The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 155 Finding the Five Demonic Infants and Fighting the Ghost Fetus

Huang Bin led the way, with Li Zhen following behind him with the vampire and the banshee.

On the sixth day of the lunar new year, I walked at the very back with Xiaoyu.

Xiaoyu was somewhat afraid of Li Zhen, sometimes turning her head to whisper a few words to Chu Liu, and sometimes looking at the backs of Li Zhen and the vampire.

"I was only kicked out not long ago, is it alright for me to go to the Xu residence like this?"

"No problem, we're going to help the Xu family this time, don't worry, everything will be fine."

"Go help the Xu family?"

"You'll understand when we get to the Xu family. Don't worry, I'll stay with you the whole time."

"The person in front is... looks a bit scary."

"You'll find out later."

"And those two people dressed in black, they seem... they don't seem to be alive?"

"Don't talk nonsense, that's that person's friend."

……

The two spoke in voices that were neither loud nor soft.

Li Zhen overheard some bits and pieces.

It seems that the news was indeed not revealed to Xiaoyu on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year...

As they approached the Xu residence, Huang Bin suddenly remembered something and turned to Li Zhen, whispering, "Actually, I encountered something rather strange a while ago."

Li Zhen looked at Huang Bin, waiting for Huang Bin to speak.

Looking at the little fish behind him, Huang Bin hesitated before asking, "Can I say?"

Li Zhen nodded slightly.

Huang Bin continued, “There is a shallow stream next to the Xu residence. One day, Chu Liu and I suddenly found a corpse in the stream. We were terrified... After pulling up the body, we found that it was the Second Madam’s maid.”

"Butler Li insisted that the other person had drowned, but how could someone drown in such shallow water? Chu Liu disagreed and said a few words, and then got a good beating from Butler Li."

"The Xu family invited a Taoist priest to perform a ritual for her."

"When Chu Liu and I took her body up the mountain, did the monk know what had happened? Wow, her body actually came back to life!"

"She just got up and chased after me and Chu Liu. If it weren't for the master at the mortuary who appeared and resolved the matter of the corpse coming back to life, Chu Liu and I would have been scared to death."

Li Zhen asked, "The sorcerer of the mortuary?"

“Yes, there was a monk at the mortuary.” Huang Bin said with lingering fear, “That monk subdued the corpse, placed a piece of yellow paper folded into a small boat on the corpse, and stuffed the corpse’s mouth with tofu, and the corpse stopped moving.”

"According to that master, as long as a ghost eats tofu, it can be rendered unable to move."

Li Zhen had never heard of this method, but that wasn't his focus.

"Why didn't you tell me about this during the day?" Li Zhen asked.

Huang Bin scratched his head: "I was too anxious at the time and forgot. A lot of time has passed and it has been resolved. I didn't connect the strange things you mentioned with this matter."

After thinking for a moment, Li Zhen suddenly asked, "Have you ever considered why the steward didn't believe you and instead firmly believed that the maid had drowned?"

Huang Bin scratched his head: "I don't know either, maybe Butler Li is too stupid."

“If he were truly stupid, how could he have become a butler?” Li Zhen said. “Is it possible that he killed that maid?”

"In order to cover his tracks, he insisted that the maid had drowned and eventually buried the body hastily."

Huang Bin thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "This doesn't make sense. Why would Steward Li kill someone for no reason?"

Li Zhen didn't say anything.

He certainly knew why that steward, Li, wanted to kill someone.

If he remembered correctly, that steward Li and Marshal Xu's second wife had an affair.

The maid discovered this by accident.

To silence the witnesses, the steward killed the maid and threw her into the water, making others believe that the maid had drowned, thus clearing himself of suspicion.

The entire Xu family, except for the warlord Xu, was almost entirely composed of villains. The only good people were the few people around him.

The fourth wife, who had only been married into the family for a short time, was actually somewhat innocent.

However, it's probably possessed by an evil spirit now and has become a ghost...

Upon arriving at the Xu residence, Huang Bin knocked on the gate.

He knew the servant who opened the door, and after exchanging a few words with him, the servant waved him in, indicating that he should go in directly.

Huang Bin turned and waved to Li Zhen.

Li Zhen and Chu Liu followed each other to the Xu family.

As soon as he stepped through the gate, Li Zhen suddenly paused and looked up in the direction of the Xu family's backyard.

