145 Who Is I

The sound of gunfire reverberated at the end of the narrow cavern. A pool of dirty blood gathered on the ground. Both of the zombie’s legs were injured, and it was incapacitated. Other than a tattered cloth that covered its lower body modestly, the rest of its skin on its back and limbs were exposed. The dead spots on its body were crimson red from the splashed blood.

“You b*stards…” The zombie groaned in pain. His growls were filled with venomous hatred.

If not for the information it could provide, Gu Jun would not have minded giving it a shot to the head. He said, “Slowly turn around, or there’ll be more punishment coming your way.”

Since they approached it, the zombie had kept its face away from them. Even after it was shot, it still kept his front turned away. That was highly suspicious. This suspicious activity caused the team to be nervous. What if the zombie was hiding something dangerous in its chest…

The zombie slowly turned its body around to reveal its face. It was an old and ugly face. It had the shape of a human face, but it also contained hyena-like facial features. The protruding jaw was giving off the smell of putrefaction, and the eyes were muddy with tumult from long exposure to the abyss. Despite its appearance, the team could tell that this thing was once a human being. With that observation in mind, Gu Jun’s heart sank because he realized that the zombie before them was strangely familiar, like he had seen it somewhere before…

“Huh?” Xue Ba shared that feeling. His thick brows creased together as he looked as his team members inquisitively. Gu Jun peeled off the night vision goggles and was instantly thrown into darkness. Then, he aimed the flashlight affixed to his gun at the ugly creature. In the circle of light, Gu Jun could see clearly a rather conspicuous birth mark that was situated at the top-right of the zombie’s forehead. It jogged his memory… Birthmark, birthmark… An old portrait emerged from his memory. It slowly overlapped with the sickened appearance of the monster before him.

“You are…” Gu Jun couldn’t stop the chill in his voice. “Chen Fade, ‘Grandfather’ from Nan Tang Village.”

‘Grandfather?’ When they heard that keyword, the recognition also dawned on Xue Ba, Uncle Dan, and Lou Xiaoning. When they were investigating the grave robberies at Nan Tang Village, they had seen the portrait of that old man. It was on the tombstone of the most lavish grave, and it was also situated on the top shelf inside the Chen clan’s ancestral hall. One of the victims of the grave robberies was the respected elder of Chen clan, Grandfather, Chen Fade.

‘Order?’ Gu Jun frowned. ‘Is it the order that mom is a part of? No, based on what happened earlier… the zombies like Chen Defa do not appear to worship that stone statue…’

“You mean like your Order of R’yleh?” Gu Jun purposely asked.

“Ignorant fools.” The hatred was clear in Chen Defa’s eyes.

It appeared that the two cults were in opposition to one another, but in any case, there still remained many questions to be answered.

‘Is Nightmare Illness the work of the R’yleh Cult or the zombie cult? Has Ol’ Uncle Dog been exiled to that barren island in the nightmare, or was he there willingly? R’yleh… did sound somewhat similar to Lai Sheng Company, so was there a relationship between the two?’

A chill ran up his spine.

‘The Great Old Ones’ ‘rule the world’. If the Son of Misfortune worshipped the Master of R’yleh, who was this true God that was mentioned by the Afterlife Cult when they said ‘the promise that had been given to us by the true God’?

‘If Afterlife cult was in the R’yleh Cult in the foreign world, then the Shaman and mom could be a part of the R’yleh Cult on Earth.’

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Gu Jun then remembered that there were homonyms in the foreign language. For example, he had already confirmed that Afterlife Cult was equivalent to Lai Sheng Company. Then this could explain the split in the cult. The ‘Afterlife Cult’ from the foreign world was made of the apostates while the ‘Afterlife Cult’ on Earth still worshipped R’yleh, believing its master would bring them ascendency and rebirth.