Philip and his company mistook Zhao Yao for a ghost. This was partly because of his current get-up as well as the fact that the Headless Horseman identity had yet to become famous outside of his region so when he went overseas no one knew of him.
Hence, when Philip and the rest saw Zhao Yao appear, they all thought that it was an internal battle amongst ghosts and monsters.
When the army of ghosts and monsters saw the Headless Horseman appear, an uproar began as well.
An ear-splitting scream reverberated throughout the battlefield. Philip and his company could not help covering their ears at the sound as they looked in the direction of the scream.
It was the female ghost in white with blood-red eyes that Philip and the rest had seen previously. She was screaming with her head facing the sky as her long black hair flew despite the absence of wind as if a black flame erupted around her.
Seeing as the female ghost in white glared at him with vicious hatred in her eyes, Zhao Yao was stunned for a moment before he recovered himself. “This gal, she looks a little like the long tongue ghost earlier on. Is she here to avenge her? But how did she know it’s me?”
At the thought of this, he could help but shout at the female ghost in white, “Hey…”
However, just as he shouted out ‘hey’, Roly Poly, who was perched on his shoulder invisibility quickly reminded him, “Zhao Yao, Zhao Yao! Don’t speak in Chinese. We could still erase the memories of those 3 foreigners but with so many people around now it would be too troublesome to erase all their memories.”
Zhao Yao was stunned. He had almost exposed his identity. At that moment, everyone turned to look at him, even the female ghost, with that one shout.
Zhao Yao thought for a bit before he said, “Anihaseyo (annyeonghaseyo)?”
The whole crowd was stunned the moment he said that.
Edward whispered, “He’s talking? Isn’t he headless? So these ghosts can communicate with each other?”
Bason, “What is he saying?”
Edward screamed, “I think it’s Korean!” He turned and stared at his comrades, “Jace, don’t you understand Korean? What is he saying?”
In that instant, everyone turned to look at the black man called Jace who suddenly felt an intense burden placed on his shoulders. He cursed in his heart, “What the f*ck? You still remember the b*llshit I said when I was drunk a few months ago?”
However, seeing how Edward, Bason, Philip, and the rest were staring at him and even the female ghost with her blood-red eyes, Jace felt that he had no choice but to pretend like he knew.
He thought for a while, before he uttered hesitatingly, “He meant to say… What are you staring at?”
Edward replied, “Ah?”
Philip continued, “Is he taunting her?”
Bason was hesitant: “Are you sure?”
Jace nodded immediately and continued, “After I retired from being a hired assassin I went to Korea for my undergraduate studies. I graduated from Seoul University. How could I not understand Korean?”
Seeing as the crowd was convinced, Jace cursed again in his heart, “I just casually spun some lie and you all just took my word for it. What assassin? I was just a pizza delivery man. The people from these organizations are seriously too unreliable. I should go to America to take my chances after I escape from here.”
Just as they were whispering among themselves, the red-eyed female ghost had already roared, “Kill him! Finish him off!”
The army of ghosts and monsters mobilized immediately and paused for a moment before charging towards Zhao Yao like waves rolling towards him.
The ghosts and monsters that had been sliced apart like vegetables by Zhao Yao earlier on gathered back into their original forms like bits of mercury merging together. They looked totally unharmed.
Edward sighed, “This is the trickiest part about these monsters. They can’t be killed.”
Philip was worried by the sight before him as well.
Zhao Yao was a little surprised when he saw the ghosts and monsters returning to their original forms and joining their comrades in the attack.
“They could actually return back to their original forms? So the leather shoe ghost and the long tongue ghost didn’t die in my hands after all,” Zhao Yao thought as he flicked the sword and his fingers lightly. The silver Rice Cake-Vibrating Sword beside him shot out at once and zapped across the army of ghosts and monsters like bolts of lightning. Where the bolts had passed, countless ghosts and monsters crumbled into pieces.
Within a few seconds, the ghosts and monsters within a few hundred meters of Zhao Yao were wiped out. The scene looked exactly as if a piece of a continent had gone missing from the world map.
However, under the command of the red-eyed female ghost, the remaining ghosts and monsters did not show any sign of retreating. The ghosts that were hacked into pieces continued to join back in the mob after they reassembled into their original forms.
Hence, more and more ghosts and monsters encircled Zhao Yao and attacked relentlessly. The silver light from the sword blade seemed to have joined together to form a circle of silver blade light. Even then, the army of ghosts and monsters still managed to inch closer and closer to where Zhao Yao was.
“Normal physical cuts seem to have little effect on them.” Seeing how a zombie that was split opened slowly reassembled and reformed itself, Zhao Yao thought, “I have to try a different method.”
As he thought of that, the silver Rice Cake-Vibrating Sword continued to zap across the air, traversing to and fro as it sliced up the army of ghosts and monsters.