The sixth person on the second day asked, "Master, what happened?"

“They know I’m here.” Li Zhen withdrew his gaze and walked directly towards the Xu family’s backyard.

Huang Bin was taken aback and quickly called out, "Master, wait a minute! I need to tell the master first. If you barge in like that, it could easily cause a misunderstanding."

Detective Li did not respond.

The vampire and the banshee overtook Huang Bin and headed towards the Xu family's backyard.

"Master..." In a moment of panic, Huang Bin grabbed the vampire's arm.

As soon as he grabbed the vampire, a sudden jolt went through him.

This feels completely different from grabbing a living person; it's more like grabbing a... hard, dry stick?

So shocked was Huang Bin that he almost forgot to let go of the vampire's arm.

He only let go of the vampire after it had dragged him forward one step.

It was already dark, and most of the servants in the Xu household had already gone to bed, while those who hadn't were doing their own work.

Li Zhen walked all the way to the backyard without encountering anyone.

The backyard of the Xu residence is arranged in a ring. From where Li Zhen was standing, there were houses all around, but only one house had a red lantern hanging on it.

As Li Zhen arrived, a terrifying aura emanated from every room without any attempt to conceal it.

The demonic infant that was reincarnated should not be ready to be born yet, but it was stimulated by his arrival here and thus reacted.

Terrifying demons and ferocious beasts are similar in that they have a strong sense of territory.

It's impossible for Li Zhen to arrive here with vampires and banshees without attracting the attention of these evil spirits.

"Hey, Master, don't wander off! I haven't told the master yet. If you come here like this, he'll definitely be angry."

Huang Bin caught up with Li Zhen.

On the sixth day of the lunar month, Xiaoyu and others caught up with them.

After glancing at Xiaoyu, Li Zhen strode towards the room with the lights on.

Huang Bin looked around furtively, then said to Li Zhen, "Master, or... we'll be in big trouble!"

Before he could finish speaking, a gruff voice rang out: "What are you doing here? What are you doing in the backyard? Oh, it's you, kid!"

Steward Li, accompanied by several servants, hurriedly chased after them from one side to the backyard.

Upon seeing Li Zhen's face clearly, he remembered what had happened during the day.

After all, Li Zhen's face is so distinctive that there isn't another face like his in the whole town.

Looking at Li Zhen, then at Huang Bin who was covering his face and Chu Liu who was holding Xiao Yu in his arms, Butler Li suddenly realized, "I was wondering why such a strange-looking person suddenly appeared in town. So it was someone you invited?"

"What do you want? To betray your own people, collude with outsiders, and steal things from the Xu residence?"

"On the sixth day of the month, you brat, didn't you get a beating last time? You actually dared to bring Xiaoyu back to the Xu residence! Well done, you two don't respect the master at all."

Feeling flustered after being falsely accused, Huang Bin quickly explained, "Butler Li, don't talk nonsense, we... uh..."

The intense shock made him swallow his words back.

Before him stood the imposing butler, Li, who was about to take the opportunity to deal with him. Suddenly, for some reason, Li's head tilted back, his eyes rolled back, as if someone had grabbed his neck.

A figure walked towards Butler Li and brushed past him.

Huang Bin turned his head and saw that it was Li Zhen.

He opened his mouth: "Master..."

Seeing this, Chu Liu was also a little frightened and hugged the little fish in his arms even tighter.

Xiao Yu turned her head and looked at Li Zhen through Chu Liu's arms.

Although she appeared very nervous, her eyes held an eerily calm demeanor.

The servants following behind Steward Li were so frightened that they kept backing away.

Someone bumped into the back door and almost broke it open.

"What happened? Why is it so noisy? Does everyone want to die?!"

An angry voice came from inside the room.

A bald, burly man in pajamas stormed open the door, glaring furiously at the crowd outside.

"Why are you making so much noise in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?"

He raised the gun in his hand and pointed it at the servants in front of him one by one.

"Are you courting death? Is it you? Or is it you?"

The servants were so frightened that they wet themselves and their knees buckled, causing them to kneel on the ground.

"It wasn't us, sir! Someone's causing trouble here!"

"Butler Li... Butler Li is dying!"

"It's him! It's him... he's causing trouble."

