After locking Zhuge Kongping inside the chest, First Mao smugly plopped down on top of it and said, "Heh heh, Brother Kongping, you've lost this time."
"First Mao, what are you doing? Let me out!" Zhuge Kongping had a bad feeling about this.
"What am I doing? Nothing. But I heard you got your hands on a Bronze Armor Zombie from Xishuangbanna..."
Before First Mao could finish, Zhuge Kongping, who knew him all too well, hurriedly shouted, "No! First Mao, don't touch my Bronze Armor Zombie! It's dangerous! Come back~~"
Unfortunately, Zhuge Kongping's cries were ignored. First Mao had already passed through the bamboo door with its Bagua-patterned latch and entered Zhuge Kongping's Ghost Sealing Vault.
The Ghost Sealing Vault was where Zhuge Kongping kept all sorts of zombies and ghosts he had captured. It was an area the size of a football field, enclosed by a formation. Jars and pots covered in talismans lined the walls, each one containing a ghost.
There were also all kinds of zombies standing upright with corpse-subduing talismans stuck to them. The place was teeming with ghosts and monsters, like a little museum devoted to collecting them.
First Mao had no interest in any of that. He walked straight down the path, and before long, a Bronze Armor Zombie came into view. It was restrained by a formation, red cords, glutinous rice, willow branches, corpse-subduing talismans, the Xuanyuan Mirror, and other objects.
"I wonder what kind of dumb luck Zhuge Kongping had to catch a Bronze Armor Zombie like this." First Mao eagerly stepped forward to examine it, prying open its jaws to inspect its teeth.
After a while, First Mao praised it delightedly. "As expected of a thousand-year-old Bronze Armor Zombie. It's the finest of the finest! It's imposing despite its ugliness, and