Please, Don't Speak Anymore

Chapter 9: Please, Stop Talking...

"Hic."

To shut the two of them up, Qi Dian ordered an extra-large portion of fried chicken and cola. The meal left Old Man Huang burping uncontrollably.

Seeing the night deepen, the old man finally left the small cabin. "I'm off. You two get back to work. Little Qi, in the drawer there's some yel—"

"Grandpa, hurry up and go. Your electric scooter will get impatient waiting," Yue Wen quickly nudged him, interrupting the chant.

After seeing the old man off, Yue Wen turned back to Qi Dian. "Then I'll handle the Lantern Monsters here. Thanks for letting me have them, Brother Qi."

"No problem." Qi Dian remained aloof.

Tonight, the eastern suburbs were foggy. A thin layer of white mist coiled around the cemetery, making the atmosphere even more eerie.

Half the cemetery had been cleared last night, so new Yin creatures wouldn't have spawned so quickly. Yue Wen headed straight for the other half behind the hillside. Ghost fires were already flickering and reappearing.

Nowadays, it was hard to find easily defeatable Evil Spirits within the city. The Wastelands outside were crawling with Demonic Evils, but his current strength didn't allow him to venture out there.

Therefore, Yue Wen cherished the Lantern Monsters he had worked so hard to secure. He leaped forward, dispatching them with a single sword strike each, without any hesitation.

The clawing, dancing Lantern Monsters instantly turned into two smoking piles of remains.

He estimated that clearing all the Lantern Monsters in the cemetery would yield over thirty Demon Suppressing Coins, a considerable income.

In terms of cost-effectiveness, fighting Lantern Monsters was likely more worthwhile than tackling larger Demonic Evils. After all, these creatures posed no risk, came in large numbers, and could regenerate endlessly.

Easy to kill, not tiring, and economical.

Yue Wen was already contemplating contacting other cemeteries in the city to take on more jobs clearing Lantern Monsters.

Just past midnight, Yue Wen, operating at full capacity, was about to finish clearing the entire cemetery.

The few remaining Lantern Monsters were far apart. He needed to put on his Demon-Slaying Mirror and carefully search along the Yin energy to ensure none were missed.

As soon as he put on the Demon-Slaying Mirror, Yue Wen sensed something was amiss.

There were no demonic energies tonight, but he noticed that the concentration of Yin energy in the surroundings was much stronger than last night, with gray mist tides filling the air!

With the gray mist's movement came gusts of Yin wind.

This was not logical.

It was normal for the cemetery to have Yin energy, but this Yin energy mixed with Spiritual Energy and Nightmare Objects, and would dissipate as the Nightmare Objects were cleared. With Yue Wen having cleared most of the Lantern Monsters, the area should have been clear for a while.

Yet, the Yin energy was becoming more intense. There could only be one reason.

An entity carrying potent Yin energy had arrived.

"This cemetery is really lively..." Yue Wen muttered, scanning his surroundings for the direction of the densest Yin energy.

If he were truly here solely to collect money for clearing Evil Spirits, he would be annoyed... working overtime just to earn a few bucks, he really admired them.

But now, Yue Wen felt only excitement.

As he observed the situation, the Yin energy grew denser, and the Yin winds in the cemetery began to howl. Suddenly, a ripple of spiritual power undulated in the unseen depths.

Poof—

A withered, emaciated hand stretched out from in front of Yue Wen!

"Huh?" Yue Wen's expression sharpened. "Corpse transformation? No, someone is using a spell to animate the corpses buried underground!"

Accompanied by the cracking sounds from the ground, corpses, some broken, some intact, emerged from the earth!

Resurrected from the dead!

They let out mournful wails and howls, their heads bowed, not attacking Yue Wen nearby, as if they had no perception.

They were simply moving in a strange posture towards the same direction.

Yue Wen looked in that direction, pondered for a moment, and then twisted his body, mimicking the movements of the corpses. He lowered his head, twisted his limbs, and joined the group of corpses, walking along with them, mumbling in imitation: "Wa-bi-ba-bu-xi-ba-xi-ba..."

Making such a big commotion.

He wanted to see who was behind this!

