Villains: Starting with the Landlady

"You're welcome, this is what I should do."

Uncle Nine remained as stern as ever. After taking the umbrella and gently touching it, his expression changed drastically. He glanced at his disciples and then beckoned to Ling Yun.

"Ling Yun, come with me for a moment!"

When Ren Tingting saw that Ling Yun was about to leave, she quickly stopped him. But Ling Yun knew it was better not to let her know about these things for the time being, so he told her to go for a walk in the backyard first, and that he would be right back.

Inside the room, Uncle Nine opened his umbrella, glanced at the empty space, put the umbrella aside, and said seriously, "Ling Yun, tell me the truth, did you encounter something last night?"

"Yes, I encountered a female ghost."

"then you……"

"Everything that was going to happen has happened," Ling Yun said frankly.

"Lingyun, are you being foolish!" Uncle Nine said anxiously. "When ghosts or monsters have intercourse with humans, it will shorten their lifespan. You... sigh!"

“Uncle Jiu, I am very grateful for your concern for me. But I am different from ordinary people. Besides, this female ghost does not want to harm me. It would be very easy for me to subdue her.”

Uncle Nine stared at Ling Yun for several moments, then patted him on the shoulder helplessly: "No matter what, you're not my disciple, so I can't control you... I just hope you remember that associating with ghosts will only lead to your luck getting worse and worse, and your life becoming much worse than before."

"Thank you for the advice, but please don't tell Tingting about these things, since she hasn't seen any supernatural things yet."

"I know."

After Ling Yun left, he pulled Ren Tingting toward the Ren family home.

Before leaving, he turned back and used his X-ray vision to glance at Old Master Ren. Although it was daytime, it was still shrouded in terrifying black energy, and he estimated that it would break free completely tonight.

Ling Yun wasn't particularly afraid; instead, he felt a sense of tension, like a top student taking a final exam.

But Uncle Nine had a plan. He wouldn't let the ghost harm people; he had to find a way to subdue the female ghost.

That night, after Ling Yun and Ren Tingting had been intimate, the girl slept soundly. Ling Yun hung a peach wood cross around her neck, pulled her body closer to him, and then dressed himself before arriving at Master Ren's door.

In the original story, after escaping from the coffin, Old Master Ren first drank the blood of two little black sheep to regain some of his strength, and then went straight to the Ren family and killed his own son.

However, Ling Yun waited all night, and by dawn, Old Master Ren still hadn't come!

When Mr. Ren and Ren Tingting got up, they saw Ling Yun sitting upright in the hall and couldn't help but feel a little strange.

"Cousin, why didn't you go back to your room to sleep?"

"Nephew, is something on your mind?"

Both father and daughter were concerned about him, but Ling Yun could go days without sleep without any problems. Instead, he frowned and said, "I'm fine."

That shouldn't be happening! What's going on?

Just then, a servant rushed into the hall, knelt on the ground trembling, and said, "Master, something terrible has happened, Master!"

"Don't rush, tell me slowly!"

Ling Yun used his mind-reading ability to see his panicked and fearful state of mind, but it was too chaotic to form coherent sentences.

He quickly stepped forward to help the servant up, and after comforting him for a while, the servant spoke in a trembling voice.

"Young master, this morning I went to deliver the things that the second master's family needed for their long journey, as the master had instructed, but when I went there with another servant, I found that the second master's family was all dead!"

"Second Master?" Ling Yun looked surprised. Who is this?

"Yes, that's the master's younger brother. He passed through here a few days ago and stopped at a house not far away."

Suddenly, Ling Yun breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a sense of liberation.

Although people died, they were complete strangers, and the plot was able to continue, which was fortunate.

However, he couldn't pretend to be happy on the surface. Instead, he feigned grief and said, "My second uncle is actually dead... Damn it, do you know who killed him?"

"The other guy went to call the security team!"

Ren Tingting's face didn't show much sadness, only Old Master Ren was in tears. Ling Yun used his mind-reading ability to see through their hearts. Although Old Master Ren and his younger brother didn't have a good relationship, they were still brothers after all.

This must be where the plot changes. Ling Yun, along with the Ren family father and daughter, followed the servants to the residence where Second Master Ren was resting.

When they arrived, they found the area surrounded by people, three layers deep. When they arrived, the security captain, Awei, and his men had also arrived. Awei was particularly emotional, crying and cursing, vowing to seek justice for Master Ren.

