Breath of the Undead

Chapter 32: Victoria City

Chapter 32: Victoria City

“Someone fell into the water!”

“Don’t look over there, it’s just a corpse thrown in by the body retrieval team, it has nothing to do with us.”

In the pitch-black river water, Gu Xi was being carried along by the current. From a distance, he could hear people whispering.

Although the voices were faint, Gu Xi could hear them clearly. This made him realize that he had escaped from the prison buried somewhere unknown.

“Fortunately, I wasn’t sent back to the prison.”

Gu Xi moved his body and looked up to determine his direction, then started swimming toward the shore.

Along the way, Gu Xi saw various things in the river.

There were rotting corpses, sewage from the sewers, and wastewater discharged from various factories upstream.

In any case, the water of the entire Isis River was black.

Gu Xi did not want to stay in this river any longer and swam harder.

But before he could get close to the shore, a few beams of light shone on his face.

Gu Xi turned his head to block the light with his hand and squinted his eyes to see the situation on the shore.

On the shore, three patrolling officers dressed in black high-collared uniforms and wearing black helmets with silver edges were staring at him, holding small searchlights the size of a human head.

Gu Xi noticed that all three of them had their hands on their waists, ready to draw their weapons and attack at any moment.

Seeing that Gu Xi had no intention of rushing down, the leader shouted loudly.

“Are you still alive?”

Isn’t that a stupid question?

Gu Xi rolled his eyes internally and raised his hands, “Yes, I’m alive.”

Actually, Gu Xi didn’t know that from time to time, eerie spirits and undead creatures would occupy the bodies thrown into the river, trying to infiltrate Victoria City.

These shore patrols were arranged specifically to deal with such eerie or undead-possessed bodies.

Usually, they would just use their searchlights to check. If there was no reaction, it meant it was a living person, and they would generally let them ashore.

But today, the leader was a bit bored and asked a few more questions.

“Brother, what happened? Did you drink too much and fall into the river?”

As he spoke, he directed his men to use a long wooden stick to drag Gu Xi ashore.

Gu Xi had already thought of an explanation for his background when he left Alidove City.

When he first entered Victoria City, the system had given him an identity.

Combined with the land purchase order he got from Joseph, Gu Xi had already prepared a story.

“Don’t mention it. I found an old land purchase order left by an ancestor at home. It could be exchanged for a piece of land in Camden District. But when I went to inquire about it, I was knocked out and thrown into the river.”

Gu Xi grabbed the wooden stick and climbed ashore.

These patrolling officers were quite insightful. Hearing Gu Xi’s explanation, they immediately imagined various conspiracies.