Chapter 16: CH 16

Ch16 - The Extra Corpses

“Brother Hou——!”

“Xu Chen!!”

“Lin Xi!”

Amid the sound of everyone’s shouting, they rushed to the courtyard in the rain. Everyone also got their weapons ready, prepared to enter a battle at any time. Currently, it was unlike the previous predicament they faced while walking up on the mountain road. They had to drive eight corpses, so if these three people met with an accident, the burden of driving the remaining corpses would surely fall on them, and the attraction would be more difficult to accomplish!

This time, the tourists were all united. Miao Fangfei and Zhao Hongtu rushed to the front. Miao Fangfei held a knife, and Zhao Hongtu drew back a bow until it was bent in an arc like a full moon, the three arrows on his bow were ready to be fired. Zhao Hongtu aimed at the group of corpses and was ready for battle, but they were surprised when they saw the scene.

In front of the corpses, Hou Feihu kept screaming. Xu Chen had collapsed and was crying on the ground, and Lin Xi held onto a corpse and leaned against its shoulder to murmur to himself. And in front of the three people who were behaving irregularly stood tour guide III-9, who was watching the commotion they caused!

“What have you done!”

Zhao Hongtu, who had the best relationship with Hou Feihu and the most impatient temper, pointed his bow and arrows at III-9 with a fierce expression shining in his eyes. As soon as his finger was about to loosen the arrows, he was knocked down by Shi Tao.

Shi Tao lunged over heavily and directly pushed Zhao Hongtu’s small body to the ground, causing Zhao Hongtu to gnaw on some mud.

“You——!”

Zhao Hongtu’s eyes were red, and he glared at Shi Tao. However, before he could get up, he was trampled down again by a foot wearing thick-soled mountaineering boots.

“Shut up.”

Miao Fangfei’s eyes were cold and filled with an unspoken threat. The spotted snake entangled Zhao Hongtu’s arm like a rope and pulled him to the rear.

“Brother Zhao, I know you are in a hurry, but Leader Miao is right. You shouldn’t be so rash.”

Wang Pengpai urged, “Feihu and company are trapped in a nightmare, and Guide III is helping them. You’d be making matters worse if you acted impulsively just now!”

No one knew if it was because of the fatty’s persuasion or because Zhao Hongtu didn’t want to fight Miao Fangfei, but he gritted his teeth and trembled with anger. Finally, he threw his bow aside, pushed Miao Fangfei’s foot away, and got up. He was still staring at III-9, full of distrust and vigilance.

Zhao Hongtu didn’t know what kind of drug III-9 had fed to Miao Fangfei for them all to be loyal as if they were his lackeys. However, Zhao Hongtu wouldn’t believe III-9’s lies!

He knew some people that had died because they had fallen into III-9’s hands, so he was aware of exactly how crazy and cruel this tour guide was.

He stared fixedly at III-9. He would never let him hurt Brother Hou again, even if he had to stake his life on it!

At the side, Zhao Hongtu’s mind was full of grief and indignation, imagining that he was fighting alone against the entire tour group. On the other hand, Wei Xun was amazed as he studied the three men who were engulfed by resentment.

After Wei Xun had activated the title task, he wandered to the yard where the corpses were. After all, there was a lot of resentment there. Wei Xun wanted to “feed” his horn again, to see if anything new could grow out from his body.

However, his “horn” seemed to be very picky, and it was not moved by the resentment that the group of corpses possessed. Wei Xun stared at the group of corpses for a long time until his eyes felt sore, but he wasn’t able to observe any new forms of resentment to increase the progress of the task.

At this time, he saw the trio, Lin Xi and company, walking over.

Wei Xun’s figure was covered by the corpses, so the three people didn’t discover him, but their clamor was heard by Wei Xun.

It seemed that Lin Xi had found a special rotten corpse. He thought that it should be related to a special task, but he couldn’t deal with it alone. Therefore, he used the excuse that he had to urinate to drag Hou Feihu and Xu Chen here together.

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Special task?

Hearing this, the sleepiness Wei Xun felt was swept away. Excited, he observed the trio.

Wei Xun wondered whether tour guides could accept such special tasks.

However, when the three people arrived at the edge of where the group of corpses stood, they seemed to be trapped by some kind of illusion. At the same time, Wei Xun felt a strong resentment surfacing among the corpses.

He didn’t notice the obvious resentment in the group of corpses previously. But now, he knew that the resentment should have been hidden. When Hou Feihu and company got closer to the group of corpses, it was activated. However, every time Wei Xun wanted to trace the source of resentment, the resentment disappeared, and when he turned his head, the resentment reappeared. This happened several times until Wei Xun confirmed that it could move freely among the corpses.

