From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

"I'm afraid Uncle Nine will arrive too late, and Ren Wei, driven by greed, will destroy the alchemical artifact and accidentally let the mummified corpse get its blood on it."

Upon hearing this, everyone quickened their pace.

When the group arrived at the county government office, the gate was wide open, and inside lay the corpse of a soldier whose blood had been drained.

Jiang Liu and the others exchanged glances and hurriedly rushed into the county government office. When they arrived at the main hall, they saw Lin Jiu treating the wound on Ren Wei's wrist.

Red Girl was also present.

"Uncle Nine!"

Jiang Liu's eyelids twitched as he looked at the injury on Ren Wei's left wrist.

The worst-case scenario he had envisioned has come to pass.

"That mummified corpse has come back to life!"

After bandaging Ren Wei's wound, Lin Jiu recounted what had happened—

As the captain of the soldiers in Renjia Town, and in order to win Lin Jiu's favor, Ren Wei went to the upper reaches of the stream yesterday with Jiang Liu and others. After burning all the bats in the church's meditation room, he went to the water digging site to supervise the work.

This is why Ren Wei was able to remove the body immediately.

After bringing the mummified corpse to the county government office, Ren Wei became greedy and tried to pull out the silver cross. However, the cross was extremely secure and could not be pulled out at all. Even when he called his other subordinates to help, it was to no avail.

Finally, Ren Wei had no choice but to settle for second best and prepare to saw off the ruby ​​on the cross... Just as Lin Jiu arrived, Ren Wei had just cut off the ruby, but he was so startled by seeing Lin Jiu that he accidentally cut a blood vessel in his left wrist with the saw, and blood gushed out onto the mummified corpse!

Seeing this, Lin Jiu had no time to care about the mummified corpse. He only wanted to stop Ren Wei's bleeding. But who knew that in just a short while, the mummified corpse absorbed all the blood that Ren Wei had spilled on its body, came back to life, grabbed a soldier, and sucked all the blood out of his body.

The other officers and soldiers were so frightened that they forgot they had guns and ran straight out!

The mummified corpse that had drunk a person's blood visibly returned to its pre-life state, with fair skin, bloodshot eyes, full muscles, and violent aura.

Lin Jiu had never seen such a bizarre "zombie" before!

It was the legendary Corpse Demon, which he had seen a few days ago. Ultimately, it was still within his comprehension, controlled by the transformed Corpse Gu.

But that "Western zombie" was different. It was as dry as a piece of dead wood, but after being nourished by Ren Wei's blood, it actually came back to life. Moreover, after drinking the blood of one person, its body almost returned to a living state.

Not only is it eerie!

Just outrageous!

"...After that Western zombie revived and drank a person's blood, I temporarily put Awei aside, intending to kill it first. But I didn't expect that thing could fly and actually escaped!"

Lin Jiu wanted to chase after it, but worried that Ren Wei would die from blood loss if he didn't treat the wound on his wrist, so he had to stay. "But that thing seems to be afraid of sunlight. When it flew out, it was emitting black smoke. It must have hidden in the dark forest."

"Ninth Uncle, why did you save this good-for-nothing?" Li Muxuan couldn't help but mock Ren Wei when he saw his pale face. "Let him go to the underworld to report for duty, so as not to embarrass the Ren family!"

"We can't just stand by and watch someone die."

Although Ren Wei had indeed done many foolish things in the past, and even frequently ate and drank for free from street vendors, he has recently changed his ways.

Even if it was just to please Lin Jiu, she was still slowly drawing a line between herself and the past.

Ren Wei weakly said, "Uncle Jiu, and young heroes, it's really not my fault. Although I am greedy, I have seen zombies before. I've learned my lesson. That corpse was so strange, I was definitely planning to take it back and burn it!"

"Before burning it, you'll cut off the gemstones, right?"

Ren Jiating noticed a ruby ​​the size of a pigeon's egg lying nearby. She bent down to pick it up and sneered, "Cousin, aren't you being a bit too greedy?"

