Chapter 109: Black Talisman

Chapter 109: Black Talisman

In a fleeting moment of distraction, the pursuing corpse puppets had caught up from behind. Despite their crippled gait due to missing limbs, they closed the distance with Yang Haoran swiftly, as it wasn't much to begin with.

Emerging from the house, the corpse puppets immediately noticed Yang Haoran. Without hesitation, they targeted him as their prey, their bodies surging with strength as they rushed towards him with hoarse, guttural cries.

As he looked at those familiar faces, distorted by the gnashing of their teeth, Yang Haoran could still see their former selves within them—elder relatives, peers, even juniors.

Yet, they were no longer who they used to be. Stripped of their consciousness, they had become mindless corpse puppets driven solely by a hunger for flesh and blood. Despite being his clan members, Yang Haoran found it difficult to strike against them.

Blood ties ran deep, and even if they weren't immediate kin, there was still a familial connection.

But within just a few hours, Yangjia Bay had undergone such drastic changes. For Yang Haoran, it was a blow. Under these circumstances, it was indeed tormenting for him to lay hands on his deceased clan members.

His reluctance to act, however, didn't mean that these corpse puppets wouldn't. Bereft of souls, devoid of their own thoughts, they had transformed into monsters driven solely by their instincts to feed. Facing them, Yang Haoran hesitated.

Resisting while evading, Yang Haoran did his best to keep the corpse puppets at bay. Yet, the more he did so, the more passive he appeared. Within minutes, he found himself cornered by a group of them against the wall.

Meanwhile, two screams rang out from the courtyard as two police officers were overwhelmed by several corpse puppets, who then began to ravage them.

The sight left Chen Ying pale with fear, her body trembling uncontrollably with terror.

The other police officers' responses weren't much better. They were all shaken by the gruesome scene before them, not knowing whether to advance to rescue their comrades or to fend off the onslaught themselves. Powerless, they could only watch as their colleagues were torn apart by the corpse puppets.

Despite their rigorous training as police officers, their martial skills afforded them only a brief respite under the siege of the numerous corpse puppets.

But it was indeed only a momentary reprieve. Besides enduring for a short while, they gained nothing else. Instead of breaking out of the courtyard, they found themselves pinned down by the corpse puppets.

The fear in Chen Ying's heart erupted into a piercing scream. Though she was a police officer with a tough demeanor, she was, at the end of the day, just a woman. Confronted with such an unprecedented situation, once her inner terror was ignited, it became uncontrollable, like a flood bursting through a dam.

Her screams not only failed to alleviate her fear but deepened it. They also attracted the attention of more corpse puppets. Several of them roared towards her, baring their sharp fangs, leaping towards her head to bite.

She tried to evade, but she had nowhere to go. All she could do was emit a terrified and desperate scream!

Boom!!!

Just as the corpse puppets were about to touch her body, a burst of black light suddenly erupted from Chen Ying's body, accompanied by a deafening roar, its momentum astonishing!

At the moment the approaching corpse puppets touched the black light, it was as if they had slammed into a solid wall. Their bodies were collectively sent flying!

Chen Ying's expression immediately turned frantic. Before she could recover from her shock, these horrifying corpse puppets were once again bearing down on her, causing her to scream in terror.

Thud!

Thud!

Thud!

Several muffled sounds followed as the corpse puppets that lunged at Chen Ying were once again sent flying. Unlike before, where the corpse puppets were sent flying only after touching Chen Ying and triggering the black light, this time, the black light continuously shrouded Chen Ying, and the corpse puppets hadn't even touched her before being sent flying.

Although Chen Ying was filled with doubts, seeing the corpse puppets being repelled once again before reaching her, even though her mind wasn't functioning properly at the moment, she understood that the black light surrounding her could protect her.

Despite her previous despair, she now felt a flicker of hope. She believed she could still be saved.

Another scream rang out, bringing Chen Ying back to reality. She looked towards the source of the scream and saw another colleague being overwhelmed by the corpse puppets. Several of them were on top of him, viciously gnawing at his body. He screamed and struggled, but his efforts were futile. Alone, he couldn't fend off several corpse puppets.

Perhaps because the presence of the black talisman gave her some confidence, seeing her colleague struggling on the brink of death, she let out a scream, then reached out and grabbed the hovering black talisman in front of her, and directly rushed towards the colleague who was being devoured by several corpse puppets.

She charged forward like a bulldozer, and anything standing in her way or approaching her was sent flying by the black light, without exception.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Ying reached her colleague. Without hesitation, she immediately rushed to his side. Before she could act, the black light sent the corpse puppets still feasting on him flying, revealing a police officer whose body had been ravaged beyond recognition.

He wasn't dead yet, but he was barely hanging on, his body convulsing on the ground, clearly on the verge of death.

The scene before her caused Chen Ying's body to tremble uncontrollably, her expression filled with sorrow.

Because she was the only woman in their team, she often received special care from her colleagues. Even in the recent circumstances, if it weren't for the others constantly protecting her, she might have been one of the police officers who were just overwhelmed by the corpse puppets.

Under their protection, she hadn't suffered any injuries. It was precisely because of this that the black talisman she held in her hand hadn't been activated earlier. If the black talisman had been activated earlier, perhaps their situation wouldn't have deteriorated to such an extent.

Without any hesitation, Chen Ying immediately helped the struggling colleague to his feet. Looking at his horribly disfigured face, she didn't feel repulsed at all; all she felt was an indescribable pain in her heart.

"Go... quickly... get out of here... Don't... don't..."

Before the police officer could finish his sentence, he completely lost his breath, sacrificing himself in this silent and eerie Yangjia Bay.

At that moment, Chen Ying couldn't hold back her tears any longer, and they poured out uncontrollably.