Chapter 271

Wu Xian stayed at Zhou Xingsen's house until dark.

After today, the nearby residents will only remember that someone was gambling in the residential complex and that someone committed suicide after losing, and no one will think this matter could be related to malevolent entities.

Wu Xian drove home alone.

Thinking while driving, the White Ghost Poker was placed behind the steering wheel.

"Forbidden knowledge, huh..."

Actually, thinking about it carefully.

Wu Xian had also once had the opportunity to bring forbidden knowledge from the Fudi into reality.

For instance, on Luo Wang Island, that blacked-out notebook should have contained relevant content, but Wu Xian didn't follow the puzzle-solving route, which is why he missed this part of the knowledge.

Also, at the Liu family's old mansion, Wu Xian had once seen the Evil Method of Life-Stealing. If he had performed one more act at the Evil Banquet, he could have also obtained the evil method of absorbing human lifespan.

As long as a Retainer's IQ isn't in arrears, when encountering similar knowledge, they should all be able to realize that learning such knowledge might invite painful, evil consequences.

But one can't stop some people from just liking to court death...

"Perhaps... the Chenghuang Office's strict secrecy regarding Fudi knowledge is actually protecting this world. If everyone knew about the existence of the Fudi, even if it were repeatedly emphasized that things in the Fudi are dangerous, there would still be people who would take the risk, wanting to get rich overnight by relying on the power of ghosts and gods in the Fudi."

Putting forbidden knowledge aside.

Wu Xian looked at the White Ghost Poker, feeling a slight headache.

After breaking the shrine, this deck of cards absorbed a portion of power from the human-skin poker, to the point where every card had a skin-like texture.

But such a change made the poker cards harder to use; the surface friction of the cards increased, causing many of Wu Xian's techniques to become unusable.

For Wu Xian, this was no different from a reverse upgrade.

"If you have any new functions, you'd better tell me yourself. Testing new abilities bit by bit is too much of a waste of time..."

Creak!

Wu Xian broke out in a cold sweat, slammed the steering wheel, and the car was parked diagonally on the side of the road.

He stared fixedly at the White Ghost Poker.

The moment he finished saying that sentence, it was as if someone had suddenly touched his hand; the tactile sensation was exactly the same as the skin-like feel of the White Ghost Poker! "Could it be..."

Wu Xian opened his Retainer's credentials.

There was a sentence in the description of the White Ghost Poker on the credentials.

'Residual resentment unclear, card face unknown.'

At the time, Wu Xian didn't pay attention to this sentence.

He just assumed that the power absorbed by the White Ghost Poker was too filthy, causing the credentials to be unable to identify what the poker had upgraded for a while, waiting until the resentment on it dissipated to figure it out.

But looking at it now.

The so-called residual resentment should refer to something more specific.

Caw... caw-caw...

The sound of a crow rang out. Wu Xian looked out the window and immediately frowned.

He saw that outside the road, the weeds were lush, the trees were dense, and the terrain was uneven. Looking back, he couldn't see any high-rise buildings for a long distance. The surroundings were desolate, and no car had passed by for a long time; only the warm light of the street lamps flickered.

"Where is this?"

Wu Xian turned back to look at the car's tablet. The navigation on it showed that this was the route Wu Xian had to take to get home, but Fuyuan City is an area where every inch of land is worth gold; how could there be such a large stretch of wasteland within the city?

So Wu Xian opened the map on his phone and discovered that this was already the desolate outskirts of the city.

"Heh, looks like I've been had."

Wu Xian picked up the White Ghost Poker and squinted his eyes, pondering for a while.

He felt that his arrival here was inseparable from this deck of cards, and there must be a reason why he stopped here. The real world is generally still safe; even if a Retainer is unlucky, they shouldn't encounter evil things one after another.

"That hand just now..." Wu Xian realized that his stopping here must be the aftermath of Zhou Xingsen's gambling ghost incident.

"Skin, human-skin poker, Zhou Xingsen..."

Wu Xian got out of the car and looked around for a while, discovering a small path nearby. The grass on the path was very tall, and not many people usually walked there. Wu Xian walked over, squatted down, and pushed the weeds aside, discovering two deep tire tracks on the road.

"Judging from the marks, it should be a suitcase, and the things inside were very heavy. It should have passed by a few days ago... Heh, such a remote place, it's a good spot for dumping a corpse."

Wu Xian chuckled, took a flashlight and an engineer shovel from the car, and while checking the traces by pushing through the bushes, he walked up along the tracks.

He didn't walk far.

He saw a patch of ground with only grass sprouts. The soil here had clearly been turned over; this should be the burial site.

Don't look at how easily Wu Xian found the target; for murder and corpse concealment, this is already a fairly reliable method of disposal. Under normal circumstances, in another ten or eight days, the traces would disappear. Unless a heavy rain washed the corpse out, it would be very difficult for the corpse to see the light of day again.

Just as Wu Xian stood still, he heard a faint female voice coming from the soil.

"Help me... please help me get out. It's so dark here, so wet, and there are bugs."

"Easy, easy."

Wu Xian raised an eyebrow and immediately swung his shovel. It didn't take much time to dig a female corpse out of the ground.

This female corpse was wrapped in plastic sheeting. Lifting the plastic, one could see that the corpse inside had already rotted and was covered in maggots, looking extremely disgusting.

Logically speaking, in just a few days, the corpse shouldn't have rotted to this extent, but Wu Xian flipped her over and saw that her back was a blurry mess; the skin of her entire back had been peeled off.

"So that's how it is..."

Evil things like human-skin poker don't seem like rewards for worshipping deities, so nine times out of ten, they were manufactured by Zhou Xingsen himself in the real world.

But the real world has mandated cremation for many years, making it difficult to find corpses he could peel at will, so Zhou Xingsen targeted living people, peeling fresh skin from this woman's body to make the human-skin poker.

Thinking of this.

Wu Xian felt that the skin-like texture on the White Ghost Poker was a bit disgusting.

However, since the White Ghost Poker inherited part of the power of the human-skin poker, it is only right for Wu Xian to help Zhou Xingsen end this murderous karma.

Wu Xian asked in a gentle tone: "Do you have any unfulfilled wishes?"

A pitiful voice came from within the corpse.

"I want to go home. Can you carry me home? Only at my home can I rest in peace."

"Where is your home?"

"My home is in... Songjiang City."

Wu Xian frowned; that's so far, so far away. Then he looked at the woman's disgusting corpse again: "Must I carry you? Can't I send you by car?"

"At least, please carry me down the mountain."

Wu Xian's mouth twitched: "Then can I wait until tomorrow and find someone to carry you?"

"You... are you disgusted by me? Tell me, am I ugly now? Wuwu..."

The female corpse began to cry. Accompanied by her crying, the surroundings became cold. Whether it was an illusion or not, Wu Xian felt the corpse slowly begin to move.

"Disgusted?"

Wu Xian immediately laughed.

"I'm not disgusted at all, but there is a better way to let you rest in peace..."

"What way?"

Wu Xian's expression turned cold. He flicked the poker in his hand, and a flame flew out and landed on the corpse.

"Cremation on the spot!"

(End of chapter)