However, the Dwarf Man behind him walked over, approaching the two with a lewd smile.
"Hey, Dwarf Man, where did you find this woman?" Mo Fan couldn't help but ask out of curiosity as the Dwarf Man approached.
"She said she wanted to come here, and her payment was more straightforward than yours, so I brought her along!" the Dwarf Man said directly, his gaze furtively glancing at the Black Silk Woman as he spoke, his eyes immediately filling with lust. He then gave Mo Fan a knowing, wicked smile, one that all men understood, and said, "What, did your spirit also get hooked?"
Mo Fan said, "I was just asking casually!"
Lin Chen's mouth twitched, completely ignoring the Dwarf Man. To look like that and still have such improper thoughts, Lin Chen wondered where the Dwarf Man got his courage. Meanwhile, Mo Fan and the Dwarf Man chatted idly.
Facing Lin Chen's disdain, the Dwarf Man didn't care at all. Having long been involved in the jianghu, the Dwarf Man had already discerned from Mo Fan's behavior that Lin Chen was not someone to be trifled with.
…
"It's almost dark. When will we reach the village?" After a long while, as the sky gradually darkened, Lin Chen couldn't help but ask.
"It's winter now, nights are long and days are short. Have some culture!" the Dwarf Man said.
As dusk approached, in this season of long nights and short days, the sun would likely be snuggled in its wife's dark bed by a little after five.
The dead silence before nightfall easily made people uneasy. Even Lin Chen felt a bit uncomfortable. After all, the land was vast, and who could guarantee that they weren't stepping on the territory of a large group of undead?
At this moment, the guide's value became apparent. "Here, eat this!" The burly man pulled out a gray, garlic-like object from the package on his back. This person was strong, but he seemed to be an ordinary person, without any magical aura, and also seemed to lack the vitality of a normal person.
"Food? You should have said something earlier, I'm starving…" Mo Fan's personality was somewhat naturally friendly. As soon as he saw the burly man giving out local specialties for everyone to eat, he immediately took it.
Lin Chen's mouth curved slightly. You pay to hire a guide, and the guide offers you gray garlic. If you think about it, you're still paying for it yourself.
This gray object looked a bit like a sweet potato and a bit like a large clove of garlic. Mo Fan didn't think much of it and took a bite directly!
"Pfft…" The next second, Mo Fan spat out what was in his mouth, gray crumbs scattering everywhere. "What did you give me to eat?!" Mo Fan cursed angrily.
"This is gray garlic, used to mask the vitality of living people. With it, the undead won't attack us. There's a limited supply of this stuff. You just spat one out. If you can't make it through tonight, you're on your own!" the Dwarf Man immediately explained.
Mo Fan said spiritedly, "This stuff is so disgusting, I'd rather fight the undead to my heart's content than eat it!"
Lin Chen glanced at the gray garlic in his hand and chuckled coldly. The gray garlic in his hand instantly vanished, and an invisible spirit power shield appeared around him, unseen by everyone. Lin Chen's spirit power carried a destructive aura, capable of isolating his own vitality. Although it required consuming spirit power, it was still better than eating that disgusting gray garlic.
With Lin Chen's strength, his spirit power was already inexhaustible, so he naturally wasn't willing to suffer such hardship!
"Don't speak too soon… Shh, listen!" The Dwarf Man motioned for everyone to be quiet.
"Listen to what?"
"Underground, in the dirt…"
Everyone quieted down. Indeed, while the sky was still dim, the dirt beneath their feet, mixed with fine white sand, began to show signs of loosening…
At first glance, it looked like the vegetables and fruits painstakingly planted by a farmer were about to sprout, but the grave expression on the Dwarf Man's face already told everyone what was about to happen!!
"Gulp…"
The Dwarf Man's Adam's apple clearly moved.
Having been in this land of the undead for so many years, every time night fell, his heart couldn't help but pound violently. Even when not in the Ancient Capital, flying to other cities, that unsettling panic would still appear once night fell.
"Quickly eat the gray garlic!" the Dwarf Man urged everyone.
The Black Silk Woman and her two companions didn't hesitate, swallowing the unpalatable gray garlic in one gulp.
Lin Chen also pretended to eat the gray garlic. Lin Chen's personality was still the same; despite already possessing formidable strength, he had his own set of behavioral rules no matter where he went. He was accustomed to hiding his true abilities. Perhaps this was his nature. Only Mo Fan was still struggling!
"Er-aoh!!!!! Er-aoh!!!!!!!!!"
A sound like something foul gurgling in a throat suddenly erupted from the dirt. Mo Fan turned around and abruptly saw a head, teeming with maggots, poking out, its eyeballs dangling, its jaw also dangling…
"You piece of trash think you can hurt your Grandpa Mo?!!!" Mo Fan was impolite, kicking directly at the undead's head!
This head was likely separated from its neck. This aerial kick sent the skull arcing through the air, crashing hard against an exposed rock, splattering goo everywhere.
At the same time, "Er-aoh~~" roars rose and fell, spreading all around. Suddenly, a large patch of dirt cracked open, revealing a massive tomb less than ten meters from Mo Fan.
The tomb must have been ancient; its stone bricks were utterly decayed. Inside lay twenty-odd half-corpse, half-skeletons, haphazardly. They seemed to have heard the call from the rolling head, and their eyes turned blood-red as they crawled out of the tomb.
These skeletons had blackened bones, likely having been poisoned en masse. Looking at the tools scattered around them, they were probably burial attendants for some ancient general or minister. Mo Fan initially thought twenty or so was a lot, but who knew there was another tomb cave beneath that tomb? Skeletons continuously emerged from the tomb cave, one by one, bloody and incredibly grotesque!
Just as Mo Fan was about to act, he suddenly noticed tombs appearing one after another all around… scattered across this small patch of muddy land, less than a few hundred kilometers in circumference!
Hordes of skeletons gathered like warriors. Their eyes, like countless stars, locked onto Mo Fan, the only breathing person there. The spectacular horror froze Mo Fan completely.
"Actually, this stuff isn't bad if you chew it carefully!" As a wise man knows when to yield, Mo Fan immediately gave in, grabbing the gray garlic and biting into it fiercely, his expression as ugly as could be. No matter how bad it tasted, it was better than losing his life. Lin Chen smiled faintly, the Son of Destiny's attempt to show off had failed!
The Dwarf Man scoffed, his gaze sweeping over the hordes of skeletons around them. He said, "We'd better leave here quickly. This must be the burial ground of some high-ranking minister. The sheer number of burial attendants and artisans is comparable to a monarch's funeral procession…"
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