Beneath the Old Locust Tree, amid violent winds and torrential rain, Xu Yi and Zhong Xueran struggled to climb the tree.
Zhong Xueran was doing relatively well. Although her face was changing to resemble the Female Ghost's, she had lost none of her strength. With a push from Xu Yi below, she quickly climbed up.
Xu Yi, on the other hand, had already lost much of the flesh on his limbs. Now he could not muster even half the strength he had possessed before.
He tried to wrap his arms around the trunk and climb with all his might, but neither his hands nor his feet could support his weight.
What was more, the downpour had left the trunk wet and slippery. Although Zhong Xueran, who had climbed up first, bent down and tried her hardest to pull him up, it was no use.
Just then, within the area covered by the Old Locust Tree's canopy, a terrifying change began to take place in the ground!
Dense rain fell and lightning flashed. All of Fu City seemed to have suddenly become a different place, but what made Zhong Xueran's expression change dramatically as she stood in the tree was... the withered, scrawny arms reaching out from beneath the earth!
Even a cursory glance revealed dozens of arms!
And every arm was dry and thin, like a zombie's.
Zhong Xueran shuddered in the tree, while Xu Yi's scalp prickled below.
So many... were these all ghosts?
How could there be so many ghosts?
Shouldn't there only be Shen Hong's family at most?
The worst possibility Xu Yi had imagined was that Shen Hong, her father Shen Yi, and her husband Liu Junyan had all become ghosts.
But now it seemed there were far more than three!
*But... this Old Locust Tree