Chapter 101 Yellow Weasel

The news that Li Chun was reading was very simple. But because Ning Meng was a scaredy-cat, she was only able to stand reading halfway through the article.

Ning Meng didn’t enjoy reading it at all.

But she couldn’t show this at all, and silently retracted her gaze, “This is just alarmist talk, they might have been scared by some wanderer instead.”

Li Chun put her phone away and nodded, “Madam is right.”

Hearing this, Ning Meng’s thoughts of comforting her disappeared. She casually pulled out a reason before going back to her room.

However, it didn’t take long for her to grow curious about the news again. In the end, she took out her phone and searched for the related keywords.

This matter had become a very hot topic, and the topics that popped up from a search were all related to that incident.

She clicked on the first one, which was an introduction about this matter, and it was even accompanied by a picture.

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“I don’t dare go out as of late because who knows if it’s a pervert deliberately pretending to be a savage? You can’t even see what they look like.”

Ning Meng continued reading with much interest.

This group of netizens really had all sorts of imaginations and though everyone’s speculations were different, the most liked comment was still “The savage from Shenlongjia”.

She felt that this speculation was probably wrong.

According to the information from the news, one common feature the bitten men shared was that they were poisoned. Savage bites generally only killed people. How could a person be left poisoned?

At this moment, the system suddenly popped out and said. “The only one who can leave such a symptom…is probably a zombie?”

Seeing that the system was hinting at something, Ning Meng hurriedly asked, “Why is it related to zombies again?”

The system explained, “Look at the news description. This kind of situation is usually caused by a black zombie who’s just misidentified as a savage. Those who are struck by zombie poison basically don’t have long to live.”

“What’s a black zombie?”

“A black zombie is a zombie with black hair. Zombies are also divided into several kinds like white haired, green haired…and amongst them, black zombies are the strongest. When black zombies reach a certain level, they start shedding black hair and by then, will become a hopping corpse.“

Ning Meng started to emit cold sweat thinking that this was probably no different to the zombies she had seen jumping around on TV²If you’ve watched old Chinese movies, you might know what I mean by hopping zombies but if you don’t, here’s an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Ff1JfOGDM.

“If they evolve a bit further, they can even fly and would be called flying corpses. By then, their activity would be like humans, they move quickly, can run, can jump and in truth, they’re a lot stronger than humans, their flesh impervious to swords or spears.”

The system said up until here.

Ning Meng digested its words and couldn’t help but ask, “Can flying corpses evolve further? Is there anything stronger than them?”

“Of course there is. They’re called Drought Demons. According to ancient myths, the Yellow Emperor’s daughter was the primogenitor. Encountering a drought demon is equivalent to asking for death. Moreover, everywhere it went, that place would dry up and drought would form.”

This was the first time Ning Meng heard of this name. She logged into the browser and checked for information.

There were a lot of answers given on the Internet. The most popular saying was that drought demons can not only cause drought, but also confuse people to do whatever they want. The rest was just like what the system had said.

Going into mythology a little bit more, if Drought Demons continued to evolve, they would become Denglong(1). According to legend, this beast was even used as Nuwa’s³ Nuwa is the creator of humans in Chinese mythology mount.

As for the latter portion of the article, she didn’t really understand it.

And no one was able to take any photos of this incident, the only photos available were the patient’s photos at the hospital, and there were no useful clues at all.

In the photos provided, not even a bit of the wound could be seen, it was all bandaged up.

Ning Meng sighed and put away her phone.

All the way until dinner, she didn’t see Shi Qi figure.

Usually at this time, Shi Qi would always come to accompany her to eat. According to Li Chun’s belief, dinner was used as a time to cultivate feelings.

Even this sounded embarrassing…she was telling the truth.

Ning Meng only ate one bowl for lunch.

When Li Chun was clearing up the table, she noticed the barely-touched rice and couldn’t help but say, “Sigh, why didn’t Young Master Qi come today? Look at Madam, she’s eating so little.”

Ning Meng: “…”

Sigh, what should she say in response to this.

As soon as Li Chun left, she took out her phone and happened to see the new news posted a few minutes ago.

——The three men in the intensive care unit had died.

Ning Meng swiftly clicked the article to read further. In just half an hour, a lot of news went viral on the Internet, and the most widely spread was still the article about three men being bitten to death.

The hospital immediately concluded that all three men died of poisoning. It was the first time they had encountered this kind of poison so they were unable to cure them.

For a period of time, there was a debate on the Internet whether this reason was justifiable or not.

Some people said that the hospital concealed the real reason of death, and they chose such an absurd reason to shirk responsibility in fear of being talked about.

