Chapter 29 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

All the content that followed was grumblings and complaints—either that or a simple record of what he had done that day.

The last entry in the diary was dated two days before that night in the manor.

To others, this was just a normal diary. The owner even had problems with sleepwalking and having nightmares. He had suddenly recovered later on, but how he had recovered was not recorded in the diary.

But to Tang Luo and the others, the information it contained was extremely important.

“He was possessed by Jack the Ripper!” Chu Chongtian asked, “So the first few victims were actually killed by him?”

Sleepwalking. Bloodstains.

“His nightmares were something that Jack the Ripper had experienced? A sign of being possessed? Or perhaps it was to weaken his body before possession,” speculated Zhou Zhenguo.

Based on the theory that the Ripper was becoming stronger right now, Jack the Ripper had been relatively weaker in the beginning.

In other words, he could only slowly influence the Inspector General in his dreams while he was having nightmares. And possess and take control of people while they were asleep.

Later on, Jack the Ripper didn’t need to go to so much trouble to possess people anymore.

The hotel proprietor had been normal and clear-headed, but the very next second, he had been possessed.

Jack the Ripper had probably been weakening the Inspector General’s mental strength through nightmares and then possessed and controlled him.

And these nightmares…

It was very easy for one to associate them with the underground experiment lab in the hospital, which Tang Luo had briefly described to them!

“If the cold floor that the Ripper had experienced was actually the operating stone platforms, which Master Xuanzang mentioned it, means that the Jack he heard was referring to Jack White, right?

“The Ripper is one of the organization’s experiment test subjects?!” exclaimed Chu Chongtian.

So this was the relationship between the organization and the Ripper? The two didn’t exist independently of each other?!

“What about those patients who were still alive?” asked Zhou Zhenguo.

The psychiatric hospital had admitted over 100 patients.

After Tang Luo had destroyed the experiment lab, only five patients, who hadn’t been imprisoned in the underground experiment lab, had survived.

A large majority of the others had become test subjects.

All of them had been dead.

The remaining minority had been eaten by the Resurrected and died as well.

“The patients who weren’t imprisoned shouldn’t count as test subjects, right?” Chu Chongtian asked with a frown.

The scenes in the nightmares were clearly those of test subjects being experimented on and dissected.

“Could it be that someone didn’t die but was discarded by the organization as a corpse and then survived in the end?”

This was the most logical explanation.

“We’ve been fighting a battle of courage and wits with a lunatic?” Zhou Zhenguo found this hard to accept.

All along, they had been treating Jack the Ripper as a smart and shrewd opponent only to discover in the end that the other party was actually a lunatic.

Because their mental processes were entirely different, it led to the opponent being unusually difficult to figure out.

Was there anything even more of a scam than this?

“He might not necessarily be a lunatic.” Chu Chongtian asked, “Master, didn’t you say that the Ripper Gang or something had also kidnapped some people for the organization?”

“Yes.” Tang Luo nodded.

“Damn it!” Chu Chongtian swore. He wasn’t swearing at Tang Luo, of course. Rather, it was because the organization was gone!

The Ripper Gang had also been destroyed by Jack the Ripper!

The clues had been cut off again!

They were only a step away from Jack the Ripper’s true identity. But in the end, they found out that the other party had already taken action in advance and cut them off.

This was a very horrible feeling. It was practically as if the meat that was already in one’s mouth had been forcibly dug out by someone.

“It’s fine. There are files that we can look through,” said Tang Luo.

“Files?”

“Although the psychiatric hospital has been closed down, there must be records of the patients they admitted,” replied Tang Luo. “As for the Ripper Gang, we can go to Cotland Yard. When people go missing, there’ll at least be people registering and reporting the case, right?”

This included the missing Old John too.

People had also gone to Cotland Yard to make a simple report. As for whether or not they could find him, he was but just an old bachelor. It was entirely dependent on Cotland Yard’s mood.

Everyone whom the Ripper Gang had abducted was probably people like him who lived alone.

It was impossible for people living alone in the city to never ever step out of their homes. Even if they were living alone, to some degree, they still needed to be in contact with the outside world and make a living to maintain their daily needs.

Should they go missing for an extended period, the possibility of people going to Cotland Yard to make a report was fairly strong.

“Right.” Chu Chongtian added, “Also, if someone returned after going missing, we can determine that he’s the Ripper!”

“Could it be that Jack the Ripper is the result of their research on immortality? Just that he had been overlooked by the organization!” Zhou Zhenguo clapped loudly, a possibility coming to him.

‘A crazy organization…

‘Cruel experiments…

‘A person with supernatural powers, who had unintentionally been born, hiding in the shadows and killing people one by one to strengthen himself and take revenge.

‘All the way till the shocking and horrifying consequences at this point.

‘To think it was a script like this!’

Furthermore, the most important thing was that in this world, Employees of Gods and Demons should have been racing against time.

The earlier they discovered the truth, the weaker Jack the Ripper would be. The more time dragged out, the more disadvantageous it was for the Employees of Gods and Demons.

And now, Jack the Ripper seemed to have gotten so strong that it had reached an unsurpassable point.

As for why Tang Luo and the rest were still on the other party’s hunting list even though they had clearly destroyed the organization, which equated to taking revenge for Jack the Ripper?

This was something very easy to understand.

One couldn’t possibly expect a fiend out for revenge to maintain an attitude that separated kindnesses and enmity clearly.