Chapter 471: Captain Wu, Be Careful! (5/10, Autumn Subscription)

After Fang Yue left, Captain Wu continued along his earlier line of thinking, having people investigate the clues that the team that had kidnapped Lord Han and Lin Ling might have left behind.

Thinking and thinking, he suddenly realized what the question he had overlooked earlier was.

"Why... didn't we consider that Ning Laotou of Ningguang Mountain is the one behind it all?"

Right, this was the question that Captain Wu had vaguely felt was off when talking with Fang Yue earlier, but couldn't pin down for the moment.

If Ning Laotou is the mastermind behind the kidnapping of Lord Han and Captain Lin, then isn't Fang Yue walking right into a trap by heading over now??

Captain Wu already knew from Fang Yue that Ning Laotou was only a Weird Object Forger, with limited strength.

But who says the mastermind has to be personally powerful? The one who kidnapped Lord Han must have a whole gang behind him!

Ning Laotou himself doesn't need to have strength—as long as the people he recruits are strong enough, that's enough.

And as for how to control or bind those strong ones with profit, a Weird Object Forger would certainly know far better than Captain Wu how to make it work.

Looking at it this way, as the maker of the Fluorescent Bracelet, the likelihood of Ning Laotou being the mastermind grows greater and greater.

Captain Wu thought and thought, and grew increasingly agitated, a vague sense of unease stirring in his heart.

And just then, riders from the Qingsi Bureau came.

It was the team led by Yu Baiyi.

He glanced around the inn in confusion and asked, "Where's Ye Baiyi?"

"He's already set off for Ningguang Mountain."

"I see... Here are the materials Ye Baiyi wanted. Keep them safe, remember to destroy them after reading, and don't let them spread."

After handing the copied dossier to Captain Wu, Yu Baiyi turned his horse around to leave, when suddenly there was a loud woof, and his startled horse threw him off in a sorry tumble.

Yu Baiyi:???

Yu Baiyi dusted himself off, stood up with a blank expression under the support of a grey-clad attendant beside him, and looked ahead.

There ahead, a giant Ghost Hound was excitedly wagging its tail, barking woof woof at the startled horse, seemingly wanting to play with it.

Yet the horse, compared to its towering two- or three-meter frame, could only tremble and dare not move.

"Keep your..."

Yu Baiyi had just opened his mouth when he suddenly stopped, his pupils contracting sharply.

The excited Ghost Hound Xiao Xuedou—its huge eyes were visibly turning black at a speed the naked eye could see! Pitch-black blood streamed down from the corners of its eyes.

"Pos... Possession! Possession!!"

After a single breath's pause, Yu Baiyi's roar rang out across the entire street.

"Aaaaaah!"

"It's happening again! It's happening again!"

"It's the weirdness! The weirdness is reviving!!"

"Run!!"

The already jittery citizens of Qingsi County immediately screamed in terror, scattering in all directions, the scene plunging into utter chaos in an instant.

And at that very moment, a black shadow whooshed past him, leapt up, and slammed a fist straight into the head of the giant Xiao Xuedou.

Boom!!

Xiao Xuedou, in its black-blooded revival state, had its head caved in on the spot with a clear fist imprint! It toppled into a row of houses on one side.

"Weird! Ness!"

As the golden threads in that black shadow's striking eyes flickered faintly and it let out a low growl.

Rumble rumble.

Xiao Xuedou's massive body directly crushed a stretch of houses, and the screams grew even more harrowing.

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu and Jing Yan, who had just returned with his people, were utterly stunned.

"Xiao Xuedou... has turned weird again!"

Jing Yan's face darkened—he knew what Xiao Xuedou's revival meant.

This time, even he was determined to kill Xiao Xuedou.

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu was anxiously shouting, trying to stop it, wanting Xiao Xuedou to obey.

But no one backed her up anymore.

The first time, the revival had suddenly stopped and Xiao Xuedou had regained its senses—nobody had ever seen such a thing, so they were wavering on how to handle Xiao Xuedou. After all, the survivors of Gu Yue Cun were only them now, and they didn't want to see another companion die, even one like Xiao Xuedou, a Ghost Hound.

But now, the situation was different!

A second revival meant Xiao Xuedou was no longer Xiao Xuedou—it was a pure shell of the weirdness.

"Kill it!"

No one knew who shouted the first cry, but all the Gu Yue Cun villagers around responded in unison.

"Kill! Kill the weirdness! Kill Xiao Xuedou!"

"Captain Wu, end Xiao Xuedou's suffering! Let it truly rest!"

You... you all...

Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu was so anxious she was nearly in tears, yet Jing Yan beside her had also fallen silent.

Can't keep it, can't keep it, no way to keep it!

Amid the crowd's shouts, Captain Wu, who had just landed, charged once more to Xiao Xuedou's body.

Aiming at Xiao Xuedou's vulnerable belly, golden threads flickering in his eyes, he slammed a fist straight down.

"The weirdness—all of it must die!!"

Before, with Fang Yue's assurance, he hadn't struck at Xiao Xuedou, thinking it really was fine.

But now, he would treat Xiao Xuedou as the weirdness and blast it to bits!

"Roar!!"

Xiao Xuedou let out a savage roar, twisted its head to bite at Captain Wu, and its belly had already exploded with a boom, blasting out a vacuum-like hole of blood!

The might of a single fist—terrifying beyond compare!

But Xiao Xuedou wasn't dead yet; it merely struggled, its body trembling, and let out a roar: "Roar!!"

That frenzied vigor was no different from a mindless, low-level aberration!

"Die for me!!"

His figure flashed. Captain Wu arrived in an instant before Xiao Xuedou's massive dog head, swung a fist the size of a sandbag, and slammed it down without a moment's hesitation.

The fist came down, touched Xiao Xuedou's dog head, crushed through the skin, shattered the skull, pressed it to the ground—pressure from both sides working together.

Boom!!

Xiao Xuedou's enormous dog head burst apart, turning into a carpet of black blood that sprayed out like a fountain, splashing all over Captain Wu, and also onto the street, the walls of the houses—everything covered in this black blood.

Xiao Xuedou's body twitched twice, then slowly went still.

Captain Wu loosened his fist slightly, and the golden threads in his eyes slowly faded.

"Xiao Xuedou!!" Tian Dan Zhi Yuan Wu cried out in grief.

"Xiao Xuedou…" Jing Yan clenched his fist.

It had taken him so much effort to feel that, besides building a game studio, his in-game character could finally start to develop a little.

And the result… the Ghost Beast passed down by the Hunter was just… gone like that…

This luck—way too rotten.

Just as Jing Yan was thinking this, he suddenly saw the corpse of Xiao Xuedou ahead pulsing like a heartbeat—thump, thump, thump.

Slightly stunned, he hurriedly shouted: "Captain Wu, look out!!"

But it was already too late.

A black shadow had already shot out from Xiao Xuedou's massive corpse like a sharp sword… then, in the opposite direction from Captain Wu, sped away.

While Captain Wu was dazed, he instinctively glanced at the black shadow that had shot out from Xiao Xuedou's corpse—the direction it had fled.

That direction… seemed to be exactly the direction Fang Yue had left in.

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(End of this chapter)