Chapter 157: Heart Spirit Curse
Lin Yi tailed them from a distance.
He followed Wei Nan, Zhou Qi, Sun Tao, and Shen Mengyi.
They walked out of the hot pot restaurant and onto the main street.
The next moment, their vacant expressions suddenly changed.
They became bloodthirsty and frenzied.
And all the other students on the street had changed in the same way.
Veins bulged on their foreheads and faces.
It was as if they had instantly transformed into bloodthirsty beasts.
They viciously lunged at the unchanged people around them.
The members of the Martial Arts Police Station and the public security teams in the crowd were the primary targets.
Lin Yi watched helplessly as several officers from the Martial Arts Police Station were tackled to the ground by the surrounding students.
Just as Wei Nan, Zhou Qi, and the others turned to pounce on Lin Yi, the well-prepared Lin Yi immediately launched a mental attack against them.
The instant they were hit by the mental attack, their expressions turned dazed.
They froze in place.
A dozen or so seconds later, they immediately regained their senses.
"I... How did I get here? Is the hot pot finished?" Wei Nan asked, glancing around.
Then, Zhou Qi, Sun Tao, and the others also returned to normal.
Lin Yi shot them a look. "No time to explain!"
"The students have gone crazy. They’re attacking people indiscriminately. Help me save them!"
As he finished speaking, Wei Nan and the others turned to look at the street.
By now, the street had already descended into chaos.
All the students who had been inflicted with the Heart Spirit Curse were frantically attacking everyone else.
The whole scene was like a zombie apocalypse.
As for the members of the Martial Arts Police Station and the public security teams, they all began to fight back once they realized what was happening.
However, they didn’t dare to injure the students.
They could only try their best to restrain their frenzied actions.
But the more they held back, the more they found themselves on the defensive.
The students were like different people, each possessing immense strength that was impossible to control.
It often took two or three officers from the Martial Arts Police Station just to restrain a single female student.
In the crowd, an officer from the Martial Arts Police Station was surrounded by three or four students. He held a riot shield and a rubber baton, constantly trying to drive the students back.
But when the rubber baton struck their bodies, the students seemed to feel no pain and showed no signs of backing down.
Instead, they charged at the officer even more ferociously.
Just as he was about to be tackled by several students, Lin Yi appeared before them and delivered a sharp knife-hand strike to each of their necks.
Instantly, all of those students fell unconscious.
Their bodies went limp and crumpled to the ground.
"Th-thank you..."
the officer from the Martial Arts Police Station said to Lin Yi, still shaken.
"Just knock them out. Their weak point is their neck!"
"Right, right!"
He nodded hurriedly.
This was a conclusion Lin Yi had reached after a few quick experiments.
Although he could remove the Heart Spirit Curse inflicted on the students, the process was too slow.
Removing them one by one, he simply couldn’t keep up.
It was much more convenient to just knock them out temporarily.
With that, Lin Yi charged toward the other students again.
Wei Nan, Zhou Qi, Sun Tao, and Shen Mengyi didn’t stay idle either.
Following the method Lin Yi taught them, they weaved through the students.
Their knife-hand strikes landed continuously on the students’ necks.
As long as they controlled their strength, one strike was basically enough to knock them out.
As it turned out, Wei Nan got addicted to it.
He frantically chopped at the students’ necks with his hand.
"Hahaha... Bring on some more! This isn’t nearly enough! More..."
Wei Nan’s boisterous laughter left Zhou Qi and the others speechless.
Compared to the crazed students, Wei Nan seemed even more like a madman.
...
「Martial Arts Examination Center.」
The old man walked out of the main hall.
Yang Yong hurried over to him. "Sir, all these students have been inflicted with the Heart Spirit Curse!"
"Yes, I see that," the old man nodded, his expression growing darker.
He then added, "It seems this is Blood Drop’s plan."
"Yang Yong, where is Lin Yi?"
"Ah? Lin Yi? They... I think they went to eat hot pot, over on Fugui Road!"
