Chapter 159 Serial Murder (ETL)
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Chapter 159 Where’s the head? Where’s the head?!
“Gu Ye! Hurry! We can’t hold it down much longer!”
“Brother Gu! Oh my god! All my dads!” Fan Xiao jumped around in fright. Then he pointed at Xiao Zhang, who was holding down 2 prisoners, and shouted, “Brother Gu! Hurry! There’s another policeman over there!”
The atmosphere was incredibly tense; everyone was giving it their all. But Fan Xiao’s words inexplicably made them laugh in anger. Gu Ye almost burst out laughing too, and said irritably, “Shut up!”
After making a slash at Xiao Wang’s palm, Gu Ye collected the blood and smeared it all over the blade. “Xie Cheng! Cut its neck!”
Xie Cheng took the dagger, and everyone rushed forward again, throwing the large net covered in runes. After they all worked together to pull the zombie down, Xie Cheng jumped onto its back and plunged the dagger deep into the back of its neck.
Sizzle Black smoke rose from the bone that came into contact with Xiao Wang’s blood.
Seeing this, Xie Cheng’s eyes lit up with joy, “Gu Ye!”
Gu Ye drew a talisman on his wrist, ran over, and pressed down on Xie Cheng’s hand. The two of them pushed together, and with a “crack,” the zombie’s neck snapped. The others tightened the net, anxiously asking, “How is it?”
Gu Ye exclaimed joyfully, “It snapped off!”
Everyone froze for several seconds before letting out a sigh of relief. Clutching their nets, they looked at each other, and suddenly, they all laughed.
“Its head has snapped off; it should be dead for real by now.”
“Impossible! No way! How could you possibly kill him!” the middle-aged man shouted viciously. “He’s immortal! You’ll all die!”
Just then, Wu Bo ran back carrying the dog. Seeing the man being held down by the police next to some bricks and still not behaving himself, he kicked him angrily. “Shut up! You’re so noisy!”
“Wu Bo!”
“Where did you go? Are you alright?”
Wu Bo dusted himself off. “I’m fine. That little brat locked me in a tomb chamber. Where’s the brat? He’s dead?!” Seeing the corpse lying against the wall, Wu Bo exclaimed in shock, “Gone so quickly?”
Gu Ye pointed to the zombie lying on the ground, which its head severed from its body. “It bit him to death.”
Wu Bo looked at the ground, regretfully saying, “You guys acted too fast! I hadn’t even done anything, and it was all over.” Just then, Wu Bo blinked. “It… it seems to have moved.”
At the same time, everyone felt the rope in their hands move slightly, and they quickly turned around. A strong force threw them over, and the zombies lying on the ground stood up abruptly.
“Oh my god!” Fan Xiao was terrified and hid behind Gu Ye. Watching helplessly as the head flew off, he screamed, “The head and the body weren’t originally one body! They brought this head (from somewhere)! It’s trying to escape!”
The group of Masters rushed forward again and pulled up the net once more, only to find a large hole in it. The head flew out of the hole and bared its teeth fiercely at them before flying away quickly.
“Fck! The head got away!”
“The body! Hold it down!”
The body stood still for 2 seconds and started ‘baring its teeth1 and claws’ as if to attack, but was instantly covered in over a dozen talismans, freezing it in place. Everyone gave it a kick, kicking it to the ground. Then, they covered it with talismans, wrapping it like a mummy. Next, the Masters quickly grabbed their weapons. “Chase that head!”
Holding his bandaged hand, Xiao Wang watched the Masters run out. They were all like martial arts practitioners, disappearing in the blink of an eye. Xiao Wang and Xiao Zhang exchanged a glance. The ground was littered with corpses, and 2 prisoners remained. They couldn’t catch up even if they wanted to. In desperation, Xiao Wang sent a signal to his team: [Requesting backup! Requesting a pick-up!]
“If they form a new department, I won’t help them. I won’t even take an office job.” Xiao Wang looked at his palm, then thought about the way those masters looked at him, and inexplicably shuddered.
