My Zombie Husband

Chapter 71 Conjecture

Translator: Cheryl_M

“Friend? I don’t want to be friends with a kid like you.” The eight-tailed cat spirit said and then ran away. In fact, it didn’t really hate Xia Mingyu in his heart. It just had a sharp tongue and didn’t pay much attention to other people’s thoughts, which naturally made Xia Mingyu feel hated by it.

The young man sat on the sofa, with his head lowered and a little long bangs covering his eyes. His amber pupils suddenly became watery, as if he would shed tears anytime.

“Why are you crying? You are so useless. It’s his own business that he dislikes you. Why do you have to take it personally? Go back to school later. I have something to confirm.”

The Evil Soul spoke in time and pulled back Xia Mingyu’s mind. The young man bit his lower lip and asked stubbornly, “What do you want to confirm? Yun told me not to run around.”

“Oh, do you listen to him or me? Of course it is an important matter. Anyway, there will be no danger. ”

Since the Evil Soul said so, given the eight-tailed cat spirit’s impatient look, Xia Mingyu sighed. “Alas, okay, I’ll listen to you.”

“Good boy. Don’t worry. I will complete it before Yun returns.”

Xia Mingyu smiled and felt that Evil Soul really knew him well, and then felt a bit jealous to think of what the cat spirit had just said. “Well, what the Eight Tails just said… If Ma Chao and Ma Yunlu really appear, Yun…”

He felt a bit afraid. If Ma Chao and others, even only Liu Bei, really showed up, Zhao Yun wouldn’t stay out of responsibility… He was really disappointed that he always caused trouble. It must be inevitable that he would be abandoned…

“Don’t think too much. Let’s go.” The Evil Soul didn’t respond the Heavenly Soul. Perhaps they were aware of the answers, but they just didn’t want to mention it. At least they would stay out of the reality for now…

Escaping was not the best solution, but if he didn’t deceive himself, the only glimmer of happiness would be lost, which would be a devastating blow to Xia Mingyu. In this case, he had better forget about it instead of talking and thinking about it.

The Evil Soul took over the control over the body. Looking at the asleep Heavenly Soul asleep, the Evil Soul took a deep breath and left the villa quickly. After all, the eight-tailed cat spirit must have gone to bed given its laziness, those kittens didn’t pose any threat to him. He could come back after confirming the matter of Zhao Ziyi.

The young man arrived at the downtown after a few risings and fallings. As he whistled, something came from nearby. It was the leader of the werewolf pack, Huskeley.

“Huskeley, take me to school.” Xia Mingyu was lifted to the head of the werewolf and placed on its shoulder, playing with the furry beast’s ears nonchalantly. His purple eyes were full of evil intent rather than the previous depression.

“Master, I’ve found that the number of demons in Luoyang City has increased recently.” Huskeley was a rarely seen demonic beast which had its own consciousness while the other types like oul-eating worms and ghouls, just similar to animals, only regarded the Evil Soul with instinct reverence and couldn’t speak.

“Is that so… What about the school?” Xia Mingyu narrowed his eyes and unceremoniously rubbed the ears of Huskeley. The latter did not resist but respectfully replied, “Supposedly, those monsters haven’t known about the Heavenly Soul. They must be attracted here. However, something happened in your school—another student died.”

Huskeley didn’t convey any emotion in the words he uttered. After all, death of a human being was a common thing to him. He was not a human, so there was no need for him to show sympathy or fear.

While Huskeley was explaining, they arrived at the No. 1 High School of Luoyang City. Huskeley landed on the rooftop of the teaching building. Now without the ghost of Shu Qi, it was an empty, safe and good place for resting. No one else would come here.

Xia Mingyu slowly walked to the edge of the rooftop and looked afar to see the full views of the school from this position.

On the left side was the lotus pond. Now it was not raining, so he didn’t get to see the legendary female ghost in white. On the right side, with the teaching building as the symmetry axis, it was the basement of the girls’ dormitory that corresponded to the lotus pond.

Xia Mingyu looked at the direction of the girls’ dormitory and thought of the scene he saw when he and Sun Yaheng went there. The dormitory, rather than in a common cuboid pattern, was built with some curved design. After observing it for a while, the young man turned to the right and happened to see that right in front of the teaching building were the library and self-study building also with the teaching building as the symmetry axis.

Something flashed across his mind. Xia Mingyu hurriedly turned around to look behind him. The slightly left side were the boys’ dormitory and gynasium while the slightly right side was the curve of the girls’ dormitory. Xia Mingyu was enlightened and instantly asked, “Huskeley, which ranking is what happened over there among the list?”

Huskeley jumped over to investigate, and then came back soon, replying, “Master, top 2, Room 444 of the girls’ dormitory.”

