Chapter 1689 - 1688: Crystal Skull
As soon as Ling Feng finished speaking, Hamidi squinted his eyes: "Kill me?"
"What? Can’t kill?" Ling Feng retorted.
"You can!"
Hamidi nodded, then said, "But you must understand, I, Hamidi, am not a loner. If you kill me, you’ll only bring endless danger to yourself. No matter where you go in the future, there will be people looking to take your life to avenge me!"
"Stop trying to scare people!"
Ling Feng waved his hand impatiently: "Don’t bother finding out, all the people who tried to trouble me ended up dead, and I’m still doing just fine!"
After finishing, he glanced at Tian Lian: "Alright, stop dawdling, do it!"
"Yes, Master!"
Tian Lian responded and pointed at Hamidi saying, "Attack!"
As soon as the words were out, Little Hei spewed a cloud of black mist from its mouth, rushing straight at Hamidi’s face!
"Not good!"
Hamidi sprang up, flipping in the air, heading straight for the forest behind him!
"Trying to run?"
Ling Feng sneered, shouting loudly: "Catch him and bring him back to me!"
Little Hei and the Octopus naturally couldn’t answer, but their actions showed their loyalty; they rushed into the trees without a second thought!
After all, no matter how resourceful Hamidi was as a human, he couldn’t compare to the flexibility and sensitivity of creatures in the forest!
So just a moment later, a scream echoed from within the forest!
As Ling Feng heard the sound, he stood up instantly and scanned with his Divine Sense.
Then he became speechless.
Because Hamidi was already dead, and Little Hei was about to devour his body!
Seeing this, Ling Feng quickly shouted: "Don’t eat, bring the body back to me!"
Little Hei in the forest was stunned, then lowered its head, bit onto Hamidi’s dead body, and swiftly returned.
Throwing the body on the ground, Little Hei looked up at Ling Feng with a somewhat cautious expression.
Knowing this creature had a bit of intelligence, Ling Feng didn’t say anything, just gave a wry smile and a helpless shake of his head.
Then he said to Tian Lian: "Alright, dead is dead, this guy brought it on himself. You guys can go back first!"
"Yes!"
Tian Lian responded and then vanished.
Ling Feng looked down at Hamidi, whose face was still frozen in an expression of terror, dead without a chance to react.
The reason he left this guy’s body was to investigate and see if he could find any clues on him.
This man was quite confident in his strength, aggressively coming to settle accounts with the person who killed the Phantom Beast, never considering the possibility of being counter-killed.
So there’s a high chance he was carrying personal belongings on him.
Looking at Hamidi’s two hands, the right hand was empty, but the left hand had two rings. Ling Feng immediately took them off.
One ring was set with a green gemstone. Divine Sense tried to probe it and found it was a space item with storage space inside.
Ling Feng’s spiritual power was extraordinarily strong, so he directly broke the seal on the ring and invaded the interior.
The Ring Space wasn’t large, just about ten square meters, with a messy pile of various sundries and nothing of great value.
After glancing over, he was about to study the other ring when he suddenly noticed something special, peeking out from the pile of miscellaneous items.
After taking it out, he was stunned to see it was a Crystal Skull!
The skull wasn’t human because it had a long back, resembling the appearance of aliens in movies.
After all, being carved from crystal, it was likely some totem or artwork. Although the design was ferocious, it had its own exquisite charm.
Ling Feng studied it for a few moments, felt it was somewhat unique, so he tossed it directly into his Space Bracelet.
Then, his gaze shifted to the other ring.
It’s a completely black object, made from an unknown metal, with no decorative patterns, just an embossed design of the letter L.
After examining it, Ling Feng found it was just an ordinary ring with no functional capabilities!
At this moment, Rick came over quickly, squatted down intending to speak but then paused with a "Huh" and said: "Mr. Ling, this is a token of the Roth Family!"
"Oh?"
Ling Feng turned to look at him: "Are you sure?"
"I’m sure, I’ve seen it before!"
Rick nodded: "Roth Family rings come in four colors: white, black, red, and gold, representing different levels. This person’s possession of a black ring means he’s already an insider of the Roth Family with high status!"
"Really? Just black is pretty high status, then red and gold must be even higher?" Ling Feng asked.
"Red is for family members, people with bloodline heritage, and as for gold, it’s worn by those who are highly respected in the family with certain management privileges!"
Rick explained and continued: "White and black are for outsiders, but white is usually given to henchmen, the lowest level, while black represents an external member the family deeply trusts!"
"I see?"
Ling Feng suddenly realized, nodded, and handed the ring to Rick: "Then here you go, at least you’ll have evidence of the Roth Family’s guilt!"
"What’s the use of that?"
Rick gave a bitter smile, looking at the ring, said: "Even if I caught someone with a red ring committing murder on the street, they could still manipulate the judiciary and media through family connections, turning major problems into minor ones!"
"Nothing can be done then. As long as you have the item, at least you know whose hands your people died under!"
Ling Feng smiled and stood up saying.
Rick sighed, still pocketing the ring, then slapped his forehead: "Caught up in talking about the ring, I just saw a flash in Mr. Ling’s hand, is it a Crystal Skull?"
"Yes, what’s up?" Ling Feng asked.
"The Crystal Skull is said to be the most mysterious legend on the American Continent. Haven’t you heard of it, Mr. Ling?" Rick asked.
Ling Feng nodded: "I read magazines about it as a kid, sounded quite mysterious, but I thought it was just hype to grab attention!"
"Not at all!"
Rick hurried to correct him: "The Crystal Skull does contain exceptionally peculiar energy. I didn’t understand before why Hamidi could learn other people’s languages so fast, but now it seems it was surely related to that thing!"
"Is that so?"
Ling Feng, upon hearing this, took out the Crystal Skull again, then looked at Rick: "Then say a few words to me in English, see if I can understand!"
"Okay!"
Rick nodded and immediately began speaking fluently in English.
