Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 859 Unexpected Injury
Xia Shou's hand chops suddenly stopped in mid-air, then slashed upwards at the last moment before touching his opponent. Immediately afterwards, a mirror cloth appeared out of thin air in his palm, and like a magician dropping his cloak, it fluttered down above the cloaked man's head.

At the same time as he threw out the mirror cloth, Xia Shou took his second step, and the next moment his figure appeared ten meters away.

Immediately following were the third and fourth steps, which proceeded almost without pause!

If there were a master of Instant Step present, they would not believe what they were seeing. Who would believe that such rapid and continuous Instant Step could exist in the world, unless they were a martial god!

Or it might not be human!

The structure of the human body makes it impossible for humans to reach this limit.

After Xia Shou ran a hundred meters in the corridor and rushed through several corners, a figure fell out from the surface of his mirrored trench coat. It was the cloaked man!
This was the solution Xia Shou came up with at the last moment: not beheading, but teleportation. He would leave a portal there, and in the brief second that the portal floated toward the other party, he would rush a long enough distance to let the other party pass through from afar.

This was a bold experiment, and it was a great success.

"That person shouldn't be chasing us, let's retreat! Let's meet up with Hu Ling and the others first!" Xia Shou said coldly, slowing his pace.

He had already decided that if that monstrous man chased after him, he would run to the warehouse and open the door instead.

Xia Shou has now determined that he has the advantage in speed!
However, it seems that the person doesn't intend to chase after them, probably because they feel that guarding that place is more important.

Since they didn't catch up, let's go back and find the others first. Now that we know about one of the important locations in the royal palace, it's a gain. Even if Hu Ling and Hippolyta are no match for that person, Su Weiyu should be able to sneak in.

Although that person was so strong it was like an anomaly, he was also quite human, at least in his behavior.

Just as Xia Shou was thinking this, a deep, bone-revealing wound suddenly burst open on his shoulder and chest, spurting out a large amount of blood. Then, his entire left arm was twisted into a pretzel shape by an invisible force and then severed at the root.

Then, a cracking sound came from his right ribs.

A sharp pain washed over Xia Shou's brain like a sudden tidal wave. The next second, stomach acid churned, and he opened his mouth, vomiting profusely. The vomit flowed out from the edge of the Blood Demon Mask and spilled onto the ground. It was red blood mixed with some rather ominous-looking fragments.

How is this going?

Xia Shou's mind went blank.

There is no doubt that he was attacked, but who launched the attack?
That guy didn't chase after us. Could it be his special ability?

Fortunately, he is still wearing the mask and remains in his Blood Demon state, so these injuries, which would normally be fatal, are not fatal to him.

Xia Shou subconsciously tried to use the pseudo-blood demon to reconstruct his body, but he suddenly felt a strange pain in his thigh.

Then he suddenly realized that his stand-in bond with Su Weiyu was over!
Xia Shou immediately ripped open his pants and saw a line of crooked, blood-stained words spelled out from his wound on his thigh: "[Beware of Corpse Killing]"

The characters were very difficult to decipher, with many strokes sticking out of the paper, indicating that they were written on the body in an emergency.

The binding relationship between a Stand and its user can only be broken by the Stand user. When broken, the Stand can transfer any injury on its body to the user who uses the ability.

Therefore, Su Weiyu took the initiative to remove the substitute and transferred all of her injuries to him in one go.

Xia Shou froze on the spot.

He knew that Su Weiyu would not take such a risky action unless she was forced to, because such a large-scale transfer of injuries could affect the situation on his side, and Weiyu would definitely consider his feelings.

The fact that she would take such an extreme risk proves that something serious has happened to Su Weiyu, so serious that she would die if she didn't remove the substitute and transfer her injuries.

Xia Shou quickly reconstructed his body, his brain working at lightning speed.

calm……

Stay calm.

The situation isn't as bad as it seems; in fact, it's quite optimistic. The fact that Wei Yu transferred such severe injuries proves she believes she can survive. She sees this transfer as a survival strategy, with information sharing being a secondary consideration.

On the contrary, if only one line of bloody words were transferred, that would be truly dangerous. It would mean that Su Weiyu felt the situation had reached a point of no return, and that even transferring the injuries would inevitably lead to death.

At that point, Wei Yu wouldn't transfer any unnecessary injuries; instead, she would only convey the most essential information.

Having figured this out, Xia Shou felt a little more at ease, but the severity of the injury was still worrying.

Moreover, the message she conveyed was also quite meaningful.

It's probably not finished, but we can fill in the gaps. What she wanted to write was: Don't kill, be careful of the corpse.

It's clear that her situation was extremely urgent, otherwise she wouldn't have written so vaguely, only writing half of the last word.

Su Weiyu couldn't possibly have been injured like this by a human; the attacker must have been a non-human.

Her writing "Don't kill, beware of the corpse" proves that the danger of that thing only became apparent after it was killed, and not immediately.

Perhaps for a period of time after being killed, it will be no different from an ordinary corpse.

"Don't kill... does that mean killing him will make him even harder to deal with than before he died?" Xia Shou asked thoughtfully.

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Su Weiyu carefully straightened up and peered down from the edge of the second-floor window. A four-legged creature, resembling a wild beast but also showing some human features, was pacing back and forth at the entrance.

She sighed and shrank back.

She didn't know where she was; it looked like a royal treasure vault or an archive.

In short, there were many books here, boxes piled high, and miscellaneous items stacked up on the floor like small mountains, many of which were already covered in dust.

Su Weiyu glanced to the side, her expression becoming even more serious.

Hu Ling and Hippolyta collapsed on either side of her.

If she hadn't done everything in her power to pull the two children up, they would both be dead.

Hu Ling's right sternum was exposed to the air with almost no muscle covering it, her shoulder joint bones were also exposed with ligaments torn, and the part of her left leg below the knee had disappeared.

Hippolyta was vomiting blood, and one of her eyeballs had popped out of its socket, held together by a single tendon. Most of her injuries were internal.

Of course, these injuries were all minor. Hippolyta's ability was to put stolen items into boxes, and the row of small square boxes on her belt were now filled with her and Hu Ling's injuries.

She had transferred some of her own injuries to Xia Shou, even though she didn't want Xia Shou to bear so many injuries, but it had come to the point where she couldn't survive without doing so.

Therefore, she transferred all the injuries that would not affect Xia Shou's ability to wear the mask to the other party.

She knew that as long as the injury wasn't something that would immediately cause him to lose consciousness, transferring it there wouldn't have too serious an impact on him.

She believed that Natsume was definitely not in the battle. He was so smart that if the battle had started, he would have transferred his minor, negligible injuries to her so that she could take them, reminding her that the battle had already begun on the other side and that it was not appropriate to casually break off the Stand relationship to report the damage.

She had this confidence in Xia Shou's intelligence.

(End of this chapter)