Chapter 227
Chapter 227
Five burly men cautiously pushed open the door to a house.
The entrance led straight into a living room, except it had been converted into a mourning hall.
There was no coffin in sight. Instead, several memorial tablets bearing men’s names stood on a table in the center of the room.
Cha Bing looked around carefully. Only after confirming there was no danger did he start forward.
There were five memorial tablets in all, arranged from oldest to youngest, with the entire family of five, all present and accounted for.
“C-Captain, did the whole family die?”
Cha Bing shuddered. “Looks like their entire bloodline was wiped out.”
One of the team members waved something in his hand. “This must be a prop, right?”
Cha Bing turned and saw a yellow talisman.
The moment he saw it, his heart went cold.
If there was a talisman, that meant there was a ghost, and that meant they would have to face it.
“Let’s go. Next room!”
The moment he finished speaking, a scream rang out.
Cha Bing bolted through the doorway and sprinted toward the source of the scream.
The other team members glanced at the wooden door lying on the ground, then hurried after their Captain.
After racing through the house, they spotted several women from Zhuque Squad.
“Where’s your Captain?”
A long-haired team member raised a trembling hand and pointed at the coffin inside the room.
“I-In there!”
Cha Bing fell silent as he stared at the pitch-black coffin before him.
They were asking for trouble!
How could they barge into a place with a coffin so recklessly?
Before anyone could react, wisps of white smoke seeped through the cracks in the coffin.
Then the coffin lid slowly opened.
Captain Zhuque appeared before them once more.
“It’s dealt with. Let’s go.”
Seeing Captain Zhuque’s cold, expressionless face, Cha Bing quietly signaled to several of his team members.
“What happened?”
“It was just a wronged ghost. I’ve already dealt with it.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Cha Bing swept one hand forward. “Get her!”
Captain Zhuque was immediately pinned to the floor.
Several members of her team were about to rush forward when Cha Bing stepped into their path.
“Something’s wrong. Don’t move yet!”
With that, he took out the yellow talisman they had just found and stood before Captain Zhuque.
“Who exactly are you?”
At last, a smile appeared on Captain Zhuque’s cold face.
But the smile was indescribably eerie.
“You care a lot about her, don’t you?”
Cha Bing gritted his teeth and slapped the yellow talisman directly onto Captain Zhuque’s forehead.
A faint red figure flashed into view, and Captain Zhuque went limp on the floor.
The yellow talisman fell to the ground and spontaneously burst into flames.
Cha Bing helped Captain Zhuque up, his face deathly pale.
Could there really be ghosts here?
That had clearly been the legendary phenomenon of ghost possession!
Watching through the surveillance feed, Zhang Bei couldn’t stop grinning.
By combining Memory Attenuation Technology with the glasses’ simulations, it was entirely possible to recreate something resembling ghost possession.
However, there was one prerequisite if he wanted to skip the mental-soothing process.
A person had to be unconscious before memory implantation could be performed.
Otherwise, their memories could easily become scrambled.
From this point on, Cha Bing and the others would not only have to search for clues to escape the village, but also remain on guard against a mole lying in wait among them!
It didn’t take long for Captain Zhuque to regain consciousness.
The moment she opened her eyes, she found pairs of anxious eyes staring at her.
“Captain?”
The long-haired team member called out tentatively.
“I think… I had a dream?”
Hearing her normal tone, Cha Bing finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“What was the dream about?”
Captain Zhuque lowered her head and thought for a moment.
“I can’t remember clearly, but there’s a notebook in the Village Chief’s house that records what happened in the village.”
Zhuque stretched her legs, then took the lead and headed toward Xiao Lu.
The Village Chief’s house had the best living conditions in the entire village.
At the very least, it was built of red brick.
With Zhuque in the lead, the group pushed open the front door and walked straight in.
Unsurprisingly, another pitch-black coffin sat in the living room.
Captain Zhuque surveyed their surroundings and thought back carefully before pulling open a cabinet.
There was only a yellowed notebook inside, buried beneath a thick layer of dust.
The team members continued searching for clues while the two Captains huddled together and flipped through the notebook.
[Lao Wang’s child isn’t right. It didn’t cry or make a fuss when it was born.]
[Some say it’s a prodigy, born with awakened intelligence, but I fear things aren’t that simple.]
Two pages had been torn out at this point, making it impossible to know what had happened in between.
[That child has completely turned into a demon. I hope the Taoist priest from out of town can save this village.]
[The Taoist priest is dead. That child is no longer human!!!]
[There’s no escape. The things the Taoist priest left behind have trapped it, but they’ve also trapped us.]
The notebook ended there. What happened afterward was obvious.
The entire village had been slaughtered, and the culprit behind it all was nothing more than a child.
Cha Bing suddenly felt waves of cold air rising around him.
He rubbed his arms and was just about to discuss it with Captain Zhuque when he looked up.
A little girl of about seven was perched on Captain Zhuque’s shoulders.
A faint smile hung on her bruised, bluish-purple face.
Cha Bing’s eyes widened as he raised a trembling hand.
“Y-your neck!”
The moment the words left his mouth, he fainted dead away.
Captain Zhuque reacted almost instantly.
She stiffly tilted her head back, and that horrifying face immediately entered her field of vision.
Captain Zhuque had only just regained consciousness, yet she rolled her eyes back and collapsed to the floor once again.
A streak of red flashed over Captain Zhuque’s head once more.
At the same time, a yellow figure floated out of the coffin and descended onto Cha Bing.
Two impostors!
Hearing the commotion in the living room, several team members emerged from the other rooms.
Cha Bing waved the notebook in his hand. “Let’s go! We need to get to the vegetable patch beside the village!”
With that, he was the first out the door.
Cha Bing expertly opened the warehouse and took out several rusty shovels.
“As long as we dig up the coffin in the vegetable patch and destroy the formation, we’ll be able to escape!”
The team members around him immediately grew excited upon hearing this.
The long-haired team member regarded the two Captains with a grave look in her eyes.
Could both of them have been possessed?
The two teams often went on missions together, so they were fairly familiar with each other’s habits.
At the very least, her Captain would never willingly stand that close to Cha Bing!
Even Cha Bing’s usual habit of wiping his pant legs was nowhere to be seen.
As Cha Bing led the way, the Kunpeng team members following behind him gradually realized something was wrong.
How was their Captain so familiar with this place?
He looked like he was coming home. What the hell was going on?
But their only talisman had already been used, so they hung back and whispered among themselves.
“Captain must be possessed.”
“We need to find an excuse to slip away and look for another talisman.”
“Fuck, why are there actually ghosts in this place?!”
“Keep your voice down. We need to survive first!”
After a brief discussion, they quickly fell silent.