The Married Alpha Who Refuses to Be a Heartthrob (A/B/O · Alpha POV) - Chapter 17

The group arrived at East 1st Street, where many residents had gathered around a house, none daring to enter.

Candles burned inside the room where the dead lay.

The two-story house stood before them. Kaes and Long Shi approached the open front door.

Several patrolmen blocked Kaes, stretching their arms across the doorway: “Governor, you must not enter.”

“Why?” Kaes raised his hand, signaling them to step aside.

Through the window, he saw the deceased was a man in his thirties—not the young painter. The living room contained an easel and assorted painting tools.

The artist had turned the living room into a studio, with an easel holding an unfinished landscape painting.

The victim was slumped against the wall, his head tilted to one side. A torrent of blood flowed from his neck, staining his clothes crimson.

“Governor, you absolutely must not go in!” a middle-aged man urgently shouted, waving his arms frantically. “This house is strange. Two painters lived here originally. One died, and the other vanished without a trace.”

The patrolman explained, “We sent three men inside to investigate while the others guarded the door. But when the three approached the body, they vanished into thin air!”

A night breeze swept through, sending shivers down everyone’s spine.

Everyone felt a chill run down their spines, murmuring among themselves.

“Terrifying! Anyone who enters that house vanishes.”

Long Shi asked, “Should we go in?”

Without entering, there was no way to solve the ghostly murders. Tension hung heavy in the air. After a moment’s deliberation, Kaes declared, “We must go in.”

“Governor!” The patrolmen looked worried, still refusing to clear the path. “Why don’t we try going in again?”

Kaes agreed. He’d never heard of anything so bizarre.

The two patrolmen hesitated for a moment before stepping toward the door. They slowly approached the painter’s body, weapons raised. The next instant, they vanished into thin air.

The crowd was gripped by discontent and panic.

“Good heavens! They vanished again!”

“Let’s get far away from their house. It’s terrifying.”

This bizarre and eerie spectacle sent many fleeing in fear.

Stepping inside felt like rolling the dice—no one knew where those who vanished had gone.

“Long Shi, we’re going in.” Kaes decided to take the gamble. He couldn’t abandon those who’d disappeared, nor could he let ghosts run rampant in his jurisdiction.

“Alright.” Long Shi’s expression was resolute. Whatever Kaes chose, he’d stand by him through thick and thin.

The two moved toward the deceased. The flickering candlelight inside the room grew even more disorienting….

The room had grown noticeably quieter. Kaes glanced back and everyone outside had vanished. An eerie atmosphere permeated the space, and he realized they must have entered another dimension.

Long Shi: “Why did everyone outside disappear?”

Kaes: “We vanished. We entered another space within this room.”

He scanned his surroundings warily when suddenly, a voice called out, “Governor!” Two figures stood atop the stairs—the very patrolmen who had entered earlier to probe the situation.

Long Shi expressed mild astonishment: “We’re trapped in another dimension? This place is identical to the real house.”

Long Shi reached for the window. Though it was clearly open, his hand touched transparent glass. “Damn it, we can’t get out.”

“Governor, Commander! We saw bodies upstairs—the people who came in before us!” A patrolman pointed upward.

Long Shi started to run upstairs, but Kaes stopped him. “This house is strange. Everyone who entered died… We should be cautious. Let’s not go up yet. See what’s on the first floor.”

Long Shi nodded, gripping his sword tighter.

The first floor differed greatly from reality. The absence of the painter’s body confirmed he had indeed perished in the real world.

The canvas on the easel faced the wall. Kaes flipped it over.

Written in red paint were the words:

【The Nun’s Ghost: One winter, I saw a dead nun near the convent. She died a miserable death—frozen to death.】

【She resembled my own frozen heart. I pitied her. Thankfully, I know witchcraft and summoning spells. Combining both, I summoned her ghost to follow me.】

【Her ghost cannot speak, only wails in agony. I do not know her name.】

【She froze to death. I tried lighting fires to cheer her, to silence her screams, but she always fled. Perhaps snow suits her better.】

【The nun delights in killing. I grant her wish, occasionally releasing her to take lives. Yet she is fragile, able to claim only one victim in reality each night.】

She prefers killing indoors. Once she takes one life, anyone else entering the room falls into the space she weaves, where she hunts them down one by one like a predatory spider.