"Find them immediately and ensure Lin Yi’s safety!"
"If he’s also been hit by the Heart Spirit Curse, bring him to me!"
"Yes, understood, Sir!"
Yang Yong nodded and hurried off toward Fugui Road.
After he left, the old man quickly joined the effort, dispelling the Heart Spirit Curse from the students.
The Heart Spirit Curse was, in fact, the type of curse that those impostors were best at.
Their method of attack was to silently inflict the Heart Spirit Curse, and then, from the shadows, control their victims’ minds to achieve their desired goal.
Although the old man had already made defensive preparations, some had still slipped through the net.
As the old man moved among the students, dispelling the Heart Spirit Curse, he scanned the surroundings from the corner of his eye.
’The impostor controlling their minds can’t be too far from here. If they’re outside a certain range, the students will lose control. So, to resolve this chaos, I have to find the controller first.’
But just as the old man was busy dispelling the students’ Heart Spirit Curse, they suddenly seemed to receive some kind of command.
They all stopped their attacks and looked in the same direction.
The next moment, they all broke into a mad dash.
They ran toward that direction.
"Chief, they’re all running away!"
Just then, Lan Yang arrived with the sixth squad.
Guo Wu and Lei Sheng also ran over one after another.
The old man looked in the direction the students were running.
Suddenly, his expression changed again. "This is bad! They’re going to Wushan for a sacrifice! Stop them!"
"Yes, sir!"
Everyone responded in unison.
Each led their team in pursuit of the students.
Meanwhile, Tang Zhan took members of the Martial Arts Police Station and the public security teams in vehicles to block the students’ path ahead of time.
He intended to delay them.
However, the students had already lost control of their minds.
They would kill anyone who stood in their way...
When they found their path blocked, they all chose to go around.
If they couldn’t get around, they would force a path through, determined to break out.
Faced with the students’ frenzy, the members of the Martial Arts Police Station were all dumbfounded.
"What the hell are you all standing around for? Stop them!"
"Captain Tang, th-they’re all students..." one of the officers said with hesitation.
Tang Zhan shot him a glare. "So what if they’re students? Knock them all out! Aim for the neck!"
"Riot squad, get your shields up! You have to stop them, no matter what!"
"Everyone else, move in! Knock them all out..."
Under Tang Zhan’s command, the officers poured onto the street.
Watching the martial arts exam candidates surge toward them like a tidal wave, they all prepared for battle.
A short time later, the moment the mindless students collided with the riot squad, a series of thudding sounds echoed endlessly.
They desperately slammed their bodies against the riot shields, trying to tear open a path and charge through.
The next moment, the other officers flanked them from both sides.
Meanwhile, on the rooftop of an old building, stood a figure in a red trench coat. A tail was visible, swinging back and forth from time to time.
Its upper body was that of a middle-aged man, but its lower body was that of a beast that had not yet fully transformed.
A look of appreciation flashed in its eyes.
It seemed quite pleased with the chaos on the street below.
Suddenly, its expression changed drastically.
It whipped its head around to look behind it.
There, a student in a school uniform was walking toward him.
"You... you’re a martial arts exam candidate?" the man asked, staring at the student before him in surprise.
The newcomer was none other than Lin Yi. He chuckled and nodded.
"Impossible. Every single student was inflicted with the Heart Spirit Curse. How are you unaffected?"
In response to his question, Lin Yi smiled.
"The Heart Spirit Curse? Something so crude probably doesn’t work on me."
"How about you try out my Heart Spirit Domain instead?"
"Heart Spirit Domain?"
The man’s expression changed. Before he could even react, he saw a flash of light before his eyes.
When he opened them again, he found himself floating in the middle of space.
Then, a cool voice rang out.
"Welcome to my Heart Spirit Domain."
"Huh?"
The man’s heart trembled, and he quickly looked across from him.
It was still the same student in the school uniform.
But next to him now was a massive white tiger.
The white tiger lay obediently beside Lin Yi, its tiger eyes greedily staring at the man.
In its eyes, he was already a delicious feast.