Versatile Mage: Undying Fire

Chapter 112 Encounter
“Ugh~~~~~~~~~~!!”

Before everyone could react, a ghost corpse crawling on the ground at an extremely fast speed suddenly rushed over, grabbed one of the young men in a moment, and then dragged the young man several meters away.

"Help... Help... Ahhhh!!!" As soon as the young man shouted for help, he was pounced on by several crawling ghost corpses. In an instant, the young man was torn to pieces. The sight of blood and flesh flying everywhere was extremely horrifying.

The other two young men were stunned for a moment, but still ran towards the village in fear.

The ground was covered with mud and water. They were so scared that they didn't even have time to wipe the dirty water off their faces after falling down several times. They ran towards the village's wooden fence as if they had lost their lives.

But the speed of the undead was many times faster than theirs. Within a few breaths, several zombies surrounded them from both sides. One of the young men was grabbed by the arm, and then the two zombies exerted force together and the young man's arm was torn off in an instant, and bright red blood gushed out!

"Help, help!!"

The last young man shouted, and after he barely ran back to the wooden fence, he was completely out of his mind.

At dusk, the rain became heavier. The villagers who were gathered around the stakes didn’t know what had happened. It was not until they saw the young man running back covered in blood that they realized that the area outside the village was filled with mutant undead! !
"Dad, save me...save me!!"

Not long after, Hong Jun, who had several wounds on his body scratched by the undead, also escaped back. Compared with his previous high-spirited appearance, he was now like a completely different person and was no different at all from the young man who had just escaped back.

"Everyone, get out of the way! Get out of the way!" Xie Sang shouted. A blue star track quickly appeared in front of him, and then quickly turned into a water barrier that wrapped up Hong Jun.

With this layer of water defense protection, Hong Jun finally breathed a sigh of relief. He choked and shouted, "So many, so many undead souls, they...they..."

The villagers panicked for a moment. If there was only one mutant undead, it would be understandable, but why did all the undead around the village start to attack them? Didn't the well god no longer protect them? Didn't this mean that they were a group of sheep that fell into the territory of wolves? ?
"Where's Xiaoluo, where's Su Xiaoluo?" Zhang Xiaohou suddenly grabbed Hong Jun and yelled with a red face.

"I... I don't know, it should be... behind me..." Hong Jun collapsed on the ground, and a fishy smell mixed with rain came out from his crotch!

Zhang Xiaohou pushed Hong Jun away and ran directly towards the damaged fence.

"Fu Da, don't go!"

"Fool, are you going to die?"

"Village chief, village chief, there are undead spirits climbing up!!!"

Xie Sang originally wanted to pull Zhang Xiaohou back, but when he turned around, he found that several rotten corpses with extremely long claws were climbing up the wooden fence, and their green eyes were staring at the village full of living people.

Soon, a series of hungry roars were heard, and more and more undead appeared outside the village's wooden fences. The villagers were all dumbfounded, and they had no idea how to face these horrible creatures.

……

"Fu Da, where are you going!"

In the heavy rain, a frail figure appeared outside the wooden fence, and she spotted Zhang Xiaohou rushing out at a glance.

Zhang Xiaohou stopped for a moment. He was overjoyed to see Su Xiaoluo returning safely.

"You're okay, that's great." Zhang Xiaohou ran to Su Xiaoluo, looking nervous and at a loss.

"I used incense to lure them away before. Let's go back to the village quickly. We have lost the blessing of the well god. There are undead spirits all around us. It's too dangerous here." Su Xiaoluo pulled Zhang Xiaohou and ran into the village.

But as soon as they entered the village, they found several ghost corpses appeared on the muddy road in the village. These ghost corpses used their long claws to tear open the bodies of the villagers, and then enjoyed the villagers' internal organs with greedy looks!
Su Xiaoluo was completely stunned when he saw this scene. Now even the wooden stake fence has no effect at all? Is the gray wood that keeps the undead away also completely ineffective?
Screams continued to be heard in the village. Blood mixed with rain water flowed on the ground. Familiar figures fell one after another. Su Xiaoluo's tears were already falling...

"What happened?"

"What on earth is going on??"

Su Xiaoluo broke down and cried. Faced with such a horrific massacre, her spirit could not bear it at all.

