Chapter 158: Disappearance
Falling into the abyss, consciousness lost, Chen Xiaolin vaguely felt that she and Li Duojin had fallen into a pitch-black Dark River, where they bobbed up and down with the rushing water.
Powerless to struggle, they seemed to fuse together with the river water, breathing becoming her only vital sign, switching back and forth between suffocation and gasping, consciousness gradually lost in chaos amid the rising and sinking…
“Black Goat of the Woods confirmed expelled.” A Mystic Investigator said this heavily to the leader of a zodiac squad, but the leader he reported to was not Dog Group’s leader Zhou Shaobo, but a short-haired woman with handsome appearance, “Captain Yu, this anomaly event in Magic City will probably have to be taken over by you.”
The short-haired woman turned her head, her perfect profile instantly losing its stunning beauty, a scar like a giant centipede coiled on the other half of her face, and the eye on that other half of her face was like it had been filled with scarlet pigments, a blood-red expanse, only the eyeball still showing its original appearance.
Seeing such a flaw on the beauty, the people around couldn’t help but sigh deeply for the short-haired woman.
Yu Lianyun smiled indifferently, her finger subconsciously lightly scratching the raised scar, several months ago she had nearly died in an anomaly event at Liuhua Port, the scar on her face left from that time.
Because the wound came from a merman such anomaly, the merman’s body carried some special anti-healing factor, even exhausting all efforts to preserve her beauty, the injury on her face could ultimately only be stabilized to this extent.
Not knowing if those anti-healing factors still lingered on her face, or if it was her own psychological effect, Yu Lianyun would from time to time still feel the itch of the scar, uncontrollably wanting to touch that scar.
Yu Lianyun nodded to the Mystic Investigator who came to report, indicating she already knew, then her gaze turned to those people being carried away on stretchers, some pushed into hearses for transporting corpses, others sent into ambulances.
Yu Lianyun walked to one of the ambulances, she didn’t go into the carriage, but stood at the carriage door, just like that looking at the blood-soaked Zhou Shaobo, saying: “You all were still too reckless, I understand the dare-to-die spirit of your Dog Group, but still hope you can properly cherish life.”
Zhou Shaobo’s weakly opened eyes gazed at Yu Lianyun, unable to see Yu Lianyun’s appearance clearly, he could only imagine Yu Lianyun’s current expression through her voice, he opened his mouth and mumbled a few times, like wanting to say something but his throat couldn’t make a sound, after a few tries he couldn’t hold on and fainted.
“Send him off.” Yu Lianyun shook her head, although she didn’t understand lip-reading, she could still roughly guess what the other had said earlier.
Very concise three words “Mind your own business”.
“I’ll go check the scene.” After seeing off the ambulance carrying Zhou Shaobo, Yu Lianyun turned her head and said she was going to check the scene where the Black Goat of the Woods was “expelled”.
The so-called scene was actually near the center of the themed woods in JOJO Amusement Park, Yu Lianyun had just arrived at the scene and saw human tissue interwoven with chunks of various black and green unknown biological tissues scattered everywhere, she stepped over those mixed sticky and foul-smelling liquids without any concern, finally stopping in front of a lifeless clump.
“Black Goat of the Woods… what astonishing vitality.” Yu Lianyun looked at the clump and sighed, “As expected of a product related to the ‘Creator’, this deformed yet vigorous life force.”
Hearing Yu Lianyun’s words, the people around felt a thud in their hearts, the Mystic Investigator who led her there nervously asked: “Captain Yu, are you saying it’s not dead?”
“Don’t know, but my feeling is, best to burn it clean.” Yu Lianyun shook her head, if she didn’t have such keen inspiration, perhaps like others she would think the Black Goat of the Woods in this state was certainly dead without doubt, but she could precisely sense an unsettling palpitation from this huge black clump, she who had countless times relied on inspiration to avoid life-and-death crises was very certain, this clump had issues.
After hearing Yu Lianyun’s words, the Mystic Investigators handling the scene all put down their work and searched everywhere for gasoline and gunpowder, preparing to burn this clump.
But Yu Lianyun lightly smiled and said “No need to trouble yourselves”, then took out a small bottle of unidentified green oily liquid from her pocket, pouring the liquid inside onto the clump.
As if sensing a life-and-death crisis, that clump like some kind of fungus suddenly had a violent reaction, it suddenly accelerated growth madly, white fleshy parts of the body suddenly sprouted soft tendril-like things, they split into four or five cracking open several sharp toothed mouths biting towards the people around.
Yu Lianyun like she had prepared in advance, calmly stepped back one step actually dodging the clump’s ferocious attack, then she flicked a match, the match sparked on the striking paper, acrid gunpowder smoke rose in the air, a point of open flame burned in the air, dropped to the ground, then fierce forest-green flames burned across the entire clump, those grown tentacles also instantly submerged in the sea of fire.
The silent scream made no commotion, but became a vivid nightmare in the eyes of everyone seeing the scene, the scream automatically synchronized in their minds.
The taboo weapon Green Oil’s flames were indeed powerful, in less than a moment even the vigorously vital Black Goat of the Woods perished, incinerated in the green flames bringing endless pain.
“How many of Dog Group are still alive now?” Yu Lianyun looking at the withering Black Goat of the Woods casually asked.
“Two… three left maybe.” The leading Mystic Investigator thought and said uncertainly.
Yu Lianyun felt it strange, carefully asking what else the other knew, and what doubts there were.
Hearing this, the leading Mystic Investigator answered: “I heard from the surviving Dog Group members that actually initially there was another person who entered the woods with them, an investigator sent by the Investigator Guild to assist, but later they parted on bad terms, didn’t cooperate with them anymore.”
“Where is that person now?” Yu Lianyun frowned, her intuition told her she could directly find that investigator, possibly see something from that investigator.
The leading Mystic Investigator shook his head: “Don’t know, but I heard he was still a master invited by JOJO Amusement Park’s Boss Zhang, specifically to exorcise ghosts, catch demons, pray for blessings and ward off evil for their amusement park, maybe can ask that Boss Zhang about that investigator’s whereabouts.”
When Yu Lianyun found Boss Zhang, and learned Li Duojin’s whereabouts from him, Yu Lianyun tried to call the other directly, but the long unanswered call made Yu Lianyun realize something was off, quickly calling the technical department to lock onto Li Duojin’s phone location.
