Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 18: Suppression of Evil
"what!!!!"

In the [Mortal Remains Room], Xiao Ran raised his head and looked outside the door in confusion. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he seemed to have heard Uncle Li's voice just now.

But when he listened carefully, it was gone. He shook his head and continued to work.

"Buzzing..."

The harsh friction sound makes people feel like sawing wood.

On the plate next to it was a blood-stained axe and some minced meat.

It wasn't until a broken rib was thrown on the tray beside him that Xiao Ran finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Phew! This is more troublesome than I thought."

He threw away the short saw in his hand and let out a long breath, but fortunately the broken ribs had been cleaned up.

He glanced at the time.

It was still early, and Xiao Ran had already cleaned up the broken bones and spilled intestines.

All that's left is to complete the final stitching.

After finishing these chores, Xiao Ran began to carefully examine the corpse in front of him. The man was not very old, and his muscles were clearly defined, showing that he exercised regularly. Judging from his physique, it made sense for Uncle Li to say that he was a fitness coach.

But it's just reasonable.

Xiao Ran waved his hand and took out the [Evil-Suppressing Order] from the space.

"activation!"

Along with a chill, wisps of black smoke overflowed from his palm. This time, Xiao Ran could clearly feel that something special was slowly peeling off from his body and merging into the [Evil-Suppressing Order] in his hand.

Feeling a sense of connection between the [Evil-Suppressing Order] and his own mind, Xiao Ran no longer hesitated, picked up the needle and thread and began to sew up the corpse.

There were more than ten wounds of varying sizes on Guo Lingfei's body. Some of the wounds were caused by broken bones piercing through the flesh, while others were caused by unknown means. As the skin of the corpse had become stiff, the flesh on both sides of many of the wounds had become deformed, making it extremely difficult to sew them up.

When faced with a corpse like this, most morticians would probably just sew it up forcibly and cover the wound with clothes.

But Xiao Ran has the master-level suturing skills brought by the [Corpse Stitcher] spell.

After a quick glance, several suturing methods appeared in my mind.

"Leave no trace!"

"Clever way to cover wrinkles!"

"Broken stitches!"

The needle and thread in Xiao Ran's hand were seen flying up and down along the torn skin and flesh, and he was becoming more and more adept at all kinds of wonderful suturing techniques.

Gradually, Xiao Ran also felt that things were getting better.

As she was sewing, a cool breeze blew beside Xiao Ran's ear, and Xiao Ran was stunned for a moment.

In this empty mortuary, there is no wind even through the windows.

His fingers stopped stitching and he glanced sideways behind him.

"Whoosh..."

I saw Guo Lingfei's mouth opened at some point, and wisps of cool breeze seemed to blow out of his mouth.

"It hurts!" Guo Lingfei's Adam's apple moved, his eyes slowly opened, and his two bloodshot eyeballs began to move left and right.

"Be patient, you'll be fine soon."

Xiao Ran frowned but did not stop sewing.

I just felt strange. The file said that he had been dead for three days, so how come his soul was still in his body?
Guo Lingfei trembled slightly: "Be gentle, my whole body hurts, as if all my bones are broken."

Xiao Ran tightened the sutures and then walked to the other side of Guo Lingfei. The wound on this side was mainly under the armpit, so it would be more convenient to use a suture hook. While changing, he asked, "How about we talk to distract your attention?"

"Do you remember how you suddenly fell into the blender?"

Xiao Ran asked casually, and Guo Lingfei's body suddenly trembled, as if he had stepped on air while asleep. He kicked his legs violently and widened his eyes, but after a while, he shook his head again: "I can't remember."

"Then let's talk about something else. I heard that you are a fitness coach?"

Hearing Xiao Ran change the subject, Guo Lingfei began to relax: "I'm a part-time worker. I only teach private lessons, you know."

"I don't know. I've never been to a gym."

Xiao Ran shook his head, holding the suture hook in one hand, and sewed down along the left side of the corpse.

"Besides fitness, do you have any other hobbies?"

"Yes, I'm good at fishing. I often shoot some short videos of fishing. You can take a look. I won the Los Angeles Fishing Championship last month..."

When Guo Lingfei talked about fishing, his eyes began to brighten.

He began to chatter with Xiao Ran about the things that happened to him while fishing.

Xiao Ran didn't know how to fish, but he still asked, "I often see people fishing at night. Is it better to fish at night?"

"Almost. You haven't tried it. It's like being alone in the river at night. I often go fishing at night..."

Guo Lingfei suddenly paused in the middle of his words, and his eyes gradually became dazed.

Xiao Ran was still stitching the wound. When she noticed that Guo Lingfei suddenly stopped talking, she immediately raised her head alertly.

"Guo Lingfei?" Xiao Ran called softly. But Guo Lingfei's eyes had become empty, like a puppet without a soul.

Suddenly, his fingers moved, and then, at an unreasonable speed, he raised his hand and clenched his fist. The joints made a creepy sound, as if an ancient machine that had not been moved for many years was starting up again, and punched Xiao Ran in the chest.

The punch came very suddenly. Xiao Ran quickly dodged to the right and used his tiger fist to block Guo Lingfei's left wrist. At the same time, Xiao Ran's boxing hand changed into grabbing, grabbing Guo Lingfei's left palm and twisting it hard.

