Thirty-Three, Broken and Imperfect Justice

  Thirty-Three, The Broken Halberd

  Lin Zhengying was shocked by this situation. He couldn't believe it and exclaimed: "What?"

  This time, however, the zombies were enraged. One of them stretched out a hand and pushed Lin Zhengying several meters away. "Hmph!" it roared, pulling out the arrows on its body and breaking them off before taking step by step towards Lin Zhengying.

  Bai Yu was shocked at the sight, and hastily walked forward. At the same time, a piece of talisman paper fell into his hand, which turned out to be an array symbol! Bai Yu threw the array symbol towards the zombie, "Boom boom boom" suddenly exploded continuously, and then transformed into more than ten array pillars that surrounded the zombie all around. Another handprint appeared, and countless talismans instantly separated from the top of the array pillar, binding the zombie tightly.

  Bai Yu saw that the zombie was temporarily trapped by the array pillar, so he didn't bother with it and came to Lin Zhengying's side, pulling him and saying in a low voice: "Fellow Taoist, let's go quickly."

  Lin Zhengying also understood the logic of leaving a clear mountain, so he didn't hesitate and the two immediately returned along the original path.

  The two had just walked away, and the zombie broke free from the symbol's binding, finally obtaining freedom. As he looked around at the empty surroundings once again, he suddenly became depressed, punching his chest and stomping his feet, almost vomiting blood. This was the second time he had been toyed with by White Feather, and how could he endure it with his current fiery temper? Unfortunately, the objects around him suffered a catastrophic fate, being destroyed by his rampage.

  Bai Yu and Lin Zhengying ran to the meeting place again, at this time Bai Yu's forehead was slightly sweaty, and his breathing was also a little short. After all, he had experienced two thrilling battles and ran so many roads.

  Lin Zhengying was still in shock, muttering to himself: "How is this possible? How did foreigners manage to research zombies to such an extent?"

  Bai Yu came to his side and patted him on the shoulder, saying: "Fellow Taoist, this zombie has now undergone a mutation. With our current cultivation level, it's difficult for us to defeat it with just our Taoist techniques for the time being. However, I think we can observe it some more and see if it has any weaknesses. We can then attack from its weak points."

  Lin Zhengying was after all an old hand, but in a moment he adjusted his mood and said with some apology: "What you said is reasonable. However, I'm really sorry about what happened earlier. I didn't believe what you said and suspected that you were timid and afraid of trouble. It's despicable." The fact that he added the words "despicable" showed Lin Zhengying's straightforwardness and his regret for his earlier actions.

  Bai Yu hastily stopped him, saying: "Fellow Daoist, where are you going? It's normal that you didn't believe me earlier, after all, we've never met before and don't know each other's character. Now, the most important thing for us is to come up with a strategy to deal with that zombie."

  Lin Zhengying also nodded and said: "Fellow Daoist is right, now the most important thing is to deal with zombies, I believe that with our combined strength, we can definitely find a way out. Ah, by the way, what's your name?"

  Shiraha smiled faintly: "I am Shiraha, and you are...?"

  Lin Zhengying smiled and said: "So it's Brother Bai, I'm Lin Zhengying."

  Bai Yu saw him even calling out to his brothers, and felt a sense of relief in his heart, knowing that his task was finally accomplished.

  As expected, the system's voice rang out in his ear at the right time, "Task completed: Become friends with Lin Zhengying and work together to deal with the variant zombies in Paradise. Reward host exchange points 500 points." Bai Yu's face involuntarily revealed a smile, and he complimented Lin Zhengying again: "So you are Lin Zhengying Lin Dao brother, your name is like thunder in Jiangnan here, it's really impressive to me."

  Flattery is what everyone loves to hear, let alone Lin Zhengying who attaches great importance to face. After listening to Bai Yu's flattery, Lin Zhengying smiled awkwardly and waved his hand: "Where, it's just that some fellow practitioners in Jiangnan are being polite, don't take it seriously." These words of humility are not to be taken literally, or he would be unhappy.

  Bai Yu didn't mind these things and said: "Lin Dao brother, how about we find a place to stay first?"

  Lin Zhengying thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement: "Alright, let's go find a place to stay for the night and think of a plan later. I remember there's a charity house not far from here, let's go there."

  The two of them then headed towards the charity house that Lin Zhengying had mentioned, chatting and discussing along the way. After about half an hour, they arrived in front of a simple house, where they saw a sign hanging at the entrance with the words "Charity House" written in bold, dragon-and-phoenix-like characters.

  Looking at the White Feather Righteous Villa in front of him, he couldn't help but feel speechless. In his subconscious mind, a righteous villa should be like Ninth Uncle's residence, at least clean and tidy. But this place looked abandoned for a long time, no matter how he looked at it.