Everyone in the village was like a family member to her, but now they were lying in a pool of blood, soaked in sewage, and became food for those brutal and hideous undead. Their skin was torn off, their flesh was eaten clean, and even their heads were not spared, with many holes bitten in them.

The villagers of Weiju Village have been blessed by the well god from generation to generation. The terrifying undead spirits are nothing more than aimless animals to them. Some people say that they are descendants of a certain god, so these dirty undead spirits dare not invade them, the gods' people. But what about now?
Has the God who blessed them now abandoned them, allowing these filthy ghosts to trample on the lives of these devout believers? ?

It rained heavily.

The rain was getting heavier. Zhang Xiaohou stood beside Su Xiaoluo, who was almost half-kneeling in the mud. He looked up with a blank look in his eyes...

“Wind…wind…”

Hearing Zhang Xiaohou's mumbling, Su Xiaoluo raised her head helplessly. She looked at Zhang Xiaohou, who was like a wooden man. She had no idea what he was mumbling.

"Fu Da, you should run away quickly. You are not from this village. Maybe our village has really been cursed. These undead spirits are coming for people like us..." Su Xiaoluo said in a low voice. She hoped that Zhang Xiaohou could escape from here.

"wind……"

Zhang Xiaohou was still standing there, and Su Xiaoluo did not notice that there were light blue star tracks being drawn under Zhang Xiaohou's feet.

However, the drawing process was extremely difficult, as if there was a memory barrier in his mind, and the star map was somewhat intermittent.

“Wind…Wind disk!!”

Finally, the picture in my mind appeared in my mind!

A turbulent current suddenly appeared around Zhang Xiaohou. He instinctively raised his hands, and the rain curtain in the sky suddenly twisted and spun at high speed along a spiral trajectory! !

It’s the wind!!

An extremely strong wind was turning the heavy rain, which was madly sucked into the tornado and then turned into a entangled water dragon hurricane!
“Hoohoo! Hoohoo! Hoohoo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!”

The Wind Dragon appeared on the muddy village road, and the ghost corpses that were slaughtering the villagers were sucked into this behemoth in an instant.

The hurricane continued to move, and the surrounding thatched houses rose from the ground in an instant. Many haystacks and wood were also mixed into the wind disk. The undead that were caught in the wind disk collided with the things in the wind disk and were quickly torn to pieces.

The wind was extremely violent, but it did not sweep up any of the villagers. It blew away all the ferocious undead spirits along its path! !

There weren't that many undead souls pouring into the village, but even just a few of them were enough to bring devastating damage to the village. The village chief, Xie Sang, couldn't save so many people by himself...

However, after this violent wind disk appeared, the four ghost corpses were swept into the air in an instant and then strangled to death!

"This is...this is..."

After the villagers who were saved by the wind tornado came to their senses, they all looked at Zhang Xiaohou's position in disbelief.

Su Xiaoluo was also extremely surprised. She looked at Zhang Xiaohou who was controlling the power of the wind beside her in confusion...

She had previously guessed that Zhang Xiaohou might be an adventurous hunter, but she never expected that Zhang Xiaohou would be a mid-level magician.

Village Chief Xie Sang was having a hard time dealing with several undeads by himself. He struggled for a long time but still couldn't kill these fast-moving undeads. However, Zhang Xiaohou killed four ghost corpses in one second with just one wind disk! !

"Fengpan-Tianluo!"

Zhang Xiaohou continued to draw the star map, and in a moment another even more powerful gale appeared.

The swirling gale formed a thick wind barrier, instantly enveloping all the villagers.

Zhang Xiaohou continued to control the wind barrier, preventing it from shrinking. The villagers staying in the eye of the wind were like being protected by a hurricane. The hungry undead frantically pounced on Fengpan Tianluo's wind barrier, but it turned into pieces in an instant!

Most of the undead were stupid, they only knew to pounce on living things. There were more than a dozen villagers in Fengpan Tianluo, and the breath of the villagers made them even hungrier and greedier, and then they pounced more frantically, but more people died as well.

Almost ten undead souls crashed into Fengpan Tianluo and were instantly turned into debris, dying completely.

……

Two mid-level wind magic spells fell from the sky and quickly killed all the undead that broke into the village, causing the villagers to almost kneel down and pray for the blessing of the wind god.

After killing the last rotten corpse, the village chief Xie Sang still looked at the thin young man whom he had called a fool with some disbelief.

