The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 198 - 199: You’re Quite the Gangster

Because I was standing high up, I saw a long bench next to that horned man, with a naked woman lying on it, seemingly asleep. It was the missing woman.

On her forehead, a horn was also growing, but in a different color from the man’s — one gold, the other silver.

Aren’t they the legendary Golden Horned King and Silver Horned King?

Chen Qinghan arrived, carrying a massive treasure sword, saw me crouching in the tree, surrounded by a group of Red Corpses, and wanted to come and help.

I quickly shouted to him, "Go fight the Golden Horned King! If he calls you, don’t respond~"

Chen Qinghan responded, changed direction, and ran towards the horned man. As soon as he shook his horn, the Red Corpses attacked me, indicating he was the manipulator of the Red Corpses.

The rescued woman mentioned the virus and the Red Corpses but never spoke of this horned man.

Either she deliberately withheld the information, or the person only grew horns after she left.

Actually, as long as you’re not afraid of virus infection, these things are not that scary. Their attack power is very low. In the sea, it’s fine, but on land, their attack speed isn’t even as fast as an eighty-year-old lady.

They hugged large trees and started shaking, trying to topple them. Brainless puppets are inevitably at a disadvantage.

When they toppled a tree, I switched to another. In the park, there were about a dozen trees as thick as two people hugging. They weren’t as fast or flexible as I was. When one fell, I jumped to another using its momentum.

And their heads can’t regenerate. I used up all the clips the captain gave me. Around every fallen tree lay thirty or forty corpses.

Over there, the horned man seemed unable to beat Chen Qinghan. His arm was chopped off by the massive treasure sword. He hurriedly shook his horn, and the Red Corpses surrounding me immediately split in half and went back to protect him.

They encircled Chen Qinghan, their mouths wide open, spitting out the scythe jellyfish I had seen before. This was undoubtedly a suicide defense tactic.

Scythe jellyfish can only live a few minutes after leaving the body, unless they can crawl back in, but under Chen Qinghan’s swordsmanship, they had no such chance.

Where Chen Qinghan’s swordsmanship came from is unknown; it was precise, slicing the scythe jellyfish and Red Corpses in half together.

Some didn’t even get the chance to crawl out. They were split while still in the mouth.

They were doomed, but they bought a little time for the horned man.

I think that’s his goal, as he took the opportunity to grab the woman on the bench and flee.

With so many buildings on the island, if he hides, how long will it take us to find him? What if he shuts off his mind, entering a brain empty state? With just the two of us, there’s no way we can conduct a grid search of the island.

"Leave it to you, I’ll give chase." I pushed off with my foot, leaping directly out of the Red Corpse encirclement.

"Be careful," Chen Qinghan twirled a pattern with the sword so quickly it left afterimages, taking a moment to warn me amidst his busyness.

"Small scene~" We’ve experienced such occasions many times, nothing novel here, just get on with it.

The horned man, carrying the woman, struggled to run. He was tall and strong, but that also made him less agile. Not being a professionally trained athlete, he hadn’t run far before I caught up.

"You beast, reveal your true form!" With a sprint, I caught up to the horned man, kicking him behind the knee.

He stumbled forward, the woman under his arm flying out, rolling twice on the ground, still not awake.

"Woo—" The horned man emitted a sound like a horn once again, but we were already a distance from the small plaza, so the Red Corpses couldn’t come immediately.

"You just know how to call people, real street-style of you. Growing a horn, you’re posing as a unicorn with me, aren’t you?" Out of bullets, I cushioned my hand with my sleeve and wielded the submachine gun like a club, aiming directly at his horn.

Upon closer look, I noticed the man’s pupils weren’t dilated, just expressionless, with blue light flickering in his eyes.

Clearly, whatever was controlling him was different from the scythe jellyfish.

The horned man tried to grab me. His arms were long, his legs too, but unfortunately, his moves weren’t swift as mine, each attempt grasping air, then his head taking a beating.

I jumped around him; he couldn’t outrun me, nor catch me, driving whatever was inside his body to frustration, wishing it could come out and fight me itself.

But it’s a leader — like a queen ant, it has no attack power, so it must not leave this strong shell.

However, this shell wasn’t that strong either. I broke his remaining arm, leaving it hanging weakly at his side.

That kick I gave earlier had power, so he had trouble moving one leg. He couldn’t run fast even if he wanted to now.

At this point, the Red Corpses arrived to rescue him, surrounding me again. I reckoned the horned man wouldn’t get far either. Unless we wiped out the Red Corpses, they’d endlessly obstruct us.

When you have an overwhelming strength advantage, stamina becomes another winning factor. The wheel tactic is meant to counter strong opponents.

But these Red Corpses didn’t drain my stamina, only my time.

I saw the horned man moving towards the woman again, evidently intending to act indecently in broad daylight.

I didn’t understand why his desire to reproduce was so strong, but whatever controlled him resided in his body.

When one species’ creature urges another species’ creature to reproduce, and with such urgency — wanting a child even when death is imminent — such a strong intention is certainly not good.

Of course, for them, it’s a ’mission,’ but for us, it’s not good.

I called for Chen Qinghan to stop him, but he was some distance away. In a critical moment, he threw his dagger, executing a flying sword maneuver that precisely sliced off the horned man’s tool!

In this inappropriate scene, I noticed something else at the horned man’s wound.

Before I could look closely, Chen Qinghan hurled another dart.

Captain Jack provided us these darts as conventional weapons. When they hit an object, they explode — they’re dart bombs.

The dart lodged in the horned man’s left eye, immediately exploding and blowing his head to pieces.

The Red Corpses surrounding me instantly lost control, staring blankly around, completely ignoring me and Chen Qinghan.

Meanwhile, the horned man’s head was blasted to bits. Chen Qinghan walked towards the grass, searching for something among the foliage.

I went to the horned man’s body, drew my dagger, and cut open his chest.

His internal structure had astonishingly changed. A translucent layer of material was attached to his organs, with new, vein-like structures forming within it.

Judging by where this material grew, it wasn’t trying to kill this shell. It didn’t occupy too much space or damage any organ.