Chapter 80: Deep in the Cemetery

*: "Comrades, it's the last day of the first cycle."

*: "Yes, I have completed my mission, hahaha."

*: "I lie down..."

*: "Actually, I miss my old home. It would be great if I could go back."

*: "Who said it wasn't."

Because it is the last day of the first cycle of the game, the chat channel has become lively.

Players are talking about their own tasks and speculating about what will happen next.

Of course, the most talked about is the choice of camp.

After 15 days of living in a different world, players still prefer the lawful camp.

But this is limited to the players who speak.

The sun gradually sets in the west, and a bright moon is looming in the blue-purple sky.

Li Feng wanders aimlessly in the deserted streets of the outer city of Fengxi City.

Now people from all districts of Fengxi City are flocking to the inner city.

Because tonight, Governor Ponros Fell will hold a grand celebration dinner for the people.

It is said that this is the proposal of the chief councilor, and in terms of funds, the wealthy chief councilor has also contributed a lot.

Of course, he did all this not because he was generous, but for Jory Fell.

Because Jory Fell killed the little boy who was possessed by the devil, and the mice disappeared inexplicably afterwards, the chief councillor packaged Jory as a hero who repelled the devil and saved the people.

And the suggestion to hold a celebration banquet was also to strengthen Jory's heroic image among the people.

But his intention was far from the common people.

When a governor decided to hold a celebration banquet for one of his descendants, it did not mean that everyone would eat and drink together.

This was a signal to the king and the county officials that his descendant was very likely to become his heir.

Especially under the premise that Governor Fell had not yet determined the heir.

So the chief councillor who supported Jory would vigorously promote this matter.

As for the governor, he was already satisfied with his son, and now that someone was willing to pay, he was of course happy to do so.

As the night fell, the inner city was already decorated with lights and colors.

And it was said that there would be a grand fireworks show at 12 o'clock tonight.

But Li Feng was really not interested in these.

The flint had not yet been completely fused, and the demon left behind a bunch of mysteries, and there was still Faranil to continue investigating. Li Feng, who was walking alone on the deserted street, was thinking about these.

"Meow."

In the dim night, a black cat suddenly appeared at the end of the path.

Seeing it, Li Feng stopped for a moment, then walked over quickly. He now wanted to talk to Xia and ask her if she knew about Wood County.

"Meow."

The black cat also walked towards Li Feng, but as he walked, Li Feng felt that it seemed wrong.

Its movements were extremely stiff and crooked, and it didn't look like a cat at all.

And at the same time, Li Feng smelled a smell, which was the same smell as the first mate's death.

Stopping suddenly, Li Feng put his hand on the flint.

Sure enough, in the black cat's swaying figure, Li Feng saw that on one side of its body, there were hideous and terrifying mouse heads.

This cat is not Xia, but it is not an ordinary cat either. It has been affected by the demon and mutated.

Seeing this, Li Feng pulled out his gun and shot at the black cat without saying a word.

"Bang!"

The bullet hit the black cat's vitals, and the black cat fell to the ground and stopped moving.

Li Feng walked up cautiously, wanting to check.

But when he was still five or six steps away from the black cat, the black cat suddenly moved on its own.

"Ka Ka Ka."

With a spasm of the black cat's whole body and the strange sound of its bones, the dead black cat stood up again.

But the suddenly "resurrected" black cat did not continue to attack Li Feng. It seemed to be summoned by something, turned around and ran straight to the back.

Looking at the pool of blood left by the black cat on the ground, and its extremely uncoordinated but extremely fast figure, something exploded in Li Feng's memory.

Could it be a zombie?

How could it be possible in this world?

Without thinking too much, Li Feng continued to search on the quiet and deserted streets.

At the entrance of the sewer, in the dark narrow alley, he did not find any mutated creatures, but similarly, he did not find any creatures.

The sanitation in the outer city has always been poor, and rats, wild cats, and wild dogs can be seen everywhere.

They are an important part of the densely populated outer city and the streets of the dock area.

But now, as the officials of Fengxi Fort said, the mutated rats have disappeared, but the normal rats have also disappeared, the wild cats have also disappeared, and the wild dogs have also disappeared.

It is as clean as the Governor's Avenue in the inner city.

However, how can sewers with completely different drainage volumes and completely different sanitation work create completely the same clean streets?

But that's the fact.

A bad idea appeared in Li Feng's mind, and he immediately released a golden dandelion to convey the message to the red kestrel.

Recalling the black cat that came back to life, its subsequent actions seemed to be summoned by someone.

If someone really summoned it, it would most likely be a demon.

After delivering the message to the red kestrel, Li Feng investigated along the direction the black cat left.

The streets were still abnormally clean.

Li Feng occasionally encountered a few people rushing to the inner city, where a grand banquet was being held, with a rare parade of floats and a free dinner provided by Fengxi Castle.

After checking the water inlet of another sewer, Li Feng found some small footprints with silt.

