Playing with fantasy beasts in the martial arts world

Chapter 157 The Bats That Fly Back from Hell

Lu Xiaofeng and Lian Ni Chang did not react.

They were not originally from this world, and had only been here for a short time, so of course they had no idea who the Bat Prince was.

Although Bat Prince Yuan Suiyun was one of the most troublesome opponents Chu Liuxiang had ever encountered, and even if Jin Lingzhi had not betrayed him at the last minute, Chu Liuxiang and Hu Tiehua might not have been able to escape Bat Island.

However, even if he has some fame in the myriad worlds, it certainly doesn't spread far enough.

"I'm just guessing, I'm not sure!"

"Young Master Bat, Yuan Suiyun, was originally the master of Wuzheng Manor. He was proficient in the unique skills of multiple sects, and his talent and martial arts were unparalleled in the world. Of course... he was eventually defeated by Chu Liuxiang and fell into the sea, whereabouts unknown."

"If it really is him, then I think we can be sure who he's working for now!"

"However, given his personality, how could he possibly obey King Shi?" Cha Nan wondered.

If there is any possibility that the righteous geniuses might join forces, then...

So, most of the villainous big bosses are "kings who don't meet", after all, everyone wants to dominate the martial arts world, and two or more ambitious people getting together will definitely not be mutually respectful.

Of course, if an extremely powerful force could forcibly unite them together, that would not be impossible, but it would have to be a sufficiently powerful and influential court, not a group of pirates.

“I think the reason is this!” Lian Ni Chang pointed to the forehead of the person who resembled the Bat Prince.

The lightning scorched his skin and burned a large amount of his hair.

Among the charred hair, there was an iron hoop with steel nails, firmly nailed to the top of his head and embedded in his skull, a corner of which had been chipped off by the lightning.

"What is this?" Cha Nan tapped the iron hoop, and the unconscious figure twitched a few times, clearly still alive.

"I don't know, but it's probably some kind of evil thing that controls people!" Lu Xiaofeng said, frowning. He was very disgusted by such things.

"Stop talking nonsense! The ship is sinking, let's get over there first!" Lian Ni Chang said, and then leaped towards the strange black ship that was once again moving with the whirlpool waves.

Cha Nan followed closely behind.

"Hey! Wait for me... Are you guys really that disloyal?" Lu Xiaofeng grabbed Yuan Suiyun and arrived first, landing on the deck of the black ship before Cha Nan.

On the strange black ship, some figures dressed in black cloaks and raincoats were busy at work, completely ignoring Cha Nan and the others who had jumped aboard.

Lu Xiaofeng reached out and grabbed a person who was scooping water out, but the moment he grasped the person's wrist, Lu Xiaofeng's expression changed and he immediately let go.

"What's wrong?" Cha Nan asked.

“Not a living person!” Lu Xiaofeng replied.

"A mechanical puppet?"

"No...it's not a corpse without a pulse, without body temperature, without a heartbeat, but these corpses are still moving, still steering the ship...could this be a ghost ship?" Lu Xiaofeng's voice didn't contain fear, but rather a strange...excitement.

He seemed very interested and full of energy.

Then his gaze shifted between Cha Nan and Lian Ni Chang, constantly moving back and forth between the two.

Finally, they firmly identified Cha Nan as the suspect.

"Was it you?!" Lu Xiaofeng asked decisively.

Cha Nan looked completely bewildered by the question: "What? Is it me?"

"Still pretending! Was all of this... orchestrated by you?"

"In fact, you are the owner of this ship, and you are the one who used evil magic to control these corpses... and this person too!" Lu Xiaofeng had no evidence, only speculation, but he spoke with great confidence. "No evil magic can be cast from too far away, so the person controlling these corpses must be nearby."

“And you… are very close to them!” Lu Xiaofeng offered a seemingly plausible reason.

Cha Nan now knows what's wrong with Lu Xiaofeng!

He developed PTSD from being schemed against by his friends too many times.

Therefore, if anything strange or inexplicable happens around him, he will first look at his friends to see if they are the masterminds behind it all.

"Nonsense!" Cha Nan ignored Lu Xiaofeng's paranoia and lifted the cloak off a passing 'crewman'.

Amidst the torrential rain and howling wind, accompanied by a flash of lightning, Cha Nan saw a corpse emitting a faint blue light, lifelike despite being dead.

The corpse glanced at Cha Nan with its pale pupils, expressionless, and then continued its work.

"Gu poison? Evil magic? Demonic arts?" Cha Nan was completely clueless.

Swish!
Lian Ni Chang drew her longsword and sliced ​​through the corpse of a crew member.

The corpse split open, turning into ice shards scattered on the ground. These ice shards were then washed away by the torrential rain, melting into the water and disappearing without a trace.

“It’s not Gu poison; it’s probably the effect of some kind of evil technique, or perhaps a specially made poison,” Lian Ni Chang concluded.

However, for a time, none of the three had any clue.

“Perhaps we should ask him!” Lu Xiaofeng said, pointing to the unconscious Yuan Suiyun.

He had just pressed several acupoints on Yuan Suiyun's body and also fed him a healing pill.

Under the impact of the torrential rain, Yuan Suiyun's eyelids seemed to twitch slightly a few times, as if he was about to wake up, but he did not move.

He is blind, so he cannot tell from his pupils whether he is truly awake or pretending to be unconscious.

"Who is controlling you?"

"Is it King Shi?"

"If you were still the Bat Prince I know, you certainly wouldn't be willing to become a puppet controlled by others!" Cha Nan tried to use his persuasive skills.

However, the effect was zero.

“If you wake up and don’t answer us, I’ll throw you into the sea right now!” Lu Xiaofeng said, grabbing Yuan Suiyun’s collar to show he wasn’t joking.

"Ahem... I originally thought that since you are Chu Liuxiang's friends, you should at least have some of his manners."

"But now it seems that you and Hu Tiehua are all cut from the same cloth!" Yuan Suiyun knew how to be sarcastic. He not only offended the three people present with one sentence, but also slapped Hu Tiehua from afar.

He certainly had reason to resent Hu Tiehua.

If Hu Tiehua hadn't won Jin Lingzhi's heart and led her to switch sides, it would have been difficult to say who would have won in his duel with Chu Liuxiang.

"How do you know we're on Chu Liuxiang's side?"

"Do you have a spy in Jade Sword Manor?"

"Moreover, he holds a very high position, otherwise he wouldn't know so much." Lu Xiaofeng was indeed very clever; Yuan Suiyun had only said a few words, yet he had already obtained quite a few clues.

Without letting emotions cloud his judgment, Lu Xiaofeng was indeed a renowned detective in the martial arts world, not a helpless corpse collector in the end.

(End of this chapter)