Only Ling Yun knew that he was faking it all, his purpose being to please Master Ren and Ren Tingting.

Where is the wound?

Ren Tingting dared not look at the corpse, but Ling Yun still wanted to verify his guess.

Ah Wei lifted the white cloth covering the corpses. The entire Ren family of three, along with two servants, were dead, their deaths gruesome, with several bloody holes in their necks.

Sure enough, the old man who had turned into a zombie had already absorbed the blood of his closest relatives and mutated!

Chapter 198 Mass Zombie Transformation

Just as the group was examining the body, another commotion broke out outside, and they could faintly hear the name "Uncle Nine".

Uncle Nine walked out from the crowd, greeted a few people, and then went to look at the body.

He discovered early in the morning that Old Master Ren's coffin was broken. It was clear that the zombie had escaped and had found its closest relatives first, absorbing their blood.

Fortunately, it went to Master Ren's place first, and it needed to absorb the nutrients properly for a while, so it didn't go to see Master Ren and Ren Tingting again.

"Awei, can you figure out how my brother and his family died?"

Upon hearing Mr. Ren's question, Awei immediately stood up straight and said decisively, "Uncle, this round hole clearly indicates a gunshot wound!"

Awei brazenly expressed his opinion, and even if others looked down on him, they dared not disobey him because of his status as the team leader.

Uncle Nine knew the truth, but he didn't want to say it, worried that it would frighten the neighbors and Master Ren. He shook his head at Ah Wei: "With such accurate marksmanship, every shot hits the neck?"

Feeling humiliated by being contradicted, Awei rolled his eyes and said with a smile, "Oh, then he must have been killed by a martial arts master with a throwing dart, releasing a... right, a Nine-in-a-Ring Coin Dart!"

Even Master Ren and Ren Tingting couldn't stand it anymore, feeling that Awei was simply talking nonsense.

"Fingernails, these six people were stabbed to death!" Uncle Nine was too lazy to listen to his nonsense, so he told him the cause of death, but kept quiet about the zombies.

"what?"

Ah Wei turned around and immediately saw Uncle Nine demonstrating with his fingernails. Like a drowning person grasping at a straw, he grabbed Uncle Nine's hand: "Haha, you're the murderer! Look, who here has longer fingernails than you?"

Master Ren thought this was too absurd, but Ah Wei vowed to take Uncle Jiu back to the prison for a proper interrogation and ordered his men to carry the body back with him.

Just then, Uncle Nine's two apprentices arrived late. Wen Cai, running too fast, bumped into Ah Wei.

"Ouch!"

Awei was knocked to the ground, clutching his backside and pointing at Wencai, saying, "Arrest him too! He might be an accomplice!"

This caused quite a commotion. Wencai, seeing the situation was turning bad, immediately fled. Uncle Jiu took advantage of the chaos to say to Qiusheng, "Come to the prison to rescue me later. Also, have Wencai stay at Master Ren's house. That zombie has greatly increased in strength after drinking the blood of its closest relatives. It will definitely want to continue drinking Master Ren's blood. Be careful!"

"Okay Master!"

Qiu Sheng nodded, and seeing that several security guards even wanted to arrest him, he ran away in a flash.

Having failed to capture his two apprentices, Ah Wei focused all his anger on Uncle Nine, intending to go back and give him a good beating—even if it wasn't him, he must have done it!

Ah Wei wouldn't listen to what Master Ren said anymore. The security captain had lost face, and he was determined to get it back no matter what.

In this era, there was no such thing as protecting crime scenes. Master Ren ordered his men to clean the house, and then took Ling Yun and Ren Tingting home to prepare for his brother's funeral.

In the evening, Ling Yun went to the mortuary alone and found Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng, who were preparing to leave.

Upon seeing Ling Yun arrive, Qiu Sheng immediately looked around warily, and after confirming that no one was around, he pulled Ling Yun inside.

"Lingyun, keep your voice down! We just got back too, don't let that bastard Awei find out!"

Where are you headed?

"Uh, that..." The two exchanged a glance, and Ling Yun walked directly toward Old Master Ren's coffin.

"Lingyun, no!"

The coffin was opened, revealing it to be empty. Ling Yun leaned against the coffin, tapped it with his finger, and calmly said, "Was it my maternal grandfather who ran out and killed my second uncle's family?"

"You knew all along?" Qiu Sheng scratched his head, and Wen Cai smiled awkwardly.

"Actually, I know just as much as you do. You're planning to go to the prison to rescue Uncle Nine, aren't you?"

