activa-t Chapter 54 The Fencing Girl
Chapter 54 The Fencing Girl
Huang Shujian's eyes narrowed.
One of the three great evils recorded in the notebook, it appears at night, dressed in the official robes of the previous dynasty, leaps and kills, and is a headless zombie with immense strength!
Unexpectedly, he encountered this third strange and eerie case in this way.
Unfortunately, he arrived too late. The zombie had already left, and the entire Black Tiger Gang was wiped out.
Huang Shujian felt little regret, only that the clues had gone cold again.
With Ding San and Ding Si dead, the score between the strange baby brothers can be considered indirectly settled.
But this headless zombie...
As he was thinking, his ears suddenly caught a very subtle sound.
It wasn't the sound of the wind, nor the chirping of insects.
Is that... the rustling sound of fabric rubbing together?
From the side of the main hall, that side room!
A sense of foreboding suddenly arose in Huang Shujian's heart.
The zombies didn't leave?
Or... is it someone else?
He immediately held his breath, tensed all his muscles, and slowly tightened his right hand, gripping the cold hilt of the knife.
His gaze, sharp as lightning, shot towards the tightly closed wooden door of the side room.
Meanwhile, inside the side room, they seemed to have also noticed the commotion in the main room.
An invisible, cold sense of confrontation quietly spread through the door.
"Squeak—"
The door to the side room seemed to be gently shaken open by an invisible force.
Moonlight streamed through the window, casting a slanted glow into the room and outlining a blurry human silhouette.
Huang Shujian's gaze sharpened.
It's not a headless zombie!
The figure was not tall, and was even somewhat slender.
He was wearing a very tight-fitting black leather jacket.
The leather was smooth, reflecting a dark luster in the dim moonlight.
He also wore a black mask on his face, revealing only his eyes.
Those eyes... gleamed brightly in the darkness.
woman!
What is her purpose?
Are they like me, looking for Ding San and Ding Si?
Or... did they come after the headless zombie?
Huang Shujian's mind raced, and he secretly became wary.
The woman opposite him seemed to be sizing him up as well.
Through the mask, those cat-like eyes swept over Huang Shujian.
Then, she moved.
With elegant, composed, and even slightly languid steps, she slowly emerged from the shadows of the side room.
The moonlight finally illuminated her figure.
It has a textured, uneven surface.
Very long.
A black, form-fitting leather outfit, perfectly tailored and highlighting her stunning curves, felt like a second skin.
Her long hair was tied back.
She wore a cat-face leather mask that only covered the upper half of her face, revealing her beautifully shaped jawline and red lips.
She walked to the center of the main room and stopped about three zhang away from Huang Shujian.
Then, she smiled at Huang Shujian.
That smile, bathed in the pale moonlight and surrounded by blood, appeared eerie yet possessed a dangerous allure.
The next moment!
She suddenly reached her right hand towards the outside of her tight leather thigh!
A thin, cold silver light, like a venomous snake emerging from its hole, was suddenly drawn out by her.
It was an extremely thin and long Western-style rapier.
The sword was narrow, only as thick as a finger, yet it gleamed with a chilling light that sent shivers down one's spine.
No nonsense, no warning!
With a flick of her wrist, the woman sent the slender rapier slicing through the air with a sharp whistle, aimed straight at Huang Shujian's throat.
It moved so fast that it left only a silver streak in the moonlight.
Huang Shujian's eyes turned cold, and a dark light flashed at his waist!
"Clang!"
The liver and gallbladder emerge from their sheaths.
The dark clouds blocked out the sky, as if they had instantly absorbed all the light around them, and even the bright moon outside the window seemed to have dimmed a little.
Battle Storm Blade Style!
The force of rotation drives the blade, creating a whirlwind.
The dark glint of the blade clashed with the gleaming silver tip of the sword under the moonlight.
"bite--!"
A crisp, clear metallic clang rang out.
"Snap!"
A sickeningly sharp cracking sound.
A half-foot-long piece of bright silver spun into the air, tracing a parabola, before crashing to the ground with a clang.
It was the tip of that Western rapier!
The woman was clearly not prepared for this outcome; a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes beneath the cat-eye mask.
She quickly took a half step back, her gaze lingering on the horizontal sword in Huang Shujian's hand, and then on Huang Shujian's face wearing the white tiger mask.
She did not attack again.
Instead, he chuckled softly, with a hint of laziness and amusement.
"interesting……"
Before she finished speaking, she suddenly leaned back and performed a clean and neat backflip, landing lightly on the windowsill like a nimble black cat.
She paused briefly and looked at Huang Shujian.
"I will come back to find you..."
After saying that, he did another backflip and landed in the courtyard. After a few more leaps, he disappeared into the thick night.
Huang Shujian did not pursue.
He stood there, slowly lowering his slightly trembling right hand.
The clash just now, although it severed the opponent's sword, the subtle yet penetrating power emanating from the sword also made his arm numb and his blood slightly stagnant.
The opponent's strength... is greater than mine.
If it weren't for my sharp courage and the advantage of my weapon, I might not have been able to gain the upper hand in that move.
but……
Huang Shujian raised his hand, and a few drops of bright red blood were sliding down the dark blade.
It was left from her thigh.
……
The next day, early in the morning.
Inside the bathtub in the Huang family's courtyard.
Huang Shujian slowly drank the rock sugar bird's nest porridge that Xiu'er had served him.
On the table next to it was a copy of the Goose City Daily, still smelling of ink.
The front page headline, a single line of bold, large black text, is shocking:
"Headless zombies reappear! The Black Tiger Gang in the south of the city is wiped out overnight, with thirty-six members killed!"
The following article describes in detail the horrific scene: all the victims had their vital organs pierced by zombie claws, their deaths were extremely gruesome.
There was no loss of property at the scene, nor any obvious signs of a struggle, suggesting that the massacre was carried out in a very short time.
As usual, the article concludes by urging residents to reduce their nighttime outings and hinting that the government has increased manpower to investigate.
Huang Shujian put down the newspaper, his brows furrowing slightly.
Headless zombie...
And that mysterious woman in black last night...
The water in Goose City is getting muddier and muddier, but also more and more interesting.
He opened the desk drawer.
Inside, lying quietly was the slender, gleaming silver tip of a sword, the very same piece of the Western rapier that had been severed last night.
Huang Shujian took it out, held it between his fingers, and weighed it carefully.
The sword tip feels slightly heavy in the hand, indicating excellent quality. Its elasticity and toughness are both top-notch, clearly crafted from special alloy steel with exquisite workmanship.
If it weren't for a precious sword like the one containing extraordinary materials like liver and gallbladder, ordinary swords would probably have a hard time cutting it.
There are no Western martial arts schools in Goose Town, and few Westerners stay there for long periods.
In other words, the woman was likely from out of town.
Huang Shujian was deep in thought about these mysteries.
suddenly!
A thought struck him.
This feeling... he knew it all too well!
Huang Shujian immediately calmed down and summoned the panel in his mind.
A deep blue light curtain appeared.
His gaze immediately fell on the [Free Attribute Points] section.
The numbers have changed:
Free attribute points: 4