Weird Cards: I've Become a Ghost

"Pfft!"

A blade formed from flesh and blood pierced the eerie body, pinning it to the ground.

Xiao He's eyes narrowed, and his right arm, which had transformed into a sharp blade of flesh and blood, suddenly exerted its power, twisting sharply to cut the strange creature in front of him in half.

The bizarre creature, severed in two, struggled desperately on the ground, weakly flailing its remaining tentacles, while its iridescent eyes gradually dimmed.

This happened almost instantly, filling the woman's face with fear, despair, and regret.

She knew very well that she would be the next one to fall.

"No......"

However, before the woman could beg for mercy or before Xiao He could lay a hand on her, her face suddenly aged rapidly, and her body began to wither at a visible speed. Soon she curled up on the ground and became a dried corpse. Finally, after a gust of wind blew by, the dried corpse turned into dust.

This strange scene caused Xiao He to frown suddenly.

"What's going on?"

This time it was his turn to be confused.

He originally thought that the monster he had just killed was just an appetizer, and that the woman who kept monsters as pets was the main course.

But who would have thought that before he could even make a move, the other party would actually... hang up on their own?

"Could I have been mistaken?"

Xiao He frowned as he looked at the ashes that had turned into the pile of the woman's corpse on the ground, and then glanced at the strange corpse that had already lost all its life force.

Perhaps this strangeness is the key, and the woman is just a tool for the other party?

"That seems to make sense."

Xiao He somewhat agreed with the guess that subconsciously arose in his mind.

Because this strange creature seems to be related to plants, and as we all know, ordinary plants only grow in one place, relying on the nutrients in the soil, the moisture from the rain and the energy from the sun to feed.

The strange creature in front of them clearly didn't eat these things, and Xiao He had already guessed what it ate.

As for why the woman died after the strange creature, Xiao He thought for a moment and concluded that the woman and the strange creature must have established some kind of symbiotic relationship, sharing life and death.

"What a pity, tonight's harvest will have to be halved."

Xiao He sighed.

Meanwhile, the bizarre corpse on the ground is gradually reverting to a pile of rotting petals and leaves.

Seeing this, Xiao He did not rush forward to turn the other party into a card. Instead, he slowly walked to the pile of women turned into dust and once again extended his flesh-and-blood blade to pierce through a flowerpot that had been overturned on the ground.

"Clatter"

Under Xiao He's sharp blade, the ordinary flowerpot shattered instantly.

When Xiao He sheathed the flesh-and-blood blade, one could see that a walnut-sized object, resembling a seed, was pierced through the sharp tip.

This thing was covered in tentacles just like the dead monster, but because they were so small, they looked more like whiskers than tentacles.

And this thing is the true form of that strange creature.

next second.

With a flash of black light, the strange seed transformed into a card shrouded in black energy, appearing on Xiao He's right palm, which had now returned to its normal shape.

Seeds of Blood Flower

Category: Ghostly Objects

Rating: One Star

Quality: Normal

Ability: It grows by consuming flesh and blood, and can revive corpses buried underground for a long time.

Side effects: The resurrected corpse must be buried underground for decades and must not rot. After the corpse is resurrected, it will lose everything it had in life, including its memories and abilities. The resurrected corpse will form a master-servant symbiotic relationship with the Blood Flower Seed. Once the Blood Flower Seed dies, the resurrected corpse will also turn to ashes.

Note: The Blood Flower Seed's ability to revive corpses is not as simple as it seems on the surface; sometimes, the resurrection of the dead is not a good thing.

"Resurrecting corpses?"

When Xiao He saw the word "resurrection," he was immediately stunned.

He got his hands on something that could be related to "resurrection" so easily?

However, after reading the side effects and notes of the Blood Flower Seed, Xiao He instantly realized that this strange object that could resurrect the dead might just be a useless trinket.

