The graveyard was located at Nan Tang Village in the southern part of Eastern State. It was only 15 kilometers away from Xu Ling Village, where the Necro-skins appeared.
When they connected the dots between the zombies and the Necro-skins, everyone felt strange.
On the way to Nan Tang Village that very night, Gu Jun fell asleep on the seat. However, due to his restlessness, he did not sleep well.
The Necro-skins incident was only a Grade F file, which was quite ironic. However, the abnormal creatures that Phecda had faced were definitely not the ones that could send chills down the spines of the foreign people who knew spells.
There were still many unanswered questions about the Afterlife Cult. Gu Jun now knew that the tissue samples of the black robes and Red Specters had been tested. There was no blood relationship between them, they were all normal homo sapiens. The head of the Red Specter was dissected, but there was nothing to be found.
Zombies … definitely existed, and they might have appeared at Eastern State already …
The mountain road was shaky. When they arrived at Nan Tang Village, it was already 4 am. The sky was still dark, but the peace of the village had been shattered.
Gu Jun, Yao Sinian, and the rest were not the first to arrive. The Investigation Department, Action Department, and other departments had already cordoned off the village and taken control of the graveyard.
There was also a Special Mobile Force, a Demon Hunter unit, at the gathering point that led to the graveyard.
"Ah Jun!" Uncle Dan's kind and hearty call came from behind. Xue Ba's loud and boisterous call followed. "Ah Jun!"
They were just ahead. When Gu Jun saw this group of familiar faces, he could not help but feel relieved. Everyone was fine.
However, Lin Mo, who had lost his left leg, had already retired from the unit. He was no longer fighting on the frontline. He had returned to the Scientific Research Department to work as a logistician.
Lou Xiaoning was still there. Although she was missing her right eye and wore a black eye patch like a pirate, her experience of looking directly at an indescribable phenomenon was very valuable. It was enough for her to stay and continue to be the vice-captain.
When she saw Gu Jun, Lou Xiaoning laughed. "Good job, I hear you're the leader of a new unit. I was hoping to recruit you into the Demon Hunters."
"I'm just a general without an army." Gu Jun was too embarrassed to mention the Problematic Team. When Salted Fish Wu was around, he could still point her out, but now he could only stare at her.
After exchanging a few pleasantries about their reunion, they began to talk about the current situation.
Now, regarding the ESP, hallucinations, and zombies that Gu Jun had mentioned, of all the Special Mobile Force members in the entire Eastern State, only the Demon Hunters had the best understanding of these concepts.
"Ghouls." Xue Ba's muscles tensed up as he started to explain. "You know, these things come from Arabian folklore. According to legend, they have the ability to disguise as other animals, especially hyenas. That's why the legendary zombie has the face of a dog. They lure unsuspecting humans deep in the desert and into remote areas to be killed and eaten. I'm not joking. I'm serious. "
Gu Jun didn't doubt it. Recalling the hazy and ugly faces in the illusion … Hyenas? He couldn't remember …
However, he thought of something and looked around. "Commander Yao, how's the police here? If this is a ghoul trap, can we handle it? "
"It shouldn't be a problem." Yao Sinian did not dare to be careless. "Heavy firepower has been deployed, and some combat vehicles are on their way."
Gu Jun nodded, but the anxiety in his heart did not dissipate.
With the leader of Nan Tang Village leading the way, the group walked toward the old graveyard. Even though it was lit up by temporary spotlights, the place still looked eerie.
Village Leader Chen Decheng was confused about why there was such a big commotion in the middle of the night. After all, only a few officers had come to take a look at the previous incident.
However, when he talked about this, Village Leader Chen's anger flared!
Village Leader Chen was born and raised in Nan Tang Village. According to him, this was just a normal village. Most of the villagers had the surname Chen, and almost all of them shared the same ancestral hall. The grudge between Nan Tang Village and the other villages had ended with the arrival of modern life. He really couldn't imagine who could be so evil.
