Is this what a zombie is?

35. The same sound

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Driven by anger, Jiang Chen's emotions fluctuated wildly, his heart pounding like a rollercoaster.

Jiang Chen didn't pay attention to this abnormal heartbeat. After all, he was no longer a normal person, and an irregular heartbeat wasn't a big deal.

Since I'm still alive and my heart is still beating, I might as well just make do.

But as his heart pounded abnormally, a dull heartbeat also came from the bronze coffin behind him.

The two heartbeats gradually overlapped, at the same frequency, with the same sound.

The experiment is still ongoing.

However, the Japanese army's experiments never achieved the perfect resurrection they wanted, just as Cat Master had said before, the efficacy of the Resurrection Incense was very unstable.

Figuring out the patterns of the Resurrection Incense was no easy task, and numerous experiments with combat teams did not yield any significant results for the Japanese army.

The greatest guardian is a jumble of data and a group of deformed monsters.

Some of the corpses, like the female corpse under the bed in the old house, only retained faint signs of life.

But it couldn't move; it was just a breathing, rotting corpse.

Moreover, without the condition of holding the resurrection incense in her mouth, she could not stay in the 'past' for long and would soon become a real corpse.

Some achieved their goal, indeed dying and being resurrected, becoming immortal soldiers.

But they completely lost their rationality, letting out beast-like roars from their throats, and attacking all living beings indiscriminately, regardless of whether they were friend or foe.

Just like the zombies in the movies, they only bite and gnaw, and they never stop until they die, except they are not infectious.

These uncontrollable zombies are utterly worthless. If you release them, they will be the first to attack your own people. Even if you drop them from the air, it won't have much strategic significance.

Because it is not infectious, it cannot cause large-scale casualties.

In addition to these, there are types that are completely out of control.

What impressed Jiang Chen the most was the corpse of a young man who had been tortured to death. Before he died, he was still struggling and cursing.

The Japanese soldiers couldn't see him, but Jiang Chen could see him clearly. The gray gas around him was incredibly dense, a mixture of extreme resentment and anger.

At the moment of his death, gray energy, or negative energy, completely enveloped him. Under the catalysis and combination of the smoke from the Resurrection Incense, he underwent an unprecedented mutation.

"roar!"

With a roar that sounded inhuman, the young man suddenly sprang up, and the power he unleashed tore the restraints to shreds.

His speed was so fast it was like a ghost; the Japanese soldier closest to him hadn't even had time to react.

His throat was torn open, and scalding blood spurted out, spraying all over the face of the man in the white coat next to him.

"Baka!"

Judging from the lip movements, this is it. With the colonel's roar, the soldiers next to him immediately raised their guns and fired.

The dense gunfire echoed, but the bullets that hit the youth only caused spurts of blood and minor superficial wounds, doing nothing to stop his actions.

One round of concentrated fire followed by another, involving over a hundred guns, resulting in over thirty casualties and hundreds of bullets, before the young man's body was reduced to a pile of minced meat, rendering him unable to move.

Looking at the mess on the ground and the mindless, untamable zombies locked in iron cages, the Japanese colonel finally ran out of patience.

These defective products were not the immortal legion he wanted, nor could he explain them to their emperor.

After some thought, the Japanese colonel turned around and turned his gaze to the bronze coffin.

Since the Resurrection Incense cannot achieve the goal, let's try another method.

Any method that achieves the goal is a good method.

Soon, twelve figures stepped into this area.

They wore white hunting robes, tall ewer hats, and wooden clogs.

This kind of attire immediately reminded Jiang Chen of Onmyoji, practitioners native to Japan whose magic is said to have originated from the Five Elements theory of China.

These twelve Onmyoji were professionals hired by the Japanese colonel to open the bronze coffin.

Centered around the bronze coffin, a Japanese colonel slaughtered some people as sacrifices and used their blood to outline a pentagram.

The twelve Onmyoji stood in specific positions around the bronze coffin, each taking out a stack of talismans from their robes, their movements perfectly synchronized.

He scattered talismans, then formed hand seals and began to chant softly.

The talismans, hand seals, and chanting combined to generate invisible energy that resonated strongly with the pentagram beneath their feet.

When the energy condenses to a certain degree, twelve phantoms gradually emerge behind these Onmyoji, taking shape in mid-air.

Shikigami are an important part of the Onmyodo (the way of Yin and Yang) in Onmyoji.

The word "shiki" means to serve or employ, so the existence of shikigami is that of the attendants of the Onmyoji and an important component of their combat power.

There are many sources, the most common being subdued spirits, evil ghosts, vengeful spirits, and earthbound spirits.

Their shikigami include: a blue-faced, fanged demon; an armored oni warrior; a beautifully winged demon bird; and a gigantic three-tailed fox demon...

Each shikigami looked extraordinary, and the combined energy fluctuations they emitted even caused this historical illusion space constructed by the Resurrection Incense to begin to twist and deform violently, as if it were about to collapse at any moment.

The twelve Onmyoji formed hand seals, pointing directly at the bronze coffin, and whispered a shout.

The next second, the twelve shikigami let out a silent roar, transforming into twelve streams of light of different colors, and bombarded the bronze coffin in the center of the magic array from all directions.

The entire illusion space was plunged into pure white for several seconds by this attack.

When the light faded and everything reappeared, the shikigami's figure was nowhere to be seen, and the onmyoji were all pale and swaying precariously.

The bronze coffin remained intact in its original place. Could this be the "smoke without damage" principle?

No, it is not intact.

Jiang Chen seemed to hear an extremely faint yet incredibly clear cracking sound.

"Click—"

The lid of the bronze coffin, at the edge where it connects to the body, still cracked with a narrow gap under the combined attack of the twelve shikigami.

A thick, almost impenetrable wisp of black energy suddenly burst forth from the crevice!

Jiang Chen stared at the crack, instinctively wanting to step forward and see what was inside.

The secret from a century ago, his connection with this coffin, might provide the answer.

However, at that very moment—

The gray and white world before my eyes began to churn violently.

All the scenes, people, and lights were like an old television set that suddenly lost its signal, instantly shattering into a sky full of static, making it impossible to see anything clearly.

After a period of intense dizziness and weightlessness, the scene before my eyes shifted from the massive underground base back to Attorney Luo's solitary cell.

However, the cell was clearly in disarray, having just been through a battle.