On the west side of the cemetery, at the edge of a wooded embankment, stood a black figure.

It was a tall, slender man, dressed in a plain black tracksuit. His face was hidden within the wide hood, revealing only the glint of a hooked nose.

Beside the man stood a long banner. As he formed a hand seal to activate it, the banner fluttered, and waves of Yin energy emanated from it. These tides of Yin energy surged, filling the entire cemetery and awakening the recently buried corpses beneath the ground.

Intricate array patterns spread out like a spiderweb beneath his feet.

After death, people would retain some residual mental energy. Even for ordinary people with weak souls, it would take about seven days for this trace of mental energy to completely disappear.

The spell he was currently casting was clearly mobilizing all the fresh corpses in the cemetery that still contained residual mental energy, turning them into puppets capable of simple actions.

The art of corpse summoning.

With a single command, a hundred corpses walk the night!

In less than five minutes, the recently buried corpses in the cemetery stood in the open space below the slope, densely packed, a sight that made one's hair stand on end.

Yue Wen was mixed in among them. Just as he had expected, amidst the overwhelming tide of Yin energy, his living aura was thoroughly concealed.

As a large group of corpses formed ranks, the man in black on the slope let out a sinister chuckle. He then flipped his hand and pulled out... his phone.

He opened his messaging app, tapped to record a video, and panned from left to right across the corpses while speaking, "Boss, look. The mission is going smoothly. Everyone buried in the city's eastern cemetery recently is here, and there are a lot of them. The corpses are bloody and mangled, so it's hard to tell from photos. Just tell me the target's name, and I'll call him out."

After sending the video, he received an instant reply of two words.

The man in black put away his phone and looked down at the horde of corpses. He chanted in a deep voice, "The Dharma is impermanent, the command governs Yin and Yang! Those who hear my name, step forward... Zhang Wei!"

As he cast his Supernatural Power, all the corpses began to shake their heads with an eerie restlessness. At the sound of the name, over a dozen corpses seemed to receive a command. They suddenly trembled, and all stepped forward in unison!

Thump.

Their synchronized steps produced a muffled sound.

"..." The man in black seemed momentarily speechless. He then took out his phone again and sent a voice message, "Boss, do you have more information? There are more than a dozen people named Zhang Wei here... I can't possibly bring them all back for you, can I? Try to provide information related to what they were doing before they died, otherwise, their residual consciousness might not respond."

Just a few seconds later, the other side sent another message.

"Heh heh." The man in black chuckled sinisterly and commanded again, "The Dharma is impermanent, the command governs Yin and Yang! Those who match my words, step forward... Zhang Wei, who just died from unpaid overtime at the company!"

Following his shout, after a brief period of agitation, half of the dozen or so Zhang Weis who had stepped out earlier took another step!

"..." Staring at the six or seven corpses standing before him, the man in black frowned deeply and muttered, "Capitalists nowadays are truly despicable."

He sent another voice message to the other side, "There are several who died from overtime too. Is there any more information? Like the deceased's lifelong obsessions or something."

A moment later, the other side sent another reply.

"This time should be fine, right?" The man in black looked up and said again, "Match my words, step forward... Zhang Wei, the virgin who's always working overtime at the company and has never had a girlfriend in his life!"

"Wobble-gobble-woo woo!"

As he gave the command, four corpses stepped out with wailing cries!

If one listened closely, the "wobble-gobble" tone was clearly saying, Please, just stop talking...

"Damn it, are you guys serious?" The man in black was completely losing it. "What kind of world is this, that there's more than one person this pathetic?"

Meanwhile, Yue Wen, hidden within the formation, noticed that one of the corpses was wearing overalls and had a middle part. He suddenly remembered what Black Meow had said yesterday.

The employer behind this man in black was looking for the same person the three Cat Demons were looking for yesterday!

Seeing that the man in black was on the verge of a breakdown and about to send another message, a clear shout suddenly came from afar.

"Bold evil cultivator--"

Good morning.

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Haha, but I'm too lazy to prepare too many gifts, so I'll just send red envelopes.

(Thanks to the operations team for their hard work.)

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(End of this chapter)