69novels Chapter 93 The Woman in Black Stockings, the Appearance of the Undead
Chapter 93 The Woman in Black Stockings, the Appearance of the Undead
Chapter 93 The Woman in Black Stockings, the Appearance of the Undead
The following day, they agreed to meet at the South Gate.
Among them, a woman wearing a black silk veil caught the eye.
Nowadays, most people wear masks when they go out, so it's quite rare to see someone wearing a black veil and silk stockings like this. It has to be said that this woman's attire has a chivalrous yet tender feel to it.
Besides the graceful woman in black stockings and a veil, there were two men who stayed by her side the whole time. They seemed more like attendants than companions.
Moreover, his appearance doesn't seem to be Asian; he has a distinctly European or American look.
Foreigners…
This is part of the information Lu Jie has gathered. He is wary, thinking that these foreigners must have some ulterior motive for coming here.
There were eight people in their group, six men and two women.
A gust of early wind blew by, carrying a strange smell, but for some reason, as the sun baked the earth, the strange smell disappeared.
During the day, the outer south gate is already open; they just need to register before they can travel.
Yangyang Village is located to the south, and the Qinling Mountains lie to the south, so they cannot drive or fly there; they can only walk there.
Throughout the journey, Mo Fan's eyes were almost constantly drawn to the woman's body, which was stretched taut by the silk robe without a single wrinkle. From her waist to her hips, then to her slender legs, and from her legs to her fair and delicate feet... it seemed that every part of her was filled with temptation and was captivating!
Mo Fan considered himself a man who had seen a lot of the world and had seen his fair share of beautiful women. Although Lu Jie was accompanied by someone, the stunning allure of this woman in black stockings only grew stronger as they spent more time together!
"Shorty, where did you find this woman?" Mo Fan's curiosity was finally piqued, and he asked the unscrupulous guide.
"She also said she wanted to come here, and she's just as generous with her money as your brother, so I brought her along," the short man said directly, while secretly glancing at the woman as he spoke.
A gleam of lust immediately flashed in his small eyes, and he gave Mo Fan a smile that any man would understand: "What, you've been bewitched too?"
"I was just asking casually, but I have a feeling this woman is not simple," Mo Fan said.
"Heh, kid, did you almost tell me that you have a friend who thinks this woman is something special, and asked you to come and find out more?" The short man looked at Mo Fan with a mocking expression.
"No way, and don't you dare slander me," Mo Fan said righteously.
"I slandered you? Then who the hell is following in someone else's footsteps?"
"Um... how much longer until we reach Yangyang Village?" Mo Fan asked without changing his expression.
The short man was speechless at Mo Fan's abrupt change of topic, and simply said, "You don't need to worry about when we'll get to Yangyang Village, you should worry about when it will get dark."
As he spoke, the short man pointed to the sun slowly sinking below the horizon.
"Damn it, we're already going down the mountain?!" Mo Fan cursed. Time was flying by.
"It's winter now, the days are short and the nights are long, can't you use your common sense?" the short man said.
"I'm bad at geography. Oh, and you still haven't told me about this woman's background."
"What geography... Go ask him yourself if you're so capable," the short man muttered.
……
As dusk approaches, in this season of short days and long nights, the sun is estimated to have moved to the other hemisphere by a little after five o'clock.
The short man and the other burly man had at least seen the dead before, but the deathly silence before nightfall was still unsettling...
The land is so vast that no one can be sure they haven't stepped on the territory of a large group of dead souls. That's why you have to pay a guide to come here. If you come here on your own, the grass on your grave will probably be more than two meters high by next year.
"Here, eat this." The burly man pulled out a gray, garlic-like thing from his backpack.
"There's food! You should have said so earlier, I'm starving..." Mo Fan was very outgoing, and as soon as he saw the burly man distributing local specialties to everyone, he immediately accepted them.
The gray thing looked a bit like a sweet potato and a large clove of garlic, but he didn't think too much about it and took a bite.
"puff--!!"
The next second, Mo Fan spat it out. This feeling was even more infuriating than eating a thesis.
"Holy crap, what the hell is this?!" Mo Fan cursed angrily.
"This is grey garlic, used to mask the life force of the living. With it, the dead won't attack us. There's a limited supply. You just threw up one. If you don't make it through the night, you're on your own," the short man explained.
"This stuff is so disgusting, I'd rather fight the undead than eat this stuff," Mo Fan said.
"Don't speak too confidently... Shh, listen to this." The short man gestured for everyone to be quiet.
"What are you listening to?"
"In the underground soil..."
Everyone quieted down, and the soil beneath their feet, mixed with fine white sand, began to loosen.
At first glance, it seemed like bamboo shoots were sprouting up after the rain, but the short man's solemn expression told everyone that something unexpected was about to happen!
"Gurgle~"
The short man's Adam's apple bobbed up and down.
Having lived in this land of the dead for so many years, his heart would start pounding violently every time night fell.
Even if I'm not in the ancient capital, but in other cities, that unease and panic will still appear as soon as night falls.
"Eat the garlic quickly!" the short man urged.
The woman in black silk and her two attendants did not hesitate and ate the gray garlic directly.
Liu Ru and Lu Jie each ate one, while Mo Fan remained hesitant.
"Ugh!!!"
The sound, as if something filthy was stuck in the throat, suddenly emerged from the soil.
Mo Fan turned around and was shocked to see a head crawling with maggots emerging from the ground, its eyes drooping and its chin drooping...
It looked as if it was stuck in something, with only its head sticking out while its body remained in the soil.
"You piece of junk, you think you can hurt your Grandpa Mo?" Mo Fan didn't hold back and kicked it hard in the head.
With one kick, the head flew through the air like a soccer ball, slamming into a bare rock, splattering slurry all around.
"Great shot!" Lu Jie exclaimed.
"Of course." Mo Fan was quite smug. They were just mere spirits, nothing more than withered bones in a tomb.
"Ugh!! Ugh!!!"
The roars rose and fell, filling the air around Mo Fan.
Suddenly, a large patch of soil cracked open, revealing a huge tomb less than ten meters away from Mo Fan.
Inside lay more than twenty half-corpses and half-skeletons. As if they had heard Mo Fan's mockery, they suddenly crawled out of the tomb with bloodshot eyes.
The skeletons were blackened, as if they had been collectively poisoned to death before their deaths, and there were some tools scattered around them.
This was probably the body of an ancient general buried with him. Mo Fan originally thought there wouldn't be many, but there was another tomb below the main tomb, from which a continuous stream of skeletons emerged, looking extremely ferocious!
(End of this chapter)