Chapter 11

Chapter 11

"Clang!"

The cat-faced old lady jumped vertically onto the dining table, her face full of disbelief as she stared at the zombie in front of her.

Li Zhuiyuan took this opportunity to quickly spit out the dried fruit in his mouth, his hands unable to help pressing his forehead. That dried fruit earlier felt like chewing a mouth full of star anise.

And now, he had already discovered he had no way to clarify the situation.

The cat-faced old lady holding a birthday banquet here, he could understand, and he also tried to utilize the rules here to bluff his way through.

But what about this inexplicably appearing zombie?

This was a special environment, sort of like a dream but not a dream. Shouldn't this be her home turf?

Li Zhuiyuan couldn't believe it. Was the old lady celebrating her birthday finding it too quiet, felt inviting a troupe wasn't enough, and again invited a zombie to help liven things up?

At this moment, Li Zhuiyuan felt very stupid, like the worst student in class who ranked last.

The teacher had just explained one problem and he was still completely lost, then the teacher came with another sentence, "Let's look at another problem, which is a variation of this one, and lecture on it together."

Li Zhuiyuan felt even more confused.

However, what Li Zhuiyuan didn't know was that the cat-faced old lady standing solemnly on the table felt even more confused... even fearful than him in her heart.

Because the opponent wasn't even moving, just the killing aura emanating from his body already made her feel startled and trembling in her heart.

Between the zombie's mouth and nose, white gas constantly surged out. He also seemed to be curiously sizing up the place. Finally, his gaze fell on the cat demon old lady's body.

Sensing being stared at by this giant fierce thing, the old lady's body trembled, her arms slightly retracted, fingers curved downwards, her whole person slightly crouched, as if expressing submission.

She had also just become a corpse demon not long ago. Suddenly facing this kind of existence that was hated by both heaven and earth, she naturally felt fear, and didn't even muster much courage to resist.

"Why are you here with me? Where did I offend you?"

......

"Eh?"

Li Sanjiang, who was leading the zombies in a jump exercise in the Forbidden City, scratched his head in doubt. He had just led the team in a turn. Originally the team had three rows, three heads per row, but this last row, why were there only two heads left now?

"Why does this zombie seem to be missing a head? Could it be that zombies also get tired and sneak off to be lazy?"

......

"Roar!"

The zombie stretched and leveled both arms forward, flying and leaping up, pouncing straight at the old lady.

How could it care if the old lady had already expressed weakness and flattery? It was a joke, it didn't even know why it was here!

Seeing the situation, the old lady could only bite the bullet and also jump up, waving both claws out.

The two sides engaged in a series of entangled fights on the table, finally falling off the table at the same time. In an instant, the table collapsed and splintered everywhere.

Fortunately, Li Zhuiyuan had already left the table in advance to avoid the danger. He immediately ran to Qin Li's front, saw Qin Li was still watching the fight, and immediately grabbed her hand:

"Still watching? Quickly hide!"

He pulled Qin Li to the corner of the wall. Just in front, there was a table board barricading the area, which could provide some sense of safety.

After squeezing in and squatting down, Li Zhuiyuan observed the battle situation through the gap.

He only saw the old lady's side body, relying on her cat-like agility to avoid the zombie's ten fingers penetrating, then she scratched the zombie's right arm with a claw.

"Shuala!"

The zombie's clothes were torn open. On the originally black, dark, pitted skin and flesh inside, five finger marks appeared, and pus water continuously overflowed from the wound.

But soon, the zombie horizontally swept both arms, like a heavy whip, lashing at the old lady's body.

"Bang!"

The old lady was whipped away, smashing heavily against the wall. After sliding down and landing, she still looked blankly at her own fingers, then raised her head to look at the wound on the zombie's body.

"How could it be, it's not as terrifying as I felt?"

......

Li Sanjiang, lying on the bed on the second floor, had a scratch mark on his right arm, and fresh blood flowed out.

"Hiss! So painful!"

Li Sanjiang, who was just leading the zombies in a jump exercise in his dream, was so painful he couldn't grasp his balance well, and directly fell to the ground to the left. All the zombies behind him all followed and lay down to the left side, neat and tidy.

