Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 507: The Way to Liberation (4K)

"How dare you show up, damn it!"

"Wait a moment!"

A timekeeper rushed forward angrily and was about to fight with the funeral home member, but Xia Shou suddenly stopped him with his arm across.

Xia Shou stared at the person in front of him from the funeral home, his heart filled with shock.

Why did he come out?

Why are you here?

Xia Shou remembered it very clearly. This was the man who attacked him in Redthorn Manor. The other party sealed Alice in a soul-imprisoning bird cage, allowing him to witness the appearance of the wandering poet with his own eyes, and he almost fell into extreme madness.

If he hadn't been pulled into the world of the book, he might have been gone.

However, although the other person's appearance has not changed, his figure seems to have changed greatly.

"You are still alive." Xia Shou said coldly.

"Wait, don't do anything! I came here specifically to find you. Besides, I don't do that job anymore." Huangfu Zuoren raised his hands and smiled.

"Were you not sent by the royal family?" Xia Shou stared at the other party warily.

He asked about the royal family, but in his heart he was more curious about how the other party escaped from the book.

At that time, this person should really have entered the book with them, otherwise he would have been turned into a paper sculpture like everyone else in the city by the wandering bard's attack across time and space.

Xia Shou killed Glendower, and he was sent out by Jin Fenglong, so how did this guy get out?
The method Dorian Gray provided to leave the world in the book was to use the supernatural power [Text Description], and [Text Description] was an exclusive supernatural power of him, the traveler from the original world, and the other party could not master it.

Could it be that he was also sent out by Jin Fenglong?

"Last time I was just doing my job, this time I'm here to help you. Here, take it!" Huangfu Zuoren took out a small object from his chest and threw it to Xia Shou from a distance.

Xia Shou caught it from the air. It was a stone. Except for the shape, it was almost exactly the same as the stone in Pedros' hand just now. The material was also similar to the black jade door of Merlin's House.

"What is this?" Xia Shou asked.

"You don't know? How could it be... You should know about the An Gang family, right? They gave me this stone and said it could be used against you." Huangfu Zuoren also showed a puzzled expression.

On the side, Pedros saw the stone thrown by Huangfu Zuoren and his eyes flashed quickly, and the timekeeper behind him seemed to have discovered something and made a slight commotion.

Pedros didn't say anything. He raised his hand and asked the people behind him to keep quiet. Then he stood quietly aside, looking at Huangfu Zuoren and Xia Shou with a calm and natural expression.

Huangfu Zuoren glanced at Pedros, then turned to Xia Shou and said, "Should we talk alone? Although it's okay to say it directly, I think it's better to talk alone."

Xia Shou stared at Huangfu Zuoren for a while, then turned and walked to the side: "Follow me."

Xia Shou walked under a dry and cracked tree and kept a safe distance from the crowd.

Huangfu Zuoren walked up to Xia Shou and noticed the stick in Xia Shou's hand.

Although the size was very different, the shape and appearance were still the same. He was sure that it was the mourning stick carried by Hei Wuchang.

"…If it's you, then it's normal."

Huangfu Zuoren nodded calmly: "I always thought we would meet again, but I didn't expect it to be so soon."

"I failed to kill you last time, but this time you came to my door yourself." Xia Shou said coldly.

"It's not easy to kill people in this place. The biggest problem is not being able to die." Huangfu Zuoren chuckled.

"If you want to die, I don't mind helping you." Xia Shou said casually.

“I believe you can kill me, but I also know you won’t kill me, or I won’t show up.

I guess you want to know what commission the British royal family and the Angang family have given me."

Xia Shou glanced at the other person in surprise. Huangfu Zuoren took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket as if nothing had happened, took out a cigarette, and then lit it.

He took a slow breath and said with a smile:

"I don't have the ability to guess people's thoughts. It's the effect of a forbidden item called Reasoning Notes. It said that there is an 80% chance that you won't kill me, so I showed up to see you.

But a 20% mortality rate is quite risky for a killer like me.

Now, I am temporarily working in a funeral home, but don’t get me wrong, I believe in human gods.

Besides, it was Dr. Jin who brought me out of that strange place.”

"Why are you telling me this?"

“Of course, I’m trying to gain your trust. You and Dr. Jin are pretty familiar with each other, aren’t you?

But now, let's talk about the most important thing, look at this."

As he spoke, Huangfu Zuoren opened his collar to show Xia Shou the obvious boundary mark above his collarbone. This mark also existed on Kenon.