There was no way he could deal with a dozen undead on his own. When the undead attacked the village, he knew that the village would be massacred. But he never expected that these horrible undead that destroyed the village could be killed by just two spells of this silly boy!
Xie Sang knew that he might be a mage, but he had never heard of someone with such skills at his age.

"Cry! Why are you crying? Is now the time to cry? Hurry up and hide in the well cellar!" Village chief Xie Sang shouted at the villagers in front of him who had no ability to resist at all.

The undead massacre did not actually take long, but more than a dozen villagers died and countless more were injured.

God knows if there are more mutant undead out there. As the village chief, he must make the right judgment immediately.

The well cellar is the place their village uses for refuge. The secret room is usually closed and buried deep in the stone layer, so there is no need to worry about the undead appearing. Now everyone must take some food, water, and heating things and then escape to the well cellar.

……

They had no time to mourn, and the villagers grief-strickenly took their belongings and fled into the well cellar.

It was not yet completely dark, but the village was already deserted, with only streams of bright red flowing down the muddy road.

They had no time to deal with the bodies of the villagers, which were soaked in water, and their deaths were extremely miserable...

The strange thing is that apart from the dozen or so undead before, there were no other undead creatures rushing into the village. In fact, there were many undead creatures crawling out of the ground outside the village, but they were not interested in this village at all. Even the smell of blood did not make them move here.

The rain has eased a little, and is now as continuous as needles.

Outside the village, a figure wearing a gray straw raincoat slowly appeared in the rain.

The bamboo hat was very large and covered the face of the man in the straw raincoat, so that only his slightly pointed chin could be seen.

The man walked a few steps toward the entrance of the village and looked at the pool of blood in front of him under the pattering rain...

"I didn't expect there would be another magician..." The voice of the man in the straw raincoat floated out like a cold wind.

“Uh ah~~~~Uh ah~~~~~~~~~~!”

Beside the man, several rotten corpses gradually appeared, and they were making hungry cries. They were only a few meters away from the man in the straw raincoat, but they did not attack him. Instead, they stood beside him like slaves.

"The body is yours as a reward." said the man in the straw raincoat coldly.

As soon as he finished speaking, the sturdy zombies pounced on the corpses scattered in the village, each one like a vicious dog!
“Hiding in the well cellar will be of no use, hahahahahaha!!!”

The man in the straw raincoat slowly turned around and disappeared into the black rain, leaving only his sinister laughter blending into the cold wind and echoing over the village.

……

……

It has been raining for three days straight. Mo Fan is now playing chess with Liu Ru, which is his way of entertainment.

"The rain has stopped. We can set off now." Suddenly, the follower Ali came back from outside the cave and spoke to them.

"Why, do you still want to go to Hua Village?" The short man looked at the people in front of him.

"I definitely have to go." Mo Fan said. Lin Ran nodded and said, "It's not good to give up halfway."

Meng'e also nodded.

"I'm telling you guys, I know that you all are very powerful, but I've heard from others that there's a Demon Abyss near Hua Village. If we accidentally step on it, we'll all die even if we have hundreds of lives!" the short man couldn't help but say.

“Either return the money or leave.” Mo Fan said very directly.

“It’s impossible to return the money!” the short man screamed, as if Mo Fan wanted to kill him.

"Then let's get going~." Lin Ran said, and then he patted Liu Xian. This vampire girl has been extremely happy these days.

"I want to go to Hua Village too. I haven't been back to Yangyang Village for several years. I don't know why my uncle always won't let me go back, but when I came back this time, I saw that the village was gone. I must find out what happened no matter what." The strong man said seriously.

The sturdy man's name was Fang Youmiao. When the unscrupulous Mo Fan found out that this burly farmer had this name, he laughed for a full hour, and even made Lin Ran, who didn't want to laugh, laugh.

Fang Youmiao is from Yangyang Village. Since he didn't like the closed feeling of the village, he went to the big city and stayed there for several years. But when he returned to the ancient capital a few years ago, his uncle would not let him go back to the village. Fang Youmiao thought that the village excluded him as a person who betrayed his ancestors, so he stayed in the ancient capital. But when he came back this time, he found that the whole village was gone!
After all, they are a family, so he must find out the reason for the disappearance of the villagers. The only way to find the answer is to go to Hua Village next door.

The short man was the only one who wanted to go back, so he was basically carried away by several people.

