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Chapter 176 - 162: Shikigami

Chapter 176: Chapter 162: Shikigami

Tap tap tap.

The clacking of police boots descending the stairs, entering everyone’s line of sight, was a young police officer.

His expression was casual, his hand clutching a comically large, blood-soaked rusty machete, surveying the scene with a glance.

Ignoring the ’security guard’ holding a machete, ignoring the foreign laborers dressed only in their underwear, ignoring the bags of white powder on the table, he suddenly strode to the wall, picked up a red fire extinguisher and inspected it repeatedly.

A guard standing against the wall covertly reached for his holstered gun and demanded harshly, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

"I am the head of the temporary work group for fire safety inspection in the Gangnam District business service area of the Seoul City International Modernization Global City Special Planning Major Urban Disaster Prevention Project."

Without turning around, Li Cheng said, "This portable chemical foam fire extinguisher of yours has exceeded its five-year scrap limit. It’s time to replace it."

What Seoul what disaster prevention what temporary work group...

The majority of people were utterly confused by the string of titles, while that particular security guard suddenly drew his pistol from his waist and pulled the trigger on Li Cheng.

Clang!

The bullet was blocked by the rusty machete, ricocheting off into the ceiling and walls before shattering a glass beaker on the table.

"Oh, you dare attack the police?"

Enraged, Li Cheng instantly hurled the rusty machete; with a crack, the blade diagonally pierced the guard’s abdomen, pinning him against the wall.

The guard’s upper body, wearing an expression of confusion, slid down the blade, while his legs remained standing against the wall.

The bloody and brutal scene shattered everyone’s mental limits.

Some guards shouted and charged with blades in hand, while others, along with the foreign workers in underwear, cried and rushed toward the upward staircase, frantically pounding on the locked iron door.

"It’s all yours."

Li Cheng pulled out an Electronic Pet Egg, releasing Gray Rain who, chuckling strangely, conjured a large axe and Chain Saw Sword, wantonly slaughtering the guards while muttering, "Fight, exhilarating!"

Cries, screams, moans, sounds of breaking limbs.

Hidden in a secret room, Song Canhui, listening to the chaotic noises outside, felt chills running down his spine.

He did not rush out; instead, he carefully closed the door and took out a wolf-shaped white paper cutting from his upper pocket.

"It must work!"

After silently praying, he bit his tongue tip and sprayed blood on the paper cutting. Then he quickly stuffed it into the gap under the door.

Hiss—

The blood slowly evaporated, rising in curling wisps of smoke.

Song Canhui turned around, opened the bathroom, and covered the mouth of the Southeast Asian woman who had just finished bathing, gesturing for her to be silent.

After a flurry of hand gestures, the woman understood Song Canhui’s intentions. She stood by the wall to let Song Canhui step on her shoulders, and together, they silently pried open the ventilation duct grille.

Song Canhui climbed into the ventilation duct first, then stretched down a leg to help the Southeast Asian woman climb up.

The two turned around in the duct junction with difficulty, then returned to the original point to reinstall the ventilation grille.

To hide the secret, the entire underground drug factory had only one exit, and an iron grille was added at the end of the ventilation duct, making escape impossible from there.

However, Song Canhui didn’t plan on escaping to the surface; he huddled in the duct, sweating profusely, not daring to breathe loudly.

Meanwhile, in the underground factory, the continually emanating mist from the paper cutting eventually transformed into a giant gray wolf, shoulder-high and as big as a human.

"Oh?"

Li Cheng stopped in his tracks with great interest. The gray wolf had a tangible body but didn’t breathe.

Its existence was between that of a living creature and a spiritual body. It resembled the summoned beings like Shikigami and Servant Demons—this script world also harbored Extraordinary Power.

The giant gray wolf sprinted briefly, leaped onto a long table, knocking aside rows of drug-making tools, then dove ferociously, opening its massive jaws to bite at Li Cheng’s head.

Li Cheng slightly turned his body to dodge the attack and simultaneously raised his arms, swiftly and accurately wrapping them around the gray wolf’s neck, swinging it in a circle then smashing it hard onto the ground.

Amidst the rising dust, Li Cheng gripped the gray wolf’s upper and lower jaws with both hands, tearing them apart with a ripping sound, splitting its skull completely.

Bang!

The corpse of the gray wolf burst like a balloon, containing no flesh, only a blood-stained paper cutting.

[Item Name: Shikigami Paper Cutting·Wolf]

[Type: Ritual Prop (Consumable)]

[Quality: Ruined]

[Special Effect: Summoning of the Shikigami. Summons an enhanced Kenai Peninsula wolf capable of understanding basic commands]

[Consumption: No less than 5ml of human blood]

[Cooling Time: None]

[Use Conditions: The user has previously drunk Spiritual Teachings Talisman Water]

[Note: This item is a one-time consumable, now discarded]

[Note: In May 1915, the last female wolf of the largest dog family species, the Kenai Peninsula wolf, was killed by a prospector in a valley in northern Alaska, leading to the total extinction of the species globally]

The brief sound of the fight subsided, and the factory echoed with a frivolous call for someone, "Song Canhui, Song Canhui..."

Song Canhui’s heart leapt to his throat, his panic reaching a peak as the voice approached the hidden room.

"Strange, there’s no one here either..."

The voice lingered in the room for a while, then left disappointedly through the door.

Song Canhui clenched his teeth tightly, cautiously took out his cellphone from his pocket, and sent a distress message to his superior.

Buzz!!!

The cellphone suddenly vibrated startlingly. As Song Canhui watched with desperate eyes about to burst, it rang noisily, with the caller ID showing "Jin Haoguang."

The ringing soon stopped, but it was already too late.

The ventilation grill was flung open and Li Cheng’s head peeked in, holding Jin Haoguang’s cellphone, smiling at Song Canhui saying, "Found you."

Swish!

Li Cheng violently dragged him out of the ventilation duct and threw him onto the ground, asking with a smile, "This afternoon, you drove a van sending a female corpse to Jiangdong District Police Station, handing it over to Commissioner Jin Haoguang. Remember?"

"I remember..."

With a broken left leg, Song Canhui cried in pain, his speech unclear, "It wasn’t me, it was my boss, Liu Chengzhe, the president of Chengzhe Group who asked me to transport the corpse. There was also a Prosecutor with us..."

Li Cheng raised an eyebrow; South Korea’s political system implements the separation of powers, and the Prosecutor’s Office belongs to the administrative branch of the government, nominally under the Ministry of Justice.

With just over a thousand prosecutors nationwide, they have the authority to initiate investigations, direct police probes, and request arrest warrants, managing criminal information related to the upper echelons of society, enterprises, and organizations, and can summon CEOs, members of the national assembly, and government officials at will.

It is a distinct kingdom within the South Korean political system, to the extent that there is a saying, "Political power is limited, the power of the Prosecutor’s Office is unlimited."

Being able to command a prosecutor to personally transport the "corpse"...it’s strange from every angle.

Pinching the Shikigami Paper Cutting in his fingers, Li Cheng asked, "Who gave you this Spiritual Teachings Summoning Shikigami Paper?"