King of Black Mist

It was already dawn, and with a loud whistle, a group of white pigeons swarmed out from a certain palace, hovered over the Forbidden City for a while, and flew towards the White Tower in the North Sea.

"Players who can enter this game are considered experts. Why would they become the emperor's concubine?" Li Qianxia looked at the graceful back of Concubine Cao Duan.

"Male players want to sleep with all the beauties of the past and present. Women also have this idea, but they sleep with men." Yaochi explained.

She continued: "With this idea, coupled with the appropriate 'origin', the game will naturally give her priority in assigning similar identities, so Chang Zhou and I are the Emperor and Queen of Heaven, Qian Xia, you are the sister of the Emperor of Heaven, and Qing Lan is The Goddess Gushe who doesn’t eat the fireworks of the world.”

In one sentence, he hinted that he and Li Changzhou were in tune with each other, elevated his sister-in-law, and pointed out that Yang Qinglan actually didn't love Li Changzhou that much in her heart, and still liked to be alone and aloof from the world.

After listening to this, Li Qianxia didn't care about the first two points, but kept an eye on the last point.

Does Qinglan really not like my brother that much? No, when assigning an identity, all aspects must be considered, including appearance, skills, etc.

Yang Qinglan said: "It seems that I did a good job. I went against the will of heaven and did not follow the game's arrangements. I am a qualified black card."

She walked gracefully, holding fairy Ruyi in her hand, dressed in white, and her belt fluttering like a butterfly.

A palace maid hung a parrot cage on the eaves of the balcony facing the sun.

While the palace maid turned around to get the bird food, Li Qianxia flicked the parrot's head with her finger.

"Lucky New Year's Day! Lucky Queen!" the parrot straightened its neck and screamed. It was a parrot specially trained for New Year's Day.

Li Qianxia laughed twice and teased it twice.

Emperor Jiajing's biological mother, Mrs. Jiang, died in 1538. The current Empress Dowager Zhang in the palace was Emperor Jiajing's aunt.

The beauty with beautiful hands, Queen Fang, led all the concubines, princesses in the harem, and some royal wives to the Palace of the Queen Mother to celebrate.

According to the rules of the palace, the emperor should also give congratulatory gifts to the Queen Mother, but Emperor Jiajing had no good impression of Queen Mother Zhang.

Empress Dowager Zhang had two younger brothers. One was granted the title of Marquis of Shouning. In the early years of Jiajing, he was promoted to Duke of Chang Kingdom. He was dismissed from the title in 1529 and arrested in 1533. He died in prison.

The other younger brother, the feudal Marquis of Changchang, would have died as well and would still be in prison if the Empress Dowager Zhang had not knelt down to plead for mercy.

Because of these two incidents, Queen Mother Zhang, who was already 69 years old, could not afford to fall ill.

When Yang Qinglan and the others arrived at Ciqing Palace, Yingying Yanyan's large army had already begun to evacuate. Empress Dowager Zhang did not keep them, and they did not want to stay with Empress Dowager Zhang who was not dealing with Emperor Jiajing for a long time.

Queens, concubines, concubines, princesses, and concubines wearing bright and luxurious palace attires and imperial attires are like a flowing colorful river in the snow-covered Forbidden City.

"Zisui, go and see this Queen Mother Zhang." Yaochi ordered the voluptuous one under her command.

"Misha." Bi looked at a Russian female player, "You go too."

"Yes." Misha nodded.

The two jumped into Ciqing Palace. Yaochi did not wait for them and followed Concubine Cao Duan directly. Yang Qinglan's eyes fell on the chariot of Queen Fang, the beauty with beautiful hands.

After a while, Zi Sui and Misha rushed up.

"Yaochi (Princess), she's dead!"

Everyone stopped.

"What's going on?" Yaochi moved forward and continued to follow Concubine Cao Duan.

"After we entered," Zisui replied quickly in a low voice, with a hint of fear in her tone, "the queen mother and all the maids and eunuchs sat neatly in the palace, holding their heads in their hands."

