Chapter 25 (2/2)

The hotel proprietor’s right hand was pressed tightly against his body, and his left hand was lifted and pressed against his chest. The dagger was placed on the edge of his neck.

The assassination attempt was stopped midway by the chains.

After imprisoning the hotel proprietor, no, Jack the Ripper, Zhou Zhenguo didn’t hesitate. He clenched his right hand into a fist, on which white light shone, looking a little dazzling. It was like he was clenching a shining light bulb.

Powerful Single Strike!

Zhou Zhenguo used his only attack skill, focusing his strength on his right fist. The right fist, shining with white light, violently burst open the Jack-the-Ripper-possessed hotel proprietor’s forehead.

The sound of a skull fracturing and a neck bone breaking echoed.

The huge burst of power almost sent Jack the Ripper flying, but it wasn’t easy to break free from the Imprisoning Chain.

The hotel proprietor’s head almost disappeared from Zhou Zhenguo’s vision. The back of his head was pressed against his back, with only a little bit of skin and fleshing connecting them.

After waving his fist, Zhou Zhenguo abruptly backed up two steps and reached out to press on the door, not letting himself fall.

He lifted his other hand, prepared to shoot—he needed to shoot to kill Jack the Ripper!

“No need, it’s already gone,” said Tang Luo, pressing down the pistol in Zhou Zhenguo’s hand.

Zhou Zhenguo stepped back and leaned against the door, gasping for breath. He only had the strength for one attack.

The hotel proprietor was still standing due to the restraint of the chains. The dagger that he had been originally holding had disappeared.

Life was gone from his body.

A stinging headache overwhelmed Zhou Zhenguo. For the first time, he felt that he couldn’t maintain the Imprisoning Chain anymore. Thus, he released it.

The corpse collapsed on the ground with the creepy smile still plastered on its face.

Fortunately, it was nighttime, and it was snowing heavily.

The fear induced by Jack the Ripper had almost turned the night streets into graveyards. Therefore, no passersby witnessed this creepy scene.

“This won’t do.” Zhou Zhenguo said, “Jack the Ripper keeps possessing others, we’ll be exhausted to death.”

Finally, they now had a clear criterion for judging whether someone was possessed by Jack the Ripper—the rusty dagger!

Zhou Zhenguo had seen the hotel proprietor holding a dagger in his hand. When the punch had landed on him, the dagger had disappeared, meaning that Jack the Ripper had also left this body.

To be honest, this was not good news. It meant Jack the Ripper’s possession-type ability didn’t require any preparation, or the possessed to be touching anything special.

It was arguably without any limitation, and even leaving only took an instant. He only needed to continuously possess others.

Even if it couldn’t effectively harm Tang Luo’s group, it could still cause them to fall into a serious crisis.

Jack the Ripper’s attacks were not the only forms of crisis. Another factor was the trouble that Tang Luo’s group caused by killing the possessed to protect themselves.

At a moment of life and death, nobody would think of holding back.

If Jack the Ripper ‘visited’ a few more times, Cottland Yard would certainly target Tang Luo’s group.

Luckily, so far, Jack the Ripper would possess others only at night. Also, he seemed to be able to possess one person per time.

The question was whether or not a second possessed would appear in the night to judge his ability’s upper limit.

“At least, we have a method for judgment now: it’s Jack the Ripper if there’s a dagger in his hand,” said Chu Chongtian after hearing Zhou Zhenguo’s analysis.

After dealing with the hotel proprietor’s corpse, they returned to the hotel lobby.

They lit the fireplace, mildly chasing away the chilliness around them.

“We’ll see whether someone else will attack us tonight. If there’s none, we can conclude that the Ripper can only possess one person once in the same night,” said Zhou Zhenguo.

“Wait, no.” Chu Chongtian recalled something. “Hodge from the first night! And Old John. That makes it two people.”

“Are we sure that Hodge was possessed by the Ripper?” asked Zhou Zhenguo.

“Pretty much. Master, what do you think?” Chu Chongtian looked towards Tang Luo.

To be honest, he had never really come face to face with Hodge.

At first, he had spoken one sentence. Then, Hodge had attacked him from behind.

When Chu Chongtian had turned around, Hodge had already been a headless corpse.

“It’s most likely Jack the Ripper. An ordinary man can’t avoid a cane hurled by me,” said Tang Luo.

“So, we can conclude that Jack the Ripper has a possession-type ability. The possessed have martial abilities far beyond ordinary people and a creepy aura that can suppress people and make them unable to move.” Chu Chongtian concluded, “He can only possess others at night, and not two people at once. This point has yet to be confirmed. Maybe he can change the target of possession more than once in the same night. Hodge, Old John, and Little Zhou’s disappearance can prove this.”

“The identity of the targeted body is uncertain. There should be very little limitations. The feature is a dagger that can disappear. The real identity is unclear, and our ultimate reliance is on Master Xuanzang.

“Let’s hope my analysis is not wrong this time.”

Li Liang asked, “About his real identity, we have no clue at all. Can we only passively wait? I remember that Cotland Yard gave us a name list.”

“It’s not much help.” Chu Chongtian said, “Jack the Ripper can possess others and kill. All the clues are meaningless.”

None of them were super-detectives, how could they be able to catch a body-possessing murderer?

“Wait, that dagger is a clue!” Zhou Zhenguo recalled the dagger that almost killed him because when the light at the door shone on it, he could see the rust on him.

The dagger’s image was also engraved in Zhou Zhenguo’s mind.

Maybe they could find the Ripper if they searched anything related to the dagger.

Bang, bang, bang!

A series of banging sounds came from the door.

“Hotel proprietor, open the door! We want to spend the night here!” yelled a man from outside, interrupting the conversation.