Zombies Really Exist!

Xue Ming cautiously approached the source of the sound, hiding behind a large tree. He then peeked his head out, quietly looking in the direction of the noise.

His eyes widened, pupils contracting sharply. He saw a figure, moving with a very stiff gait, leaping towards his location. However, the night was dark, and he couldn't make out the figure's appearance.

Initially, Xue Ming didn't think of zombies. He assumed it was a fan who knew he was live-streaming and had come to play a prank.

After all, this wasn't the first time something like this had happened.

So, he steadied himself, looked at his phone, and chuckled, "Which one of you water friends is trying to scare me? You can't even fake it properly. At least wait until I peek out, then suddenly appear in front of me. That would be exciting."

Xue Ming didn't see the water friends' teasing comments. Instead, he saw a stream of: "Streamer, run! That's the real deal!"

"Hey, stop messing around. What real deal? This is probably just some water friend..." Xue Ming looked up at the figure, now only a dozen meters away, and glanced at his phone. Only then did he realize something was wrong.

He couldn't see the figure's face clearly before due to the dim light.

But his streaming equipment could. His streaming equipment had night vision capabilities. So, as he looked up, the camera on his head clearly broadcast the figure's appearance in real-time to his phone's streaming screen.

He finally saw the figure's face clearly: its face was severely rotted, beyond recognition. Its eyes were dull and lifeless, and two long fangs protruded from its open mouth.

If it were just these details, Xue Ming might have thought the water friends had good makeup skills, as all of this could be achieved with makeup. But the faint smell of decay drifting into his nostrils told him that the hopping figure before him wasn't a water friend trying to scare him, but a zombie that genuinely wanted to suck his blood.

In an instant, Xue Ming's scalp tingled, and an icy chill shot up from the base of his spine to the crown of his head.

In the live stream chat, the water friends watching saw the zombie getting closer and closer, its appearance becoming clearer. They were all stunned, their screens flooding with exclamations and pleas for divine protection.

Seeing the zombie rapidly approaching, Xue Ming didn't dare to think further. He immediately turned and bolted without hesitation!

"Holy crap! How can there be real zombies in this world!" Xue Ming yelled, running with incredible agility.

Due to his long career in outdoor live-streaming, he often traveled and sometimes ventured deep into the mountains, giving him excellent physical fitness.

Now, in this life-or-death moment, he gave it his all, as if possessed by Bolt. He even had the energy to glance back occasionally to confirm if the zombie was still chasing him.

But soon, he wouldn't need to look back, because another hopping figure appeared ahead of him.

Xue Ming felt a wave of despair: "Are these zombies forming a group? Why are there so many!"

Without thinking, he changed direction and continued to sprint.

Not long after he started running, he saw several figures staggering towards him. His heart leaped with joy. Seeing people at a time like this was like seeing saviors.

"Help! There are zombies!"

Xue Ming didn't question why the figures were staggering. His only thought was to face the zombies with them. More people would at least give him courage.

But when he reached them, he realized something was wrong. These figures were all people he knew. They were the ones who had come to his live-stream location before to scare him.

Now, their faces were pale, their eyes vacant, and they moved with stiff limbs. Most notably, there were two distinct bite marks on their necks.

As Xue Ming reached them, they seemed to find their target and rushed towards him.

Xue Ming's scalp went numb. He immediately dodged one person's lunge, but he didn't notice a figure lying on the ground. He tripped over it and was then tackled by the group.

He could only scream as they bit into him, mouthful by mouthful.

The scene was so graphic that the live stream was immediately banned. Before the stream was cut, those watching heard a roar and saw a blinding flash of lightning.

"Vermin, how dare you!"

"Take this Five Thunders Orthodox Method!"

"Goddess of Lightning and Duke of Thunder, descend your divine power, help me expel this evil, boom, boom, boom, boom, by the decree of Grand Supreme Elder Lao, haste, haste, haste!"

Those watching the live stream were completely bewildered. Zombies were one thing, but who could use the Five Thunders Orthodox Method? Could it be that true divine arts really existed in this world?

Most of the viewers were too shocked to react. Some called the police, while others saved recordings and forwarded them. The incident escalated at an extremely rapid pace.

The matter quickly caught the attention of the authorities. They immediately removed all the videos being shared online and dispatched troops to the mountain village, sealing off the surrounding forest.

By the time the troops found the location where Xue Ming had met his fate, a pile of corpses lay on the ground. Besides Xue Ming and the water friends who had come to scare him, there were several other bodies that were clearly not recently deceased.

These were presumably the zombies.

Luo Xuan, the leader of the troops, frowned as he looked at the corpses. All of them had blackened bodies. Xue Ming and the water friends' bodies were particularly badly carbonized.

The zombies, however, were not as heavily carbonized; only their clothes were completely burned. Although they looked highly decomposed, as if they could fall apart at any moment, Luo Xuan felt they were not simple.

He drew a dagger and crouched beside a zombie, stabbing it with the blade. The sharp dagger met an extremely hard object, unable to penetrate even a millimeter.

It felt like stabbing wood, and the zombie's body was surprisingly tough, even harder to pierce than wood.

"This..." Luo Xuan was astonished. The zombie was truly as the legends described, impervious to blades and spears.

"Take these bodies back," Luo Xuan ordered, then looked towards the mountains. "Completely seal off this mountain range. Tomorrow, conduct a thorough search to ensure no one escapes."

"Yes," a soldier acknowledged and left.

Luo Xuan looked at the mountainside and then, frowning, said to a soldier beside him, "Retrieve all surveillance footage from this area. Also, tomorrow, invite all Taoist priests in Yuncheng City to the Yuncheng City Bureau."

"Yes," the soldier nodded.

Liu Bing, seeing that the matter was resolved, quietly left the scene, his merits hidden.

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