The resurrected person will lose all their memories and abilities from their previous life. This alone makes it impossible for this thing to resurrect some dead scholars or martial artists.

Even if we successfully resurrect a person, perhaps what we resurrect is just a soulless body.

Besides, burying people underground for decades before resurrecting them is just a joke. You might die before you even get to resurrect the deceased.

After all, in this era rife with strange occurrences, no one can guarantee that they will live a peaceful and stable life until old age.

Therefore, after thinking it over, Xiao He immediately made an evaluation of the spoils he had gained that night.

"It's completely useless."

Xiao He shook his head.

Putting aside the fact that he has no one in this world he wants to resurrect, the fact that it requires flesh and blood to sustain him is enough to make him give up on this thing.

Although this thing is not very useful, it is still a one-star monster. If you use it as a sacrifice to try your luck, you might be able to draw some useful monster.

With this thought in mind, Xiao He's hand shattered instantly, turning into a cloud of black mist. Then, as the black mist disappeared, the Blood Flower Seed, now a card, reappeared in his hand.

After that, Xiao He gently tossed the blood flower seed back into the broken flowerpot.

He did not choose to sacrifice the strange object because he would need it later.

After doing all this, Xiao He looked at the mess in the shop, and out of sight, out of mind, casually pulled out a stool from the side and sat down as if nothing had happened.

"They should be here soon."

Xiao He looked at the flower shop's door, a strange look flashing in his eyes.

......

Meanwhile, a few minutes earlier.

Inside a room in an old building not far from the flower shop.

"The fluctuations of the strange power have reached their initial limit..."

Looking at the numbers on the screen, a staff member said in a low voice, "The strange creature inside the flower shop can be temporarily identified as being in the first-tier category."

"There are still at least a few buildings near the flower shop where residents haven't been completely evacuated!" At this moment, another staff member said, sounding slightly anxious. He turned to the middle-aged man beside him: "Team leader, it will take some time for reinforcements to arrive. What should we do now?"

Inside the room, the middle-aged man, who was the leader of the patrol team, looked extremely grim. Beside him, the young male patrolman named Xiao Wang and the short-haired female patrolman named Xiao Wen also looked somber.

Although the chances of encountering something strange during an investigation are not very high, if you do encounter it, it can be quite troublesome.

Even though the patrol team isn't specifically designed to deal with the supernatural, as one of the alliance's organizational units, once they encounter something supernatural, the patrol team members must put aside their work and do their utmost to protect the lives and property of the alliance's citizens, and use their limited resources to hold off the supernatural until reinforcements arrive.

For this reason, although the patrol team is not an organization specifically for dealing with the supernatural, it is always equipped with some instruments for detecting supernatural forces and a few weapons for dealing with the supernatural, such as the most basic weapon in the alliance for dealing with the supernatural - dumdum bullets.

However, only the patrol team members involved in this operation possessed dumdum bullets, while the patrol team members responsible for assisting in the operation were only equipped with ordinary weapons.

Moreover, not every patrol member is skilled in hand-to-hand combat. Although they are equipped with dumdum bullets that can damage the supernatural, no patrol member would be willing to take up a gun and "communicate" with the supernatural face-to-face unless their own life is truly in danger.

Although the Alliance has regulations, the patrol teams' usual practice is to evacuate the surrounding crowds, and then just wait for a while until the arrival of the Alliance's special operations team, which specializes in dealing with strange things.

After all, evacuating the crowd is also a way to protect the lives and property of citizens.

Since becoming the deputy captain of the Binhai City patrol team, the middle-aged man has encountered strange attacks during patrol missions. However, the special operations team always arrives in a short time, and he only needs to lead his men to evacuate the surrounding crowd, which is an easy and safe task.

But this time, the situation is different.

Although more than half a month has passed since the mysterious fog incident, the special operations team suffered heavy losses in the incident, which has led to a severe shortage of manpower in the Binhai City special operations team.

