The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 209 The Arrival of "The Curse" (Part 2)
The woman had short hair that didn't reach her shoulders. She looked to be in her thirties, with a haggard expression. She was slumped on the side of the sofa, holding her head in her hands, and looked to be in great pain.

Li Zhen looked down at the runes on his arm.

Lines of golden words appeared in front of Li Zhen.

[Lin Jiabi suddenly felt a splitting headache and prayed to the gods and Buddhas for protection. She was unaware that a terrible malice had descended and was about to cruelly kill her newborn son. In the end, the malice would not let her go either. Please protect the innocent Lin Jiabi and her son, and resolve the source of the malice within seven days.]

This mission is a bit special.

Previously, the summoning would only be initiated after someone noticed something strange happening, thus triggering the runes.

But before things had even progressed to that point, the rune sent Li Zhen over...

These are details that do not affect the overall situation.

Li Zhen's gaze shifted back to the beginning of those words.

Upon seeing the distinctive name "Lin Jiabi," Li Zhen immediately understood where he had arrived.

After reading the mission description, Li Zhen understood where he was and how far things had progressed.

It was raining heavily outside the window.

A glass door suddenly shattered for no apparent reason, attracting Li Zhen's attention.

Li Zhen glanced in that direction, then closed his eyes, sensed the area, and walked directly into another room in the house.

Vampires and banshees followed behind Li Zhen.

The woman named Lin Jiabi was so tormented by the sudden, intense pain that she was in a daze and hadn't noticed Li Zhen and the vampire.

After Li Zhen and the vampire went in that direction and made a commotion, Lin Jiabi finally noticed these uninvited guests.

She managed to lift her head, and upon seeing Li Zhen, her pupils contracted in fright. She screamed, "You...who are you? Are you a person or...a ghost? How did you get into my house?"

Li Zhen did not answer.

He pushed open the door and went into a nursery.

A baby, perhaps only a few months old, was sleeping soundly in a crib in the room. However, the baby seemed to be feeling unwell, occasionally squirming in the crib before suddenly crying.

"What...are you going to do?!" Seeing Li Zhen enter the nursery, Lin Jiabi's face turned extremely anxious, and she crawled towards the room on all fours.

Even with a severe headache, she managed to maintain her composure.

She knew her husband was a police officer who was busy with cases and had a bad temper, which offended many people. So she subconsciously assumed that Detective Li was the criminal who broke into the room.

Now that the thug has gone into her son's room, she is naturally anxious.

"I have...I have money! I'll give it to you! Whatever you want, I can give you..."

Crawling to the door, Lin Jiabi, whose consciousness was momentarily blurred by the excruciating pain, leaned on the door and barely managed to get up from the ground. It took her a while to feel a little better.

Hearing her son's cries grow louder, she became even more anxious. Looking up, she saw that Li Zhen had plunged a small knife into her son's forehead.

Bright red blood flowed from between his eyebrows, staining his tender face with blood.

Lin Jiabi's vision went black, and she collapsed to the ground, crawling towards Li Zhen without regard for anything else, screaming desperately, "What are you doing! Let him go! It has nothing to do with him... it has nothing to do with him, if you have any problems, come to me... come to me, you beast!"

The succubus stepped forward to block Lin Jiabi's path, her arms outstretched. Although she didn't touch Lin Jiabi, she pinned her to the ground, rendering her completely immobile.

In her frantic state, Lin Jiabi was oblivious to the anomaly. She stared intently at Li Zhen, her words shifting from curses to pleas: "Let him go! Please...please! Let him go! He's only a few months old, nothing...has anything to do with him! Come to me if you need anything! I'll agree to anything!"

Sheathing his knife, Li Zhen said to Lin Jiabi, "I'm saving him. If I don't intervene, he'll die soon."

Lin Jiabi clearly didn't listen to these words and continued to plead.

Under Li Zhen's will, the banshee's arms slowly pressed down, and Lin Jiabi's body was completely pressed to the ground, her mouth opening only to utter some meaningless sounds.

