Chapter 164: Corpse beckoning

"... There is great terror between life and death."

"My lifespan is within these seven days, I must make a final struggle."

This was Zhou Zhou Qingqing's last impression of her grandmaster. At that time, she was just over three years old. Since then, she had never seen that kind grandmaster again.

It wasn't until she was fifteen and had achieved great success in An Jin that she saw her grandmaster's non-rotting, non-decaying flesh behind the ancestral hall, listening to her master narrate her grandmaster's last few days.

"Your grandmaster felt his destiny was coming to an end. In the last seven days, he sat in a death pass on Chaoyang Peak, running the method of 'Ascending to the Heavenly Court', hoping to gather all the power of spirit and flesh to break free from the primordial spirit and roam the world. Unfortunately, he didn't succeed in the end, leaving only the three words 'The path is at an end' and passing away in gloom..."

"This is the great sorrow of the martial arts path, the path is at an end..."

This was Zhou Zhou Qingqing's greatest obsession and fear in her life to this day.

First fear of the great terror between life and death.

Second fear of the martial arts path coming to an end from now on.

Fear is not the problem, difficulty is not the problem, danger is even less of a problem. If a martial artist doesn't even have the determination to overcome difficulties, then what kind of martial artist are they, and what martial arts are they practicing?

But one fears not reaching the peak, yet dying and disappearing. One fears reaching the peak, only to find no path ahead, and can only despairingly sit on the mountain peak, never finding the path ahead again...

That's why she would rush up regardless of everything when she saw Wu Wu Pifu had another path. Actually, it wasn't just her. As long as they crossed the peak of Hua Jin and reached the Bao Dan Zuo Kua figure, anyone who knew would rush up regardless of everything. Even kneeling down to kowtow to Wu Wu Pifu and recognizing him as a master would be doable.

If not, what kind of martial artist are they?

At this moment, although Zhou Zhou Qingqing was afraid of these eerie things, she immediately closed her eyes and said to Wu Wu Pifu, "Mr. Wu, please come over."

Wu Wu Pifu frowned, but still walked to Zhou Zhou Qingqing. Then Zhou Zhou Qingqing grabbed Wu Wu Pifu's palm and said, "Mr. Wu, we have been seeing dead people all the way. Suddenly, corpses appeared. These corpses are identical to someone among us. As long as a corpse appears, there is no fighting, no attack, but people suddenly die. This kind of evil technique is unheard of."

"Just now, I saw Mr. Wu coming with this fairy, and it seems you are quite familiar with this place. I think you also know how to avoid this evil technique and eeriness. Today, Zhou Qingqing's life and death are entrusted to Mr. Wu. I will close my ear pulses and close my eyes tightly. If I can live, it is naturally Mr. Wu's great kindness, and also the mercy of heaven. If I die here... then I die."

After speaking, Zhou Zhou Qingqing stood on the spot without moving. Wu Wu Pifu applied slight force to her hand, and she stepped forward. If there was no force on her hand, she would stand still with her eyes closed.

Wu Wu Pifu looked at Zhou Zhou Qingqing for a long time, and truly felt admiration in his heart.

This woman is truly extraordinary. Even with the maintenance power of martial arts, her age is at most thirty or forty. Not only is she at the Bao Dan realm, but from fighting her once, one can vaguely feel a sense of heaviness from her martial arts. And for Dan Jin to have a sense of heaviness, this is already touching the edge of Gang Jin.

Not to mention other achievements, she is also the only female hero Wu Wu Pifu has ever seen in his life.

But no matter how much of a hero, there are many who collapse in the face of life and death. However, Zhou Zhou Qingqing is clearly afraid of the eeriness here, yet at this moment, she still closes her eyes and ear pulses, entrusting her life and death to Wu Wu Pifu, whom she has only met once.

This kind of heroism is truly too much to Wu Wu Pifu's taste.

At this moment, he gripped Zhou Zhou Qingqing's palm tightly, and then looked at the four bodyguard men, "I will take you out of danger, but you must also close your eyes. Don't listen to anything."

The four bodyguard men looked at each other. Although they were suspicious of the origins of the two people in front of them and were full of fear for everything here, they also knew the situation was urgent. The four of them carefully guarded and held hands, closed their eyes, and then Wu Wu Pifu grabbed one of their arms with his other hand, pulling them toward the outside of the mountain forest.

But after walking less than ten meters, Wu Wu Pifu looked at the four bodyguard men who were falling down, and his brows were tightly locked.

Unlike Zhou Zhou Qingqing, these four bodyguard men were ordinary people. Once they closed their eyes, even if someone was pulling them, they would start to fall and roll after walking two steps in this mountain forest area. Even a small stone on the ground would make their ankles twist. By comparison, although Zhou Zhou Qingqing closed her vision and hearing, as long as Wu Wu Pifu pulled her to walk, as long as her feet stepped on the ground, even for an instant, she could immediately feel the foreign objects and slopes under her feet. Walking looked no different from ordinary people, and her center of gravity was even more stable.

This is difficult to handle. He wouldn't carry these four big men on his back, right?