Li Sanjiang turned his head to look at the first row of three zombies behind him in some doubt:

"Which one of you is sneak attacking the old man?"

These three zombies didn't answer, but also turned their heads to look back. All the zombies behind them followed suit and turned their heads to the back.

"Damn, is it so painful to suffer an injury in this dream?"

Li Sanjiang had no time to bandage and treat the wound. He immediately climbed up and continued to jump.

He understood that he couldn't give this group of zombies time to think clearly. Even resting for a while, this group of zombies might all swarm over and tear him to pieces.

"Come on, continue jumping!"

......

"Roar!"

In the banquet hall, the zombie again jumped over towards the old lady.

This time, the old lady didn't charge forward herself, but her gaze swept around. The green dim light in her eyes flickered, and the originally wooden standing paper figures around all rushed towards that zombie.

Some hugged the zombie's legs, some pulled its arms, and some even jumped onto the zombie's head.

The zombie began to wave its arms non-stop, opening its mouth to tear and bite. Each time, it could tear several paper figures into paper scraps, but it really couldn't stand that their great-grandfather's house opened a paper factory.

Borrowing the opportunity of the paper figures obstructing the zombie, the old lady began to move around. Finally, after seizing an opportunity, she was only seen pouncing forward to behind the zombie, both claws coming out together, grabbing downwards on the zombie's back.

"Shuala!"

This time, the official clothes on the zombie's back were mostly torn into strips of cloth, and under the ten claw marks, pus water gurgled out.

......

On the bed in the second-floor bedroom, Li Sanjiang's body stiffened. Following that, fresh blood gradually seeped out from the mat under his body.

"He mom of, it hurts!"

In his dream, Li Sanjiang was just doing a jump when he let out a miserable cry and the whole person fell face down on the ground to the front.

Behind, all the zombies collectively jumped, then lay on the ground neatly like frogs landing.

"Ah..."

Li Sanjiang only felt his back was so painful he could barely speak, but he couldn't see either, only subconsciously stretched out his right hand to touch his back.

All the zombies behind him supported their bodies with their left arms and lifted their right arms obliquely upwards.

Li Sanjiang brought his hand back and saw a hand full of blood and dirt, his eyes wide.

It shouldn't be!

Yesterday, in that kind of danger in his dream, he could still jump up and down, avoid this group of zombies' chase, and still be unharmed. How come after he thought of a good method today, it became more and more miserable instead?

He woke up today and found himself entering his dream, and it was still in the Forbidden City environment of last night. He immediately flung the orange cat on his leg away and quickly ran to the front of that most central door cave.

After the sound of that heavy door opening ended, and the sound of "Bang! Bang! Bang!" came from inside, he forced himself to calm down, plucked up his courage, and after the team approached, he was the first to start jumping.

Just like that, he successfully became the lead runner.

Originally such a clever plan, but why couldn't it exchange for a good result?

At this time, Li Sanjiang discovered the zombies lying behind him vaguely had intentions of trying to get up, and the team started to become chaotic.

He gritted his teeth. His back was so painful at this moment, he really couldn't climb up. He could only lift his toes, stretch his arms forward, and start crawling on the ground.

The first row of zombies behind him saw the leader move and also followed suit. Those behind learned from the front, and soon the originally loose and chaotic team became neat and uniform again.

Inside the Forbidden City, a group of zombies wearing Manchu official robes, just followed the guy in front wearing ripped white pants and crawled together like turtles.

Li Sanjiang crawled while scolding, his heart full of grievance. This crawling was much more tiring than running. If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have played hide-and-seek like yesterday, would he?

He was already old. In reality, he also lived a life of small wine and meat. Anyway, he had reached his age, and was too lazy to think about exercising his body. When his life limit arrived, he would just be buried. This was good, he had to exercise in his dream!

But now he really couldn't not crawl. With the wounds on his arms and back, he didn't dare to stand up and play hide-and-seek again. He might not even be able to outrun the group behind him.

"Little Yuan Hou, when exactly will your luck turn good? Your great-grandfather is really about to collapse... ah!"

Li Sanjiang again let out a miserable cry, turned his head to look, and discovered that his originally injured right arm unexpectedly had five more holes, and fresh blood was quickly flowing out of the holes.

