Chapter 1 Nightmare Assault

“Cough, cough…”

The darkness that had enveloped the night sky dissipated, and the surrounding scenery returned. Li Bai supported herself against the wall, staggering out of the door. But her appearance was truly terrifying. All of her exposed skin was covered in corpse spots. Li Bai's skin was already pale, and this starkly contrasted the corpse spots, making them appear even more ghastly.

“How are you?” Now that everyone knew Li Bai had been afflicted by the Demon Town technique, they weren't as afraid. Fatty kept comforting her. Yao Shunyu was still lying on the bed inside the room, his physical condition the same as Li Bai's.

After getting acquainted with the situation, everyone realized that although Li Bai was covered in corpse spots, she didn't have the putrid smell of a corpse. Her skin was smooth and elastic, the blood seeping from her wounds was a normal bright red, and her body temperature was fine. In other words, if you ignored the corpse spots, Li Bai and Yao Shunyu were no different from ordinary people.

After listening to Fatty's explanation, Li Bai finally calmed down. A moment ago, she really thought she was dead. "Miss Li, don't worry, I know how to break this Demon Town technique!" Tang Qisheng said, walking straight to the two paper figures behind the courtyard gate. Now that the person who cast the spell was dead, as long as they found the formation eye, this magic wouldn't be difficult to solve.

He circled the two paper figures twice, then dipped his finger in saliva and gently wiped off the blood between the eyebrows of the two paper figures. "This blood between the eyebrows was stolen from you. Now that I've wiped it off, we just need to find the formation plate used to cast the spell and destroy it, and this magic will be broken!" Tang Qisheng explained earnestly to everyone.

Now that everyone was a united front, helping Jiang Cheng and the others was helping himself. Tang Qisheng understood the logic behind it. "Demon formations are best set up in dark, bloody places, surrounded by enough offerings."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone unanimously thought of the woodshed in the backyard, where several headless roe deer were hanging, obviously an excellent location for a demon formation.

But when the group rushed to the woodshed and kicked open the door, the scene before them scared Fatty so much that he almost collapsed on the ground. Hanging from the rafters of the woodshed weren't roe deer at all, but four naked corpses!

The corpses were beheaded. The one on the far right only had its upper body left. Its intestines and other organs had been hollowed out, and a thick layer of salt was wrapped around it.

Looking at the half-corpse, Jiang Cheng's expression paused. He suddenly thought of the half-corpse he had found by the Blackwater River when he first arrived in this world, that corpse only had its lower body.

"No wonder… no wonder those people were wearing ribbons." Li Bai gritted her teeth, her face extremely ugly. "These people were supposed to be the ones contacting us, but the news leaked, and they were intercepted by people sent by the Night Watchers!"

Staring at the horrifying wounds on these corpses, Li Bai's eyes also turned wet. She could imagine the torture these men had suffered, but clearly these men hadn't betrayed them to the death, and hadn't told those bastards the contact code.

The situation was now clear. The four people from before were all disguised Night Watcher remnants. Fortunately, Wu had returned at the critical moment, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Moving aside some of the concealing debris, everyone quickly found a simply arranged altar in the corner of the woodshed. But the thing placed at the formation eye was a bit incomprehensible. At first, everyone thought it was just a strangely shaped black stone, but after Tang Qisheng touched it, he discovered that it was a lump of mud, molded into that shape, and then coated with a layer of ink.

As the lump of dry mud was being moved, a corner suddenly broke off, revealing a hint of dark red inside. Tang Qisheng leaned closer and sniffed, his brow furrowing. "It's blood, this mud is mixed with blood."

The shape of the mud was very strange, like an overturned black pot, with various strange tentacle-like protrusions extending around it.

"Could this… could this be Daheitian (Mahakala)?" The more Zhu Jie looked at it, the more likely it seemed. In her subconscious, the arrival of Daheitian was like a huge black pot covering the ground, but the size was too terrifying, enough to cover the entire village and the surrounding mountains and forests.

As Tang Qisheng smashed the mud block, the corpse spots on Li Bai's body disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye. Li Bai pulled open her clothes and looked at her chest, then breathed a sigh of relief.

Clearly, the so-called "birthmark" below her chest had also disappeared. This was all the work of the demon formation. The Night Watchers had really gone to great lengths to deal with them.

After destroying the demon formation, the group turned back, but as they were walking, Jiang Cheng suddenly changed direction and went to the kitchen.

There were still sparks of fire in the stone stove, and the room was filled with the aroma of meat.

But this time, everyone was completely distracted, and even the strong smell of meat made their stomachs feel particularly uncomfortable.

Taking a deep breath, Jiang Cheng lifted the pot lid. In the milky white broth were four heads that had been boiled beyond recognition.

Even though she was prepared, Zhu Jie's throat tightened, and she almost threw up.

In the end, Li Bai took out the heads, wrapped them in a piece of cloth she found, and Wu drove the Hungry Ghost to help dig a large pit in the yard, burying the four heads and the four corpses in it.

After doing all this, Jiang Cheng and Wu chatted about what happened in the deserted mountain. After realizing that he had been ambushed and those guys weren't his own people, Wu decisively killed the three, including the old man.

Although Wu didn't say it explicitly, Jiang Cheng could feel that these three were quite capable and had indeed brought some trouble to Wu.

It must be said that the Night Watchers had really gone to great lengths to deal with these people. The old man and the other three were definitely high-level disciples. Even the one who went by the name of Dr. Zhou could fight one against two, defeating both the Hungry Ghost and the Killer Ghost. It seemed that these people were among the top figures in the Night Watchers.

Li Bai sighed upon hearing this, "It's a pity that such people can't be used by us, and actually went all the way to the dark with the Night Watchers."

Wu thought for a while and then stretched out his hand. In the puzzled gazes of everyone, he opened his palm. After a moment, four glowing, 10-centimeter-tall dolls floated in Wu's palm.

The dolls had different shapes, and some were even impossible to tell what they were. Jiang Cheng could only recognize one, which was a rotten humanoid covered in red threads.

After being stunned for a while, Li Bai suddenly felt a little embarrassed. She probably understood what Wu meant, he wanted to tell her that there was actually no waste, he had collected all these good things.

Li Bai had heard about Wu's collecting hobby, but it was the first time she had seen it with her own eyes. In any case, Wu was on their side, and was the strongest and most reliable teammate.