My Zombie Husband

Chapter 60 Top 10: The Curse

Translator: Cheryl_M

Xia Mingyu sighed. In fact, he didn’t ask for too much. All he wanted was that everybody could live well. No conspiracies, no selfishness, no resentment. He just wanted to be happy…

“Xia Mingyu, what’s wrong with you?” Chen Yutian asked. He noticed that Xia Mingyu was a bit upset and then looked back at Sun Yaheng. Anyway, he just bit his lips and didn’t talk about his own stuff.

Xia Mingyu rubbed his eyebrows and turned around to stare at Sun Yaheng who followed him, asking, “Well, do you know how many ghosts there are in this school?”

Sun Yaheng smiled. How many ghosts were there? It was hard to calculate the number. Numerous people had died here since ancient times. How could he count them? The Heavenly Soul was so silly!

“I don’t know the exact number, but there must be quite many.” Sun Yaheng said. Xia Mingyu frowned. If these ghosts all showed up at the same time, Sun Yaheng could never deal with it alone.

“Also, I found something interesting.” Sun Yaheng looked around at the nearby flower beds and pools and a sneer touched his mouth. Xia Mingyu and Chen Yutian looked at him in confusion. He said, “There is something wrong with the Fengshui of this school, as it has been changed. That’s why there are so many ghosts trapped here.”

“You mean, the Black Guard and White Guard don’t know that some people died here, so they don’t come to take away the souls.” Xia Mingyu guessed that the police were coming to handle the case. Perhaps it would take a long time so they had better stay out of this.

Sun Yaheng nodded. “Bingo. That’s right. And I think there should be something like a curse in your school.”

“A curse?” Xia Mingyu frowned. He hadn’t heard about anything about the curse. Xia Mingyu glanced at Chen Yutian, who was absent-minded aside, and called him, “Hey, Chen Yutian, do you know about the curse?”

“Huh? What?” Chen Yutian suddenly came to his sense and looked at the two persons in confusion and repeated with a long face, “I asked, do you know what the curse in the school is.”

“A curse? How do you know?” Chen Yutian looked at him in astonishment, and the teenager knew that the curse was real, so he asked Chen Yutian, who yawned and came together.

When the school was renovated more than a decade ago, the construction workers dug a channel to an ancient tomb underground. Due to the age, it was hard to find which dynasty the tomb was built and there was no such an inscription discovered. At that time, those workers were curious, so one of them were sent to inform the school management and the others entered the tomb.

The passway of the ancient tomb was said to be very narrow, leading to the underground. The workers slowly advanced, walking on and on. The passway was so dark that they couldn’t see each other. When they were going to retreat, a glimmer of light appeared before them. A few people quickly passed through and kind of entered the real tomb.

There was nothing valuable in that tomb, but there were a lot of white bones on the ground. In the middle was a large red coffin, sealed with an iron lock and hung in the air. Several people walked over curiously, discussing how much money they could get if they sold the coffin.

At that time, these construction workers were migrant workers, who were quite poor, so upon seeing the coffin in the ancient tomb, they didn’t feel frightened. Instead, they were thinking about how much money they could earn by selling the coffin and whether the money could afford their children’s school fees.

Thus, they stared at the coffin for a while and decided to open it. After all, it was sealed with an iron lock so there might be something valuable inside.

When these people hit the iron lock harshly with the shovel they brought, the coffin suddenly dropped with a bang, for the mechanism was triggered somehow. At the same time, the iron lock was automatically opened. The workers went to push open the coffin cover in delight.

However, no matter how hard they tried this time, the coffin cover didn’t move a bit. Afterwards, quite some school leaders came too. All of them worked together and finally succeeded in pushing the coffin cover open a little bit, but the cover couldn’t be moved anymore.

As the coffin cover was opened, wisps of black smoke emerged from the coffin. The two persons who stood closest to the coffin reached the black smoke. Instantly, they quickly shrank and fell onto the ground with a ghastly pale face, who turned into mummies. The other people were frightened and flooded to the exit, pushing and shouting. The black smoke behind them, just like having eyes, rushed towards the people.

Afterwards, only one of them survived, but the survivor was paralyzed from the waist down because his leg reached the black smoke. The black smoke seemed unable to get out of the tomb, so the people outside the tomb were fine. At that time, the teachers who were standing at the exit helped pull the survivors up.

It was then that the nightmare started. After that incidence, a lot of spiritual incidents happened in the school, including the strange things in the library and study building.

