king of black mist.

Chapter 287 Headless Corpse

The sky was already bright, and amidst the loud and clear whistle, a group of white pigeons swarmed out from a certain palace, circled over the Forbidden City, and flew towards the White Tower in the North Sea.

"A player who can enter this game is considered a master, why would he become the emperor's concubine?" Li Qianxia looked at the graceful back of Concubine Cao Duan.

"Male players want to sleep with all the beauties throughout the ages, and there are women who think the same way, but they sleep with men." Yaochi explained.

She continued: "With such an idea, coupled with a suitable "birth", the game will naturally assign her a similar identity first, so Chang Zhou and I are the Empress of the Emperor of Heaven, Qian Xia and you are the younger sister of the Emperor of Heaven, and Qing Lan is the younger sister of the Emperor of Heaven. A goddess who does not eat fireworks in the world."

In a word, it implied that he and Li Changzhou were in agreement, promoted his sister-in-law, and pointed out that Yang Qinglan didn't love Li Changzhou that much in his heart, and still liked to be alone, detached from the world.

After listening to Li Qianxia, ​​she didn't care about the first two points, but paid attention to the last point.

Could it be that Qinglan really doesn't like my brother that much?No, when assigning identities, all aspects must be considered, such as appearance, skills and so on.

Yang Qinglan said: "It seems that I have done a good job. I am doing well against the sky. I did not follow the arrangement of the game. I am a qualified black card."

She walked slowly, holding the fairy Ruyi in her hand, dressed in white, and her belt fluttered like a butterfly.

A court lady hangs a parrot cage on the eaves facing the sun.

While the maid turned to get the bird food, Li Qianxia poked the parrot's head with her fingers.

"Auspicious New Year's Day! Auspicious Queen!" The parrot straightened its neck and called, a parrot specially trained for New Year's Day.

Li Qianxia laughed twice, and teased it twice.

Emperor Jiajing's biological mother, Jiang Shi, died in 1538. The present Empress Dowager Zhang in the palace is Emperor Jiajing's aunt.

The jade-handed beauty Queen Fang led all the concubines and princesses in the harem, as well as some imperial wives, to the Empress Dowager Palace to celebrate.

According to the rules in the palace, the emperor should also congratulate the queen mother, but Emperor Jiajing didn't like the queen mother very much.

Empress Dowager Zhang has two younger brothers, one named Shouning Hou, in the early years of Jiajing, the Duke of Shengchang, who was deposed in 1529, arrested in 1533, and died in prison.

Another younger brother, Marquis Changjian, if Queen Mother Zhang hadn't knelt down to intercede, Marquis Jianchang would have died too, and he is still in prison.

Because of these two incidents, Queen Mother Zhang was originally 69 years old and could not afford to be ill.

When Yang Qinglan and the others arrived at Ciqing Palace, Yingying Yanyan's large troops had already started to evacuate, and Queen Mother Zhang didn't keep them, and they didn't want to stay with Queen Mother Zhang who had a problem with Emperor Jiajing for a long time.

Empresses, imperial concubines, concubines, princesses, and imperial wives in bright and luxurious palace and court clothes are like a flowing colorful river in the snow-capped Forbidden City.

"Zi Sui, go and see this Empress Dowager Zhang." Yao Chi instructed the enchanting figure under her command.

"Misha." Bi looked at a Russian female player, "You go too."

"Yes." Misha nodded.

The two jumped into the Ciqing Palace, Yaochi didn't wait for them, and followed Concubine Cao Duan straight away, Yang Qinglan's eyes fell on the beautiful woman Queen Fang's car.

After a while, Zisui and Misha rushed up.

"Yao Chi (princess), people are dead!"

Everyone stopped.

"What's going on?" Yao Chi raised his steps and continued to follow Concubine Cao Duan.

"After we went in," Zisui replied quickly in a low voice, with panic in her tone, "The Queen Mother and all the maids and eunuchs sat neatly in the hall, holding their heads in their hands."