Some people thought that the hospital was telling the truth. After all, they had no reason to tell lies.

Then, the two parties quarreled and quarreled on Weibo and other social platforms, nearly breaking into a big physical fight.

As an insider, Ning Meng felt that dying from poisoning was probably the truth. Corpse poison was also poison. How could the hospital have the means to detoxify this poison? Even those who studied Feng Shui would need several days and several tools to deal with it.

Like normal corpse poisons, one could use glutinous rice to get rid of it.

They had been the ones to let these black zombies out and for the people to have lasted two days in the hospital already proved that modern medicine was amazing as the average person would have died in less than a day.

If she were to encounter a black zombie, she would have definitely died a tragic end.

Ning Meng trembled.

The system popped up and suggested, “I’ll tell you a way, take a cat over. There is a saying that no matter how much a dog barks, once they encounter a zombie, they would stop barking, but cats aren’t the same, cats would hiss. Hisses and their usual meows differ vastly so you’d be able to easily identify them.”

Using a dog wouldn’t guarantee effectiveness. What if it usually didn’t like to bark? If she bumped into them and it didn’t bark, wouldn’t the dog only serve as decoration? It was better to use a cat.

After listening to its words, Ning Meng suddenly asked, “Do weasels work?”

“…Uh…” The system hesitated, “It should have a reaction. Weasels are spiritual animals and understand human nature. They themselves understand this aspect. If there isn’t any major problem, they should probably have a reaction.”

Ning Meng said, “Then, I’ll just hold Little Yellow every day.”

As soon as the zombie appeared, she would just release Little Yellow. By then, it would become the perfect alarm.

While thinking about this, Ning Meng saw Li Chun passing by with something. She quickly stopped her and asked, “Li Chun, do you know where Shi Qi is?”

Li Chun thought for a while and replied, “Master Qi is in the mansion.”

She received a call from the mansion an hour ago inquiring if the madam was well so she reckoned that he should be there right now.

Ning Meng nodded and went straight there.

Shi Qi was indeed in the mansion.

When Ning Meng went over, he was looking at some things. She didn’t know if it was because she had telepathic power but she had actually seen a yellow animal at Shi Qi’s feet.

After watching it carefully for a long time, Ning Meng finally determined that it was Little Yellow.

…It was just that after not seeing it for so many years…Little Yellow had already become Old Yellow.

The total age of the weasel wouldn’t go very far. The fact that it was able to live for so many years was due to its cultivation, otherwise, it would’ve already been buried in the ground long ago.

Ning Meng walked over and asked, “Is this Little Yellow?”

Before Shi Qi could even answer her, Little Yellow smelled her scent, and the weasel ran over happily, circling around her, its speed slowing down a lot due to its age.

“It’s him.” Shi Qi said softly.

Ning Meng stroked its neck and said ruefully, “It’s grown really big, it’s been more than 20 years.”

The weasel barked, enjoying her stroking and purring, obviously very happy.

Shi Qi spoke at the side, “It recognizes you.”

There was a difference between the weasel’s recognition of humans and other animals’ recognition of humans, not to mention that this was a well-trained weasel who had stayed at Shi residence for so many years.

Towards Grandma Shi, it didn’t remember the body, but the soul.

From the moment it made contact with her, Ning Meng’s soul had always been in Grandma Shi’s body, so it was naturally able to remember how she felt.

Ning Meng looked over in amazement. The weasel’s intimate appearance really looked as though this wasn’t the first time they’ve met. It was really possible it had recognized her.

She squatted down and stroked its forehead. “Do you know who I am?”

The weasel called out in response.

Ning Meng felt her heart turn warm. Despite twenty-one years passing by, the weasel was actually able to recognize her. This was simply too touching.

She thought for a while and asked, “Have you been able to eat any chicken in these many years?”

Unexpectedly, this sentence was just spoken when the originally cheerful weasel froze up. It stopped barking and wagging its tail, and sat there with a grieving look.

Seeing this, Ning Meng could guess that it must have not been able to eat any chicken.

The weasel was addicted to eating chickens, and after passing so many years without eating chicken, it was probably very depressed. She even mentioned it accidentally today.

Ning Meng felt slightly distressed for it but also wanted to laugh a little.

“Let’s not mention this anymore, you’ll be by my side in the future.” She stroked its head, “If you see any strange things, remember to call out.”

Especially if it’s a zombie.

Ning Meng always felt that the zombie would come to the Shi Residence. Even though she didn’t know why she had such a premonition, her intuition seldom went wrong.