Chapter 218
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Soon, several dream butterflies flew back.
Fu Xuezhou reached out and took the dream butterflies. They disappeared into his fingertips, transmitting everything they had seen along the way into Fu Xuezhou’s mind. In the blink of an eye, Fu Xuezhou already had a clear understanding of the situation in Xiyang City.
Seeing Fu Xuezhou’s slightly cold expression, Lou Yan asked sharply, “What’s wrong?”
“Their meeting place is in the city center, heavily guarded, the dream butterflies can’t get in.”
Hearing this, Lou Yan also frowned. When he used [True Sight] to look down from above, he found that the closer they got to the city center, the more anomalies it had, to the point where it was densely packed.
At that time, he guessed whether the city center was the meeting place of the cultists, and he was right.
Fu Xuezhou said, “In the city center, there are seven A-rank anomalies and one S-rank anomalies.”
Lou Yan’s expression changed.
Seven A-rank anomalies! One S-rank anomalies!
A single A-rank anomalies could massacre a city, and with so many powerful anomalies gathered together, it was even more terrifying than a nuclear bomb.
It was worth mentioning that the red coffin in Liushu Village was only A-rank or S-rank, but even so, Lou Yan and Fu Xuezhou had no way to resist the ghost marriage contract imposed on them by the red coffin. They could only be forced to solve it little by little by sleeping together.
In Lou Yan’s memories of his previous lives, he had seen only a few A-rank anomalies, and he had never even seen an S-rank anomaly, only heard of it. He suppressed the waves in his heart and asked, “What exactly are these anomalies?”
“The seven A-rank anomalies we can handle, no need to worry too much,” Fu Xuezhou paused, his eyes cold, “But that S-rank anomaly is the ‘Plague Ghost’.”
The Plague Ghost, an S-rank horror anomaly.
Lou Yan had heard rumors about the Plague Ghost before. Wherever the Plague Ghost appeared, the plague would spread within a thousand meters. Every time the Plague Ghost coughed, the distance of the plague spread would increase. Eventually, the range of the plague spread by the Plague Ghost could even cover a city, a province, or even an entire country.
The true form of the Plague Ghost was a weak, hunched, old person with wrinkles all over their face. They relied on a crutch to walk, appearing frail, and would stop to rest and cough from time to time. It seemed like even a child could pick up a stone and kill the Plague Ghost. However, that was not the case. Although the Plague Ghost’s true form was weak, its flesh and blood were composed of the most terrifying plague bacteria in the world. Once a normal person touched the Plague Ghost’s body, they would bleed from all seven orifices, their skin would peel off, and their flesh would rapidly rot.
The blood of the Plague Ghost was even more dangerous. Once it was injured and bled, the plague carried in its blood would spread instantly. Anyone who touched even a drop of it would become a source of infection for the plague.
A drop of the Plague Ghost’s blood could kill thousands of people. This was not an exaggeration.
Because the consequences of the Plague Ghost being injured were so terrible, humans always felt helpless when facing this anomaly.
Lou Yan remembered that in one of his past lives, the country had personally killed the Plague Ghost. That battle was very tragic. After losing tens of thousands of soldiers, hundreds of talented individuals, and destroying an entire city, they used thermal weapons to bury the Plague Ghost and the plague-ridden area it spread under the ruins.
Unexpectedly, now the Plague Ghost had appeared again, still in Xiyang City.
Lou Yan’s face darkened, and he said grimly, “We absolutely cannot let the Plague Ghost leave Xiyang City alive.”
Fu Xuezhou nodded with a cold face, thinking the same thing.
They were now in Xiyang City and were also at risk of being infected by the plague. However, Fu Xuezhou had released several dream butterflies to monitor the movements of the Plague Ghost and found that it had not unleashed its full power yet. It had been walking back and forth in a fixed location, seemingly trying to prevent the cultists from being infected by the plague as well.
Time was of the essence, so the two of them immediately set off towards the city center. More and more dream butterflies flew back, bringing Fu Xuezhou more information. As they walked, Fu Xuezhou briefly described the situation in Xiyang City to Lou Yan.
In addition to the anomalies, almost all of the living people in Xiyang City were cultists. The cultists were organized into teams of twenty, patrolling various streets near the city center in rotation.
Whenever a patrol team discovered something, they would immediately sound the alarm, and the Holy Maiden and other cultist leaders would leave Xiyang City directly. At the same time, cultists with talents suitable for surveillance and tracking were also arranged in various corners to prevent anyone from sneaking in. Roughly counted, there were hundreds of such people.
Xiyang City now could be said to be a tightly woven net.
Lou Yan followed Fu Xuezhou, shuttling quickly through various alleys. Lou Yan’s brow furrowed deeply, showing his obvious worry.
When Fu Xuezhou saw a patrol team approaching not far away, he pulled Lou Yan and jumped from the rooftop into a dark alley, pressing Lou Yan against the wall for protection. He chuckled softly and asked, “Why such an expression?”
Lou Yan replied irritably, “How can you still laugh?”
Fu Xuezhou tilted his head, looking at Lou Yan with calm eyes, as if asking: Why can’t I laugh?
Lou Yan’s impatience was instantly cooled as if he had been doused with cold water. He exhaled a warm breath, looked at the white clouds drifting slowly across the sky, and asked with a complicated mood, “Fu Xuezhou, have you ever killed a Plague Ghost?”
