Here Lies The Wicked

Chapter 39: A Strange Creature Sneaked In

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Recently, there would be no sights of humans in the area around Tongjiang Bridge after sundown. 

Even e-hailing cars refused to go there after nightfall.

When Fang Zheng left the buffet restaurant, he first took the bus to the nearest station, and scanned the QR code1 to access the sharing bicycle before cycling all the way toward the direction of Tongjiang Bridge.

Suddenly, Fang Zheng saw a bicycle that fell over at the road in front of him.

He frowned his brow slightly and braked—the sound of the bicycle brake resonated in the area.

On the empty and quiet street, a sharing bicycle fell over…

A lady’s handbag was still hanging on the handlebars…

But there was no one to be seen.

Fang Zheng twitched his nose gently and picked up a different scent in the air. It was the smell of wet mud and sand mixed with the stink of dead fish.

Thump, thump, thump…

The sound of a ball bouncing was suddenly heard on the quiet and empty road. Fang Zheng saw a blurred dark shadow of a young boy by the roadside around seven to eight meters ahead. He was playing alone, kicking the ball continuously toward the wall by the roadside.

Thump… The ball bounced back to the young boy’s feet and he kicked the ball toward the wall. He kept kicking the ball over and over again.

Fang Zheng picked up the sharing bicycle by the roadside gently—as he would an object of importance—and carefully parked it on the sidewalk.

Then, he picked up the lady’s handbag that fell on the floor and carefully petted the dust off the bag. He was moving gently as if he was handling something precious, and gently hung the bag back on the handlebars of the bicycle.

From the beginning to the end, Fang Zheng seemed to have not seen the young boy who was kicking the ball alone. After that, he walked into an alley next to him that was not lit.

There was a female corpse who fell in a glaring pool of blood. Her facial expression was horrified and twisted as if she saw something very horrific when she was alive.

Both her eyes were wide open as if she died with regrets, and there were tears that had not dried up on the corner of her eyes… That was her longing and fondness for life.

The stench of blood gradually wafted through the air in the alley.

Thump, thump thump, thump… A small ball bounced on the floor a few times rolled out from a dark corner, and stopped when it hit Fang Zheng’s feet.

“Stay and let’s play with the ball together.”

A whiff of cold and gloom air poured into the alley without street lights. The temperature suddenly dropped, and at the same time, the stench of wet mud and sand mixed with the stink of dead fish assailed the nose. In the dark, a pair of pale greyish child’s hands stretched out and pushed toward Fang Zheng’s back.

“I’ll play with your mother’s cunt!”

Fang Zheng burst the ball that was by his feet by stepping on it, then, POOF!

He turned back and slashed toward the little boy with a blade. There was anger in his eyes as he slashed the boy from his right shoulder to his abdomen, almost splitting him in half with one slash.

AH!

The young boy was suffering,

He wanted to escape.

At this moment, Fang Zheng had unfolded the Exorcist Golden Warrior Seal on his left hand and was already furiously punching the young boy’s body like the Glowering Golden Warrior, BOOM!

The surging golden flames poured into the young boy’s body along with his fist.

Ah!

Boom!

The young boy’s body twisted and finally exploded. His soul broke and disappeared.

Right after that, a strand of Gray Qi flew into Fang Zheng’s body, and a rune on the Human Skin Scripture lit up.

At the moment, the Qi of menace on the one-meter long Blade of Menace started to fade and contract before finally returning into the blade’s body, revealing only a common short knife of 30 to 40 centimeters long.

Fang Zheng inserted the Ghost Head Blade back into its sheath.

The sheath was tied around his waist covered by his jacket.

Since it was near to the Tongjiang Bridge and the stench of wet mud and sand mixed with the stink of dead fish was present, Fang Zheng had already guessed the origin of this young boy ghost.

He was one of the victims who fell to his death on the Tongjiang Bridge.

However, it was unknown why he would appear around this area. It might be because his body had not been salvaged so he appeared in the area instead.

Fang Zheng turned around and looked at the woman on the floor who died tragically. 

Sigh…

Fang Zheng sighed softly.

Then, he found the cell phone on the deceased and prepared to call the police. He could not bear to just leave her body exposed on the street.

However, at this moment, Fang Zheng suddenly heard soft footsteps approaching from far and it seemed to be coming at an incredible speed.

The speed was so fast that just as Fang Zheng was about to leave, the sound of the footsteps had already appeared at the entrance of the alley.

With electricity like lighting, a young man in his twenties like the Flash in DC—who had electrotype-optical waves all over his body and electricity on his feet—appeared in front of Fang Zheng.

Fang Zheng was stunned.

Fang Zheng could not respond in time and just looked at the Flash-lookalike young man with electrotype-optical waves all over his body in front of him. His hand was still holding the cell phone that he wanted to call the police with.

At the same time, the young man who looked like the Flash seemed to be shocked when he saw a living person in the alley. The two were bolted to the ground as they looked at each other. Their eyes widened and they forgot to respond.

At this moment, the roaring sound of the engine pierced through the night and ran swiftly on the road. After a few seconds, the piercing noise of rubber tires breaking was heard nearby.

Three youngsters, two men and one woman, appeared behind the young Flash-lookalike.

“Le Tian! Do you know what it means to obey orders and what’s teamwork? I’m the captain of this group!”

Among the three people, a man wearing rimless spectacles came up and started questioning the Flash angrily.

