Chapter 1231: The Bloodstained Wedding

After switching to a new body and undergoing another growth, Black Silk’s mental sketches had clearly improved quite a bit.

The drawings were still simple… but at least they were in color now!

“Looks like you finally managed to afford colored pencils…” Ling Mo said.

Black Silk snorted, ignoring Ling Mo’s teasing, and began her introduction: “These are all the routes we’ve taken so far… including the streets and inside this Hotel. Master, take a look-do you notice anything off?”

“Hmm…” Ling Mo looked to the other side of the drawing… It was a map of the Town, sketched from Black Silk’s memory, just as they had seen it upon arrival. With a Zombie’s memory… as long as they wanted to recall, they could reproduce every detail perfectly. Simply put, it was like a twenty-four-hour surveillance machine, constantly recording, leaving nothing out. But most of it was intentionally or unintentionally pushed to the back of their minds.

“We’ve been taking detours all along.” Ling Mo found a common point on both maps and said, “Although our opponent tried to make us think we were moving in a straight line, in reality, we were just circling the original streets over and over. With our vision misled, those tiny differences were indeed impossible for us to notice.”

“Yeah… but what does that prove?” Black Silk asked.

That so-called common point wasn’t hard to find… it was this Hotel.

“If they’d bothered to pick a completely nondescript residential building as our first meeting spot, maybe we wouldn’t have discovered this so quickly. But choosing this Hotel is pretty reasonable… It’s obviously a perfect place to set a trap,” Black Silk muttered.

“Exactly… And taking detours reveals a misunderstanding we had before.” Ling Mo answered, thinking quickly. “The opponent’s ability isn’t strong enough to affect the entire town; in reality, it’s just a certain area. And once we enter a building, their power can reach its peak.”

“Master, are you saying… contraction? Focusing the area of effect inside the building?” Black Silk asked tentatively.

“That’s right. That way, it’s easier for them to deal with us efficiently… But at the same time, for us, it’s also an opportunity.” Ling Mo sounded a bit excited.

As for whether that was true… they’d soon find out…

A few seconds later…

“Hmm? It’s getting dark in the distance…” The spiritual body Xiao Hei suddenly stretched out.

Peering over the tall buildings, it saw the boundary between darkness and light. It looked as if there was an invisible line-this side was a vast whiteness, the other was darkness. And through that darkness, presumably, was the real night sky with moonlight.

“So, where would the person changing the environment be hiding…” Xiao Hei scanned around. In the end, he locked his gaze on the center.

“To maximize a Superpower, you’d have to make yourself the center, right…”

The smaller the area, the higher his chances of finding the opponent…

And as Ling Mo’s group ventured deeper into the Hotel, this region kept shrinking…

“Wait…” Li Yalin led the group around a corner not far from the stairway, then stopped in front of a door. Her eyes switched back to Zombie mode, and she began inspecting the floor. ɌάŊọＢƐṢ

The others looked toward the door… It was ajar, and a dull-colored sign lay fallen at the entrance, its once-fine paper long soaked in blood, the white flowers around it now stained with plasma and all sorts of messy, unidentifiable filth.

“Could this be… a wedding venue?” Mu Chen said, his mouth twitching.

The group fell silent…

“Hmm… now that you mention it, I did see quite a few low-cut dresses and suits… I mean, on those corpses downstairs,” Yuwen Xuan added.

“All those clothes have turned to rags. I’m impressed you can still tell what they were,” Ye Kai marveled.

Xu Shuhan shot them a glare: “Shouldn’t the real question be… why anyone would pay attention to what the corpses are wearing! But he’s not wrong…”

“So not only did the other side play ‘Ode to Joy,’ they also picked a wedding venue…” Ling Mo looked around, sighing, “They really went to a lot of trouble…”

“It’s inside,” Li Yalin finally confirmed.

Creak-Xia Na was the first to step aside and push open the door.

As the door opened, the scene inside came into view.

A banquet hall… and a very dimly lit one at that…

Aside from the scattered tables and chairs, there were a lot of human figures.

At first, Skinny Monkey and the others were startled, but upon calming down, they realized these were all corpses.

They still sat in their original poses, their gruesome death states frozen in their seats-even the bride and groom were still there.