Although the leaders of Binhai City had urgently transferred some special operations teams from other cities to provide support, in this era of scarcity, the number of special operations team members in each city was actually very limited, and it was impossible to transfer many people over.

This resulted in the special operations team that the middle-aged man had been waiting for not showing up for a long time.

With that thought in mind, the middle-aged man took a deep breath and finally made a decision.

"Collect the dumdum bullets from the team's technicians and hand them over to Xiao Wang. Then, Xiao Wang will take a few skilled men to hold off the monster in the flower shop and kill it inside. Don't let it escape. Once reinforcements arrive, you can retreat."

"receive."

Upon hearing the middle-aged man's order, Xiao Wang did not show any fear or desire to refuse. Instead, he looked at the middle-aged man with a firm gaze and gave him a standard military salute.

Xiao Wang understood the middle-aged man's actions. After all, among the patrol team members involved in this operation, he was the strongest, at the peak of Ming Jin in martial arts, and almost touching the threshold of An Jin in martial arts.

Moreover, Xiao Wang hadn't lied before; he had indeed passed the Alliance Inspector exam through his own abilities, not through his uncle, the middle-aged man who was a mid-level inspector.

"Report, I request to join Wang Hao's operation."

At this moment, the short-haired woman named Xiaowen reached out and spoke, her face full of determination.

The Wang Hao she mentioned was the patrol officer known as Xiao Wang.

Hearing this, the middle-aged man did not refuse, but looked at her and nodded, saying, "Okay, then Xiao Wang and Xiao Wen will lead the team to carry out this operation."

The middle-aged man did not refuse Xiaowen's request to participate in such a dangerous mission, because Xiaowen's martial arts skills were comparable to Xiao Wang's.

The middle-aged man watched the two figures disappear into the distance and couldn't help but sigh.

One was his own nephew, and the other was his most trusted subordinate. If he hadn't been forced to, he certainly wouldn't have arranged for the two of them to participate in such a dangerous operation.

"Sigh, I don't know why the league has such a rule."

The Alliance’s newly enacted law explicitly states that, unless faced with dire circumstances, patrol officers’ dumdum bullets must never be handed over to ordinary patrol officers.

This is why the middle-aged man, despite being able to hand the dumdum bullets to the patrol team members assisting him, did not.

In truth, the middle-aged man knew very well that, although some things couldn't be said openly, everyone knew behind his back that the lives of patrol officers were far more precious than those of regular patrol officers. This wasn't just because training a patrol officer cost many times more than training a patrol team, but also because there was another reason...

However, just then, the middle-aged man, who was deep in thought, was suddenly interrupted by this tense voice.

"Report! The system has detected a new, eerie energy fluctuation, also emanating from the flower shop..." The staff member, who had been intently watching the display, suddenly shouted, his hands flying across the keyboard: "Moreover, this new, eerie energy fluctuation has also reached its initial limit, and even..."

"Even higher than the limit of the strange power fluctuation that appeared before."

Looking at the ever-increasing data, the staff members looked rather grim.

At the same time, all the staff in the room widened their eyes, revealing expressions of tension, fear, and unease.

"What?"

The middle-aged man immediately gasped.

Two strange things appearing in one place?

Even if they are only two first-tier monsters, with their current strength, let alone two monsters, even if there is only one first-tier monster, it would be enough to keep them here forever.

Thinking this, the middle-aged man hurriedly picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted, "Wang Hao, Qian Wen, cancel the operation immediately! Wang Hao, Qian Wen, do you hear me? Cancel the operation!"

However, all he got in response from the walkie-talkie was a buzzing electrical sound.

"laugh......"

The next moment, the images on the monitors in front of all the staff in the room suddenly disappeared.

"Report: The shockwave from the collision of two strange forces has severely affected nearby signals. Our equipment hasn't been replaced yet, so it's temporarily unusable."

Upon hearing the technician's words, the middle-aged man's mood instantly sank to the bottom.