Flying Corpse

Fatty's cowardly shouting made us all feel a chill in our hearts...

Can't this coward just shut his beak?

We all have eyes; we can see that something is about to come out of the coffin. Does he really have to make such a fuss and make us uncomfortable?

I couldn't help but grumble in my heart and kicked Fatty hard in the butt: "Will you get up already? With the way you are now, you won't be able to run when the big thing jumps out!"

Sure enough, this worked. As soon as Fatty heard this, he scrambled up from the ground.

Seeing Fatty's reaction, my sense of foreboding deepened. I had heard of but never seen these creatures, but as someone who had been tomb raiding for years, I guessed Fatty must have seen them before!

The fear he showed, even to the point of being unspeakable...

It seemed that the big thing in the coffin was not as easy to deal with as I had imagined, and it couldn't be solved by simply stuffing a black donkey hoof in its mouth!

Clang!

Qing Yi drew the evil-suppressing sword from his back, his face stern as he stared at the bronze coffin, and said in a deep voice, "It's about to come out, everyone back off!"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a "clang" sound, and the remaining three nails on the Yinzi coffin burst off. The lid of the coffin was suddenly "bang" knocked off, and a thick yin energy continuously emerged from the coffin, so dense that it turned into plumes of white smoke.

"Even if you were a loyal minister and general in life, if you become a scourge after death, I cannot let you be!" Qing Yi shouted loudly, brandishing the evil-suppressing sword and leaping onto the edge of the bronze coffin. His face turned pale, and without a second word, he stabbed fiercely into the corpse inside the coffin.

Since I couldn't see what was happening on the other side, I didn't know what was inside the coffin that made Qing Yi show such an expression.

Clang!

A sound of metal striking metal came from inside the coffin!

Then, a pale arm suddenly slapped onto Qing Yi's chest from the coffin, sending him flying towards me. I instinctively rushed to catch Qing Yi, but as soon as I touched his body, a powerful force that I couldn't resist passed through, and both Qing Yi and I collided, shaking me so hard that my chest hurt and stars appeared before my eyes. I took more than a dozen steps back before I could finally stand firm, and then Qing Yi spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

This was the first time I had seen Qing Yi injured since I met him, and I was extremely shocked. After all, Qing Yi had always been invincible in my mind, the most admirable expert I knew besides that mysterious woman. Now he was injured by a slap, showing just how formidable the thing in the coffin was. I really didn't know what it was that had such great strength!

"Are you okay?"

I supported Qing Yi, and seeing that his complexion had somewhat improved, I finally asked, "What's the situation with the corpse transformation of Gao Xianzhi in the tomb?"

The degree of corpse transformation actually refers to the level of the zombie!

"Flying Corpse!"

Qing Yi gritted his teeth: "If we had come a few years later, we probably wouldn't have been able to handle it!"

Flying Corpse?

After hearing this, I was also shocked. A dead person who grows white hair all over the body and sucks the blood of livestock is called a white zombie, also known as a white evil; after sucking the blood of animals for hundreds of years, the white hair recedes and black hair grows, which is called a black zombie, also known as a black evil; after sucking the blood of cattle and sheep for hundreds of years, the black hair recedes, and they regain a human appearance, hopping around, which is called a hopping corpse; after sucking human blood for hundreds of years, they can transform into a flying corpse, which can absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, fear no daylight, and have become an almost demon-like existence, easily killing people and devastating cities, turning the living world into a barren wasteland!

Above the flying corpse is the nearly demonic drought demon!!

After hearing Qing Yi's words, I was stunned—the Gao Xianzhi in the coffin was a flying corpse? And from Qing Yi's tone, it seemed that if we came a few years later, it would have directly turned into a drought demon!!!

The tomb of Gao Xianzhi was sealed extremely tightly, so it was unlikely that it had evolved to its current state by escaping and sucking the blood of animals and humans. It was probably nourished by this cursed dragon land!

At this time, the "Gao Xianzhi" inside the coffin had already sat up. As the legend described, the flying corpse's movements were smooth, without any stiffness, looking just like a living person. Only when it fully stood up did it finally open its eyes!

