

Ren Tingting handed the teacup to Lin Chen.

Lin Chen took the teacup and took a sip.

"Miss Ren, as I just said, I told you to stay upstairs and not come down."

Ren Tingting spoke softly.

"I was scared being up there all alone."

"And...and I always feel like there's something watching me from outside."