Without a soul, one certainly can't be a ghost official, but the most important characteristic of a zombie is the absence of a soul. Why…
Feng Si had investigated Zhou Ze's situation. He originally thought Zhou Ze was an anomaly. At least, in his experience traveling between the realms of Yin and Yang, he had never seen a zombie with a soul before.
But now,
right in front of him,
he saw two!
This Mu Chengen, he was hiding deep.
Sixty years as a ghost official wasn’t unheard of, and could even be said to be not uncommon, but most were the type who knew how to protect themselves and muddle through, and had ways to avoid the Yin Sector's major inspection every ten years.
But the Mu Chengen before him was definitely different. This guy purely didn't want to be promoted. The reason he held the identity of a ghost official was probably just to cover himself and facilitate his actions.
He himself is a zombie,
and he raised so many zombies at his doorstep,
According to An Buqi's previous statement, he was also good at making and manipulating puppets.
This wasn't the look of a hooligan just muddling through the days!
He simply looked down on the Yin Sector's promotion channels,
didn’t even think about developing upwards,
and only wanted to guard his own little patch of land!
Zhou Ze slowly took a few steps forward,
two fangs gently touching the skin of his lower jaw,
slightly tilting his head,
looking at Mu Chengen in front of him.
Mu Chengen also slightly tilted his head,
looking at Zhou Ze in the same way.
The difference was,
Zhou Ze's eyes held a hint of doubt,
while Mu Chengen's mouth held a playful and cold smile, as he opened his mouth to say:
"Come, let's practice!"
Let's have a,
duel between zombies!
Zhou Ze raised his hand,
pointing at Mu Chengen,
but looked at Feng Si,
and said:
"What are you standing there for? Get him!"
"............" Mu Chengen.
Feng Si frowned slightly, this was completely treating him like An Buqi, issuing orders.
However, although he felt a little uncomfortable, Feng Si didn't show it.
Besides,
he came up this time,
specifically to resolve this matter.
Immediately,
Feng Si no longer hesitated,
the leather whip in his hand lashed out again,
this time the whip came more swiftly than before, and the contained gangqi (internal energy) was even stronger.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Even though Mu Chengen used his body to withstand a few blows,
he had to retreat each time, his figure staggering non-stop. Obviously, facing a Patrol Inspector's relentless offensive, it was difficult for him to continue to support himself.
Zhou Ze stood beside him, watching intently, and hadn't withdrawn from his zombie state.
Zombies don’t have souls.
Zhou Ze originally thought he was an exception, because he had Ying Gou in his body.
Then what was going on with this Mu Chengen?
And in this way,
the reason he schemed against him became logical.
A while ago, he walked with tens of thousands of military souls on the border for two days, which should have attracted Mu Chengen's attention. Putting himself in Mu Chengen’s shoes, if he had first discovered a zombie with a soul like himself,
he would probably also be thinking about plotting, and taking the other party into his hands to get to the bottom of things, right?
Understandable,
but unforgivable.
Mu Chengen's body, under Feng Si's repeated whip attacks, had already begun to show signs of cracking. If the one who came to take revenge this time was just Zhou Ze alone, or someone else, Mu Chengen wouldn't be without a chance to fight.
It was precisely because Zhou Ze also had Xu Qinglang, Lawyer An, and Bai Yingying by his side that Mu Chengen schemed behind the scenes, and didn't directly take action, because he knew that if he took action, his chances of winning weren't great!
At the same time, when the scheming failed, he immediately cut his losses, and had the local female ghost official, who was acting as his pawn, killed directly, hoping to silence her and not involve himself.
He knew his own business best,
he really couldn't stop Zhou Ze and the others' blatant revenge!
Who knew,
not only did this group of people find him,
they even summoned a Patrol Inspector from the Yin Sector to help!
Although Mu Chengen had been a ghost official all along, and even deliberately suppressed his performance points and slacked off, he had at least been in this position for sixty years, tens of times longer than Zhou Ze, and he was clear about some of the Yin Sector's tricks.
When did the Yin Sector's Patrol Inspectors, the Yin Sector's higher-ups,
become so approachable?
Summoned just by saying summon?
Feng Si didn't use any other moves at all, just whipped,
whipping horizontally,
whipping vertically,
whipping diagonally,
because that was enough,
with sufficient power to crush,
any changes or strategies were meaningless.
Mu Chengen's body already had many cuts, and the zombie's proud physical body was no longer as reliable as in the legends under the Patrol Inspector's might.
This made Xu Qinglang on the side watch with great satisfaction,
and at the same time, he was also thinking in his heart,
how strong Lawyer An, who had not been stripped of his official position and was once Feng Si's boss,
was at his peak.
Seeing that the time was almost right, and Mu Chengen had been whipped by him until his whole body was covered in black blood, Feng Si took a break and said to Xu Qinglang:
"Lend a hand!"
Feng Si knew how to deal with people, even Lawyer An said he was a smart person.
The cleverness of a smart person lies in the fact that he always knows how to do things. He knew that Zhou Ze had definitely been thinking about killing this person who schemed against him and ruined his vacation,
but now,
he definitely wanted to capture him alive.