“Someone is casting a spell to harm you, but you won’t die for now. Your son will die now.” Li Zhen’s voice was very unpleasant, with a heavy “breathy” sound, as if air was leaking from his throat.

He coughed twice to clear the obstruction in his throat, and finally said, "I... will try to save your son."

Li Zhen took out several prepared straws from behind the vampire.

As he took it, some blood stained the straw.

Ignoring these details, Li Zhen quickly shaped the straw into a human figure, then took out paper and pen, wrote his birth date and time on a piece of paper, and pasted it onto the straw figure.

As he chanted incantations, he smeared the blood he had taken from the baby's forehead onto the straw figure, and then plucked a few fine, soft hairs from the baby's head and inserted them into the straw figure.

Li Zhen placed the straw figure on the crib and then drew a talisman on the straw figure and the baby with his finger.

After circling the crib with special steps, Li Zhen used a strip of cloth stained with the baby's blood to tie the baby's hand to the straw figure.

Li Zhen muttered incantations for a while, and then he saw a wound suddenly appear on the baby's face, as if someone had cut the baby's face.

The baby's cries became even more piercing.

Upon hearing this sound, Lin Jiabi, who was being pressed to the ground, struggled frantically, making continuous whimpering sounds.

Li Zhen remained unmoved, watching the baby's changes.

Upon seeing the baby, he sensed the evil aura emanating from it, knowing that the baby had been afflicted by some terrifying curse.

The opponent in this descent was rather special; it was a weak infant, not an adult, so naturally, the same rough treatment one would give an adult would have.

Li Zhen's appearance was also quite coincidental. He didn't have much time to prepare, so he used the simplest and most foolproof method to break the curse: he used a combination of spells to transfer the curse from the baby to the straw doll.

If the straw man can't withstand it, the curse will transfer to Li Zhen and torment him.

Given Li Zhen's powerful evil nature, even if he forcibly endures this curse, the other party cannot kill him.

The baby only had one wound, but the next wound appeared on the straw man, almost severing its head.

Li Zhen breathed a sigh of relief.

This method of transference is actually not complicated. It is based on the minor technique of concealing one's fate, with the addition of several other minor techniques.

The sorcerer who performed the curse obviously hadn't mastered the art to its peak; he must have come here to retrieve some of the baby's belongings before casting the curse.

The sorcery was traced back to the baby through those things.

So the only way to fool the sorcerer is to conceal the baby's own scent and use a straw doll that carries the baby's scent to deceive the sorcerer.

Li Zhen's skill in using black magic has reached an extremely high level. At this level, his perspective on black magic is naturally different from before, and he has different ideas for breaking black magic. Even when he casually casts a spell, he can achieve extraordinary results.

This is what establishes his terrifying strength. Even if someone else could cast these spells, they wouldn't be able to stop that sorcerer.

Several more wounds appeared on the straw man's body.

Li Zhen glanced at Lin Jiabi on the ground.

If he remembered correctly, this should be a movie world called "The Curse".

As the name suggests, the core of this movie is the bloody, cruel, and mysterious practice of black magic.

Like the case of Gu, which Li Zhen experienced, the plot of Jiang Tou is not complicated, and is even somewhat clichéd. It is also related to seducing women in Southeast Asia.

Lin Jiabi's husband is a police officer named Zhang Lemin. While he was in Southeast Asia tracking down a wanted criminal named Lin Chao, he met a pole dancer at a nightclub and developed feelings for her.

After the two had sex, Cheung Lok-man promised to return to Southeast Asia to pick up the woman, but he disappeared after returning to Hong Kong Island.

Years later, the dancer committed suicide.

A bar worker named Novan had a crush on a dancer. After witnessing her despair and suicide, he vowed revenge. He changed his name, went to Hong Kong Island, and cast a curse on Cheung Lok-man's family.

At this time, not only Zhang Lemin's wife and son were cursed, but a police officer was also cursed and killed in the rainy night; his body was hung from a tree.

Police officers, including Zhang Lewen, suspected that the officer's murder was related to Lin Chao, a wanted criminal they had been tracking, and focused their pursuit on Lin Chao after the incident.

