Chapter 22

So You're the Mastermind [你才是幕后黑手啊 Nǐ Cái Shì Mù Hòu Hēi Shǒu A] is the twenty-second chapter of Tong Yao's Guardians of Night.

Summary
Ye Yan is relieved that Ximen Guanren captured the zombie alive and prepares to interrogate it. However, when the restrained zombie opens its eyes and looks at Ximen, he took it as the zombie refusing to surrender and glaring at him. In anger, Ximen declares his name, Gravekeeper identity, and his enrollment at Xiahou High School before crushing the zombie to death. The splattered blood creates a gory scene, which horrifies the onlooking crowd of civilians. Wuren reaches into his suit and withdraws a black leather glove. Putting it on his right hand, he swiftly rushes through the crowd while punching everyone in the face. A shocked Ye Yan chastises him for murdering the witnesses, but Wuren corrects him and tells him to observe the onlookers. The crowd of people uniformly began to comment about how violent gang warfares are and how they want to head home and sleep, believing the blood to be a result of a gang war. Wuren then tells Ye Yan that he used the Memory Erasing Punch on the crowd to replace their memories, explaining the principles behind the technique.

Ximen Guanren calls attention to the corpse of the zombie. The three men notice that the zombie's corpse is glowing, before it explodes into a spell tag, which Ye Yan recognizes as belonging to an Untitled Sage. Ximen Guanren notices a negative aura around the talisman, which the other two are unable to see, and traces its origins to the top of a nearby tall building. The trail eventually ends at Gu Xiaohua's necklace, who snidely remarks that she forgot Gravekeeper can see negative energy.

Chapter Notes

 * Gu Xiaohua is introduced.