As a result, before Wei Xun could capture the resentment, Hou Feihu and company found him. As soon as the vital energy of humans grew stronger, the ghostly resentment disappeared without a trace.

This made Wei Xun unhappy. He glanced at Zhao Hongtu and others, and with a cold hum, he turned around and left. When he passed by Lin Xi and his friends, he only uttered two sentences with his Tour Guide’s Mic.

Zhao Hongtu refused to admit that he was terrified after seeing III-9’s eyes. It was as if he was being watched by a predator. After III-9 left, he returned to his senses, and in a jiffy, he went to find Hou Feihu. However, when he tried to move his legs, they went so soft he almost made a fool out of himself.

“I saw that I was being eaten alive by corpses.”

Now that Hou Feihu and the others had awakened from the illusion, Hou Feihu had a wry smile as he repeatedly apologized to everyone. “The illusion was too real that I can still feel my bones hurt.”

“Scary, too scary.”

Xu Chen, the most perceptive person in the group, was still shivering and weeping. When Lin Xi woke up, he pushed away the corpse in his arms with an ugly expression. He felt that the clothes on his body were stained with filth, so he took off his shirt and threw it away. Without uttering a word, he returned to his room.

“Hey! Little boy Lin, it’s not safe to be alone!”

The fatty had good intentions when he shouted that, but Lin Xi did not even turn his head to respond to him. Instead, he walked away faster.

“Why should we care about him. With III-9 here, he shouldn’t die.”

Zhao Hongtu made no secret of his disgust for Lin Xi, but when he turned to Hou Feihu, he sounded concerned and nervous, “Brother Hou, what did III-9 do to you?! Was it him——”

“No, it was me.”

Hou Feihu shook his head, and his eyes were a little complicated. “There was no sense of foreboding, but as soon as I got close to the corpses, I was trapped in the illusion. It……it was III-9 who saved me.”

Hou Feihu patted his ears and said, “He probably used the Tour Guide’s Mic. I heard him say that we shouldn’t cause so much noise in scenic spots. Then, my mind completely cleared up.”

“Is that so.”

Zhao Hongtu still didn’t believe it and felt a bout of stuffiness that was trapped within him. However, Hou Feihu didn’t care about it, and he looked at the other tourists instead. Suddenly, his eyes focused on something, and he said hastily:

“Everybody’s here? No one’s guarding the main room on the other side?!”

“No, everyone is here.”

Miao Fangfei shook her head gravely. In the face of the trio, Zhao Hongtu and company, possibly meeting with an accident, the remaining tourists had to act together. It was impossible to leave anyone alone somewhere.

“Let’s return. I have an ominous premonition!”

Hou Feihu hurriedly spoke and impatiently rushed ahead first. His words caused the tourists to feel their hearts tighten, and Zhao Hongtu’s expression became even more awful.

Hou Feihu’s title was extremely useful. For him to say that he felt a sense of foreboding, it meant that something must have gone wrong!

The crowd left in a hurry, and no one noticed that behind them, the corpses in the heavy rain were quietly moving. All the corpses turned their heads, their rotten white faces staring in the direction of the main room.

It was unknown if it was their misconception, but compared to the first day they arrived in the farmstead, the corpses seem to have moved closer to the main room.

“Tsk, they’ve finally left.”

After a while, Wei Xun, who had originally left, came back with a bamboo pole in his hand. It was a simple homemade fishing rod with a rough thread and hook.

Wei Xun tried to wave the fishing rod around. His posture was quite professional. Previously, before he was bedridden and couldn’t leave his bedroom, he did all kinds of exciting things. He had gone fishing alone several times.

After confirming that he could throw the “fishhook” to the center of the group of corpses, Wei Xun satisfyingly waved the rod around. Noticing that the corpses turned their heads to look at him gloomily when he wasn’t aware of it, Wei Xun blinked as he looked at the corpses. Then, he adjusted the Tour Guide’s Mic, which was clipped onto the collar of his shirt.

“Cough, cough, hello, hello, can you hear me?”

Wei Xun’s voice test was filled with emotions, as if nothing had happened, as he spoke into the mic, “Look, this is Little Dragon Farmstead’s morgue. Don’t be afraid. Although these corpses look real and terrifying, they are just priceless wax figures.”

