Zombie Bodyguard
Chapter 595 - 592: Lord Gu

Chapter 595: Chapter 592: Lord Gu

After dealing with four ninjas, Lin Tian donned the ninja’s clothing and black scarf. It was dark, and although there were lights in the shrine, it was not as bright as during the day, allowing them to move around the inside of the shrine freely.

"Lin Tian, as you walk in like this, do you know where their important places are?" Ning Luoxi, seeing Lin Tian wandering around, asked curiously.

"I don’t know, doesn’t the Heavenly Master Beauty know? In Japan, the architectural structure of shrines is quite common. In such structures, everything is arranged according to a pattern, and important places are generally in specific positions. This architectural philosophy comes from Huaxia, like the imperial buildings, where each important place has its prescribed position and orientation. As a Demon Exorcist, shouldn’t the Heavenly Master Girl, with her extensive knowledge of Onmyoji, be able to find the critical spots?" Lin Tian turned to look at the Heavenly Master Girl as he spoke.

"You sure know a lot. I am aware of the shrine’s layout. Follow me, but I can’t guarantee the people we are looking for will be there," the Heavenly Master Girl said.

"Hold on, which one of you speaks Japanese? It would be best for her to handle the Japanese here. Although we are not afraid of blowing our cover, more time for investigation means more information we can gather. After all, coming to the Gu Cultivator’s den, we can’t just kill a couple of people and leave empty-handed," Lin Tian said.

Ning Luoxi nodded in agreement. This time, in pursuing the Gu Cultivator, they had expended considerable effort and resources, a cost they intended to recover from those in Japan.

"I speak Japanese. I’ll lead the way," Ning Luoxi said, and neither Lin Tian nor the Heavenly Master Girl objected as they continued deeper into the shrine.

They had only walked a few steps when they were approached by three ninjas. However, the three ninjas merely glanced at Lin Tian and the others without asking any questions and passed by.

"Life here is really oppressive. It’s bad enough being in the middle of nowhere, but people here are so cold towards each other. How can anyone live like this, staying here to serve the Gu Cultivators or the Sun Shadow Association?" Lin Tian shook his head slightly, his tone uninterested.

Moving ahead, Ning Luoxi didn’t turn back but directly responded, "In a place like this, controlling people relies on set methods. Moreover, many such ninjas and enforcers are orphans taken in young and trained to be killing machines. Or they’re desperadoes harboring from the law, whom only a place like this could shelter. Can these people be like comrades-in-arms?"

"Right, these people, who would backstab their own just to complete a mission, can’t be called comrades. At best, they’re merely serving the same boss," Lin Tian agreed.

Arriving at a fork, the Heavenly Master Girl gestured to turn right, but before Lin Tian could turn, two people approached from the other corridor.

The two were a man and a woman, the man wearing a doctor’s white coat and not very tall, sporting a mustache, while the woman was dressed in a nurse outfit, walking and taking notes as the male doctor spoke.

"Hey, you three, stop!" the man in the white coat immediately spotted Lin Tian and the others, shouted loudly in Japanese, which Lin Tian understood with no problem due to the translation.

Ning Luoxi’s eyes flashed as she was about to make a move, thinking her identity had been exposed and that it was necessary to strike first.

Yet, Lin Tian quietly gestured to her to calm down. The people in this shrine were very cold towards one another, even to the extent of not recognizing each other.

All three of them were dressed as ninjas, and the man in the white coat did not have X-ray vision, so how could he distinguish the real from the fake? Lin Tian felt that the Japanese must be up to something.

Lin Tian and his companions stopped, turned around, and looked at the man in the white coat, curious to see what he wanted.

"You three, come with me, we’re extremely busy, and you’re just wandering around!" the doctor in the white coat said coldly, commanding in tone. It seemed in the shrine, ninjas held a lower status than doctors.

"We were just about to go to our leader to get our assignment, so..." Ning Luoxi’s voice was suppressed, speaking vaguely.

But before she could finish, the doctor immediately interrupted, shouting, "Which is more important, your tasks or the laboratory work? If you delay the work and Lord Gu blames us, even your ninja leader can’t bear the responsibility!"

Lord Gu? Lin Tian felt a stir in his heart. Could it be that this white-coated person wasn’t really a doctor, but a researcher? Given his words, it seemed possible that Lord Gu and the Gu Cultivator were the same person, and this laboratory mentioned by the man in white could specifically be for the Gu Cultivator’s various experiments.

Lin Tian looked towards Ning Luoxi and the Heavenly Master Girl. They, too, glanced over unintentionally, clearly thinking along the same lines as Lin Tian.

"What are you dawdling for? Hurry up and follow me." The white-coated man had started to walk away, but seeing that Lin Tian and the others were still not moving, he immediately turned back and scolded them.

Lin Tian didn’t say anything, since he could only understand but not speak Japanese, and he followed along with Ning Luoxi and the Heavenly Master Girl.

The man in white and a nurse walked ahead while Lin Tian and the others followed behind, retracing their steps but not heading outside. Instead, they took a turn in another direction.

They soon arrived in front of a row of buildings. These buildings, only three stories high, were completely painted white, and lights were on both inside and outside, making them brightly lit. This place was the only part that differed from the shrine’s surroundings, likely due to it being a laboratory.

As they approached the buildings, four people emerged. All four were ninjas, each pair carrying a simple stretcher covered with a white cloth, which by the looks of its shape, undoubtedly carried a dead body.

It turned out that not only Lin Tian and his companions, but other ninjas had also been pulled in to endure the laborious task of carrying corpses. What was this laboratory doing, perhaps conducting live Gu experiments?

As Lin Tian was guessing, a gust of wind blew in from outside. The white cloth on one of the stretchers was not securely fastened and was lifted by the wind, falling to the ground.

The contents of the stretcher thus lay exposed under the light. Lin Tian looked over, and this sight almost made him vomit his dinner from the night before.

The stretcher indeed carried a dead body, but the state of death was horrific. The body was covered with large blisters, some of which had burst, oozing green fluid.

Lin Tian had seen something similar before. It was in the old district of Kyoto City when he had encountered the Gu Cultivator, where several hoodlums got sprayed with toad poison, which blighted their bodies much like the corpse before him.

The bodies were covered in large blisters, oozing green fluid. The only difference was that those hoodlums had also been infested with toad insect eggs, but eventually, all were incinerated by Li Qingyun.

Even though Lin Tian had witnessed it once before, he still felt such grotesque sights were nauseating, far worse than any beheading or dismembering torture by a hundredfold.

Even Lin Tian, being a zombie, felt his stomach churn. The two ninjas responsible for carrying the stretcher were even more overwhelmed. Trembling, their limbs weakened, and the stretcher immediately fell, rolling the corpse to the feet of the nurse.