[SOB SOB SOB~ Qin Bao is so cool!!]

[Is Jiang Qin really not taking disciples? I really want to see an Interstellar ghost.]

[I think I must be sick. I’m actually starting to envy Kuang Tianyou for being immortal. I mean, couldn’t he just come and bite me instead?]

[This must be a case of ’the well-fed don’t know the woes of the hungry.’ We’re all fighting desperately to live longer.

Especially the scientists, researching Gene modification every day. What for? Isn’t it all just to live a few hundred more years?

But then you have the zombies in My Date with a Vampire, who actually dislike their zombie bodies.]

[Exactly! So what if you have to drink some blood plasma? Just research some artificial plasma and the problem’s solved.]

Right, although they also wanted to be immortal, they were like Kuang Tianyou and couldn’t accept the idea of grabbing a human’s neck and biting down.

But artificial blood plasma would be acceptable. It’d be just like nutrient liquid.

[Hehe, you guys are still just envying him. We’re different. We’re already on our way.

I heard that many races among the Myriad Races practice burial. We’re going to find their ancestors and see if they’ve mutated.

If they have, hehe, we’ll just wash our necks and present them for a bite...]

[To the commenter above, I suggest you live-stream the process. If it’s a real option, bring us along.]

[Of course, of course. For anyone else who’s interested, go ahead and follow me!]

The netizens of the Myriad Races: ...

Who could possibly understand this? They went online today only to find themselves tagged by countless people.

These people came right out and asked where their ancestors were buried and if they could dig them up for a look.

I mean, do you have any manners?

If one or two people had asked, they would have assumed it was a provocation. But with a whole crowd asking, they were just confused.

Until someone pointed them to a TV series produced by the Federation.

Furious with these presumptuous people, they gritted their teeth and spent their Star Coins to buy viewing rights for the series.

Before watching, all they could think was what on earth this show could have said to make so many people covet their ancestors’ graves.

After watching, they started to wonder... instead of letting someone else get the prize, why not... dig them up themselves for a look?

You couldn’t blame them for being so shameless. This was about immortality, after all!

Who wouldn’t be captivated by the words "eternal life and youth"?

And the only side effect was needing to drink blood long-term? Heavens, what kind of side effect was that?

It was just another way to get your nutrients.

At this thought, some people couldn’t sit still. That very night, they snuck away from their elders and went to their clan’s burial grounds to start digging.

While digging, they even ran into some of their fellow clansmen.

The few of them didn’t exchange pleasantries. They just met each other’s eyes, lowered their heads, and kept digging.

It wasn’t long before they had dug up their ancestors.

Of course, they didn’t use coffins. It was something similar, though—a type of Interstellar sleep pod with excellent preservation effects.

And during burial, these sleep pods were fitted with extra-large capacity Energy boxes.

With this equipment, a body buried in a grave could maintain its appearance at the time of death for at least three years.

However, their ancestors had been lying here for a very long time, so when they opened the pods, they found only a pile of white bones.

"How about we dig up... a more recently buried grave?"

"Is that a good idea?"

"But these ancestors’ bodies haven’t been preserved. How are they supposed to turn into zombies?

They need a body to become a zombie! With just a pile of bones, it’d be tough for them to even become ghosts, right?"

"Not only that, but didn’t the show say? Zombies like to live in dark, gloomy places with yin energy. They also need to bask in the moonlight at night to absorb energy!"

After exchanging a look, the group reburied their ancestors and got back to work.

This time, they dug up bodies that were less than three years old.

But for these recently deceased clansmen, they didn’t dare dig up anyone who had a lot of relatives or was on good terms with their family.

Luckily, the Myriad Races didn’t have a custom of visiting graves to pay respects. Unless someone died, no one usually came to the burial grounds. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have dared to do this.

"Alright, let’s go with this grave. He was a loner when he was alive and didn’t get along with his family.

If we take him, we probably won’t be discovered."

"Hold on, let’s pick two more. What if one doesn’t turn?"

The group dug up two more sleep pods.

All of them contained bodies—one in human form, two in beast form.

They all looked exactly as they had at the moment of death, as if they had just passed away.

Then, they stole the three sleep pods, took them to a riverside, and laid them out to bask in the moonlight.

"You guys think the light from this artificial moon will work?"

"Probably not."

"Sigh, it’s a pity Miss Jiang Qing isn’t one of our people. It would be great if we could ask her for advice."

"Forget it. She’s a Federation female. She’d never let outsiders like us in on something this good."

...

Besides these paragons of filial piety digging up their ancestors’ graves, the Federation people and Imperial people had other methods.

After all, bodies that had been dead for years were hard to find, but freshly deceased ones were easy!

Stealing and snatching corpses both carried the risk of breaking the law, so they chose to buy them at a high price!

These bodies were going to be cremated anyway, with the ashes sent to a research institute’s planting base to benefit the world. They might as well sell them and get something good in return.

Some families needed Star Coins, while others needed medicine.

In any case, regardless of the method, many people managed to get their hands on a corpse.

Then, following the details mentioned in the TV series, they found suitable locations and laid the bodies out to absorb the essence of the moonlight.

This phenomenon became so widespread that it was even reported by journalists.

Someone even live-streamed the entire process of cultivating a zombie...

When Jiang Qin found out what the outside world had become, she was completely bewildered.

If she hadn’t been sure she’d only been home for two or three days, she would have thought she had transmigrated again.

Transmigrated to a world of spirits and ghosts!

"This... Don’t they know what ’This story is purely a work of fiction’ means?"

Does this mean TV shows will have to start adding ’Do not attempt’ warnings?

Long Hao was also speechless. "Maybe their average IQ is just on the low side."

In short: a bunch of idiots.

"Should we issue a statement, then?" Cang Hong felt that the world had become a pretty scary place.

Playing with corpses was actually becoming a trend. Terrifying!

Jiang Qin nodded. "Yes, I’ll issue a statement later."

Corpses carry so many germs; they really aren’t suitable for being around living people for extended periods.

It would be bad if this ended up causing some kind of infectious disease outbreak.

"I really didn’t expect people to take a TV show so literally. It was the same before, too. I heard someone actually went to find the tears of a bovine-type Alien Beast to put in their eyes."

The result was an eye infection that took several days of ointment from the hospital to clear up.

Long Hao sighed. "It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such pure-bred idiots. I never thought so many would pop up all at once."

These idiots who take TV shows as gospel and try to copy them... aren’t they going to get themselves killed?