Now even crawling was not good. He could only keep his left side on the ground, his right arm hanging by his body, his left arm constantly pulling forward on the ground, along with the force exerted by both legs.

All the zombies behind him also changed their actions and began a tactical crawl.

......

In the banquet hall, the zombie was angry, because the old lady's five fingers had just exactly stabbed into his right arm, leaving deep bloody holes.

It was originally an arrogant existence, yet it repeatedly suffered losses in this kind of place. How could this not make it abnormally angry?

The old lady retreated again, pulling open the distance, and at the same time commanded those paper cats and dogs made of paper to also pounce up and fill the positions at this moment, continuing to entangle the zombie.

She herself then lowered her head again to look at her fingernails. After several successful sneak attacks, the sense of innate fear she had in her heart earlier had already disappeared by about seventy to eighty percent.

No matter how terrifying something was, as long as it could be injured, as long as it would bleed and could be killed, it didn't have that much innate awe.

Li Zhuiyuan, hidden in the corner, slightly wrinkled his brow. It seemed like this, this inexplicably appearing zombie didn't seem to be the old lady's opponent either.

What should he do next?

He turned his head to look at Qin Li beside him. She was unexpectedly half-lowered her head, seeming to have no interest in what was happening outside, still in a daze.

For a moment, Li Zhuiyuan even felt some envy in his heart.

He pinched Qin Li's hand. Qin Li lifted her head and looked at him.

"Wait until the group of servants outside the door also come in, then we'll find an opportunity to rush out. Run as far as we can, absolutely don't stop, understand?"

When the banquet started, Li Zhuiyuan had thought of running out from the large door, but there was a group of servants standing outside, setting off firecrackers while blocking the road, making it impossible to go out.

But according to the current situation, the old lady was clearly utilizing the paper figures to delay and wear down the zombie. When the paper figures inside were almost consumed, that batch outside would definitely also be called in.

At that time, they would just run. He just didn't believe that this dream was limitless.

As for the choice of running to the second floor, it was directly denied by Li Zhuiyuan. Although the stairs appeared again now, what would they do after running up to the second floor? Jump off the building?

Qin Li looked at Li Zhuiyuan and didn't speak.

"Did you understand?"

Qin Li lowered her head.

Fine, let's just assume she understood.

Just when Li Zhuiyuan turned his head back to continue observing the situation in front, he happened to meet the cat-faced old lady's gaze looking towards here.

Li Zhuiyuan was suddenly shocked, and the cat-faced old lady even smiled at him.

"Roar!"

The zombie let out an angry roar again, drawing the cat-faced old lady's gaze back from Li Zhuiyuan's body.

"Hehe... it's useless to call again. I really thought you were something remarkable, turns out you only have these two tricks... hmm?"

The old lady's eyes glared up. She saw that dense black gas, which was killing aura, started to emanate from the zombie's wound.

Those paper figures that had been entangled around it, after being contaminated by this killing aura, all seeped black, lost their human shape one by one, and collectively turned back into scraps of paper and wood chips.

The group of servants outside also rushed in at this time. The zombie turned its body over, opened its mouth, and sprayed out a large amount of black fog from its mouth. The paper figures around and further away, even before they could rush forward, all fell to the ground.

For a moment, the entire banquet hall became much emptier.

The zombie again lifted both arms, leaping towards the old lady. This time, its corpse gas boiled around it, and killing aura surrounded it.

Without the paper figures to help, the old lady could only face it herself.

Li Zhuiyuan grabbed Qin Li's hand: "This is the time, run!"

He and Qin Li drilled out of the corner and rushed towards the door.

"Ah ah ah!!!"

Beside their ears, the old lady's miserable cry came, and subsequently, they saw the zombie pinching the old lady's neck and smashing her forward,正好 blocking the direction of the big door.

The zombie's body's killing aura wrapped around the old lady's body, actually producing a burning sensation. The old lady could still engage in close combat and sneak attacks earlier, but now being close was just tormenting and painful.

Li Zhuiyuan had to stop, and Qin Li beside him also stopped.

The zombie, which had already pressed the old lady down, twisted its head over and looked towards the two children.

In its cloudy eyes, a greedy look actually flowed out. It could perceive that these two were not paper figures and emitted an attractive aura of blood and food.