However, as more and more ghosts and monsters charged towards them, the range of the sword circle started shrinking.
Rice Cake screamed in alarm, “Zhao Yao! Are we stopping with all the slicing soon? It’s so painful!”
Cheese, who had turned into the cloak immediately shouted back, “Rice Cake, don’t say such things.”
“Then what should I say?” Rice Cake asked. “Zhao Yao, stop slicing them. I can’t take it.”
“Rice Cake! You!” Cheese sighed though he was secretly elated, “Rice Cake is cute like this too!”
Zhao Yao was exasperated, “Okay okay, you can come back.”
As he said that, he had already retracted the silver blade light.
As the silver blade light disappeared, the army of ghosts and monsters charged straight ahead but stopped in the next moment as all of them seemed to have bumped into an invisible wall.
Zhao Yao had activated the Deflective Field and extended its range, hitting every ghost and monster as if it was swatting flies. All the ghosts and monsters crashed right into the Deflective Field, enveloping the full range of it.
At this rate, even Zhao Yao’s Deflective Field would not be able to resist the relentless attacks. However, at the next moment, a freezing wave had burst out from the Deflective Field as it extended its range.
A freezing wave with a temperature of -60 degrees assaulted the army of ghosts and monsters. Each and every ghost and monster started to freeze immediately before dropping to the ground in frozen blocks.
Sensing the unfavorable situation before them, the army of ghosts and monsters began to retreat. The ghosts and monsters that had landed beyond the range of the Deflective Field quickly regained their mobility, making Zhao Yao frown deeply.
“What on earth are these things? I can’t hack them or freeze them still. How is their vitality so strong?”
Even so, the army of ghosts and monsters did not charge recklessly into the area of the Deflective Field that was -60 degrees again. They just circled around the area and gathered more closely, forming a strong barrier around the parameters of the Deflective Field.
Just as Zhao Yao was still trying to figure out what these things were, a voice rang in his heart as it spoke, “Get away from here, Headless Horseman. Don’t interfere with the situation here anymore.”
“Eh?” Zhao Yao was confused, “Who are you? Are you talking to me?”
“I am Kun Wu,” that voice continued. “The plan in OX city concerns the future of the universe. Leave, Headless Horseman. Don’t do something that you will regret.”
“Kun Wu?” Zhao Yao immediately recalled the bizarre cat he saw in Xu Guanyuan’s basement.
Zhao Yao even remembered what he looked like.
Philip and his company mistook Zhao Yao for a ghost. This was partly because of his current get-up as well as the fact that the Headless Horseman identity had yet to become famous outside of his region so when he went overseas no one knew of him.
Hence, when Philip and the rest saw Zhao Yao appear, they all thought that it was an internal battle amongst ghosts and monsters.
When the army of ghosts and monsters saw the Headless Horseman appear, an uproar began as well.
An ear-splitting scream reverberated throughout the battlefield. Philip and his company could not help covering their ears at the sound as they looked in the direction of the scream.
It was the female ghost in white with blood-red eyes that Philip and the rest had seen previously. She was screaming with her head facing the sky as her long black hair flew despite the absence of wind as if a black flame erupted around her.
Seeing as the female ghost in white glared at him with vicious hatred in her eyes, Zhao Yao was stunned for a moment before he recovered himself. “This gal, she looks a little like the long tongue ghost earlier on. Is she here to avenge her? But how did she know it’s me?”
At the thought of this, he could help but shout at the female ghost in white, “Hey…”
However, just as he shouted out ‘hey’, Roly Poly, who was perched on his shoulder invisibility quickly reminded him, “Zhao Yao, Zhao Yao! Don’t speak in Chinese. We could still erase the memories of those 3 foreigners but with so many people around now it would be too troublesome to erase all their memories.”
Zhao Yao was stunned. He had almost exposed his identity. At that moment, everyone turned to look at him, even the female ghost, with that one shout.
Zhao Yao thought for a bit before he said, “Anihaseyo (annyeonghaseyo)?”
The whole crowd was stunned the moment he said that.
Edward whispered, “He’s talking? Isn’t he headless? So these ghosts can communicate with each other?”
Bason, “What is he saying?”
Edward screamed, “I think it’s Korean!” He turned and stared at his comrades, “Jace, don’t you understand Korean? What is he saying?”
In that instant, everyone turned to look at the black man called Jace who suddenly felt an intense burden placed on his shoulders. He cursed in his heart, “What the f*ck? You still remember the b*llshit I said when I was drunk a few months ago?”
However, seeing how Edward, Bason, Philip, and the rest were staring at him and even the female ghost with her blood-red eyes, Jace felt that he had no choice but to pretend like he knew.
He thought for a while, before he uttered hesitatingly, “He meant to say… What are you staring at?”
Edward replied, “Ah?”
Philip continued, “Is he taunting her?”
