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 who could 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 die completely.
“No! This guy could not possibly escape under my watch!”
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In his view, a delay of only two seconds meant that Yi Chen could definitely not have escaped beyond range.
The radiation range of the surgical threads reached three kilometers, and he maximized the tactile feedback, consuming 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 stone coffins that occupied the hall.
Deliberately making stone coffins 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 stone coffins, 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 stone coffins is possible… They must still be hiding in one of the stone coffins.
There are two purposes for doing this,
one is to disguise a successful escape, encouraging 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 flesh could sustain for long; the body would have given out from continuous fighting long ago.
All I need to do now is to slowly find you all.”
Thinking this, the surgical threads once again cleaved towards the coffin beside him, like opening a blind box, still only sliding out a corpse 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 become 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 the coffin lid, lifting it from the inside.
More and more blind boxes were opened, and the corpses with their eyes dug out were thrown carelessly on the ground.
With hundreds of stone coffins, the long process of opening blind boxes, due to the repetition of the same action, coupled 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 stone coffins remained, Vice Chancellor Evatt’s attention intensified again.
The final remaining stone coffin 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!
Due to excessive force, black, foul-smelling blood seeped from his fingertips, dripping along the fine lines.
As the coffin was cleaved, suit-clad chunks of young man’s flesh also scattered around, the expression of unwillingness in death still recognizable even though the head was split open.
It was indeed Yi Chen,
because he had hidden in the stone coffin 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 special connection to the cemetery? It doesn’t matter, after all, the gentleman is all my superior needed.”
Vice Chancellor Evatt crouched down, beginning to sew together the chunks of the young man’s flesh, bringing back a complete corpse would make for a better report.
Just as he was sewing the head, a sense of dissonance suddenly struck… Although the corpse looked exactly like Yi Chen, something felt off.
Vice Chancellor immediately switched his threads to sensory lines, performing an overhaul and correction on his own brain,
As the sensory overhaul of the brain was completed,
The corpse 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 the corpse,
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 in conjunction with the spiritual illusions of Xiaoputao, jointly cast “Mirrored Flower and Water Moon.”
“How could this be… How could I possibly be tricked by an illusion!?”
Just as the associate dean regained his senses, a cold sensation came from his neck.
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 the control of arms and fingers,
these surgical threads, growing directly from the brain, were relatively soft and even lacked cutting ability, only useful for connecting flesh and pulling the head.
Just as it was about to reconnect with its body… Boom! The stone coffin rose.
The headless body was sealed within and quickly buried.
The head crashed to the ground, falling right in front of Barry Bessalius’s corpse, 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 become subjectively but was instead forced to obey others because he had become 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.
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 more concentrated 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 a connection… Finally, it’s all sorted out!”
Yi Chen could no longer hold himself up and collapsed 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, how could it be without risks. Stop talking nonsense, hurry and get me out of here, I need to recover properly.”
Xiaoputao hoisted Yi Chen on his back, preparing to glide away from the hotel on eyeball rollers.
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 a commotion at this end of the hotel, it was you~ truly impressive, beyond imagination! William, to think you, in a human body, could 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!”