The General Loves to Collect Little Red Flowers

Chapter 073

Chapter 073 - Haunted

Those who had been on a battlefield were fine. They had seen actual killing and thus didn’t react much to bloodshed. However, the local officials were shocked upon witnessing Xu Yao’s fighting style. Their previous few meetings with him had made them think that Xu Yao was a very gentle person, but today, they realized that under the mask of gentleness, he was still very much a fierce man.

Of course, they could still pose questions to him in this conference. After all, Xu Yao always gave people the impression of him having a strong sense of integrity.

At this moment, everyone seated was handed a light brain. Present on these light brains were documents discussing the undead army and some extended problems. These were the issues that would be the focus of today’s meeting.

“It is mentioned in the document that the undead army of the Flying Wolf Division cannot travel to Tarot, but it is feasible to summon the local dead.” A rather young civic official asked, “I can’t figure out one thing. I hope General Xu can answer it. Where are the undead when they are not being summoned?”

“They are underground, where they have a unique ‘living’ space. This is the current situation for the undead in Huaxia. As for the situation on Tarot, if it is convenient for Madam He, I think I’d better ask her to answer it. It should be more specific.” Xu Yao looked at the Empress’s mother.

“Alright, let me explain it,” said Madam He. “People of Tarot will be sent to Fu Ta Yuan after death. Each Fu Ta Yuan has a Fuling Lake, which is of a special nature and can dissolve the dead body naturally. When I first died, I had thought the same way as most of the people present here would, believing that there was nothing left after death, but that’s not true. I woke up in Fu Ta Yuan as a spirit, in exactly the same state as I am now. There are a lot of undead like me there. We can’t leave Fu Ta Yuan completely, but we can wander around at night, as long as we return before dawn.”

“Return where?” asked the Empress.

“Return to the underground.”

“So that means that all those who have died are now living in the form of spirits in the Fu Ta Yuan?” asked an officer.

“That is not so. Every day, new ghosts will appear and the old ones will disappear. There is a Fuling Tree in Fu Ta Yuan, which emits a dazzling white once, at any random time of the day. It pulls some of the undead into it every day. At first, we didn’t know what it was basing its selection of those particular undead on. Later, we discovered that its selection was based on the color of the spirit. After death, each spirit body has a different colour, and there will be changes to it every day. This tree of blessings will absorb the spirit bodies which have the same color as it.”

“It sounds like the tree is choosing the undead who can be reincarnated,” inferred Le Yao.

“General Xu Yao, where did this undead come from?” asked Grand Marshal He Ming. Obviously, he was asking about Jiang Xinduo’s ex-husband, because there was only one other dead person present here excluding Madam He.

“It should be from Fu Ta Yuan too,” replied Xu Yao.

“Emperor, should we go to Fu Ta Yuan to take a look?” The Empress continued, “Our sights are still open because of the talisman, so we could see what it looks like.”

Emperor Kunta thought for a moment and then ordered, “Mi He, go and prepare. Everyone, come to the nearest Fu Ta Yuan with me.”

As an Emperor, there were still situations that existed in his territory which he didn’t know about at all, and that too such a big and surprising situation. So, about ten minutes later, Emperor Kunta, along with the Empress, asked Xu Yao and Le Yao to get in a hover car together to go to Fu Ta Yuan, which was north of Xingdu. The others, of course, also accompanied them on a hover car arranged by Advisor Mi He.