It instinctively opened its mouth, spitting out black fog from its mouth, which surged over.

Li Zhuiyuan immediately pulled Qin Li back to run, but this black fog came so fast and fiercely that it soon forced them two to the wall root.

Qin Li started to tremble. Li Zhuiyuan perceived it and squeezed her hand tightly.

At this moment, all he could give was this little pale and useless comfort.

"Roar!"

Suddenly, the zombie let out a cry, and the black fog in front of Li Zhuiyuan, which was almost pressing close, began to quickly flow back and be recycled.

The line of sight in front also became clear at once. The original ten fingers of the old lady had already stabbed into the zombie's neck.

"Ha ha ha ha ha! Kill you, kill you, kill you!"

The old lady's fierce look was fully exposed. Her body's fur had wilted at this moment, her skin appeared even more scorched black, but her whole person emitted a crazy vibe.

The zombie roared crazily, its arms constantly stabbing downwards, one stab after another on the old lady's body, but the old lady just stubbornly plunged into its neck and wouldn't let go.

......

"He mom of... he..."

Li Sanjiang painfully covered his own neck, it was so painful.

Even more painful than the pain was that he couldn't breathe anymore. He could find a way to endure the pain and bleeding, but with this feeling of suffocation continuing, he felt he would definitely die.

Behind, all the zombies were pinching their own necks.

But wait until this posture continued for a long time, one zombie let go of its hand, then the second, the third...

Gradually, some zombies started to stand up, their gazes turning from blank to fierce, looking towards Li Sanjiang.

Li Sanjiang was still pinching his own neck, his face gradually turning green. He now even somewhat hoped this group of zombies would quickly pounce on him and tear him to pieces, because this way at least it could give him a quick death, saving him from being tormented to death in suffocation.

......

In the banquet hall, the angry zombie again lifted both arms high and smashed down towards the old lady's head.

The old lady, who was just moments ago showing a stance of fighting to the death with the zombie, simply let go at this time. Her whole body kicked upwards on the zombie's abdomen and slid smoothly downwards.

"Bang!"

The zombie's fingernails stabbed into the ground, and for a moment, it was actually stuck, turning into a straight posture of doing push-ups.

The cat-faced old lady stood up, her body swayed, her whole body was scorched black, even the whiskers on her face were burnt and couldn't be seen, which showed how bad her current state was.

However, she unexpectedly could still be distracted at this time, turning her head to look at Li Zhuiyuan and Qin Li standing against the wall.

"Good children, hehe, Grandma can't beat it."

Her voice carried a chilling coldness, and in her eyes, there was nothing but resentful venom.

Just like the first time Li Zhuiyuan saw her in Cui Cui's home in his dream, she was also lying on Niu Fu's back, looking at him with such eyes.

"Roar!"

The zombie finally pulled its fingers out of the ground. After turning half a circle in place, it stood up straight again.

Although it was very embarrassed, its clothes were tattered, and pus water was overflowing everywhere, this fierce aura was still there, incomparable to the cat demon old lady now.

The zombie again pounced towards the old lady.

However, at this time, the old lady turned her body to the side. Instead of facing the zombie, she slid towards Li Zhuiyuan's direction.

Seeing the situation, the zombie also immediately turned its head and continued to pounce towards the old lady.

Li Zhuiyuan couldn't understand why the old lady would rather turn her whole back to the zombie and still want to mess with him first.

Could it be that before she died, she also wanted to pull two others down with her?

"Good children..."

The old lady stopped in front of Li Zhuiyuan, the chilling smile on her face becoming more and more intense.

She was only seen completely ignoring the zombie that was about to approach her, instead stretching out those pair of claws that had already curled and cracked open towards Li Zhuiyuan. A faint strange gloss wound around the claws.

Li Zhuiyuan only felt his body start to float up. Because he was holding Qin Li's hand tightly, he also brought Qin Li floating up.

This feeling, Li Zhuiyuan was not strange. He had also dreamt before. This was a prelude to waking up from a dream, an escape from the trap!

At this time, Li Zhuiyuan felt his line of sight begin to blur, and the appearance of the old lady in front also became less clear, but he could still hear the old lady's last voice in his ears:

"Good children... Grandma will send you off first."

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