Those were a pair of ghastly green eyes, like the ghostly flames that drift over graves in the night, staring straight at us!

His face was no different from that of a living person, except for the pale complexion. He looked exactly like Gao Xianzhi in the mural in the chamber, tall and handsome, surely a beautiful man in life. However, there were very fine stitches on his neck!

I felt a tingling on my scalp when I saw his neck—according to historical records, Gao Xianzhi was beheaded, and the head on his neck now was probably sewn on by his family and subordinates after his death.

"Roar!!"

The flying corpse that Gao Xianzhi had turned into let out a sharp and terrifying howl as soon as it came out.

Bang bang bang!!

The thing in the coffin next to it seemed to be affected by Gao Xianzhi's voice, and the noise of lifting the coffin lid grew louder. Not long after, with a loud "bang", the lid was directly lifted off, and a creature covered in red hair jumped out.

"My goodness!"

Zhang Jinya exclaimed in shock: "It's actually a corpse fiend!"

Corpse fiend?

I couldn't help but widen my eyes. "Faqiu Secret Techniques" had records of this creature—a corpse fiend is also something created by tombs to prevent theft. It was also a person in life, but was cursed by a great shaman, locked alive in a coffin, and would rise as a corpse on the seventh day after death. At that time, the creature is not called a white evil but a corpse fiend, because it is filled with resentment and is very powerful. Its existence is to guard the tombs of some officials and nobles, unable to leave the tomb, and it will kill any living thing it encounters in the tomb!

However, according to the records of my ancestor, shamans who knew the curse to create a corpse fiend were very rare, and had basically disappeared by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. When Cao Cao's father was buried, Cao Cao wanted to create a corpse fiend to guard his father's tomb, but after searching all over the Central Plains, he could not find a shaman who knew the curse, and in the end, he had to give up.

I never expected to see a corpse fiend covered in red hair with my own eyes here. I didn't know whether to feel lucky or unlucky!

Bang!

At this moment, a loud gunshot suddenly interrupted my thoughts. Looking up, I saw that Rosa had pulled out a shotgun without a word and fired at the flying corpse and the corpse fiend. The shotgun had great power at close range, capable of blowing away both the flying corpse and the corpse fiend, quite ruthless. However, it couldn't cause any real harm to them. The bodies of the flying corpse and the corpse fiend were like steel plates. A shotgun that could turn an ordinary person into a sieve only managed to blast away their already rotten clothes, without penetrating their bodies!

"It's useless!"

Qing Yi watched this scene and frowned without a word, shouting in a deep voice, "To deal with these two things, I have to use the summoning technique. To avoid injuring you, you all need to get out now, and then go find the last evil spirit's nest of the ten deadly tombs to seal it. I'll suppress the evil spirit's nest here!"

I hesitated. Both creatures were very fierce; was it appropriate to leave Qing Yi here?

Mainly, I found it difficult to leave a teammate behind. It felt like sacrificing Qing Yi, which made me uncomfortable. Although I wasn't the kind of person who put righteousness above all else, I still had at least a basic conscience.

"Go!"

Qing Yi suddenly turned his head and glared at me, saying in a deep voice, "I know you're a good person, but now is not the time to dawdle!"

I was still hesitant, but Zhang Jinya decisively grabbed Zhou Jing next to him and ran out!

Seeing Zhang Jinya leave, Rosa stopped firing at the flying corpse and the corpse fiend and turned to run.

These people...

I was a bit stunned to see this. Without Rosa's firepower to hold them back, the flying corpse and the corpse fiend had already pounced in our direction!

"Go!"

Qing Yi shouted, pushing me away and brandishing the evil-suppressing sword to meet them.

Watching Qing Yi trembling together with the flying corpse and the corpse fiend, I gritted my teeth, called out to Heizi, and squeezed out through the gap in the tomb door. Just as I got up to run, I heard Wu Fatty shouting from behind, "Little Tian! Don't go, come and give me a hand!"

I turned my head and was speechless.

This guy... got stuck!!

The jack had lifted the tomb door up by about forty to fifty centimeters, nearly half a meter of a gap, and yet this dead fatty couldn't get through, his butt stuck on the tomb door, unable to get out no matter what!!