I Can Transfer the Side Effects of Evil Skills-Chapter 283 - 200: That’ll Cost Extra

Although he was suspicious of the powerful female thief’s true motives, the "fishing" had to go on.

If the female thief truly only lusted after handsome men—to the point she even dared to target Murong Yunhai, the City Lord’s son—then it made no sense for her to remain indifferent after seeing him.

Zou Feng was quite confident in his own looks.

Back in his days with the Black Flood Dragon Gang, he had been hailed as the most handsome General Leader in the gang’s history.

After he took up residence in the Silk Cave, many female disciples would drool every day while watching him practice his Cultivation.

Tian Yun had complete faith in Zou Feng’s strength, so she didn’t feel he was taking a risk at all. She was quite relaxed as they went out and about.

For the first two days, the pair tirelessly strolled about town. Afterward, they went sightseeing in the mountains and waters near Qingchuan City.

「Seven days passed in a flash.」

In those seven days, however, because he had moved out to live alone with Tian Yun, his Dragon and Tiger Kan and Li Skill had reached the stage of Entering the Hall and the Room.

But the female thief never took the bait.

Seven days had passed, and it was starting to shake the once-confident Zou Feng. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

’Could it be that I’m not her type?’

’Or maybe she figured out I’m not to be trifled with and just gave up?’

Unable to figure it out, Zou Feng decided to halt this completely useless fishing expedition and try a new approach to the investigation.

Then, on the morning of the eighth day, Zou Feng received news: there was a new victim.

Upon receiving the news, Zou Feng immediately rushed to the scene of the crime.

Zou Feng carried a token given to him by Murong Yunhai specifically for this matter, so none of the constables from the Government Office who had cordoned off the area dared to stop him.

He entered the crime scene without issue. It was just an ordinary residence.

The victim had been killed "in the act."

The victim’s wife had survived but was frightened into a catatonic state, unable to answer any questions.

Seeing this, Zou Feng had the forensic doctor and constables leave the room before he began to examine the corpse himself.

Zou Feng frowned after only a brief inspection.

The male victim’s state was horrific.

He had been tortured until he was almost unrecognizable.

And yet, despite the horrific state of his body, the man’s face was frozen in an expression of pure ecstasy, as if he had "died in bliss."

’Huh, isn’t this a bit like my Great Universal Hand?’

Zou Feng’s Great Universal Hand could also make its victims die peacefully, with a smile on their face.

This brought up the same question again: with such a profound and unfathomable Evil Skill, why insist on being a "Grass Thief" and becoming a public pariah?

After all, for an expert of her power, there were countless ways to have her fun with handsome men.

After examining the corpse for a while longer, Zou Feng gradually began to see a pattern.

He then called a constable back in and asked for the case files from the previous incidents.

The constable wouldn’t dare to slight an honored guest of Murong Yunhai, so he immediately accepted the order.

The constable returned shortly after, respectfully presenting a large stack of case files.

Zou Feng began flipping through them right then and there, and it wasn’t long before he found something.

Besides all being handsome, the victims had one other thing in common.

They were all natives of Qingchuan City, born and raised.

They had lived in Qingchuan City their entire lives. Murong Yunhai, the one victim lucky enough to survive, also fit this description.

This discovery made Zou Feng suck in a sharp breath.

As an expert in Evil Skills, he was now seventy percent certain that the female thief was an incredibly old woman—an Old Witch.

And that she had begun laying her plans at least twenty years ago...

’As for the reason?’

’What other reason could there be? It was all for her Evil Skill to reach Great Success, to take that step she should never have been able to take!’

"Please take me to see where the previous victims were buried."

"Ah... Master Zou, the previous victims were all buried in different locations by their families..."

Zou Feng waved his hand. "We don’t need to go to all of them. Just take me to the graves of the first few victims."

The constable breathed a sigh of relief and immediately had a colleague ask the families for the specific burial locations.

「On Luoxia Slope, not far outside Qingchuan City, the land was dense with graves.」

Zou Feng squatted by a tombstone. He scooped up a handful of dirt, weighed it in his palm, and then an "I knew it" expression crossed his face.

"Dig it up!"

The surrounding constables looked at each other in dismay, thinking they must have misheard.

"Huh? Master Zou, you want us to... dig up the grave?"

Zou Feng nodded.

"But... that’s disrespectful to the deceased. Besides, it’s been so long. The body has probably rotted away completely. An autopsy wouldn’t reveal anything..."

Zou Feng said, "Digging up a grave is indeed disrespectful. The problem is, there’s no body left inside!"

At Zou Feng’s insistence, the constables had no choice but to begin digging.

Many hands make light work. In no time, the coffin buried in the earth was exposed.

They pried open the coffin lid, and the scene that greeted them was horrifying.

Inside the coffin, aside from a few burial goods, there was nothing. It was empty.

Just as Zou Feng had said, the body was gone.

Many of the men around cried out about "reanimated corpses" and "hauntings," but this only made Zou Feng more certain that the Old Witch was, in fact, practicing some kind of Evil Skill.

Next, the constables found and excavated the graves of two other victims. They, too, were empty.

At this point, there was no need to dig up any more graves.

The "materials" had all been reclaimed by the Old Witch.

To avoid being discovered, she had even taken care to restore the graves to their original appearance after reclaiming her "materials."

Zou Feng could even hazard a guess as to what type of Evil Skill the old woman was cultivating.

’So, my previous attempt to use this handsome face as bait was a complete waste of time.’