Chapter 9: Yum-Yum (2/2)

the most important detail was that the guy’s headless corpse was crawling on the ground in search of its head. there was a large hole in it, courtesy of wanfeng’s sword. the bizarre scene painted the already frightening chamber with even more terror.

“mi-milord, he, he…” wanfeng’s shaking voice couldn’t form a complete sentence. lu yun was likewise lost for words. nothing in his sect’s ancient records had spoken of anything like this.

ge long found his head, placed it back on his neck, and wobbled back to his feet.

“you, you, you—what are you!” the stone spirit suddenly shrieked with fear. “don’t come nearer! go away!”

“eh? isn’t this little girl wanfeng?” ge long held his head in place with one hand and gave the stone spirit a once over. “no, you’re not her. you look very delicious!” he mused with some confusion.

his eyes shone with excitement, then he opened his mouth wide and bit down on the stone spirit’s neck.

an inky black air current flowed from the spirit’s neck into ge long’s mouth. the spirit struggled and shrieked, but since it couldn’t move, it couldn’t shake off its attacker.

the spirit’s cries gradually dwindled, then ceased, the spirit having turned back into a mere stone sculpture in the end.

“burp!” ge long burped, his head bouncing once on his neck but managing to stay put. “that tasted good indeed.”

wanfeng’s eyes rolled up in the back of her head and she toppled over in a dead faint. the series of events had finally proven too much for her. though she was a cultivator, she was still a fifteen year old girl at the end of the day. persevering until now after encountering all of these happenings was already quite a feat.

“the old servant greets your excellency.” ge long turned around and bowed to lu yun.

roll roll roll. his head fell off again.

“don’t come any closer!” lu yun picked up wanfeng and backed up with her in his arms. “are you alive or dead?”

the steward located his head again and placed it back on his neck. uncertainty flashed through his eyes.

“i, i don’t know if i’m dead or alive either.” he wanted to shake his head, but since his head and neck weren’t connected, he couldn’t manage it.

“are you here for revenge?” lu yun ventured cautiously.

“no, no, no! i serve milord, why would i seek revenge? though milord and the little girl killed this servant, i am loyal to a fault,” ge long responded righteously.

“then, your granddaughter?”

“it would’ve been her honor to die at milord’s hands! but it wasn’t you who killed her!”

“what do you know?” lu yun felt a bit uncomfortable. he glanced subconsciously at wanfeng and saw that she was still unconscious. in a similar vein, his subconscious felt that ge long had discovered that lu yun wasn’t the original governor of dusk.

“it was that bastard xue lang who killed ning’er!”

xue lang was the name of grand steward xue serving in the governor’s manor.

lu yun heaved a sigh of relief. it seemed like ge long didn’t know of his secrets. “then what are you doing here?”

“to follow milord, of course!” fervor bloomed in ge long’s eyes as he looked at the governor. lu yun could almost see ge long’s brain boil over with excitement through the hole in the servant’s skull.

“then how did you get in here?” lu yun took a few more steps back. there was something very wrong with this ge long. had he been tainted by the evil energy in the mountain and turned into a zombie?

but even a thousand-year-old zombie was a brainless thing, or had just the barest inkling of intelligence. apart from his head regularly falling onto the floor, ge long was no different from an ordinary person.

“this old servant walked inside. i walked and walked and saw a big door. when i opened it, i saw you and wanfeng. milord, it’s very dangerous inside this tomb. it’s very strange and tricksy, let me protect you!” ge long spoke with a righteous air, but the hole in the middle of his forehead was really too… eye-catching.

“that’s what you said when we left town,” grumbled lu yun. “then come with me if you say so.”

it didn’t seem like he could get rid of this living, yet not alive, dead but not really fellow. he might as well let him do whatever. the guy spent only a few seconds sucking the horrifying stone spirit back into a sculpture, after all. if ge long had wanted to kill him, lu yun would’ve died a long time ago.

“aye!” ge long cheered and quickstepped to lu yun’s side.

bang!

bang!

bang!

at this moment, the wall on the other side of the stone chamber suddenly shattered. countless corpse flies and a millennia-old zombie with a green flame floating next to it charged through the opening.

“another yummy thing!” ge long almost drooled at the sight of the zombie. “but this yum-yum doesn’t look easy to deal with. milord, you leave with the little girl first, leave this to me!” he blocked off the zombie’s path.

lu yun had no mind to spare for ge long. he hefted wanfeng into his arms and rushed out of the stone chamber.

crack.

“yum-yum, eat my flying head technique!” ge long took off his head and flung it ruthlessly at the big zombie.