She’s fragile and pitiable. If you see her, please don’t kill her, okay? That house in another dimension makes a decent grave too.

Kaes held the candle, reading the words above.

Long Shi leaned in to look, cursing, “What kind of lunatic? No sane person could write this. It must be some witch practicing evil sorcery.”

“Can you tell what level of witch it is?” ” Case asked. He’d never faced a sorcerer before cause they favored insidious tactics, never engaging in direct combat.

Long Shi shook his head. “A lunatic like this? His rank must be high. He’s gone mad from his practices.”

That wicked sorcerer might be watching them from the shadows. They felt eyes upon them.

“Governor.” A patrolman stood at the staircase entrance, calling out to Kaes without turning around.

Long Shi stood not far behind. Kaes assumed the patrolman had spotted something and walked over. “Anything new?”

“Governor.” The patrolman still didn’t turn, repeating the call.

Kaes approached with the candle, staring at the patrolman’s back—so rigidly upright it seemed stiff. The other patrolman was nowhere to be seen.

The room felt eerily cold, and even the warm yellow candlelight seemed pale.

Suddenly, the patrolman’s head twisted back in a sinister manner. His face transformed into that of a deathly pale woman, clad in a nun’s black hood and cape.

The nun’s face was hideously distorted, her jaw gaping open, the lower part detached, leaving only loose, sagging skin connected to her face, which was badly decayed. She let out a shrill scream: “Aaaahhhhh—!”

Like a dark shadow, she lunged toward Kaes.

Kaes’s heart skipped a beat—this nun was terrifyingly grotesque! He sidestepped, but the nun continued charging.

Long Shi was utterly shocked. Hearing Kaes shout “Watch out!”, he drew his sword. Before he could swing it, the nun bit into his throat.

“Bam bam!” Kaes drew his pistol and fired several shots at the nun. Concerned for Long Shi, he aimed the bullets to pass harmlessly by her.

The nun’s screams ceased. Her figure vanished, her whereabouts unknown.

The patrolman’s body fell stiffly to the ground.

Long Shi clutched his bleeding neck, his face grim. Kaes rushed over to check: “How bad is it?”

“I won’t die anytime soon,” Long Shi said stubbornly, glancing at the patrolman’s corpse. “When did he die? Did the nun hide in his body?”

“Probably while we were examining the canvas.” Noticing Long Shi’s unsteady gait, Kaes looked up at the second floor. “Why don’t you wait here? I’ll check upstairs. There should be more bodies up there.”

Long Shi pressed his hand against the wound on his neck, grimacing. ” I’m not dead yet. I’m coming with you.”

Kaes had no choice but to agree. How could they kill this elusive nun? This ghostly killer followed no rules—it struck whenever opportunity arose.

The two climbed the narrow staircase. Long Shi stayed close behind Kaes, glancing back fearfully, wary that the nun might appear behind them.

Kaes felt something brush against his neck and shoulder. Glancing upward out of the corner of his eye, he saw hair dangling down from above.

Was the nun hanging upside down from the ceiling? Kaes raised his gun and looked up, but saw nothing. He was certain it wasn’t a hallucination: “Just now, the nun was walking upside down above me.”

“Don’t scare me,” Long Shi said, his hair standing on end just imagining the scene.

The nun seemed to be everywhere.

Reaching the second floor, they found four patrolman corpses.

Their bodies and faces were riddled with large bite holes.

As they examined the bodies, the shadows cast on the wall suddenly shifted into something eerie.

Kaes’s shadow twisted into the distorted, terrifying face of a nun wearing a hood. The dark figure writhed incessantly, like a monster writhing on the wall.