A veteran detective pointed out the possibility that the case was related to sorcerers.

However, Zhang Lemin, who had never met a sorcerer or encountered sorcery, was skeptical.

When he returned home, he found that his newborn son had been brutally murdered, and his wife was showing symptoms of being cursed. Only then did he believe that both cases were related to a sorcerer.

Zhang Lemin took his wife to see a Tantric master, hoping the master could remove the curse from his wife.

The master helped Lin Jiabi break free from the curse, but told Zhang Lemin that the sorcerer had practiced one of the most evil and terrifying curses, the Flying Head Curse, which even he was powerless to remove.

The plot of this movie is not only somewhat similar to "Gu", but its structure is also somewhat similar to "Ten Evil Arts of Southeast Asia". However, the bloody scenes in it are very bold and are no less than those in "Gu". The horror atmosphere is well created.

What Li Zhen remembers most vividly is the act of killing infants in the movie.

Now that he's here, Zhang Lemin's wife and daughters are naturally not going to die.

The scarecrow was covered in wounds, and the tiny creature, unable to withstand the damage, crumbled into a small, messy pile of straw.

Li Zhen immediately reached out and placed his hand on the straw and the baby's palm.

The next moment, he felt a pain on his neck, followed by a warm liquid flowing down from there. It was itchy, making Li Zhen want to scratch it.

But before he could even scratch himself, a dense network of wounds appeared on his face, forehead, neck, chest, and arms.

Li Zhen looked down at his arms and saw only a pair of pitted, white bones covered with huge sores.

Above the bones, the fascia, muscles, fat, and skin are clearly visible, with only about half of the area covered by flesh.

He couldn't even tell whether he was in a state of decay or in a state of physical regeneration.

One can infer the shape of his entire body from his arms.

To put it bluntly, he is no different from the evil spirit that crawled out of the graveyard just now, and is even more terrifying than the evil spirit.

Seeing him like this, Lin Jiabi still dared to follow him in, which shows how deep her feelings for her son are.

Without a sound, several more huge wounds appeared on Li Zhen's arms, making them a bloody mess.

It only looked scary at first, not as bloody as it is now...

Coincidentally, Li Zhen is currently in the physical regeneration phase of his rebirth.

Those wounds healed rapidly as soon as they appeared.

If you look closely, you can see that new flesh is growing on the wounds on his arms.

Although the speed was slow, it never stopped.

If he had remained buried in that village, taking advantage of its unique environment, this period of physical regeneration would have been much shorter.

In the current environment, if he doesn't seek out a special environment, this process could take a considerable amount of time.

Li Zhen's right hand, which was pressing on the baby's palm, trembled slightly.

He looked up and peered through the dark window, vaguely seeing a young man with a face full of pockmarks.

The young man knelt before an altar filled with various insects, waving his arms and rapidly performing a curse.

Just as Li Zhen saw the man's face, the man also sensed it and looked up at Li Zhen.

The next moment, the blurry image vanished without a trace.

Several more wounds appeared on Li Zhen's body.

A strange "squeaking" sound emanated from his body, and a powerful evil aura slowly spread from him to those around him.

At one point, Li Zhen suddenly opened his mouth and spat out a centipede.

The centipede struggled and writhed a few times before dying as soon as it hit the ground.

Li Zhen opened his mouth again, but nothing came out. However, he could see a centipede struggling to crawl in through his "damaged" throat.

Extending his right hand, Li Zhen inserted two fingers into his throat, forcefully pulling the centipede out and stomping it to death on the ground.

……

Inside a dark room.

A young man kneeling on the ground lowered his head and suddenly coughed several times in succession.

He reached out and covered his mouth.

A large amount of blood flowed from between his fingers.

But the man's face, covered in pockmarks, showed no fear; instead, he became even more frenzied.

He reached out, picked up a piece of yellow paper covered in talismans, waved it dramatically a few times on the altar, and uttered a few eerie incantations…

(End of this chapter)