Mang Shusheng's Ink Painting Practice

Chapter 128: Village Full of Zombies
The donkey cart moved slowly, and they arrived at a deserted village at a leisurely pace.

In fact, Zhao Yifu had asked the head of the Sun family about the situation of this village earlier. He was told that miasma had escaped from the mountains, causing all the villagers to die in a major epidemic.

This is also the reason why the Sun family is so vigilant against the sick in Fengkou Town. Getting sick here is very likely to kill everyone.

The donkey that was pulling the strings seemed to have sensed something and stood straight at the entrance of the village, not wanting to go any further.

Wu Zhong whipped it twice but it still didn't move, which made him a little angry.

"What a beast! He's really a stubborn donkey."

"Master, we must change it when we get back. How about a different horse? It'll be faster."

Zhao Yifu shook his head and said, "Horses in our Southern Dynasty are not cheap. There's no need to waste that much money. If you really need to replace one, just get a mule. It's easier to keep."

Wu Zhong shook his head helplessly.

But at this moment, Xiaohu slowly walked out of the car.

It flipped over nimbly and jumped onto the donkey's back.

The donkey shuddered and immediately continued to move forward obediently.

Little Mustache didn't come along this time, because some cats were working in the county town, doing some glamorous jobs, which all required its coordination.

But Xiaohu and Hua Da Nv both came. In Zhao Yifu's opinion, these two were probably the ceiling level among the cats, so he was quite relieved.

The village is desolate and overgrown with weeds.

To be honest, the four seasons near Prison Mountain are not so distinct, but here it feels like winter.

Desolate, dead silent and with an unusually cold feeling.

Zhao Yifu looked around from the donkey cart, and the houses around him were all quiet.

Normally, a village has about a hundred households. This village is located on the edge of Prison Mountain, and the surrounding terrain is not expandable, so it is not possible to grow much land. Therefore, there are only seventeen houses here, which means seventeen households.

Although these houses look quite spacious and there should be many people living in each household, they are all empty now.

The donkey cart stopped at the entrance of the village, and Zhao Yifu stood up and jumped off.

He frowned slightly and said, "Has it rained nearby?"

Then he shook his head and said, "No, it shouldn't have rained in the past three or five days here. Why is the ground still a bit muddy?"

At this time, both the donkey and the big black dog at his feet seemed a little uneasy. They kept shifting their legs on the ground, as if they were quite uncomfortable walking on this ground.

Zhao Yifu thought for a moment and said, "Uncle Wu, you should park your donkey cart outside the village."

Wu Zhong shook his head and said, "No, this place is evil. I want to stay with the young master."

Zhao Yifu laughed and said, "Never mind. Then come with me and take a look."

"As for Dahei...let him stay on the donkey cart so he doesn't run around and get lost."

Wu Zhong said in confusion, "How can you let a dog get on a car?"

But since it was Zhao Yifu who said it, he nodded and said, "Dahei, wait for us in the car."

The next moment, Dahei jumped onto the driver's seat, looking very anxious.

And after getting in the car, it really became much quieter.

It was probably Hua Da Niu's aura that calmed him down.

Zhao Yi Fu put his hands behind his back and walked into a house next door.

The house is very spacious and should be where three or four generations live together.

He went to the kitchen first.

As a result, I saw a lot of moldy rice and flour.

Wu Zhong said, "It seems that the people in this room didn't die of starvation. Could it be that they really were sick..."

"Meow~~"

In Zhao Yifu's arms, Yiyi suddenly cried out.

Hearing the sound, he walked towards the main hall curiously, and found that there were three coffins in the main hall.

Of the three coffins, the two in the middle and on the left had been nailed shut, while the lid of the coffin on the right was tilted with a corner open.

Seeing this, Zhao Yifu leaned over and looked inside.

To be honest, he was mentally prepared to see a pile of bones, but in the end he saw nothing. The coffin was empty and there was nothing in it.

At this time, Wu Zhong also quickly searched the other rooms in the house with great professionalism. Then he came up behind Zhao Yifu and said, "Master, judging by the condition of the room, this family should have originally had seven or eight people living there, but they must have left in a very short time or something happened, so the room is not cleaned up."

Zhao Yifu pointed at the coffins and said, "Two coffins nailed together mean two people died and there was no time to bury them."