“I have,” Fu Xuezhou said lightly, “I’ve also been killed by it many times.”
Just as Lou Yan’s heart relaxed for a moment, it tensed up again. He pursed his lips and asked somewhat bewilderedly, “I just thought of many ways to kill the Plague Ghost, but I couldn’t think of a way to kill it while also preventing the spread of the plague. Fu Xuezhou, how did you kill it?”
Fu Xuezhou leaned his head closer to Lou Yan but whispered, “Shh, someone is coming.”
Lou Yan’s ears twitched as he heard the footsteps gradually approaching from outside the alley. He instinctively reached out and pulled Fu Xuezhou closer to him, making their figures more concealed, and they fell silent.
Beside them, a dilapidated red food stall sign conveniently blocked their view.
Lou Yan and Fu Xuezhou were very close, with Lou Yan almost able to feel the protrusions of Fu Xuezhou’s bones beneath his clothes. Lou Yan subconsciously smoothed Fu Xuezhou’s silver hair and back. As he did so, he suddenly couldn’t help but chuckle.
Afraid of alerting the cultists and disturbing them, he suppressed his laughter, his body trembling slightly.
A hint of confusion appeared in Fu Xuezhou’s eyes as he whispered to Lou Yan’s ear, “What’s so funny?”
“Your clothes…” Lou Yan struggled to contain his laughter with every word he spoke, “There are two big holes where your wings are.”
Previously, due to the covering of his silver hair, Lou Yan hadn’t noticed the existence of these two holes. Now that he touched them, Lou Yan was shocked and almost burst into laughter.
Fu Xuezhou: “…”
As the patrol team passed by the dark alley, the leader of the cultists glanced at the alley, but seeing no one, he prepared to leave. However, another member of the team, alertly observing the red signboard of the food stall, cautiously suggested, “Leader, there might be someone hiding behind this signboard. Shall I take a look?”
The leader waved his hand, signaling him to go ahead.
The member approached the alley cautiously, nearing the position of the large signboard. Suddenly, with a “clatter,” several black tentacles swung out from behind the signboard, gnashing their teeth as if ready to devour someone.
Startled, the member stumbled back a few steps and hurriedly ran away. “It’s an anomaly! There’s no one here, only an anomaly! Let’s go!” he shouted.
The patrol team hastily fled the scene.
They were cultists. Although the anomaly in the city wouldn’t attack them actively, if they angered one and got devoured, they wouldn’t be able to resist. When patrolling, the cultists dared not approach the areas where the anomalies were, fearing that if they provoked the anomalies, they would have no place to complain if they died.
The alley returned to silence.
The tentacles retracted into Fu Xuezhou’s body. Without saying a word, he pressed Lou Yan against the wall. After about ten seconds, he straightened up, expressionless, and took off his black sports jacket.
With his pale and handsome upper body exposed, Fu Xuezhou crumpled the jacket into a ball and threw it on the ground. As soon as the jacket touched the ground, it burst into flames with a loud bang, burning to ashes in an instant. With a gust of wind, the ashes flew away.
In a matter of seconds, Fu Xuezhou had obliterated the evidence of his embarrassment.
After burning the jacket, Fu Xuezhou looked silently at Lou Yan.
Lou Yan was about to burst into laughter again. He caught sight of the nearby building and jumped onto the windowsill from the ground. Skillfully, he opened the window of the house and turned to Fu Xuezhou, saying, “You can’t just go around shirtless. Come in and see if there’s a shirt you can wear. We’ll borrow some clothes from the residents and then leave.”
Fu Xuezhou tilted his head, his expression inscrutable. With his upper body bare, his black pants were tightly wrapped around his slender waist, but loose around his legs. The alley was dimly lit, and the dim twilight cast a hue on the surroundings. Fu Xuezhou stood tall and handsome, surrounded by chaotic items and dim colors, like the background of a poster shoot.
Lou Yan jumped into the window directly. “Hurry up, don’t waste time.”
Fu Xuezhou stood still for a while, then leaped like a leopard, effortlessly stepping onto the windowsill and entering the room with agility and grace.
Half a minute later, the two came out of the front door, continuing their swift pace towards the city center.
Lou Yan followed behind Fu Xuezhou, trying not to look at him. However, the more he tried to refrain himself, the more he wanted to do it. He couldn’t help but sneak glances at Fu Xuezhou from time to time. Every time he looked, he felt like laughing, and the heavy and tense atmosphere became a little lighter.
Unfortunately, the house they had just entered belonged to a single mother. There were only clothes for the mother and son in the wardrobe. Apart from women’s clothing, there were only men’s clothing leaning towards youthful and lively styles, which didn’t match Fu Xuezhou’s style at all.
But Fu Xuezhou couldn’t possibly wear women’s clothing. Lou Yan took charge and randomly picked a white T-shirt from the pile of clothes for Fu Xuezhou to wear.
Fu Xuezhou’s stinky expression with the shirt on was unforgettable for Lou Yan.
At this moment, on the white T-shirt Fu Xuezhou was wearing, the cute Crayon Shin-chan was pouting, as if begging for a kiss. With the wind blowing, he was swaying and throwing flirtatious glances towards Lou Yan.
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