Although he could definitely carry them, this was too disgusting, and it wasn't easy to carry them.

Then just at this moment, one of the people who fell to the ground jumped up as if his butt was burned by fire, and shouted loudly, "There is something, there is something... what is this..."

"Ah, right, I also love you..." After speaking, the person fell to the ground and died. Then the second bodyguard fell straight to the ground. After hearing the sound, the third bodyguard also fell to the ground, leaving only the last bodyguard squatting on the ground, trembling, not daring to move at all.

Wu Wu Pifu and Captain Hao Cheng quickly looked over, and saw a corpse on the ground where the first person stood...

But there was only this one corpse, and the appearance of this corpse was not his. But he still showed signs of death, and died directly on the spot. And until this time, another corpse emerged from the ground, hugging the three dead people in pairs.

The two looked at each other, and saw horror in each other's eyes. This kind of thing exceeded the previous phenomenon again. It was people who died first, and then the corpses in pairs began to appear. And how exactly did they die? After closing their eyes, they just felt their own corpses appear, and then they would die?

"Were they scared to death?" Captain Hao Cheng asked in a low voice.

Wu Wu Pifu shook his head and said, "No, just now I have been paying attention to them. Before they died, their heartbeats and pulse signs didn't reach the point of being scared to death. That would require extremely intense fear in a very short time. Rather than saying they were scared to death, it's better to say they died in an instant."

Captain Hao Cheng was also scared, and at this moment, he subconsciously held Wu Wu Pifu's other hand, and at the same time said, "Is it some kind of rule? Once violated, will it die immediately? Then... what about us? Will we also hit this rule?"

Wu Wu Pifu couldn't answer. At this time, looking at this mountain village and this mountain forest gave him a huge sense of fear.

Although this was the case, Wu Wu Pifu still walked toward the last suit-wearing man. But he had only walked two steps when this suit-wearing man heard his footsteps and suddenly shouted wildly, jumping up like a madman. He didn't care about closing his eyes anymore, crawling and rolling toward the bottom of the mountain forest, shouting while running, "Fake, all fake, I don't believe it, I don't believe it..."

After running out for dozens of meters, suddenly the sound disappeared. Wu Wu Pifu and Captain Hao Cheng looked at each other, and then Wu Wu Pifu took one person in each hand, took Captain Hao Cheng and Zhou Zhou Qingqing down the hillside, and then the first thing he saw was the last suit-wearing man hugging a big tree. When the two walked closer, they found that a corpse was embedded in the big tree, and that corpse was the suit-wearing man's.

Wu Wu Pifu just took a look, pulled the two and turned to walk toward the outside of the curtain weak point.

!

To be honest, at this moment, his heart was also beating and hair-raising.

But fortunately, there was no abnormality all the way, and he took the two and walked down this mountain forest area. Ahead was the highway, and he didn't dare to be negligent, pulling the two directly to the side of the highway. Here, they had already left the curtain weak point, and the eerie situation felt in the curtain point, that is, the feeling of really waking up from a lucid dream, never appeared again.

Wu Wu Pifu breathed a sigh of relief. Looking left and right, Captain Hao Cheng was already crying with tears, while Zhou Zhou Qingqing was still standing with her eyes closed, looking like a fairy.

"Good..."

Wu Wu Pifu was about to wake the two up, when suddenly he felt something wrong, turned his head and looked behind him, and then he saw a row of corpses in pairs standing at the edge of the mountain forest, one with a strange smile, one with horror and realization, and all the corpses were the same except for one...

Zhou Zhou Qingqing's corpse was also standing among them, but only the one with the strange smile appeared, and the other corpse with the expression didn't appear, which was clearly the Zhou Zhou Qingqing who was still alive beside him.

Suddenly, all the corpses began to beckon to Wu Wu Pifu, one by one, dull and rhythmic. Although silent, this silence was the greatest terror at this moment.

Captain Hao Cheng let out a delicate scream, rushed out a hundred meters away, got into the sports car, and immediately started the sports car. Wu Wu Pifu didn't say much. This situation made him feel cold in his heart. Although he was powerful and bold, he still didn't dare to look back and continue watching at this moment. He pulled Zhou Zhou Qingqing and ran to the sports car, opened the door and sat in. As the sports car started, leaving that mountain forest area far behind, Wu Wu Pifu and Captain Hao Cheng both breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Captain Hao Cheng immediately pressed several buttons on the car, and a burst of rock music sounded. Only then did he say in a very small voice, "Just now, those corpses... were all beckoning to us, right? I didn't see it wrong, right?"

Wu Wu Pifu gave an 'en', and after a long while, he said, "No, perhaps there is a small mistake. Those corpses were indeed beckoning, but the object of the beckoning was not us."

Captain Hao Cheng and Wu Wu Pifu looked at Zhou Zhou Qingqing, who was still closing her eyes, at the same time. Only then, after completely escaping from the curtain weak point, did the two remember an important detail.

If the corpses that appeared were the death signal of the people who entered this time, then where were their two corpses? Or rather...

Could it be that the two of them had already died long ago??

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