Chapter 13: You’re Done For, You Beast!
He had Huang Qingyi’s contact information and directly sent him a message.
[Dragon Mountain Road 128, name Tang Shengchun, uses locust eggs combined with Filth Worm Black Thread Worms to feed people, will trigger ‘Locust Person Nest’.]
After sending the message, he quickly deleted it, put away his mobile phone, and went up the stairs.
After reaching the First Floor Living Room, Tang Shengchun greeted Li Ye to sit down.
“Water or Cola?”
“Cola.”
Tang Shengchun took a can of Cola from the fridge and gave it to Li Ye, then sat down next to Li Ye with a smile, looking at him with narrowed eyes.
“At your current progress, in about a month, you’ll be able to step into the Dragon Gate.”
“Martial Arts Training is very hard. I came from the traditional way too, but after learning Western High Technology, I felt that actually, us Shenzhou people don’t need to train Martial Arts so hard.”
“Yeah, you’re right.”
Li Ye drank Cola and casually responded a couple of times, but the next second, all the hairs on his body stood up.
A hand’s touch came from his thigh. He saw that Tang Shengchun had somehow moved right next to him, with one hand on his knee, and it started groping towards his thigh.
“Little Ye, can I call you that? Actually, I’ve always felt sorry for people like you whose Physical Test is ‘excellent’ but can’t step into Martial Arts. That’s also why I returned to Shenzhou to start High Technology Martial Arts Training.
“Shenzhou only focuses on so-called geniuses who enter Martial Arts through the Guiding Method, ignoring people like you. But in the Western Countries, Martial Arts is gradual, and stepping into Martial Arts through accumulation and training is definitely stronger than in Shenzhou.”
He glanced at Li Ye’s thigh outside his shorts without a Trace, smiled and said: “Look at your thighs, trained just right, muscles tight against the bones, distinct outlines, powerful but not bulky.”
“The muscle texture is clear too, and this feel… firm yet elastic. You can feel the strong support and torsional force contained within at a glance, just like a cheetah, such beautiful lines.”
Damn, he’s still pinching!
Li Ye’s pupils contracted, his body tensed like a statue.
He wasn’t afraid of Demonic Creatures or ghosts, nor of the dangers of battle—after all, if it really happened, there was no way around it.
He was just afraid of this kind of thing!
This was worse than killing him!
Damn, not only a terrorist, but also an old gay!
Li Ye almost bounced up, distancing himself far from Tang Shengchun, and quickly changed the topic:
“Coach, this Nutrient Solution is pretty amazing. I always feel like I have endless energy, but besides the Nutrient Solution, are there no other ways? I saw some strange Medical Pods in the Basement.”
“You don’t need it yet.”
Tang Shengchun smiled: “Preparatory Students breaking through Dragon Gate isn’t that easy either. After your Evaluation reaches level 9 here, you’ll go there every day, just like the Martial Arts School’s Medicinal Bath—it can enhance the Nutrient Solution you drink and help you Break Through Dragon Gate faster.”
Some kind of thing to accelerate hatching locust eggs.
Li Ye narrowed his eyes, thinking of the Filth Worm Black Thread Worm Materials contained in the liquid.
Pure locust eggs, even those tainted with Demonic Creature aura, would make the body uncomfortable.
But adding Filth Worm Black Thread Worms, with the Filth Worm’s characteristics of hiding and parasitizing, essentially suppresses the discomfort in the body, letting the eggs hide deeper—probably only detectable at the final outbreak.
Combined with the Medical Pod, by the time of breaking through Dragon Gate, no means could turn it back.
“Have you only recruited me so far? I heard from my parents that you have quite a few successful cases in Yangcheng.” Li Ye asked.
“Little Ye, I know it’s hard for you to trust at first, after all, you have traditional Shenzhou thinking. But in the Western Countries, High Technology Martial Arts Training is the mainstream.”
Tang Shengchun just took it as a young person’s wariness and chuckled: “I’m here in Ningjiang to expand the market first. It’s not just you—I recruited a total of ten students, and they’ll come this afternoon. After all, ‘Materials’ are limited; more wouldn’t be enough. Once there are more Materials, we can ‘benefit’ more students.”
He deliberately emphasized the words Materials and Benefit heavily, narrowing his eyes while speaking, like a cunning old wolf that had entered a flock of sheep, smugly saying:
“No rush, time is long. We’ll get along slowly, and I’ll know your depths, and you’ll know my strengths.”
Depths my ass! Strengths my dad!
Li Ye squeezed out a smile, about to probe for more info, when suddenly a piercing sound rang out from outside.
Buzz!!
Like someone revving on the street, the engine startup sound was extremely loud.
Hearing the sound, Tang Shengchun frowned but said nothing, assuming it was just street revving.