……

The journey to Hua Village seemed peaceful. Although we encountered groups of undead, we managed to get through them safely using the gray garlic.

But when everyone arrived at Hua Village, they were confused by the deserted village.

Why did the people of Huacun also disappear? ?
Several people walked into the village. The village path looked a mess, with destroyed wooden houses, scattered haystacks, and even some brown bloodstains...

It was obvious that it had been attacked not long ago, but why was there no one left?

"Damn, I'm so thirsty. I hope this well isn't dirty." The short man saw a well in the center of the village and ran over immediately.

He leaned his head down and saw a deep, dark well. Just as he was thinking about how to pump water up, suddenly a face emerged from the well, and the face was almost touching the short man's face.

Both faces were startled, the short man sat back down, and then a loud "thump" sound came from the well!
Everyone looked over, and seeing the short man's appearance, they knew there was someone in the well.

……

The person who fell into the well was pulled out. It was a young man who was wet all over. When he saw several people, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Are you Hong Jun?" At this time, the strong man recognized the young man and hurried over.

"You are...Oh, you are the young man from the next village!" Hong Jun also recognized the strong man.

"What happened in the village? Why is there no one here? Do you know where all the people in our Yangyang Village have gone?" said the strong man Fang Youmiao.

"I don't know where the people in your village have gone, but I have to go down and say hello to everyone. If we don't come out to get some fresh air, everyone will get suffocated." Hong Jun said.

……

It was a small well, but hundreds of villagers were climbing out of it one by one. This made Mo Fan dumbfounded. How deep must the well be to accommodate so many people?

The villagers climbed out one by one and gathered around the well. No one dared to leave the area easily.

Finally, a man and a woman climbed out of the well at the same time. Mo Fan's eyes widened in an instant, staring at the man, and Lin Ran also breathed a sigh of relief.

Mo Fan thought Zhang Xiaohou would come over right away, but he just followed the girl and walked past Mo Fan, completely indifferent to him standing there, just like a stranger.

Mo Fan was stunned there before he could recover from his surprise. He grabbed Zhang Xiaohou before he could walk far away.

Lin Ran also stepped forward.

"You...what are you going to do?" The one who spoke was Su Xiaoluo. She glared at Mo Fan who suddenly attacked Zhang Xiaohou, and Lin Ran who was standing beside him.

"You don't recognize me?" Mo Fan looked at Zhang Xiaohou in astonishment.

Zhang Xiaohou also looked at Mo Fan, his eyes full of confusion.

Is this amnesia? Lin Ran touched his chin and noticed Zhang Xiaohou's confused look.

"You know him?" Su Xiaoluo was delighted and said to Mo Fan hurriedly.

Mo Fan opened his mouth, then glanced at Zhang Xiaohou who was still dumbfounded, and then looked at the girl Su Xiaoluo who was reacting strangely. Could it be the legendary amnesia???
The man in front of him was Zhang Xiaohou. Even though he was as thin as a monkey, Mo Fan could tell at a glance that he was Zhang Xiaohou.

Even though Zhang Xiaohou didn't recognize him at all, even if this guy really had lost his memory, Mo Fan still grabbed him and gave him a big hug.

"It's good that you're not dead, it's good that you're not dead, Xiao Ranzi, do you want to give me a passionate hug?" Mo Fan patted him and took a deep breath.

"Get lost, so disgusting." Lin Ran couldn't help but say.

……

……

The morning light seemed a little dim because of the mist.

Although the rain stopped, the clouds did not disperse and remained above the Xianchi area all day long.

"Fu Da...Oh no, Zhang Xiaohou, I thought you would be a wooden man for the rest of your life. I didn't expect someone to come to pick you up. They are able to come here for you, you must be very important to them." Su Xiaoluo said with a bright smile on her face.

"I won't leave." Zhang Xiaohou seemed afraid of losing something, so he said to Su Xiaoluo hurriedly.

"How can this be possible? Your friend said you are a soldier, and he will take you to treatment. Maybe your amnesia can be cured." Su Xiaoluo said.

"I..." Zhang Xiaohou didn't know how to express what he wanted to say, so he could only stare at Su Xiaoluo.

Mo Fan and Lin Ran were standing nearby. They could see that Zhang Xiaohou was very dependent on this girl after losing his memory.

