NOVPUBChapter 244: Chapter 243 Mirrored Flower and Moon
Vice Chancellor Evatt resurrected as a deceased person, and the first important order he received was to go to the Sunshine Hotel, find the special gentleman whould absorb death, and bring him back, dead or alive.
But now, the dumplings that were fed to the mouth had just run away.
If he returned empty-handed, he would surely be punished, and he might even be stripped of his deceased status and diempletely.
“No! This guyuld not possibly escape under my watch!”
Withoutncerning himself with energynsumption any longer, the vice chancellor supported himself with both hands on the ground, spreading all the “surgical threads” within his body outward, trying to trace Yi Chen’s escape.
In his view, a delay of only two snds meant that Yi Chenuld definitely not have escaped beyond range.
The radiation range of the surgical threads reached three kilometers, and he maximized the tactile feedback,nsuming about 50% of Evatt’s energy, yet ultimately he detected nothing.
“Wait! Is it possible that he didn’t run away at all?”
The vice chancellor retracted all the surgical threads into his body and surveyed the stoneffins that occupied the hall.
“During our battle, the eyeball monster behind him was only ‘summoning stoneffins,’ obviously on purpose.
Deliberately making stoneffins fill the entire hall? Even…”
With a stomp, Vice Chancellor Evatt broke the floor, revealing the soft soil underneath and emitting a decaying scent.
“Just as I thought, it seemed like summoning stoneffins, but in reality, he had relocated the geological structure of the Stone Statue Cemetery.
With the unique characteristics of the cemetery soil, rapid transfer between different stoneffins is possible… They must still be hiding in one of the stoneffins.
There are two purposes for doing this,
one is to disguise a successful escape, euraging me to chase out of the hotel or even to the cemetery to look for them. By then, they would have enough time to escape from the hotel.
The other is to buy time for a breather, such a state is not something human fleshuld sustain for long; the body would have given out fromntinuous fighting long ago.
All I need to do now is to slowly find you all.”
Thinking this, the surgical threads once again cleaved towards theffin beside him, like opening a blind box, still only sliding out arpse without eyes.
“So hard… truly worthy of being crafted by Rupert. The hardness and sealing are top-notch. If I do not pry open the lid, my perception cannot directly judge whether there is something alive inside; I can only open them one by one slowly.
Luckily that dwarf ran away early. If he had been here, things would have bme very troublesome.”
Vice Chancellor Evatt changed the way he opened the blind boxes,
no longer cutting, instead, he let the surgical threads permeate along the edge of theffin lid, lifting it from the inside.
One, two, three…
More and more blind boxes were opened, and therpses with their eyes dug out were thrown carelessly on the ground.
With hundreds of stoneffins, the long process of opening blind boxes, due to the repetition of the same action,upled with the previously intensive dodging and the full release of surgical threads, inevitably caused some mental numbness.
Midway, there were even several instances of shaking his head to clear it.
“Only the last ten left, nine, eight…”
As only a few stoneffins remained, Vice Chancellor Evatt’s attention intensified again.
The final remaining stoneffin was right at the hotel’s main entrance.
His face split into an almost sickly deathly smile as he strode forward. This time, not prying open the lid, he put forth all his strength, slicing it down!
Crack!
Due to excessive force, black, foul-smelling blood seeped from his fingertips, dripping along the fine lines.
As theffin was cleaved, suit-clad chunks of young man’s flesh also scattered around, the expression of unwillingness in death still rgnizable even though the head was split open.
It was indeed Yi Chen,
because he had hidden in the stoneffin for too long, “Dead Man Makeup” had worn off, and this cut was absolutely fatal.
Seeing this scene, the Vice Chancellor breathed a sigh of relief.
“He is finally dead! I didn’t expect a gentleman who has yet to transcend his limits to stall me for such a long time. In the future, I must spend more effort to train my flesh and learn more killing skills.
It seems that the eyeball creature isn’t here, did it slip away earlier with the specialnnection to the cemetery? It doesn’t matter, after all, the gentleman is all my superior needed.”
Just to be safe,
Vice Chancellor Evatt crouched down, beginning to sew together the chunks of the young man’s flesh, bringing back ampleterpse would make for a better report.
Just as he was sewing the head, a sense of dissonance suddenly struck… Although therpse looked exactly like Yi Chen, something felt off.