Xiao Zhang looked at Xiao Wang, his expression somber: “I’m not going either.”
Just then, the young man Wu Bo mentioned earlier staggered to his feet.
“He’s not dead!”
However, the moment the young man turned his head, Xiao Wang and Xiao Zhang were so frightened that they immediately opened fire, shouting, “He came back to life!”
The young man’s face was bluish-purple, his eyes bloodshot, and he charged at them menacingly, baring his teeth. He paused only briefly after being shot before charging again. Xiao Wang and Xiao Zhang jumped around in fright. Remembering what Gu Ye had said, Xiao Zhang grabbed Xiao Wang’s hand and began to pull at his bandages.
“Holy crap! What are you doing?!”
“Your blood can help!”
“It hurts! You have blood too!”
Xiao Zhang said in a low voice, “Your wound is already open, quick!”
Enduring the pain, Xiao Wang tore open his wound and imitated Gu Ye’s previous action by smearing blood on the handcuffs. Then, he swung the handcuffs like nunchucks and hit the young man. It actually worked.
Just then, the other old Taoist priest, who had also been bitten, shakily stood up. Xiao Wang and Xiao Zhang were nearly insane from fear. “Another one came back alive! Gu Ye! Xie Cheng! One of you, please come back!”
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After Gu Ye and the others ran out, there was nothing in the mountains. “Damn it, that head got away!”
“That head seems to possess intelligence. Who knows what the consequences would be if it attacked someone.”
Just as everyone was worrying, Wu Bo suddenly said, “I think I heard gunshots!”
Everyone immediately realized, “Oh no! We left the policemen in there!”
The Masters quickly ran back. Seeing them, Xiao Wang shouted anxiously, “The 2 people who got bitten have gotten up!”
“Waaaaah! Their corpse reanimated! Heavens! This is a huge disaster!”
Several Masters went up and restrained the 2 corpses, binding them like dumplings. “Don’t be afraid! Take them back for autopsy!”
Xiao Wang and Xiao Zhang were almost exhausted. Following these inhuman Masters was too much for them!
Gu Ye and his team held a meeting to discuss where the head would go. Soon, Mu Jingfei’s reinforcements arrived. They captured the 2 surviving individuals and took the bodies back for autopsy.
As the people were taken away, Gu Ye looked at the middle-aged man and asked, “Have I seen you before?”
The man gave a cold, gloomy snort. “No.”
Gu Ye thought for a moment. “Have you seen my master? My master’s name is Shao Fuli.”
Hearing this name, the man glared at Gu Ye fiercely. “No.”
Gu Ye sneered. “Your expression tells me you’ve not only seen him, but you also hate him intensely. What grudge do you have against my master?”
The man glanced at him coldly. “Who do you think you are?”
Gu Ye clicked his tongue. The old man was quite arrogant. “Why did you do this? What good would it do you to create chaos in the world?”
The man suddenly became agitated. “They all deserve to die! You all deserve to die!”
Xiao Wang: “Typical antisocial personality disorder. Let’s go back and interrogate them again.”
At this point, the forensic doctor briefly examined the 2 risen corpses and said solemnly, “It should be a virus. We’ll investigate further when we get back. It’s likely highly contagious and can spread through wounds. Everyone, be careful.”
Xie Cheng sighed. “How similar it is to 4 years ago.”
Hearing that, everyone looked at Gu Ye, especially Fan Xiao, who subconsciously grabbed Gu Ye’s sleeve, looking like an abandoned child, full of grievance.
Gu Ye waved his hand, “Don’t look at me like this. I won’t be as foolish as… my senior brother, sacrificing his life for the heavens. My family is still waiting for me to come back.”
Everyone came to their senses and laughed, “Don’t be silly, no one asked you to sacrifice your life. You don’t have your senior brother’s ability anyway, that’s a secret technique!”
At this moment, Xie Cheng smiled and put his arms around Gu Ye and Fan Xiao’s shoulders. “Let’s form a circle. It’s a promise that we all came together and we must go back together. No one can be left behind.”