But then again, Zhang Xiaohou had so many wounds on his body, and there was a long scar from the back of his head to the side of his cheek. He was able to survive only because of his luck and met Su Xiaoluo.

"What's the point of leaving or not? We have made up our mind. We should move to the ancient capital as soon as possible while it is still day..." Hong Jun walked over and said to Zhang Xiaohou and Su Xiaoluo.

"Are you leaving?" Su Xiaoluo asked, looking up.

"Well, the village is no longer safe now. If we continue to stay here, we will all die." Hong Jun said.

After saying that, Hong Jun pointed in another direction. At this time, the village chief Xie Sang was mobilizing the villagers to pack their bags.

"I also think it would be better for you to leave this dangerous place as soon as possible." Mo Fan nodded.

Lin Ran said, "After all, this place is no longer safe."

"Okay, Zhang Xiaohou, then let's go together." Su Xiaoluo laughed.

Zhang Xiaohou nodded quickly. It was obvious that he had become Su Xiaoluo's little follower. Wherever she went, he would go.

Mo Fan shook his head as he looked at Zhang Xiaohou's pig-like appearance.

I brought people here with great difficulty to find you, but you are here picking up girls!
……

There were some differences of opinion among the villagers. Some stubborn people decided not to go anywhere. They would rather hide in the well and survive this difficult time than go outside the village.

Because in their opinion, leaving the village might lead to death faster.

Village chief Xie Sang meant migration, so he could only organize those who were willing to leave the village.

However, the number of people who are really willing to leave the village is not as many as imagined, and the vast majority of people actually choose to stay.

"The village is already in this state, are you still staying here waiting to die?" Su Xiaoluo shouted to the old stubborn people in the village with some annoyance.

"Yes, let's go together. If we stay in the village, we will be killed by the undead. We have lost their protection." said a young man named Gouzi.

"We have decided." A middle-aged man sat down next to the well.

"It will take at least two or three days to get to the ancient capital from here, and we have to stay outside for two nights. This is simply suicide," said an aunt.

"Zhang Xiaohou's friends can escort us to the ancient capital. We will be safe as long as we reach the outer city wall." Su Xiaoluo continued to persuade.

"We are just a few young kids. How can we deal with those things outside? Anyway, we are not leaving!"

"It's getting late. If you want to leave, do it quickly. The longer you delay, the more danger you will encounter..." said an old man.

Su Xiaoluo bit her lip, not knowing what to do for a moment.

You will definitely die if you stay here. Those undead spirits don't care whether you drink the well water or not, nor do they care about those gray wooden stakes. Even if you hide in the well cellar, it is only a temporary solution and cannot save your life.

"Since this is their decision, there is no point in persuading them. Those who want to leave should gather at the village entrance. We will set off in ten minutes. Remember to bring the garlic!" said the village chief Xie Sang decisively.

“Hello~!” At this time, Lin Ran staggered forward a few steps, and it was obvious that he was pushed by Mo Fan.

At this time, everyone's eyes fell on Lin Ran, and Su Xiaoluo felt that Lin Ran was here to take everyone away.

"I know you think you will die faster if you leave the village, and you also think we are too young to protect you..." Lin Ran slowly raised his hand and said, "Have you seen any undead above the war general level nearby?"

Lin Ran raised his hand and in an instant several star maps formed a gorgeous constellation.

Lin Ran looked at the stunned crowd and said, "I am a high-level magician who has reached the Great Perfection. I am more than capable of dealing with warlord-level undead. And if you want to stay here, I will kill you. After all, you will become undead after you die. If I kill you now, I won't have to worry about you becoming undead..."

The flames instantly condensed into a raging fire dragon, which stood behind Lin Ran and looked down proudly at the mortals in front of it.

A middle-aged man who didn't want to leave before began to tremble. The pressure brought by the young man in front of him was even greater than that of the undead.

This time everyone left together obediently.

Su Xiaoluo looked at Lin Ran and couldn't help but said, "Thank you."

Lin Ran blinked and said, "It's okay..."

At this time, Zhang Xiaohou felt unhappy. He squeezed in front of Su Xiaoluo and said with his head down, "Let's get ready quickly."

"You bastard, we came here with great effort to find you, but you're afraid that I will steal your woman?" Lin Ran was unhappy to see Zhang Xiaohou like this.

Mo Fan also nodded and said, “When he regains his memory, we will trick him.”

(End of this chapter)