“Wait a minute…”
Vice Chancellor immediately switched his threads to sensory lines, performing an overhaul andrrection on his own brain,
As the sensory overhaul of the brain wasmpleted,
Therpse he held in his hands began to transform, gradually turning into a grave-body with vivid eyeballs embedded,
and a physique, stature, and even hairstyle identical to William’s.
A strange Moon Scar was carved at the brow of therpse,
positioned just right at the hotel entrance, a slender opening tore through the dense dark clouds, and a shaft of moonlight penetrated and fell directly on the body.
Yi Chen, utilizing the Moon Scar’s attribute within him innjunction with the spiritual illusions of Xiaoputao, jointly cast “Mirrored Flower and Water Moon.”
“Howuld this be… Howuld I possibly be tricked by an illusion!?”
Just as the associate dean regained his senses, ald sensation came from his neck.
Whoosh!
A silver flash swept across, and a head flew through the air.
Hiss-hiss~ Surgical threads spurted out from the severed neck in the air, trying to reattach to the headless body below.
Without thentrol of arms and fingers,
these surgical threads, growing directly from the brain, were relatively soft and even lacked cutting ability, only useful fornnecting flesh and pulling the head.
Just as it was about to rnnect with its body… Boom! The stoneffin rose.
The headless body was sealed within and quickly buried.
Smack!
The head crashed to the ground, falling right in front of Barry Bessalius’srpse, with both heads facing each other.
In the previous battle, Yi Chen had kept as far away from Barry’s body as possible, waiting for this moment.
Just as the associate dean was trying to escape using the surgical threads,
an iron chain struck, piercing into the back of his skull, bringing with it endless agony… Various needles sprouted from his skull, eyeballs, ears, and even from his mouth.
Yi Chen did not intend to torture him purposefully; he knew the associate dean hadn’t bme like this subjectively but was instead forced to obey others because he had bme a dead person.
“Vice Chancellor Evatt, rest in peace!”
The iron chain burrowed into the depths of the brain, exhibiting its most fundamental plant trait.
≮Central Tasting≯
Brain marrow carrying the “Death Plague Breath” transmitted along the iron chain into Yi Chen’s body.
His recently upgraded Sensing, which had reached [5], grew again, yet it didn’t directly reach the Limit but became [5+].
Perhaps because this wasn’t the vice chancellor’s original body but a temporary flesh assembled through the “Death Plague” from rotten fish and dead rats,
however, Yi Chen got something even better.
The “Death Plague Breath” within the vice chancellor’s body was a hundred times morencentrated than those of the gentlemanly deceased, directly triggering a textual notification in his retina.
『Enough ‘Death Plague Breath’ has been absorbed, the individual’s Death Attribute has grown, ‘Dead Man Makeup’ can last longer, Black Liquid storage capacity has increased.』
“Death indeed shares annection… Finally, it’s all sorted out!”
Yi Chenuld no longer hold himself up andllapsed heavily to the ground.
When “Dead Man Makeup” was released, not a single part of his body remained intact.
Xiaoputao hurriedly helped Yi Chen up, forming a thumbs-up with a palm made of eyeballs, “William, you really dared to! To think of such a tactic, what if the illusion hadn’t worked?”
“It was highly likely to work~ because the vice chancellor had a very clear psychological weakness. From the moment we first met, he showed an obsessive attachment to me.
Clearly, he had received an immutable order to bring me back, which undoubtedly had something to do with my ability to absorb the Death Plague.
Thus, I set up hundreds of blind boxes for him to open one by one… The more urgently he searched, the more likely his psychological weaknesses would surface.”
“If he hadn’t fallen for it…”
“Then it would have been someone else with superior skills… To kill such a person across ranks, howuld it be without risks. Stop talking nonsense, hurry and get me out of here, I need to rver properly.”
Xiaoputao hoisted Yi Chen on his back, preparing to glide away from the hotel on eyeball rollers.
Smack! Smack! Smack!
Clapping echoed from the hotel entrance.
In white robes, Lotson and Mr. Helvoye arrived together, their faces displaying the same distorted smiles.
“No wonder there was such ammotion at this end of the hotel, it was you~ truly impressive, beyond imagination! William, to think you, in a human body,uld kill a Transcender. If this news reaches the organization, they would likely directly nominate you as the ‘First Gentleman.’
Indeed, you are the best vessel!”
