Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 127 Cursed Puppet Witch VS. The Gu-Hunting Couple
Blood gushed from Ning Daoyi's severed arm, his face was ashen, and blood and sweat soaked through the shaman's robe.

Lin Qi, the only healer in the group, hurriedly stepped forward, his hands glowing with a pale green healing light, and pressed them against the wound to stop the bleeding.

“Jiang… Jiang Jin!” Ning Daoyi gritted his teeth and looked at Jiang Jin, wishing he could devour him alive.

But he didn't dare say what came next.

Although his eyes were filled with such venomous hatred that they almost bled, what he feared most at this moment was the witch doctor hiding in the shadows—someone who could silently implant gray thread worms into his body was at least a peak LV1 insect master!
Behind Jiang Jin is a sorcerer! This is the rarest and most difficult to guard against among the top ten professions! Many people say that it's better to provoke a sorcerer or a curse master than a sorcerer!

He's just a lowly LV2 nobody; in front of witchcraft, he's nothing but a piece of cake.
He was filled with hatred, but couldn't utter a single word.

Jiang Jin said warmly, "Captain Ning, you don't need to thank me. How could I just stand by and watch you get eaten by the Gu worms?"

I freaking thank you and your whole family!

Ning Daoyi roared inwardly, if looks could kill, Jiang Jin would already be torn to pieces.

The other team members' expressions also changed. Their previous contempt for Jiang Jin completely disappeared, replaced by deep fear.

"Brother Jiang..." Liu Ning's voice trembled, "We were being ignorant just now, please don't take it to heart..."

Wang Meng immediately took two steps back, fearing that Jiang Jin's knife would strike him at any moment. Meanwhile, the girl selling handicrafts had already taken the opportunity to escape.

Jiang Jin put away the boning knife expressionlessly, but he knew in his heart that these people were not afraid of him, but of Liu Yan behind him.

The thought of Liu Yan being nearby filled Jiang Jin with joy!

Absence makes the heart grow fonder!

Next, in order to avoid the possible sorcerers lurking in the darkness, the group hurriedly took refuge in a dilapidated inn on the edge of the town.

When the proprietress saw their bloodstained appearance, she was so frightened that she almost called the police, but after Liu Ning threw a wad of cash at her and told her not to cause any trouble, she tremblingly handed over the keys.

Inside the room, Ning Daoyi slumped on the bed, his face contorted with pain from his severed arm.

Lynch was trying to ease his pain, but everyone knew that this injury could only be fully healed upon returning to the Reincarnation Camp.

"Captain, just bear with it..." Lin Qi comforted in a low voice, "We can buy limb regeneration equipment when we get back..."

"Shut up!" Ning Daoyi growled, his eyes flashing with a sinister light as he glanced at Jiang Jin standing by the window. He whispered, "I'll settle this score with you sooner or later!"

Jiang Jin scanned the night outside through the glass window. Taking advantage of the fact that no one else was looking, he took out his wedding ring and put it on, immediately sensing Liu Yan's location.

"Honey, you're finally back."

"Sorry for the long wait. Everything's taken care of. Oh, by the way, Wang Shanshan and her daughter have now automatically become reincarnators. I warned them not to reveal that they came from the [Terror Resurgence] instance."

"With you here, I feel completely at ease. So, what about the matter of you being wanted by the police?"

"No one will be after me anymore."

On the rooftop opposite the hotel.

Xia Yu crouched in the shadows, the eavesdropping earring clearly transmitting the conversation inside the room.

"...Brother Jiang, please sit here..."

"...Brother Jiang, are you tired? Let me get you a glass of water!"

"Captain, are you still in pain?" Jiang Jin's voice came: "It seems the Gu worms haven't invaded other parts of your body."

"Hmm...yes, yes...Little Jiang, thank you so much for cutting off my hand in time and stopping the Gu worms from invading my internal organs..."

Xia Yu's red lips curled up slightly.

"Heh, I didn't expect these good-for-nothings to be so close to Jiang Jin? Jiang Jin even saved their captain?" She gently stroked the cursed doll in her arms. "I was thinking that since they're from the patrol team, I shouldn't be too ruthless. But now it seems that if we deal with Jiang Jin, they'll also try to stop us. Well then... let's kill them all."

Blood Lord did not intend to cause any deaths, but he did not expect that Xia Yu was someone who did not care about human life, even had a hobby of killing, and did not consider the consequences at all.

