562 Invaded by Undead (2/2)
”It must be a curse, I told you we're cursed!” screamed the same villager with a sharp face.
”Gouzi, can you stop scaring yourself?” said Hong Jun.
Xie Sang stood on the side. Most villagers had arrived at the entrance, and immediately panicked when they saw the two corpses on the ground. They quickly gathered around their chief.
The villagers had grown up drinking from the well. As long as they drank from the well every month, they would not be attacked by the undead, thus the village did not need the protection of Magicians… but considering that the place was fairly close to Qinling Mountains, there might be demon beasts looking for food, too. The water from the well was not effective against the demon beasts, hence normally the village would have one or two Magicians, and they would be appointed chief most of the time...
Now that a mutated undead had appeared, the Magicians who were the only way to deal with the undead became extremely important to the village.
”Xiaoluo, go and see what's wrong with that zombie. Hong Jun, you two, just in case there are zombies like it out there. Fu Da, you should stay here. You're not from our village, so you haven't been drinking the water from the well. The ordinary zombies would attack you, too,” said Xie Sang.
The chief Xie Sang called a few other fearless young men to go with them. Su Xiaoluo led them out and headed for the hole where the broken barrier was swept away by the rolling waves.
The zombie ended up quite far away, at least one or two hundred meters from the village. The villagers usually would avoid coming out at night. Even though the undead would not attack them, who could possibly guarantee that they wouldn't stumble into creatures that simply killed anything they saw?
The others were too afraid to leave the village. They simply stood at the barrier and watched the group leave.
It was around evening, their range of vision was fairly low due to the rain. They could at best see three to four hundred meters into the distance. However, it would turn completely dark in a few minutes.
Su Xiaoluo, Hong Jun and three other young men approached the rotten corpse. Su Xiaoluo was a doctor, thus she was not too afraid of a dead body. She knelt down and began to inspect the corpse.
”Can...can you hurry up?”
”It's just a dead body, nothing fascinating...”
Two of the young men spoke out nervously, too scared to stay here in the outside.
Hong Jun said with a laugh, ”Why are you two so scared when I'm here?”
”Yeah, that's right, Brother Hong Jun is a Fire Magician, a third-level Basic Magician!”
”Isn't that quite impressive, even in the outside world?” wondered another young man.
”I think so.”
Su Xiaoluo frowned as she slowly rose to her feet. The others immediately asked her about the reason that the zombie had attacked them.
”It's only an ordinary zombie,” concluded Su Xiaoluo.
”How's that possible? We've been drinking the water from the well for generations. We should be protected. Every family in our village has just gone through the Rituals of the Well God. Why would a normal undead attack us?” asked one of the young men.
Su Xiaoluo fell silent, as she could not find an answer for the question.
Hong Jun was not too bothered by it. He was just about to comfort the girl when an eerie voice came from nearby in the midst of the rain...
It sounded like someone dragging their feet, something munching on rotten flesh, joints crackling, etc. The sound grew louder from all directions.
”Oh heavens!” one of the young men screamed. Hong Jun turned around and saw countless pairs of bloodshot eyes staring at them!