Wei Xun repeated his words three times and put down the Tour Guide’s Mic before walking to the group of corpses. He saw that the corpses that were just staring at him were now really like wax figures, and even the scent of the corpses became lighter.

[Tour Guide’s Mic (Silver-rank Five-stars): A tour guide’s mic that the tour guide has to make do with. An experienced tour guide will not say anything incorrect with it.]

This was the power of the Tour Guide’s Mic. Of course, it was not an invincible prop. In the presence of the tourists, the power of the Tour Guide’s Mic would be greatly weakened, just like what happened moments ago. To awaken Hou Feihu, Wei Xun had to go closer to them and speak near their ears.

Now, there were no tourists, just him and the corpses, so the power of the Tour Guide’s Mic seemed to grow more powerful.

This made Wei Xun feel as if the group of corpses were a test to be faced by the tourists. As a tour guide, he was employed by the Travel Services. This was why the corpses didn’t react to him.

But even so, there were only a few tour guides as bold as Wei Xun. He circled around the corpses twice to find a good angle before waving his fishing rod again.

He had grown so crazy that he wanted to hook corpses!

“Brother 9, there is a corpse that is different from the rest among the corpses in the yard.”

Just now, Lin Xi especially went to look for him. What he said was still reverberating in Wei Xun’s ears. Wei Xun’s sharp eyes swept over the corpses and locked on a stiff corpse near the center.

Wei Xun swung the rod. After several attempts, the hook finally tightly caught on the flesh of the corpse.

“It was clearly a corpse, but it had two beauty scores. Isn’t that weird?”

“Waaa——!!!”

The next moment, that corpse started to move. The rotten corpse cracked and exploded as if it was a bomb, and the swollen head shot towards Wei Xun. Then, a bloody shadow split the skull from the inside. A pair of bloody membrane-like wings stretched out, the barbs at the tips of its claws as sharp as a knife.

Visual hallucinations and auditory hallucinations. Wei Xun once fought a creature with this ability!

Throwing aside the fishing rod, Wei Xun held the Tour Guide’s Flagpole and fiercely resisted the monster’s attack. The other party’s strong assault caused Wei Xun to step backward to stabilize his body.

Two beauty scores. Sure enough, something was hidden in the corpse.

This was a zombified flying fox three times as large as the one he met on the mountain road!

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“Good boy.”

After changing clothes, Lin Xi, who was heading to the main room, couldn’t help but think of III-9’s praise. His eyes felt watery.

Praise, it was a praise from him.

Sure enough, he could be very useful.

And III-9 was also willing to save him.

He thought about what happened moments ago, how III-9 stood in front of the group of corpses and whispered near his ear. His slightly cold breath brushed across Lin Xi’s ear, and Lin Xi felt his heart palpitate. This was something that had never happened to him before.

At that moment, he almost fell in love with III-9.

He would become stronger and stronger. If there came a day when he could finally stand alongside III-9——

Lin Xi was in a good mood when he returned to the main room, but after entering the door to the main room, Lin Xi’s smile froze.

Inside, the atmosphere was repressive, and the air was heavy. The other tourists’ faces were all extremely gloomy.

When Lin Xi entered, everyone looked at him with suspicion and fear. Zhao Hongtu even drew his bow and aimed an arrow at Lin Xi.

“Stop, don’t move.”

Lin Xi was very aware of what he should and should not do. He let Miao Fangfei put cinnabar on his face, enduring the urge to move away.

When the atmosphere in the room eased, he opened his mouth and asked, “What’s the matter?”

“Where did you go just now.”

Seeing Lin Xi’s face full of cinnabar and how there weren’t any changes to his body, Zhao Hongtu’s interrogating tone sounded much nicer to his ears.

“I went to see Brother 9.”

Lin Xi was frank. There was nothing to hide anyway.

“Alright, Little Zhao, it shouldn’t be Lin Xi.”

The fatty sighed and said, “I’ll ask Guide III later, and we’ll all know what happened. If he really went to look for Guide III, Lin Xi wouldn’t have had time to do this.”

“Hmph.”

Zhao Hongtu snorted coldly, but he put down his bow and arrow angrily. Since he had been interrogated as if he was a prisoner for such a long time, Lin Xi also grew impatient and had a nasty expression as he asked, “What’s the matter?”

“There are four extra corpses here.”

Xu Chen spoke with a bitter smile, but his words made Lin Xi’s hair stand up. “The way the coffins were arranged has been disrupted. There are 12 coffins now, and there are corpses in each coffin.”

“And the extra corpses that sprung out look exactly the same as the corpses that we handled previously.”

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