Chapter 24 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

“Long Live Jack the Ripper!”

A feverish cry came from the other side of the street.

Several guys dressed like gangsters walked over while shouting and making several provocative gestures towards the crowd from time to time.

Many people looked at them angrily, yet the gangsters looked proud of it.

Those fools, of course, had nothing to do with Jack the Ripper.

They were members of the Ripper Gang, of the lowest level.

Yes, it was the Ripper Gang from which Tang Luo had begged for alms.

At that time, because Jack the Ripper had created too much of a disturbance, a sense of danger pervaded the whole city, and Cotland Yard was highly alert.

The original Crow Gang jumped on the bandwagon and renamed themselves Ripper Gang for a while, then immediately changed back to its original name.

And there was also a reason that the Crow Gang started going around proudly again under the name of Ripper Gang now.

It happened last night. The location was the manor where Earl Thorndike had gathered the vast majority of the powerful people in the small city.

Chu Chongtian looked towards Tang Luo, who was not far away and asked carefully, “Well, Master Xuanzang, about last night…”

“It has nothing to do with me,” said Tang Luo. “I’m a monk, how could I kill innocents?”

This morning, or rather the latter half of last night, Thorndike’s manor had turned into a dead place, literally.

Everyone who had attended the banquet the previous night, including the bodyguard that was in charge of the manor’s security, and the carriages’ drivers, who had stayed waiting for their masters, had all died!

Not a single person was spared!

Earl Thorndike and several other big figures had gone missing, along with the bodyguards.

It would take a little time for the underground chamber to be discovered.

In less than half a day, the news swept the city like fire on dry grassland.

Cotland Yard’s Inspector General was also in the manor last night, along with one of the two Deputy Inspector Generals.

The other Deputy Inspector General had to take charge of the investigation and go out with all the remaining Cotland Yard members.

When seeing the gruesome scene, they vomited the sh*t out of themselves in the manor.

Unlike the random nobodies who had died in the past two to three months, hundreds had died in a single night, including big, important figures.

The public order of the already panic-stricken city was on the verge of collapsing. A mere example of the grave situation was the gangsters'”Long Live the Ripper” chants.

When they heard the news, Chu Chongtian and the others were all stunned, almost suspecting it was Tang Luo’s doing.

“No, I’m not suspecting Master, of course,” Chu Chongtian hurried to shake his head. “I was just thinking, how did Jack the Ripper do it?”

According to the news, with a few exceptions, all of those people’s bodies had been ripped open, meaning that the manor case’s murderer was Jack the Ripper, the serial killer that had been troubling the city for a long time.

Oh, right now, Jack the Ripper was more than just a murderer—a manic would be more accurate.

“How can he be so powerful?” muttered Zhou Zhenguo.

His eyes were a little unfocused. He was somewhat heading towards the state of Li Liang, the salty fish.

Even if Jack the Ripper had a possession-type ability, and an icy aura that numbed and restained one’s movement, he shouldn’t be able to massacre the whole manor.

If he really could do this, why had he been killing in secret from the start? Why had he not killed Li Liang on the first night? At the same time, why had he been tackling them one by one in the following nights? Why had he not appeared in front of them directly?

At that time, Tang Luo had also not been around Li Liang and the others. If Jack the Ripper had been so strong from the beginning, what made him choose to suddenly unleash his powers the previous night?

And why did he hide it before?

“Then, could it be that Jack the Ripper really is an organization?” speculated Li Liang. “In the past, it was a single person, now it’s many, and they killed together?”

“Or…” Chu Chongtian looked like he had thought of something, and said, “He’s been fishing the whole time.”

“Fishing?”

“Yeah.”

Chu Chongtian gave Tang Luo a look before saying, “Now that I think about it was the Hodge that Master and I met on the first night when we were searching for clues really Hodge? He was only blasted by Master after dodging the cane he threw out.

“Maybe Jack the Ripper possessed Hodge. Similarly, Jack the Ripper may have been possessing other members of the organization too.

“Master has been fishing the whole time, waiting for Jack the Ripper to come to our door.

“Could Jack the Ripper also be fishing… No, rather, he was waiting for the fish to gather together so that he could bombard and catch them in one fell swoop!”

Chu Chongtian took a sip of water and licked his chapped lips, Then he said in a bitter voice, “Maybe, from the beginning, Jack the Ripper has only been playing, using us against the organization.

“If there was ‘someone’ in this city who could stop Jack the Ripper, it must be the organization. Though the organization is no ‘good guy’ either.”

After this analysis, Chu Chongtian couldn’t find it in him to feel happy at all. There was no longer the joy like he had solved a puzzle that he had in the past.

“We were helping Jack the Ripper get rid of his obstacles. Now, he has nothing to worry about.”

After listening to Chu Zhongtian’s analysis, Li Liang secretly glanced at Tang Luo, for fear that this Master Xuanzang would be angry.