Countrymen meeting each other, tears welling up in their eyes.

Naturally, there was bound to be some mutual greeting:

"Bro, how've you been doing lately?"

Zhou Ze didn't need to ask.

Because the man before him only had half a face left, and even that half a face had been pierced by an iron rod.

How he was doing…

It was truly quite miserable.

"Are you pitying me?"

The more miserable a person is, the more they care about their so-called self-esteem.

"Are you really pitying me?"

Zhou Ze still didn't answer.

"Why aren't you answering me?"

"I'm afraid you'll ask me to borrow money."

"Uh... Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!"

Lawyer An watched from the side, truly worried that this guy would laugh himself to death.

Also,

Are doorkeepers' senses of humor this low?

"Rest assured, now that I've come out, I naturally won't go back."

Zhou Ze nodded.

"Speak, you said earlier that some idiot told you to come find me?

Which idiot was it?"

"It was you."

The half-face closed his eye, somewhat puzzled, and said,

"Really me?"

"Really you."

"Me, this idiot?"

"You, this idiot."

The half-face nodded,

And the iron rod on his face rotated once.

"I told you to come find me, and you really came?"

"Yes."

"Besides seeing me, what else do you want to do?"

Zhou Ze felt his arm was getting sore, so he put down the steamer basket.

The half-face was obscured again.

"He's sleeping, and I want to wake him up."

"Do you know what waking him up means?"

"I know."

"Knowing that, you're still willing to do it?" The half-face was somewhat disbelieving, but immediately exclaimed, "Have you two reached this point already?"

"Pfft!"

Lawyer An on the side burst out laughing like a pig upon hearing this,

Then immediately lowered his head,

Drawing circles on the ground with his toes.

"Let's all return to the same destination."

"No, I'm different from you. I'm free. My soul, my life, my existence, the traces I've left behind, the meaning of my birth, all are free!"

Zhou Ze frowned.

He now had the feeling of a 50-cent party member facing an American apologist.

Perhaps,

This was his only remaining belief, and the only bit of enjoyment left in these long, tormenting prison years.

As a doorkeeper, he had once walked his own path, breaking away from Ying Gou's "shackles."

This could be considered a dazzling spark,

Like an old man who always likes to ruminate on his glorious deeds when he was young, over and over again.

Zhou Ze thought he might already be dead; even when his spiritual imprint had awakened back then, he had suspected that he himself might have already died.

But right now, although he was alive, this kind of living was more like a humiliation.

Who exactly

Had placed him here,

To humiliate him?

To what extent had he reached back then?

That someone could actually suppress him, and this measure, this arrangement, this setting, wasn't just for suppression, but also carried a punitive nature, making him continue to be lonely!

"It's a pity he's not here now; I really miss him a little."

"Oh?"

"I really want to anger him again."

"Heh, I understand."

Zhou Ze stretched his body on the side, like he was doing warm-up exercises before a gym class.

"Are you planning to… eat me?"

Zhou Ze didn't say a word.

"You're such a beast;

I only have half a face left."

"I'm hungry."

Even a mosquito leg is still meat;

Zhou Ze wasn't picky.

Just based on the fact that you only have half a face left and can still live this long, you're worth eating.

"Actually, I'm also hungry."

"I know."

Ordinary people wouldn't dare to play with the things on the murals like this.

Zhou Ze even felt that when he desperately broke away from Ying Gou and left,

Was it because he wanted to be a glutton without any restraints?

But thinking about it, it didn't quite make sense; Ying Gou wouldn't be bored enough to interfere with a doorkeeper's diet.

Whether you live, whether you die, whether you're hungry, whether you're full, he wouldn't care.

"Aren't you worried that I might want to eat you too?"

"I thought about it."

"And then?"

"Picking honey requires worrying about being stung by bees."

"That's true too."

Simple, awkward chatter,

Continued.

When Zhou Ze had symbolically finished a set of preparatory exercises,

The steamer basket began to tremble.

Lawyer An subconsciously took several steps back, creating some distance, and at the same time gestured to Yingying and the little boy behind him, signaling them to get ready.

Zhou Ze, however, continued to stand next to the steamer basket, expressionless, raising his hand, biting one end of his glove with his teeth, and pulling the glove off.

Revealing that white bone hand,

His fingers gently pinched together,

Emitting a crisp sound similar to metal friction,

Very pleasant, very melodious.

A thought even appeared in Zhou Ze's mind:

If he drilled a few air holes in his fingers, could he use them directly as musical instruments?

Think about it,

Under the black night sky, a man stood by the bed, raised his hand, white bones and moonlight reflecting each other, and placed it by his lips, playing a tune.

This scene,

Was truly breathtakingly beautiful.

"Don't get distracted, I'm coming."

The half-face's voice came,

And for a moment,

The tomb chamber began to tremble slightly.