Wu Zhong nodded and said, "Under these circumstances, the remaining people in the village should have fled. I just don't know if those who escaped died on the road or what happened."

"Meow!"

Yiyi called out again.

Zhao Yifu frowned.

He suddenly reached his right hand into his left sleeve and grasped the hilt of the Dayangming fine bronze sword.

But just when he was about to draw it out, he hesitated and replaced it with the handle of the heavy black iron sword.

Then he drew his sword and swung it, splitting the lids of the two coffins in front of him open with one stroke.

"Master, this..."

Zhao Yifu said, "Don't worry, let me take a look."

He came to the coffin and looked inside, and was quite surprised to find that the two corpses lying inside had intact faces, as if they had just died!

One of them looked like a teenager, with a pale but full face.

The other was a middle-aged woman with a dignified and elegant makeup, and there was no sign of decay at all.

"Master, this is probably dirty."

Wu Zhong said with a serious expression.

Zhao Yifu nodded and said, "Let's go somewhere else. If the whole village is like this... then we might as well burn this place down."

He decided to set a fire.

Wu Zhong nodded after listening, and then quickly went out with Zhao Yifu to check the conditions of other houses.

However, what they didn't expect was that as soon as they left the room, the sky, which had been sunny before, suddenly became overcast.

There was no thunder or lightning in the sky, but it suddenly started to rain.

More importantly, the sky suddenly became extremely dark, and the entire village was shrouded in an extremely strong yin energy.

"Kaka~"

Suddenly, there was a noise behind them.

Zhao Yifu turned his head and saw that the woman and child in the coffin sat up in a stiff posture.

"Master, they're sitting up, what should we do?"

Wu Zhong was a little nervous. After all, he had never encountered such a thing in his early years in the martial arts world.

However, in the darkness, Zhao Yifu's eyes flashed with colorful light, which made Wu Zhong feel much safer.

Zhao Yifu said, "Go out first. Let's make sure the donkey cart is safe."

Well, even though two zombies that big stood up, he was still thinking about his cat... When he returned outside, the rain was pouring down.

Zhao Yifu took out a bamboo hat and threw it to Wu Zhong, and put on another one himself.

The donkey stamped its feet restlessly, but the little tiger on its back still sat there and did not move.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Dahei stood up on the driver's seat and kept barking, it seemed that he also sensed the hostility here.

Zhao Yifu reached out and pressed down Dahei's head, immediately calming it down.

At this moment, in the wind and rain, in this deserted village as dark as night, bursts of whimpering and many inexplicable movements appeared, as if the village had "woken up" in another way.

At this time, there was a noise in the house they had first entered, and they saw two figures, one big and one small, walking out stiffly.

Zhao Yi Fu had already put the heavy black iron sword back into his sleeve and reached out to grasp the hilt of the Dayangming fine bronze sword.

Now he has a clear distinction between the timing of using the black iron heavy sword and the big Yangming fine copper sword.

When he can solve the problem with physical attacks, he will fight with the heavy black iron sword.

And when physical attacks are not enough, or when he must release the 'Shou Ren Method' and use his true Qi, then his weapon is the Great Yangming Fine Bronze Sword.

Of course, this is not absolute, it’s just that this combination is more suitable now.

Therefore, the moment he grasped the hilt of the sword, the 'Shou Ren Fa' that was originally running in his body was interrupted, and then he pulled out the Dayangming fine copper sword from his sleeve.

As his true energy ignited by the pure Yang fire was injected into the sword, a golden flame gradually emerged on the large Yangming fine copper sword.

"Whoo~"

He swept his sword across, bringing out a line of fire like a streak of silk.

The fire swept into the house and set the two zombies that walked into the yard on fire.

Then, the whole house caught fire and began to burn fiercely.

A flash of fire immediately appeared in the originally gloomy mountain village, making it look no longer so dark.

The Great Yangming Bronze Sword and his Pure Yang Qi truly complement each other.

At this moment, some figures appeared in other houses in the mountain village. They were all disturbed zombies.

In other words, everyone in the village turned into zombies!
Although Zhao Yifu had anticipated this scene, he still felt a pang in his heart when he actually saw it.

Because the implications of this kind of thing are far greater than the current troubles we are facing.

What caused the decline and transformation of this village?

Will this change spread?
Is this also the case in the other three villages?