Li Ye naturally took out his mobile phone to check, and there was a message from an unknown number with only three words.
[Five minutes!]
And the message time was exactly five minutes ago.
He put down his mobile phone, relaxed his expression, opened the Backpack he brought, took out a golden Cigarette Pack, lit a cigarette.
Tang Shengchun frowned more, “How can you smoke at this age? It’s bad for your body.”
“It’s fine, no matter how bad for the body it is…”
Li Ye listened to the increasingly loud and approaching engine sound, grinned at Tang Shengchun: “It’s not as harmful as what you cause.”
“What do you mean?”
Boom!!
As soon as Tang Shengchun finished speaking, the wall was smashed open. Amid flying Gravel, a Motorcycle with huge rear Tires rushed in, its high-speed spinning Tire crushing down hard on him!
Puff!
The stone floor was smashed into a dent, Tang Shengchun trapped inside, spitting out a big mouthful of blood.
“Phew”
Li Ye exhaled smoke that spread in front of him, grinned: “Also, this is Disinfection Bureau special supply—you should know what that means. You’re done for, beast!”
“Hahahaha!”
Pan Zhengyang’s loud laughter rang out from the Motorcycle, “I’ve found you bastards!”
“Impossible!” Tang Shengchun was full of disbelief.
The students he recruited were all pre-investigated, starting from their parents, observing words and actions, checking backgrounds.
He was certain these students were just ordinary Preparatory Students, the desperate kind, absolutely without any background that could lead him into danger.
Rich people might have connections, but rich Preparatory Students wouldn’t look at ‘High Technology Martial Arts Training’—they had reliable Martial Arts Training channels.
Let alone Disinfection Bureau connections.
Only ordinary families with no knowledge and no money, but coincidentally having a child who could train Martial Arts but couldn’t Break Through Dragon Gate, would panic and seek any possibility.
Li Ye couldn’t have discovered it!
Staking out here long ago? Even less possible!
Before Li Ye came, he hadn’t revealed details to anyone—whoever checked would see it as normal ‘High Technology Martial Arts Training’, at most an Industry skirting illegality.
It couldn’t be that he drank the hatching liquid, learned the Materials inside, and happened to have Disinfection Bureau connections, so reported him?
“You escaped from Yangcheng last time, let’s see how you run this time!”
Pan Zhengyang got off the Motorcycle and reached to grab the Tang Shengchun underneath.
“You wish!”
Tang Shengchun roared, black lines bursting on his face, his whole body suddenly swelling a size larger.
Thud!
The floor below cracked further, Tang Shengchun wrenching free from under the Motorcycle and leaping up. As he pulled away, Li Ye’s eyes widened.
This guy’s Legs were completely mutated, like locust Legs, bent backwards and covered in segmented spines.
But as soon as he broke free from the Motorcycle, Pan Zhengyang smoothly drew a black cloth bundle from the bike, shook it out to reveal a Ghost Head Saber.
Puff!
The saber flashed a blur, slicing across Tang Shengchun’s body, cutting him in half at the waist, his upper body falling to the ground.
Pan Zhengyang tsked, “Just a small fry, but a Dragon Gate Realm—if I let you run, how could I keep mixing in this?”
He shook the blood off the saber, shouldered it, and looked at Li Ye, “Kid, well done.”
Li Ye was a bit stunned, “You charged in and attacked right away—what if I was wrong?”
“First, normal people wouldn’t talk about locust eggs out of nowhere, even specifying ‘Locust Person Nest’ Demonic Creature. Second, you have the ability to discern Demonic Creatures yourself, and the result now proves you’re more reliable than our Information Officer.”
Pan Zhengyang patted the Motorcycle beside him, “Besides, who do you think I am? If it was wrong, I could’ve stopped the moment I rushed in—worst case, pay repair fees, no big deal. Plus, I wouldn’t be wrong; after killing Demonic Creatures for so many years, I have the instinct.”
“Old Experience instinct, huh.”
Li Ye laughed, looked down at the bisected Tang Shengchun, who was still breathing, “What is this? Human-turned-Demonic Creature? There’s such a thing in the world?”
Hearing this, Pan Zhengyang glared hatefully at Tang Shengchun before saying to Li Ye:
“It has nothing to do with a student like you—knowing too much isn’t good. Anyway, if you encounter it, just report; you can’t go wrong. But how did you discover it?”
Li Ye simply explained drinking the locust egg liquid and his parents signing him up, and Pan Zhengyang’s expression turned odd.
Not High Technology Martial Arts Training, but something else.
“You mean, after drinking that so-called Nutrient Solution, you immediately noticed something off, sensed Qi and Blood wrong, identified the components by Experience, and deduced the specific Demonic Creature?”
Li Ye was calm and composed, “What’s wrong?”
