The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#610 - This strong sense of sight

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Lu Jing could feel that this zombie was much more powerful than the ones he had encountered before, in terms of both speed and strength. They were simply on different levels.

Moreover, this wasn't all; this guy seemed to have some intelligence.

He had clearly sensed danger, as he had run to the edge of the forest earlier but never came out. And when he was being chased just now, he pretended to flee, only to turn around and bite back.

It was only because he met Lu Jing that his trick didn't succeed. Instead, he lost a row of teeth for nothing. If it were someone else, they might have fallen for it.

In addition, Lu Jing carefully observed the figure during their brief exchange and was surprised to find that, apart from the wounds on his neck and lower abdomen, the rest of his body was intact.

Moreover, the wound on his neck was not a bite mark. It looked like a knife wound. As for the wound on his lower abdomen, it was pierced by the Lakeside Dagger that Lu Jing had thrown out earlier.

Lu Jing quickly thought of someone—Chen San.

The leader of the quarrymen, who had gathered people, kidnapped the owner of the quarry, and later simply went all the way and became a bandit. Unfortunately, he hadn't made a name for himself before he was murdered by his subordinates due to disagreements over the spoils.

This guy wasn't bitten to death by a zombie. His resurrection was likely due to that jade cicada.

Speaking of which, the reason Lu Jing noticed the jade cicada in Jiang Sheng's pile of clothes was also because jade cicadas have always been associated with the dead.

Regarding this point, Lu Jing also had two guesses.

One was that the strength of a zombie was directly proportional to the time since its death. Speaking of which, this was inspired by those zombie Hong Kong movies that were once very popular in his previous life.

The zombies in those movies were always stronger the older they were. A hundred-year-old was stronger than a ten-year-old, a thousand-year-old was stronger than a hundred-year-old, and a ten-thousand-year-old was invincible.

However, although Chen San died earlier than the two hundred people in the valley, it wasn't that much earlier, at most less than half a year. His strength shouldn't be so outrageously high.

Therefore, Lu Jing personally leaned towards the second guess, which was that zombies could enhance their power, or even unlock some intelligence, by turning other people or animals into zombies.

And this could explain why those zombies liked to bite people so much, because that was their way of evolving.

Chen San had wiped out the Golden Light Taoist and the two hundred followers of the Golden Light Taoist in this valley, so it made sense that he was so strong now.

As Lu Jing thought, he kept moving and closely followed Chen San.

But Chen San was also exceptionally cunning, not engaging in direct combat with Lu Jing. Even when he was caught up, he would only exchange a few moves with Lu Jing or simply endure Lu Jing's attacks with his strong body, and then continue to flee.

Chen San had been dead for a long time, and his meridians had long since atrophied, so Lu Jing's proud internal energy attacks had limited effect on him.

After all, you can't inflict internal injuries on someone whose internal organs have already rotted. They're not afraid of rotting, so mere internal injuries are nothing to them.

Lu Jing chased for a while but couldn't catch him, and his blood pressure started to rise.

Unfortunately, he had already used his Mountain River Slash when he split the courtyard earlier. Although it was fully charged now, he couldn't use it again today due to usage restrictions.

And his two flying swords were also on Chen San. The remaining small emerald green sword, which Lu Jing named Greendot, was still on him. However, it had only been refined recently, and it was easy to use when held in his hand, but it was more difficult to throw it out.

After chasing for a while, Lu Jing suddenly saw Chen San stop abruptly.

Lu Jing thought this guy was going to play another trick, so he stood still and didn't immediately go forward. Then he saw Chen San change direction again and run with his head down.

However, he stopped again after taking only a few steps, and his face was full of confusion.

At this moment, the name of a formation flashed through Lu Jing's mind—Drawing the Ground as a Prison.

He had seen Jing Xiang use this trick to deal with Gu Zhongling in Another Heaven.

And this time, it was the One-Eyed Taoist who used this formation.

Sure enough, after a while, Lu Jing saw someone holding a formation plate and walking slowly.

The One-Eyed Taoist first looked at Chen San, who was trapped by the formation, and then said to Lu Jing, "Is he the source of this zombie disaster?"

Lu Jing nodded, "It seems likely. He's the only zombie without any bite marks on his body, and his strength is much greater than that of ordinary zombies."

The One-Eyed Taoist nodded, "I will take him and the jade cicada back to the Directorate of Celestial Observation."

"Senior Wu, how are you going to take him back to the Directorate of Celestial Observation?" Lu Jing was a little surprised.

The One-Eyed Taoist explained, "If you want to figure out the usage of each strange object and the potential harm it may bring, there is no other way but to constantly research and try. There are people in the Directorate of Celestial Observation who specialize in doing this."

"You said that he became a zombie entirely because of this jade cicada, so taking him back will also help to figure out the role of this jade cicada. See if there is any way to untangle the obsession on this jade cicada."

After saying that, he stepped forward again and entered the Drawing the Ground as a Prison formation. When Chen San saw a living person approaching, he subconsciously opened his mouth to bite, but the One-Eyed Taoist took out a talisman and stuck it on Chen San's forehead, and Chen San could no longer move.

The One-Eyed Taoist showed off this skill, feeling that he had slightly regained some of the dignity of a senior expert, so he turned his head to look at Lu Jing, but saw that someone's expression was strange.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

"Oh, no, I just thought of something I saw before."

The One-Eyed Taoist thought that Lu Jing was talking about someone using this talisman in the academy before, so he didn't take it too seriously and just said, "Okay, the matter here has been dealt with almost completely. After that, just let the government issue a document saying that there is an outbreak of rabies, and let people pay attention to people who bite. If no more zombies appear within this month, then it will be considered completely cleaned up."