Chapter 25 : Chapter 25
Chapter 25: New Mission, Veteran Driver
Night.
The moon was bright, the stars were sparse, and all was silent.
Inside a living room in Jade Bottle Bay, Linhai City, a stunningly beautiful woman with a seductive figure suddenly opened her eyes. Her pretty face was covered in frost, and a trace of anger showed in her expression.
At her waist, a tiny red snake no thicker than a thumb poked out its head and flicked its tongue toward the young man.
“Lady Lingyu, what is it?”
A sinister-looking young man at her side immediately stepped forward, his gaze burning as he looked at Fei Lingyu.
“That rat we raised in Anxi Residential Complex... is dead.”
“The Gold-Devouring Rat is dead?!!”
The young man had a deep impression of that rat.
For no other reason than this: They had invested quite a few resources into the Gold-Devouring Rat.
And yet now, it was dead.
“Go investigate this matter. Once you find out the truth, deal with the person responsible. But keep the commotion to a minimum. This is the Demon Extermination Bureau’s territory, after all.”
The chill on Fei Lingyu’s face gradually faded.
In its place bloomed a bright, charming smile that made the young man’s heart sway.
“Rest assured, Lady Lingyu. I’ll make sure he dies without a sound.”
A cruel smile appeared at the corner of the young man’s mouth.
“It’s time the people of Great Xia got a taste of the Five Poisons Sect’s methods.”
“Hahahaha.”
The young man muttered to himself. The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, until finally he burst into laughter, unable to suppress his anticipation.
The next morning.
At a 4S dealership in Linhai City, Wang Botao accompanied Lu Zhan as they moved from one showroom to another.
“Brother Lu, what kind of car are you looking for?”
“A spacious interior, high ground clearance, and strong power...”
Lu Zhan’s goals were very clear.
After listening, Wang Botao quickly recommended several models to him.
Lu Zhan only looked at three before quickly taking a liking to a black off-road vehicle with a tough, rugged style.
“This one.”
He did not like comparing endlessly.
This one suited his eye, so there was no need to look at the rest.
Just as Lu Zhan was about to sign the contract and make the payment, a voice tinged with deliberate warmth rang out from the side.
“Well, if it isn’t our Peach Blossom Alley’s newly arrived jurisdiction head, little brother Lu Zhan. Buying a car, are you? You move fast.”
Lu Zhan and Wang Botao turned toward the voice.
A man in his early twenties was strolling over. He was slightly plump and dressed in the Demon Extermination Bureau’s standard casual uniform.
Anyone without much life experience would surely be misled by the familiarity in his manner.
They would think he was a good man worth befriending.
That was the so-called smiling tiger.
On the surface, he seemed friendly, but behind your back, he might already be thinking about how to kill you.
“Brother Lu, that’s Chen Lin,” Wang Botao whispered in reminder.
“Oh? Little brother Wang is here too.”
After passing Wang Botao, Chen Lin pretended that he had only just noticed him.
Then he reached out and touched Lu Zhan’s car.
“But little brother Lu, there’s something your elder brother here has to remind you of.”
“When jurisdiction heads move about, the rules say they have to report their whereabouts in advance.”
He deliberately stressed the words “the rules.”
Then he leaned in slightly, lowered his voice, and spoke in a deliberately mysterious tone.
“I’m not trying to scare you, but people like us, jurisdiction heads, are very easily targeted by those with ill intentions.”
“If you don’t report your movements, you could die and no one would even know.”
“Not to mention anywhere far off. Just take Peach Blossom Alley for example...”
Before he could finish, Lu Zhan snapped the contract shut with a slap and cut him off.
“You’re Chen Lin, right? First, I don’t know you, so don’t go around calling me brother and taking liberties with me. Otherwise, don’t blame me if I turn hostile.”
“Second...”
Lu Zhan slowly lifted his head. His expression was calm, and he did not even look at him.
“You and I are equals. I have no obligation to report any of my whereabouts to you.”
“If you have something to say, then say it. If not, don’t waste my time!”
Lu Zhan had thought the man might recklessly provoke him further, but he did not.
And since that was the case, Lu Zhan had no patience left for him.
Chen Lin’s smile did not diminish. He shrugged and said, “It’s really not anything important. Now that you’ve become one of Peach Blossom Alley’s jurisdiction heads, you have to patrol your area, don’t you?”