Bason was hesitant: “Are you sure?”
Jace nodded immediately and continued, “After I retired from being a hired assassin I went to Korea for my undergraduate studies. I graduated from Seoul University. How could I not understand Korean?”
Seeing as the crowd was convinced, Jace cursed again in his heart, “I just casually spun some lie and you all just took my word for it. What assassin? I was just a pizza delivery man. The people from these organizations are seriously too unreliable. I should go to America to take my chances after I escape from here.”
Just as they were whispering among themselves, the red-eyed female ghost had already roared, “Kill him! Finish him off!”
The army of ghosts and monsters mobilized immediately and paused for a moment before charging towards Zhao Yao like waves rolling towards him.
The ghosts and monsters that had been sliced apart like vegetables by Zhao Yao earlier on gathered back into their original forms like bits of mercury merging together. They looked totally unharmed.
Edward sighed, “This is the trickiest part about these monsters. They can’t be killed.”
Philip was worried by the sight before him as well.
Zhao Yao was a little surprised when he saw the ghosts and monsters returning to their original forms and joining their comrades in the attack.
“They could actually return back to their original forms? So the leather shoe ghost and the long tongue ghost didn’t die in my hands after all,” Zhao Yao thought as he flicked the sword and his fingers lightly. The silver Rice Cake-Vibrating Sword beside him shot out at once and zapped across the army of ghosts and monsters like bolts of lightning. Where the bolts had passed, countless ghosts and monsters crumbled into pieces.
Within a few seconds, the ghosts and monsters within a few hundred meters of Zhao Yao were wiped out. The scene looked exactly as if a piece of a continent had gone missing from the world map.
However, under the command of the red-eyed female ghost, the remaining ghosts and monsters did not show any sign of retreating. The ghosts that were hacked into pieces continued to join back in the mob after they reassembled into their original forms.
Hence, more and more ghosts and monsters encircled Zhao Yao and attacked relentlessly. The silver light from the sword blade seemed to have joined together to form a circle of silver blade light. Even then, the army of ghosts and monsters still managed to inch closer and closer to where Zhao Yao was.
“Normal physical cuts seem to have little effect on them.” Seeing how a zombie that was split opened slowly reassembled and reformed itself, Zhao Yao thought, “I have to try a different method.”
As he thought of that, the silver Rice Cake-Vibrating Sword continued to zap across the air, traversing to and fro as it sliced up the army of ghosts and monsters.
However, as more and more ghosts and monsters charged towards them, the range of the sword circle started shrinking.
Rice Cake screamed in alarm, “Zhao Yao! Are we stopping with all the slicing soon? It’s so painful!”
Cheese, who had turned into the cloak immediately shouted back, “Rice Cake, don’t say such things.”
“Then what should I say?” Rice Cake asked. “Zhao Yao, stop slicing them. I can’t take it.”
“Rice Cake! You!” Cheese sighed though he was secretly elated, “Rice Cake is cute like this too!”
Zhao Yao was exasperated, “Okay okay, you can come back.”
As he said that, he had already retracted the silver blade light.
As the silver blade light disappeared, the army of ghosts and monsters charged straight ahead but stopped in the next moment as all of them seemed to have bumped into an invisible wall.
Zhao Yao had activated the Deflective Field and extended its range, hitting every ghost and monster as if it was swatting flies. All the ghosts and monsters crashed right into the Deflective Field, enveloping the full range of it.
At this rate, even Zhao Yao’s Deflective Field would not be able to resist the relentless attacks. However, at the next moment, a freezing wave had burst out from the Deflective Field as it extended its range.
A freezing wave with a temperature of -60 degrees assaulted the army of ghosts and monsters. Each and every ghost and monster started to freeze immediately before dropping to the ground in frozen blocks.
Sensing the unfavorable situation before them, the army of ghosts and monsters began to retreat. The ghosts and monsters that had landed beyond the range of the Deflective Field quickly regained their mobility, making Zhao Yao frown deeply.
“What on earth are these things? I can’t hack them or freeze them still. How is their vitality so strong?”
Even so, the army of ghosts and monsters did not charge recklessly into the area of the Deflective Field that was -60 degrees again. They just circled around the area and gathered more closely, forming a strong barrier around the parameters of the Deflective Field.
Just as Zhao Yao was still trying to figure out what these things were, a voice rang in his heart as it spoke, “Get away from here, Headless Horseman. Don’t interfere with the situation here anymore.”
“Eh?” Zhao Yao was confused, “Who are you? Are you talking to me?”
“I am Kun Wu,” that voice continued. “The plan in OX city concerns the future of the universe. Leave, Headless Horseman. Don’t do something that you will regret.”
“Kun Wu?” Zhao Yao immediately recalled the bizarre cat he saw in Xu Guanyuan’s basement.
Zhao Yao even remembered what he looked like.