Li Qianxia took a step towards Yang Qinglan.

"That scene was terrible." Misha shrank her shoulders as if feeling cold.

"What are you afraid of! Useless things!" Bi folded her arms.

Misha knew the princess's mouth very well, and was not afraid of her at all, and was still terrified in her heart.

She and Zisui sneaked in and didn't sense anyone, so they went straight into the room, only to see a room full of people sitting on chairs one by one, they were startled.

Taking a closer look, they all held their heads.

Empress Dowager Zhang, who is almost 70 years old, is seriously ill and very vicissitudes of life. Sitting on the head with her head in her hands, just looking at them like that is scarier than any ghost.

"In such a short time, he killed people silently." Yaochi fell into deep thought.

"Be careful with this skill." Yang Qinglan said.

Li Qianxia tentatively said, "Could it be—"

She suddenly lost her voice.

"What's wrong?" Yang Qinglan looked at her.

Li Qianxia pointed to the front.

Everyone looked over, and the last eunuch in the crowd took off his head like taking off his hat, held it in his arms, and continued to follow the team.

Not long after, a court lady next to the eunuch also took off her head.

The Queen and his party walked in silence without any communication. Starting from the end, they took off their heads one by one.

Those who walked in front had no idea that the eunuch and maid following behind had turned into corpses.

The sky is bright and the sun is rising, but the Forbidden City is filled with a chill, and an inexplicable fear surges into my heart, making people feel cold all over.

"What should I do?" Li Qianxia's lips trembled a little, "Do you want to take down Concubine Cao Duan directly?"

So far, Concubine Cao Duan is the most suspect.

"What kind of skill is it? Why is it so weird?" Zisui's face was also ugly, not because she was afraid of ghosts, but because she was worried that she would also pick off her head.

Thinking of this, Zisui quickly turned her head and saw Narcissus at the end of the crowd, holding her head in both hands, she cried out in fright.

"Narcissus!"

The voice was not loud, but it was very penetrating. Everyone was startled and looked at Narcissus.

Narcissus was also taken aback.

"What are you doing? You scared me to death!" The narcissus changed from a translucent water figure to a naked, living human body.

It was obvious that he was really terrified.

"Do you know that you want to take off your own head?!" Zi Sui said.

"I—" Narcissus was at a loss for words, and said a little embarrassedly, "I was worried that my head was gone, so I checked to see if it was still there."

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"Don't be scary!" Yao Chi glared at the two of them.

"Hey, if you don't make any more moves, these people are going to die." Bi fell on the shoulder of one of his subordinates, looking at the court ladies and eunuchs walking ahead.

"As long as we don't catch up, the opponent should stop." Qi Die said.

"It's not that simple," Yang Qinglan said, "Since the opponent has made a move, he will definitely not let it go."

"What do you mean. This person will intentionally make things big?" Yaochi asked.

Yang Qinglan nodded.

The team was already some distance away from them, and the behavior of picking heads still didn't stop. If it continued, Emperor Jiajing's harem would all die here.

What was even more frightening was that the eunuchs and maids guarding the palace gate along the way also took off their own heads.

"If this continues, will the entire palace become a ghost town?" Li Qianxia asked with a breath.

A booklet flew out from the ground and spread out in front of Yang Qinglan. She held Ruyi in her hand and directly turned to the last paragraph of the last page.

"Who did it?" Li Qianxia leaned over.

"Queen Zhang." Yang Qinglan said.

"What?!" Everyone was surprised.

"Isn't she dead?" Misha shouted.

"That's why other people pick heads!" Zisui thought it over.

"Press her head back!" A Russian female player named Thea lifted up her Hanfu skirt and pulled out a gun from her slender and muscular thigh.

In the Forbidden City where "ability" cannot be used, the hot weapons that should have been eliminated are indeed useful again.