With every gesture, Xia Yu reaps the lives of others and controls the life and death of reincarnators. He thoroughly enjoys this feeling of being high above others!
Then, she took out a silver needle and plunged it deep into the forehead of the doll in her hand!
Inside the room, Ning Daoyi suddenly widened his eyes, feeling a sharp pain on the top of his head and a strange "gurgling" sound coming from his throat.

"Team... Captain?!" Lin Qi looked at Ning Daoyi in horror.

“Curse…curse?!” Ning Daoyi struggled to get up, blood spurting from his forehead, and his whole body went limp like mud.

His skin shrank and rotted at a visible speed, turning him into a dried-up corpse in just a few seconds!
"Witchcraft! Run—" Liu Ning had just shouted when a bloody hole suddenly exploded in his chest, and an invisible needle of curse pierced through his heart!
Wang Meng turned to run, but the muscles in his legs had atrophied like withered branches and broke off!
Looking at the silver needles on the doll's head, chest, and legs in his hand, Xia Yu revealed a sinister smile.

In other words, the Bloody Team could provide her with the perfect materials to create a vessel for resentment. If she were around that useless man, constantly chanting about morality and righteousness, how could she have become so strong!

"Damn it!" Jiang Jin suddenly drew his Mourning Shotgun, and the runes on the gun instantly lit up with a scarlet light.

"Come out!" he roared.

Xia Yu took out another silver needle and inserted it into the doll's neck!
"The commander said we couldn't kill them, but I did anyway, so what?" Xia Yu continued laughing. "We were going to kill them anyway."

But the next moment, she suddenly laughed awkwardly, and the silver needles quickly began to rust and turn red! The curse had actually backfired!

[Blood Rust Gu]!
Xia Yu has also studied other professions that involve curse-type skills. No matter if it is a witch, a cursed person, or a black magic user, none of them can compare to witchcraft!
Many people mistakenly believe that anti-spirit worship, black magic, and witchcraft are the same thing, which is completely wrong!
Even at LV1, witchcraft is enough to kill someone at LV2!

"How is this possible? Witchcraft?"

She gripped the doll tightly, then sneered.

"So what if it's witchcraft? Do you think I'm afraid of it?!"

It seems that she must reveal herself in order to draw out the witchcraft.

Inside the room… apart from Jiang Jin, all the patrol members had been completely wiped out! It couldn't have been Liu Yan who did it, then…

Jiang Jin, holding the mournful cry, rushed out of the room and pressed himself against the wall.

Neither the death knell nor the mournful tolling indicated the presence of any ghosts nearby!
Jiang Jin's SAN value is normal and has no impact!

Jiang Jin communicated with Liu Yan through their wedding ring: "Liu Yan, where are you?"

"I'm down here now, I'll come meet you right away!"

Suddenly, Jiang Jin heard a woman's laughter, and then the SAN value on his watch began to drop!
Then, to his astonishment, he saw several dolls appear around the corridor!

Each doll has the same face, and looks a lot like Xiuwei from "A Tale of Two Sisters". Her lips open and close, constantly making a laughing sound!
Jiang Jin pulled the trigger and fired at the puppet!

However, no matter how many dolls were destroyed, the laughter continued!

"It's a puppeteer!" Jiang Jin gritted his teeth: "A witch reincarnator!"

Then, a woman walked out from the corridor in front of us.

“Officer Jiang,” she chuckled, though it was the puppet speaking, “your teammates… seem a bit fragile?”

Jiang Jin didn't waste any words and fired a shot!
"boom--!"

The bullets from the wailing shotgun shot out with a piercing shriek. Xia Yu suddenly raised the puppet in his hand, and an invisible barrier of curses blocked it. The bullets exploded in mid-air, bursting out a ball of phosphorescent green light.

"Is that all you've got?" Xia Yu scoffed. "Looks like you're nothing special after all—"

Her words stopped abruptly.

A slender figure appeared behind her without her noticing, and cold fingers gently touched her shoulder.

"It's none of your business to judge my man."

Liu Yan's voice reached Xia Yu's ears.

Xia Yu suddenly turned around, her red dress swirling in a sharp arc, and three silver needles shot out from her sleeves!

Liu Yan neither dodged nor avoided the silver needle, which quickly rusted and fell to the ground as scrap metal.

Xia Yu quickly distanced herself from Liu Yan.