With his morning grumpiness subsiding slightly, Commander Xu's rationality prevailed.

He glanced at Butler Li, who was standing there with his head tilted back, then his gaze swept over Huang Bin and Chu Liu, who wished they could hide their heads under their crotches, before finally settling on Detective Li.

"Who are you? Are you here to cause trouble?" He pointed the gun in his hand at Li Zhen.

Huang Bin was startled. He gritted his teeth and ran to Li Zhen's side, saying to Commander Xu, "Master, this master isn't here to cause trouble! Madam... I saw the Second Madam eating... eating..."

Looking at the woman peeking out from over Xu Dashuai's shoulder, Huang Bin opened his mouth wide, but dared not utter the rest of his words.

The woman gave Huang Bin a charming smile: "Did you see what I ate?"

Huang Bin shuddered and hid behind Li Zhen in fright.

“Master, I think Steward Li is right. This man is here to cause trouble. He’s obviously not a good person.” The woman said to Commander Xu. “Huang Bin, that traitor, is definitely bringing in a thief. And that Xiao Yu, she was kicked out but dared to come back. She doesn’t respect you at all.”

Commander Xu gripped the trigger with his right hand, which was holding the gun.

The woman laughed and said, "Why don't you just beat this man to death, then interrogate Xiaoyu? You can do whatever you want with Xiaoyu then."

Commander Xu's throat bobbed, and he gripped the gun even tighter.

Li Zhen was not nervous at all.

He wasn't looking at Marshal Xu, but at the woman behind him.

It seemed as if he saw something perplexing in the woman, and he couldn't find the answer for the time being.

Stopping his wild thoughts, he walked towards Commander Xu.

They were about to shoot when they saw Commander Xu.

Huang Bin and Chu Liu shouted at the same time, "No..."

Their conversation was interrupted with a "bang".

Both of them felt a chill run down their spines, and at the same time, the thought "it's all over" crossed their minds.

However, when the two looked at Li Zhen, they found that Li Zhen not only did not fall down, but was walking forward as if nothing had happened.

This time, the two were not shocked, but felt their minds were a bit confused and they couldn't see clearly what had happened.

"Damn it, this gun hasn't been used for so long, is it broken? It's useless!"

Seeing that Li Zhen was still moving forward, Commander Xu was startled and fired several shots at Li Zhen in succession.

This time he saw it clearly.

It wasn't that his gun was broken, nor was there a problem with the bullets; the problem lay with the other party.

No matter where his bullets hit the opponent, they will bounce off.

"Oh my god! It's a ghost!"

Commander Xu threw down his pistol, grabbed the woman, and shielded her in front of him.

"Are you a human or a ghost?!"

Peeking out from beside the woman, he looked at Li Zhen in shock.

Commander Xu, as expected of a worldly man, remained calm despite his panic and knew what he should do.

He clung tightly to the woman, preventing his shield from breaking free.

Li Zhen stood three or four meters away from the woman, glanced at her "panicked" expression, and said to her, "Is this all the White Lotus Sect has produced?"

The woman exclaimed in panic, "I don't know what you're talking about!"

Suddenly, a skeletal hand pierced through the woman's chest.

The woman let out a scream and looked down, staring blankly at the hand that had pierced her chest.

Strangely, no blood was seen flowing from the wound on her chest.

Was it done by a monk?
Seeing this, Huang Bin, terrified and with his legs trembling, kept backing away.

Startled, Chu Liu hugged Xiao Yu and backed away.

"Holy crap! That's brutal!"

Seeing the ancient claw that had almost pierced through him as well, Commander Xu broke out in a cold sweat.

He shoved the woman aside and slammed the door shut.

The woman he pushed staggered forward a step but did not fall.

Her abdomen suddenly bulged upwards and then sank back down.

A strange scream rang out, and her clothes suddenly ripped open around her abdomen, revealing her torn belly.

Its abdomen, like a man-eating flower, opened to the sides, revealing the face of a ferocious child inside.

The child's head was the same size as an unborn baby's head, and its skin was scarlet. Its lower body was embedded in the woman's abdomen, with only its head protruding.

Its mouth was full of exposed sharp teeth, and its two eyes were completely black, like two black beads, making it look extremely eerie.

The moment the baby appeared, a gust of cold wind suddenly arose in the backyard, making the doors and windows creak.

