Chapter 16: Unexplored Lands
Zhang Yuanqing re-returned to the main hall and bathed in the candlelight, calming the throes of his old illness and giving himself a purification in the process.
According to the time projection, the grievous spirits would haunt him in a minute or two, and it was definitely not the right time to enter the East Courtyard and face the zombies head on.
After resting for four or five minutes, his physical state was getting worse and worse, his headache was accompanied by a slight dizziness, he knew that it was the necrotic poison gradually eroding his body, initially presenting symptoms.
The candlelight of the main hall did not seem to be able to purify the toxins in the body.
"It can't be delayed any longer ....."
He had to take advantage of the time limit of half an hour for the use of the Red Dancing Shoes to make a quick battle and clear the copy in one breath.
Zhang Yuanqing left the main hall and traveled along the cobblestone path, weaving through the barren grass to reach the courtyard.
Standing in the courtyard of undulating barren grass, he opened the item bar and summoned the Red Dancing Shoes.
Two dark red shimmers of light traveled spiritually through the night, transforming into a brand new pair of dancing shoes.
"Choose the second form!"
Zhang Yuanqing murmured wordlessly.
The red dancing shoes once again collapsed into dark red shimmering light, swept out two arcs and wrapped around his feet.
In an instant, the running shoes under his feet turned into a pair of large red dancing shoes.
This, isn't this a disguised female costume, fortunately it's red dancing shoes, not high heels ...... Zhang Yuanqing looked at his feet without much adaptation and felt strange.
He forced himself not to pay attention to this detail, took out the corpse-suppressing talisman, pinched it in his hand, and in the light sound of the big banyan tree, he went through the archway and came to the east courtyard again.
In the east courtyard, the grass was undulating, bright moonlight sprinkled, two big houses stood quietly, everything was so quiet.
He carefully looked around and saw no sign of zombies, and immediately cautiously crossed the courtyard and leaned towards the big house that was divided into four rooms.
The room where the coffins were displayed, the wooden door had been knocked off, so he didn't need to enter the room, and looked towards the house from a distance across the threshold.
Moonlight shone in through the gap in the tiles, the corpse, the coffin, the lid that had been lifted off, and the brass mortar and pestle, they were silently located in their original places, not having been moved in the slightest.
There was no sign of the zombie in the room.
"Will it lie back in the coffin?"
From his angle, he couldn't see the inside of the coffin.
While he was hesitating, he abruptly realized that the moonlight seemed to dim, and black shadows descended from the sky, enveloping him.
Immediately afterward, the night wind sent a strong smell of corpses and a low roar of "ho ho ho".
It's hiding in the tree? Zhang Yuanqing was horrified, his heart suddenly contracted, and he instinctively made an attempt to dodge.
At the next moment, the red dancing shoes on his feet lit up with a dark red shimmer, Zhang Yuanqing suddenly slipped on the soles of his feet, and before he could react, a skidding shovel rushed out, plowing a trail between the barren grass.
The zombie wrapped in ragged clothes pounced.
Avoid, avoid ....... Zhang Yuanqing climbed up on his hands and knees, pleasantly surprised, a heart put back into his stomach.
Red Dancing Shoes was indeed magical, the ability to dodge was stronger than he expected, with his own reflexes, it was impossible to avoid the zombie's pounce just now.
Zhang Yuanqing's confidence increased.
"Ho ho ......"
The zombie with hair like withered grass, issued a roar that shook his eardrums, the more ferocious the bulging eyeballs became, it bounced its knees and once again lunged at its prey.
The speed was as fast as a high-speed car.
Between the fishy wind puffing nose, the dreaded creature has been close to the eye, Zhang Yuanqing uncontrollable feet twisting, like a ballet rotation, smooth cut out a semicircle, avoiding sharp nails at the same time, cut to the zombie behind.
Immediately after, he "naturally" made a split movement, body suddenly collapsed, head wind whistling, two arms swept across.
Rip, rip to the egg ........ Zhang Yuanqing's face twisted, wanting to scream with his crotch clenched, but Red Dancing Shoes had already maneuvered him to bounce on his legs and spring up.
He leapt high and kicked the zombie in the chest.
With a muffled sound, the zombie's ragged and tattered clothes splattered with fine dust.
It let out an angry and unwilling roar, and fell on its back by the tremendous force of the kick.
Opportunity! Seeing this scene, Zhang Yuanqing didn't care about his ripped and painful crotch, he took a big stride, and slapped the Corpse Suppressor Talisman that was cupped in his hand fiercely at the highly decomposed and foul-smelling face in front of him.
Slap to its forehead.
The berserk bloodthirsty zombie was as if it had been under a spell of immobilization, and abruptly froze.
All the movement disappeared and returned to silence.
The zombie was lying upright in the grass, and the scarlet color in its hideous eyes slowly dimmed.
It lost its "vitality".
Looking at the zombie, which had been transformed into a clay figure and was unable to show off its power, Zhang Yuanqing gasped violently, exhaustion and joy surging into his heart together.
