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Chapter 98 [97] The Bride May Kiss the Groom

Two days later.

This year's curfew period officially began.

The social order within Qinglin City immediately underwent noticeable changes.

Schools delayed their opening hours, factories adjusted their work schedules, restaurants all canceled evening operations, and security personnel in various residential areas were doubled.

After seven o'clock in the evening.

Not a single person could be seen on the streets and alleys.

Only a large number of inspectors, accompanied by spirit hounds and carrying brown oil lamps, patrolled the city, watching out for anything suspicious.

Due to the inherent dangers of night patrols during the curfew period, they were usually conducted in groups of six to avoid isolation in case of an accident.

Cheng Han and five colleagues formed a patrol team, leading three spirit hounds and slowly walking through the accumulated snow.

The team leader was Patrol Captain Long Xingyun.

The other five rookies, as usual, received differential (discriminatory) treatment, with Squad Leader Liu Yidao being uneasy about them, assigning them to replace the spirit hounds and guard the gate of the outpost.

Of course.

They wouldn't be treated like dogs forever.

After all, patrolmen weren't made of iron and couldn't patrol every night; they usually rotated every three days, and the rookies would eventually join in and experience the pleasantness of working through the night.

"Creak!"

The sound of stepping on accumulated snow continued to echo.

No one spoke.

The six men and three dogs carefully observed everything around them.

After a while.

Cheng Han suddenly broke the silence: "Patrol Captain, you should know that my intuition is very sharp."

Everyone slowed down their pace together.

Long Xingyun turned his head and said: "Spit it out!"

Now that they were familiar with each other, this guy's language had become more unbridled, no longer as polite and distant as before.

Among this batch of newcomers, only Cheng Han "enjoyed" this kind of treatment; the old workhorse didn't even bother to look at the other rookies.

Cheng Han stared ahead, his tone full of solemnity: "The 'Hua'an Ward' ahead gives me a very bad feeling; we'd better not go over there."

Long Xingyun directly asked: "Is it a strange occurrence?"

Cheng Han slowly nodded: "I vaguely sense a chaotic aura."

The so-called "sense" was naturally an excuse; in reality, it was the deduction of the All-Knowing Eye. His current mental value was as high as 34.5 points, so he didn't need to be as frugal as before.

So, during the patrol, he used the skill every now and then.

According to the deduction, this was a relatively dangerous strange occurrence, considered rare.

As soon as these words came out.

Including the old workhorse, the team stopped in their tracks.

Long Xingyun looked serious: "Are you confident?"

Cheng Han gave an irrelevant answer: "I dragged the Ice Wraith and ran twelve streets, and I'm still alive and well; what do you think?"

Long Xingyun frowned and began to grumble: "You just dropped a sentence 'There's a problem ahead'; aren't you making things difficult for me?"

Cheng Han gave a non-smiling smile: "Or should I be the team leader?"

He knew very well that the other party had heavier responsibilities and was under considerable psychological pressure, so it was normal for him to speak coarsely.

The others all laughed together.

The atmosphere livened up a bit.

Long Xingyun cursed "Get lost!", and quickly made a series of arrangements: "Ding Wenle, you and I will guard here… Zheng Yande, Dai Chao, Guan Zhengchu, you take two spirit hounds and go around to the other side… Cheng Han, you immediately take a spirit hound back to the outpost to report."

This old workhorse chose to believe Cheng Han's words.

And this guy sending Cheng Han away was undoubtedly out of good intentions.

"Yes!"

"Understood!"

A group of patrolmen immediately responded.

Cheng Han shook his head in refusal: "Patrol Captain, my intuition is very sharp; let me stay on the scene; if something dangerous happens, maybe fewer people will die."

He didn't want to miss the opportunity to come into contact with a strange occurrence, so he naturally didn't want to leave.

Long Xingyun hesitated for a moment and looked at a spirit hound: "'Baiting', you go back quickly!"

"Woof!"

The spirit hound quickly ran out.

Long Xingyun looked at Cheng Han again, his expression serious: "You're a rookie; if you encounter an insurmountable danger, I order you to leave the scene immediately."

Cheng Han nodded lightly.

The old workhorse paused, his tone becoming a bit lower: "I'm the team leader; I'll be the last one to leave."

If they encountered a great danger, "the last one to leave" usually meant "the first one to die."

Cheng Han blinked his eyes.

He didn't think things would get to that point.

Long Xingyun waved his hand: "Let's move out."

*

Ten minutes later.

"Bang! Bang!"

Accompanied by heavy footsteps, a team of Feathered Guards rushed over.

The Black Armor Army had arrived.

It was still the old acquaintance, namely—the six Black Armor Army warriors who had killed the Ice Wraith last time, with the team leader being Zhang Beishan.

Long Xingyun immediately greeted him and quickly explained: "We…"

After Zhang Beishan listened, his face sank: "It's just a feeling; you didn't find any direct clues to the strange occurrence? This is a bit of a joke."

Long Xingyun gritted his teeth: "If there's a false alarm, I'll take full responsibility."

At this time.

A warrior came over and whispered: "Chief Zhang, I saw…"

Zhang Beishan glanced at the patrolmen not far away, paused his gaze on Cheng Han, and waved his hand decisively: "Everyone, enter 'Hua'an Ward'!"

"Yes!"

Zhang Beishan took the lead and walked forward.

Cheng Han watched the backs of the Black Armor Army and breathed a slight sigh of relief.

