[Alternate ancient setting + zombie apocalypse + Detective Dee-inspired]
The Turks?
No!
Living corpses, a thousand times more terrifying than the Turks, have overrun the beacon towers of Liangzhou.
In 697, amid the bone-piercing winds of Liangzhou, Wang Xiaojie, Grand General of the Right Mighty Guard, received the horrifying news: three hundred elite soldiers from Shilipu had been torn apart by their “former comrades.” A horde of corpse demons from deep in the Gobi was surging south, feeding on the empire's frontier as it came.
Fortify the walls and clear the land.
One hundred thousand armored soldiers will defend Liangzhou.
Wang Xiaojie's Mo Dao points toward hell. He will turn the Hexi Corridor into a graveyard for corpse demons.
Meanwhile, Luoyang, the Divine Capital a thousand li away, has already become a living hell.
Blood from his former comrades drips from the horizontal blade of Pei Zhao, a member of the Imperial Guard. Carrying the empress's blood-written secret decree, he fights his way out of the imperial city through a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. He has only one goal: find the garrison and bring back reinforcements!
But after crossing a thousand li of corpses, what reaches him is not the call of a bugle summoning aid, but... another “battle report” from hell!
Wu Zetian sits in the depths of the palace, clad in black robes like the night. The old memorial from Liangzhou on her desk, dismissed as “nonsense,” now seems painfully conspicuous... Could the catastrophe have begun with an oversight at the start of her reign?
On one side stands the frontier fortress, one hundred thousand soldiers ready for battle, with terrified civilians behind them.
On the other is the beleaguered imperial capital, where sovereign and ministers hold out, waiting for hope as faint as a star to cross a thousand li of zombie hordes...
A thousand li of corpses on the march, the empire at dusk.
In this collapsing world, whose mortal flesh can become the Great Wall that holds back hell?
(The setting borrows from Detective Dee, but only a small portion was used. Everything else that wasn't needed has been removed.) (The author is fairly active. If online, they'll reply to or like comments within seven days.)
It's a niche treasure book. I can only say that the author's writing style is quite good for a junior high school student. The plot is very compact and capable. Although the logic is not very clear in some places, the writing style is very heroic. I personally feel that it is very enjoyable to read it in one sitting.
Very excellent concept and perspective. As a bookworm with maybe fifteen years of history, I think the whole background and the creation of the atmosphere are different from the perspective of mainstream online novels, that is, under the more stringent standards. I think it is an eight-point score. The grasp of the direction of the military, civilians, and the court, and the shaping of the characters are excellent and super beautiful.
Extremely surprised! The author is not even in the second grade of junior high school yet. I am 25 this year and I also love reading all kinds of novels (I especially love reading zombies. The protagonist is too easy to read and I don't enjoy reading them enough). I hope this book will be discovered by more and more zombie literature lovers!!! Come on, come on, waiting for your second part 😘😘😘😘
After looking for ancient zombies for a long time, I finally found one that I can read. Give it five stars, come on, don't be a eunuch
Yes, ancient zombies are powerful and scheming. I thought the protagonist was Di Renjie, but I didn't expect it to be the case.
Four stars support it
The writing is very good, I hope it won't stop
The plot is pretty good and the characterization is great. Finally, I hope the author will update it soon.
A very good ancient zombie novel, about fighting zombies and intrigues. It is a book worth reading.
The world view is very good. It is rare to write about ancient zombies, and the plot is not draggy, but there are some weird places. Why are there tweezers? Doing experiments is so modern 😂