Everyone smiled and put their hands on each other’s shoulders. Gu Ye’s lips twitched. What kind of ritual was this?
“Gu Ye! Hurry up! Form the circle!”
With his lips still twitching, Gu Ye joined everyone in forming the circle, feeling incredibly stupid.
After a brief rest, everyone sat down to discuss, “Tonight we’ll set up a massive trap. The head doesn’t have a physical body at the moment, and this body is perfect for it, so it’ll definitely come back looking for it. Let’s hang this body out and see if that head comes to snatch it.”
Gu Ye raised his hand and suggested, “We’ll get a rope, tie the body up, and hang it from a tree branch. I will summon a hundred ghosts to search the entire mountain. After you guys set up the formation, you must also gather yin energy, ideally making this place filled with resentment. Once that head senses it, it will definitely come to investigate. I reckon it hasn’t gone far at all. During the day, it’s afraid of the sun, so it must be hiding somewhere in this ancient tomb. Let it come looking for us at night.”
“No problem. Hey, give me another piece of that smoked jerky. Wu Bo, your dog has eaten too much; leave me a piece.”
“Stealing food from my dog son? How dare you act like a spoiled brat?”
The topic was serious, but the tone shifted dramatically here. Gu Ye shrugged. “These idiots!”
Meanwhile, in the capital, the Gu family had called Gu Ye several times, but no one answered. The family was frantic.
Yu Ze tried calling, but Gu Ye had no signal and couldn’t answer. Now, they couldn’t even contact the people following Gu Ye; they could only see his GPS tracker constantly moving. If it weren’t for the passwords sent every half hour by those bodyguards following Gu Ye, indicating they were still safe, the family would have thought something had happened to Gu Ye and would have gone completely insane.
Before leaving home, Gu Ye told his family that he might go into the mountains and there might be no signal. He also said he was with his companions and asked them not to worry. His family knew what he was going to do, but the more he said this, the more worried they became. After waiting for a day, Yu Ze couldn’t bear it any longer and ordered, “Send 6 helicopters and find some skilled men to come with me to search.”
Gu Ye was unaware that Yu Ze had come to find him. He and his companions set up camp on a hilltop. Inevitably, small animals like birds, insects, mice, hedgehogs, and snakes inhabited the hillside. Gu Ye sat in a tree, leisurely watching everyone work below, feeling quite content. Suddenly, he felt a chill on the back of his head, and goosebumps rose all over his body. Gu Ye gritted his teeth and turned around. A small green snake, no thicker than a finger, was flicking its tongue at him.
“Damn it!” Gu Ye gasped, then angrily hurled his water bottle at the snake. With a ‘twack’, the small snake was stunned and fell to the ground, landing right on someone’s neck. The person blinked and exclaimed excitedly, “Look everyone, this snake is so cute! It looks delicious too!”
Gu Ye couldn’t take it anymore. “Cute my foot! Throw it away! Throw it away!”
Gu Ye broke off a long branch from the tree and stood on it, whipping the people below, yelling, “Throw it away! Throw it away!!”
Everyone looked up at Gu Ye helplessly. “It’s not like we’re not letting you eat. Don’t get upset, we’ll stew it and eat it together!”
Xie Cheng explained, “Gu Ye is afraid of snakes.”
Hearing that, several people huddled together, their eyes darting around. “Let’s roast this snake later. Then we’ll let Gu Ye eat it all by himself to help him overcome his psychological barrier.”
Gu Ye was about to curse when he felt a foul stench behind his head. At the same time, Wu Bo’s dog began barking wildly at Gu Ye as a warning. Before Gu Ye could turn around, he jabbed the branch behind him and jumped down from the tree. Everyone swiftly reached out and pulled him away. When they looked up, there on the branch where Gu Ye had been sitting was the blood-red human head. It had a branch in its mouth and was baring its teeth at them.
Everyone was immediately terrified and broke out in a cold sweat. If Gu Ye hadn’t reacted quickly enough, it might have been Gu Ye’s neck that was bitten.
They hadn’t even gone to look for the head, and it had already ambushed them!
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