Chapter 754 - Chapter 754: Chapter 754: Playing Dead (1/2)

Chapter 754: Chapter 754: Playing Dead

How could these soldiers be threatened like this?

Upon hearing this, they immediately slashed a sword towards the old Taoist, who screamed, “My god!” and hastily squatted down, slipping right under the coffin. This made everyone burst into laughter.

“Leave the old man be! Open the coffin!”

A few soldiers gathered around again.

There was a commotion in the queue. It was so easy to die these days, but people generally believed that the dead should be left in peace. No one would deliberately make things difficult for the dead.

The soldiers here clearly intended to cause trouble, making the people indignant.

These soldiers didn’t care about the opinions of the crowd. Looking intimidating, they deterred those who wanted to stand up for justice, making them retreat without saying a word.

Watching the coffin being lifted from the ground and prepared for opening, the suona player slowly came over, stuttering for quite a while.

“You… you… you… can’t… can’t open… open the coffin. This is very unlucky… if you keep causing trouble, more… more people will die. This coffin can’t… can’t… be touched!”

It turned out that the suona player had a stutter, which explained his difficulty in uttering even a single word.

“Get lost! Your words don’t decide anything! I’ll do whatever I want! Hurry and get the iron pickaxe!”

The soldier glanced at the funeral party, making the pallbearers shrink and huddle together, none daring to speak up.

The iron pickaxe was quickly brought over, and the coffin was obviously well sealed all around without any gaps.

Not caring about what others thought, they picked up the iron pickaxe and began to break open the coffin directly.

The sound of the coffin cracking under the iron pickaxe echoed, and soon the coffin was split open, exposing the interior to everyone’s eyes.

Indeed, there lay a dead woman inside the coffin, her mouth wide open, eyes bulging out of their sockets, having been dead for quite some time. Her eyes were already gray, and her face was oozing pus. She had clearly died a wrongful death!

“Damn it! This is so unlucky!”

The soldier cursed angrily, still not giving up as he reached out his hand, attempting to search the bottom of the corpse, in hopes of finding something of value.

However, just as he leaned in and reached out, the corpse moved!

Before everyone’s very eyes, she slowly sat up in her coffin and reached for the soldier’s throat…

“Ah! Ghost!”

“Ah! Trouble, trouble! It’s a reanimated corpse! Run, everyone! Run!”

In a moment, chaos and panicked howls filled the checkpoint, as everyone scattered like headless flies. Even the soldiers guarding the checkpoint were terrified, running faster than anyone else.

In a short while, the checkpoint was empty, not a single person in sight.

The soldier who had been held by the neck obviously heard the outside commotion too, but by the time he tried to escape, it was too late. His neck was firmly trapped and he couldn’t move at all. His eyes rolled back, his legs kicking wildly, full of regret.

“Hurry up! Hurry and save him, don’t just stand there.”

It was the voice of the old Taoist. A glimmer of hope rose in the soldier’s eyes. Just when he thought he was going to die, the hands grasping his throat loosened, and he coughed desperately, taking quite a while to catch his breath.