The Extraordinary Urban God of Medicine

Chapter 480: You Know Too Much!
 

The front door of the villa was wide open. An elderly woman, hunched over and with deep wrinkles etched across her withered face, tottered in. She looked so old and pale it was as if she were a corpse.

It was a horrifying sight indeed.

However, to Huang Xiaolong, it was merely a façade, a trick designed to fool the ordinary eye. The real face of the creature was a hideous cat face!

The cruel, gloomy cat eyes seemed to be shrouded in a mist of blood, a face covered in black fur, and a wide mouth like a cat ready to take a bite. And the cat’s nose; the foul smell of cat feces and decaying corpses enveloping it.

It was a grotesque monster.

This was the infamous ‘cat-faced old woman’.

Behind the ‘cat-faced old woman’ was the old servant, “Uncle Miao” who answered the door yesterday. He, too, was a demon that had morphed from a ghost cat into a human form.

At this moment, the demon, Uncle Miao, had a young woman slung over his shoulder.

The woman was limp and seemed unable to speak, her large watery eyes filled with tears and fear.

However, when she saw Huang Xiaolong, she showed a sense of relief in her beautiful eyes, desperately blinking at Huang Xiaolong.

If this woman wasn’t Xia Ying, then who could it be?

On Xia Ying’s wrist, which was as white as mutton fat jade, was the wooden bracelet made from a coffin tree.

It seems that Xia Ying trusted her aunt, the cat-faced old woman, so much that she put the bracelet on again as agreed.

However, her meeting with the ‘cat-faced old woman’ was earlier than planned. Currently, she seemed drugged; her body immobilized, unable to speak, although her consciousness still remained.

“Hee hee hee~~~” The cat-faced old woman emitted a beastly laugh while looking at Huang Xiaolong. “Boy, you really like to meddle in other people’s affairs…all seen by you now, huh? Sigh~~ People who love meddling tend to have short lives, in your next life remember, don’t be so curious…”

While she spoke, the cat-faced old woman had a heinous foul smell, her teeth glowing ominously.

“I believe the real Xia Lin died from a stroke more than twenty years ago.” Huang Xiaolong said, undeterred. “However, just at that moment, a black cat happened to pass by. That’s no ordinary cat, but something similar to a spectre.”

Huang Xiaolong tapped his forehead. “Spectres, such as fox spirits, mountain goblins, are creatures that practiced centuries to be on the verge of becoming a spirit.”

“That black cat, which is a spectre, hopped onto the body of the late Xia Lin, partially summoning her soul back, and then inhabited her body. Using Xia Lin’s body as a vessel, it became something that was not human, a ghost, or a demon, thus forming the creature known as the ‘cat-faced old woman’ of Jiangnan City …” Huang Xiaolong explained casually.

After hearing this, Xia Ying had a look of horror and regret in her eyes.

Actually, Mengqi had already warned her yesterday that there was something wrong with her aunt, but she didn’t believe her out of respect and love for her.

Today, the cat-faced old woman called her and asked her to wear the bracelet early and come over.

The cat-faced old woman invited Xia Ying to a restaurant in the pedestrian street, and Xia Ying, having drunk the spiked wine, lost all her strength and couldn’t even speak.

“Oh…boy, I didn’t think you’d know so much…” As the cat-faced old woman spoke, a cat-like wailing sound emerged from her throat.

“As for your conspiracy against Xia Ying…” Huang Xiaolong said, his eyes flashing with amusement.

“You know about that too? Heh Heh~~ Tell me then.” The old woman with the cat face studied Huang Xiaolong with a challenging gaze.

“It’s simple. The skin of old lady Xia Lin is unappealing and, not to mention, saggy and dead-looking due to her advanced age. That’s why you’ve been scheming to find a new skin to wear. To find a new skin, you need to choose someone suitable. Just then, you discovered Xia Ying. Beautiful by nature, she was cute as ice and snow in her childhood, and only grew more gorgeous and alluring as she aged. So, you decided to take over her body.”

“Next, you arranged an ancient witchcraft ritual, which aimed to ‘recall a soul to a dead body.’ There are stringent requirements for the witchcraft to work. The coffin-wood bracelet is the key to the formation activation. Plus, this bracelet had to be worn by Xia Ying from a young age, nurtured by her energy and soul. Yesterday evening, when Xia Ying came to meet you, you intended to trigger the witchcraft formation right away. However, you discovered she was not wearing the yin-wood bracelet, and that enraged you.”

Huang Xiaolong grinned, “Xia Ying narrowly escaped danger last night. But since I was accompanying her, I could have ensured her safety even if she had worn the yin-wood bracelet last night.”

Upon hearing Huang Xiaolong’s story, both Mengqi and Xia Ying displayed an expression of sudden realization.

“Impressive… young man, you’re pretty impressive. Yes, Yingying was the one I chose since she was young. She’s the most suitable person for me to possess.” The cat-faced old lady responded with a strange smile, “Tonight, I’m going to strip off her skin, eat her internal organs, and then I can become her by wearing her skin! She’s so young and beautiful… meow~~~ What a blessing it is to be able to become her~~meow~~~”

The cat-faced old lady’s excitement intensified, “Skinning is easy. I’ll use the sharpest scalpel to make a cut on her forehead, and then pour mercury into it. This way, her entire piece of skin—intact skin—will come off… It’s so vibrant, youthful, beautiful, and a million times better than this old, dead skin of mine~~”

Listening to the old woman’s words, Xia Ying felt a shudder of revulsion run through her body, bringing with it a wave of nausea.

Despite being an ancient martial arts grandmaster, the thought of almost having been skinned alive nearly made her faint.

Xia Ying gave Huang Xiaolong a pitiful and pleading look.

“Young man, you know too much, therefore…you must die!” The cat-faced old lady’s body surged with a vicious aura as her face contorted horribly. In the next second, she let out a—”meow~~~”

A long hiss echoed in the air!

It seemed like she was summoning something!

Shortly after, a flood of different kinds of cats began to scramble through the villa’s front door and windows.

All kinds of cats—street cats, black cats, pet cats… However, they all had one thing in common: they were saturated with gloomy and resentful spirits, even more terrifying than ordinary ghosts. Their eyes glowed with a fluorescent green light!

The cats, treading softly, started to close in on Huang Xiaolong and Mengqi.

At the corners of their mouths, a bloodthirsty grin appeared.

They seemed very excited and filled with an overwhelming sense of hunger.

This was no ordinary group of cats. They were all ghost cats!

“Meow~~~ Tear them apart!” Following a horrific and eerie meow, the cat-faced old lady shouted her command.

An innumerable horde of ghost cats pounced crazily at Huang Xiaolong and Mengqi!

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