Pan Zhengyang stared at him closely, “You can really precisely sense your own Qi and Blood? You sure?”
Li Ye nodded.
Pan Zhengyang asked: “By your sense, when can you Break Through Dragon Gate?”
“At current progress, afternoon three days from now, around three or four o’clock.”
Rice would arrive three days later.
“Precise to the time? Good, even if it’s the fourth or fifth day you break, come find me—must come find me!”
Pan Zhengyang said fervently: “It’s good for you.”
“Okay, but this report… I get credit, right?”
Li Ye said, staring straight at Pan Zhengyang.
The meaning was obvious.
Reports have rewards—time to cash in!
Pan Zhengyang laughed: “Do you know how much that number I messaged you from is worth? A Disinfection Bureau Chief’s favor—how many people beg for it and can’t get it.”
Li Ye also smiled: “I’m just a student.”
Pan Zhengyang grinned: “Good kid, I like ones like you—indeed suited for our Disinfection Bureau! Hmm, thirty thousand bucks.”
“I thought it’d be five hundred thousand.” Li Ye said.
“If you can make him spit out the intel I want, forget five hundred thousand—you want anything, I give it.”
Pan Zhengyang shook his head, looked at Tang Shengchun, “But a small fry like this doesn’t even have value alive.”
Li Ye followed his gaze and saw his head had mutated into half a locust head, mouth fully a locust mouthpart, unable to speak human words.
“He mentioned earlier Materials are limited, so only ten students… This Materials, isn’t what I think it is?”
“Not Locust Person Nest.”
Pan Zhengyang shook his head: “Something higher up.”
Li Ye thought, uncertain: “Calamity Locust Ghost?”
The world’s Demonic Creatures are myriad and strange, born in various ways: some evolve in stages, some form naturally, some mutate, others have prerequisites.
Locust Person Nest is a prerequisite for a great demon.
Just like single locusts cause no harm, but swarms become toxic.
Once too many Locust Person Nests appear, another Demonic Creature is born.
Calamity Locust Ghost.
Both it and Chaff Hungry Ghosts are in High School Textbooks, one of the great Demonic Creatures humans must recognize.
If Chaff Hungry Ghosts are man-made disasters, improper handling letting Disasters breed, ultimately birthing great demons.
Calamity Locust Ghost is a natural disaster—once appearing to blot out the sky, the locusts become utter Disaster, devouring everything alive.
“Don’t think too much. What if you know? You’re not even Dragon Gate Realm; such great Demonic Creatures have nothing to do with you. Train Martial Arts well. To contribute, get stronger first.”
Pan Zhengyang waved his hand, “Go back, first go to the hospital for deworming meds, or your body’s full of bugs. Lucky you discovered early—any later, not even gods could save you.”
Just initial locust eggs entering the body—modern means can handle it.
And Li Ye didn’t even need meds; he’d fully absorbed and refined them into Qi and Blood.
“He scammed my family thirty thousand; that money needs recovering.”
“It’ll be refunded to your family today.” Pan Zhengyang said.
“Alright, then I’ll head out first.”
Li Ye turned to leave, but after two steps, Pan Zhengyang’s voice rang out again.
“Wait.”
He turned, saw an object thrown over, caught it—felt very heavy.
Looking closer…
Desert Eagle?
In hand was a silver Desert Eagle, but larger caliber, thicker and longer barrel.
“This is for you. Come by later for some Bullets. I see you’ve run into two Demonic Creatures in these days—trouble magnet. Keep it for self-defense; Disinfection Bureau isn’t always timely. A gun lets you handle problems yourself.”
Pan Zhengyang smacked his lips, “This thing sometimes works better than Martial Arts.”
Li Ye tugged his mouth.
Ballistics is a path, gun skills a method, huh?
But definitely a good item.
Qi and Blood Exorcism, Gunpowder Exorcism—beyond evil, it hits people.
For Three Dragon Gates like Tang Shengchun, with such a gun, he really could handle it himself.
After leaving the Villa, Li Ye saw a fleet of police cars arriving ahead, preparing to surround the place.
He thought of the earlier timing and chuckled wryly.
Five minutes…
Disinfection Bureau was thirty kilometers away; Pan Zhengyang’s Motorcycle must’ve hit two hundred kph, Tires smoking.
“Not letting ordinary people know about cults? Or some five hundred thousand?”
He thought of Pan Zhengyang’s words, shook his head.
This seemingly calm water hid things he couldn’t touch.
But none of it concerned him; his top priority was breaking through Dragon Gate!
Become a Martial Artist to better grasp his own fate and future, not blindly grasping at everything, relying on guesses.
He casually touched his Backpack where the gun was, muttering:
“Otherwise, it’d be like you—passively given away. I want to take it myself.”
