Chapter 596: Encountering the Walking Corpses

"Stop," Li Cheng shouted.

That person ignored him and continued walking forward; with several *click-clack* sounds, Li Cheng's team members pulled back their gun bolts, as they were executing a Level 1 mission and could open fire immediately if they sensed anything amiss.

But the person still did not stop; suddenly, he jerked his head up, revealing a face that had already rotted, and with a roar, he opened his mouth wide, looking extremely terrifying.

With a few muffled *bang-bang-bang* sounds, a team member pulled the trigger without hesitation, and the man with the rotting face immediately fell to the ground.

However, after he fell to the ground, no blood spurted from his body; instead, he struggled to get up and continued walking forward.

This scene stunned all of Li Cheng's men, and the team member who had fired turned his head to look at Li Cheng: "Captain?"

Before Li Cheng could answer, suddenly, from the mist ahead, more than ten staggering figures surged forth; these people, just like the unkillable Walking Corpse from before, walked with stiff steps, bearing rotting faces that had lost their features, and surged toward the group.

At the same time, a crisp sound of bells came from the woods, and a laugh that was both charming and somewhat sinister rang out in the forest: "Go, kill them, and devour their flesh and blood."

As this bell rang, the group of Walking Corpses quickened their pace.

"Change magazines," Li Cheng reacted quickly; there was Cinnabar in the package Ye Qinglong had brought earlier, and they had already coated their bullets with Cinnabar in advance.

When Ye Qingning had said that, he hadn't believed there were things that guns couldn't kill, but now he believed it.

*Click-clack, click-clack*, a series of crisp sounds of magazines being swapped rang out as the twelve-man squad all changed their magazines.

*Bang-bang-bang*, the sound of gunfire rang out again, and the bullets coated in Cinnabar knocked the Living Corpses to the ground one after another.

Within the mist, a red shadow flashed.

This red shadow was none other than Liu Suiyue; seeing her Walking Corpses falling one by one, a sinister expression appeared on her face.

There was no need to think; this was definitely Chen Yu's doing again, but other than feeling teeth-grinding hatred, she had no other way.

Seeing her dozens of Walking Corpses falling to the ground one after another, Liu Suiyue stomped her foot in hatred and turned around to run.

"Stop," suddenly, one of Li Cheng's team members rushed over, his gun aimed at Liu Suiyue.

Liu Suiyue's body stiffened; she didn't think she could be faster than a bullet, so she turned around slowly, a look of pitiful helplessness appearing on her face: "Little brother, I... I got lost here."

"Raise your hands and come over slowly," the team member shouted.

Although Liu Suiyue pretended to be harmless and pitiful, his vigilance did not waver.

After all, this place was the legendary location of the Witch Clan, the outskirts of the Ten Thousand Gu Valley, and the scene of the Living Corpses just now had shocked him immensely, so no matter how well Liu Suiyue acted, he would not let his guard down.

"Little brother, I really just got lost," Liu Suiyue said, twisting her body and acting coquettishly: "I just twisted my ankle, you... you come over and help me."

The team member approached slowly, his gun still not lowered.

Just at the moment he approached Liu Suiyue, she suddenly raised her right hand and scattered a handful of Corpse Powder.

Liu Suiyue's Corpse Powder was highly toxic, causing anyone who touched it to collapse; the team member let out a muffled groan, and his face turned black in an instant.

But he was, after all, one of the famous Blue Sword special forces members of Huaxia; even though Liu Suiyue had launched a surprise attack, the moment he fell, he backhanded a Dagger from behind his back and slashed it fiercely toward Liu Suiyue's face.

With a *pfft* sound and a scream from Liu Suiyue, her face was slashed open by the Dagger, and blood flew everywhere; she touched her face with trembling hands, wanting to feel it but not daring to.

A deep wound had appeared on her face, blood was flying out from the cut, and the skin and flesh on her face were turned outward.

This slash made it impossible for her face to maintain its beautiful, flower-like appearance, and her true face was revealed—a pale, terrifying visage that made one's hair stand on end.

She screamed and turned to flee.

"Lao Liu, check on Lao Liu," Li Cheng and the others charged in after knocking down the Walking Corpses, and an accompanying military doctor hurried to check on the fallen team member.

"Use this, it's an antidote," Ye Qingning hurriedly took out the Antidote Powder from the package Chen Yu had given her and fed it to the team member.

Soon, the group broke through the Wugu Forest and charged inside.

The villagers who had not yet dispersed saw Ye Qinglong and the others returning with men to kill, and they were instantly filled with rage.

"They actually dare to come back?"

"Beat them to death, burn them to death; they have desecrated our Gu Ancestor, they must die."

A group of people rushed up, and Li Cheng shouted: "Don't hurt anyone, just subdue them."

The team members behind Li Cheng clicked their safety catches, slung their guns over their backs, and charged forward fiercely.

These villagers totaled only about a hundred people, and excluding the old, weak, women, and children, there were only a few dozen who could actually fight.

For a group of well-trained special forces soldiers, taking these people down unarmed was simply effortless.

Soon, some of the more combat-capable villagers had their hands locked behind their backs and were pinned to the ground, while others were squatting on the ground with their hands on their heads.

"Chen Yu, where did Chen Yu go?" Ye Qingning grabbed a villager and demanded sternly.

"He, he was taken away by our Witch Life-Controller and brought to the Sacred Land," the villager said, trembling.

"Take us there, now," Ye Qingning said sternly.

"No, no, that is the Sacred Land, we cannot enter; if we enter, we will surely face Heavenly Retribution," the villager shook his head desperately; to him, being forced to go to the Sacred Land was worse than being shot to death.

"Captain, look," just then, two team members dragged a body bag over.

*Thump*, the body bag was thrown to the ground, and a team member opened it to reveal a dead Mountain Ghost inside.

"Mountain Ghost, that's a Mountain Ghost," the villagers were instantly shocked.

"This is the Mountain God's servant; if you kill him, the Mountain God will not forgive us."

*Thump*, the villagers knelt on the ground one after another, prostrating themselves and begging for the Mountain God's forgiveness.

"Mountain God? Servant?" Ye Qingning was furious; this group of close-minded, stubborn people actually treated these monsters and demons as gods, as their faith?

"Your children, the children sent to your so-called Sacred Land every year, are locked together and forced to kill each other; not one in ten survives," Ye Qingning said sternly: "And those who unfortunately die are fed to your so-called Mountain God's servants."

"If you don't believe me, you can follow me up the mountain to the caves of these things and see if you can find your children's remains there."

"Impossible, you liar, you are still lying to us even now."

The villagers were enraged and rose one after another, wanting to tear Ye Qingning apart, but Li Cheng waved his hand from the side, and a few gun-butt strikes from his team members made them behave.

"Do you have children?" Ye Qingning suddenly grabbed a villager: "When was he sent to the Sacred Land? How long has it been since you saw him? Don't you miss him?"