The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#604 - Zombie

Yu Zhen, hearing the commotion, was wondering whether to approach and take a look when she saw the house in the small courtyard suddenly collapse.

In the moment before it collapsed, a figure leaped out of the courtyard. It was none other than Lu Jing, and he was carrying another person in his hand.

The person looked very weak, with a pale face and chapped lips, appearing to be on their last breath.

After Lu Jing came out, he saw Yu Zhen and said to her, "Do you have any water on you?"

Yu Zhen nodded, took off the water skin from her waist, and handed it over.

Lu Jing opened the water skin and brought it to the person's lips. The person had initially kept their mouth tightly shut, but upon seeing the water, they immediately opened their mouth and lunged at the water skin like a ravenous dog.

Seeing this, Yu Zhen couldn't help but take two steps back, but Lu Jing said to her, "Don't be afraid, he is a normal person."

"How can you be sure?"

"I said it before, didn't I? Those people are surrounding this place waiting for a meal, and the meal they are waiting for is him."

Hearing this, Yu Zhen breathed a slight sigh of relief, but then frowned and said, "What exactly is going on with those people?"

"They were all harmed by that evil Taoist." The person gulped down the water in the water skin, finally regaining some strength. Hearing Yu Zhen's question, they opened their mouth and spoke.

"Evil Taoist, are you talking about Jin Guang Zhenren? Then who are you?"

"My name is Jiang Sheng. I was originally a wandering hero, relying on some martial arts skills to help out wherever I could. I lived a relatively happy life before encountering that evil Taoist."

Yu Zhen was waiting for Jiang Sheng to continue, but she didn't expect the latter to suddenly close his mouth and look at her and Lu Jing with longing.

"What do you want now?"

"Thank you both for your righteousness, for saving me from the hands of those living corpses and giving me water to drink. Um... could you trouble yourselves to find me some food? I am really too hungry. I haven't eaten anything for seven or eight days, and I don't even have the strength to speak."

Seeing Lu Jing look over, Yu Zhen shook her head and said, "Don't look at me. It's not like I'm going on a long trip. Carrying a water skin is already the limit. It's impossible for me to carry dry rations."

Jiang Sheng was very disappointed upon hearing this.

But then he heard Lu Jing say, "Wait for me for a while."

After saying that, Lu Jing used his lightness skill and ran into the forest again. After a while, when he came out, he was holding two sparrows with their necks broken.

Lu Jing originally planned to start a fire and roast the sparrows slightly, but he didn't expect Jiang Sheng to light up at the sight of food. He wasn't willing to wait even a moment and grabbed the raw sparrows from Lu Jing's hand, stuffing them into his mouth.

Yu Zhen almost threw up at the sight.

But Jiang Sheng had an expression of savoring a delicacy, not even letting go of the bones, crunching them up and swallowing them all into his stomach.

After eating, he still said with lingering desire, "Is there any more?"

"There isn't any more," Lu Jing said. "These are to fill your stomach. You can only have food after answering the questions."

Perhaps it was because the water and sparrow meat had restored some of his strength, or perhaps it was because he had also noticed the corpses lying scattered on the hillside, making Jiang Sheng realize that the two people in front of him were not people he could afford to offend.

So he didn't make any more demands and nodded, saying, "If there is anything you want to ask, my two benefactors, please feel free to ask. I will definitely tell you everything I know."

"What did you call those people just now, living corpses?" Yu Zhen asked first.

"No," Lu Jing said.

Jiang Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good." Then a look of shock appeared on his face, "Are there only two of you? There are so many living corpses outside, how did you kill them all?"

However, after hearing Jiang Sheng's words, Yu Zhen thought of another question. Before entering the forest, Lu Jing gave her clothes and asked her to wrap her hands and feet, and told her to be sure not to be injured by the things in the forest, which coincided with what Jiang Sheng was saying now.

Could it be that Lu Jing had seen those living corpses before today? But Yu Zhen saw that Lu Jing was listening attentively at this moment, which made her somewhat unable to see through the man in front of her for a while.

Lu Jing didn't notice Yu Zhen's little actions and asked Jiang Sheng, "What is your relationship with Taoist Jin Guang? Why do you know so much?"

"I was considered a thug he hired, helping him deal with some shady things," Jiang Sheng said. "But later, he found someone even more powerful and planned to kill me to silence me, but before he could do anything, that incident happened."

"What incident?"

"The evil Taoist Jin Guang relies on reviving the dead to deceive people, but he knows the power of those living corpses, so within three days, he must find a way to eliminate that living corpse. It's just that this time, a living corpse suddenly appeared from somewhere, and it was too late when the evil Taoist Jin Guang discovered it.

"That living corpse had already bitten many people, and those people also turned into living corpses. Even the evil Taoist Jin Guang was not spared. I personally saw him have his throat bitten off by a living corpse."

Recalling the scene from before, Jiang Sheng also showed a look of unbearable pain.

"It was a chaotic scene at that time, everyone was running for their lives, but the road out of the quarry was blocked by living corpses, so everyone could only escape into the mountains. I know there is a small courtyard here, left behind by some hermit who lived here before. There is a quiet room in the courtyard, without windows, only a stone door, which is very strong, so I desperately ran here.

"Some people saw me running here, so they ran after me as well, but they didn't know the way as well as I did, so I arrived first in the end. I don't know if any of them had been bitten or scratched by living corpses, so after coming here, I went straight into the quiet room and closed the door."

Speaking of this, Jiang Sheng looked at Lu Jing with a hint of awe, "That quiet room helped me resist the living corpses. To be honest, I didn't expect that someone could break open that stone door from the outside."