"I don't need to explain this, right? There is someone like me in the Clock Tower. You should already know the rules of this hell."

"I see, you've changed your body too."

Xia Shou understood that this body was not his at all.

"But you don't seem to be in any pain at all." Xia Shou said.

"Because my original body is not in the underworld at all." Huangfu Zuoren replied.

"Not in the underworld? Could it be that..."

Xia Shou blinked, looked at Huangfu Zuoren, and guessed, "It was just the head that came in?"

"That's right, the funeral home knew the rules of the underworld very early on, so from the beginning, we were not brought in whole, but only our heads were brought in alive.

After entering, I will connect my head to the torso of someone else in the underworld, while my original body will remain fresh in reality, so as to minimize the negative impact of the underworld's laws. "Huangfu Zuoren explained.

"What about the first person who came to us? I smashed his head."

"That person is an exception. His ability is a bit like the 'body possession' in your country's mythology. He occupies the body of another person. Even if you grind that corpse into pulp, it has nothing to do with him."

Xia Shou nodded.

Some of the previous minor doubts have been answered, but the other party has not yet asked the most crucial question.

"Why did you come to see me?"

Huangfu Zuoren straightened his collar and said, "Actually, I was quite surprised. Originally, I came here just to help them, but then I heard that you were here too, and they said they wanted to recruit you, so I wanted you to come undercover with me."

"..."

"Rejection, huh? I knew it. The reasoning notes said there was only a 0.5% chance that you would agree." Huangfu Zuoren sighed.

"Not really, you put..."

"Take out that notebook and show it to me. That's what you want to say, right?"

Before Xia Shou could finish his words, Huangfu Zuoren interrupted him and rejected Xia Shou's unfinished request, as if he already knew what Xia Shou would say.

"Impossible, it's impossible to give you that notebook. Your request is also written in the notebook, so I hid the notebook before I came.

A small person like me, even if I don't have a trump card, I should have something to save my life, right?" Huangfu Zuoren smiled.

Xia Shou frowned even more tightly. He really wanted to summon No. 58 immediately to give this man a lie detector test.

Unfortunately, [Self-Destruction] has not cooled down yet. "Here, this is for you. Everything I investigated in the funeral home is on it."

Huangfu Zuoren stuffed a few folded papers into Xia Shou's hands. These papers were obviously prepared long ago.

Then, he patted his clothes, looked at Xia Shou, and said seriously:

"Except for joining the funeral home, you can't escape unscathed. There is no other way out of this underworld.

Not to mention Zhong Kui and the Ghost King, you are no match for even the new generation of corpse-eaters in the funeral home. Rather than being turned into a Frankenstein, it is better for you to be an undercover agent.

Besides, I don’t know anything about the royal family and the Angang family that you care about. I was also fooled by them, but fortunately the reasoning notes fell into my hands, and besides... I survived. "

Huangfu Zuoren pointed to the front and said, "Horse-faced Man is in the front, and the rest are corpse eaters from the funeral home. You will meet them soon, and then you will know what I am talking about.

Now, I'm going back. You can choose for yourself. It doesn't matter what you choose. If you don't join the funeral home, I will find a chance to slowly bring you back. But the suffering you have to endure in the meantime is none of my business. Don't blame me for not reminding you."

"Did Dr. Jin ask you to help me?" Xia Shou asked back.

"No, it's me."

Xia Shou nodded: "Thank you very much."

After saying that, he swung out the mourning stick and hit Huangfu Zuoren's head.

Huangfu Zuoren's face changed instantly, he bent down and dodged at the critical moment.

Then, he saw his own body and his translucent spirit!
Huangfu Zuoren looked at the body lying on the ground in shock, and then looked at Xia Shou who suddenly launched an attack.

How can it be?

The reasoning notes said that Xia Shou would not kill him, and the probability was not 80% as he just said, but 100%!

After his soul left his body, Huangfu Zuoren looked at Xia Shou again. The oppressive feeling from the other party was no longer comparable to that before. Those ordinary eyes, in the eyes of him as a spirit, emitted a strange and unpredictable reddish light.

The feeling he gives people is actually the same as that of Horse-Faced and Black Impermanence!
"Come!"

Xia Shou raised the mourning stick.

[Binding the soul and locking the spirit]!
Several transparent chains flew out from Xia Shou's body and tightly bound Huangfu Zuoren, who was a spirit.

The next second, he was like an ancient prisoner, with iron chains wrapped around his hands and feet, and the other end of the chains were tied to a mourning stick.