The previous deduction results showed that if he didn't intervene, the patrol team would discover the anomaly in half an hour, eventually leading to a tragedy of one death and two serious injuries.

And the deceased was naturally Long Xingyun.

In the illusion, this person fulfilled his promise of "the last one to leave."

Cheng Han concentrated his mind, sensed the faint fluctuations coming from ahead, and silently chanted again: "Deduction."

The illusion slowly emerged:

A young woman wearing a white veil, with a strange smile on her face, said in a strange tone: "Now, the bride can kiss the groom!"

Under the dim candlelight, it was vaguely visible that she seemed to be naked inside the white veil.

But this not only didn't make people fantasize.

Instead, it made people shudder.

On the surface of this naked body, patches of black hair kept rapidly emerging and then shrinking back, repeating the cycle.

"Ugh~ Ugh~"

A young man was tied to a chair, his mouth tightly wrapped with cloth, struggling frantically, his face full of great horror.

The young woman walked over and bent down to kiss the other person's cheek.

The next moment.

A horrifying thing happened.

"Bang!"

The young man's eyeballs exploded, and a mixture of brain matter and blood instantly gushed out of his seven orifices.

He was dead.

The young woman seemed oblivious, still concentrating on kissing the corpse, and large patches of black hair quickly grew on the surface of the corpse.

After a while.

The illusion dissipated.

Cheng Han muttered in his heart: "The 'Black-Haired Woman' recorded in the files was already disgusting enough, but the real strange occurrence is ten times more disgusting."

One minute later.

"Ah~"

An extremely shrill howl completely shattered the tranquility of the night.

Everyone who heard this sound felt a burst of dizziness in their heads.

Without a doubt.

The Black Armor Army had found the location and encountered the strange occurrence.

The battle had begun.

"Boom! Boom!"

Explosions came one after another.

The faces of a group of patrolmen changed.

Long Xingyun's expression revealed a strong sense of fear: "This strange occurrence seems very powerful."

The old workhorse could fully imagine that if he hadn't believed Cheng Han's words and rashly gone to investigate, he would probably be a cold corpse by now.

No.

In the face of a strange occurrence, whether a corpse could be left behind was still a question.

After thirty seconds.

The battle ended.

Zhang Beishan carried a comrade-in-arms and ran over with all his might, shouting loudly: "Xiang Tianlong has been infected with the 'Black-Haired Woman's' 'Strange Hair'; you guys go find a doctor quickly to cut off the infected area."

Long Xingyun was stunned for a moment and ran away: "I'll go right away."

The other patrolmen all carried deep feelings of good fortune, and their expressions towards Cheng Han also revealed deep gratitude.

Heavens!

It was actually the Black-Haired Woman!

The strange poison of this strange occurrence was very terrible; anyone below the level of a warrior, once infected by the strange hair, would have to take medication for the rest of their lives; otherwise, they would turn into a black-haired monster.

Soon.

The fragmented corpse of the Black-Haired Woman was transported out.

Cheng Han went over to take a look and, by the way, used the "Engraving" technique to engrave this disgusting picture in his mind.

*

Nine hours later.

The sky was about to dawn.

The patrol ended.

Cheng Han returned home and slept first.

After getting up.

He turned out the stone box from under the bed, stared at the Divine Soul Stone, remotely connected to the Blood of the Alien God, recalled the Black-Haired Woman, and silently chanted:

"Linked Analysis!

"Deduce the Puppet Technique!

"Complete the Linghuan Remnant Seal!"

In addition to the strange poison, the Black-Haired Woman also had a rather terrifying ability—controlling black-haired puppets.

Cheng Han felt that this was an extremely useful transcendent ability, very suitable for the Linghuan Remnant Seal, and perfectly matched the 'Netherworld' persona.

Using the Black-Haired Woman as a connection point to deduce a more powerful puppet technique from the Blood of the Alien God was almost a certainty.

In an instant.

The coldness surged like a tide.

The mental value dropped sharply by nearly ten points.

After two seconds.

The completion ended.

A message flashed out: "Proficiency +474, current proficiency is 2480/3000, mental value is 14.2/37.7."

The feedback information from the Remnant Seal also came: "Linghuan Remnant Seal, completeness 36.74%."

The All-Knowing Eye was not far from upgrading.

The completeness of the Remnant Seal increased by 8.34%.

The upper limit of mental value increased by 3.2 points, reaching a new high of 37.7 points.

Cheng Han smiled with satisfaction.

It was another great harvest!

For others, strange occurrences were terrible disasters.

But for him, it meant a lot of valuable knowledge.

He locked onto the Remnant Seal with his mind and observed the newly appeared subordinate structure.

The shape of this structure resembled a broken flower.

It had a name—Dark Spirit Secret Puppet.

Cheng Han looked delighted: "According to the records, 'Netherworld' was good at puppet techniques; I could only barely simulate it before, but now I can perfectly play the role of Netherworld."

*

Dozens of meters away.

Inside a residential house.

A middle-aged woman was sitting in front of the fireplace, diligently doing needlework.

To save firewood, the fire in the fireplace was quite small, and she was almost sticking to it.

At this time.

The middle-aged woman suddenly showed a trace of confusion, and a hint of blue light flashed in her eyes.

She stood up, put down the things in her hand, revealed a strange smile, and said in a affected tone:

"Now, the bride can kiss the groom."

As soon as the words fell.

The middle-aged woman suddenly woke up.

She looked at the fireplace and muttered: "Strange! Why did I stand up."

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