PD -Chapter 76 Channels of Apocalypse Dissemination

The malevolent entity stared at its own reflection in the mirror. It withdrew the hand that had been reaching toward me and instead pushed back the hair over its forehead. In an instant, its originally vicious gaze was replaced by overwhelming fear.

“It was you who killed them!”

Inside the mirror, the entity’s reflection slowly lifted its head, letting out a hoarse, eerie voice.

This time, it wasn’t speaking to me—it was speaking to itself.

“The guilty must be punished!”

The entity in the mirror enunciated each word slowly and deliberately.

Then, I saw a pair of withered arms extend out from the mirror I was holding. Those arms were identical to the ones belonging to the entity in front of me.

The arms stretched far out of the mirror and grabbed the entity’s face.

“Agh!”

The moment those arms touched its face, the entity’s features began to melt and distort as if they were dissolving… and then, with a sharp crack, its body shattered into countless pieces, like a mirror being smashed.

At the same time, the arms that had emerged from the mirror also developed cracks, eventually breaking apart into fragments.

Looking at the countless shards scattered on the ground, I gasped for breath and threw the mirror frame—now left with nothing but its border—onto the floor.

Liu Xiaopeng immediately came over to support me and asked if I was alright.

After a long moment, I finally came back to my senses, wiped the blood from my eyes, and shook my head.

“This time, I only survived because of you. Otherwise, I would’ve been done for.”

Liu Xiaopeng didn’t say anything, just helped me walk out.

As soon as we stepped outside, I saw several uniformed police officers standing at the entrance. Zhu Zhu was talking to them. When the two officers saw me—disheveled and covered in blood—they looked shocked and immediately came over to ask what had happened.

I could only say I had fallen inside and hit my head, and that I needed to go to the hospital immediately.

But the officers were still suspicious and wanted to go inside and inspect the shop.

Fortunately, Zhu Zhu, the young lady of the Zhu family, was someone who had seen it all. She showed no sign of panic.

She stopped them and said, “Officers, I’ve already explained everything. This isn’t theft or robbery. We’ve already purchased this shop… You’ve verified that as well. I don’t think there’s any need to go back inside, do you?”

The officers considered this, then looked at me again. Although they still felt something was off, they couldn’t find anything concrete. In the end, they let it go and told us to take me to the hospital immediately.

However, what I didn’t expect was that although I wasn’t taken away by the police that day, a week later I would be sitting in an interrogation chair at the police station, wearing handcuffs.

Everything starts from the beginning.

That day, after we destroyed the mirror entity “Bloody Mary,” Liu Xiaopeng and Zhu Zhu drove me home to rest. I used my spiritual energy to slowly recover my injuries.

Zhu Zhu and Liu Xiaopeng handled the aftermath.

The next day, Zhu Zhu came to me with a piece of information that caught my attention.

According to data found within the Zhu family’s network, the antique dealer who had collected the Bloody Mary mirror had conducted many transactions with the Vatican in Rome…

Moreover, most of these transactions were linked to a man named Marcus, the Director of the Public Affairs Council of the Church.

Marcus—of course—was Lucifer’s identity in the human world.

So why would Lucifer have so many dealings with an antique dealer?

After a full day of analysis, I came to a conclusion:

That antique dealer might be Lucifer’s “channel for spreading the apocalypse.”

Di Ting had previously told us that Lucifer and the Ghost Emperor’s ultimate goal was to bring about the end of the world, destroy the human realm, and then rule it together through a combined underworld force of East and West.

To achieve this, they needed to borrow the power of many malevolent objects and supernatural entities—using them as nodes to spread influence across the human world and trigger disasters and destruction.

Some of these entities can be bound to ancient objects. Others, like the sealed ghostly jade that once contained the Ghost Emperor, are sealed directly within items themselves.

Therefore, I concluded that the antique dealer we encountered was very likely a tool used by Lucifer to spread cursed antiques—objects carrying spirits and entities—across the world, effectively distributing supernatural disasters globally.

After realizing this, I immediately asked Zhu Zhu to dig deeper into this antique dealer using the Zhu family’s connections.

But unexpectedly, the man came to us himself.

That night, while I was eating instant noodles in front of my computer, I suddenly received a call from an unknown number.

“Boss Qiu, I didn’t expect you to move so fast. But Bloody Mary was just a tiny appetizer—consider it a gift to warm you up.”

“I still have plenty of good stuff ahead. If you think you can handle it, then bring it on.”

The voice on the other end was full of contempt, yet clearly angry about us eliminating Bloody Mary.

Just as I was about to respond, he hung up.

I immediately called Zhu Zhu and asked her to trace the call. But she told me something unexpected—the information we had gathered before was only about a proxy agent. The real mastermind behind everything was still completely unknown to us.

This hidden boss likely conducted many transactions with Lucifer that bypassed the Vatican entirely. Those secret dealings probably contained the truly horrifying parts—and even the Zhu family had no way of tracing them.

After thinking it over, I told Zhu Zhu that since we had no direct lead on the mastermind, we would have to use another method.

We would start from all traceable goods and transaction records linked to the Vatican and Marcus.

We would investigate item by item. Destroy every cursed object we found. I refused to believe this hidden mastermind wouldn’t eventually react.

While Zhu Zhu and I were busy with this investigation, Liu Xiaopeng came to me and said he had found something strange and wanted my help.

When I asked for details, he told me it involved his ex-girlfriend.

Liu Xiaopeng and his ex, Xiao Xiao, were college classmates. They broke up due to long distance and hadn’t been in contact for a long time…

But in truth, both still had feelings for each other. And when something went wrong, she still thought of Liu Xiaopeng first.

Xiao Xiao had a younger brother who had recently been accused of sexual assault, abuse, and multiple counts of murder. A girl’s father reported that her daughter had been assaulted by Xiao Xiao’s brother—bound to a chair and beaten to death.

The father happened to return home and caught Xiao Xiao’s brother still holding the murder weapon. After a struggle, the brother managed to escape.

The father immediately reported it to the police. Not long after, the police arrested Xiao Xiao’s brother at her home.

The investigation moved quickly. Footprints, fingerprints, and surveillance footage all pointed to him as the murderer. The victim was also his ex-girlfriend, whom he had just broken up with days earlier.

But despite overwhelming evidence, he refused to confess. He was devastated upon hearing of her death, yet still denied everything.

Xiao Xiao’s entire family insisted that she had been at home all night and never left.

However, their house was in a suburban area, and apart from the family itself, there were no other witnesses who could confirm whether Xiao Xiao’s brother had truly been at home that night.