"You can't hide this from me." Qiu Sheng sighed. "Please don't tell Awei, my master is completely innocent!"

"I understand. Please be careful. To put it bluntly, my second uncle's family might also turn into zombies. Be careful."

After he finished speaking, he patted Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai on the shoulder and walked back.

When he got back, he didn't tell the Ren family father and daughter what had happened. He just told them to rest early and lied that the murderer might have a grudge against the Ren family, tricking them into going back to their room.

He changed his clothes and ran towards the security team.

It was dark at this time, and a group of people stood in the empty area inside the prison.

Uncle Nine was tied to a frame, and the ground was filled with all sorts of torture instruments. It was clear that Ah Wei had tortured Uncle Nine severely for a while.

"Uncle Jiu, why don't you just confess? It'll save you from suffering any more, right?"

Ah Wei's gaze, hidden behind his glasses, was cold and ruthless. He had never liked Uncle Nine, and now that he was finally in his hands.

He was heating a branding iron over a fire, a sinister smile playing on his lips: "I've written everything down for you, all you have to do is put your fingerprint on it."

"I didn't kill them." Uncle Nine gasped for breath. He simply couldn't bear to harm these ordinary people. Otherwise, he could have easily defeated Ah Wei and his ilk, or even killed them using Maoshan Taoist magic.

"Hey, even now, you're still being stubborn!"

Ah Wei took out the red-hot branding iron and approached Uncle Nine with a chuckle.

Uncle Nine panicked. He could endure other kinds of pain, but once the branding iron was applied, it could not be washed off!

Several people nearby immediately grabbed Uncle Nine, and the red-hot branding iron was imprinted on Uncle Nine's chest, causing him to howl in pain for a while.

"Humph, you are just being stubborn!"

Awei was somewhat disappointed that the man still wouldn't confess, so he locked him in a cell and then went out for a late-night snack with his brothers.

After they left, Qiu Sheng secretly ran down from the roof and came to the door of Uncle Jiu's cell.

"Master!"

Seeing Uncle Nine's miserable state, Qiu Sheng was filled with rage, but his immediate priority was to rescue Uncle Nine, so he immediately took out his lock-picking tools and got to work.

It was late at night, and the yin energy was strong. Suddenly, the six corpses got up and bumped into the iron bars, making a loud noise.

Hearing this from outside, Ah Wei's eyes lit up. He knew that it was probably Uncle Nine's two apprentices who had come to rescue their master. He ordered his men to lock the door and not to open it no matter what happened. Then, with a wicked grin, he walked in with his gun.

Uncle Nine and Qiu Sheng were holding their breath to prevent the zombies from hearing the noise, but Ah Wei was unaware of this. As soon as he entered, he saw Qiu Sheng at the door of Uncle Nine's cell and laughed loudly, "Well done, you've finally been caught!"

Chapter 199 Zombies Appear

Ah Wei pulled out a gun, pointed it at Qiu Sheng, and laughed loudly, "Hmph, this time you won't be able to escape!"

Qiu Sheng and Uncle Jiu covered their mouths and noses and shook their heads desperately at him, but Awei didn't care at all and instead swaggered over.

Just as he had walked a few meters, he suddenly felt something behind him. When he turned around, he saw six zombies standing behind him.

"Mom!"

Although Awei didn't know what zombies were, these six were all dead people, so how could they stand up now?

The leader, Master Ren, grabbed Awei and bit him. However, because Awei was a second-generation zombie and had not yet been strengthened by drinking blood, his strength was average, and he managed to break free.

He immediately covered the wound on his neck and ran to the gate, pounding on the iron gate desperately.

"Help! Open the door!"

"No, under no circumstances will it be opened!"

"Hey, open the door quickly! It's your captain, Awei!"

Upon hearing him say this, the brothers outside realized what was happening and hurriedly took out their keys to open the door for him. But as soon as they inserted the key, they saw that Awei was surrounded by six zombies!

The gruesome and bloody scene made the security guard who opened the door shudder, drop the keys, and run away!

Awei's screams gradually subsided, while Qiusheng was so frightened that his legs went weak and his hands were shaking, making it impossible for him to open the door.

Just then, a man's shout came from the rooftop.

Hey guys, having a buffet?

Several zombies were attracted by his voice. As soon as they looked up, they saw Ling Yun carrying a rocket launcher and aiming it at them.

The rocket flew over, and after a loud explosion, the zombie and the door were all reduced to ashes!