"You made me very upset just now... It's obviously only 80%, why are you so sure that I won't kill you?" Xia Shou asked coldly.

Huangfu Zuoren said in horror: "I'm here to help you!"

"If it's true, then I will spare your life."

As Xia Shou spoke, he grabbed the hair of Huangfu Zuoren, who was lying on the ground, and chopped off Huangfu Zuoren's head with a bone knife.

Then, Xia Shou unfolded the letter the other party had just given him.

"Is that so... Research on the origin of supernatural powers... The Funeral Home wants to connect the underworld with the human world to create the conditions for promotion to the Nominal Realm. The list of Seven-branch Fragment holders recently released by the Humanity Library is equivalent to providing a hunting list."

List of holders of the branch fragments... Why does the Library of Humanity know who holds the fragments?

Xia Shou returned to the team carrying Huangfu Zuoren's head, and then stuffed the head into a animal skin bag.

"Sorry for the delay." Xia Shou said to Pedros.

"No, it's okay." Pedros smiled and waved his hand, "Can you lend me the stone he just gave you?"

"Not now. I can show it to you when I think it's appropriate. No later than the day after tomorrow."

After saying that, Xia Shou looked at Kenon who had been wailing, and walked forward with a mourning stick.

"It just occurred to me that I can help you get rid of it. If you don't want to live anymore, just tell me anytime."

In fact, since he got the mourning stick, Xia Shou already had the ability to kill everyone here completely, but the high-intensity thinking along the way made him neglect to use this method to help the people around him.

When Xia Shou said this, everyone's eyes fell on Xia Shou, with surprise and relief in their eyes, but also a hint of doubt in their depths.

"Kill me." Kenon said in a very miserable but happy voice.

Now he is still enduring extreme pain, but Xia Shou's promise gave him a glimmer of hope. This happiness comes easily, and just believing is enough.

"Then can you dodge my swing later?" Xia Shou asked.

Kenon nodded and assumed a dodging stance.

"1...2...3!"

Xia Shou swung the stick, Kenon dodged, and then the body made up of multiple bodies of unknown origin fell to the ground with a thud.

Xia Shou saw Kenon's soul floating in front of him, while Huangfu Zuoren's soul was still tied to the mourning stick.

This is a help, but also a test. It is a test of the mourning stick that can only allow one person's soul to leave the body. After the first soul is sealed by the [Soul Binding and Soul Locking], the second person's soul is allowed to leave the body to see if it can release the first person's seal and forcibly revive him.

Now the results are out, the answer is no. After using [Soul Binding and Soul Locking] to seal the soul, even if the influence of the Mourning Stick disappears, the sealed soul will not return to the original body.

"Kenon!"

"Kenon!"

The timekeepers gathered around Kenon, and after their former companion stopped uttering endless miserable howls, the old feelings surged up from their hearts again.

Xia Shou looked at Kenon in front of him with his Yin-Yang eyes. His original appearance was a taller and more muscular man than this cobbled-together body. After turning into a soul, his expression finally returned to calm.

"Thanks, I finally don't have to feel any more pain." Kenon smiled with relief.

"Say a few words, don't let them think I lied to you, and then we can get going." Xia Shou said.

"Can't I continue to exist like this? I really don't want to die... I was in so much pain just now that I wanted to die." Kenon said with a wry smile.

"Sorry, if I swing at the second person, you'll have to go back, so you have to figure it out yourself," Xia Shou replied.

In fact, you can also use [Soul Binding] to allow Kenon's soul to continue to exist.

But sealing the soul comes at a price, and he must use this ability as little as possible.

Even if it really needs to be used, it will be prepared for 102, Su Yue and Gu Liang at the most critical moment.

Of course, he hopes that this idle quota will never be used.

Kenon thought for a long time and finally nodded: "Then please tell Qiwa and me one last thing, just give birth to the baby and think of it as being for me."

"Qiva is here?"

"It's me!" A middle-aged woman with blond hair and freckles on her face stood up from the crowd with an expectant look on her face.

Xia Shou looked at the other party and conveyed: "Kainong said, give birth to the baby, just for him."

Qi Wa was stunned, and so were the others.

After a while, Qi Wa wiped her tears and nodded silently.

Kenon nodded and sighed heavily: "Don't worry, Mr. Trump Card, send me on my way."

Xia Shou enchanted the mourning stick in his hand with the power to beat spirits.

In the eyes of others, he was just swinging the stick hard in the air in front of him.

(End of this chapter)