# Chapter 181 Organizing Thoughts - Sister Hua

Dissatisfied with being told that, Ren Wei retorted, "Cousin, you can't say that. We're relatives, after all! Besides, it really wasn't my fault back then!"

I don't know what happened. I did want to burn the mummified corpse at first, but after looking at it for a while, I wasn't afraid anymore. My mind became a little hazy, and it felt like a voice was saying something to me...

I couldn't hear clearly, and somehow the idea of ​​cutting that gemstone off came to mind.

"You blow it!"

Ren Jiating didn't believe Ren Wei's explanation and thought he was just making excuses.

Jiang Liu, who had speculated that the origins of the vampires might be related to the sacred tree of Nathan Island, changed his mind. He felt that Ren Wei might indeed have been "tempted," so he spoke up for him, saying, "What Captain Ren Wei said might make some sense. After all, the vampires are a kind of Western supernatural phenomenon that we cannot understand for the time being."

"vampire?"

Lin Jiu hurriedly asked, "You got the information from that Maria?"

"Yes, I've learned about the main methods used by Western supernatural beings, as well as some myths and legends—"

After saying that, Jiang Liu revealed the origin of vampires in detail and speculated, "Based on the three versions of the story that Maria knows, the so-called Demon Tree should be similar to the crystallization of witchcraft in the West, which can give others superpowers and make them directly become superhumans."

But this would inevitably disrupt the normal order, so the others drove them out of their homeland, but some of the remains of the Demon Tree were left behind and collected by the Western aliens.

I suspect that studying the fragments of the Demon Tree was also taboo, and Arthur and Franzuhas not only involved the taboo of human transmutation in alchemy, but also studied the remains of the Demon Tree, fusing them with themselves... Such things must have been kept secret.

Perhaps this is why you didn't care when you chose such a remote place for them, a place that most people are unlikely to return to.

Because this suits their purposes perfectly!

Hearing this, Lin Jiu felt somewhat annoyed.

If he had chosen a more normal location for them, such as Renjia Town, where people come and go, they would have had to be much more careful in their study of forbidden Western arts, and he would have been able to detect immediately where the current trouble was.

However, what's done is done, and self-blame is useless. All we can do now is find and eliminate that Western zombie before it starts hurting people!

“Besides that, there’s one more thing worth noting,” Jiang Liu reminded him, “the guy who changed the coordinates for digging the well.”

All the bats kept by Franzohas had drowned. After this was discovered, Jiang Liu reminded Ren Wei to have them burned.

Not a single bat escaped from the monastery's meditation room; it too was burned to the ground.

Therefore, the person who moved Lin Jiuding the wooden stake must have been someone else!

"Hmm, the guy hiding in the shadows was able to pinpoint the vampire's exact location—"

Lin Jiu guessed that the person either knew about what happened back then, or had discovered the existence of a "zombie" down there through other methods and wanted to take revenge on Renjia Town.

If it's the former, then the person is probably quite old.

If it is the latter, then it should be someone who has recently had a conflict with Renjia Town.

Afterwards, Lin Jiu assigned tasks: Lu Jin and Ren Jiating went to the town to investigate and see if there were any other outsiders recently; Hong Guniang and Li Muxuan went to the Ren family to take a look, since the only one who could get into trouble with Renjia Town recently was that Ye Maoshan: Dong Tianbao.

Perhaps it's someone connected to him.

Jiang Liu and his companions went to find the vampire's trail and eliminate him first—whatever the hidden person's purpose, his own abilities were not great, otherwise he wouldn't have needed to rely on that "Western zombie."

Upon hearing Lin Jiu mention someone connected to Dong Tianbao, Jiang Liu thought of someone and asked Ren Wei, "Captain Ren Wei, is that Sister Hua still in prison?"

"that······"

Seeing Ren Wei stammering, Jiang Liu's heart skipped a beat, and Lin Jiu also came to his senses:

If anyone has had a grudge against Renjia Town recently, besides that Wild Maoshan, it's that Sister Hua!

"Sister Hua? Who's that?"

