Chapter 1 A Terrible Day

Zhou Ze felt that if there was a competition for the most unlucky day in life,
today
could definitely be compared to the day he was in a car accident and cremated. The two were completely on par.
Especially the last part,
that continuous fall, fall, and fall again,
sometimes he wished he could just kill himself,
he and Ying Gou could happily gg together,
which would be better than torturing his body into such a tattered state.
Therefore,
when he realized he had fallen from the roof into a liquid,
Zhou Ze didn't choose to struggle to the surface,
firstly, because he was tired,
he had struggled too many times this day,
and secondly, his body was in pain everywhere. The continuous impacts just now probably broke a lot of bones, making it too difficult to make any movements.
Thirdly, Zhou Ze was completely exhausted. The potential of this body had long been drained by him.
However,
after being submerged underwater for a long time,
Zhou Ze suddenly opened his eyes.
Something's not right,
why doesn't he feel suffocated?
Not only was there no feeling of suffocation,
but there was also a warm and comfortable feeling all over his body,
like walking out of a sauna and picking up a bottle of ice-cold cola.
The last time Zhou Ze had this feeling underwater was when he faced the Faceless Woman in the pool beside the Yellow Springs Road in hell.
At the bottom of that pool,
there was no feeling of suffocation at all.
At this moment,
Zhou Ze heard the sound of the door being pushed open.
Someone came in!
Two people came in,
or rather,
three people,
because one very small person was being carried in.
Two tall figures, one on the left and one on the right.
The one on the left had a hideous face, with maggots crawling all over his body. The two fangs at the corners of his mouth looked very ferocious, and he had a nose ring. He was probably two meters tall and naked from the waist up.
The one on the right looked much fairer and more civilized, wearing a Qing Dynasty official robe, a standard image of a Hong Kong zombie from earlier years.
The movements of the two zombies were a bit stiff, but they didn't hop in. Instead, they carried the little boy in slowly.
"How did the roof break?"
The naked zombie looked up and said.
Zhou Ze hid at the bottom of the pool, not daring to make the slightest sound.
"Someone was bombing this place. Several houses have already collapsed. This is considered good. It's fortunate that the Sacred Water Pool hasn't been damaged, otherwise the master wouldn't even have a chance to heal and prolong his life."
Zhou Ze couldn't see the appearance of these two people, after all, he was at the bottom of the water, or rather, at the bottom of the pool, but he could roughly hear their voices.
The zombies' voices were really loud, making it difficult not to hear them clearly.
He guessed that only his own Yingying spoke softly and pleasantly.
At this moment, another zombie came from outside the door.
This zombie was wearing armor, but his level was obviously not high enough, as he was still hopping over, belonging to the kind of tenderfoot who had just become a zombie not many years ago.
Moreover,
hearing the sound of this hopping rhythm,
Zhou Ze felt that this zombie that had just come out wouldn't be the same zombie that was chasing after him and the others with logic just now, right?
When the explosion sounded, this guy immediately ran back in fright?
Unexpectedly,
stumbling and bumping,
everyone "met" here again.
Also,
how many zombies are there down here?
Actually, Zhou Ze was now thinking that if the little boy wasn't so infatuated with the little loli, but was just captured normally, perhaps they could have relied on their shared zombie identity and resolved this dispute peacefully through equal communication.
But the crux of the matter was that the little boy would never let go.
Tsk tsk,
this damned love.
"Didn't catch the person?"
The naked zombie scolded directly.
"Wuuuuuuuuu… wuuuuuu… wuuuuuu…"
That zombie obviously couldn't speak human language yet,
but Zhou Ze understood his way of transmitting information between zombies underwater.
The general meaning was that there was an explosion above, the structure below was damaged, and the feng shui had shifted, causing some of the imprisoned wandering souls and mountain spirits to collapse and others to escape.
In short,
Old Zhang's cannon shot above
directly turned this underground into a mess.
"It doesn't matter if the wandering souls are gone, it doesn't matter if the spirits are gone. They are just servants who rely on the special environment here to be attracted and attached to the master. They don't count for much, but the fact that the guy who sneaked in and injured the master wasn't caught is the most unforgivable!"
The zombie without clothes walked over
and directly grabbed the rookie zombie's neck.
"Crack!"
With a crisp squeeze,
the rookie zombie's neck was directly twisted off.
At the same time,
he opened his mouth and sucked out streams of black mist from the other's mouth. By the time he let go, the rookie zombie had directly turned into dregs.
"Why are you in such a hurry?"
The Manchu zombie said, holding the little boy.
"Now that the structure here has been destroyed, we can't stay for long. Sooner or later, we'll have to move and find another place. Taking these uncultured idiots with us will only be a burden, and they might even expose us, which would be a big problem. It's better to deal with them now and offer them to me.
What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and send the master into the Sacred Water Pool.