Well, it made sense now. Xia Mingyu smiled. As far as he observed just now, with the teaching building as symmetry axis, the first, second, third, fourth, sixth and seven supernatural events were well corresponded, encircling the teaching building. As to the fifth, eighth and ninth event, the rooftop and the stairs below formed an axis; the 1404 incident ranked as top 8 happened at the left corner on the fourth floor while the 1917 curse incident as top 10 took place at the right corner on the fourth floor.

Also, the pen ghost incident as top 6 happened to take place in the 7th terrace classroom, which was located in the middle of the roof and the virtual line connecting the 8th and 10th terrace classroom on the symmetry axis.

Everything seemed placed as an array—Six Directions Evil Suppressing Array, but it was reversed by someone and meanwhile woke up the hidden evils. Therefore, so every supernatural events happened at the corresponding places. Once one of them was initiated, another one would happen accordingly, which led to so many deaths. However… Why wasn’t the coffin the original point? By reason, it should be the array eye…

For the moment, the Evil Soul couldn’t figure out why. He didn’t know more about magic arrays than the Heavenly Soul. After all, array was useless to him.

“What a trouble…” Xia Mingyu murmured. Shu Qi definitely couldn’t kill Li Le before she was eradicated. After all, she didn’t get her way for a long time, indicating that the person who protected Li Le must be really strong. Therefore, it was impossible but the Heavenly Soul and Sun Yaheng just ignored that.

Li Le’s death was not due to Shu Qi, but she had something to do with it anyway, because Shu Qi was a part of the array. Once she disappeared, the array would locate the next target, and Shu Qi’s resentment naturally made Li Le the target of the array.

The curse of Class 1917 began long ago, but it never succeeded. Because on the first day he was transferred into the school and shifted the control over the body, he was targeted by Shu Qi, but he didn’t die. Afterwards, he went underground where the coffin was located, he survived again. Maybe the array also realized that it was beneficial and yet difficult to devour him.

“Who was the victim?” Xia Mingyu put his hand into his pockets and waited for Huskeley to tell him the information.

Yesterday after Xia Mingyu left the school, two girls was transferred into Li Le’s class. When the evening self-study period was over, the disciplinary commissioner of Class 1917, who was the last one to leave the classroom, suddenly said that he was uncomfortable and wanted to go to the toilet. His friends stayed to wait for him. Half an hour later, he still didn’t come back. Hence, his friends hurriedly went to the toilet for him in case that anything might happen at such a late time. However, they found him dead miserably in the last cube of the toilet.

The miserable scene—blood gushing from the seven orifices of his head, two eyes widely open with a grimaced face—indicated that he was scared. It just freaked his friends out, who ran back to their dorm in fear. Due to the incident at the stairs, no one dared to move the corpse at midnight. The police didn’t come for investigation until today.

However, the investigation wouldn’t make any difference at all. Anyway, there were too many strange cases. How could the police pay attention to this case?

“Since a student from Class 1917 is dead, then the curse is resolved? Is it so simple?” Xia Mingyu pouted unhappily. His rosy lips became red, setting off his fair skin, which made him look so strangly enchanting.

Huskeley shook his head and approached Xia Mingyu to say, “No, master, there is one more transfer student in Class 1917.”

Hmm? Another one? Xia Mingyu frowned. Wasn’t it said that the curse would get one person killed only? Since one person had died, why would another student be transferred into the class? The information he got was far from enough. Well, he must go to Chen Yutian for all the information.

Xia Mingyu wanted to stroke Huskeley as an incentive, but even standing on tiptoes he couldn’t reach the head of Huskeley. Fortunately, Huskeley bent down thoughtfully so that Xia Mingyu reached its ears as he wished. While kneading, he injected his purple magic into Huskeley. Huskeley was delighted with the reward and couldn’t help waving its tail, like a loyal dog.

Xia Mingyu smiled and said, “You did a good job this time. I’m very satisfied. The magic is a reward for you. You are free to leave now. Keep staring at those demons for me.”

“Yes, Master. I will obey your order.” Huskeley looked the young in the eye. A demonic werewolf only had one master throughout its whole life, whom it would never betray. And it would pursue its master at the cost of its life. For Huskeley, its master was the Evil Soul.

Watching Huskeley disappear, Xia Mingyu took a deep breath and turned around only to see the three ghosts including Li Le hiding at the corner tremblingly. Tsk. Li Le was such a playboy even after he became a ghost, he would still hang out with female ghosts. However… If he remembered it correctly, this guy had taken liberties with the Heavenly Soul before…

Evil Soul raised his eyebrows and smiled evilly, just like a demon. He stretched himself and approached the three weak ghosts step by step.