An indescribable, eerie aura enveloped the courtyard, bringing Huang Bin and the others to the peak of their fear.

Everyone regrets not having two more legs, otherwise they could run even faster.

But when they ran to the door in a panic, they found that the back gate was closed.

No matter how hard they knocked, they couldn't get the door open.

Amidst a cacophony of howls and wails, the servants ran toward the nearby courtyard wall, attempting to climb over it.

Huang Bin and Chu Liu glanced at Li Zhen, then ran towards the courtyard wall with the others.

There was a "pop" sound.

Just as the ghost inside the woman's womb screamed, the mahjong ghost's other claw stabbed at the ghost.

The woman's abdomen suddenly contracted, trapping the mahjong ghost's bone claws inside her.

The Mahjong Ghost tried to back away, but it couldn't pull out its bone claws no matter what it did.

The woman opened her mouth and let out a piercing scream.

Her abdomen was opened again.

The Mahjong Ghost was blasted away by a terrifying aura and landed right at Li Zhen's feet.

It raised its bone claw and found that several fingers were missing from its left bone claw, with clear teeth marks at the gap.

Several scarlet tentacles flew out of the woman's abdomen and stabbed straight at Li Zhen.

Suddenly, several tentacles flew out from the vampire behind Li Zhen and precisely wrapped around the tentacles.

Li Zhen turned his head and was surprised to see the ghost fetus falling off the vampire.

Even after arriving in the mission world, the ghost fetus remained in that confused state.

At that moment, as if stimulated by something, he suddenly became clear-headed.

The demon fetus opened its sharp fangs, and the eerie eyes inside opened, looking at the demonic infant in the woman's abdomen.

The tension between the two sides was further heightened, resulting in a stalemate.

Detective Li was a little surprised.

This demonic infant, as expected of an evil creature refined by the Five Ghosts Path under the mysterious and unpredictable White Lotus Sect, was able to repel the Mahjong Ghost and reach a stalemate with the ghost fetus even though it had just been born and had not eaten any blood food.

Removing the glove from his right hand, Li Zhen grasped the demon infant's tentacles with his snake-scaled palm.

A strange, malevolent aura emanated from his hands, causing the tentacles to twist and contort.

The tentacles suddenly broke off.

The woman let out a scream and crashed backward into the room.

Xu Dashuai's shouts could be heard coming from inside the room.

Li Zhen glanced at the tentacles writhing in his hand and walked towards the house.

The ghost fetus approached Li Zhen, bit the tentacle he had thrown down, and rubbed against his foot.

"Master, help me!"

The door in front of him suddenly closed, and just as Li Zhen ordered Gui Tai to ram the door, he heard Huang Bin shout.

He turned around and saw another woman appear on the other side of the backyard.

The woman's abdomen also split open with a huge gash, and she lunged at the terrified Huang and his men, her stomach growling with hunger.

Li Zhen frowned.

Five demonic infants are really a bit of a problem.

If it weren't for his many helpers, he would definitely be in a mess right now.

The imp who had captured Butler Li received instructions from Detective Li to drag Butler Li in front of the woman and throw the terrified Butler Li directly at her.

This person's original fate was to be devoured by the demonic infant; what Li Zhen is doing now is simply maintaining this person's original destiny.

The woman grabbed Butler Li with both hands, opened her abdomen to its maximum, and instantly swallowed Butler Li's head into her stomach.

Butler Li's body began to convulse continuously.

When the woman released Butler Li, he became a headless corpse and slowly fell forward.

The woman's abdomen twitched a few times, and she "vomited" a bloody skull out of her abdomen.

After that brief delay, the vampire had already reached her.

Li Zhen withdrew his gaze and walked into the room that had been pushed open by the ghost fetus.

"Master! You're a master, aren't you! Help me, master!"

Upon seeing Li Zhen enter the room, Xu Dashuai, who was carrying several books and circling around several tables, hurriedly called out.

"I have money, lots and lots of money! If you save me just once, all that money is yours!"

The woman's abdomen opened, and two tentacles reached out to grab Marshal Xu.

Commander Xu quickly and precisely threw the book in his hand into the woman's belly, and waited a moment.

No wonder he was a warlord who had been through countless deaths; even when facing a life-or-death situation, he remained remarkably calm…

(End of this chapter)