You wouldn't be thinking of taking advantage of the master's serious injury to…"
"Don't talk nonsense. Although the master is unconscious now, he is still awake."
The Manchu zombie said with his head lowered, but there was a gloomy tone in his words.
"I know what you're thinking. Get your head straight. Without the master's guidance, the two of us will be struck to death by lightning as soon as we leave this place!"
"I know, I know."
The naked zombie walked over, snatched the little boy from the Manchu zombie's arms, and then put him into the pool water where Zhou Ze was.
"With me here, don't even think about having other thoughts.
Alright, come with me and control the situation. Take away whatever belongings we can take away, and eat and swallow any spirits and wandering souls that can be caught and consumed now. Don't waste anything!"
With that,
the two zombies left directly,
and they even deliberately closed the door.
Zhou Ze lay at the bottom of the pool,
because the pool water was colored and very deep, the visibility wasn't high.
But Zhou Ze could still see the little boy slowly falling,
almost falling right next to him. The two of them were almost arm to arm.
The little boy still had his eyes closed, seemingly not expecting at all
that the culprit who had injured him so badly
was,
at this moment,
right next to him.
The two of them were bathing together!
Zhou Ze didn't move.
He didn't disturb the guy.
Actually,
from the feeling he had when he first fell in here, plus the conversation between the two zombies just now,
one thing was very clear,
and that was that this pool
had an excellent healing effect on zombies.
Alright,
let's all soak quietly together.
Due to his line of sight, plus the fact that his fingers were bandaged, Zhou Ze didn't notice that
the fingernails that had previously fallen off his ten fingers
had now grown a thin layer.
Comfortably soaking in the bath,
slowly,
Zhou Ze's consciousness also began to fall into chaos.
This wasn't sleeping,
just a kind of wandering consciousness.
It was like a lucid dream.
Zhou Ze found himself standing at the door.
The surroundings were misty,
but he could still make out that this was the place he had passed through when he came in to find the little loli.
This was a dream,
a lucid dream.
That is, a dream made in a conscious state.
In most cases, once a person realizes they are dreaming, they will probably wake up soon.
But there are also some exceptions. You know you are dreaming, but the dream still doesn't end, and a person's instinctive consciousness often triggers extreme panic as a result.
This is the so-called "sleep paralysis."
Zhou Ze knew that he should still be soaking in that pool,
bathing in the so-called sacred water with that little zombie.
Even,
he could hear the sound of water flowing in his ears.
This was a dream,
he was dreaming.
Since he was here, he might as well stay.
Lawyer An had said that this place was definitely not built by zombies or monsters. Letting them build a cave was no problem, but asking them to build a Jiangnan garden underground, while also possessing an extremely ingenious feng shui layout, was too difficult for them.
A zombie capable of doing this would probably have already ascended directly to the Great Dao. Why would they stay here and accompany a group of children to eat meat, drink wine, and play house in a pretend wedding?
The most likely scenario
was that ancestors had built this place here,
but for some reason,
the ancestors left,
and then it was occupied by this group of zombies and wandering ghosts and mountain spirits, turning it into their palace.
Zhou Ze walked a distance inside
and saw the pavilion ahead.
If he remembered correctly,
Lawyer An was actually hiding in that pavilion to help him keep watch when he entered the bridal chamber before.
At this moment,
the gauze curtains of the pavilion had been pulled up.
A middle-aged man in a long robe was sitting inside, drinking alone.
From time to time, he would scoop up two peanuts and throw them into his mouth,
then wash them down with a sip of wine,
looking incredibly content.
At this moment,
the other party seemed to have noticed Zhou Ze as well.
He stood up
and waved to Zhou Ze,
signaling Zhou Ze to come in and drink with him.
Zhou Ze shrugged
and shouted:
"Sorry, I'm busy, I'm busy outside."
Heaven knows when that little boy will wake up, and he's still dreaming. He'll really die without knowing how he died.
But the other party was still waving enthusiastically at Zhou Ze,
his gaze was gentle,
really giving people a feeling like a spring breeze.
This guy's appearance and temperament
were truly exquisite,
belonging to the kind that, at a glance, both men and women would develop a good impression of.
If it were someone else,
they would probably have run over excitedly,
but fortunately, in the bookstore,
Zhou Ze faced Xu Qinglang every day,
and his resistance to male beauty
was also extremely high.
Boss Zhou just smiled and didn't move. He didn't have time to dream, let alone drink wine. Was it execution wine?
At this moment,
a little monkey hopped into the pavilion with a wine pot,
and after jumping onto the table,
poured wine for the man.
Zhou Ze smiled in his heart.
This little monkey looked just like the monkey in his own bookstore.
Hahahaha... ha!
Ha!
The smile on Zhou Ze's face froze,
and he blurted out:
"Holy crap!"