Corpse Spot Ghost! Infected Corpses

Corpse Spot Ghost! Infected Corpses

Although there was no one around,

Chen Yu could sense quite a few breaths!

Clearly, many people were lying in wait here!

Heavily guarded indeed!

Ordinary people would definitely have sneaked in, but Chen Yu strode out openly and headed straight for the entrance.

However, the heavily armed guards hidden around had already received their orders.

They did not step forward to stop Chen Yu.

Chen Yu reached the entrance and pushed aside several leaves.

According to the Investigation Bureau's information, the control switch was here.

A headset was hanging above the switch.

There was a label stuck on the headset—

[Mr. Nightfall, please put this on.]

Chen Yu snorted with laughter. They had made it rather mysterious.

It seemed the Investigation Bureau knew he did not want to reveal himself, so they had dismissed the people guarding this place and planned to contact him through the headset.

All of this had been arranged by Luo Mu.

The first time the Investigation Bureau had sent Zhou Chu to receive Nightfall, he had realized that Nightfall did not want to expose his identity. That was why this situation had come about today.

After Chen Yu put on the headset, a respectful voice came through.

[Hello, Mr. Nightfall. I am an investigator from the Investigation Bureau. Since we learned that you successfully resolved the anomaly, our Investigation Bureau is fulfilling its promise by telling you the location of our storage vault. You may enter and freely choose one item you like.]

[The key code in your phone message is the key to opening this hidden door. You only need to enter the code we gave you into the control switch to successfully enter the vault.]

The speaker was none other than Luo Mu of the Investigation Bureau.

However, Luo Mu did not recognize Chen Yu.

Why did this voice sound so familiar?

Chen Yu felt as though he had heard this voice somewhere before.

But he did not dwell on it and simply said, "Alright, thank you."

Chen Yu entered the key code given to him by the Investigation Bureau.

After a dull boom, the soil on the hillside shook loose and fell away.

A heavy door forged from gold slowly opened!

The interior was brightly lit and far more spacious than it appeared.

After Chen Yu entered, the golden door of the Anomaly Vault slowly closed.

Ahead of him stood another golden door. This one clearly was no ordinary door; even the walls surrounding it were made of gold.

Clearly, the true vault lay beyond this door!

Sealed by gold, nothing inside could get out!

At that moment, an elderly man stood ramrod straight before the golden door.

The old man said nothing and merely stared silently at Chen Yu.

"Hello there, sir."

Chen Yu took the initiative to greet him.

Yet the old man was like a wooden puppet. He did not move, and there was not the slightest expression on his face. He was practically a male version of Tong Jian.

Just then, Luo Mu's voice sounded again through the headset.

[This is our Investigation Bureau's Anomaly Vault, the most important central location of the bureau. Many anomalies are sealed inside, such as a Level 5 Anomaly Light Bulb and a Level 6 Anomaly Teapot...]

Luo Mu continued introducing the place.

After responding, Chen Yu approached the gold-forged door.

The door opened automatically.

Chen Yu walked down.

It was a resplendent golden space!

Everything around him was made of gold.

Whether tables, chairs, or ornaments, everything was gold.

Several shelves even held numerous golden treasure chests.

All sorts of strange patterns were carved onto the chests.

Although Chen Yu could not understand them, those patterns had some effect on the anomalies within him.

"There's an extremely unusual aura in these patterns."

Chen Yu muttered to himself.

[Anomalies are sealed inside these golden treasure chests. You may approach them and sense their anomalous aura.]

Luo Mu relayed the message to Chen Yu.

Chen Yu tried approaching one to sense it.

A strange aura rushed toward him.

"A Level 2 anomaly?"

Chen Yu said.

[How did you know that?]

Luo Mu had only wanted Chen Yu to feel the anomalous aura. How had Chen Yu directly identified the anomaly's level?

"I can sense it."

Chen Yu replied calmly.

This made Luo Mu admire Chen Yu even more.

[You surely have no interest in these anomalies, Mr. Nightfall. Please proceed to the final two golden treasure chests.]

Luo Mu explained, then guided Chen Yu toward the final two golden treasure chests.

These two chests were obviously extraordinary. Not only were they a full size larger than the others, but their auras were far more powerful.

[Two powerful anomalies are sealed in these chests. One is a Level 6 Anomaly Earphone.]

[The other is a Level 5 Ghost Light Bulb.]

Luo Mu looked proud. [These two anomalies were sealed by our Investigation Bureau after immense hardship. But because Mr. Nightfall has helped us so greatly, you may choose between these two anomalies.]