“So what I wanted to ask today was this—what part of the jurisdiction are you patrolling this afternoon?”
Trying to find out his movements?
Lu Zhan did not know what kind of scheme Chen Lin was up to, but he did not care.
“The western district.”
Now that he was a jurisdiction head, naturally he had to inspect the safety of his territory. Yesterday, it had been Wang Botao and Shangguan Ling on patrol.
Today, it was his turn along with Chen Lin.
So there was nothing to hide.
“All right, all right, then this old brother won’t disturb you any longer.”
With that, Chen Lin left.
But cold light flickered in his eyes.
“So, Lu Zhan, is it? You’re very arrogant. But you won’t stay arrogant for much longer. You’ve offended someone you shouldn’t have offended. You’re as good as dead!”
At that very moment, the system task panel popped up.
【Ding! Detected an enemy nearby releasing killing intent toward the host. Side Quest activated】
【Side Quest Description: Please kill the colleague who intends to do harm to you】
【Quest Reward: Talent—Veteran Driver】
Do harm to him?
Lu Zhan excitedly chased out of the 4S dealership, but he could not find any trace of Chen Lin.
“Brother Lu, what’s wrong?” Wang Botao ran out after him.
“Nothing.”
Lu Zhan felt a little regretful. What a pity he had not been able to stab the man to death. That was such a good talent, too.
What a waste...
Why had the system not released the quest just a moment earlier? If it had, then he could have claimed the reward on the spot.
Still, there was no need to rush. They were colleagues, after all. Sooner or later, he would get the chance to kill him.
Then Wang Botao lowered his voice and said, “Brother Lu, I heard the western district hasn’t been very peaceful lately. Two people have already gone missing, and their bodies haven’t been found. They may have run into a demon.”
“How about this afternoon, I bring Shangguan Ling along too? With one more person, it’ll be a bit safer.”
By the end of his sentence, Wang Botao sounded worried. If he remembered correctly, Brother Lu lived on the western side of Peach Blossom Alley.
“It’s fine. How much do you know about Chen Lin as a person?”
Lu Zhan returned to the showroom, glanced at the contract, and spoke with complete calm.
If his guess was correct, then the two missing people Wang Botao mentioned were Zhang Tie and Li Zhu.
He had killed them himself.
So Lu Zhan directly ignored that remark.
“I don’t know much about Chen Lin. Yesterday, Shangguan Ling and I went to the Demon Extermination Bureau to ask around about him. We only found out that he’s fairly skilled at using poison, so we should be more careful in the future.”
“Skilled at using poison?”
“Yes. I heard he used that skill to kill an expert at the Fifth Heaven of the Aperture Opening Realm despite being below that level himself.”
As he spoke, Wang Botao’s expression was grave.
If even an expert at the Fifth Heaven of the Aperture Opening Realm could not withstand that poison, then it could certainly dispose of him without a sound.
At the side, Lu Zhan laughed.
And it was a rather strange laugh.
What a coincidence.
“It’s fine. I happen to know a little about neutralizing poison too.”
Lu Zhan glanced at the talent entry for [Immunity to All Poisons] and said indifferently.
“Really?”
Hearing that, Wang Botao seemed a little more reassured.
Methods involving poison were, after all, rather intimidating.
Lu Zhan nodded.
“Let’s handle the paperwork.”
He signed his name and paid the money.
That way, he now had a car of his own.
After buying the car, Lu Zhan went to the Demon Extermination Bureau again.
Inside the Cultivation Room, Lu Zhan looked at the ten Aperture Opening Pills in his hand.
Three of them had been rewards from the system when he cleared the Rat Tide, while the other seven had been exchanged from the storeroom.
At this point, he only had 4 Contribution Points left.
But Lu Zhan did not feel there was anything to regret. It was all an investment in himself.
Save where you should save, spend where you should spend.
“System, consume Slaughter Points and raise my realm to the Third Heaven of the Aperture Opening Realm.”
【Ding! The Slaughter System is at your service wholeheartedly】
【The host has consumed 1000 Slaughter Points and begun cultivation】
【Detected Aperture Opening Pill x10. Aperture Opening Pills can increase cultivation speed by 150%】
【Detected Spirit-Gathering Array. Cultivation speed increased by 50%】
【Beginning entry into the Unceasing Cultivation State...】