Chapter 14 Zombie

【One hour ago】

In the mountains,

Luo Di initially found the wooden box at the tree hole.

Because the locust trees in Ravenna were felled and the bodies were burned, the necromancy ritual was forced to stop.

Currently, bursts of roars are coming from deep within the tree hole.

Extending the camera along the tree hollow further in, you will reach a hidden cave where a coffin deep inside has been pushed open.

Then the camera returns to the entrance of the tree hole,

A withered, blackened hand with cracks on its surface emerged from the tree hole; clearly, ‘it’ was not yet complete.

Even its own consciousness was not fully restored because it failed to ‘absorb’ its blood relatives.

…

Inside Ravenna.

The crowd, who had been staring at the paper window for a long time, did not see any dark figure arrive, nor did they hear any footsteps.

Luo Di suddenly realized something.

He strode to his own backpack, hung the Machete, with its leather sheath and chain fastening, around his waist, and carried the silver chainsaw case in his right hand.

Even though he didn’t say anything, everyone followed suit and took out their self-defense items.

Gao Yuxuan only had one field knife.

Anna wanted to bring the entire backpack, but considering that the target had not yet appeared, running around with it would be a waste of energy, so she only brought the tactical hand axe.

As for Wu Wen,

She hasn’t taken out any self-defense tools since she came up the mountain. She is currently reaching into her backpack and searching for something, and has taken out something very long.

The cold light flickered.

Holding a modernly forged eight-sided Han sword in my hand, the overall style is mainly simple, straight lines, and rectangles.

The hilt is jet black, with vertical grooves outlining its design.

Extremely narrow diamond-shaped handguards

The scabbard is also black, and thanks to modern magnetic technology, it fits the handguard perfectly, creating a seamless look. At first glance, it looks like a black metal rod with a strong sense of line.

Everyone completed the basic protective gear and put on white masks.

There was no communication between the four people; everyone seemed to already know where they were going and what they were going to do.

After descending from the second floor of Ravenna, I walked along the corridor to the familiar backyard gate.

The stench remained, but this time the four of them seemed not to notice it and experienced no physical discomfort whatsoever.

Standing at the door, I looked into the backyard under the night sky with a flashlight. Everything seemed normal, just like before.

However, the felled locust trees lay among the carcasses of pigs and cattle, obstructing the view and making it impossible to see what lay behind the trunks.

Unlike the gentle patter of rain in the afternoon, which can mask a lot of ambient noise, the rain was much lighter late at night.

The tranquility allowed everyone to hear a faint, discordant sound coming from deep within the backyard, its source blocked by the fallen locust tree.

The squad leader quickly put her index finger up between her face masks, signaling everyone to follow her quietly.

They moved slowly through the viscous substance with almost silent footsteps.

No smells or sensations distracted their thoughts; everyone’s attention was focused behind the tree trunk and on the strange, discordant sound.

The closer they got, the clearer the sound became.

That was the sound of flesh and bone being torn apart and hard objects being chewed.

When the four of them arrived at the locust tree and reached out to peel away the branches that were blocking their view, they were all stunned, as if they had been given a critical condition notice by a doctor. They couldn’t believe what they were seeing.

Although everyone had more or less imagined similar scenes in their minds beforehand,

But when the real scene is presented to you, and you actually experience that ‘flavor,’ the impact is completely different.

The garment was made of black cloth, with octagonal buttons sewn along the center seam.

The head above the collar is that of the middle-aged man suffering from illness in the photo.

His face was covered with dark veins.

It was covered with granular pustules left over from illnesses sustained before death.

His cloudy, whitish eyes seemed to be blind to the world.

He just stood there, perfectly straight.

A horizontally outstretched arm held a rotting bull’s head stuck in front of it.

Teeth oozing black mist were frantically tearing and sucking at the filth between the bull’s heads, absorbing the remaining yin energy within.

The pig and cow carcasses around him were almost completely eaten, replenishing as much of the unfinished part of the ritual as possible.

Perhaps because the bull’s head in his hand was almost completely sucked clean,

Perhaps it was because the four of them were close together,

Snap!

The cow’s head, now just bones, fell to the ground.

With a powerful leap, his black cloth shoes, crunching through the mud, propelled him forward.

The body rotates by jumping.

His milky-white eyes were fixed on the fallen locust tree, as if he could see four pairs of young people spying on him through the gaps in the branches and leaves.

To be precise,

It must have sensed the scent of a living person that didn’t belong to livestock.

This thing doesn’t jump slowly like in typical zombie movies.

His feet gradually rose, touching the ground only with his toes, while his body maintained a 30° forward lean.

slide!

As if propelled by a malevolent aura, the toes of their shoes glided across the filthy backyard, quickly approaching the spy behind the tree.

【Viewpoint Switch】

When the zombie tilts its head

The four people who were spying knew they had been exposed.

They now need to make a decision in a short period of time.

To fight or to retreat?

Should we fight directly in the backyard, or choose another area?

However, they had already considered this problem when they went downstairs; running away or evacuating was impossible.

Now that the ritual has been interrupted, it’s the perfect time to kill this thing.

Delaying will only allow the zombie to become more and more perfect, and everyone will become more and more tired while hiding and running away.

certainly,

Zombies cannot stay in the backyard, the sacrificial site, where they have a natural advantage.

The open space in front of the gate, where the bodies had been burned before, was a very good combat zone.

“Walk!”

As the zombies chased after them, the four of them started running. The class monitor and Luo Di started at almost the same speed, Anna followed closely behind, and Gao Yuxuan lagged behind.

The squad leader was the first to cross the backyard covered in sticky substance. As he stepped onto Ravenna’s floor, preparing to pick up speed, he was surprised to find that Luo Di beside him was nowhere to be seen, seemingly having deliberately fallen to the back of the group.

Above her mask, her eyes showed no fear of being chased by zombies; instead, they held a kind of relieved smile.

The evacuation went relatively smoothly, as everyone was an athlete. Even Gao Yuxuan, the slowest of them all, could achieve a 100-meter time of 11.9 seconds, a speed that was enough to keep them from being caught by the zombies.

In front of Ravenna,

The pit where the bodies were cremated yesterday is now filled with rainwater, and a few charred black bones float on it.

When the zombie chased the group to this area, it also smelled the lingering scent of blood relatives in the air. Instinctively, it temporarily changed its target and came to the pit where bones were floating.

Just as he sensed that his blood relative’s body had been completely destroyed and could no longer be absorbed, a deafening roar, like that of a wild beast, came from his throat.

However, just as the zombies’ attention was diverted, someone from the four teams launched an attack.

A tactical axe, sharpened to a fine edge and engraved with the logo of a famous military and civilian industry, drew a perfect straight line in the air and cleaved vertically.

Click~

The axe landed on the zombie’s shoulder.

The sharp axe blade only penetrated to a depth of less than three centimeters.

Anna was so frightened by the hardness of the object that she couldn’t speak. It didn’t feel like she was being chopped into flesh at all, but rather like she was being struck by something somewhere between stone and metal. Her arm even went slightly numb from the recoil.

Whoosh!

Anna drew her axe, quickly created distance, and shouted:

“This thing is incredibly hard; it’s difficult to kill with conventional physical attacks. I’m going back to my bedroom to get something. You guys hold it off for now! I’ll be right back.”

Anna suddenly came up with a brilliant idea to deal with the zombies and ran back to Ravenna.

Although the slash just now did not damage the zombie’s essence, it still posed a considerable threat.

The zombie’s head immediately tilted in the direction Anna had left, but that direction was already blocked by another prey, and a series of booming sounds came at the same time.