It was clear that Bu Wantian had already left by the time that the personnel from the Imperial City Division arrived. Even he didn't dare to live among a village of zombies. However, the arrival of the Imperial City Division opened up some new possibilities to him. The equilibrium talismans set up here forced the zombified villagers into century-long cycles where they would lose their memories once every 100 years, and he was alert enough to catch onto this fact.

Day after day, year after year, he killed his own loved ones countless times over. Amid the mountain of heinous crimes that he had committed, Chu Renmei's murder really was quite insignificant. Perhaps he really did just get sick of her someday and decided to kill her for the sake of it. Just as he said, what excuse did he need to have for killing a dog?

Everything appeared to be simple and straightforward, but only after truly coming into contact with this would one realize just how difficult it was to crack.

The first obstacle was the Heavenly Dao. The Heavenly Dao here in this forsaken land was completely different from the Heavenly Dao elsewhere. It was like a game in which all of the villagers were NPCs, and NPC interactions through which leads could be secured could only be unlocked once certain "game events" were completed.

The second obstacle was the Taisui fungus. Only those who had consumed the Taisui fungus would notice the peculiarities present within the villagers, thereby identifying them as zombies. Only then would they...