Heavenly Official Sends Evil

Chapter 927 Human-Faced Wild Dog
The damp bluestone slabs reflected the faint light of lanterns under the eaves.

It was 12:30 a.m. The area on the right side of the second floor was so quiet you could hear a pin drop, except for the occasional flickering of the flames from the lanterns.

Qi Liang lay sprawled out on the cold stone slab.

His eyes were vacant, his pupils like dissolved ink, the blood flowing from the corners of his mouth had dried, and the exposed skin was covered with lividity and had a sickly grayish-green color, making it look as if he had been dead for some time.

Of course, Qi Liang did not die.

He was merely lying here using the corpse-transformation technique at Wu Xian's request, acting as bait to lure the old couple out.

The old woman was originally a brothel madam. She was cut in half at the waist for refusing to hand over the treasure to the constables and became a strange and evil spirit.

She can control half-bodied evil spirits to fight, while she hides in the darkness; her true appearance remains a mystery to this day.

According to the notes of the hunchbacked tortoise slave Suo Dabao, the old woman would never appear when there were living people present; she would only approach the corpse. This is why Qi Liang was lying here.

Qi Liang stared at the dark ceiling, his heart filled with fear.

In order to make his mother-in-law and aunt appear, he was really the only one present. Wu Xian and the others were observing from a small square in the distance. In other words, if the evil spirit really appeared, he would have to rely on himself for a certain period of time.

"It's quite a coincidence. In the illusion of the Su Mansion, I was supposed to pretend to be a corpse, and after I came out, I ended up doing the same thing again..."

"Maybe after I leave this blessed place, I can find a film set to play a corpse for fun. It might be surprisingly interesting."

What Qi Liang didn't realize was that after surviving the illusion, he was able to calmly deal with the dangers in the blessed land, and even had the leisure to complain in his mind.

This kind of waiting is painful and long.

Qi Liang lay sprawled on the ground with his eyes open, so he could see many things.

While waiting, water droplets fell from the ceiling onto Qi Liang's face, and unknown insects crawled over his body. Even two half-bodied evil spirits passed by, fluttered on Qi Liang's body a couple of times, and then quietly crawled away.

These harassments were annoying, but Qi Liang held back and didn't do anything to harm Wu Xian.

Only once did he almost lose control.

A ragged, hunchbacked man walked over from a distance and slowly squatted down beside Qi Liang.

This man was none other than the pimp, Sodabao, who left the notes.

The sergeant, Suo Dabao, would occasionally wander around the right side of the second floor and sometimes disappear. He seemed mysterious, but was basically harmless. He would only occasionally pick up corpses from the ground and take them to the corpse pile area on the right side of the transfer area as gifts for his parents-in-law.

Before the operation began, Qi Liang had heard Wu Xian give a brief introduction to this man.

Therefore, in Qi Liang's view, Suo Dabao should be a simple-minded and foolish person who wanders around the neighborhood like a vagrant in order to repay his parents-in-law's kindness.

But when Qi Liang saw Suo Dabao's face up close, his impression changed abruptly.

Suo Dabao was hunched over, with a face full of fat, a nose that looked like a garlic bulb and was shiny with oil, and black, stiff nose hairs that protruded. His mouth was full of uneven, yellow and black teeth, and his cheeks were covered with sparse hair of varying lengths. His eyes, in particular, looked like protruding toads.

He looked both fierce and lewd, and he reeked of a foul stench.

Normally, Qi Liang would avoid such a person, let alone now, when this person was casually manipulating Qi Liang's body with his hairy black hands.

Perhaps it was precisely because Zoro possessed such a dignified appearance that he ultimately ended up becoming a pimp.

Qi Liang also knew the principle that one cannot judge a book by its cover.

But as Suo Dabao's actions became increasingly excessive, Qi Liang couldn't help but want to punch him in the face and turn that bulbous nose into garlic paste.

Just then, Suo Dabao stood up and quickly disappeared into the area on the right side of the second floor.

After Suo Dabao left, Qi Liang's disguise became easier. The biggest obstacle was lying on the cold stone slab, where his back and waist began to ache.

……

Wu Xian's situation wasn't much better. The wait was incredibly long; it was already past 1 a.m., and his parents-in-law still hadn't appeared.

After the bell rang, Wu Xiandu prepared to lead the newlyweds to hide somewhere else, but he was surprised to find that there was no so-called 'crisis on the hour' in the small square.

If you think about it, this is actually quite normal.

When the prisoner was hanging from the ceiling, the small square was always the most dangerous place in the entire exhibition hall; it was impossible to even get around her to open a door.

This place is already dangerous enough, so there's no need for an hourly crisis.

Another half hour passed while we waited.

So much time was wasted like this, and Wu Xian even began to doubt whether this method was wrong, since the old woman and her husband would not be attracted to the corpse at all.

Or perhaps, as long as someone is observing, the father-in-law and mother-in-law won't appear?

Just then, a new change occurred on the street to the right of the second floor.

A large yellow dog crawled out of the door of a house. The dog was fat and strong with shiny fur. It lay close to the wall with its belly on the ground, looking around warily with very sharp eyes. After confirming that no one was around, it quietly crawled to Qi Liang's side.

Wu Xian likes dogs.

Encountering a dog in a blessed place is much safer than encountering a person.

But this dog is different, because on the head of this big yellow dog, there is a human head!
The dog reminded him of something a storyteller in a teahouse had said.

"Two hundred years ago, Xuanling County suffered a great disaster. Bones were exposed in the wild, no roosters crowed for miles, and packs of wild dogs with human faces roamed around, eating people..."

This human-faced dog is here looking for food!

……

The human-faced dog circled Qi Liang twice, then stuck out a dog tongue from its mouth and licked the blood from the corner of Qi Liang's mouth. Its two human eyes shone brightly and it began to pant heavily.

Qi Liang's mind went blank.

Wu Xian's task for him was to disguise himself as a corpse and not move an inch until his mother-in-law appeared.

But this dog looks like it's about to bite someone!

Where will it bite first? Will it tear open the throat to drink blood, or rip open the belly to devour the soft internal organs, or is its behavior more similar to that of an African hyena?
If Qi Liang were to move while being attacked by wild dogs, all the efforts he had made in lying there for more than an hour would be in vain.

In order to catch the father-in-law and mother-in-law, they may have to lie there for such a long time.

But if it doesn't move, this dog...

puff!
Qi Liang was still struggling with his decision, but the human-faced dog didn't care about anything else.

"Ouch!"

The human-faced dog opened its mouth wide and bit down on Qi Liang's thigh, then launched a vicious series of bites.

Attacked by something other than the target, no one would blame Qi Liang for whatever he did at that moment.

However, because he was in a corpse state, Qi Liang did not feel any pain or bleed, so he did not take any action for the time being, but calmly thought about the dog's behavior logic.

Why did it... just bite?

Wild dogs gnaw on human corpses simply to fill their stomachs.

Its primary target should have been the abdominal cavity containing the internal organs, but it bit the thigh instead, and only bit without swallowing.

That means the dog's goal wasn't to eat!
Sure enough, after a few bites, the human-faced dog stopped moving. Then, the human-faced dog arched its body, and a hissing sound came from behind.

The skin of the human-faced dog actually cracked!
(End of this chapter)