Uncle Nine: Scattering beans to create soldiers? I'm using plants and trees to create soldiers.

On the surface of the Beiqing River,

At this moment, more than a dozen corpses were floating.

The corpses were abnormally swollen from being soaked in the river, their skin and flesh were bluish-gray, and their bodies were covered with all kinds of wounds.

Broken arms, broken legs, abrasions everywhere, missing body parts, a piece of his head shaved off...

Some of the corpses were even riddled with bullet holes, the dark craters starkly visible in the shimmering water.

The body bobbed up and down with the movement of the river.

Sometimes it would be pushed halfway by the waves, revealing its swollen, about-to-burst belly inside its abdominal cavity.

The scene was extremely bizarre!

What's most horrifying are the black lines on the surface of those corpses!

The threads, like a spider web, extended outward from the corpse's chest cavity, spreading along the subcutaneous tissue to the neck, limbs, and face.

Each thread was gently undulating.

Fluctuations, contractions.

It's as if it has a life of its own!

"Gurgle..."

The sound of swallowing saliva came from one side.

Qiu Sheng and his companion stood on the deck, their faces ashen, their eyes filled with terror.

Wencai was so frightened that his legs trembled, and he instinctively shrank behind Qiusheng.

Qiu Sheng's gaze fell on the nearest corpse, and as he looked at the slowly wriggling black threads, his cheek muscles twitched involuntarily.

He doesn't understand.

Didn't my senior brother send water soldiers to capture the water ghost?

Why are there so many corpses in the river all of a sudden?

And the black veins on these corpses...

What on earth is that?!

Why is that thing moving?!

On the boat beside him, Chen Bingwen subconsciously gripped the Lushan Fajiao in his hand, his knuckles turning white.

His gaze swept incessantly over the floating corpses around him, his pupils trembling slightly.

The gloomy corpse aura surrounded the river, and even in broad daylight, he could feel a bone-chilling cold that seeped into his body through his pores.

Something's wrong with these corpses!

Where did they come from?

Why hadn't he noticed it before?

Meanwhile, the docks in the distance were also in an uproar.

Many residents standing on higher ground saw the unusual phenomenon on the river and screamed in alarm.

"Holy crap! Lots of corpses have suddenly appeared on the river! Look!"

"So many corpses! What's going on? Weren't we told that Boss Wang's bodies had already been transported back? How come there are so many more?"

"Those bodies...were they retrieved from the river by Master Lin?"

"With so many corpses hidden at the bottom of the river, the resentment must be incredibly strong..."

"The North Qing River is haunted by water ghosts because of these corpses? No wonder I felt a chill in the river these past few days when I went fishing!"

"Where did these people come from? Were they murdered and their bodies hidden at the bottom of the river?!"

"..."

The people surged forward, all standing on tiptoe and craning their necks to look out over the river.

Security personnel rushed forward to maintain order, but they were unable to stop the surging crowd.

Seeing this, Awei quickly drew his service pistol to maintain order, shouting at the crowd, "Back off! All of you, back off! Aren't you afraid of being dragged down by the water ghosts and becoming their scapegoats?! Move back, don't push!"

But after he finished shouting, he would occasionally look back at the river, his fist gripping the gun clenching tighter and tighter, cold sweat pouring down his forehead.

So many corpses were buried at the bottom of the Beiqing River.

As the security captain of Renjia Town, he was completely unaware of this! Including the previously tragic deaths of Boss Wang and others, more than twenty bodies have been found on the Beiqing River in this wave.

With so many lives lost, how will he explain it to his superiors if they investigate?

Thinking about this, Awei's heart sank heavier and heavier.

……

In the shadows behind the crowd.

Wang Li and Xu Yuhua stood side by side, neither of them looking too good.

Xu Yuhua's gaze swept over the floating corpses on the river surface, her brows furrowing slightly, her tone becoming somewhat somber: "There's such a large pit of corpses hidden beneath the Beiqing River."

"Something feels off about this."