"Follow Concubine Cao Duan, I'll go back and have a look." Yang Qinglan's white clothes were like light smoke, and she had already fled towards Ciqing Palace.

"Qinglan, I'll be with you!" Li Qianxia said and was about to catch up.

"No, I will call your brother if there is a situation, you follow Yao Chi and the others, and remember to call your brother if you are in danger."

At the first word, Yang Qinglan was still in front of everyone, but by the last word, she had already entered the Ciqing Palace.

Walking into the Ciqing Palace, the yard was full of people, holding their heads in their hands and looking at her with their eyes open.

The brand-new eunuch's uniform and court lady's costume are as gloomy as Qing Dynasty costumes in zombie movies.

Footsteps came, and the luxuriously dressed Queen Mother Zhang came out of the hall holding her head.

She stood in front of the palace gate, behind all the eunuchs and maids, staring at Yang Qinglan with empty eyes.

The scene in front of him looked like a group of hanged ghosts and human tombstones, and Yang Qinglan felt chills in his heart.

She held Ruyi in her hand and waved it lightly, a needle made of flesh and blood flew out from the neck of Queen Mother Zhang's corpse.

The needle shuttled between the neck and the head, and the head held in the hand was quickly pulled back by the silk thread. After 1 minute, Queen Mother Zhang became whole.

The eunuchs and maids picked up their heads and put them back.

"Quick, go sweep the snow!"

"Is the queen mother's medicine decocted?"

"Go get some Baijiao wine, and cook some water dim sum (dumplings), the queen mother loves to eat."

The Ciqing Palace has changed from a gloomy morgue to a busy scene on New Year's Day in the Ming Palace.

There was nothing wrong, but Yang Qinglan took a step back. When she moved, all the eunuchs and maids looked at her at the same time, their hands were still busy with their work, they were talking, but their eyes were looking at her.

She is vigilant in her heart, the players who can enter this game, in terms of overall strength, it is impossible for her to be invincible, but there are definitely difficulties.

"Are you here to become a fairy, or to be a catastrophe?" Yang Qinglan asked.

Empress Dowager Zhang looked at Yang Qinglan with an old and bloodless face, and pulled out a deadly smile.

Yang Qinglan frowned slightly. She had read the history of the Ming Dynasty a long time ago. This Empress Dowager Zhang will die next year. The player who will replace her may not be someone with a healthy body and a normal mind.

She thought of the exorcist that Zheng Qing had caught.

Is it the exorcist?Or a certain type of player who simply turned into a corpse?

Empress Dowager Zhang slowly raised her hands, and the sleeves slipped down, revealing her arms covered in corpse spots. She spread her five fingers, pressed the sides of her head, and made a gesture of taking them off.

Yang Qinglan's whole body tensed up, feeling a strong crisis.

She knocked out Ruyi, and the dark blue ice swallowed the entire yard in an instant like a scourge.

The crisis dissipated slowly like green smoke, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

Da da da
Footsteps came from behind.

Yang Qinglan didn't turn her head back, another block of ice was thrown out, and when she turned around, a court lady was frozen in front of the gate of Ciqing Palace.

The maid pressed her hands on both sides of her head, with the same cold smile on her face as Queen Mother Zhang.

The sun shone on the Forbidden City, the snow melted and the temperature dropped.

With a move of Yang Qinglan's hand, two booklets flew from the palace maid and Queen Mother Zhang respectively, her eyes were swept away, and she fell into deep thought.

It's not a human, it's a fungal infection that can quickly infect and multiply, hijack the host's mind and make the host zombified.

The act of removing the head is an unknown skill, and it is also extremely contagious.

skills are contagious
The sudden sound of flapping wings resounded in this dead and cold palace, Yang Qinglan was suddenly patted on the shoulder as if she was watching a ghost story, and she was startled.

She looked up and saw a parrot landed on the old locust tree in the yard. It was obviously a bird, but it looked at her expressionlessly like a human being.

The parrot raised one paw and buckled it towards his head.