The girl in red didn't recognize her.

"A woman with considerable ambition."

Sister Hua.

Jiang Liu first met her outside the city gates of Goose City. Her eyes held a numbness unlike anyone else's, yet also revealed a hint of shrewdness…

Later, because of a casual remark by Zhang Muzhi's second and third brothers, they actually dared to point guns at him and Zhang Muzhi, showing their ruthless side in their determination to get rid of Huang Silang. This exposed their true intentions, causing him to break down and leave Goose City...

When they met again, she had come to Renjia Town and made contact with Dong Tianbao. Perhaps she had a talent for corpse refining, as she soon obtained Qi and helped Dong Tianbao deal with the Ren family. Through Ren Wei's Qi blood, the corpse demon could "locate" the Ren family's bloodline...

Ren Wei had assumed that after being caught a second time, she wouldn't have any chance of escaping again, but judging from his expression now—

Sister Hua ran away again?!

"Uncle Jiu, this isn't my fault. Three days ago, Sister Hua knocked me unconscious while I was giving her a beating with my big stick, and then escaped under the cover of night..."

Ren Wei said weakly.

Lin Jiu's eyelids twitched violently, but he also remembered that the people in Renjia Town who fell ill due to drinking water had also appeared three days ago.

Looking back now, it's possible that the broken tree wasn't broken by the wind, but by someone!

After all, there haven't been any typhoons passing through Renjia Town in the past few days. Even if there were, it's impossible that only that one tree full of bats broke and, by sheer coincidence, fell into the stream!

"Alright, I'll have Wencai look for Sister Hua's whereabouts." Although Lin Jiu was already certain that all of this was related to Sister Hua, in order to be on the safe side, he also had to investigate other possible situations, just in case.

The group separated once again.

Jiang Liu followed Lin Jiu back to the mortuary. The latter first instructed Wen Cai to find someone—although Wen Cai was a simpleton, he had been taught the cultivation methods of two talismans by Uncle Jiu: the Five Warriors Talisman and the Immortal Trapping Talisman.

The former refers to the five plague gods: Zhang, Liu, Zhao, Zhong, and Shi; the latter can seal the vital energy of others.

However, he lacks literary talent and is too straightforward. He only knows how to use brute force and is inflexible, so he probably can't use it effectively... But with just his strength, as long as he isn't seduced, he should be able to handle Sister Hua.

After Wencai, fully armed, went out to search for Sister Hua's whereabouts, Lin Jiu took out a Bagua compass, made hand seals, chanted incantations, and infused it with Qi. One of the pointers on the top then pointed to a direction.

Lin Jiu led the way, followed by Jiang Liu, and following the compass, they found a nearby desolate mountain where they discovered a rotting corpse...

# Chapter 182 The Eastern Law Cannot Find the Western Ghost?

"You've got the wrong number?"

According to Lin Jiu's examination, the corpse was likely infected with a corpse-driving gu, but due to the failure of the corpse-driving person to control it, the gu ate away at the bones and muscles, thus losing the possibility of becoming a living corpse.

Generally speaking, it is only when beginners practice corpse-driving techniques that the corpses turn into this state.

Or perhaps the consumables that Sister Hua used for practice?

It must be said that those who can control corpses are indeed people to be respected but kept at a distance, since their spells require corpses to be used, and even practicing them requires consuming corpses.

As times change, Jiang Liu is certain that when cremation becomes more common, the art of corpse driving will decline. Perhaps only by going to chaotic foreign lands will this craft have a greater chance of being put to use.

After dealing with the corpse, Lin Jiu cast a spell again, leading Jiang Liu to search eight or nine places, but all they found were abandoned corpses or broken spirits; they couldn't even find a single hair of the vampire.

"That doesn't make sense!"

Lin Jiu was completely clueless. "Even if our laws are different from those of the West, things that come back to life are ultimately evil spirits. How could we possibly be wrong?"

Upon hearing the phrase "resurrection," Jiang Liu suddenly realized why Lin Jiu couldn't be found: