"Why hasn't anyone come out yet?!"
"It's already past three! There's less than half an hour until four!"
"What the hell is going on in this village?!"
"Could they... all be dead?"
"Impossible! They have three Sequence Transcendents. How could they all die?!"
Ever since Chen Ye and the other two had led the survivors gathering supplies into Longevity Village, not a single person had come out.
That was highly unusual.
Back in Apricot Blossom Town, survivors had escaped one after another.
Some survivors returned early once they had gathered enough supplies.
Others took longer to find supplies and came out a little later.
But ever since the survivors had entered Longevity Village, not one had emerged.
This eerie situation cast a shadow over everyone's heart.
Even Captain Chu Che, who was usually so confident, felt uneasy now.
The survivors waiting outside Longevity Village were beginning to stir.
Some of these survivors lacked the courage to gather supplies because they were physically weak and knew they wouldn't be able to find any.
Others were afraid to face the horrors and instead hoped to obtain supplies from other people.
Once someone gathered enough supplies, these people would offer something of equal value in exchange.
Such arrangements were common in the convoy.
As long as both sides agreed, Chu Che never interfered.
This was how the other people in the convoy survived.
The people entering the village to gather supplies were their hope, too.
But since that morning, not a single person had come out of the village with supplies.
That left many people feeling uneasy.
Chu Che stared at the village shrouded in gray mist.
When they first arrived at eleven that morning, Chu Che had still been able to make out the village's interior.
Now, he could no longer see what was happening inside, only a dark, hazy blur.
He couldn't even hear a sound.
That made Chu Che deeply uneasy.
Not far away, a woman's eyes darted wildly.
The woman was Xu Jiaojiao.
After Chu Che had taught her a small lesson last time, Xu Jiaojiao had kept a much lower profile in the convoy.
But anyone who thought she had done nothing would be mistaken.
After spending this time making connections, Xu Jiaojiao had already contacted many of the other women.
Xu Jiaojiao had begun making plans. If no one came out of Longevity Village, she wasn't going to sit around waiting to die.
From what she understood, although Captain Chu Che was also a Sequence Transcendent, he didn't seem to have much combat power.
Xu Jiaojiao quietly plotted.
If four o'clock comes and no one has come out...
While unease began spreading through the convoy outside the village.
The situation inside had clearly become extremely dangerous.
The Big Willow Tree was like an enraged monster.
Countless corpses bound in willow branches began to revive.
Pairs of cloudy eyes filled with evil desire turned toward the survivors, as though looking at delicious roast chickens.
Hundreds of corpses stirred to life at once. It was like a scene from a zombie movie, enough to make anyone shudder from head to toe.
A corpse with a willow branch wrapped around its neck charged at Iron Lion like a marionette.
Once one corpse moved, the others began moving as well.
Controlled by the willow branches, these corpses attacked through the air like toy planes in a child's hands.
"Get away!"
Iron Lion had intended to charge at the Big Willow Tree and destroy the eerie tree with his strength.
Perhaps that was the way out of Longevity Village.
But more and more corpses crowded in front of him.
His massive fist slammed into a corpse, sending it hurtling backward through the air.
An instant later, the corpse lunged at him again.
Iron Lion's punch hadn't inflicted any damage on the corpse at all?
A single punch from Iron Lion could blast a grown man apart.
Yet it had no effect on this corpse.
The sight sent a chill through Chen Ye's heart.
These corpses clearly weren't on the same level as the Hunchbacked Old Puppet or the White-Clad Scissor Woman.
Yet they were still so difficult to deal with.
Chen Ye's heart slowly sank.
But more corpses soon charged forward.
One corpse had already pounced onto Iron Lion's back and opened its mouth to bite the back of his neck.
Whoosh!
A crossbow bolt soaked in black dog blood pierced the corpse's back.
Hiss!
A cloud of white smoke rose.
The corpse pulled away from Iron Lion's back in agony.
[You have inflicted damage on a Corpse Puppet. You gained Slaughter Points +100.]
It worked?
So they're called Corpse Puppets.
Before Chen Ye could celebrate, the Corpse Puppet with the bolt lodged in it lunged at him again.
Before the Corpse Puppet even reached him, Chen Ye caught a foul, bloody stench.
The long-legged girl swept the sword fingers of her left hand across the Sword God, chanting, "Radiant Light Tempers the Blade, Illuminating the Netherworld!..."
"Activate!"
Fluorescent light flowed over the girl's longsword as she slashed at the Corpse Puppet!
The Corpse Puppet fell to the ground in two pieces.
Even so, the Corpse Puppet, now severed in two, still struggled to crawl toward Chen Ye.
What the fuck...
Chen Ye wanted to curse.
He hadn't expected even these Corpse Puppets to be so hard to deal with.
"Aah!"
A terrified scream rang out.
Several Corpse Puppets had grabbed a survivor not far from Chen Ye and carried them into the sky.
Blood soon spattered the ground.
Corpse Puppets couldn't fly on their own, but those suspended by willow branches could.
"Xiao Fu, Xiao Fu, save me!"
The old woman laden with supplies was actually still alive, though carrying so much had slowed her movements.
She was still doing her best to dodge left and right beneath the Corpse Puppets' attacks.
Those Corpse Puppets had originally been going after her, but she had shoved an unsuspecting survivor beside her into their path to die in her place.
Many nearby survivors had witnessed it, and their disgust and hatred for the old woman only deepened!
Only that foolish college student hadn't seen it.
But the young college student named Xiao Fu could barely keep himself alive now. He was swinging a steel pipe as he fought a Corpse Puppet, looking as though he might die at any moment.
The sisters, Zhou Lan and Zhou Xiaoxiao, were also in a terrible state.
The Corpse Puppets could attack the survivors from any direction.
Zhou Lan's celebrity status meant nothing to these Corpse Puppets.
When they saw a survivor who had been standing beside them moments earlier dragged away screaming by Corpse Puppets.
The sisters trembled with fear.
They had originally planned to survive under Iron Lion and Nana's protection.
Unfortunately, Iron Lion had already charged toward the Big Willow Tree and was dozens of meters away from them.
As for the long-legged girl, she was even less able to protect the sisters.
The Long-Legged Girl had to cover Iron Lion while protecting Chen Ye, leaving her no attention to spare for the two sisters.
A Corpse Puppet descended from above, trailing willow branches as it hurtled straight at Zhou Lan.
"Sis! Watch out!"
With no time to worry about anything else, the girl grabbed the backpack off her back and hurled it at the Corpse Puppet, allowing Zhou Lan to escape disaster.
But more Corpse Puppets soon charged toward them.
"Xiao Xiao!"
Zhou Xiaoxiao saw a bolt fired by Chen Ye strike a Corpse Puppet, which quickly began smoking white and recoiled.
Zhou Xiaoxiao gritted her teeth. "Sis, let's go to Chen Ye. I refuse to believe he'd just leave us to die!"
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