Li Qianxia took a step towards Yang Qinglan.

"That scene was too scary." Misha shrank her shoulders as if she felt cold.

"What are you afraid of! Useless things!" Bi folded her arms.

Misha knew the princess's mouth very well and was not afraid of her at all. She was still frightened in her heart.

She and Zisui sneaked in and didn't sense anyone, so they entered the room directly. They were shocked to see a room full of people sitting on chairs one by one.

When he looked closely, he saw that these were all holding his head.

Queen Mother Zhang was almost 70 years old and was seriously ill again. She was very vicissitudes of life. She was sitting on the table holding her head and just looking at them. She was scarier than any other ghost.

"Killing people in such a short period of time without making a sound." Yaochi fell into deep thought.

"Be careful with this skill." Yang Qinglan said.

Li Qianxia tentatively said: "Could it be——"

She suddenly lost her voice.

"What's wrong?" Yang Qinglan looked at her.

Li Qianxia pointed forward.

Everyone looked over and saw that the eunuch at the end of the crowd took off his head as if taking off his hat, held it in his arms, and continued to follow the team forward.

Not long after, a palace maid next to the eunuch also took off her own head.

The queen and her entourage walked in silence without any communication. Starting from the end, they took off their heads one by one.

The people walking in front had no idea that the eunuchs and maids following behind them had turned into corpses.

The sky is clear and the sun is rising, but there is a chill in the Forbidden City. Inexplicable fear surges into my heart, making people feel chilled all over.

"What should we do?" Li Qianxia's mouth was trembling, "Are we going to take down Concubine Cao Duan directly?"

So far, Concubine Cao Duan is the most suspicious.

"What kind of skill is it? Why is it so weird?" Zisui's face was equally ugly, not because he was afraid of ghosts, but because he was worried that he would also take off his head.

Thinking of this, Zi Sui quickly looked back and saw Narcissus at the very back of the crowd, holding her head in both hands. She screamed in fright.

"Narcissus!"

The sound was not loud, but it was very penetrating. Everyone was startled and looked at Narcissus.

Narcissus was also startled.

"What are you doing? You scared me to death!" Narcissus transformed from a translucent water man into a naked, living human body.

It was obvious that he was really scared.

"Did you know you were going to take off your own head?!" Zisui said.

"I -" Narcissus was speechless and said a little embarrassedly, "I was worried that my head was gone, so I felt it to see if it was still there."

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"Stop scaring people!" Yaochi glared at the two of them.

"Hey, if we don't take action, all of these people will die." Bi Luo rested on the shoulder of one of his men, looking at the palace maid and eunuch walking in front.

"As long as we don't catch up, the other party will probably stop." Qi Die said.

"It's not that simple," Yang Qinglan said. "Now that the other party has taken action, they will definitely not let it go."

"What do you mean, this person will deliberately make things worse?" Yaochi asked.

Yang Qinglan nodded.

The team was already some distance away from them, but the act of decapitating people still hadn't stopped. If it continued, the whole harem of Emperor Jiajing would die here.

What's even more terrifying is that the eunuchs and maids guarding the palace gates along the way also took off their own heads.

"If this continues, will the entire palace turn into a ghost town?" Li Qianxia asked with a breath of cold air.

A book flew out from the ground and was spread out in front of Yang Qinglan. Holding Ruyi in her hand, she turned directly to the last paragraph of the last page.

"Who did this?" Li Qianxia leaned over.

"Queen Mother Zhang." Yang Qinglan said.

"What?!" Everyone was surprised.

"Isn't she dead?" Misha shouted.

"That's why other people pick off people's heads!" Zisui figured it out.

"Push her head back!" A Russian female player named Thea lifted up her Hanfu skirt and pulled out a gun from her long and strong thigh.

In the Forbidden City where "powers" cannot be used, the thermal weapons that should have been eliminated have indeed become useful again.

