Chapter 48: The Ghost
In the room at No. 22 Elm West Lane in the Lower Town of Igwynt, blood was splattered everywhere.
Various twisted corpses were scattered around the room, the carpet was soaked with flowing blood, the walls and cabinets were covered with blood stains, and the turbid smell of blood and gunpowder diffused in the space. No matter how you looked at it, this was the scene of a tragedy.
“Hoo…Hoo…Hoo…”
Standing on the blood-stained carpet, Dorothy gasped while holding a crowbar covered with white and red sticky substances. Her clothes were splattered with blood. Her red eyes stared silently at the fallen mutilated body in front of her.
"Finally... it's done..."
After confirming the death of the broken body in front of her, Dorothy breathed a sigh of relief. Although she had made preparations beforehand, this was still her first hunt against Beyonders. Tension and uneasiness ran through the entire process... However, the operation was considered a success.
In order to enter the Holy Communion base at No. 22 smoothly, Dorothy had already used various animal puppets to monitor the place for two days and figured out the secret codes and phrases used by people knocking on the door.
Later, Dorothy selected two of the communion minions she had killed on the way home from school a few days ago and turned them into corpses. She used the spiritual power of "Awakening" to enable them to speak, and deceived the other people in the communion with disguises that were no different from real people. She then entered the stronghold with Dorothy in the coffin.
Then, he launched a surprise attack when the opponent was off guard, took control of the situation and gained the advantage. All the credit for this was Dorothy's corpse doll, which was almost indistinguishable from a living person.
"The operation went smoothly... but the energy consumption was a bit high..."
Dorothy sighed and thought that not only did she lose two corpses in this operation, but her spiritual energy was also greatly consumed. During this operation, Dorothy used 1 point of "Initiate" to give the corpses language ability, and used 2 points of "Initiate" to increase the upper limit of the two corpses' manipulation. This also caused the originally very energy-saving corpse ring to almost use up the stored "cups" due to the high load. Dorothy would have to use a finger power bank to provide spiritual energy to the ring when she returned, and Dorothy also used 1 point of her own stored "cup" to strengthen her physical strength.
This operation used 3 points of "Qi" and 2 points of "Ci". "Qi" also said that he would be back after two days of rest, and "Ci" should indeed be used sparingly...
After thinking this, Dorothy glanced around, and then began to use the last bit of spiritual power in the corpse doll ring to control the two relatively complete corpse dolls, and then went with her original body to collect valuable things around.
After a while, Dorothy found 50 pounds in cash and two life-saving talismans. Later, Dorothy found a book next to the altar in the dark room. In addition, there were some sundries that seemed to be valuable. Without thinking too much, Dorothy packed up all these things and all the guns.
After packing up, Dorothy de-zombified the two corpses she was controlling, and then turned her attention to Burton, who was covered in blood and had a shattered head, at her feet.
Dorothy stretched out her hand and turned Burton into a corpse. Then Burton's lifeless body slowly moved. Dorothy controlled this body that was already overwhelmed and staggered to her seat in the study and asked him to sit down. Although it was not the corpse of an extraordinary person, it was seriously damaged. Dorothy had no intention of taking him away. Dorothy had other uses for his corpse.
After forcing Burton to sit on the chair, Dorothy immediately ran away with the looted war spoils. Knowing that the previous gunshots must have attracted the attention of the surrounding civilians and the police should have been called, Dorothy did not go out through the main door, but went upstairs all the way to the roof of No. 22.
Standing on the empty rooftop, Dorothy looked at the rooftop of another slightly taller building next door and activated the corpse ring. Then, a figure stood up on the rooftop next door. It was Edrick, whom Dorothy had placed there earlier.
Dorothy climbed to the roof of the next building with the supplies, and with the help of the zombie Edrick, she successfully arrived here easily. Then Dorothy changed her blood-spattered coat, and with the help of the zombies, she climbed a few more roofs, and finally went up and down the rooftop she chose, and then quickly left Elm West Lane where more and more people gathered.
However, Dorothy did not go far. After throwing all the things to Edwin, she waited in an empty corner, looked at the sun in the sky, and then looked at the watch on her hand.
The current time shown above is 9:11 am.
"It should be soon..."
Dorothy murmured while looking at the watch in her hand, and then she carefully focused her attention on the corpse Burton who was still in No. 22 a few hundred meters away.
At this moment, in Room 22, at the crime scene which was now deserted, the corpse doll Burton sat quietly in his chair, as if he was waiting for something, or rather, Dorothy asked him to wait for something here.
After a while, there was an unusual movement in the originally quiet study.
On the bloody altar in the dark room, there was a skull with only the upper half, covered with a layer of flesh and blood, and on this layer of flesh and blood grew an ear.
Suddenly, this layer of flesh and blood began to surge, and soon a mouth grew under the ear, and then this mouth opened and uttered a man's voice.
"Burton! Burton? Are you in the room? Answer Burton if you hear me!"
Hearing this voice, the corpse Burton sitting on the chair turned his head, then slowly stood up, limped to the front of the altar, and spoke in a deep voice using his still intact mouth.
"I'm here……"
"Huh... Here, listen to me, Burton, your hiding place has been discovered by those dogs of the authorities! Leave quickly, the searchers should be here within ten minutes..." the mouth on the altar continued, and listening to his words, "Burton" couldn't help but speak in an angry tone.
"How did the Security Bureau find me? Is there a spy on our side who is leaking information? Could it be that the failure of the operation a few days ago was also caused by the spy leaking information?!"
"That shouldn't happen. If Gregos knew we wanted to use his sister to corrupt him, he would have applied to James for family protection a long time ago. The fact that he didn't do that proves that our intelligence hasn't been leaked. According to the intelligence from there, it could be a third party that intervened. In short, now is not the time to talk about this. Leave now and go to Cohenfu on White Pearl Street!"
The mouth on the altar continued to speak, and "Burton" nodded in response.
"I'll leave right away..."
"Well... hurry up, we'll discuss this matter later..."
Then, the mouth on the altar stopped moving, and finally slowly melted into flesh and blood.
After slowly watching all of this, "Burton" fell to the ground like a puppet with its strings broken. The study at No. 22 fell into silence again.
In an empty corner of an alley a few hundred meters away, Dorothy slowly opened her eyes.
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