Chapter 47: Chameleon Lizard Demon
Boom!
Li Ye punched the large rock to shatter it. After confirming no demonic creatures were found, he looked back around. Everywhere he saw was a mess, with occasional flesh and blood scattered in the wreckage.
He used the central area as the standard and began spreading outward to the surroundings. Every time he spread to one area, he returned and continued approaching other directions.
After searching for several hours, everything in the area that he could see or couldn’t see had been dug out.
Glancing at the increasingly dusky sky, Li Ye patted the dust off his hands, preparing to return to the entrance and end the day.
But just as his lightness skill started, he inexplicably heard a muffled sound from below, mixed with a shout.
His swinging figure flew straight toward the other side of the mountain.
His current position was right at a mountaintop. Ahead was the area already marked and cordoned off. From the mountaintop downward, he could just see the spot ahead where the mountain had been dug open, exposing the rock face.
His current position was still very close to the quarry, and at the position below, Yang Jie was clearly hit by something. After falling to the ground, he let out a muffled groan, and even his arm was bent.
“Run! Danger!”
In the corner of his eye, Yang Jie saw someone landing and shouted. Then he was about to call for help from the drone patrolling in the air above.
But at that moment, Li Ye also landed quickly, just in time to feel a gust of wind.
Bang!
A dull thud struck him, forcing Li Ye back a step. The clothes on his shoulder were torn open in several gashes, as if some sharp claws had slashed his shoulder. Under the torn clothes, even his skin had several red marks.
Li Ye showed a surprised expression. Since he practiced the Twelve Golden Palace Dragon Tiger Gate, no one had made him retreat.
Especially after testing on Dragon Mountain and confirming no demonic creatures could move him, he actually encountered one.
Moreover, the situation was off. Although he didn’t see the figure, this contact actually made Li Ye’s qi and blood surge, stunning him into feeling like fleeing, as if it were some great terror.
But soon, this feeling was resisted by his qi and blood.
“Let me see what you are!”
Li Ye quickly reached out, grabbing straight at the mass ahead that distorted the air.
This thing seemed invisible, but it still had a slight distorting effect with the air. Up close, its rough shape could be seen.
Rip!
With just one grab, Li Ye’s fingers dug in, forcibly tearing off a piece of flesh and blood.
Blood flew from the air, condensing in Li Ye’s hand into a piece like a cracked scale and flesh.
“Gah!”
The air let out a strange cry, then brought a whooshing wind sound, blocked by Li Ye, emitting a muffled thud.
“Tail?”
He countered with a grab, locking onto the shape that felt like a tail from the touch. With a kick, he clearly kicked the mass of distorted air tumbling over. Li Ye followed up by stepping on it, gripping the tail tightly with his hand.
“You’ll show your form once dead!”
Li Ye grinned ferociously. His fingers formed tiger claws, tearing downward viciously, bringing out a huge blood trail and skin like broken scales, clearly torn open completely.
The invisible thing revealed its shape. At the end Li Ye grabbed, it was indeed a tail covered in irregular broken scales. What his foot stepped on was this thing’s upper body chest position, with the center torn open into two halves.
This was a humanoid lizard monster. Its whole body skin was broken scales. Its body and four limbs were like a human’s, but its head was a lizard’s narrow and long.
The claws on its hands and feet were sharp and long, with red lines between the nails. Behind the narrow long head, there were even some human-like hairs.
“This thing”
Li Ye frowned and looked toward the half-dug quarry on the distant mountain, then walked over, pried open its long mouth, and found this thing’s mouth split into four petals like flower petals. The tongue inside was also very hard, with the tip like an arrowhead.
“Chameleon Lizard Demon.”
Before coming to Dragon Mountain, besides the information from the school, he knew some himself.
After all, long ago for authority, he had looked up a lot of information, mostly ancient books, which recorded this fully.
Especially for Ningjiang City area, he had collected the most complete.
And in the Dragon Mountain area of Ningjiang City, there were also some records of demonic creatures.
The Chameleon Lizard Demon was one of them, recorded in the Qing Dynasty’s Ningjiang Prefecture Annals · Corvee Records.
Three hundred quarry workers at the northern foot of Dragon Mountain chiseled rock day and night to supply city repairs. A stonemason surnamed Wang chiseled out ‘blood marrow jade’, angering the mountain spirit. Sulfur fog suddenly surged from rock crevices, melting the flesh and bones of ninety-three men into the rock veins. The survivors all went mad, eating ore and turning into lizards that escaped into the crevices.
Modern papers explain it as ancient people unable to bear the heavy corvee burden, breeding resentment and fleeing emotions combined with the death qi from the dead, thus birthing this type of demonic creature.
The key of Chameleon Lizard Demon is ‘avoid corvee’, avoiding all hardship and fatigue matters, wanting to cast off all burdens and flee alone to a safe place.
So this type of demonic creature has invisibility function, able to assimilate with the surrounding environment.
Once it appears, it also makes people feel laziness and pessimism, not wanting to do anything, finding everything troublesome, especially fearing responsibility and hardship, with a blank view of the future.
But due to its habits, it rarely appears in places with people, mostly in remote mountain areas with few people.
This type of demonic creature fears righteous qi. Things tempered through iron-blood experience and national responsibility can effectively intimidate them.
For example, Shenzhou’s national anthem.
Or the sound of a large bell ringing can also repel Chameleon Lizard Demons.
This is not naturally evolved; it’s purely resentment-born demon, a harmful demonic creature.
“In this era, this kind of demonic creature can still appear…”
Li Ye looked toward the quarry direction, clicking his tongue. “Don’t know which black-hearted company did it, forcing out demonic creatures. It needs to be investigated thoroughly.”
After mixing in the Disinfection Bureau for two months, he knew how to handle such situations.
He looked toward Yang Jie. “You okay?”
“Th-thanks.”
Yang Jie stared blankly at the severed corpse for a while, then stammered a sentence before smiling bitterly: “I heard before you’re practicing Vajra Pass, I was skeptical. Didn’t expect it to really be high-level martial arts so powerful?”
There was no jealousy, and he couldn’t be jealous anyway.
His martial arts school had high-level martial arts. As the main force player in school, the school could also find one for him, but his talent was insufficient.
Just like making a nuclear bomb—the principle is there, but why doesn’t anyone learn it? Is it because they don’t want to?
No, it’s because talent is lacking, so they can only settle for second best and practice a mid-level body training one. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have lost to Xiang Feipeng of Four Dragon Gates with Five Dragon Gates.
This demonic creature hit him once and broke his arm, but when it hit Li Ye, aside from tearing some clothes, he was completely fine.
The gap showed immediately.
No wonder he eats so much, reaching the bell chimes and cauldron food realm. That’s personal achievement, not something to envy.
“Get up first. Someone should come soon; go treat the injury then.”
Li Ye extended his hand. After Yang Jie grabbed it and stood up, he stared at the drone flying toward them from above and said: “The person in charge should be coming.”
In just that short time, swishing sounds rose in the mountain area. Several figures quickly passed through, arriving here rapidly under flying eaves and walking walls.
Only then could Li Ye see clearly that these people wore field uniforms, their qi and blood so surging it distorted the air, extremely vigorous.
The military had arrived.
