Chapter 8 (2/2)

Thus, he had decided to give it a go. After all, he could just let Jack the Ripper shoulder the blame.

Little Chu didn’t realize in the least that danger was approaching. By the time he heard the footsteps behind him, it was too late.

A shadow flashed across his eyes, and a coarse rope tightened around his mouth, causing his cries of alarm to turn into muffled grunts.

“Shut up!”

At the same time, he heard the voice and panting of a man by his ear.

“Damn you!”

A slew of expletives hurtled across Little Chu’s mind. In that instant, his mind worked at extremely high speed.

He practically reached the exact same conclusion as Tang Luo all at once.

The person behind him was probably not Jack the Ripper, but someone who conceived lustful thoughts after seeing him!

At the same time, Little Chu was reminded of a news article that he had once seen.

The article was about a guy who was famous for crossdressing. He had been assaulted by a lecher while on his way home from a comics convention. When the other party had discovered that he was male, not only did he not stop, he had instead become even more excited!

He had originally thought that this was just fake news that someone had made up. Never would he have thought that this would actually really be happening to him right now.

Just as the rope tightened around Little Chu’s mouth and dragged him backward forcefully, a ray of golden light suddenly shot out from Little Chu.

The defensive barrier that Tang Luo had expended his power of virtuous merits to form around Little Chu had automatically activated.

The golden light formed a curved screen of light and separated the rope from the person behind Little Chu.

However, the light turned extremely dull because of this, like a lingering candle flame in the wind that would disappear the very next instant.

After all, that was just an extremely small amount of power of virtuous merits.

Staring at the curved screen of light that had appeared out of nowhere on his body, Little Chu was filled with endless shock.

‘What is this?

‘Could this be the ability born from the legendary ‘gene lock’ that activates during moments of life and death?

‘No, according to the setting of The Game of Gods And Demons and explanation from the experienced player Old Zhou, this should be one of the benefits that players can receive during the mission?

‘So this is how benefits are unlocked?’

After all, Little Chu was still young. Being ‘too young, too simple’, he didn’t take this grand opportunity to run or take out the revolver to counterattack.

Instead, he remained where he was, stunned, and lost in his surprise.

The man behind him wouldn’t stop because of this, however. He discarded the rope, reached into his bosom, and fished out a short knife.

Without saying anything, he stabbed straight at Little Chu’s back with the knife.

From the looks of it, his failure to kidnap him had made him turn to murder instead.

The blade stabbed onto the curved screen of light. Without any sound, the screen of light shook for a while before it scattered into specks of light.

They dispersed like sparks of fire and disappeared into the night.

However, Little Chu didn’t realize this at all. There was still a smile on his face.

Just as the knife was about to stab into Little Chu, a sharp whizz pierced through the air.

A black glint shot towards them like a flash of lightning.

The man’s reaction was faster, however. He moved immediately and retreated a few meters to the back.

The black glint shot past right next to him and landed where he had originally been, almost wholly embedded in the ground.

After it stopped moving, one could see the exposed part of the black glint. It was the top of a staff!

The sharp whizz caused Little Chu to regain his senses too. Realizing that he was still in danger, he turned around immediately.

And then, he saw—

Just like a hawk or a bat with its wings spread, a black shadow covered the dim moonlight and came towards them from above.

Practically in that instant, the staff landed after being dodged by the man. Tang Luo had already arrived in front of him.

His black windbreaker lifted, and an arm reached out.

Pressing against the man’s face, his five fingers closed together. Tang Luo held the man’s head in a death grip. He clutched the man’s head with just one hand as if he was holding onto a large plush toy. Tang Luo lifted the man, and then, with a twist of his elbow, he shoved him downwards with great force!

The head came into intimate contact with the stone pavement beneath their feet.

The sound of something cracking could be heard. No one could tell exactly whether it was the stone pavement or the man’s head that had cracked.

Or perhaps, it was both.

In the instant of the impact, Little Chu felt like even the ground seemed to shake.

By the time he regained his senses, he realized that Tang Luo had already gotten up. He bent over and plucked out the staff. Then, he shook it a couple of times casually, as if checking whether it was damaged.

Behind him, a headless corpse could be seen. Its head had already fused completely with the sunken pothole in the ground.

It was impossible to differentiate between the two anymore.

The pungent smell of blood wafted over, and it caused Little Chu to retch.

After retching for quite a long while, Little Chu finally looked over at Tang Luo. With a somewhat shaky voice, he asked, “Master, did you kill him?”

What he asked was, of course, something that went without saying.

“Yes.”

Tang Luo looked at the damaged end of the staff. Even if he had used a bit of technique when throwing it, with such an impact, it had still suffered some damage.

“When he brandished the knife, I thought he was Jack the Ripper,” explained Tang Luo. “So, I didn’t take care to spare his life.”

Little Chu let out a dry chuckle.

At the church back then, he had spoken about the virtue of sparing lives. In the end, when he was truly taking action, he was this ferocious and violent instead of immediately taking someone’s life.

‘Hur, men. Hur, monks.’

“It’s just a shame that he wasn’t Jack the Ripper. Otherwise, we would probably have completed our mission at this point.”

Tang Luo went on to say, “Amitabha.”

He even chanted the name of Buddha at the end.

“Oh, that’s true.”

Little Chu found it somewhat of a pity. If that man had been Jack the Ripper, their mission this time would have ended.

“However—”

Tang Luo looked at the headless corpse he had created. “If one says that this man is just an average person, I wouldn’t believe it either.”

“Huh?” Little Chu didn’t quite understand.

“If he had been an average person on the streets, he would have died when I launched the staff earlier. Why would there be a need for me to personally take action?” Tang Luo added, “Yet he managed to successfully dodge it. Come on, let’s head to his house for a look. Maybe we’ll find some kind of clue.”

After witnessing and experiencing Tang Luo’s ‘fierce visage and swift and vicious methods’, Little Chu definitely didn’t have any objections.

‘Master, everything you say is right!’

The two of them left the headless corpse behind and headed in the direction of the house, which the man had come out of earlier.