"Kick!"

Xiao Ran himself was blessed with a curse pattern, and his strength was much greater than that of an ordinary person. With this tiger-catching move, with a "click" sound, the already broken bone in Guo Lingfei's left hand was instantly twisted off.

Although Guo Lingfei's eyes were empty, his body reacted very quickly. At the moment when Xiao Ran broke his left hand, Guo Lingfei's right fist shot out like an arrow, silently hitting Xiao Ran's head.

Xiao Ran quickly lowered his head to dodge, feeling the wind from the fist brushing past his head, and a cold sweat broke out in his heart. If his reaction had been a little slower, this punch would have been enough to kill him.

His eyes gradually turned cold, and he took out the [Evil-Suppressing Order]. As he thought about it, this old-looking iron plate began to emit a cold aura.

Privilege 1: Suppress evil spirits by force, greatly weakening their power.

"town!"

As the privilege was activated, Xiao Ran could clearly feel a force being drawn out of his body.

A twisted black talisman appeared in front of the [Evil-Suppressing Order], as if some kind of power was awakened, and then it hit Guo Lingfei's forehead hard.

"Ah!!" In a trance, Xiao Ran seemed to hear a woman's voice.

Guo Lingfei, who was about to sit up from the stretcher, trembled a few times, as if it was his last unwilling shiver.

"Bang!" He fell down heavily.

At the same time, Xiao Ran felt a strange resonance through the [Suppressing Evil Order], as if his actions were not only physical contact, but also a collision deep in his soul.

In a trance, Xiao Ran's vision seemed to penetrate into Guo Lingfei's body, and he saw a shadow under the flesh of his shoulder that was quickly dissipating under the power of the Zhen'e Order.

Guo Lingfei's expression changed from ferocious to peaceful, and it seemed that all the pain faded away quickly.

"Curse pattern?"

After Xiao Ran put down the [Evil-Suppressing Order] in his hand, his expression gradually became solemn. He was sure that he vaguely saw the lines of the curse pattern in the shadow he just saw, but it was too fast and he didn't see it clearly.

All one could see was that the spell pattern was wrapped in a black mist, as if it was attached to Guo Lingfei's body.

"Could it be..." Xiao Ran looked at Guo Lingfei's body in front of him, "Is it a cursed object?"

In this way, all the previous doubts can be explained.

With the power of cursed objects and curse patterns, it doesn't seem difficult to control an ordinary person.

For example, in the last mystery city, the old lady’s gold bars were the most direct means.

"Boom blah blah..."

At this moment, a hurried knock on the door interrupted Xiao Ran's thoughts. Before Xiao Ran could ask, the door of the mortuary was opened.

Old Zhou eagerly poked his head in and saw Xiao Ran standing in front of the stretcher. He was stunned: "Are you okay?"

"It's alright?"

Xiao Ran looked at Lao Zhou with confusion.

Then Uncle Li came in with his head covered. When he saw that Xiao Ran was fine, he complained impatiently, "Look, I told you, what could have happened? Why are you making such a fuss? You rush in when you hear any noise."

After saying that, Uncle Li turned around and glared at the person behind him: "And you, why are you sleeping in the morgue and humming a song? Are you sick?"

Xiao Ran then noticed that Uncle Li was followed by a young girl in her early twenties.

The girl has short purple hair and fair skin, which forms a sharp contrast with the purple hair. With her big eyes and high nose bridge, she looks very individual.

Facing Uncle Li's scolding, she just stuck out her tongue playfully: "I was wearing headphones at the time, how could I know you were outside."

After the girl finished speaking, she turned around and looked at Xiao Ran, her expression was as if she had discovered a new world: "Wow!"

"This is the guy who fell into the blender. He was quite handsome. His death was so tragic."

The girl stared at the corpse in front of her without any hesitation.

Xiao Ran's face turned dark and he turned to look at Uncle Li.

Uncle Li looked helpless, but Old Zhou hurried forward and pulled the girl over, apologizing to Xiao Ran, "I'm sorry, this is my niece. She has been careless since she was a child. She came here for internship recently, and there are some rules that I didn't explain clearly to her."

After saying this, Old Zhou glared at his niece fiercely, but the girl looked indifferent, her eyes rolling around at Xiao Ran in front of her.

"Um...if you have nothing else to do, can you please go out first and talk to me after I'm done with my work?"

Although this was Lao Zhou's territory, Xiao Ran still rudely ordered them to leave. Every industry has its own rules, and outsiders are strictly prohibited from being present when a corpse artist is repairing a corpse.

"Okay, okay, let's go out first, let's go out first."

Old Zhou knew he was in the wrong, so he could only smile and pull the girl out. The girl had a reluctant expression on her face, and before leaving she did not forget to glance between Xiao Ran and the corpse.

Xiao Ran breathed a sigh of relief only after Lao Zhou closed the door again and locked it with the key.

Looking at Guo Lingfei lying on the stretcher, Xiao Ran quickly sutured the last wound.

[You have reached the conditions to trigger the privilege, do you want to activate the privilege soul grabbing! ]

Xiao Ran's eyes twitched slightly: "We'll know if it's a cursed object after we take a look." He placed his hand on Guo Lingfei's chest and whispered, "Soul-stealing..."

(End of this chapter)