55: Puppetry

Qin Shou looked down, only to see that Li Zhengxi had come back to life, grabbing his ankle, smiling sinisterly at him, which made one feel a chill.

"Holy crap! Are you playing a ghost!"

Qin Shou was startled by this sudden turn of events and, without hesitation, lifted his foot and kicked Li Zhengxi's pale face.

Qin Shou's kick was powerful and full of force. Although Li Zhengxi was a man, he usually paid great attention to facial care and cherished his appearance. Seeing Qin Shou's kick heading straight for his face, he immediately let go of Qin Shou's ankle, rolled over, and dodged Qin Shou's attack. Then, his body suddenly sprang up in a strange posture, moving very agilely, completely unlike someone who had just suffered serious injuries.

"Hehe, I'm going to tear you into a thousand pieces, making you wish for life but unable to live, and wish for death but unable to die!"

Li Zhengxi stared at Qin Shou with sinister eyes, a cruel smile on his lips.

As he spoke, he suddenly took out a black short flute from hisHuai and began to play it.

The sound from the short flute was a wailing, somewhat like a cat's cry in the deep night, sounding eerie, indescribably unpleasant and strange.

Qin Shou heard the piercing flute sound and thought, 'Holy crap, are you out of your mind? If you're going to fight, then fight. What are you doing pretending to be a music expert? You're practically raping my ears.'

"Master, this is puppetry! This person is already a Late Yellow Rank puppeteer! Run quickly, you are not his opponent now!"

Just as Qin Shou finished complaining, a clear, melodious girl's voice, as beautiful as an oriole, suddenly echoed in his mind.

"Oh! You are—Ling'er?"

Qin Shou was stunned for a moment when he heard this voice, then quickly realized that it was the voice of the girl who called herself Ling'er, who had appeared in his mind earlier.

"That's right, Master, it is I, Ling'er." The girl's voice echoed in his mind again, confirming his guess.

"Ah—! Help!"

No sooner had Ling'er finished speaking than Zhu Xinyao, who was still hiding inside the hummer vehicle, suddenly screamed in terror.

Qin Shou heard Zhu Xinyao's scream and quickly turned to look, only to see that the two Blood God Cult members, who had been completely crushed under the overturned hummer vehicle, with their internal organs almost ruptured, had somehow started to move in an extremely bizarre way! Moreover, their strength had become incredibly immense, causing the heavy hummer vehicle pressing down on them to begin shaking violently, looking as if it could be flipped over by them at any moment.

"What the hell! What is this? Are you filming Resident Evil here? How did you even get zombies?"

Seeing this scene, Qin Shou felt his scalp tingle and a chill run down his spine.

Qin Shou, without a word, immediately rushed over. He knew this was not the time to be stunned; he had to rescue Zhu Xinyao as quickly as possible.

"Zhu Xinyao, give me your hand quickly!"

Qin Shou ran to the hummer vehicle and shouted loudly at Zhu Xinyao inside, extending his hand to grab her at the same time.

Zhu Xinyao heard Qin Shou's voice and, disregarding everything else, immediately grabbed Qin Shou's outstretched hand. Qin Shou pulled hard, dragging Zhu Xinyao out of the vehicle.

However, as soon as Qin Shou pulled Zhu Xinyao out of the vehicle, he noticed that Zhu Xinyao's calf was grabbed by the two puppets pinned under the vehicle.

Zhu Xinyao was terrified, screaming frantically, kicking her calves wildly, trying to break free, but her strength was too small, and the puppets possessed immense power, rendering her efforts futile.

Fortunately, Qin Shou was quick-witted. He quickly picked up the short knife that had fallen to the ground and, without hesitation, chopped off the arm of the puppet that was holding Zhu Xinyao's calf.

With a crack, blood splattered everywhere as Qin Shou directly severed the puppet's arm.

However, no sooner had Qin Shou rescued Zhu Xinyao from these two puppets than the other Blood God Cult members he had killed had all awakened. Their eyes were hollow, their faces pale, yet their movements were not slow at all. They twisted their bodies in extremely strange postures, approaching Qin Shou and Zhu Xinyao, creating an utterly bizarre scene.

Seeing this, Qin Shou delivered a flying kick directly to the chest of the foremost puppet. He put all his strength into this kick. But to his horror, when his powerful and heavy kick landed, the puppet merely paused slightly, as if nothing had happened.

Instead, Qin Shou himself was bounced back by the immense recoil, feeling a dull ache in his leg bone, which he feared might have fractured.

Having personally experienced the strength of these puppets, Qin Shou felt somewhat powerless for a moment. With his current strength, he probably couldn't even deal with one puppet, and there were five or six of them; he had no chance of winning at all.

Qin Shou thought, 'Damn it, I finally got a system and was ready for a cool, awesome, and domineering web novel plot, but here I am, at the very beginning, about to surrender?'

Just as Qin Shou was despairing, an audi a6 suddenly rushed over from his diagonal rear, directly hitting and sending the foremost puppet flying.

"Brother Qin! Get in the car quickly!"

Zhang Wei poked his head out of the driver's side window, his expression anxious, frantically waving at him.

"Zhang Wei? Why is this guy here?"

Qin Shou was full of questions, but this was not the time to think about them. He quickly pulled open the car door and, taking the still-shaken Zhu Xinyao, swiftly got into the car.

It must be said that Zhang Wei was indeed a Second-generation rich. He had been driving longer than Qin Shou, and his skills were considerably better than Qin Shou's. With a beautiful drift, he directly hit two puppets, then stepped on the accelerator, driving directly over one of them.

Subsequently, Zhang Wei skillfully bypassed the hummer vehicle overturned by the roadside and drove away, raising a cloud of dust.

"Damn it!"

Li Zhengxi watched helplessly as Qin Shou and Zhu Xinyao escaped right under his nose, fuming with rage. He angrily kicked the nearby land rover vehicle, venting his anger.

However, his kick aggravated the injury on his chest, causing him to cough violently, cold sweat breaking out on his forehead from the pain, and his face turning even paler. He clutched his chest, and another mouthful of blood involuntarily gushed out.

"Damn it! I was too careless! I didn't expect this person to also know Dragon Country's Qigong. I should have been more cautious."

Li Zhengxi slumped to the ground, gasping for breath. He was severely injured now and unable to pursue Qin Shou and them further.

He painstakingly took out his phone from his pocket, his fingers trembling as he dialed a number.

"Hello! Is the matter settled?"

A low, somewhat chilling male voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Master, I'm sorry, I failed. The target was much harder to deal with than I imagined. I am seriously injured and unable to move now. Please send someone to pick me up quickly."

Li Zhengxi's voice was somewhat weak, and he was panting as he spoke.