"This is our village's old graveyard," Village Leader Chen said. "A few years ago, the town said they would move it. How are they going to compensate for ruining our Fengshui? "
He said that nowadays, when the villagers passed away, they would go to the funeral parlor for cremation and then erect a tombstone at the new graveyard.
This old graveyard was filled with ancestors who had been buried decades ago.
Gu Jun was surprised. If that was the case, then the bodies in the graveyard were already a pile of bones, there should be nothing left to rot …
The road to the old graveyard was muddy and overgrown with weeds. He paid attention to his surroundings, but it was not the place in his illusion.
This time, there were five graves that had been dug up, and they all happened in one night.
"Seriously …" Village Leader Chen did not dare curse in front of the leaders, so he was too angry to say anything. "Even our grandfather's grave has been dug up!"
'Grandfather' was the leader of the Chen family more than a hundred years ago. He was highly respected in Nan Tang Village and held a high position in the ancestral hall.
The elder's grave had been repaired many times, and now it was a rather luxurious stone tomb. However, a few days ago, when someone dug it up, it was a complete mess. The villagers planned to seek justice from the media, so other than tidying up the broken coffin and scattered bones, they did not repair anything else.
Village Leader Chen led them to the grandfather's grave. Gu Jun looked at the messy surroundings, but he did not sense anything out of the ordinary.
"Village Leader, please show us the other graves," he said.
"Oh." From Village Leader Chen's perspective, the destruction of the grandfather's grave was all there was to it. There was nothing else worth mentioning. However, for now, he could only show them around. They looked at one grave after another, and this young Mr. Gu said that they should go to the next one.
When they arrived at the fifth grave that had been dug up, it was also the one that had been damaged the most.
Yao Sinian, Xue Ba, and the rest noticed that something was wrong from the fallen tombstone. Xue Ba asked, "Village Leader Chen, what are the words on the tombstone?"
Gu Jun was also studying the ancient tombstone that was buried in the mud. The inscription on it was already blurred. It was not the foreign language, and it was not a common language that could be recognized. There was a strange, dilapidated air about it, and it seemed to be hiding some kind of past …
"This?" Village Leader Chen was troubled. "This grave does not belong to our Chen family. It appears to have been left behind by an outsider. I'm not too sure myself."
This time, everyone perked up. If it was not for the cannibalism, then this grave was the real reason.
"Village Leader Chen, I need you to bring the village elders who know about this," Yao Sinian said seriously. "This is very serious. We can't disturb their rest anymore."
Being led away by the Demon Hunters, Village Leader Chen did not dare waste any more time. He immediately went to knock on the doors of each house and dragged out the village elders.
Soon, Village Leader Chen's group returned with six village elders. Four of them could walk on their own, and the other two had to be pushed by their family members in wheelchairs. The oldest of them, Chen Shu, was already 95 years old, and the rest were in their 80s and 90s.
Only old people of their age would know some of the past events that had long since passed away.
"This grave belongs to Old Dog Uncle …" Chen Shu said with a hunched back. His wrinkled face that was covered in age spots was tinged with excitement as he recounted the story of his childhood.
Even though he was 95 years old, Chen Shu's mind and speech were still clear. He spoke in the local dialect of the Eastern State, and Village Leader Chen translated it into Chinese.
"At the time, there was a war. I was still young, and his family avoided the war. They were outsiders. Initially, no one welcomed them and chased them away, but Grandpa said that it was a war, so they should stay. Oh, they worked hard, and the people slowly accepted them. Their family lived in the village for a few decades. Later, Old Dog Uncle died. Some of them died, some of them left, and some of them disappeared. "
Uncle Dan, Lou Xiaoning, and the rest looked at each other. Gu Jun recalled what Xue Ba had said, and he asked with a frown, "Why is Old Dog Uncle called by that name?"
"Old Dog Uncle?" Chen Shu's tone was filled with emotion. "He looked very strange. Everyone said he looked like a dog, so they called him Old Dog."
"That's strange. That family is very strange … They don't intermarry with us, and they don't play with us. The strangest thing was that one time …"
Chen Shu's face darkened with a complicated mixture of fear and confusion. "You youngsters won't believe it …"
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