Chapter 33: She smiled through her tears (1/2)

TL: flarewk

Deceased dead..........?

In the midst of the moment, my brain didn't react to it at all. As I was in a state of loss while frowning and looking at that ground protruding deathly-white hand, my heart thought, this probably should be another situation set up by Ji Lian Bing, right?

And afterwards, when I turned around to look at Ji Lian Bing, what I saw was that unexpected delighted smile, along with a fanatic craze within her eyes.

Ji Lian Bing didn't look at me any longer, but casually strolled deeper towards the cemetery, wholeheartedly ignoring those outstretched hands that were poking out from the grounds.

”Oi! Lian Bing!”

I anxiously yelled out at her, but she disregarded me completely, it's like as if she had been entranced, continually walking forward.

”Damn it!”

I had no choice but to anxiously follow her too as I wanted to bring her out of this dangerous zone.

It's still possible if it's right now, as long as we seize the chance where these guys hadn't completely crawled out from the ground and quickly leave this area, we would then be able to avoid danger! It was my instinct that told me so!

I increased my speed, running behind her back and pulled onto her wrist, saying.

”It's not safe to stay here for long, let's hurry up and go!”

”..........”

But she didn't even turn her head, just continuing walking forward, and being pulled along by her, I staggered a few steps, before anxiously shouting.

”Oi! If you don't leave already then it'll be too late!!”

I glanced backwards; that very first deceased dead had already poked out half of it's body. Although I didn't see its front, but just from looking at the back already made me feel that presence of danger.

That's a sort of existence that had lost its name, a body that was already dead prior, but because of a certain reason returned back from the pits of hell towards the surface.

”Leave.........? Why?”

”Of course it's because..........!”

Those words that I wanted to say hadn't exited my mouth, when Ji Lian Bing's expression startled me.

Just like an archaeologist who had made a gargantuan historical discovery, the expression on Ji Lian Bing could only be described as 'maniacal delight'.

”I've always been investigating, although managing to discover many leads, but never truly witnessed it before............I'm finally able to see it today~”

Her tone had an unnatural monotony in it, and I discerned out that excitement which couldn't be concealed at all.

”Cheng Jun, you're really my lucky star~, being together with you will always have unexpected things happening, huhuhuhu~”

I became speechless, because I completely couldn't understand her way of thinking at all.

It's too twisted already.

Why was she still able to laugh? Why was she so delighted? Does she not feel frightened at all?

Maybe we'll even die from this!

”So this is a deceased dead, huh? I've finally seen it~, a corpse that's able to freely move about...........”

Ultimately, numerous deceased deads crawled out from the ground surrounding us and trapped us within, giving off eerily sharp wails.

From their bodies, one could see several stitches, just like a jigsaw puzzle; their skin were a greyish white, having no pupils within their eyes, only whiteness, empty and vigorless.

Wasn't this scale too overly large already!

It's not a few numbers, but a few dozen..........maybe even few hundreds!

Mass producing types of deceased deads, huh!

Normally speaking, weren't deceased deads supposed to be buried for about a hundred years before they could be formed?

Also, this piece of cemetery weren't completely suitable for deceased deads to even grow at all! This place had greenery flourishing so well, and was suitable for organic matter to thrive, there would be many insects and bacteria too. Corpses buried underground would be quickly decomposed as a result, so there shouldn't be any corpses left since long ago!!

But then, where did those fresh corpses that looked to be just recently born come from?

Don't ask me why I would know so much about this, there would always be a chuuni period of a person's life...........when I just came here to help out during middle school, I thought that perhaps I could encounter ghosts, zombies, skeleton monsters and so on, and thus I investigated many useless knawledge, and thinking back right now, it's probably considered to be a dark history of mine.

Only I've never realized that, when I utterly gave up onto pursuing those strange phenomena, thinking that this world was really boring and normal, these kinds of abnormal events instead kept visiting onto my daily life...........

At this moment, there should be an insane bearded uncle appearing who would sell me plants that could deal against those deceased deads, right? I could trade in my morality in order to obtain those life-saving plants!!

(TL: Plants vs Zombies?)

A pity's that there wasn't anything as nice as that...........

Those zombies immediately surrounded me and Ji Lian Bing, and stretched out their hands towards us with sluggish movements. Although their movements were slow, but there were really too much of them already!

”Euaaaaa........”

”Tch!”

Speaking of which, why wasn't there anybody coming to save us? This public cemetery was just behind the mortuary, by having such a massive amount of deceased deads appearing, those people inside the mortuary should have noticed it already, by right!

But there's not a single person coming to help us out at all, had they all ran off already? Or was it that..........

”Guaaaa!”

They started to attack us already!

A deceased dead wanted to pounce over and bite me, but I hastily leaned sideways, making it grabbing onto air instead. Quickly dodging towards Ji Lian Bing side, I was so anxious till the point where my forehead was littered about with sweat.

”............Sorry about this, Cheng Jun.”

”Ahh? What's the point of apologizing now!! Just now when I've asked you to leave, you won't leave too! Now I really have to accompany you in this suicidal romance!!”

I used my leg to kick away the deceased dead that wanted to grab onto my arm, and a little exasperatedly flustered shouted out.

”No, there's no need for that.”

”Ahh? Waah!”

