Chapter 157 - 94: Corpse Love
THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP...
Just as Lin Yi’s mind was racing.
A flurry of hurried, chaotic footsteps approached from a distance.
It was Principal Chen Zhenguo and the teachers from Yang City No. 1 High School.
They had finally followed the terrifying trail of destruction left by the Corpse General through the mountain forest.
They had tracked it down, their hearts pounding in terror the whole way!
Their panicked voices arrived before they did:
"Lin Yi! Luo Qian! Where are you?"
"Hurry! The sound is just ahead! Faster!"
"Be careful! That Corpse General is incredibly savage! Prepare for battle!"
"You have to hold on!"
However.
When Chen Zhenguo and the teachers burst through the last thicket of bushes like arrows loosed from a bow and saw the scene before them—
They all froze in place as if struck by a Body Fixation Skill, instantly petrified. Their jaws dropped, and their eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets!
There stood Lin Yi, spear in hand. Though his clothes were a bit disheveled and his breathing was slightly ragged, he had no obvious major injuries and was looking at them with a calm expression.
But what was even more jaw-dropping was...
The Fifth-Grade Corpse General that had left them helpless, the one they had barely managed to injure at a terrible cost before it escaped...
Was now lying motionless off to the side...
’Is it dead?’
Chen Zhenguo and all the teachers’ minds went blank. They almost suspected they were experiencing a group hallucination or had stumbled into some bizarre Illusion Realm.
They had risked life and limb to track it down, only to find that not only were the two students fine, but they had... killed the Corpse General?
Chen Zhenguo was the first to snap out of it.
He staggered forward a few steps, his voice trembling violently with utter shock and disbelief, his eyes locked on Lin Yi.
"Lin... Lin Yi! This... this Corpse General... did... did you kill it?!"
He could barely bring himself to ask the question, because it completely defied all logic!
A First-Grade Martial Artist, single-handedly killing a Fifth-Grade Corpse General?
That was the stuff of legends!
Lin Yi quickly rushed toward Chen Zhenguo and the others, shouting, "Principal, don’t come any closer!"
He blocked their path.
𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
Because he had keenly noticed that when Chen Zhenguo and the others appeared, the previously docile Corpse General had started to emit a low, threatening sound.
Like a dog guarding its food!
"The Corpse General is still alive?"
Chen Zhenguo and the teachers reacted as if facing a great enemy, the hair on their bodies standing on end.
Their nerves, which had just begun to relax, instantly tensed to the breaking point!
SHIING! SHIING! SHIING! SHIING!
A series of ear-piercing screeches of metal against metal rang out as all the teachers instinctively drew their respective Weapons. The glint of blades and swords flashed, their Qi and Blood surged in an instant, and they pointed them warily toward the source of the sound!
However.
When their nervous gazes followed the sound and they saw the situation with the Corpse General and Luo Qian.
"Uh..."
"This... this is..."
Everyone’s face showed the exact same expression Lin Yi had worn earlier—a mixture of extreme shock, bewilderment, and absurdity.
This scene was a hundred times more bizarre than seeing the Corpse General dead!
"Luo... Luo Qian?! What... what in the world is going on?!"
Chen Zhenguo’s voice cracked.
The bizarre scene before him, so far beyond imagination, had completely overturned his understanding of the world.
Lin Yi reacted quickly and explained what had just happened. Of course, he omitted the part about his own heart-fire Spiritual Essence erupting, saying only that the zombie seemed to have a special fondness for Luo Qian.
Chen Zhenguo listened with a bewildered expression. He muttered to himself, his gaze as sharp as a blade:
"The filthy thing inside Luo Qian’s body has such a bizarre and powerful attraction to zombies? It can even make this violent Fifth-Grade Corpse General... act like this?"
This was simply unheard of!
He tightened his grip on the long saber in his hand. The abundant Qi and Blood of a Fourth-Grade Martial Artist faintly pulsed within him as he cautiously approached the Corpse General, which was still prostrate on the ground and emitting low warning growls.
The Corpse General’s crimson eyes stared intently at the approaching Chen Zhenguo. A more menacing growl rumbled in its throat, and its massive body arched slightly, exuding a dangerous aura.
But it didn’t initiate an attack. It only pressed down more tightly on Luo Qian, as if he were its most precious treasure.
"Hmph! No matter how docile this thing looks now, it’s ultimately an evil, undead creature and extremely dangerous! Leaving it alive will only cause endless trouble! I’ll cut it down now to eliminate the threat!"
Chen Zhenguo’s eyes were icy as he snorted, his killing intent palpable.
A cold light flickered on the edge of his blade; he had clearly decided to kill it.
"No! Principal!! Spare it!!"
Hearing this, Luo Qian, who was being crushed to the point of suffocation, panicked. He started howling at the top of his lungs, his voice distorted:
"Nobody touches my baby! I’m the man destined to become a great summoner! Don’t you get it? Once I tame my Pokémon, with this Fifth-Grade undead as my personal bodyguard, hmph, a Fourth-Grade Martial Artist like you, Principal, will be nothing but a scrub I can one-punch! Do you understand its strategic value?!"
"A scrub? One-punch?" Chen Zhenguo was so incensed by the little rascal’s words that he almost laughed, his mustache bristling. "Good! Very good! You’ve got a lot of nerve, Luo Qian!"
Laughing from sheer rage, he suddenly shot forward, closing the distance to the Corpse General. Under everyone’s nervous gaze, he didn’t swing his saber. Instead...
THUD! THUD!
He lifted his foot, clad in a heavy-soled combat boot, and viciously kicked the Corpse General’s iron-hard black body twice!
The kicks were powerful, producing dull thuds.
Another jaw-dropping scene unfolded!
After being hit, the Corpse General only let out a more furious low roar. Its crimson eyes glared daggers at Chen Zhenguo and its massive body twitched slightly, but it still didn’t lash out in retaliation!
It was still stubbornly guarding Luo Qian.
It was as if, so long as no one tried to take Luo Qian away or threatened its life, it couldn’t care less about anything else around it.