“I think they were actually about to tear each other apart while alive…” Mu Chen remarked. The couple’s arms were indeed still on each other, looking almost like an embrace…

“Marriage is a grave…” Skinny Monkey sighed as well, but immediately received several eye rolls.

“Hmph!” Xia Na especially let out a snort.

“Yeah… the others are also holding a bloody feast…” Ye Kai and Zhang Xincheng exchanged a glance, then quietly walked in with their weapons.

After checking around, the two each gave a signal that it was safe.

Ye Lian walked over to the red carpet on her own, staring blankly at the stage ahead.

There was still a master of ceremonies standing on that stage… judging by the eyes, it had already evolved to mutation-level, but now it was completely silent, staring down at the crowd with a pair of lifeless eyes.

“This is probably the bloodiest wedding scene I’ve ever seen…” Yuwen Xuan shrugged and said.

Ling Mo checked behind the door, then walked over to Ye Lian.

Following Ye Lian’s gaze, Ling Mo found she was staring intently at the Zombie master of ceremonies.

This scene made Ling Mo’s heart stir…

Thinking back… Ye Lian had never mentioned weddings before…

But she had said… for example, whenever she saw a wedding dress train, she always wondered what would happen if she stepped on it…

“Then why didn’t you step on it when your classmate got married?” Ye Lian sat on the sofa hugging a pillow, asking with a laugh.

“The groom would go on a rampage,” Ling Mo replied.

“So you just think about it?”

“No, I’m waiting to step on one who won’t get mad.”

“Uh… wouldn’t anyone get mad? Either the bride or the groom…”

“If she falls into my arms and the whole place bursts into thunderous applause, then no one would be mad,” Ling Mo answered.

Ye Lian’s expression paused for a moment, then she smiled and said, “That’s the weirdest wedding I’ve ever heard of…”

“Yeah…” Ling Mo took his hands off the keyboard, turned to look at her.

If the bride were you… then it would only be beautiful…

“Are you thinking about this too?” Ling Mo hugged Ye Lian tighter, whispering in her ear.

Ye Lian, who rarely reacted, blinked at this moment…

Meanwhile, everyone had already moved deeper into the venue, carefully searching for that corpse.

Li Yalin kept searching along the dining table, and the heat traces were even more obvious here, indicating the corpse had just been dragged here not long ago.

“But… where is it?”

Li Yalin circled around, staring at the floor…

“These corpses are really creepy…” Mu Chen and the others were also helping to search nearby.

But just as Gu Shuangshuang passed by one of the corpses, this seemingly motionless Female Zombie suddenly twitched a finger, then slowly twisted her neck to look at her…

And the other corpses also “came to life” at this moment…

“Squeak…”

The main door, unnoticed by everyone, began to slowly close…

“Bang!”

As the door slammed shut, everyone immediately reacted, but at that moment, all the corpses suddenly leapt up and lunged at the nearest person…

“Holy shit!”

“Ah!”

In an instant, cries of alarm and the sound of tables and chairs toppling erupted simultaneously, plunging the entire banquet hall into chaos, and the already dim environment became even darker…

“What the hell is this!”

“Where did all these Ambushers come from!”

“Be careful, don’t let them touch you!” Ling Mo swept away a pouncing Zombie with a Tentacle, then shouted as a familiar virus scent wafted over, “There’s something wrong with these corpses!”

Angry shouts and screams grew even denser… If the attackers were corpses… then they were all Zombies! And Senior Zombies at that!

Now, everyone wasn’t gathered together, but scattered in a complex environment.

Anyone caught would be finished… of course, except for those Zombies who had disguised themselves as humans.

Xia Na and the other Female Zombies reacted immediately, and while everyone else couldn’t see clearly, they quickly responded in the darkness and launched a counterattack.

Rustle!

After a fierce exchange, the first wave of Zombies lunging at the crowd was taken down. Xia Na and the others, having forcefully cleared a space, dragged Gu Shuangshuang and the others who could barely protect themselves into a corner, where everyone fought back-to-back against the relentless Zombies.

“Damn! I almost died!” Mu Chen panted heavily, his face full of lingering fear.

“But something’s weird…” Yuwen Xuan suddenly conjured a Flame, instantly illuminating the face of a Zombie lunging forward. That ferocious face made several people scream, especially at the deep, bone-revealing, unhealed wound on its face…

“These Zombies… why are they completely silent…”

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