My Zombie Husband

6. Chapter VI: Zombies Exiting the Tomb

Translator: Cash

Probably because of the nature of women’s love for beauty, He Nai also leaned over and poked the broken crystals with her plain white fingers and said, “So magical? Master, can this thing still work?”

Mu Feng guessed his apprentice’s mind and grinned, “Oh,  does disciples Nainai want this thing too? But the crystal here is no longer functioning. After all, it has been stored for thousands of years. No matter how good the crystal is, the nutrients in it have been absorbed, and now it is only worth viewing.”

“Ah, what a pity.” He Nai pinched a delicate crystal and felt sorry but glad at the same time, “This looks quite pretty. It doesn’t matter if I take a small piece as an ornament, right?” He Nai turns to Zhao Yun. Zhao Yun nodded as a sign of agreement. The little girl was so happy and secretly took several beautiful ones.

Wangchuan walked next to Xia Mingyu, felt his breath with a hand, and saw the bite marks on his neck. He guessed that Zhao Yun did it by the instinct as a zombie. It was not a problem, but Xia Mingyu was bitten by the blue snake before, and was bleeding a lot. And now Xia Mingyu’s blood was sucked by Zhao Yun, so if he can’t not make it to the hospital for blood transfusion, he might die.

“Master, we have to hurry out. I’m afraid he can’t hold it any longer.” Wangchuan carried Xia Mingyu on his back, looking heavy on his face. Zhao Yun felt awkward,  since he bit Xia Mingyu. Then he walked over to carry Xia Mingyu over on his back: “Give him to me. I am the one who caused all of this.”

Seeing that Zhao Yun had carried Xia Mingyu on his back. Wangchuan has nothing to say, but he saw that Zhao Yun wore a silver robe which really caught people’s attention: “That’s not okay. You have to change your clothes. If you just go out like this, everybody is going to look at you.”

He Nai agreed and said, “Yes, and this hair…”

“Alright, I’ll say I am an actor who just left the set. What’s the matter? Someone is losing his life. Oh, and, how can we get out? I can’t find a way.” Mu Feng didn’t care and thought he wouldn’t be the one who get all the attention anyway.

Zhao Yun obviously didn’t know how to leave the tomb. He rarely woke up in his deep sleep. Eight tails basically sent the blood of those tomb robbers to the stone platform, and directly integrated into the crystal into his energy. Breaking out of the tomb like today is the very first time.

Being stared by Zhao Yun for a while, the eight tails twisted. Although the eight tails were not very happy with Mu Feng, but still couldn’t resist Zhao Yun’s pressure and could only agreed to lead the way, “Meow, come with me.”

Eight tails changed back to the appearance of an ordinary black cat, touched the wall of the stone platform ring with its claws for a while, then clicked a button. The night pearls on the wall in front of them suddenly withdrawned back into the wall, the wall dropped down to the ground,with a tremendous sound. Then a bronze gate appeared, the center of which was a Tai Chi Eight Diagrams diagram, and with other depictings of ghosts all over it.

A group of cat monsters ran over, howled at the bronze door. Eight tails were not in a hurry, ordered a group of Mu Feng people to search the keys in the pile of crystals to open the door. The person who found the key  was Wangchuan. He turned his palm over, there was a beautiful black eagle model with a clear outline and wings spread about 10 cm.

“Meow, that’s it. You can just put it in the hole of the door.” Eight tails transformed into a smaller shape and jumped onto Zhao Yun’s shoulder. The blue and the green pupil shimmering under the light of the night pearl, looking like a beautiful crystal ball.

Wangchuan hesitated first. After all, he didn’t know whether eight-tailed told the truth or not. If the eight tails wanted to kill them, it might send them to hell. Eight tails easily saw through Wangchuan’s thoughts and snorted with disdain, “Huh, believe it or not. If I really want to kill you,  I would have already done it. I’m not in the mood to play this kind of dark game with you.”

Wangchuan blushed slightly when his thoughts was saw through. He embedded the flying eagle model on the primer without saying a word. Then the mechanism was activated, the bronze door came apart, revealing a road. Everyone left the tomb.

It was a long way. Both sides of the walls along the way depicted war-like images. He Nai looked curiously along the way and was suprised. “Wow, the paintings on the wall are so realistic, they are about the same to the ones in Dunhuang’s Mogao Grottoes.”

Eight Tails heard He Nai’s praise, wagged one of the tails highly in the sky and raised its head proudly.

“That’s right. The paintings on the wall are all about my master’s achievements, such as the battle of Xiangshan, the battle of Changban Slope, the battle of Hanshui…”

“Alright, that’s enough. I don’t care about the stuff about the war. People are killing each other. It’s boring.” He Nai interrupted Eight Tails fretfully, “I just want to know how long it takes to get out.”

Eight Tail muttered, “You just don’t appreciate it”. It looked at the long paved path leading to the exit and counted with its claws. “Let me think, hmm, how long it’s gonna take… Usually it takes me at least half an hour to pass this paved path to chase the thives, take the 81-step-ladder, turn left and go into the dark path, go around the Ghost Gathering, then the chamber of Taixu, and finally reach the waterfall. Ah, it’s gonna take about six hours”

“Six hours?!” He Nai’s eyes almost popped out of her head, “That’s gonna be six hours. How can we save this guy then? We can just dig a hole and burry him.”

Eight Tails poked Xia Mingyu who is on Zhao Yun’s back with its tail and said, “This is the fastest way. Besides, why is it so important to save this guy? We can just take his dead body. It’s just enough for the master to feel full. He just woke up and hasn’t eaten much.”

“Eight, that’s nonsense.” Zhao Yun scolded. Eight Tails rubbed his face sadly, “Master, it was for your own good. These people’s intentions are not so good. They can’t just take the germs from the dead body, otherwise they won’t let  master wake up while you were sucking blood. They must have broken the Yin Formation.”

Zhao Yun’s face was slightly sullen when the blood sucking was mentioned, and Mu Feng immediately realized it and laughed. Mu Feng answered, “You’re a cat monster who doesn’t understand people’s hearts. When did your master say he like to suck human blood? You know that General Zhao is devoted to fight with the enemy, but he never kills innocent people. This guy is not an enemy, so he is innocent in the general’s opinion. What you just said is absolutely not right.”

Eight Tails secretly turned tot Zhao Yun and see his facial expression. He looked quite angry. Eight Tailed made a face and stuck out its tongue and apologized with its head down. “Master, I’m sorry. I’m just trying to look out for you. You’ve been sleeping for thousands of years, but you haven’t woken up. I’m worried that you’re not taking enough blood…”

He Nai who walked in front thought for a while and suddenly asked, “Hey, something doesn’t make sense. Usually zombies hunt for food on their own. Although General Zhao, you were sealed in the crystal box in the stone platform and the cat monster has found a lot of blood for you. You should have easily came out of the crystal box. Why did you sleep for so long?”

Zhao Yun’s got very agitated. He didn’t know anything. Even when he was in the grave, he can only remember that he was dead, like having a dream in which the got lost in the white flog and couldn’t find the direction.