Some things, he himself felt as curious as if a cat were scratching at his heart,
not to mention Zhou Ze, the person involved.
So he directly signaled Xu Qinglang, this Xuan cultivator, to come forward and help,
to suppress this Mu Chengen!
Xu Qinglang immediately took action, with talismans on his side and the copper coin sword in his hand.
Perhaps because of the conflict in power, he found it inconvenient to use the power of the Sea God when using Taoist techniques.
Because of this,
Xu Qinglang also had a great understanding of his "true level,"
and said directly:
"Lower his health bar a little more!"
Feng Si smiled when he heard this,
and continued to wield the whip.
From an outsider's point of view, Mu Chengen seemed to be standing there foolishly, enduring the whippings again and again, not even knowing how to dodge.
In reality, the feeling in the middle of it might only be clear to Mu Chengen himself,
it wasn't that he didn't want to dodge,
but the surrounding aura had been locked down by this Patrol Inspector,
he couldn't dodge at all,
and could only stand here passively, enduring the attacks from the other party again and again.
Even,
he didn't even have the ability to fight back!
Zhou Ze stood on the side, just staring coldly at Mu Chengen. He was waiting for Mu Chengen to be unable to hold on and be taken down, and then he wanted to get the information he wanted from Mu Chengen's mouth.
Zhou Ze wasn't surprised by Feng Si's methods. If a genuine Patrol Inspector couldn't even handle this kind of scene, he might as well find a piece of tofu and smash himself to death.
As for Mu Chengen's challenge just now,
was he stupid?
He had a free gold-medal Patrol Inspector as a fighter by his side,
he'd have to have water in his brain to go down personally!
…………
"Damn, it really stinks!"
Lawyer An covered his nose as soon as he entered the adobe house. It really stank, but there was no one in the main room.
Could it be that all six people lived in the bedroom inside?
As Lawyer An walked towards the bedroom, he saw Yingying looking a little dazed, and reminded her with a smile:
"It's okay, there's Feng Si outside, and besides, if that guy was really powerful, he wouldn't be hiding behind people to scheme, he's just not strong enough, can't beat them, so he cowers behind and kills people to silence them.
Besides, if it was something else, you could worry, but
running into zombies,
isn't that exactly Boss's specialty?
Have you forgotten how Boss used to 'insert' you until you cried waaaah?"
Hearing Lawyer An's words, Yingying felt relieved.
Lawyer An reached out and pushed open the bedroom door,
and was immediately shocked by the scene inside.
Yingying walked over and looked inside, and was also stunned.
In the bedroom,
there was no bed,
only six stone slabs,
and next to the stone slabs were placed candles, and some arrangements that were obviously arrays.
Six people were lying on the stone slabs, all of them very old.
This was also natural,
Mu Chengen had been a ghost official for sixty years,
how could he be a ghost official if people didn't die?
So, his children must be over sixty years old.
Otherwise, there would be the joke of "my grandfather was cruelly killed by the Japanese army when he was seven years old."
The oldest among them, one male and one female, should be Mu Chengen's children, and the four slightly younger ones next to them were also middle-aged, and should be Mu Chengen's grandchildren.
There was no medical equipment in the bedroom,
other than the stink,
it was very quiet.
The six people lying on the stone slabs,
all had a hole the size of a fingernail dug into their foreheads,
and above each person's forehead,
there was also a groove, with a needle pointing directly at the hole on the forehead,
and from time to time, blood beads slowly dripped down, seeping into that hole.
"This is fucking cruel, they're raising corpses!"
Lawyer An sighed.
This was really cruel. People who knew this method usually used it on their enemies.
Because even if the person didn't die, being like this was equivalent to enduring torture every day, living worse than death!
And they just couldn't die!
Lawyer An didn't believe that Mu Chengen didn't know this, but he still did it. He should be forcibly extending the lives of his children and grandchildren, so that they would continue to stay by his side, so that he wouldn't be a lonely person.
This was really selfish, and he was so cruel to his children and descendants.
But what to do next?
They had all become half-human and half-corpse, how could they be tortured?
Even if they were killed, it would actually be relieving their pain. The person might even kowtow to thank him from beyond the grave,
damn it,
how could he complete Boss's mission?
"Lawyer, look here!"
Yingying pointed to the top of the door frame.
Lawyer An turned his head and looked,
and found a painting hanging there,
a framed huge painting,
almost occupying a third of the wall,
in the painting,
was a sea of corpses and blood,
with a throne made of white bones,
the person on the throne looked gloomy,
because it was painted very realistically, you could still feel the anger, unwillingness, and other emotions of that person,
and next to the white bone throne,
sat a man wearing a robe,
a small table was placed in front of the man,
with water, wine, and small dishes on the table,
the man was holding a cup in one hand,
looking at the man on the throne with a complacent smile,
his eyes were unrestrained,
an unspeakable smugness, and faintly, you could also feel a sense of contempt coming from the man.
Lawyer An swallowed,
seeming to find the information in this painting a little hard to digest.
Yingying pointed to the one on the white bone throne,
and said softly:
"Is this... that one?
It seems I can feel it,
he,
he is very angry."