Imperial Treasure
Chapter 123 - 98: Headless Ghost, The Sand Man

Chapter 123: Chapter 98: Headless Ghost, The Sand Man

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What the hell is this!

It’s shaped like a leopard, covered in lifelike spots that resemble eyes, yet has three toes like an eagle’s talons, thick and sharp. Its tail is like a scorpion’s, a meter long...

Biologically speaking, such a creature must be at the top of the food chain as a carnivore.

But there’s something extremely unbiological about them.

--They don’t have heads!

Uh, if a creature doesn’t have a head, is it still alive?

Freaking headless ghosts?

When these fierce headless ghosts surged from all directions, even the battle-hardened mercenaries felt their legs go weak.

Whoosh!

Suddenly one of them burst out, pouncing on a man from behind. The others opened fire immediately, and gunfire erupted all at once!

And the rest of the headless ghosts launched their attack!

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Dark figures pierced into the midst of Sui Yi and the others, breaking up the defensive circle in the blink of an eye.

The main issue was that they came too suddenly and moved too fast!

"Shit!" Hua Feiyao held a pistol in her left hand and a short dagger in her right.

As Sui Yi glanced over, he saw the woman spin halfway into the air, shooting a headless ghost through its body with one shot, while her other hand plunged the short dagger fiercely into its lower back...

But she soon realized the difficulty.

"Damn it, without a head, it’s hard to kill them! These things have terrifying regenerative abilities..."

The short dagger plunged into the lower back, or bullets pierced through the torso, only made the headless ghost stagger, and in an instant, it pounced towards her again...

As prisoners, Gong Jiu and Sui Yi were initially surrounded by others to prevent escape, but this situation inadvertently spared them from immediate danger. Watching the slaughter unfold before her, Gong Jiu even found the occasion to crack a joke, "But there’s a silver lining, at least without heads, they can’t eat....."

As soon as she said that, she saw from beneath the tail of a headless ghost... uh, around its buttocks, two tentacles as thick as little fingers snaked out and wrapped around a man’s neck, their sharp tips penetrating his throat...

The man’s face turned ashen as his veins bulged out and his color quickly drained away...

"Motherfucker, bloodsucking!"

Bullets pounded at the headless ghost, and it did flicker aside, its tentacles retreating from the neck, dodging the bullet hail with a few afterimages...

In just a few minutes of confrontation, ten men had their necks pierced and blood sucked out... it seemed to suck the blood from the brain, and those ten people died on the spot!

"Its head is in the back..."

"Go for the ass!"

"Directly blow up its ass!"

Sui Yi had never imagined that such a lewd and dangerous creature existed in nature. These cunning demon-like beings, despite being shot with dense gunfire, not a single one fell... only some slowed down due to excessive blood loss from numerous bullet wounds.

While blowing up its ass delivered the greatest damage, going straight for its "brain" area, it was incredibly difficult since they don’t necessarily keep their asses facing you. Unless there was cooperation from others, but that too was exceedingly difficult.

"Run!"

Hua Feiyao immediately thought to retreat...

Right then, a headless ghost finally targeted the two under the tree.

In the moment it pounced... Sui Yi and Gong Jiu who were sitting on the ground burst up at the same instant!

The ropes behind them hit the ground... both figures burst forth, rushing for the weapons that had been confiscated. At that moment, the man couldn’t care less about their weapons and they were snatched away, while behind them, the headless ghost was already in pursuit.

Spinning around, both hands grasped the Xiezhi Dagger and a curved knife...

The blade moved from front to back, one on the left, one on the right, each on the same horizontal plane, whoosh~~~

They cut fiercely!

Splat~~~ Blood splattered out, and the two halves of the body slapped against the tree.

"Beautiful!" Even though her own two captives had broken free, Flower Fairy wasn’t annoyed at all; in fact, she quite admired it.

"Both of you, let’s team up, or you won’t be able to escape either..."

"No shit!"

With a glance from Flower Fairy, some of the men came up with two hand grenades...

Sui Yi sighed, realizing that the people attracted to this Ancient Tomb were truly extraordinary.

Look at how extravagantly they use weapons that are officially banned... who knows how much they’ve prepared.

Presumably, Gong Jiu’s Treasure Map must have indicated the preciousness of the treasure within; otherwise, it wouldn’t have attracted these people like bees to honey.

Boom boom! The grenades exploded in the blink of an eye!

In the midst of the bombardment, a group of people ran like mad!

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While sprinting, Sui Yi and Gong Jiu always kept an eye on not straying too far from each other, and to their frustration, Flower Fairy, that cunning woman, also stayed quite close to them, almost as if she had latched onto them.

"This persistent woman, I want to kill her!" Gong Jiu muttered incessantly.

"Yeah, go ahead," was Sui Yi’s response.

"...."

Gong Jiu, of course, stopped muttering.

But Sui Yi added, "Shaking them off isn’t actually that hard, but are you sure that’s what you want to do?"

Their abilities were indeed far superior to those people, aside from Flower Fairy. It would be easy for the two of them to shake off the others, and naturally, Flower Fairy wouldn’t be stupid enough to chase them alone.

So, shaking them off wouldn’t be hard.

But why shake them off?

