Chen Miao sighed, his expression complicated.
He was relieved that making a choice had brought about a new change, but he was also sighing over the way he had died.
Why had he died there?
It had only been the first night. Couldn't he have lasted a few more?
Chen Miao couldn't understand why, after everything he had experienced, he had gone downstairs without the Seven-Star Peach Wood Sword when something happened at one in the morning.
Why hadn't he sensed any yin energy when a zombie was cooking right in front of him?
Why hadn't he noticed anything during his two rounds of the village that day, when there were so many zombies there?
All these inconsistencies left Chen Miao frustrated!
It took him a full five minutes to activate the Iceheart State and suppress those emotions.
"The version of me in the book doesn't know this book exists. That's a 'rule' I've understood for a long time, so he doesn't know what he'll encounter on this trip, either."
"In that case, all I can say is that the version of me in the book was a little careless that night."
"Or perhaps I wasn't careless. Perhaps there were circumstances the book didn't explain that made me overlook certain dangers?"
"So I need to keep that in mind."
"Then there's the fact that I didn't notice those zombies. They probably have some special way of hiding."
At that point in his thoughts, Chen Miao quickly identified somewhere the zombies might be hiding.
The coffins!
The coffins inside the rooms!
According to that old man, every household in the village was the same, which meant that the nearly one hundred households there should each have a coffin.
That was no small number.
"But why would that zombie cook? No, that's