The footprints looked like rats, pointing to the west of the city.

Li Feng continued to walk westward following the footprints. He did not walk fast because he was not sure what was ahead. He could only investigate while waiting for support from Baifeng Manor.

As he went west, the road became more and more desolate, and there were fewer and fewer houses on both sides. Unknowingly, he had arrived at the cemetery of Fengxi City.

Although the land in this world is mainly islands, the land area is not rich.

But even so, the governments of each island still clearly stipulate in law that the local dead must be buried in the ground and must not be buried at sea.

Because no matter in history or folk legends, there have been some cases where the dead were thrown into the sea, and then transformed into monsters by the unknown in the sea, and the monsters returned to their hometowns based on their memories before they died and harmed the countryside.

Therefore, under the introduction of this law, each city on the island will divide a separate area as a cemetery for the residents of this city.

In order to avoid strange things from happening, the cemetery will be patrolled by the city government and the extraordinary people of the Ring of the Earth every once in a while.

Looking at the cemetery in front of him, Li Feng remembered that he had been here before, because the first mate was buried in this cemetery.

Pausing, Li Feng stopped moving forward. He took out another golden dandelion and passed the message to the red falcon.

The wind blew, carrying the golden dandelion far in the air, and also brought a bad stench.

Just like the stench of the black cat after the death of the first mate.

Alert in his heart, Li Feng looked in the direction of the stench, and he saw a pile of black things at the entrance of the cemetery.

Feeling something was wrong, Li Feng immediately walked up cautiously. He saw that the pile of black things turned out to be the bodies of mice after mutation.

In the past few days, the soldiers of Fengxi Castle sent all the mice they caught and killed to the cemetery.

Originally, they planned to bury them, but Bishop Frey was afraid of changes, so he suggested burning them with fire immediately to purify them.

But this thing is too smelly, and it stinks even more when it burns. When the wind blows, the whole Fengxi City is filled with stench.

The surrounding residents have complaints, and the noble knights who are temporarily living in the outer city closer to here have more complaints, so the people guarding the cemetery can only burn it in small batches.

It doesn't matter if you smell the stench for a few more days, as long as the higher-ups don't get angry. After all, this is about a stable job.

But the compromised plan was suspended yesterday and today.

The reason is simple, just because the governor is going to hold a banquet, and the envoys of the kingdom, representatives of various noble families, and ambassadors from other islands are all coming.

If the important people are all here, then if they smell the stench, wouldn't it be a loss of face for the governor.

So the chief councilor ordered that everything that affects the successful holding of the banquet will be suspended, even if it is related to demons.

After all, the mutated rats are dead, so what else can be done.

The above thought so, but Li Feng didn't think so now. Since he saw the mutated cat resurrected after death, then the mutated mouse...

Gugu

As if to respond to Li Feng's thoughts, something suddenly moved in the pile of mouse corpses.

A chill climbed up Li Feng's back. There was no time.

There was a gravekeeper's hut at the entrance of the cemetery. Li Feng ran in as fast as he could.

Strangely, the gravekeeper was not there.

But it should be for boiling water. The charcoal fire in the stove in the hut was still slightly sparking.

Li Feng immediately pulled the sheet on the gravekeeper's bed and threw it into the stove. When it met the flammable cotton cloth, the sparks instantly became flames.

After that, Li Feng ignited the firewood piled in the corner of the house, and when the firewood burned, he threw it to the pile of mice outside.

Night had fallen, the grand celebration banquet in the inner city had begun, and the flames burning the mouse corpses in the outer city were also burning.

The stench that could almost make people lose their minds came to their faces. Li Feng tore off the bottom of his shirt and covered his nose with it while continuing to throw burning firewood.

There were too many rat corpses and there was no fuel to burn, so the flames spread too slowly.

Li Feng had already seen some resurrected rats running to the depths of the cemetery.

He didn't know what was in the depths of the cemetery, but Li Feng was surprised to find what was under his feet.

As the flames burned, several places on the ground in the cemetery broke open automatically.

One by one, the terrifying rats that had been resurrected came out from inside, and as soon as they showed their heads, they ran in all directions below.

Some went to the depths of the cemetery, and some went to the direction of the city.

Now Li Feng realized that the mutated rats were not all burned, but some were buried underground.

More and more rats came out, and the situation was getting worse and worse in an uncontrollable direction.

The absurd orders from above and the random handling of the people below for convenience eventually led to the current situation.

Li Feng thought that this was no longer something he could control.

After lighting the grass on the ground with a torch and trying to stop the mutated rats underground, Li Feng planned to leave.

All he could do now was to inform more people.

However, just as he turned around and wanted to leave, he found a drunk figure walking towards him at the entrance of the cemetery.

The man was wearing the clothes of a gravekeeper, so he must be the gravekeeper.

No wonder I didn't see him just now, it turned out that he went to drink.

Li Feng ran forward and wanted to wake up the drunk gravekeeper.

