Chapter 26: Weird Village

"Right now it's 1:46 PM, we still have over two hours to scavenge for supplies!"

"We must leave the village before 4 PM!"

"Hurry up, otherwise, once it gets dark, we'll never be able to get out!"

Nana checked the watch on her wrist and spoke with a serious expression to everyone present.

The expressions on everyone's faces were quite grim.

Time was passing so quickly!

When they arrived at the village, it was only a little past 11 AM, and now two hours had already passed.

A sense of urgency rose in Chen Ye's heart.

When the group emerged from the small supermarket and saw that eerie big willow tree, the joy they'd just felt from gathering supplies instantly turned into terror and unease.

Everyone held their breath, tiptoeing quietly past the big willow tree.

Chen Ye couldn't help but swallow hard and tightened his grip on the hand crossbow.

When his gaze fell upon the corpses hanging from the willow branches, his heart gave a slight jolt.

These corpses didn't seem right!

He remembered when they first arrived, these corpses didn't seem to be facing this direction.

But now...

Forget it, there was no time to worry about that now.

The priority was to gather supplies quickly and leave this village; nothing else mattered.

Just at that moment, a sudden scream was heard.

"Ah~~~~"

The scream was shrill and piercing.

It didn't seem to be far from their location.

Everyone on the scene instantly changed expressions.

"That's... that's..."

Zhou Xiaoxiao seemed to recognize the scream and wanted to say something.

Chen Ye coldly snapped: "Shut up, let's go!"

Zhou Xiaoxiao's pupils slightly contracted, clearly terrified to the extreme at this moment.

Unlike Chen Ye, Zhou Xiaoxiao was quite popular within the convoy and knew most of the survivors.

That scream just now gave Zhou Xiaoxiao a somewhat familiar feeling.

This dramatically increased the terror in Zhou Xiaoxiao's heart.

Fortunately, Chen Ye's cold command restored some of her rationality.

The team quickly moved away from the big willow tree's area, continuing until they were completely out of its range.

Only then did Chen Ye let out a slight sigh of relief.

Chen Ye instinctively glanced back - there should have been one more person behind them when they came out of the small supermarket.

But with just that one backward glance, Chen Ye's heart gave another slight jolt.

Behind him... there was no one.

Just then, it was Zhou Xiaoxiao again, this time looking at Chen Ye with eyes full of extreme terror.

More accurately, she was looking behind Chen Ye.

"You... you..."

Chen Ye suddenly felt a chill rush straight to the top of his head. He swiftly dodged forward two steps, aiming his hand crossbow toward the direction behind him.

Even Iron Lion and Nana were fully on guard.

But behind Chen Ye, aside from the big willow tree covered with hanging corpses, there was nothing unusual.

"You... look over there..."

"That's... it's... Little Zhuang! It's... Little Zhuang!"

Zhou Xiaoxiao pointed with a trembling finger toward a certain direction of the big willow tree.

Everyone looked in the direction Zhou Xiaoxiao was pointing.

Under the big willow tree hung a corpse.

This itself wasn't particularly strange - there were over a hundred corpses under the big willow tree.

But when everyone clearly saw this particular corpse, each person's heartbeat suddenly accelerated wildly.

Chen Ye's pupils instantly contracted to pinprick size.

This person... was actually one of the survivors who had entered the small supermarket with them earlier.

Although Chen Ye wasn't very familiar with this person, he still recognized him as one of the survivors who had followed them into the small supermarket.

The person who had been following behind Chen Ye was this very person.

The corpse hanging under the big willow tree still had a bulging backpack on it.

From the time the group left the small supermarket until now, it had been less than a minute.

Yet he had already become one of the many corpses under the big willow tree.

Even though Chen Ye considered himself mentally strong, he couldn't help but feel chilled to the bone.

This... this big willow tree definitely had problems!

Why had this person been hung under the big willow tree?

How was there no sound at all?

What exactly had happened?

Without a second thought, Chen Ye immediately started walking, not wanting to say a single word.

Rescue him!?

Don't be ridiculous!

This wasn't the first day of the apocalypse.

Even though anomalies were everywhere across the world.

Humans still felt full of terror and fear toward anomalies.

No one paid any attention to the corpse that had been their companion just a minute ago.

Everyone quickened their pace, wanting to get away from this place.

At the same time, Chen Ye's desire to awaken his sequence grew even stronger.

With just three thousand Slaughter Points, Chen Ye would definitely exchange for the method to awaken his sequence from the system.

In this apocalyptic world, only by awakening a sequence was there a way to survive.

Nana's expression wasn't looking good either at this moment.

As a superhuman of Sword Immortal Sequence 2, her five senses and six perceptions had long surpassed ordinary people.

But she still hadn't detected how that survivor had been hung on the big willow tree.

The entire village seemed covered in a layer of gray.

Outside the village, the sun was still shining brightly, but inside the village it was gloomy and dark.

They were completely two different worlds.

The group strode away from the small supermarket under the big willow tree, their footsteps hurried.

"I... I have enough supplies, I don't want to search anymore, you all go by yourselves!"

One survivor suddenly said.

After saying this, the survivor scrambled and crawled toward the village entrance.

Chen Ye clearly saw that this survivor's backpack was only half-filled with supplies.

"I... I have enough too!"

Soon another survivor followed the first one and ran off.

Iron Lion, Nana, and Chen Ye didn't say anything.

They just glanced briefly and continued hurrying forward.

The Zhou Lan and Zhou Xiaoxiao sisters were also quite tempted - Longevity Village was simply too dangerous, much more dangerous than it had been back in Xinghua Town.

Perhaps the next second they might never be able to get out.

But the sisters looked at the supplies they had currently gathered.

If they left now, these supplies probably wouldn't last them more than a few days.

The sisters exchanged glances, both seeing hesitation and panic in each other's eyes.

"Sis, we... should follow them!"

"Anyway, following them is better than going out on our own!"

Zhou Xiaoxiao whispered.

Zhou Lan didn't speak, her eyes showing only a trace of worry.

Longevity Village wasn't large, and finding the village chief's house wasn't difficult.

They just needed to look for the biggest and best house in the village.

Plus, the information from the Eavesdropping Radio had provided assistance.

"This is the place!"

The group finally arrived in front of a large house.

This house was clearly much more impressive than the other houses.

It was a small three-story building with large floor-to-ceiling glass windows that looked quite different from the other residential houses.

There was also a large courtyard with a black sedan parked inside.

But the courtyard seemed like no one had visited for a long time.

The house's exterior walls were covered with green vines, and the large floor-to-ceiling windows that should have been filled with sunlight.

Were instead covered in a gray haze, always giving people an uneasy feeling.

As if some kind of anomalous creature was hiding in front of these gray windows, spying on this group.

Any normal person facing such an eerie mansion would probably want to stay as far away as possible.