touchnovel Chapter 91 The Brute Who Doesn't Eat Garlic
Chapter 91 The Brute Who Doesn't Eat Garlic
Chapter 91 The Brute Who Doesn't Eat Garlic
After bidding farewell to Fang Gu, Zhang Xiaohou and his group left Yangyang Village, preparing to continue their journey to the next dangerous village.
Next stop, Hwachon.
The distance from Yangyang Village to Hua Village is about two days' journey, even if the mages travel at full speed. This means that Zhang Xiaohou and the others will have to spend at least one night in the undead zone.
Having experienced the battle with the undead, these elite military mages have lost their initial arrogance.
Let alone one night, in just over an hour, one of them died and another was seriously injured.
If it were a few hours longer, who knows how many people would be left in the line.
Team leader Qin Hu had no choice but to seek help from village chief Fang Gu, hoping to use the village's secrets to escape the pursuit of the undead.
Little did he know that the Kun Well, which had been used to shelter everyone in the village, was long gone. Even the villagers themselves couldn't do anything about it, so how could he possibly help them?
Besides, even if they did have such a thing, let alone now, the villagers would never share it.
However, the village chief Fang Gu still gave everyone something called gray garlic.
Where the dead roam, there will always be an aura of death; the breath they exhale is also an aura of death.
Living people cannot do this, so although the dead have no eyes, they can accurately track down their prey by sensing differences in their aura.
Gray garlic is extremely unpalatable; eating it will make you vomit a foul odor.
To exaggerate a bit, even the dead would think that your bad breath is somewhat like that of one of their companions.
After receiving the grey garlic, the group remained skeptical until nightfall.
The sky here still darkens so quickly!
It happened so fast that no one had time to react.
Only when the spirits broke through the earth, carrying a stench and uttering indistinct syllables, could people truly feel that night had fallen.
The eight officers ate the gray garlic together, then turned into statues, too afraid to move, and even their breathing temporarily stopped.
A minute later, a female officer could no longer hold her breath and exhaled. However, the wandering spirits around her seemed not to have sensed her presence as a living person and continued to aimlessly search for food for the day.
Seeing this, everyone finally relaxed.
The village chief wasn't lying to them; the grey garlic really works!
However, just as they were secretly rejoicing, the undead suddenly became restless.
"Ugh~~~"
Amidst roars, the weakest yet most numerous group of undead creatures, the rotting corpses, swarmed forward, charging towards the officers' rear.
Hidden among the army of rotting corpses are a few skeleton soldiers with considerable fighting power.
"What's going on?" Wang Tong, who served as a scout alongside Zhang Xiaohou, exclaimed in surprise.
Their luck wasn't very good. Yesterday they had already entered a place filled with death energy, and today they accidentally stepped into a place with even more death energy.
As they watched the growing number of undead around them, everyone felt a chill run down their spines.
If that were heading towards them, there probably wouldn't be many people left in the group.
"Mind control".
"Retreat!"
A human voice, speaking clearly, rang out.
It's such a comforting thing to hear such a clear voice in the land of the dead.
As the voice faded, a flash of silver light streaked across the center of the gathering of the dead, and then all the dead who had rushed forward the fastest were sent flying backward at the same time.
"Captain, there seems to be someone over there!" said the female staff officer in the team.
Qin Hu naturally noticed the person as well, but as the team leader, he had to consider the safety of the team at all times. So, he did not order everyone to help the person who suddenly appeared, but simply watched quietly from the side.
The man didn't seem to need anyone's help; he didn't utter a single cry for help throughout the entire ordeal.
"Spatial Rhythm. Compression!"
A beam of silver light swept out, and in an instant, all the undead within a radius of a hundred meters vanished, as if they had never existed.
Amidst powerful spatial fluctuations, silver hair danced in the air.
Only after the surroundings returned to silence did the young man slowly turn around and approach the crowd.
Her long silver hair stood out even more against the dark sky.
When Zhang Xiaohou saw this, his eyes widened in surprise.
Sure enough, it was him!
"Who are you?" Captain Qin Hu looked at the newcomer with great vigilance.
He hadn't forgotten that back in Yangyang Village, the old man on night watch had mentioned a silver-haired man in his group.
Upon seeing this person, Qin Hu naturally became wary.
He had been following at the back of his group for a while, and he had no idea what the young man in front of him was up to.
Are they friends?
Or the enemy?
If it were the latter, Qin Hu knew that he and his men would most likely perish here.
"Excuse me, wait a minute, I can't hold it in any longer." The young man smiled slightly.
After saying that, he let out a long breath.
In an instant, another group of undead gathered around.
Even if they see that the human in front of them has just killed their companion with a single move, they will still rush forward without hesitation.
This is the difference between the dead and demons. They do not understand pain or fear. They only know how to find prey, kill it, and then take their spoils back for a feast.
Therefore, their combat power is far stronger than that of other creatures of the same level.
The young man casually waved his hand, silencing the surrounding noise once again.
"Well"
Wang Tong watched this scene speechlessly, unsure of what to say.
Could this young man, who looks even younger than him, really be planning to force his way into the Land of the Dead?
What a brute!
"Hua Yu?" Zhang Xiaohou called out tentatively.
Although the two were competing for the same spot representing the Southern Military Region, they didn't interact much. Zhang Xiaohou didn't know if Hua Yu would remember him, the one who made it to the second round.
"Hmm? Zhang Xiaohou."
Hua Yu seemed to only just notice Zhang Xiaohou, a hint of surprise on her face, as if asking, "Why are you here too?"
Seeing that Hua Yu still remembered him, Zhang Xiaohou was secretly pleased and wanted to say something, but as a military strategist, keeping the details of the mission he participated in strictly confidential was the most basic thing he could do, so he smiled helplessly at Hua Yu.
However, he still introduced Huayu to his teammates.
Zhang Xiaohou was quite tactful; he only mentioned that Hua Yu had participated in the military region's competition, without revealing Hua Yu's final ranking.
After hearing that Hua Yu had participated in the military region's competition, Captain Qin Hu and the female staff officer's hostility towards Hua Yu lessened considerably.
After all, those who can participate in the military region's competition must have some background issues, otherwise, those bigwigs in the military region wouldn't be blind, so why would they let them participate in such an important competition?
"Brother Hua, what brings you with you all this way?"
(End of this chapter)