I've just wanted to ask her if she had any plans, when Ji Lian Bing used both of her hands to grab onto my wrists.

And afterwards, I felt my hands being pulled about by a tremendously strong power. I hadn't even stood properly yet, with the result of my body being flung upwards!

”Waaaahh!!!!!!”

Ji Lian Bing actually flung me away just like throwing a hammer!

The f**k, I'm so dizzy!

This person's strength, wasn't it too large already? Where did this kind of strength come out from within that petite body?!

Waaahh! Shoulders! My shoulders were about to be dislocated!

”Cheng Jun, thank you for letting me understand these emotions called love.”

What I lastly heard were these words, and thus, I was being dumped.

To be more accurate, I was being flung out.

(TL: Word pun → 'dumped' and 'flung' had the same word in CN, 甩)

The surrounding scenery swiftly zoomed by, and I flew out a far distance, with my shoulders landing on the ground first, rolling about quite a few circles, and finally stopped when I bumped onto a piece of gravestone.

I felt my body to be almost shattering apart already.

But rather than my body's situation, what I'm more worried was Ji Lian Bing instead!

She actually disregarded her own peril to fling me out, away from those crowd of deceased deads!

It can't be that case, since that woman's a homicidal maniac. Plus, her strength was also very large, since she could just fling me away from amidst the crowd of deceased dead, she naturally had the power to escape from them as well. Who knows, if I go in to help her out, she may even resent me for being in her way.

That's right, it definitely must be like that! I'll just stay here to look then, since that's Ji Lian Bing after all!! She'll immediately break free from those crowd of deceased deads! It may be possible that she'll even turn OP too, and massacre hordes of them off while breaking free!

But she didn't break free at all.

Those deceased deads squished towards inwards forcibly, and very quickly, that pinkish red status was being drowned out by numerous black statuses.

I dumbly stood on the spot, mouth half gaping, unbelieving that maniacal and chaotic scene.

Other than the eerie wails of those deceased deads, I could still hear uncomfortable sounds of biting, chewing, and swallowing.

Within my thoughts floated out a terrible scenario.

”It can't be..........”

Run.

Run away.

Run away from this place!

In any case, just leave this place first! Th, that's right, I'll go look for someone to help out! I definitely can't help out at all just by myself!!

Shifting my vigorously trembling legs, I subconsciously retreated backwards.

Repetitively searching for an excuse to still firmly remain my standing, I placed myself atop a shrewd position, spouting out words that were advantageous to me.

The cowardly me chose to escape, just for the sake of my life's safety. Leaving this place would be the safest choice by far.

It was the correct answer; a logical answer; a safe answer...........

But not the answer that I wanted.

”...........Tch!”

Damn it!

”Damn it!”

Why did she remain?

Why did she not escape?

Why did she not retaliate?

There's only one answer, and that's because Ji Lian Bing's a [Corpse Lover Homicidal Maniac].

She who had necrophilia would have an almost abnormal persistence towards corpses, and those deceased deads in front of her were also considered to be corpses as well. From the start of that maniacal expression of hers, I understood about it already. Perhaps she had always been searching for those deceased deads.

Corpses that were able to freely move about, were rather important to her, hence she didn't retaliate at all.

'Killing people' was allowed, but didn't want to 'kill corpses', huh?

Aaaahh, this person...........is she an id——iot?!

I'm not even sure why I'm laughing out right now.

Although it's only a bitter smile, but my mood felt way more relaxed afterwards.

Ultimately, I still couldn't make a decision that would go against my conscience.

I deeply breathed in a mouthful of air, and readjusted my feelings.

My both legs weren't trembling any longer, and although various parts of my body were silently aching due to the fall onto the ground earlier, but the excitement from these abnormalities made me gradually ignore these pains.

”Huuuu..............ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”

Ahhhh!

I'm also an idiot too!

I definitely must be crazy already!

Dashing into the crowd of deceased dead, I definitely must be crazy!

In the end, Ji Lian Bing's a person who wanted to murder me!!

She's a one hundred percent homicidal maniac, also having necrophilia as well, a sicko pervert who had twisted three aspect views! Who knows, when those deceased dead were still alive, they had been murdered off by Ji Lian Bing, thus they would turn to zombies due to resentment towards her, seeking for revenge!

Ultimately, it's all because of Ji Lian Bing herself eating those bad fruits she plucked, and I shouldn't even be helping her out at all!

My four limbs were tucked onto the ground to weave through the crowd of deceased dead, and if there's deceased deads wanting to lean over to bite me, I would hastily stand up and use my head to headbutt its chin.

I dropped a shoe along the way, and the smart suit's jacket were already been used to entangle a deceased dead that had nearly bitten onto my shoulders.

It's really a flustered mess.

Luckily, those deceased dead didn't treat me as a target, and just like that, I hideously crawled through the crowd and eventually successfully reached the center region.

Ji Lian Bing clutched one arm of hers, while the other hand clutched onto a piece of gravestone to defend against a group of deceased dead.

That's great, she didn't die yet!

”Lian Bing!'

The moment she saw me, Ji Lian Bing too unveiled out a frantic expression, as she frowned her eyebrows and shouted towards me with all her might.

”Why..........why did you still come back!”

”Shut up!”