Chapter 3 Three People?

Three people?

Zhou Ze suddenly looked at the little girl who had been standing timidly behind him.

The little girl was frightened by Zhou Ze's gaze and subconsciously took a few steps back, looking at her grandfather for help.

The villagers and Xu Qinglang had said that,

Cui the old man had no children or daughters,

and was a madman,

so how could he have a granddaughter?

Also, the little girl had only been talking to him, whether it was by the pond before or in the house, she hadn't interacted with anyone else.

Zhou Ze hadn't noticed this before, but now, after focusing and recollecting, he truly understood.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

Xu Qinglang asked, shoveling a mouthful of rice into his mouth.

Zhou Ze looked at Old Man Cui; he needed an explanation.

Old Man Cui buried his head, picked up his chopsticks, and began to eat, seemingly not planning to pay any attention to Zhou Ze, while also complaining to Xu Qinglang for not getting him any wine.

"Give me an explanation," Zhou Ze said.

"Huh?" Xu Qinglang looked at Zhou Ze, puzzled.

"This pig's head meat is definitely short weight. Pig Head Si probably doesn't recognize you anymore, otherwise he wouldn't have ripped you off," Old Man Cui sighed. "In this world, it seems impossible to get rich by being honest."

Old Man Cui still completely treated Zhou Ze as air.

Xu Qinglang slowly put down his chopsticks. He could sense that the atmosphere was a bit off. More importantly, he understood his friend. Although he usually liked to lie on the sofa and bask in the sun, deep down, he was a very controlling person.

This might have something to do with his past life as a hospital director. He liked to have everything in his hands. In the bookstore, he was the kind who didn't desire anything. Let's see who else there was?

Old Taoist?

Yingying?

The Death Servant?

In ancient times, they would be servants, maids, and guards.

Xu Qinglang felt good about himself for not being classified as a "cook."

Old Man Cui smacked his lips as he ate, his mouth full of grease.

Then,

a hand appeared behind his head,

"Smack!"

"Ugh, ugh, ugh..."

Old Man Cui's entire face was pressed into the pile of cooked dishes, and no matter how much the old man struggled and resisted, it was useless.

"Thinking you have a pair of yin-yang eyes,

thinking you're old,

you can disregard anyone?"

"Bang!"

Zhou Ze kicked a leg off the small table, and Old Man Cui fell directly to the ground. The old man was still shouting something, but only ended up with a mouthful of mud.

The little girl cried and rushed over, trying to push Zhou Ze away and rescue her grandfather, but Zhou Ze's left hand directly grew fingernails, and wisps of black mist wrapped around the little girl, trapping her in place and unable to move.

But it seemed that because of the black mist, Xu Qinglang finally saw the little girl's figure.

"This... this... how is there a child here!"

Zhou Ze took a step back, and Old Man Cui immediately got up from the ground, reached out and wiped the grease and food off his face, and charged at Zhou Ze, howling to risk his life.

This time, Boss Zhou was prepared.

He swung his arm directly, and a heavy elbow strike landed on Old Man Cui's chest. Old Man Cui was old after all, and even if Boss Zhou was a salted fish, he was still young and vigorous. Old Man Cui was knocked to the ground again.

The little girl was trapped in place, crying anxiously.

"If you don't tell me, I'll just pry it open myself.

What exactly is it, that even I can't tell she's not human!"

Zhou Ze took a step forward, his fingernails slowly growing out.

The girl's existence didn't make Zhou Ze feel the slightest bit strange, which was the biggest anomaly, because Xu Qinglang and the villagers couldn't see her.

She was illusory,

but she was so real!

The fingernails slowly approached the girl's skin.

If you're willing to peel open my heart layer by layer, you'll find that you'll be surprised...

Zhou Ze was now really planning to peel open the girl to see what she was made of.

"Don't touch her, I'll tell you, I'll tell you, she's a corpse fetus I picked up from the ancestral坟 (zufen, ancestral grave)."

Old Man Cui seemed to have given up all struggle and planned to be frank.

This old man had a stubbornness that was common among people of his age. It could be seen from the villagers' attitude towards him that he had a huge flaw in how he treated people.

He was just stupid, really stupid, to put on his stinky airs in front of a ghost messenger.

"Corpse fetus, what is that?" Xu Qinglang asked. He didn't ask Old Man Cui, but Zhou Ze.

"Why are you looking at me?" Zhou Ze asked back.

"You don't know?"

"How would I know?"

Old Man Cui sighed and said, "A corpse fetus is a form transformed from corpse energy. It's not that the corpse conceived and gave birth to a child, but that the corpse was already pregnant when it was buried.

But she died, and the fetus in her belly died with her, becoming a stillborn.

However, if the feng shui is right or other coincidences occur, the dead infant in the belly can break away from the body in the form of a soul and be re-conceived even though the flesh has already died.

Xiao Chai is such an existence. Three years ago, I was passing by a grave when I saw her kneeling there crying.