But it wasn't exaggerated;

The scene of the earth cracking and the sky falling didn't appear.

It was a bit of a thunderous roar with little rain.

"I can't do it; I don't know where my legs, my hands, the other parts of my body have gone."

"Mm."

Then,

There was silence again.

Lawyer An was waiting anxiously on the side.

Weren't they supposed to fight?

Then fight already!

You keep setting the stage, setting the stage, setting the stage, but you don't fight; what are you setting the stage for!

Of course, no matter how much he cursed inwardly, Lawyer An still wore a full expression of "I'm so concerned about the boss's safety" on his face.

"I can't fight; look at what I've become. Forget it, you come and eat me. Most foods are actually most nutritious when eaten raw."

Zhou Ze nodded.

"But I really don't have much nutrition left."

"I can tell."

"I know what you want; what I can give you is really not much. A clever housewife...

Uh, no, that's not right.

Without ingredients, even the best chef can't make truly good things."

"Mm."

"You brought two zombies."

In the distance, Yingying and the little boy, who had been guarding the exit, raised their heads together.

Because of Zhou Ze's own "level,"

He had a sense of déjà vu like a "Prince Zhu the Third" fallen among the commoners seeing the county magistrate's sedan chair passing in front of him,

So he didn't have any special feeling.

But for Yingying and the little boy,

Although the half-face in front of them wasn't as terrifying as Ying Gou's appearance,

The kind of pressure,

The kind of suppressive feeling from their bloodline,

Still made them very uncomfortable.

This wasn't fear,

But an innate brand imprinted at the bottom of their bloodlines,

Which couldn't be changed by human power.

"What do you mean?" Zhou Ze asked.

"Choose one to come up, and let me possess it."

"You want to fight me, and you want to borrow my people to let you fight me?"

Do you think I'm very stupid?

"Do you trust me?"

"I don't."

"I won't harm..."

The half-face fell silent.

He suddenly felt very tired.

However,

He also felt somewhat gratified and happy.

He could imagine that

Ying Gou must be even more tired after getting along with this guy for so long, right?

Lawyer An on the side tasted some different meanings.

He was a little anxious.

Although he wasn't a party involved, and he hadn't been a doorkeeper (although he wished he could be a doorkeeper!),

But he was a clever person.

He heard the half-face's implied meaning.

But,

Lawyer An was somewhat puzzled.

Didn't the boss hear it? Or was he too caught up in the situation?

The little boy saw Lawyer An beckoning to him,

And was somewhat puzzled.

"Hurry up, I'm also very tired like this."

"You've been like this for so long; you can still get tired?"

"Of course, I can get tired."

"Then what's with the black gas at the entrance?"

That black gas was the main cause of the zombie incident back then.

"When people first wake up, they always have bad breath; let alone after I've been sleeping for so long?"

Bad breath?

Zhou Ze shook his head and said, "I don't believe that's your bad breath."

"Then what do you think it is?" The half-face asked with a smile.

"You're trying to go out?"

Zhou Ze bent down and said softly through the cage.

This time, it was the one in the cage who fell silent.

Zhou Ze then continued:

"Actually, I've been thinking about how you managed to break away from that person's restraints.

I was a doctor in my previous life; from the perspective of modern medicine, precise minimally invasive surgery is the trend of modern medicine.

But from the perspective of the soul,

I've always felt that my identity and Ying Gou's are like several personalities within a soul.

What kind of surgery

Can separate these personalities?"

No matter how precise the operation, no matter how minor the surgery, it was impossible to achieve this.

"So?"

The one in the cage spoke.

"So, I think you may have a very profound attainment in the soul. I don't know what you learned from Ying Gou.

Perhaps, you didn't learn it from Ying Gou; it's something you figured out yourself. Okay, let's not discuss these things. You succeeded.

I really have a sense of yearning towards you, but I don't envy you, and I don't want to imitate you, and I don't even want to walk the path you've walked.

Because,

It's too tiring."

"Heh..."

Zhou Ze smiled.

His white bone hand rubbed back and forth on the cage, making a "scratching" sound.

"Do you think I'm the same as him..."

As he spoke,

Zhou Ze pointed his finger at Lawyer An, who was standing on the side and still gesturing to the little boy.

"Do you think I'm the same as him, thinking that you're preparing a great opportunity for me?

And then I'll immediately prepare to call up one of my own zombies,

To obtain an inheritance or some special opportunity and benefit?"

"..." Lawyer An.

"..." The little boy.

The little boy deliberately looked up at Lawyer An.

The hand that Lawyer An was waving behind him froze.

"Also, I was still thinking earlier, who has such a big feud with you?

To beat you up like this and deliberately set up this place to humiliate you?

I seem to have figured it out a bit now."

"Figured out… what?"

"It's not that people deliberately want to humiliate you;

Perhaps,

It's that people simply can't kill you!"