[Putting their anomaly levels aside, both have extremely high potential grades: five stars!]

The Investigation Bureau was immensely proud of being able to seal a Level 6 anomaly.

Thus, these two anomalies had been treated as the treasures of the Linjiang City Investigation Bureau.

In Luo Mu's view, Chen Yu would surely be shocked upon hearing this.

Yet Chen Yu's face remained expressionless, and he even looked disdainful.

"Level 6? It's passable, I suppose."

Chen Yu had thought he might find some valuable treasure in the Investigation Bureau's vault.

But after looking around, only the anomalies in these two chests had the strongest auras.

To be honest, Chen Yu truly did not care much about a Level 6 anomaly with five-star potential.

He did not care for low-potential ones at all.

For him, raising their levels was only a matter of time.

Potential grade, however, could not be increased.

Just as he was about to choose one,

Chen Yu tried expanding the Slaughter Ghost Domain.

After expanding the Ghost Domain, he could see more clearly.

It would have been better if he had not expanded it.

The moment he did, he discovered something unusual!

After the Slaughter Ghost Domain was deployed, the entire world became a black-and-white landscape.

Even Chen Yu's body was black and white, making him look like an undeveloped photograph taken by an old camera.

Even gold could not withstand the black-and-white overlay, becoming a glowing patch of black and white.

Yet within the Investigation Bureau's vault lay a piece of clothing.

The garment was jet-black, with red, white, and yellow patterns, and the character "longevity" was printed on it.

Its design resembled an ancient Funeral Shroud.

Chen Yu immediately frowned.

The whole world had turned black and white.

Why did this Funeral Shroud still have color?

Could something be wrong with his Ghost Domain?

Chen Yu tried sensing the Funeral Shroud's aura.

Yet he found nothing unusual.

He withdrew his Ghost Domain, knowing every one of his actions was being monitored by the Investigation Bureau.

Pointing at the Funeral Shroud in the corner, he asked, "What is the origin of this clothing? What is special about it? Why is it kept in the Investigation Bureau's vault?"

[This is a Funeral Shroud. One of our Investigation Bureau's investigators obtained it by chance.]

[We do not know where exactly it came from, but from time to time, an anomalous aura drifts out of the Funeral Shroud.]

[Therefore, it is only suspected to be an anomaly. We do not know whether it truly is one.]

[The Funeral Shroud has been in the Investigation Bureau's vault for a long time, and it has never shown any activity.]

Seeing Chen Yu point at an ordinary-looking Funeral Shroud under the surveillance cameras, Luo Mu casually explained.

This Funeral Shroud looked like an ordinary Funeral Shroud.

The vault's administrator had even called before to ask whether they could throw it away.

Chen Yu raised an eyebrow, then said, "Then I'll take this one."

Luo Mu was dumbfounded when he saw Chen Yu choosing this instead of the Level 6 anomaly.

[Mr. Nightfall, are you sure? This may only be an ordinary Funeral Shroud.]

"It's fine. This is what I want."

After thinking for a moment, Luo Mu spoke with the Director to see whether they could give the clothing to Chen Yu.

In order to win Chen Yu's favor, the Director immediately nodded in agreement.

It was a wonderful thing that Chen Yu had taken a liking to a useless piece of clothing.

Giving it to him outright and turning it into a favor would be perfect!

Who would have thought even trash could be useful!

After receiving permission, Luo Mu hurriedly said, [How about this, Mr. Nightfall? Since you like this clothing so much, we'll give it to you as a complimentary gift, as a gesture of friendship.]

"Alright, then thank you."

Chen Yu did not stand on ceremony. If he refused something offered for free, would that not make him an idiot?

In the end, Chen Yu took the Funeral Shroud and chose the Anomaly Earphone.

Since the Anomaly Earphone was an anomaly, it could not leave the golden treasure chest.

Normally, when the Investigation Bureau took an anomaly out of the vault, they would not carry out the large chest directly. Thus, there were many portable small golden treasure chests on the shelves.

These chests did not have strong sealing capabilities, but they could still contain something for a short time.

Chen Yu placed the Anomaly Earphone into a small golden treasure chest and prepared to leave.

"By the way, that old gentleman guarding the entrance is really dedicated. At his age, he's still standing guard. You people should at least give him a chair."

Chen Yu casually joked.

When he had entered earlier, that old gentleman had been standing there the entire time and staring at him without blinking.

He should have been sent by the Investigation Bureau to guard the entrance.

