Gregory Xander on this end.
After receiving the message from Scarlett Jennings, he and Brother Jingze took action with the other two.
In front of them, most of the villagers were already lying on the ground.
These villagers were still in a living corpse state, but now they lay on the ground as if they were all asleep.
Nathan White was sitting on the ground, panting heavily.
Evan Anson squatted next to him, fanning him with his hand,
"Thanks to Nathan’s anesthetic spray, otherwise, with just the four of us, we really wouldn’t know how to control so many living corpses."
Nathan looked a bit embarrassed and said in a low voice,
"I-I was just trying it out. But a strong anesthetic effect on humans might not have the best effect on these villagers in a living corpse state, so it’s best to quickly gather and lock them up."
Nathan’s concern was not unfounded, as from his angle, he could even see the eyelids of many villagers on the ground twitching.
That was a sign they were about to wake up.
Gregory and Brother Jingze didn’t waste any time. They quickly used the Spirit Talisman to toss each villager into the house.
This house had a barrier set up in advance by them, which could temporarily keep the living corpses inside.
But it was only temporary.
At this moment, Gregory and his group received a message from Stella Gibson’s little paperman.
Knowing that Scarlett Jennings actually went alone to find the Evil Master behind it all, Brother Jingze showed a bit of disapproval.
"Since the Evil Master behind this dared to attempt to activate the Myriad Corpses Formation, he couldn’t be any ordinary Evil Master. How could she handle it alone?"
Even though Gregory knew how capable Scarlett was, at this moment, his expression was equally serious.
Evan Anson said,
"The living corpses here are basically under control. Leave it to me, you should quickly go and join Scarlett."
Although it was a bit challenging for one person to control a barrier holding over a hundred living corpses,
at this moment, he could only grit his teeth and persist.
Brother Jingze and Gregory exchanged a glance and ultimately decided to have Gregory stay behind while Brother Jingze went ahead to provide assistance.
Gregory would also hurry over as soon as he finished handling things here.
They planned well, but just as Brother Jingze turned to leave, there was suddenly an explosion at the village entrance.
The sound was so close that it shook them to their core.
The next second, they heard Evan Anson exclaim,
"Not good! The villagers have woken up!"
Gregory and Brother Jingze quickly turned their heads to see the villagers who had been knocked out by the anesthetic slowly waking up due to the explosion, with some of them even crawling up and lunging at them again.
Gregory lifted his foot and kicked one of the charging living corpses away, then signaled to Evan Anson,
"There’s no time! Seal the barrier first."
They needed to seal half of the living corpses already inside, or they wouldn’t be able to manage the situation with those outside as well.
As more and more living corpses awoke and charged at them, Brother Jingze couldn’t leave and had to stay and help Gregory and others fend off the remaining living corpses.
Simultaneously, a feeling of frustration welled up inside him.
If it weren’t for the disturbance just now, they might actually have successfully locked most of the living corpses inside the barrier.
Moreover, the noise clearly came from the direction of the village entrance.
Scarlett and the others should be in the middle of the village. Then who was at the village entrance?
Besides them, could there be others who had also entered this village?
...
The explosion at the village entrance was caused by Elysia Xander.
She looked at the two charred bodies on the ground with an unhappy expression.
What was going on with these two people?
She couldn’t hear what was happening inside, nor could she discern the situation inside.
But it didn’t stop this warehouse from giving her a very bad feeling.
Without waiting for Gregory or Brother Jingze to arrive, Scarlett Jennings swiftly pricked her middle finger with the Peach Wood Sword, wiping yang blood from her fingertip along the blade, then raised the sword and struck down fiercely on the barrier before her.
The sword made of thousand-year Thunderstruck Wood carried an aura of vanquishing evil, and Scarlett Jennings saw the barrier in front of her split open under her strike, then quickly dissipate.
At the same time, the aura concealed by the barrier was suddenly exposed.
The stench of corpses, blood, and a heavy scent of decay rushed into her nostrils.
Scarlett Jennings frowned deeply as she looked at the warehouse shrouded in faint foul air. Without hesitation, she raised her hand, sending a Spirit Talisman towards the warehouse door, then used her single hand to form a seal and drew to the right.
The warehouse door, under the influence of the Spirit Talisman, swung open to the right.
Before Scarlett Jennings even entered, a black mist gushed out from the opened warehouse door.
The black mist gathered momentum, rushing right at her.
Scarlett Jennings anticipated this, and she quickly sidestepped, throwing a Jade Talisman towards the black mist while forming a seal with her hands,
"Heavenly Talisman Appearance, Invisible Ghosts, Unite powers to seal!"
She had already learned how pesky this entangling black mist was; cutting it would only cause it to split into two.
This time, Scarlett Jennings didn’t intend to waste time with it.
The Jade Talisman, accompanied by the decree, emitted spiritual light, instantly binding all the black mist and dragging it entirely into the Jade Talisman.
The originally translucent Jade Talisman instantly turned murky. As it fell, Scarlett Jennings caught it and casually stashed it in her Hundred Objects Box.
In less than three minutes, Scarlett Jennings had quickly dealt with the black mist and stepped into the warehouse.
But upon seeing the scene inside the warehouse, even someone as composed as she couldn’t help but have her pupils tremble violently, her eyes widening in shock.
She saw nearly a hundred women hanging in the dim and empty warehouse.
They were barely alive, with almost no breath left, each with a deep bloody wound.
Their blood dripped down from their wounds, converging on the ground into a bizarre and sinister formation.
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