However, as the three approached they saw the unfamiliar face that appeared in the alley and the corpse of the woman that was in the pool of blood.

The most frightening thing in life happens to be when there was a sudden silence in the air, and the next most frightening thing would be when your friend was suddenly concerned about you…

This would mean that your friend was about to borrow money from you;

then it would be you were going to be greened1.

At this moment, the atmosphere suddenly fell into a strange quietness.

Looking at the four people in front of him, Fang Zheng felt his temples pounding. With the body by his feet and the fact that he was alone in the alley, he would not be able to explain himself even if he jumped into the Yellow River1.

Run away?

Turn into a murderer?

Then be listed as wanted throughout the country?

Will the police post out a reward of ten thousand? Or twenty thousand?

If he does not want to flee around the country, why not just kill them to gain silence?

Then nobody would know about this?

Fang Zheng’s testicles throbbed in pain1. He was clearly not a murderer—this was injustice! He should even be considered a good resident who acted heroically and fought gangsters!!

At this moment, the angelic voice of a girl that sounded like an angel in Fang Zheng’s ears was heard.

“The compass shows the ghost Qi1 reaction that was previously locked on is just here.”

“The level of ghost Qi is at the first level of Sky Dog1”.

“The person who was murdered on the floor has a weak ghost Qi reaction. We were one step too late so she was killed before we arrived—she died because of ghosts.”

Fang Zheng heard the voice of this girl and it sounded nice—like the sound from heaven. She looked at the girl in front of him with gratitude and felt that she was so nice to look. Sure enough, a person that was pretty outside had a pretty soul too.

The girl’s voice seemed to break the silence of the air, and the young man who looked like Flash said in surprise, “Brother, could it be that you are also recruited by the government and was the newcomer whose bloodline and body quality awakened during the Blue Blood Moon a few days ago?”

“Brother, which training class are you in the training camp? We might be in the next class with each other. Brother, you’re f*cking awesome, acting alone. You actually killed a ghost in the first level of Sky Dog by yourself.”

??

???

Fang Zheng suddenly could not respond.

The amount of information he was receiving at that moment was too much. He must first clear his mind.

Bloodline and body quality? Was this the people with abnormal powers he read about? Mutants?

The so-called people with abnormal powers were actually awakened bloodline and body quality. The opportunity for awakening seems to be related to the Blue Blood Moon?

As for government recruitment? Training Camp? Training Class? It seemed that the government was trying to prevent these abnormal beings from running around and accidentally causing problems without people controlling them. Hence, they centralized all of them and controlled them militarily?

Then, they were made to stand under the national flag, take an oath, and be loyal to the country and the people?

And what in the world was Sky Dog?

It seemed like a classification of the ghost’s ability?

Then were there ghosts with higher abilities above the first level Sky Dog?

Listening to the shocked tone of the Flash-lookalike in front of him, it seemed that his ability to kill a ghost on the first level Sky Dog was a matter worth bragging about in the eyes of these newly awakened abnormal beings?

Fang Zheng did not know. He did not know how to answer for a while so he stood there and did not continue the conversation. This scene fell into the eyes of the four people opposite him as he became a guy that was cold and detached.

At this moment, Fang Zheng became curious again.

If the people in front of him were the newly awakened abnormal beings that had been recruited, then why were they there?

If the Tongjiang Bridge was an advanced high-level dungeon map, going down to fight the boss together with new players was no different from going down to die?

However, Fang Zheng cannot ask in person.

Just when Fang Zheng’s head was hurting thinking about how to handle the scene in front of him, the four people in front of him had already returned to their vehicle—an SUV.

At the same time, the four people felt sorry so they picked up the woman’s body from the floor and brought her into the SUV.

After the four of them returned to the car, they saw Fang Zheng standing there alone. The young man who looked like the Flash tried to be approachable and said, “Brother, if your teammates can’t arrive in time, and if you don’t mind, why don’t you come back to Tongjiang Bridge with us?”

“It’s not like you don’t know those instructors. Each of them are dark-faced Yama. If you’re late for the urgent gathering time, these dark-faced Yama can definitely come up with hundreds of ways to torture people, which is definitely suffice for you to suffer.”

“…” Fang Zheng was speechless.

At the end of the day, in order to not raise suspicion, Fang Zheng could only brace himself and enter the car under the stare of four pairs of eyes.

In the car, Fang Zheng did not speak throughout the entire journey, fully playing the lonely and aloof expert personality. 

It was not that he did not want to speak. He was like a husky that sneaked into the wolf pack, and would definitely be exposed if he opened his mouth and accidentally revealed that he was a fake.

Fang Zheng sat in the car like he was sitting on a pin cushion, his body stiff and straight.

After several attempts to communicate, the four people gradually lost interest and no longer took the initiative to talk to Fang Zheng after they saw Fang Zheng keeping quiet the whole way.

Seeing that the attention of the four people was finally not on him, Fang Zheng was relieved in his heart.

The SUV had a smooth ride all the way.

During the journey, they met a few road roadblocks but were given the clear swiftly.

The party of five got closer and closer to Tongjiang Bridge. They could gradually see the Tongjiang Bridge that was shrouded in mist. After the car stopped and the engine was shut, Fang Zheng came down from the car last. He was shocked!

A strand of Gray Qi drifted toward him…

Then came the second strand of Gray Qi… In an instant, three strands of Gray Qi had been earned.