Wang Li's expression shifted slightly, his fingers unconsciously tracing the edge of the bamboo slip in his sleeve: "They probably drifted here along some undercurrent. A dozen corpses buried together—their resentment must be overwhelming. With Yi Mei in charge of Renjia Town, these corpses couldn't possibly have gone unnoticed..."

Just as Xu Yuhua was about to say something, her pupils suddenly contracted.

"Look—"

He lowered his voice and spoke urgently:

"Those corpses moved!"

……

On the river.

The fingers of the corpse, whose head was half-collapsed, trembled slightly.

The movement was very slight.

It was like a muscle that had been dead for a long time suddenly twitching for a moment.

But then came the second, the third...

The trembling in my fingers became more and more frequent.

The collapsed head, like a rusty gear, slowly twisted toward the ship not far away.

Its only remaining grayish-white eyeball stared dead at the people on the ship.

"Holy crap! Senior Brother, look! That corpse moved!"

Qiu Sheng pointed at the corpse and cried out in alarm, his voice almost splitting into two.

Actually, Qiu Sheng didn't need to remind her at all.

Before Qiu Sheng could even speak, Lin Xuan's gaze had already locked onto the corpse.

As his gaze focused on the black veins on the surface of the corpse that pulsated like blood vessels, the system's notification panel appeared before him at just the right moment.

Corpse Soul Vine

[Quality: White]

Maturity: 81%

【Trait: Soul Devouring Corpse Control】(Uses the corpse as soil and the remnant soul as nourishment, it parasitizes the body of the dead. As the vines grow, it can completely control the corpse's movements; the stronger the corpse, the greater the power of the corpse control.)

Dao Guo: The Art of Corpse Control

......

Lin Xuan's pupils twitched slightly, and a look of understanding flashed in his eyes.

It turns out that these corpses could move not because of the heavy corpse evil, but because of the plants attached to them!

Lin Xuan's gaze quickly swept over the remaining floating corpses.

They discovered that all the corpses were covered in this strange substance, and most of them had reached the white quality, with only one or two being gray quality.

Subsequently,

Lin Xuan's gaze lingered on the bullet holes in the floating corpse, and he couldn't help but think of the water corpse that had been sent to the mortuary the day before.

The corpse also had a bullet wound between its eyebrows, abnormal swelling, and its rate of resurrection was far beyond what is normal.

At the time, he thought the zombie transformation was caused by the submerged corpse of a sorcerer at the pinnacle of cultivation.

But now it seems the source isn't the water ghost.

The real source is here!

Just as Lin Xuan was sorting out the cause and effect, on the river, a sudden change occurred!

The black veins on the head of the corpse, whose head was half collapsed, suddenly lit up, bursting out with a faint black light!

"Hiss—ho!"

The corpse's mouth suddenly opened, and a roar that was not human burst forth from its rotting throat.

Immediately afterwards, the body was turned over and placed upright.

The water exploded, and the corpse's legs kicked stiffly as it rushed toward Lin Xuan's magic ship!

The black vines contracted and flickered continuously, manipulating the corpse and charging forward in a twisted posture that was completely contrary to human biomechanics!

at the same time,

That howl of the corpse was like some kind of signal.

An invisible ripple spread across the water's surface, sweeping over the remaining floating corpses.

Click...click...click-click!

A series of sounds of bones twisting and turning could be heard.

The corpse vines on the other corpses simultaneously began to flicker with black light.

One, two, three...

All the floating corpses stirred at once!

Some of them flipped over, some stood upright, and some even suddenly sprang up from under the water.

More than ten zombies awoke at the same moment!

Black vines surged wildly beneath their skin, driving a rotting body toward the two French boats on the river.

Upon seeing this, Wen Cai's face turned ashen, and he stood frozen in place as if struck by lightning.

The next second, he pointed at the approaching horde of corpses from all sides and let out a shrill, distorted scream:

"They moved! They moved!! All those corpses moved!"

Qiu Sheng's face was also extremely tense.

He gripped the peach wood sword tightly, his knuckles turning white, his eyes fixed on the walking corpse charging at the forefront.

His lips were pressed into a thin line, and fine beads of cold sweat had already seeped from his forehead.