“Speaking of that, last time you told me about nine supernatural events only. Is this the tenth one?” Xia Mingyu thought of Zhao Yun’s tomb. Although there were zombies, poisonous snakes and fierce beasts in it, it was much less dangerous than this tomb, at least for him. The black smoke in this tomb remained unknown, which could make people turn into mummies in such a short time. No one knew what kind of monster it was. “What does this have to do with the curse?”

“Yes, the Top 10 spiritual incident is related to this tomb. It is said that the survivor at that time was haunted by the ghosts of those who died in the tomb. He disappeared in the hospital shortly after being rescued, just as if he had never existed. Reputedly, the survivor was still a student, and he was called on to the tomb for help. Oh right, from then on, every class has only 45 students, except that only one class has one more student. If there are more than 45 students in the class, the extra students will die. Well, every situation is different. This time, there are more than 45 students in our class. Yeah, you are the extra one.”

Chen Yutian suddenly cried out, “That’s why the boys hate you. I suppose it must be the reason. It is said that the extra students in the class will die so as to keep balance. Oh my god. I wonder who will be the unlucky one this time. I think they will keep making trouble for you just in order to survive.”

Xia Mingyu finally recalled that the boys ‘eyes were full of hostility. Actually, the girls were hostile too, but he didn’t notice that, for he was annoyed by their constant questions. They asked him about his habits, why he was transferred to this school and why he came to this class…

Hence, actually, the Top 10 supernatural incidence he had omitted would put him into danger. Xia Mingyu suddenly felt that the sun above his head became cold. Looking at Chen Yutian grinning, Xia Mingyu took a step back and asked cautiously, “Then why did you help me?”

“Tut, I can’t beat you, so I don’t want to get myself into trouble. Besides, as I said, I’ll protect you.” Chen Yutian patted his chest. His guarantee made Xia Mingyu feel relieved a lot. Although the young man didn’t feel much feeling of security, he wouldn’t hurt others. He would hurt his classmaters for some curse. Meanwhile, he also believed that his classmates wouldn’t do that to him. Perhaps this curse was just not real.

As Xia Mingyu was still standing next to Sun Yaheng, Chen Yutian pouted and went near him. “Xia Mingyu, don’t you believe me? You must believe me. Aren’t we good friends?”

“I believe you. I was wondering whether this curse was real? Then, according to you, now that two students of Li Le’s class are dead at one time. So two students will skip the grade to the twelfth grade? It’s crazy.”

Xia Mingyu shook his head, but Chen Yutian said casually, “What’s wrong? The school will definitely take two twelfth grade students from other schools to refill the class. I don’t know how they do it. Anyway, they can refill the difference every time.”

In this way, the number of people in the class was always 45. The number couldn’t change. The extra ones would die… “Wait, if the extra student will die as you say, must the new one be the victim?”

“Of course not. It can be anyone.” Chen Yutian spread his hands. He was not afraid of such a thing. Instead, he was a bit thrilled. “Maybe I’m talking right her and the next second I will be hit to dead by something all of a sudden.”

“Don’t say that.” Xia Mingyu quickly covered Chen Yutian’s mouth and stared at him with the amber eyes, saying, “Is there a time limit for the death? Or any rule? We have to figure out, or we may get killed then.”

Although he is the Heavenly Soul and  perhaps he wouldn’t die, Chen Yutian and Zhao Ziyi were ordinary people. He didn’t want to see any untoward happen to them.

Chen Yutian smiled and shook his head regretfully, “I haven’t figure out it clearly yet. If I hadn’t had a special investigation method, I wouldn’t know there was the Top 10 spiritual incident in the school. Honestly speaking, this incidence has been concealed by the school superintendents and as it happened more than a decade ago, very few people know about it.”

There wouldn’t be any clue then, which was not good.

“Do you know where the ancient tomb dug up more than ten years ago is?” Xia Mingyu thought about it and decided to change his mind and break through from another aspect. He wanted to find the ancient tomb and go in there to solve the problem. Only by cracking it from the root could he avoid this curse completely.

Chen Yutian snapped his fingers and stuck out his tongue in front of Xia Mingyu’s expectant gaze, “I don’t know.”

“…” Xia Mingyu gave him a kick.

“Hahaha, Xia Mingyu, you’re so funny.” Chen Yutian patted the dust off hs body due to the footprints left by Xia Mingyu. Then he just turned around and ran away before Xia Mingyu chased after him angrily. They ran out one after the other. Sun Yaheng shook his head as he walked behind them. In his eyes, Xia Mingyu was so childish that he didn’t even think about the severity of the matter.

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