He survived!
"Without the help of the Red Dancing Shoes, it's hard to single-handedly try to solve the zombie, which is just one of the shenanigans, and it's too hard to live up to the S-class spirit realm.
"But the construction team has a lot of people, so it's reasonable to say that solving the zombies won't be a problem, a group of big old men, how can they be so bad..."
Zhang Yuanqing suddenly sighed, he knew the reason.
The Zombie Suppressing Talisman was found in the pocket of the corpse under the window, that senior had obtained this prop, but he didn't tell his companions about it and kept it in his private stash.
The human heart was more complicated and more terrifying than ghosts and monsters.
Having solved the zombie, it was time to go to the well to find that shameless female ghost next.
But before that, there was something else that Zhang Yuanqing cared very much about.
He left the zombie behind and walked towards the room where the coffin was displayed, holding onto the doorframe and crossing the threshold, the moonlight in the gloomy room was like a beam.
He paused in front of the dried corpse and bent down to pick up the copper awl.
Obviously copper object, hold in the hand but do not feel cold, on the contrary, warm and moist like jade.
Immediately, a message surfaced in his vision.
Name: Voodoo Pestle Type: Weapon Function: Purification, Spirit Suppression, Demon Breaking Introduction: a weapon that contains the divine power of the sun and is the nemesis of all shadowy creatures. Sacrificing this mortar and pestle with your blood will grant you the power of the Sun God.
Remarks: Powerful? Trade your life for it.
Sure enough, it is a prop, looking at the function description, it seems to be stronger than the candles in the main hall, the construction team seniors should have tried to kill the zombies with it, but it didn't work out, alas, they lost too many men before they could deal with the zombies ....... Zhang Yuanqing was glad that he had made the right judgment.
He skillfully used the red dancing shoes to crack the difficult situation.
Of course, the construction team seniors didn't have a choice, it was impossible for them to take in this rule-based prop, and the vast majority of them, just died from the trampling of the Red Dancing Shoes.
"With this prop that specializes in Yin objects, and with the Red Dancing Shoes, my probability of passing the trial mission has greatly increased."
Holding the Vorpal Pestle in his hand, a powerful confidence surged in his heart, and he left the room and returned to the courtyard before the five minutes were up.
This time, he went straight to that ancient well for a final exploration.
The mouth of the well was deep and dark, and a damp, grass-rotting odor tumbled up.
Go down and take a look ....... Zhang Yuanqing gripped his Vorpal Pestle in a defensive stance, raised one foot on the edge of the well, and then, he just walked down, walking on the wall of the well as if he were walking on a flat surface.
If it was before, he definitely wouldn't dare to go down and explore, not to mention if there was any danger at the bottom of the well, without a rope or a helper, jumping to the bottom of the well would mean asking for death.
Soon, he successfully reached the bottom of the well, which is not deep, and the moonlight here is already very weak.
The water in the well has long been depleted, the bottom is deposited with black silt, a clump of weeds grows on the edge, and the walls of the well are crawling with dark green moss.
"There are no ghosts in the well ....."
Zhang Yuanqing frowned, thinking that this is not right, I clearly saw a female ghost without a face poking out of the well.
He repeatedly checked at the bottom of the well, and because of the limited wearing time of the Red Dancing Shoes, he finally had no choice but to helplessly step on the steep walls of the well, return to the ground, and quickly run back to the eaves of the main hall.
Only then did he feel relieved to undo the wearing of the red dancing shoes.
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In the main hall, bathed in dim candlelight, Zhang Yuanqing leaned against the tribute table with a shriveled expression, the erosion of the corpse poison on his body deepened, and following dizziness, symptoms such as difficulty in breathing and pain in the heart and lungs appeared.
Time was running out.
"I've finished exploring the two backyards and successfully subdued the zombies, the quest isn't over yet, it means there's still something I haven't explored..."
Every room in the backyard had been explored, even going down to the bottom of the well, there couldn't possibly be a slip-up.
So, where exactly was it?
When all possibilities are ruled out, the remaining one, no matter how unbelievable, is bound to be the truth ....... He muttered in his heart, slowly supporting his body.
The place that has not been "explored" is this place, the main hall in front of him.
Zhang Yuanqing swept his gaze across the main hall, finally resting on the clay figure of the Three Daoist Mountain Nymphs. When he entered the main hall for the first time, there was a detail on the clay figure that made him very concerned.
The clay figure's right hand was empty, but it was in the shape of a tackle, indicating that it was originally holding something.
Earlier, he didn't know what she was originally holding in her hand, but now he knew.
It was the mortar and pestle.
With the mentality that there was no harm in trying, Zhang Yuanqing stepped forward and inserted the yellow mortar and pestle into the palm of the clay statue's hand before leaping off the pedestal and taking a few steps back.
Almost at the moment he stepped back, the surface of the pedestal "click" cracked, cracks popped up a dense dust, followed by the collapse of the entire pedestal, revealing a black hole in the ground.
