Zhoujia Village is a very remote village in the Yuan Dynasty. It is located between the Mandala and Bianzhou City, and is located in a depression deep in the mountains.
Many of the villagers in Zhoujia Village are related by direct relatives, and most of the villagers have the surname Zhou. In the past, the old people in the village often said that Zhoujia Village has good feng shui because it is surrounded by mountains and there is a river outside the mountains. It is a typical purple air coming from the east. The hidden dragon is in the land of the abyss. In such a place, an emperor will appear in the future.
Shuanzi didn't know whether there was an emperor in Zhoujia Village. Shuanzi only knew that the village he was in was a famous bachelor village. Many adults in the village were bachelors. They had mentioned more than once that they wanted to leave here. , go to live in the city.
Whether it is the four mountains or the winding and rugged mountain road, which is like chicken intestines, they have trapped the villagers and their thoughts.
Because of the inconvenient mountain roads, the place has become very poor. In addition, the village's deep-rooted preference for boys over girls has created a tragic situation where hundreds of villagers in Zhoujia Village are unable to find wives.
It was late at night, and Shuanzi, who was only ten years old, was watching helplessly as the adults dug trenches outside the village overnight.
It was a huge trench that surrounded the entire village. Above the trench, every three meters, there was a burning torch, shining brightly around the entire village.
The incident happened five days ago. Butcher Zheng, who sold pork in the village, was found tragically dead at home. The cause of death was unknown. His relatives were crying and preparing to take care of his funeral, but Butcher Zheng died in full view of the public. Resurrection, then bite like crazy.
At that time, Butcher Zheng was so powerful that even the strong young men in the village could not hurt him with kitchen knives or axes. Finally, the knowledgeable village chief came up with a solution and asked the villagers to throw him with the little glutinous rice left at home.
Strangely enough, after being hit by ordinary glutinous rice, Butcher Zheng, who was invulnerable, immediately began to "sizzle" and emit black smoke, and not long after, he turned into a pile of black smoke amid extremely miserable screams. Scumbag.
The village chief said that Butcher Zheng had turned into a zombie. Shuanzi didn't know what a zombie was. He only heard that it was something that changed after death and could eat people.
Ten-year-old Shuan Zi found out that instead of being afraid, he eagerly looked forward to it every day, hoping that the mother-in-law who was beaten to death by his father would turn into a zombie and crawl out of the soil so that he could hug her like he did when he was a child. Hug her, even if she bites him to death.
After Butcher Zheng's strange incident ended, the village was completely in chaos.
First, villagers disappeared one after another, and then the sky never lit up again.
During the day, no matter in the morning or afternoon, the sky is always dark, like late night.
And it's still the kind of late night without stars, dark clouds, or moon. It's pure blackness, giving people the ultimate depression and despair.
Over time, Shuanzi felt that he had almost forgotten the color of sunlight.
"Shuanzi, help me dig two shovels. Let me rest for a while. Don't be afraid. The zombies won't dare to eat you if there are torches shining on you."
The boy responded dully, took the shovel and went down the trench.
In the past two days, almost all the firewood and trees in the village were used to make torches to defend against zombies. The adults worked day and night to dig trenches around the village for secondary defense. .
Zombies are afraid of glutinous rice, but Zhoujia Village is very poor, and everyone is not rich, so naturally there is very little glutinous rice. Zombies are also afraid of fire, so they use firewood as torches, surround the village, and let it burn all the time. At the same time, trenches were dug overnight to prevent the village from having something to defend themselves after the firewood was burned out, in order to delay time and wait for the Quanzhen Immortal to save them.
But unfortunately, on the fifth day, there was no news from the adults who went to the city to ask for help from the immortals, and no one came back.
Yesterday, the tailor in the village secretly told people that when he was digging a trench next to the torch, he saw a zombie. That zombie was the four old men who went outside to report for help!
He said it was very scary, saying that at that time, the fourth old man's body was hidden in the darkness, and his wrinkled old face was dimly illuminated by the firelight. Then he looked at him with empty eye sockets without eyeballs, as if asking: Why? He forced himself, a helpless old farmer with both his son and daughter to die, to report the news.
Why not someone else?
Why not you!
Is it just because I have a foreign surname?
The people who went out to rescue them all turned into zombies, which made every adult in the village worried. There were more and more comments. Shuanzi often heard some comments. After all, he was still a child and there was no one. Avoid him.
The most talked about thing he heard from others in the past two days was that the village where he grew up was not a blessed place where dragons lurk in the abyss.
Rather, it is a downright dangerous place!
As for the so-called surrounded by mountains and water outside the mountains, this terrain is simply a natural coffin!
At this time, outside the village, under the light of a three-meter-long torch, Shuan Zi jumped into the trench with a shovel taller than himself and dug hard.
At this moment, there were other villagers in the trench struggling to shovel. They had no expression after seeing the bolt jump down. They looked a little dull and dug their own sluggishly, as if they were not digging to trap zombies. trench, but his own grave.
Shuanzi was young, and he became very tired after digging for a while. His mouth began to feel dry, and he was about to crawl out to find some water to drink. But as soon as he climbed out of the trench, he saw something appearing in the darkness in the distance. A few slightly blurry figures.
The ten-year-old man was lying on the edge of the ditch, sticking his little head out of the ditch and looking at the figure curiously.
He wasn't worried about zombies. After all, there were burning torches behind him, and zombies didn't dare to get close.
Soon, the figure came closer, and a clear voice came.
"I will never buy a carriage again. It's too inconvenient to climb mountains."
Lin Xiaolu, who was sitting on the front shaft of the carriage, complained to Jiang Ning, who was driving the horse next to him:
"When I was carrying the carriage up the mountain, this horse was so happy that it walked in front of me, facing me with its butt the whole time, and turning its head to look at me jokingly from time to time. I saw something in its eyes. .”
"What are you talking about?" Jiang Ning asked lightly.
"Son, you have today too."
"Pfft~"
Jiang Ning covered her mouth and laughed so hard that her flowers trembled, and then she gave this guy an angry look:
"Okay, you've been complaining all the way, isn't this the end of it?"
She shook the reins in her hands, pursed her lips, let out a long "oh~" and then shouted softly into the carriage: "Shangguan Wugu, we are here."
The carriage stopped in front of the ditch. Lin Xiaolu, who was sitting on the front shaft, jumped down with his short legs and then looked at the strange village in front of him.
The long array of torches illuminated the equally long and narrow trench in front of him orange. Many villagers who were digging trenches poked their heads out of the trench, looking at him in horror, confusion, or excitement.
The young man also glanced at them a few times, then put his hands on his hips and hummed:
"What? Now that the eldest brother can't come out, why don't you let the younger one come up? Let your eldest brother come out!"
