Maoshan World: The young marshal starts!

Chapter 295 The Tanuki Spirit Makes Her Move
As Chen Yulou and his group entered the hall, darkness fell.

"Boom--!"

At this moment, accompanied by a deafening roar of thunder, the originally clear sky suddenly changed, turning into lightning and thunder, with dark clouds gathering, looking like a storm was brewing.

The entire building was completely silent and dark, as if no one lived there.

As Chen Yulou and his companions pushed open the main gate of the burial chamber, rows of neatly arranged coffins came into view.

Boom!

Thunder roared again, and the lightning illuminated the coffins inside the gate, making them instantly bright. The coffins, pale white from the lightning, came into sharp focus in Chen Yulou and his companions' view. The atmosphere became eerie and terrifying under the backdrop of the thunder and the coffins.

“Crack!”

Just then, by sheer coincidence, a strange sound of a coffin lid shifting suddenly came from inside the room full of coffins, as if something inside the coffin was trying to move the lid out.

In addition, there's the legend of the rat spirit, which the Miao boy mentioned earlier.

Even Chen Yulou and Luo Laowai, who had initially been indifferent, started to feel uneasy, wondering if there really was a rat spirit here.

"W-What was that sound?!"

The Miao boy was so frightened that his face turned ashen, and he clutched the hem of Kunlun's clothes tightly, hiding behind him.

"Boss."

"President Chen, please step forward."

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The others, including Feng Fu and Luo Laowai, all turned their gazes toward Chen Yulou.

In fact, Chen Yulou was also a little nervous at this moment, but facing everyone's gaze, as the leader of the Unloading Ridge faction, he naturally could not show weakness and lose face as the leader.

Chen Yulou immediately followed the sound towards the source of the noise from the pile of coffins inside the gate.

"Squeak-"

The sound rang out again, and the group's hearts jumped into their throats as they walked to the coffin from which the sound had come.

Chen Yulou took a deep breath and carefully pushed open the coffin lid.

"aim!"

Suddenly, a sharp, piercing meow rang out from inside the coffin, and at the same time, a dark shadow darted out of the coffin and ran away into the distance.

Chen Yulou and the others were also startled and retreated repeatedly. When they saw the dark figure clearly, they were furious. But what they saw was none other than a black cat.

"Damn it, where did this stray cat come from that dares to scare me!"

bang bang bang-

After being frightened, the group became furious again. Luo Laowai even pulled out his pistol and fired several shots at the black cat, but unfortunately, he missed.

"Alright, Commander Luo, it's just a stray cat."

At this moment, Chen Yulou calmed down and spoke up to stop him.

"Let's continue to explore the situation of this inn, so we can see where we can rest tonight."

"Very well, then I'll give President Chen face and not stoop to the level of this wildcat."

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Upon hearing this, Luo Laowai then pulled out his pistol and continued his investigation inside the Zhaizhan Hall with Chen Yulou and his group.

However, the group did not notice that in the darkness in the distance, the black cat that had just been shot away by Luo Laowai reappeared from the doorway, its pair of green eyes coldly staring at Chen Yulou and his group.

Chen Yulou and his group were unaware that the black cat had already developed sentience and become a spirit, thus possessing an extremely strong desire for revenge. Luo Laowai had almost shot it to death just now, so how could it not seek revenge for such hatred?

"What the hell is this?!"

Soon after, Luo Laowai let out a terrified scream.

Chen Yulou and his group made another discovery: a woman's corpse, but her face was extremely terrifying, looking like a rat's face, with hare lips, sharp teeth, rat eyes, and a blue face.

Upon seeing the appearance of the corpse, Chen Yulou and the others were all greatly shocked.

In particular, Luo Laowai was almost scared to death. When he came in, there was no light and he accidentally bumped into the corpse, causing it to fall face to face with him. Just then, a flash of lightning illuminated the room, allowing Luo Laowai to see the corpse's face clearly. Instantly, Luo Laowai was so frightened that his soul almost flew out of his body.

At this moment, Chen Yulou found a notebook on the desk next to him. The notebook contained a diary.

"This is Aunt Mouse."

After reading the contents of the diary, Chen Yulou immediately understood everything. Indeed, the woman's corpse in front of him was the legendary "Rat Second Aunt" from the Miao boy's story. Her appearance was indeed terrifying, just like a rat spirit. However, she was not a real rat spirit, but just a pitiful woman with a deformed face, who was despised and feared by people as a terrifying monster.
To avoid the world, the woman came to this mortuary to work as a caretaker of corpses. She had just died three months ago.