With a clatter, another handful of ice cubes was thrown out, freezing the parrot on the tree.

Whoa!
Countless birds fell from the sky like rain, and dozens of cats and dogs walked inside and outside the Ciqing Palace.

They looked at Yang Qinglan and scratched their heads at the same time.

Yang Qinglan threw the "Fairy Ruyi" in her hand, and Ruyi hung in the air, endless peach blossom petals fluttered down, shuttled between the hairs of pigeons, cats and dogs, drew lines of blood, and cut off their limbs.

Without limbs, lying on the frozen ground in strips, the eyes of these cats, dogs and birds were still looking at Yang Qinglan.

Ruyi let out a soft cry, circles of blue light swayed out, the entire Ciqing Palace was frozen, and no one or animal could walk in.

Looking at the corpses around her, Yang Qinglan felt a little gloomy, her eyes turned blue, her body flew into the sky, and the ice on her head made way for her.

Before the rest of the people found her, the direction of "gravity" changed, she tapped her toes on the animal horns on the eaves, and a wisp of white smoke flew across the aisle of the palace, drifting towards Jiaotai Hall, catching up with Li Qianxia and the others.

Once the zombie fungus is infected, the subject can switch freely among all infectious bodies. The scene just now proved that the zombie fungus has been transferred from Queen Mother Zhang.

Soon I saw the gold-plated top of Jiaotai Hall.

From Jiaotai Hall to Qianqing Gate, Chen Lijia and Cheyu played Zhonghe Shaoyue and Danbi Dayue.

In Jiaotai Hall, Empress Fang, a beauty with jade hands, is sitting on the throne.

Imperial concubines, noble concubines, and concubines stood outside the gate of the hall. Cairen, Jieyu, Zhaoyi, beauties, Zhaorong, Xuanshi, ladies, etc. below the title, and above the second-rank wives, all gathered outside the gate of Longzong.

Further behind, there were some eunuchs and court ladies, as well as a crowd of head-holding troops, holding their own heads one by one.

Everyone looked ahead, not daring to speak.

Following the order of the eunuch, the supervisor of ceremonies, everyone performed six sues, three kneelings and three kowtows.

The corpses holding their heads also knelt down and put their heads aside, like putting on a hat.

The infection continued, spreading to some wives and ladies, who took off their heads while kneeling.

A group of headless corpses were kneeling and worshiping. At this time, the music also stopped, and the scene was extremely strange.

Li Qianxia, ​​Yaochi and the others stood in a corner of the palace, Qidie saw Yang Qinglan from a distance, and spread her body concealing skills to her.

Yang Qinglan landed lightly beside them with her toes on the ground.

"Qinglan, are you okay?" Li Qianxia asked immediately.

"It's okay." Yang Qinglan shook her head lightly, and briefly explained the matter.

After listening, Misha immediately said: "Freeze all these people, we can't let these zombie fungi continue to spread!"

"It's too late." Yang Qinglan said.

Even parrots, cats and dogs are infected, so what's the use of sealing these people in front of them? Sealing the entire harem may still have a chance to prevent this erosion and mass suicide.

"The zombie fungus is probably waiting for today." Yaochi glanced at the Jiaotai Palace, "It replaced the identity of the Empress Dowager Zhang, who usually has no chance to enter and leave the palace. Today, on New Year's Day, the harem and the wives of some ministers outside the palace will come to her congratulate."

"The key is the body," Yang Qinglan looked at the headless corpse in front of him, "maybe it's here, maybe it's not."

"I don't know if it has wisdom, but it would be great if we can negotiate." Li Qianxia felt anxious.

Why did it suddenly become a zombie apocalypse?

"It's only natural for unexpected situations to happen." Yaochi said, "I don't even know how many players there are, even the special war situations of each country. Some deep mountains and old forests, and the sea that accounts for more than 70.00% of the earth's area. It's only going to get more and more mysterious."

(End of this chapter)