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Chapter 53 - 53 52 The Threat of the Wooden Box

53: Chapter 52 The Threat of the Wooden Box 53: Chapter 52 The Threat of the Wooden Box At the sight of the wooden box, Zhong Hua sprang up, his face etched with shock.

“Where did you get this thing?

Is it Zhao Shan’s?”

“Mm.”

Chu Yi grabbed the wooden box, “He infused his blood into it, and that’s how he transformed into the abomination you saw.”

“Sacrifice!” Zhong Hua slammed the table, “It’s a blood sacrifice!

Whatever is inside this has been around for at least three thousand years!”

“The head inside is a three-thousand-year-old ghost?”

Chu Yi was also surprised, realizing that what he held was actually an antique.

But inadvertently, he had leaked an important piece of information…

“You’ve seen what’s inside?!” Zhong Hua asked with deadly seriousness.

No sooner had he spoken than two guards tensely drew their guns, disengaging the safeties.

Chu Yi, acting as if he hadn’t noticed, nodded and said without changing his expression, “Mm, I saw it when I was fighting with that thing.”

“What did it look like?

Can you recall?”

Chu Yi casually concocted an excuse, he had gazed directly into Zhao Shan’s eyes during their fight and experienced a fleeting hallucination…

“Hallucination…

so you’re saying you never opened it?”

“Mm.”

Zhong Hua instantly breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand to calm the guards before apologetically saying to Chu Yi, “Sorry about that, we overreacted a bit.

This matter is no small thing; we have to be on guard.”

Chu Yi had a bad premonition, “How ‘no small thing’ is it?”

Zhong Hua hesitated for a moment but eventually told the truth, “From what I guess, this is some type of sacrificial abomination.

If the head you saw inside is real, then it must have cultivated its powers for at least three thousand years to manifest physically.

And you mentioned Zhao Shan merely sacrificed blood to transform like that; if he had sacrificed a life instead…

I’m afraid I’d be handling your remains now.”

“It’s that evil?”

Chu Yi exclaimed in astonishment.

His already shaky beliefs were teetering on the edge after being validated by an official institution.

“Lucky we caught it early.” Zhong Hua’s words seemed to acknowledge something, “There was a similar incident last year.

Do you know how many died before it was resolved?”

“How many?”

“One hundred thirty-six soldiers, seventeen experts like you and Li Xin, and twenty-seven civilians.”

As he spoke, Zhong Hua lit a cigarette by himself, “The soldiers and experts are one thing, but for those twenty-seven civilians, we had to fabricate a reason for their deaths.

We even staged a bus accident, remember last year’s 4.27 tunnel crash?”

“I don’t!”

Zhong Hua choked on his smoke in a fit of violent coughing, “How can you not know about such a big deal?”

Chu Yi shrugged, “At that time, I was still in the mountains, possibly in solitary confinement.

How could I know?”

“Uh…” Zhong Hua paused, “Anyway, that incident was very serious.

A five-hundred-year-old official kiln vase compared to your thing of over three thousand years, it doesn’t even come close.

Do you understand the severity of the situation now?”

“I see.” Chu Yi glanced down at the wooden box for a couple of seconds and then suddenly tossed it towards Zhong Hua, “Then you’d better take care of it.”

“Damn it!

Be careful!” Zhong Hua caught the wooden box in a flustered manner.

The moment he touched it, his brain buzzed.

Clandestine whispers rushed at him from all directions.

The words, replete with seduction and provocation, sought to persuade Zhong Hua to find it an offering.

In just a few blinks, Zhong Hua was horrified to find that his resolve was on the verge of collapse.

Once it broke, he would be the next Zhao Shan.

“No, I’ve got to let go quickly!”

Zhong Hua roared internally, but his body had lost control, and he couldn’t move even his fingers.

Just as he felt he was done for, a hand suddenly snatched the wooden box from his grasp.

“Uncle Zhong, let me take a look!”

Li Xin chuckled as she grabbed the wooden box.

The next second, her curiosity turned to terror.

However, compared to Zhong Hua, her reaction was much better.

“Ah!

A ghost!”

With a scream, Li Xin flung the wooden box away.

Zhong Hua’s face turned pale in an instant, “Catch it quickly!”

Before his words had faded, a powerful large hand caught the wooden box in mid-air.

Chu Yi glanced at the wooden box and then at the two people looking as if they’d seen a ghost, and couldn’t help but feel speechless, “Are you two serious?

Your faces are paler than the other’s.”

Zhong Hua and Li Xin stared blankly at him as he weighed the wooden box in his hand, not only looking composed but also exuding a hint of disdain, causing a huge wave to rise in their hearts.

The feeling of being close to death just now was still fresh.

Without a doubt, the wooden box possessed an incredibly strong power of enticement; once enticed by it, one would become its slave, seeking sacrifices for it, or offering oneself as a sacrifice.

If an ordinary person came into contact with it, they would probably fall under its spell immediately, just like Zhao Shan did.

But at this moment…

“Are you alright?”

“Don’t you feel anything wrong?”

The two asked somewhat nervously, making Chu Yi even more puzzled.

“What could possibly be wrong?”

He actually felt nothing?!

How could that be!

With such a strong enticement, how could he not feel anything at all?

Could it be…

he was already under the control of the thing inside?

Thinking of this possibility, Zhong Hua secretly made a gesture to Li Xin, who nodded in understanding and slowly pulled out an alarm.

As soon as it was pressed, the entire base’s armed forces would be deployed at top speed…

“Chu Yi, I’m going to ask you a few questions now, and I want you to answer honestly,”

Zhong Hua said with utmost seriousness.

“Ask away.”

“Do you remember the first time we met?”

“Yes.”

“Then can you describe what happened?”

As he spoke, Zhong Hua’s hand reached behind him, ready to draw his gun if Chu Yi’s answer was incorrect.

The atmosphere in the room became a bit tense.

At this moment, Chu Yi spoke.

“It was in the nightclub where we found a mass of black qi controlling people, then you guys showed up, oh right, and I got into a fight with Li Xin.”

As he spoke, Chu Yi raised an eyebrow at Li Xin, “You’re quite skilled, really bouncy butt.”

With that, the tension in the room immediately loosened.

Zhong Hua let out a sigh of relief, and his hand also relaxed.

Although evil entities could entice and even possess and control people, their memories were typically jumbled and unclear; if Chu Yi really had been compromised, his answer would have contained some errors.

For instance, mixing up the time or place, etc.

Fortunately, all the details were correct…

Though it was just a preliminary judgment, it was enough to suggest some conclusions.

Just then, Li Xin’s voice rose, teeth gritted,

“Chu Yi!

What did you say?!”

Chu Yi just grinned at her, not answering, but making a spanking gesture, which made Li Xin’s face turn beet red with anger.

Zhong Hua felt even more at ease.

This shameless demeanor, evil entities definitely can’t pull that off!