"Damn it, no wonder he was mistaken for a rat spirit. He looks so terrifying, who wouldn't be a monster if they saw him?"

Once Luo Laowai understood the situation, he was furious. Feeling that he had lost face, he made a move to dismember the corpse of the rat aunt.

"Commander Luo, wait a minute. She was a pitiful woman after all, and she's already dead. Death is a serious matter, so why bother with her?"

Seeing this, Chen Yulou stopped Luo Laowai, feeling somewhat sorry for the woman's plight.

Although Luo Laowai was displeased, he stopped upon hearing Chen Yulou's words. But just then...

"aim--"

"puff!"

Suddenly, another sharp, piercing meow rang out, followed by a dark shadow leaping down from the roof beam and lunging at Luo Laowai's head. Luo Laowai quickly turned his head to dodge, but his face was still scratched. Instantly, a burning pain shot through him, and several bloody wounds appeared on Luo Laowai's face.

The shadowy figure transformed into a black cat the moment it landed.

It was none other than the black cat from before.

Swah——

The black cat landed and then suddenly lunged at Chen Yulou, who was nearby. Fortunately, Chen Yulou managed to dodge it in time, otherwise he might have followed in Luo Laowai's footsteps.

"brute!"

Immediately, Luo Laowai and Chen Yulou also became enraged and took action.

"Bang bang bang-"

Luo Laowai raised his hand and fired several shots in quick succession.

Chen Yulou also threw a chair at the black cat.

But the black cat was incredibly fast, dodging all of Chen Yulou and Luo Laowai's attacks.

Finally, the black cat landed on the shoulder of Aunt Mouse's corpse, bit off Aunt Mouse's ear, and ran away.

"You beast, I'm going to punish you today!"

Chen Yulou was furious upon seeing this, and immediately chased after the black cat as it escaped from the house.

Upon seeing this, Luo Laowai and the others immediately followed and went out.

However, Chen Yulou and the black cat were extremely fast, and it was late at night, so the group lost sight of Chen Yulou and the black cat as soon as they chased them out of the restaurant.

Swish! Swish! —

Under the night.

A person and a cat darted about at high speed.

Chen Yulou chased the black cat all the way into the depths of the forest, chasing it for almost half an hour straight.

More than half an hour later.

Chen Yulou had no idea where he had chased them to.

And that's when.

"aim--"

Suddenly, from behind the dense forest ahead, a shrill cat's cry rang out, so shrill it sounded as if someone had died instantly.

Chen Yulou's heart skipped a beat. He quickly walked to the dense forest and looked in the direction where the black cat was screaming. He saw an unmarked grave in front of the forest, and the black cat was lying motionless on the ground dead inside the grave.

Beside the black cat was a terrifying raccoon that looked like a ferocious beast or demon, which was disemboweling the black cat.

The moment Chen Yulou saw the raccoon, he felt a chill run down his spine. He had a strong intuition that this raccoon was no ordinary raccoon, and if it discovered him, he would probably be in grave danger.

This raccoon is definitely a spirit!

Chen Yulou quickly concealed himself.

After the raccoon disemboweled the black cat and ate all its internal organs, it looked around and, seeing no one else around, went back behind the desolate grave and disappeared for an hour.

Upon seeing this, Chen Yulou breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to leave. However, just as he was about to leave, he saw the rat, Ergu Erduo, next to the black cat's corpse. He thought to himself that it would be a bit embarrassing to go back empty-handed. He couldn't very well go back and say that he had been scared away by a raccoon.

Thinking of this, Chen Yulou carefully walked out of the dense forest and approached the black cat's corpse, intending to return the second aunt's ear.

That way, we'll have something to say when we go back.

But just as Chen Yulou picked up the mouse's ear from the ground, a dizzying sensation struck him, and his body went limp and he collapsed to the ground.

At this moment, the raccoon that had previously burrowed into the abandoned grave emerged again, its oily green eyes looking at Chen Yulou lying on the ground with a bloodthirsty and cruel gaze, and its body slowly approaching Chen Yulou.

In the midst of the dizzying spin, Chen Yulou saw the dead Second Aunt Rat, her blue face and fangs hopping towards him like a zombie.

Chen Yulou's heartbeat almost stopped instantly, and an unprecedented, chilling sense of death swept over him.

But just as Aunt Mouse bent down to bite his neck...

"You beast, how dare you be so insolent in front of this young marshal!"

Suddenly, a cold snort rang out.

Immediately afterwards, a crimson sword aura, as red as fire, shot out and struck the fox spirit.

(End of this chapter)