Gong Jiu immediately raised an eyebrow, suggesting they use the group’s firepower to help explore the palace?

It wasn’t a bad idea, indeed a good strategy...

"Good! Let’s do that!"

"Huh?"

"If it was any other time, aside from brute strength, I am always outplayed by the Goblin in tricks and schemes."

"And now?"

"You have me!"

A certain girl laughed with pure and kind innocence.

Sui Yi: "...."

Are you complimenting me on my knack for scheming?

Should I thank you for the compliment~~~.

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A group of people finally escaped the jungle and reached the outer Yellow Sand Land, too exhausted to care about the dirty ground, they sat down right on the ground.

Most people were as tired as dogs; Hua Feiyao’s second capable assistant wasn’t one of the tall and strong men, but a lean woman with short hair.

At first, Sui Yi also thought she was a man, but later this woman brought them food, and after a closer look, she recognized her as a female.

This woman’s name was Shen Di.

Shen Di’s physical strength was second only to Hua Feiyao’s. At the moment, she still had a bit of energy left to check the number of people remaining. She looked a bit pale, turned her head, and said to Hua Feiyao, "Boss, we lost twenty people."

"You only need to tell me how many are left."

"Twenty-five."

Hua Feiyao nodded, instructed her to tend to the wounded on the spot, and with a tense face, she walked towards Sui Yi and another’s direction.

Gong Jiu felt this woman had malicious intentions and instinctively stood in front of Sui Yi, "What do you want to do? If you have any issues, come at me..."

Hua Feiyao glanced at her sideways, "What if I want to make a move?"

She shook her gun suggestively.

Damn, having a gun is so great! Sister here has one too! Just not on me right now...

Swish, Gong Jiu immediately sat quietly in her own place.

Sui Yi looked at her somberly, "Actually, you didn’t have to come out..."

Really, why bother~~

Gong Jiu was disgruntled.

Hua Feiyao was obviously very interested in Sui Yi and asked, "Sui Yi, right?"

"Yes."

"You’re pretty impressive."

Sui Yi looked up at her, trying to figure out her intention.

"Leave this idiot Gong Jiu behind and follow me!"

Damn! Just as Gong Jiu was about to speak, Sui Yi said, "No need, it’s more comfortable to be around the foolish."

Gong Jiu rolled her eyes.

Although Hua Feiyao firmly believed there wasn’t a corner she couldn’t dig, she knew how to read people and understood some corners shouldn’t be forcefully dug, otherwise, what comes out might be a trap. Moreover, she wasn’t familiar with Sui Yi, so she’d better understand her thoroughly before finding weaknesses to exploit...

Because Gong Jiu had intentions of using Hua Feiyao, she was quite cooperative with Hua Feiyao for the time being, and for a time the two got along well with this group in the vast desert.

The place they were going to was a palace outside the Oasis.

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Hua Feiyao’s group, however, had no idea where the palace was.

Why? Because their way of entering this jungle was different from that of Sui Yi, who fell from the sky.

And so, without having to use the Treasure Map, Gong Jiu and another already had the capital to cooperate with Hua Feiyao.

At least they had seen the entirety of the palace from above and knew its general direction...

In the vast Yellow Sand.

The group trudged on with great difficulty, Gong Jiu sometimes pointed the way... sometimes made things difficult for Hua Feiyao...

Sui Yi, on the other hand, wasn’t restrained in her freedom, it was just that Shen Di was always subtly following her around.

"You don’t have to follow me like this—I could leave you all behind if I wanted to, and none of you could stop me," Sui Yi said, turning her face to her.

"Is that so? You can try," Shen Di replied, a girl of a very proud nature, who only ever followed orders from Hua Feiyao alone, her loyalty unwavering. In Gong Jiu’s words, it was as if this girl’s body and soul were both seized by Hua Feiyao...

The truth was, Shen Di was quite jealous of Hua Feiyao’s repeated favoritism towards Sui Yi, so her answer now was a bit impolite.

Sui Yi paused in her step, narrowing her eyes.

Shen Di also braced herself...

Swish!

The Xiezhi Dagger was unsheathed from Sui Yi’s waist, a flash of cold light, and as Shen Di was just raising her gun...

Clang!

The blade’s edge was struck by the tip of the knife, emitting a sharp, piercing sound.

"Adi!" Hua Feiyao shouted, but saw that what attacked Sui Yi wasn’t a bullet, but an arrow.

Arrows?

Where did these bows and arrows come from?

"On guard!!!!"

From below the sand, the Yellow Sand was stirred up, a group of naked-bodied people... primitive as olden times, wearing only beast-hide shorts, with ancient bows and arrows in their hands, releasing arrows that were fast, extremely fast!

In the blink of an eye, three people’s heads were pierced through.

Hua Feiyao’s bullets fired toward one of the men.

Seemingly aware of the distance, that person also raised his bow, drawing the arrow and shooting...

As the arrow flew, its path ran parallel to the bullet.

The bullet’s head met the arrow’s tip.

Actually, no one else had eyesight horrific enough to witness this, not even Sui Yi; she and the others could only see the bullet and arrow collide in a flash!

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The sharp arrow tip broke through the bullet’s head! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation tickets, monthly tickets at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please go to m.qidian.com to read.)