The moment those words were spoken, Luo Mu, who was in the monitoring room, frowned.

The Director frowned as well.

[Mr. Nightfall, what did you say? What old gentleman guarding the entrance?]

"The one standing at the entrance. Wasn't he sent by you people?"

Chen Yu asked in confusion.

Luo Mu and the Director's expressions suddenly changed drastically.

[Mr. Nightfall, are you sure you aren't joking?]

[We knew you were coming today, so we did not arrange for anyone to guard the entrance. And from the moment you entered the main door, you have been under our surveillance.]

[You were the only person there the entire time. There was no one else.]

Hearing this, Chen Yu's spine went cold. Every hair on his body stood on end, and goosebumps spread across him.

Was that for real?

His face was full of confusion!

There had clearly been an old man standing at the entrance just now!

Chen Yu had even greeted him, but the man had ignored him completely.

To prove that there was nothing wrong with his eyes,

Chen Yu took the Anomaly Earphone and the Funeral Shroud and walked out.

He hurriedly looked around, but the entrance was completely empty!

Forget a human shadow—there was not even a Ghost Shadow in sight.

Chen Yu's face twitched.

That had definitely not been an illusion!

That old man's gaze had been extremely strange!

And he was certain that had absolutely not been an anomaly.

Or rather, unlike ordinary Anomalies!

It was more like a person...?

Chen Yu was only eighteen or nineteen, not some old man going senile. How could he have remembered wrong?

"Where did he go? That old gentleman was clearly right here!"

Chen Yu spread out the Slaughter Ghost Domain, intending to use it to find out where the old man had gone.

But the instant he activated the Ghost Domain, he sensed a strange presence emerging from the vault behind him!

He turned around!

An old man was in the vault, frantically rummaging through things!

[Where are my things...]

[Where are my things...]

The old man looked extremely anxious as he searched the vault like a madman, yet he simply could not find what he wanted.

Then, he looked around. At last, his murky, dim gaze fell upon Chen Yu.

His face was gaunt as a skeleton, his eye sockets deeply sunken, with a cold glint flashing within them.

But he was not staring at Chen Yu!

He was staring at the Funeral Shroud in Chen Yu's hand.

[It's here... My clothes are here!]

[Give them back to me...]

Though the old man looked frail enough to be knocked down with a single slap,

he ran as fast as the wind.

Moreover, wherever he passed, the floor began to decay, and everything around him started to rot, as though it had endured countless years.

Beep beep beep—

The alarms installed on the vault ceiling lit up with flashing red and blue lights, blaring continuously.

[Warning!]

[The Investigation Bureau vault is under attack by walking corpses!]

[Warning!]

[The Investigation Bureau vault is under attack by walking corpses!]

Mechanical alerts kept sounding.

Chen Yu frowned and hurried outside to take a look.

What met his eyes was a group of corpses with rotting, pus-filled bodies, maggots crawling through the holes in their flesh!

And these corpses all shared one conspicuous trait.

Their bodies were covered in dark brown corpse spots of varying sizes!

[Buzz!]

[Congratulations, your luck is quite good. You have encountered the Corpse Spot Anomaly.]

[The Corpse Spot Anomaly is a special kind of Anomaly.]

[It can be called an Anomaly, or it can be called... a corpse.]

[Once you are infected by them, you will become one of them.]

[Please join their ranks.]

Prompt after prompt appeared on his phone, but Chen Yu had no time to look at them.

These walking corpses kicked up dust and stones as they charged along. Not only were they incredibly fast, they were also immensely strong!

And they were all charging straight toward the vault!

It was Chen Yu's first time seeing such a scene, and his expression changed slightly.

Luo Mu, who was in the Investigation Bureau's monitoring room, was instantly petrified with fear!

"Isn't that the Corpse Spot Anomaly? Why is it here?!"

Luo Mu cried out in terror.

At that moment, the Director beside him could no longer remain calm either.

That old man was the genuine Corpse Spot Anomaly, and the walking corpses charging over were all corpses he had infected.

The Corpse Spot Anomaly had recently been wandering outside the Investigation Bureau vault, appearing and vanishing unpredictably. Wherever it passed, it left behind corpse miasma.

Once infected by the corpse miasma, one would become a walking corpse covered in corpse spots!

It could control the corpses infected with corpse spots!

It was extremely troublesome!

Because this Corpse Spot Anomaly was a Level 7 Anomaly, the Investigation Bureau had not acted against it for the time being, nor had they issued a mission bounty.

As long as it did not cause trouble, that was enough.