"You follow Concubine Cao Duan, I'll go back and take a look." Yang Qinglan's white clothes floated like light smoke, and she was already heading towards Ciqing Palace.

"Qinglan, I'm coming with you!" Li Qianxia said and was about to catch up.

"No, I will call your brother if necessary. You follow Yaochi and the others. Remember to call your brother out if there is danger."

When the first word was spoken, Yang Qinglan was still in front of everyone. By the time of the last word, she had already entered Ciqing Palace.

When she walked into Ciqing Palace, the courtyard was full of people, holding their heads in their hands and looking at her with their eyes open.

The brand-new eunuch and palace maid uniforms were as ghastly as the Qing Dynasty costumes in zombie movies.

The sound of footsteps came, and the luxuriously dressed Queen Mother Zhang walked out of the hall holding her head in her hands.

She stood in front of the palace gate, behind all the eunuchs and maids, looking at Yang Qinglan with empty eyes.

The scene in front of him looked like a group of hanged ghosts and human tombstones. Yang Qinglan felt a little chilly in her heart.

She held Ruyi in her hand and waved it gently, and a needle made of flesh and skin flew out from the neck of Queen Mother Zhang's body.

The needle shuttled between the neck and the head. The head held in the hand was quickly pulled back by the silk thread. After a minute, Queen Mother Zhang became complete.

The eunuchs and maids held up their heads and put them back.

"Quick, go clear the snow!"

"Has the Queen Mother's medicine been cooked?"

"Go get some cypress wine and cook some water snacks (dumplings). The Queen Mother likes to eat them."

Ciqing Palace has changed from a gloomy morgue to a busy scene on New Year's Day in Ming Palace.

There was nothing wrong, but Yang Qinglan took a step back. As soon as she moved, all the eunuchs and maids looked at her at the same time. Their hands were still busy working, their mouths were talking, but their eyes were looking at her.

She was wary that the players who could enter this game would not be invincible to her in terms of overall strength, but they would definitely be difficult to deal with.

"Are you here to become an immortal or to cause disaster?" Yang Qinglan asked.

The old and bloodless face of Queen Mother Zhang looked at Yang Qinglan and gave a dead smile.

Yang Qinglan frowned slightly. She had already read the history of the Ming Dynasty. The Empress Dowager Zhang will die next year, and the player who replaces her may not be a healthy person with a normal mind.

She thought of the corpse-hunting sect that Zheng Qing captured.

Is it a zombie sect? Or a certain type of player who simply turns into a corpse?

Queen Mother Zhang slowly raised her hands, and her sleeves slipped down, revealing her arms covered with corpse stains. She spread her fingers and held the sides of her head, making a gesture of taking them off.

Yang Qinglan's whole body tensed up, feeling a strong crisis.

She knocked out Ruyi, and the dark blue ice swallowed up the entire yard in an instant like a scourge.

The crisis slowly dissipated like smoke, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

Da da da

There were footsteps behind me.

Yang Qinglan didn't look back, and another ice cube flew out. When she turned around, a palace maid was frozen in front of the gate of Ciqing Palace.

The palace maid put her hands on both sides of her head, with the same cold smile on her face as Queen Mother Zhang.

The sun shines on the Forbidden City, the snow melts, and the temperature becomes even lower.

Yang Qinglan moved her hand, and two booklets flew from the palace maid and Queen Mother Zhang respectively. She swept her eyes and fell into deep thought.

It's not a human, it's a fungal infection that can quickly spread and hijack the host's mind, turning it into a zombie.

The act of removing heads is an unknown skill and is also highly contagious.

Skills are contagious

The sudden sound of flapping wings sounded in this dead and cold palace. Yang Qinglan was shocked as if she was suddenly tapped on the shoulder while reading a ghost story.

She looked up and saw a parrot landing on the old locust tree in the yard. It was obviously a bird, but it looked at her expressionlessly like a human.

