Yu Xiaoxue and Zhao Qian were both crying, and even my stomach was crying out miserably. I felt like I was about to die. After drinking a bowl of talisman water, I was now suffering terribly. [Burning^Text^Bookstore]
I practically crawled out after opening the door. Seeing the dishes covering the table, along with a pot of stewed black-boned chicken soup, I grabbed an empty bowl without thinking, ladled some in, and began wolfing it down.
By the time Zhang Xiaofei kicked open the front door and barged in, I looked like a farmer who had just returned from working away from home. My clothes were disheveled, and I was squatting on the sofa, greedily gnawing on a chicken leg.
People were iron and rice was steel. I had to eat my fill before I could handle anything else, right? I ignored them and decided to get a few more bites down first.
"Th-the corpse has risen..." Yu Xiaoxue passed out on the spot.
"What do you mean, the... corpse?" Zhao Qian sprang up, but the moment she saw me squatting on the sofa, her vision blurred, and she promptly collapsed to the floor.
"Do you people really have to bully me like this, Zhang Xiaofei? Do I look like some piece of trash with a combat power under five? I'm sitting here eating like a perfectly normal person, so what corpse are you talking about? Huh? Did your double act not go well? Are you planning to turn the tables and play along with my scheme now?" Zhang Xiaofei waved his fists furiously, completely failing to notice how little I resembled a dead man. Wasn't it obvious they were trying to fool him? And they were acting like it was the real thing.
"Zhang Xiaofei, I think your intelligence really