  Lin Zhengying, who was beside him, saw Bai Yu's expression and knew what he was thinking. He couldn't help but chuckle and say: "Bai brother, looking at your age, you're still thinking about making a living from being a pallbearer?"

  White Feather nodded: "I haven't received it."

  Lin Zhengying smiled and said: "Then you won't know, when hurrying the corpse, you often have to stay in a charity house, the environment here is not very good, you'd better be mentally prepared."

  When he saw the sign hanging at the door, Bai Yu could predict the general environment inside. In his mind, it was definitely covered with spider webs and thick dust everywhere. After entering, it might take half a day to clean up before being able to sleep, and people might even have to sleep on top of coffins.

  Bai Yu nodded and indicated that he understood, then proactively stepped forward, stretching out his hand to push the broken door in front of him.

  But what surprised Bai Yu was that the door was actually locked from the inside!

  Just then, Lin Zhengying smiled slightly and suddenly shouted inside, "Liu old head, quickly vacate two rooms, someone is going to live here!"

  White Feather couldn't help but exclaim in her heart: "Liu Lao Tou? Is someone actually living in a place like this?"

  It turned out that someone was indeed living there, and a hoarse voice replied from the inner room: "Coming, coming, is it Little Ying?" The voice had barely faded away when light flickered on inside the house, visible through the gap under the door. A moment later, the door suddenly swung open, revealing an old man with white hair and beard, holding an oil lamp, who emerged from within - presumably this was the so-called Old Man Liu.

  Liu Lao Tou confirmed the person outside the door, then fully opened the door and looked around, couldn't help but feel a little puzzled: "Xiao Ying ah, don't you have any business? With your reputation, it shouldn't be like this."

  Lin Zhengying smiled and said to Lao Liu: "Lao Liu, I've handed over all the business to my senior brother, he wants to set up his own independent household now."

  Liu Lao Tou shook his head with a sigh and said, "Your senior brother is still like a child, not steady enough. How can you entrust the business to him?" The attendants led the two of them into the Yi Zhuang without stopping.

  Lin Zhengying did not respond to Lao Liu's question, but just smiled and didn't continue the conversation.

  Liu old man saw him like this and didn't ask again, but looked at Bai Yu and said: "Is this little brother your apprentice? How did he even get a Taoist robe? It seems that following a good master is indeed good." Lin Zhengying heard this sentence and couldn't help but feel a bit embarrassed, saying: "Liu old man, you misunderstood. This Brother Bai is not my apprentice. He now has a Taoist robe completely because he has enough magical power. I think he got it from Maoshan."

  "Oh?" Old Man Liu couldn't help but look at Bai Yu with a surprised expression, such a young age and yet he has achieved this much, in the future it's likely to be boundless. So his initial cold attitude towards Bai Yu suddenly changed, and he started asking about his well-being with concern.

  However, this attitude made Bai Yu somewhat unbearable. This was too enthusiastic. When someone who had just met showed excessive enthusiasm towards him, anyone would feel uncomfortable all over.

  Before long, Old Liu led Bai Yu and the other to a guest room door. Old Liu said to them, "This is my best guest room, you each choose one, I think you haven't eaten yet, I'll go prepare some food for you." After finishing speaking, Old Liu went off to prepare food with a happy face.

  Bai Yu shook his head, what a passionate old man, that passion almost scared him off. Looking at the simple guest room in front of him, he couldn't help but shake his head again, is this really the best room?

  Looking at the deserted scene in front of him, Bai Yu had some doubts and asked Lin Zhengying: "Brother Lin, why is this charity house so deserted? I see that apart from a few coffins placed here, there isn't even one person rushing to collect corpses."

  Lin Zhengying looked at him with some surprise and said, "Don't you know that the number of corpse drivers in this generation is extremely scarce? The corpse drivers in Jiangnan can probably be counted on two hands. Ah, yes." Suddenly, as if he had thought of something very important, Lin Zhengying looked at Bai Yu with some doubt and asked, "Come to think of it, Brother Bai, you're not a local Taoist, are you? Otherwise, with your cultivation skills, I should have heard of you by now."

  Bai Yu listened and coughed, saying: "Oh, I'm from the side of Xiangxi, my main purpose for coming out is to travel the world, meet the world's high-ranking officials and elegant scholars."

  Lin Zhengying finally put down his doubts, he had long heard that the custom of "hurry corpse" was prevalent in Xiangxi and other places, and there were many people who hurried corpses, so he thought it was reasonable for Bai Yu to come from there. However, he suddenly became interested in Bai Yu's sentence about meeting a noble person, and curiously asked: "I wonder what kind of noble person you met on this journey?"

  This was naturally not difficult for Bai Yu, who first found a guest room and walked in, picked up the teapot on the table, poured a cup of tea, and said while drinking: "Actually, this world is so big, but it's really hard to find a master. However, not long ago, I did meet one. He was a Taoist priest from a charity house, and everyone called him Ninth Uncle."

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