Chapter 35 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

Was Tang Luo injured?

Of course, he was, and badly at that. However, his injury had nothing to do with Jack the Ripper.

His earlier weakened state was but an act. Jack the Ripper was different from the Resurrected, an evil being who possessed a material body.

In the beginning, Jack the Ripper had been an entity born by the fusion of resentful aura, and it had no physical existence.

If one had to say that he did, then the rusty dagger, where he had been residing in while in his weakest form, would be his material body.

Even as Jack the Ripper’s strength had been increasing, he had kept manifesting the dagger, though he no longer needed it.

If Tang Luo’s group could have found and destroyed the dagger from the start, this mission would have been completed already.

In the beginning, Jack the Ripper had been so weak that he couldn’t even kill Li Liang. He had only hollowed out Li Liang’s body to strengthen himself so that he would be able to kill Bi Wanhui and the others later.

Jack the Ripper had also gotten to be free only after hollowing out Li Liang.

In this world of the dead, even if the free Ripper, who had no physical body, were to appear before Tang Luo and the others, they would be unable to see him—unless Tang Luo destroyed the whole world.

Unfortunately, the injured Tang Luo was unable to do so for the time being.

Thus, he had to use his old tricks and pretend to have a hard time fighting against Jack the Ripper’s monsters. It was all to give Jack the Ripper the illusion of being able to win with a bit more effort.

As the rare living souls in this world of the dead, Tang Luo’s group was very attractive to Jack the Ripper.

He longed to kill and devour them. That was why Jack the Ripper had visited them as soon as they had entered.

The existence of living souls in this world was like fireflies in the night, bright to the point of being dazzling. Wherever they hid, Jack the Ripper would find them by following their scent.

Jack the Ripper, as a fallen, evil being, didn’t have real consciousness. He acted on instincts, such as the primitive desire to kill and to devour and the primitive sense of fear he felt after seeing Tang Luo.

These factors made Jack the Ripper not dare act lightly.

He had merely been lurking in the shadows and corners, waiting for the right moment to go out and take a bite.

In the beginning, Jack the Ripper hadn’t dared to meet Tang Luo even if he had been possessing others.

Hodge’s instant death had hurt Jack the Ripper. However, by devouring other people, the Ripper had continued to get stronger, and after reaching a certain threshold, it had begun massacring en mass.

To Jack the Ripper, the city’s residents were also food that could strengthen him. Unfortunately, the effect was not as good as living souls, such as Tang Luo’s group.

Nonetheless, quantitative changes could also produce qualitative changes.

Now that the Ripper had a physical form, its hollowed-out mouth and eyes and the exposed internal organs were all formed by the city’s residents’ dead souls.

He was resentful, clumsy, twisted, and extremely powerful.

Undoubtedly, Tang Luo, who was the strongest among the living souls and made the Ripper fearful, held the greatest attraction to the Ripper.

Jack the Ripper was craving to eat him but feared he would burst. He had no consciousness, but the fallen, evil being more or less had some wisdom for hunting.

On this point, the Ripper was much smarter than the Resurrected.

He had never fought against Tang Luo directly. Even after strengthening, he would only test his opponent cautiously.

Back when they had encountered Old John, it had been a test set by the Ripper. The same applied to the possessed that had dared to attack Tang Luo at Cotland Yard tonight. Last but not least, the twisted monster, which had been born when Tang Luo had been digging the grave, was the strongest apart from the Ripper’s true form.

The tests’ results only intensified Jack the Ripper’s killing and devouring desires and suppressed his fear.

Now, he wanted to devour the living soul before him!

This was not a thought but an emotion.

Once it surfaced, it went out of control like a fire on dry grassland.

Jack the Ripper was no longer rational, nor did he appear to be.

Despite Tang Luo’s you’ve-finally-come-out-to-be-beaten look, the Ripper would not back down anymore.

“Mas—”

Chu Chongtian struggled to make a little bit of sound. This was the only place on his entire body that could move.

He had many questions and many fears.

Tang Luo did not answer Chu Chongtian.

There was such a pile of merits in front of him that he had to take it.

This was fate.

Though it was created by Tang Luo himself, it was still fate.

Nobody ruled that fate had to be received passively. A person should make the most of their initiative.

The same was true for a Buddha.

Something flashed across Chu Chongtian’s eyes, and Tang Luo, who was with him just now, had already disappeared.

When he reappeared, Tang Luo was already on top of the Ripper’s head.

The huge head under Tang Luo’s feet remained slightly bowed, while his hands held the crypt’s roof.

The so-called true form was all the resentful aura and powers gathered together. Thus, Jack the Ripper appeared particularly huge, and his powers were extremely strong.

However, compared to the twisted monsters, which were one level higher than simple possessed forms, the true form may be powerful, but it was relatively slow and clumsy.

This was to a large extent due to its large body size.

Against the vast majority of prey, such a slow speed was still more than enough, but it was far too slow in Tang Luo’s case.

Tang Luo was about to stomp onto Jack the Ripper’s head with his right foot. He actually wanted to break it by stomping on it!

At that crucial moment, the dead souls in the hollow-like eyes and mouth on the Ripper’s skull howled and morphed. Numerous dead souls gathered into three positions, transformed into three gigantic tentacles, and then turned into three shadows.