I saw that she was unfamiliar, so I asked her which village she was from. She said that her mother was underground and that she had run out from underground while playing and didn't know how to get back.

So I brought her back to raise."

After listening to Old Man Cui's narration, Xu Qinglang immediately asked:

"You're raising her?"

"She only needs to drink a little bit of blood every day, chicken blood or duck blood is fine, human blood is also okay, just a small bowl is enough, she's very easy to raise, she's also obedient and very considerate, and she knows how to take care of and cherish me. She's my own granddaughter, no, even closer than a granddaughter!"

Old Man Cui said, looking at the little girl.

"I didn't ask before, but is that why that zombie came to knock on your door at night, because of her?"

Zhou Ze pointed at the little girl.

"She's mine, she's mine!"

Old Man Cui immediately hugged the little girl.

"She's my granddaughter, my own granddaughter! No one is allowed to take her away from me, I would rather die than let anyone take her away from me!"

"That zombie is already causing small-scale destruction in the village. If he's just trying to get his daughter back, and you keep stopping him from finding her, it's likely to drive him crazy.

Just stealing some chickens and ducks, leaking evil aura that gives people nightmares, these are just minor things.

Do you know what the consequences would be if a zombie really ran out of patience? You have natural yin-yang eyes, you should know more about these things than ordinary people!"

Zhou Ze asked, looking at Old Man Cui.

"If they die, then let them die! A bunch of ungrateful things!

For a little demolition money, they don't even want their ancestral graves, these people deserve to die!

Deserve to die,

deserve to die!

Even if they all die, don't even think about me sending Xiao Chai away, I can't let Xiao Chai leave me!"

"Grandpa, Xiao Chai doesn't want to leave Grandpa either, Xiao Chai wants to always be with you."

The little girl and Old Man Cui hugged each other and cried.

"Is that the reason?" Xu Qinglang leaned close to Zhou Ze and asked in a low voice.

If all of this started because Old Man Cui, who had natural yin-yang eyes and an extremely failed life, wanted this granddaughter, then handing over this girl seemed to be the most appropriate way to handle it.

The village could avoid a disaster, and this girl was originally a corpse fetus transformed, so she couldn't be considered a living person.

"The timing doesn't match up." Zhou Ze shook his head. "The zombie's target should be this girl, but it might not be a so-called father-daughter or mother-daughter relationship. Didn't you hear what the old man said? He adopted this girl three years ago.

If her parents were really still alive, and if they really turned into zombies, first of all, it would be difficult for her to run out on her own, and secondly, even if she ran out, her parents wouldn't have waited three years to come looking for her."

"Then what do you think?"

"The demolition of the ancestral graves, or even this project, caused changes in the soil layers somewhere, and then a zombie came out.

This kind of strange thing caused by large projects is really common. The dragon pillars on the Yan'an Road Elevated Road in Shanghai are one of them.

Then, this zombie, by instinct, smelled the girl's scent and wanted to eat her to replenish itself."

"Then why don't you feel anything about her?" Xu Qinglang asked.

"Ancient people lived a life of drinking blood, ancient people were grateful to have a bite of bran to eat, and now people not only want to eat enough, but also pursue eating well."

"Showing off your noble bloodline in such a roundabout way is annoying." Xu Qinglang said disdainfully.

Zhou Ze didn't refute anything,

because he knew,

the real reason was that he wasn't in zombie mode right now.

If he let the consciousness in his body awaken, the first thing he would probably do would be to stuff this girl into his mouth, he seemed to like eating this kind of special亡魂 (wanghun, departed soul) to nourish himself.

"What should we do with this corpse fetus? Can we send her to be reincarnated?"

"Yes, she is also formed by a departed soul, but some changes have occurred in the soul due to being contaminated with corpse energy, but in essence, she is still a亡魂 (wanghun, departed soul). After dealing with it, she can still be sent to hell for reincarnation.

Moreover, the绩点 (jidian, merit points) for sending her down should be very high."

"Then let's wait a bit? Can you help me deal with that zombie first?"

Zhou Ze didn't speak.

"Hey, help me out, you know how scary it was when we first saw Yingying, I can't handle it alone."

Zhou Ze still didn't speak.

"This is my hometown after all, I don't want to see any tragic deaths."

Zhou Ze looked at Xu Qinglang, then lowered his head and looked at his toes.

His toes rubbed on the ground and he said:

"Alas, in my last life, I finally saved enough money to buy an apartment, but in this life, I don't even have one, what a failure."

"..." Xu Qinglang.

"Don't be like this, brother, you're taking advantage of my misfortune." Xu Qinglang squeezed out these words after a long time.

"Then can you give me a better reason to convince me to take action?" Zhou Ze asked back.

"Damn it, when you get down to it, aren't they all your relatives!

Your relatives are going to cause trouble,

can you just sit idly by?"

"..." Zhou Ze.