However, when he took two steps forward, he saw the gravekeeper suddenly raised his head.

Muddy eyes, half-eaten cheeks, drooling mouth, half-bent back...

The gravekeeper, who was obviously no longer a human, roared at Li Feng when he heard the noise under his feet, and then rushed over quickly.

Looking at the zombie-like monster in front of him, something in Li Feng's heart exploded completely, and he couldn't move at all as if struck by lightning.

More than 20 years, more than 20 years...

How could something that had disappeared from his life for more than 20 years appear again?

"Bang!"

It was hard to tell whether it was instinct or the remaining reason, Li Feng raised the flint and killed the gravekeeper who was biting at him.

The broken corpse like a zombie fell down, and black blood flowed all over the ground.

"Ouch-"

As if in response to Li Feng's gunshot, a strange sound came from the cemetery behind him.

Li Feng responded and looked over. He saw that behind the neatly arranged tombstones in the distance, there were only newly turned soil and empty coffins.

And in the shadowy place farther away, there were shadows slowly walking out. They were like the gravekeepers just now, swaying left and right, not like humans.

The scene in front of him overlapped with his previous experience. Li Feng, who had experienced the zombie world, was almost broken.

[Recovery of Sanity +1%]

[Recovery of Sanity +2%]

...

Li Feng realized that his state was not right. He took out the water element essence that was already in stock to fish to restore his sanity.

But the restored sanity still could not calm the confusion in his mind. Countless sealed memories appeared one by one uncontrollably.

In that life, some people speculated that the zombie plague was caused by the rabies virus, but this statement was useless because the world soon fell.

At that time, Li Feng, who had retired, was called back to join the team fighting against zombies.

However, in the process, he found that he was immune to the zombie virus.

And not only him, but also a small number of people around the world were immune to the virus.

But unfortunately, even if some people are naturally immune, medical experts have difficulties in developing vaccines.

After the initial chaos, the surviving humans established a safe base, and the top leaders planned that as long as all the zombies were eliminated, they could rebuild their homes.

But one day, the miserable and abrupt cry of a woman rang in the abandoned community.

Li Feng and his teammates thought it was a survivor, but when they found the woman following the cry.

What they saw was a strange woman with ragged clothes, unkempt hair, skinny, and eyes that turned completely bright yellow.

In the dark, a teammate shone a flashlight at her, but suddenly, the strange woman seemed to be enraged and attacked the team members who came to rescue her crazily.

The teammate with the flashlight died, and Li Feng and other teammates killed her by chance.

Through the autopsy of the medical experts at the base, they found that this was a special zombie with extremely strong attack power.

People then named this type of zombie "witch".

After that, more special zombies were discovered, such as "Bomb Demon", "Hunter", "Smoker", "Tank"...

There were also incomprehensible zombies that could never be cleared out.

Those blocks that had been cleaned up and completely blocked, inexplicably appeared new zombies a few days later.

How did they get in?

And no one could figure out where else the zombies could come from except infected humans.

Until one day.

Li Feng and his team were ordered to investigate an area where zombies appeared inexplicably. However, when they finally arrived at the key location after going through untold hardships.

Li Feng and his teammates saw a scene they would never forget.

At the corner of a dark dead end, countless zombies appeared out of thin air from behind a transparent light curtain.

They lined up, one after another, just like spawning monsters in a game...

The worldview of many years was destroyed in an instant, and the zombies found their panicked teammates.

In the fierce battle, Li Feng, who had run out of bullets, had no way to retreat. Finally, he jumped into the light curtain that refreshed the zombies.

He thought he would die or find out the truth by chance, but when he woke up, he found that he had traveled through time and became a three-year-old child.

Although he had no parents and lived in an orphanage, fortunately there were no zombies here, and it was a safe and peaceful world.

After accepting the reality, Li Feng lived his life step by step, but just when he was about to let go of the past, he accidentally played a game.

The name of the game is "The Way to Survive".

The rabies virus triggered a zombie crisis, and among the endlessly refreshed zombies, there are also special infected people.

"Witch", "Bomb Demon", "Hunter", "Smoker", "Tank"...

It's exactly the same as his previous life.

So, what was his previous world? Just a game?

What about himself? The NPC in the game? An optional character that will not be infected even if attacked by zombies?

But in his previous life, he clearly had his own life, just like a normal person.

This incident caused a great blow to Li Feng at the time.

But the fact is that he can only continue to move forward step by step.

Until 15 days ago, he accidentally clicked on the beta test of the game Endless Sea and traveled through time again.

Because of his experience in the previous life, he was not as panicked as other players.

After all, he traveled through time from the game, so what was there to be surprised about traveling to another game?

Life must go on.

But now, in this world that uses steam engines and exists in the supernatural, he has encountered zombies again.

"Bang!"

The overwhelming memories subsided, and Li Feng's emotions gradually stabilized.

Facing the zombies that were about to attack him, Li Feng raised the flint and began to fight back.