Chapter 1650 - 1495: Yin Yang Inn 51
Chapter 1650: Chapter 1495: Yin Yang Inn 51
Just when Qi Shuangshuang thought that the entity was trying to control the young man’s body to fight her and Luo Yao to the death, the entity unexpectedly took a step back.
Then, with a wave of its hand, all the puppets inside the tent suddenly stood up. Each one first stiffly shook its body, then began to move its hands and feet, quickly becoming agile.
Once agile, the puppets turned to face Qi Shuangshuang and Luo Yao and launched a fierce attack, while the entity controlling the young man’s body had already disappeared.
The entity was actually using these puppets to delay Qi Shuangshuang and Luo Yao, and ran away directly! It had no intention of fighting Qi Shuangshuang and Luo Yao to the death and escaped so spinelessly!
Luo Yao watched the escaping figure and couldn’t help but sneer. What use could these puppets, not even as tall as a human’s leg, have? The attack is fierce, but they are easy to break.
Luo Yao casually waved his hand intending to shatter a puppet attacking his face, but was stopped by Qi Shuangshuang in time.
Luo Yao frowned and looked at Qi Shuangshuang: "What’s wrong with these puppets?" Although Luo Yao has a hot temper, he is not a fool. He doesn’t believe Qi Shuangshuang would stop him from destroying these puppets for no reason.
Qi Shuangshuang lowered the hand holding Luo Yao’s arm and moved to dodge two puppets attacking her. She said helplessly to Luo Yao, "Use Divine Sense to carefully examine these puppets."
Without hesitation, Luo Yao grabbed an attacking puppet and scanned it with Divine Sense, discovering that human souls were trapped inside these puppets!
Hastily, Luo Yao used Divine Sense to scan the other puppets and found that all the puppets contained trapped human souls. It seemed the entity injected all the souls it controlled into these puppets just now.
These souls appeared to be in a muddled state, only knowing to attach to the puppets and attack Qi Shuangshuang and Luo Yao, clearly being manipulated.
Even more troublesome, when the entity fled, it combined these human souls with the puppets.
This meant that if the puppets were damaged, the souls would suffer the same irreversible harm. If the puppets were shattered, these souls would be scattered and destroyed.
The attack power of these puppets was insignificant to Qi Shuangshuang and Luo Yao, but the problem was that they couldn’t act carelessly against these puppets.
Yet the puppets attacked the two recklessly without fear of death, forcing Qi Shuangshuang and Luo Yao to stop and extract the human souls from the puppets.
With over a hundred puppets to extract souls from, it wasn’t an easy task, and the time needed gave the entity ample opportunity to escape far away.
This was the entity’s intention in putting all the souls it controlled into puppets to block Qi Shuangshuang and Luo Yao. Knowing full well it was no match for them, its initial thought was to escape.
Qi Shuangshuang and Luo Yao, though aware of the entity’s intentions, were helpless, unable to simply ignore the puppets.
The two had to stop and extract the souls from the puppets one by one, then collect them for Luo Yao to take back to the Underworld.
Though these humans had not yet reached their end, their bodies were destroyed, leaving them to enter the Underworld to await reincarnation. As compensation, their future reincarnations should enter relatively prosperous families.
Once Qi Shuangshuang and Luo Yao resolved the puppet situation and resumed the chase, the entity was already nowhere to be seen.
Fortunately, Qi Shuangshuang had kept the young man’s hair before. Summoning the Mystic Light Mirror now, they found the young man’s whereabouts, but he appeared lifeless in the image.
Both Qi Shuangshuang and Luo Yao felt an ill premonition in their hearts. They hurried to the location seen in the Mystic Light Mirror and found the young man’s body in the same position as before.
Qi Shuangshuang and Luo Yao approached him, Qi Shuangshuang bent down to check the man’s breathing, which was nonexistent, then turned the young man’s corpse over.
The young man’s body was cold and rigid, flipped over to reveal a face that, though young, was twisted with terror. His eyes were wide open, and his mouth maintained a bizarre upturned state.
The most terrifying aspect was the gaping hole in the man’s chest and abdomen, with all internal organs missing, not even ribs left, rendering the chest and abdomen a smooth, rounded cavity.
Though a large hole had been opened in the abdomen, no blood flowed out. Most unsettling, the flesh around the hole was intact without any wounds.
It was as though the chest had been opened, organs removed to make space suitable for something to reside, and the chest wound healed itself, hence the smoothness with no blood flow.
It appeared the entity had previously inhabited this young man’s chest, meaning he hadn’t truly been alive for some time.
After carefully examining the young man’s corpse, Qi Shuangshuang stood up and shook her head at Luo Yao: "Dead long ago, and his soul was captured."
Luo Yao irritably furrowed his brow: "He deserves death, having helped the entity harm others. Going to the Underworld, he would be cast into Evil Ghost Hell for never reincarnating. But his death means we can no longer track the entity."
Despite the words, Luo Yao quickly gathered all nearby Ghost Messengers and Yang Wuchang, issuing orders for them to remain vigilant in capturing the fleeing entity.
Once the Ghost Messengers and Wu Chang, Yang Wuchang left with their orders, Luo Yao still couldn’t help but sigh. The entity was so adept at hiding its trail that he doubted his subordinates could find it.
This time, they managed to capture traces left by the entity using Qi Shuangshuang’s meticulousness. The entity was previously too arrogant, underestimating the Underworld’s Ghost Messengers and harming too many people, allowing Qi Shuangshuang to spot the trail by repeatedly examining messages from victims.
If the entity has learned its lesson and ceases harming people, solely focusing on hiding, Qi Shuangshuang might not have any information to analyze, making recapturing the entity extraordinarily difficult.
Luo Yao felt somewhat agitated, but Qi Shuangshuang kept drawing a talisman, focusing on extracting traces left by the entity on the young man’s corpse.
The working principle of the Mystic Light Mirror is actually tracking based on target’s aura. The need for hair and nails to perform the ritual each time is merely because of their dense personal aura, making them easier to locate.
However, essentially, the Mystic Light Mirror requires a person’s aura, not specifically hair or nails.
Even if the entity excels at concealing its aura, residing in the young man’s body so long ensures it left some trace behind.