Chapter 8: Guard Hall

Yun Mu selectively ignored the protests of the Bloodline Living Corpse—ah, no, it was Dabai now.

What was it saying?

She couldn't understand it, she couldn't understand it at all; as a normal human being, how could she possibly comprehend the language of a living corpse?

It must be overly satisfied with its name and thus happy.

"Ha~ I'm a bit sleepy after working all night."

The Young Girl let out a shallow yawn; although not much time seemed to have passed since she woke up after crossing over, after experiencing a series of events, she still felt deeply exhausted.

Whether physically or spiritually, she felt she needed a good rest.

"Dabai, you..." Yun Mu stopped halfway through her sentence.

She had intended to tell Dabai to patrol nearby and guard the place while she slept, but thinking about it carefully, this guy was so large, and it was hard to say how much intelligence it had.

If she let it keep watch and it was seen by some vagrant or someone else, and they reported it to the police, it would be impossible to explain even if she were in the right.

Then, should she have it hide?

She looked at Dabai's three-meter-tall frame and shook her head helplessly.

"Uh, can you go back?"

She asked, looking at Dabai with some embarrassment.

She hadn't thought much before and had summoned the other party directly; now that she wanted to rest, she realized the problem.

"You summoned it, don't you have any idea?"

Dabai's eyes, which were staring at her, seemed as if they could speak, making the Young Girl feel a bit ashamed for a moment.

Of course, how could a living corpse have such intelligent eyes? In reality, this thought was merely something the Young Girl had imagined herself.

"Sigh, forget it, I'll look for a way."

Theoretically, since she could summon it, there naturally had to be a way to send it back, but "summon" was just her own term for it; according to the terminology in the game, it should be "recruit."

Could a recruited Leader be sent back? If it were sent back, would it cost Gold Coins to recruit it again next time?

Carrying such complicated feelings, Yun Mu opened the Game Panel.

She lightly tapped the pixel icon at the very bottom with her mind.

【Leader: Bloodline Living Corpse lv5 (Apprentice)】

【Current Status: Deployed 【Switch (Rest)】】

"Phew, that's a relief."

Seeing that she could switch the status, Yun Mu breathed a slight sigh of relief, then decisively switched Dabai's status from Deployed to Rest.

Just like when it was first recruited, there were no strange entrance or exit animations; it just went *swish* and vanished instantly.

She glanced at the recruitment interface; very good, it didn't show the situation she had worried about earlier where recruiting again would require extra Gold Coins.

"A conscientious game."

A game with such a conscience was impossible to find even with a lantern, not to mention that she was the one who made this game.

Thinking of this, Yun Mu's mood couldn't help but become much more relaxed.

Returning to the corner of the walkway, the Young Girl stacked the stones on the ground together, trying her best to cover the hole behind them, creating the illusion that this place was occupied by a pile of rubble.

Afterward, she carefully stepped over these stones and returned to her little nest.

"Pat, pat."

She casually patted the rag she used as a pillow to shake off all the dust, then Yun Mu lay flat on the dirty carpet and reached out to turn off the Gas Lamp.

Click.

The Soft yellow flame vanished instantly, and the narrow room became pitch black.

Inside the entire sewer, apart from the faint sound of flowing water, there was only the sound of her own breathing.

She didn't need to take off her clothes; according to the experience of her predecessor, sleeping without clothes made one prone to illness, and heaven knows if there were many little bugs living with her under the carpet, so it was better to keep her clothes on.

"Inhale, exhale."

Yun Mu took a deep breath, then closed her eyes.

"Goodnight, new world."

Late at night, streets of Frostfall City.

Several Guards from the Frostfall City Guard Hall cordoned off a small alley.

"Which one is this?" the middle-aged Guard Team Captain asked his adjutant beside him with a weary expression.

"From the very first case until now, this should be the sixth; there are also some that couldn't be confirmed because no bodies were found," the adjutant replied with a solemn expression.

"Extremely rampant!"

The middle-aged Guard Team Captain said very angrily.

This couldn't be blamed on him; he had finally been able to rest for a few days after the end of the month, only to receive a report late at night and have to get up from his wife's bed to work overtime—anyone would be angry at that.

"How is the scene? What about the autopsy report?"

After calming his emotions for a moment, the middle-aged Guard Team Captain asked again.

"The scene was subjected to some man-made destruction; the victim's head was severed by a sharp weapon. According to the traces at the scene, besides the murderer and the victim, there seems to have been another person present."

"The murder weapon that severed the victim's neck is not at the scene, but the investigation department found other traces, including footprints of an outsider, hair; besides that, we also found some bloodstains in the victim's mouth, and we are currently checking the victim's clothes for fingerprints or other clues of an outsider."

"The murderer is still the same as before, leaving no traces; the opponent is very cunning."

"As for the victim..."

"What's wrong with the victim?" the middle-aged Guard Team Captain asked, looking at the adjutant, whose expression was a bit strange.

"This victim is a bit strange." The adjutant didn't say much, just showed him the photo of the victim.

Aside from what was mentioned before, that the victim's neck had been severed by a Blade, there were also many strange spots on the corpse.

"What is this?" the middle-aged Guard Team Captain asked, looking at the adjutant.

"The victim this time is named Dinar, a dock worker at Frostfall Port, and he has no family," the adjutant did not rush to speak about the corpse, but instead first spoke of the victim's interpersonal relationships and some other information.

After these were mostly said, he then entered the main topic: "The victim this time is different from the previous victims; for some reason, many scarlet spots have appeared on his corpse."

"Is it some kind of new infectious disease?" the middle-aged Guard Team Captain asked with an instantly very serious expression.

"It shouldn't be," the adjutant shook his head and said:

"I have already had everyone at the scene who came into contact with the corpse go for a medical checkup, and at the same time, I contacted the local hospital; currently, there are no symptoms of any infection."

"Go to the Church, distribute a bottle of Holy Water to everyone; this kind of matter cannot be handled carelessly," the middle-aged Guard Team Captain did not relax his vigilance, but immediately ordered.

"I understand, I will contact the logistics team," the adjutant nodded.

"Have the police dogs arrived?"

"Still on the way, they should arrive in a few minutes."

"Good, after the police dogs arrive, find a way to locate that third person who left," he paused, then added a sentence:

"Tell those brats below to keep their mouths shut and not let the news spread that there was a third person at the scene who has already left, especially do not let those unscrupulous media know!"

"I have a premonition that that person will definitely be the key to us solving the case!"

"I understand what you mean," the adjutant nodded in deep agreement.

PS: There are many reasons why the Guard Team Captain does not want the media to spread the news, but the most important one is only one.

That is to not let the murderer know of the third party's existence; because the clues on hand are few, his original intention was to protect the third party.

But he does not know that, in reality, the third party was also killed by the murderer, only they were resurrected.

Therefore, when the murderer sees that there is only one corpse, they will still realize the problem.

(End of this chapter)