"So you're the hidden witch doctor," Xia Yu said, becoming excited instead. "Great! Everyone says that among curse professions, witch doctor is stronger than sorcerer. I'd like to challenge that! Oh, by the way, are you two a couple?"

“Not bad. Do you want to contribute a gift? Just pay with your head.” Liu Yan smiled and gently beckoned with her fingertip.

Xia Yu suddenly groaned and looked down at her neck—a gray worm was crawling out from under her collarbone, frantically gnawing at her flesh!
“You…” She looked up in disbelief.

The doll's barrier of resentment couldn't stop the gray nematodes?

"Interesting..." She licked her lips. "Then... let's see who's more ruthless!"

She suddenly squeezed the doll in her arms and chanted a spell!
An overwhelming surge of resentment erupted, and the windows of the entire hotel shattered instantly!

Amidst the ghostly shrieks, Jiang Jin and Liu Yan stood back to back, one holding a gun and the other controlling a Gu poison.

Both of their SAN values ​​are decreasing.

"A husband and wife unite?" Xia Yu sneered. "Then let's see... who survives to the end!"

The inn's walls were cracked, the floorboards had collapsed, and countless distorted ghostly figures emerged from the dark mist—

That was formed by the resentment of Xiuwei released by Xia Yu using the cursed doll. Each ghostly figure carried Xiuwei's overwhelming hatred for her stepmother and father, roaring as it pounced on Jiang Jin and Liu Yan.

Red began to appear at the edges of Jiang Jin's vision, and a sharp ringing sounded in his ears, as if countless people were screaming in his mind.

Liu Yan's fingertips trembled slightly, and her natal Gu worm wriggled restlessly under her skin, resisting the erosion of resentment.

Jiang Jin roared and suddenly grabbed Liu Yan's right hand with his left hand, activating the Gu Blood Oath skill!
The moment their palms touched, a dark red contract pattern spread out from between their clasped fingers!

【Blood Oath】Activated!
The Blood Rust Gu were activated simultaneously, and they all emerged from the ground!
Metallic rust patterns appeared on the shells of the Gu worms, which emitted a piercing screech and pounced on the nearest ghostly figure!

"The Blood Rust Gu has evolved!" A sharp glint flashed in Liu Yan's eyes. "Now, it's our turn to fight back!"

The runes on Jiang Jin's Mourning Hunting Rifle flashed repeatedly. He pulled the trigger, and the moment the bullet left the barrel, a [Bug Explosion Bomb] carrying a dense swarm of Gu worms flew out from the muzzle!
"boom--!"

The bullet struck a ghostly figure that lunged forward, exploding instantly. Gu worms scattered like a torrential rain, attaching themselves to the ghostly figure's body and frantically gnawing at it.

The ghostly figure let out a shrill wail, its body corroded with countless holes at a visible speed, and finally dissipated!
Xia Yu's expression finally changed.

The combined skills of these two were far more terrifying than she had expected!

Although Xia Yu is ruthless and bloodthirsty, that's only towards others. She cherishes her own life very much!
She recoiled abruptly, attempting to manipulate the cursed doll to unleash even greater resentment, but it was too late—

Jiang Jin fired his shotgun continuously, each bullet carrying Liu Yan's Gu worms, forming a corrosive [Insect Bomb] that shattered the approaching ghostly figures one by one.

Liu Yan's Blood Rust Gu was even more ferocious, weaving through the red tide of ghostly figures like a tidal wave. In no time, one ghostly figure was torn to pieces, while the corrosive toxins of the Gu worms slowed down the movements of the remaining ghostly figures.

Even more terrifying is that the ghostly figures bitten by the Blood Rust Gu will bear Jiang Jin's [Hunting Curse Mark] - Jiang Jin can clearly sense the location of these marks, and his next bullet will definitely hit the curse mark accurately, causing even greater damage!

"Gentlemen, I was wrong today. I'm willing to compensate you for the crystallization of your resentment..."

Xia Yu fell silent, filled with hatred. She knew that if she could become a Level 3 Blood Sacrifice Witch, she would have no fear of the two before her! She resented Sima Jin; if it weren't for this man, she would have already reached Level 3!
But now... she has no choice but to back down!
"Die!" Jiang Jin said coldly, pulling the trigger again.

This shot was aimed straight at Xia Yu's forehead!
(End of this chapter)