“God, how can she still be inside the wall?” Long Shi drew his sword and slashed at the shadow on the wall.

“Aaaah!” The nun’s shadow writhed, darting swiftly across the ceiling.

Her shrill scream nearly pierced their eardrums.

Kaes’ nerves were stretched taut by the screech. Holding his candle, he tracked the nun’s shadow as it darted across the ceiling. He tried to fire, but her movements were too swift—he couldn’t land a shot.

The only chance was to strike when she killed someone. But now only he and Long Shi remained. He couldn’t risk Long Shi.

Though the nun was fragile, he couldn’t hit her. Fragility meant nothing if he couldn’t land a blow.

“Let’s keep our distance from the nun.” Kaes moved toward the upstairs rooms, shielding Long Shi behind him.

“What can we do? We can’t hit her!” Cold sweat beaded on Long Shi’s palm as he gripped his sword hilt. By the time he swung, the nun had vanished.

The nun’s ghost shifted from the ceiling to the wall. Long Shi charged forward, gritting his teeth as he swung his sword.

The nun had anticipated his move, darting to the opposite wall and appearing behind Kaes.

Attacking like Long Shi was useless. This wizard’s summoned creature was no easy foe—ghosts moved at speeds humans couldn’t match.

Kaes’s mind raced for a solution, or they’d both be tortured to death by the nun.

“Aaaah!” The nun screeched, half her body lunging from behind the wall. Her speed was blinding. Kaes was too close to the wall and couldn’t dodge in time.

Her long hair wrapped around Kaes, pushing him against the wall. She opened her gaping maw, ready to bite.

“Kaes!” Long Shi yelled, lunging forward to try and wrest him from the nun’s grasp.

A thought suddenly struck Kaes.

[She froze to death. I wonder if lighting her up using fire will stop her from screaming and running away.]

Holding a candle, he pressed it against the wall behind him. The nun ignited unexpectedly easily. Her screams grew faint, her tangled hair scorched like dry grass.

This terrified Long Shi. The nun was engulfed in flames, some of which even scorched Kaes….

Kaes felt the intense heat but no burning sensation. The house’s eerie atmosphere vanished.

Long Shi was terrified. He lunged forward and clutched Kaes tightly. “How could you set yourself on fire?!”

Kaes, choked by Long Shi’s grip, patted his back. “I’m fine. Don’t panic.”

“I saw her hair scorched you! How could you possibly be fine?!” Long Shi refused to let go, tightening his embrace.

“Take a good look, I’m fine.” Kaes had no choice but to push on Long Shi’s shoulders, pulling the two apart a little, and the two looked at each other. “The wound on your neck is gone too.”

There were only the two of them, and the few patrol soldiers who had entered were gone.

“Are you really okay?” Long Shi felt it was incredible. He grabbed Kaes’s hand and looked at it repeatedly. There was no burn at all. He touched his neck again, and there was no wound. “It was all an illusion but If we died inside, the two of us would’ve been gone for good.”

Long Shi breathed a sigh of relief and felt ashamed of his actions just now.

The two looked at the window, outside the window there were still a few onlookers and several patrol soldiers waiting for them.

Kaes looked around. They were in a room on the second floor of the illusion, and there was something glowing faintly on the floor.

He picked it up and saw that it was a strange magic stone, which emitted a mysterious purple light, and there were words written on both sides:

[SSS-level wizard’s primary summoning ghost: Nun]

【May my nun’s soul be happier than it was in life.】

The nun was gone, but unfortunately there was no wizard’s name on the soul magic stone. Kaes kept the magic stone to study it later.

This was the first time he had fought against an SSS-level wizard, and this wizard also knew evil summoning technique.

Kaes empty in this victory cause he didn’t even know where the wizard was.

The wizard must be hiding somewhere in Lanqi.

He only dealt with a primary summon from the wizard this time. He doesn’t have any idea what the future holds after today.