Zombie

An older miner swallowed, his voice trembling as he spoke:

"When... when we dug into the level below, we hit something hard... We thought it was stone, so we chipped it open with our picks. But then... then we saw a corpse...

It was wearing very old clothes... and then that corpse... moved..."

Another miner hurriedly added:

"Yes! It... it stood up and lunged at us! It was terrifyingly strong!

Several of us couldn't hold it down! If we hadn't run fast enough, we'd all have been bitten to death!

There were still quite a few miners inside. The ones who didn't get out were all killed in there.

We... we don't dare go back in."

After hearing them out, Li Xiao's gaze flickered slightly as he exchanged a look with Shen Qinghe in the distance.

Neither spoke, but both saw the same conclusion in the other's eyes—the Ten Thousand Souls Sect Ruins were likely beneath them.

And the deeper they were buried, the less simple the things inside would be.

Li Xiao withdrew his gaze, his voice turning grave.

"We have to enter the mine now. There's no time to waste.

Gather your Hatred-Severing Sect people and the Cai Family's people. Choose several mine shafts and send teams down to clear them out."

Shen Qinghe nodded faintly without objection. Turning around, she issued several instructions to the disciples behind her, and someone swiftly leaped away to relay the message.

Li Xiao turned toward the miners and low-ranking disciples, whose faces were still pale, then raised his voice. His tone was steady and decisive.

"We'll deal with the zombies.

The families of anyone bitten to death by zombies will receive double compensation.

All miners will receive a thirty percent wage increase. The mining cannot stop."

Hearing this, the tens of