The parrot raised a paw and clasped it toward his head.

With a crash, another handful of ice cubes were thrown out, freezing the parrot on the tree.

Wow!

Countless birds rained down from the sky, and dozens of cats and dogs walked inside and outside Ciqing Palace.

They looked at Yang Qinglan and grabbed his head at the same time.

Yang Qinglan threw the "Fairy Ruyi" in her hand, and Ruyi hung in the air. Endless peach blossom petals fell down and shuttled among the hair of pigeons, cats and dogs, drawing blood lines and cutting off their limbs.

Lying in strips on the frozen ground without limbs, the eyes of these cats, dogs and birds were still looking at Yang Qinglan.

Ruyi let out a soft cry, and circles of blue light swayed out. The entire Ciqing Palace was frozen, and no one or animal could walk in.

Looking at the corpses around her, Yang Qinglan felt a little eerie, her eyes turned blue, her body flew into the sky, and the ice above her head made way for her.

Before the others could notice her, the direction of "gravity" changed. She tapped her toes on the horns of the eaves, and a wisp of white smoke danced in the corridors of the palace, drifting towards Jiaotai Hall, catching up with Li Qianxia and the others.

Once the zombie fungus spreads, the main body can switch among all infectious agents at will. The scene just now proved that the zombie fungus has been transferred from the Queen Mother Zhang.

Soon I saw the gilded top of Jiaotai Hall.

From Jiaotai Hall to Qianqing Gate, ceremonial carriages and chariots are displayed, and Zhonghe Shao music and Danbi music are played.

In the Jiaotai Hall, Queen Fang, a beauty with jade hands, is sitting on the throne.

The imperial concubines, noble concubines, and concubines were standing outside the door of the palace. Cai Ren, Jie Yu, Zhao Yi, Mei Ren, Zhao Rong, Xuan Shi, Lady, etc. were all gathered outside the gate of Longzong.

Further behind, there were some eunuchs and maids, as well as an overwhelming army of heads holding their own heads.

Everyone looked ahead and didn't dare to say a word.

Following the order from the eunuch who was responsible for the rituals, everyone knelt down three times and kowtowed three times.

The corpses holding their heads also knelt down and put their heads aside like a hat.

The infection continued, spreading to some women and ladies, who kneeled down and took off their heads.

A group of headless corpses were kneeling and worshiping. At this time, the music stopped, and the scene was extremely strange.

Li Qianxia, ​​Yaochi and the others stood in a corner of the palace. Qi Die saw Yang Qinglan from a distance and spread the skill of concealing her figure to her.

Yang Qinglan tapped her toes and landed lightly beside them.

"Qinglan, are you okay?" Li Qianxia asked immediately.

"It's okay." Yang Qinglan shook his head gently and explained the matter briefly.

After hearing this, Misha immediately said: "Freeze all these people, we can't let these zombie fungi continue to spread!"

"It's too late." Yang Qinglan said.

Even parrots, cats and dogs are infected, so what's the use of sealing these people in front of them? Sealing the entire harem may still have a chance to prevent this erosion and collective suicide.

"I'm afraid the zombie fungus has been waiting for today." Yaochi glanced at Jiaotai Palace, "It replaces the identity of Queen Mother Zhang. She usually doesn't have the opportunity to enter and leave the palace. Today, on New Year's Day, the wives of some ministers from the harem and outside the palace will come to her. congratulate."

"The key is the body," Yang Qinglan looked at the headless corpse in front of him, "Maybe it's here, maybe it's not here."

"I don't know if it has wisdom. It would be nice if we could negotiate." Li Qianxia felt anxious.

Why did it suddenly become a zombie apocalypse?

"It is only natural that unexpected situations occur." Yaochi said, "How many players are there? We don't even know the special warfare situation of each country. Some deep mountains and old forests, as well as the sea, which accounts for more than 70% of the earth's area, are very dangerous to human beings." Said, it will only become more and more mysterious in the future.”