Zhao Yifu thought about these things in his mind, but his hands did not slow down at all and he had already started the attack.

The Great Yangming Fine Copper Sword is a pure Yang magic sword, and driven by his pure Yang true energy, it is naturally extremely powerful.

He only needed to hit a zombie's chest with one sword to set the zombie's whole body on fire, and it would be quickly burned to ashes by the yang fire.

Wherever Zhao Yifu passed, zombies were lit into torches.

A moment later, more than thirty burning zombies were reduced to ashes.

"go with!"

After setting all the zombies on fire, he used his "Sun Hand" to release fireballs, setting fire to all the houses in the village one by one.

Before long, the entire village was engulfed in flames. Even the dense rain could not extinguish the flames, but instead caused billowing smoke.

The blazing fire immediately dispersed the lingering evil spirit in the place, and then the dark clouds in the sky also dissipated, and a sunset appeared on the horizon.

Zhao Yifu let out a sigh of relief, and then the true energy in his body resumed the trajectory of the "Shou Ren Method".

That’s right, it only took a moment for him to respond to the Shouren Law!
It’s so familiar that it’s almost become a body memory.

"Master, you...you are so amazing!"

Wu Zhong praised him with a stuttering voice.

He didn't expect that the young master, whom he had not seen for three or four months, would suddenly become so powerful.

In his memory, Zhao Yifu was indeed a peerless master, but at least he met his psychological expectations of a peerless master.

Look at Zhao Yifu now?

When the sword was swung out, a sea of ​​fire erupted. Is this what a peerless master should do?

Zhao Yifu said modestly, "Actually, this is all thanks to my master's divine sword and the magical gloves that an old friend of mine helped me make. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to create such a terrifying sea of ​​fire on my own."

This is the truth.

He majored in water spiritual energy, supplemented by illusion. At this time, the raging sea of ​​fire was entirely controlled by the Great Yangming Bronze Sword and the Fiery Sun Hand.

But then again, from the perspective of strength, isn't his magic weapon his magic power?
Wu Zhong didn't understand. He just felt that his young master was becoming more and more powerful, which made the peak of the second-rate master in the martial arts world that he had worked hard to reach during this period seem not worth mentioning.

However, he quickly calmed down. After all, his level of cultivation had never been ranked high in Shenhe Villa, so there was no need to feel sad about his strength at this time.

He looked at the sky and said, "Master, it's getting late. Tonight we are..."

Zhao Yifu also looked around for a moment, then pointed to a hilltop and said, "Let's camp there for the night. We can overlook the entire village from there, and see if there will be any more unusual changes in the village at night."

"If there are any unusual changes, it's a good opportunity to clean them up at once. Otherwise, the thought of such hidden dangers still existing under my rule would make me unable to sleep or eat."

Wu Zhong nodded, he knew his second young master.

Unlike the kind-hearted eldest young master Zhao Yicheng, this second young master is actually a bit stubborn and likes to argue.

But if not for this, the second young master would not have been able to achieve such great success.

Wu Zhong cracked the whip and asked the donkey pulling the cart to turn around and walk towards the hill outside the village.

The donkey's wheels creaked as they slowly climbed the hill in the firelight.

On this hilltop, they just happened to see the last rays of the setting sun.

However, the fire in the village at the foot of the mountain continued to burn, but it was much smaller.

"This place is surprisingly dry. It doesn't feel like it has rained at all."

Zhao Yifu said unexpectedly.

He jumped off the donkey cart and walked around, and then confirmed that the rain just now was only falling in the local area where the village was located.

But isn’t this local area a little too local?

"Master, what are you going to eat today?"

Wu Zhong asked after feeding the donkey some grass.

Zhao Yifu thought of the time when he and Master Bai Na ate ham together, and said, "Let's eat some ham."

Wu Zhong was quite happy to hear this and said, "That's perfect. I brought some vegetables with me when I went out and haven't eaten them yet. Today is the perfect time to have stir-fried vegetables with ham."

Zhao Yifu nodded, and even chose to interrupt the operation of the "Shou Ren Fa" for the sake of the quality of this meal.

He used this 'Shou Ren Method' intermittently, but in fact he had already mastered it thoroughly.

If his normal state is considered a combination of a 'mage' and a 'warrior', then in the Shouren state he is a combination of a 'defensive warrior' and a 'berserker'.

Very irritable.

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