Chapter 1004: Qian Jin!! We're Going Home!! |
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"A vicious, venomous scum like you doesn't deserve to carry the title of 749 investigator!!!!"
Lu Ding ignored her, simply listening to her curses as a smile gradually spread across his face.
Until it grew and grew, morphing into a wild, unhinged laugh.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA........."
Yu Liuli panicked. She tried to struggle, but the result was no different from a mayfly trying to shake a tree.
The corner of her eye darted toward her brother's body.
She saw it.
Some investigators, upon hearing Lu Ding's words, began moving to seal and store Yu Luochen's corpse.
"LET GO OF MY BROTHER'S BODY!!!!!!"
"LU DING!!! YOU ANIMAL!!! YOU FILTHY BEAST!!!!"
"HUMAN SACRIFICE IS AGAINST THE LAW!!!!"
"YOU KNOW THE LAW AND BREAK IT, THAT'S A DOUBLE OFFENSE!!!!"
"EVERYONE IN THE WEST WILL KNOW YOUR CRIMES!!! YOU'LL FACE JUDGMENT FOR THIS!!!"
To her outburst, Lu Ding of course knew that human sacrifice was illegal.
But...
"I have never once considered any member of Wuwang to be human."
"You're nothing but a pack of skulking ants, beasts wearing human skin, monkeys with human shadows."
"And you need to understand something, this is New City. Here, we practice new governance. This is the West. Here... I make the rules!!!!"
"Today, I'm going to be reckless for once. Who dares to judge me!?"
"Who can judge me!!!"
Dealing with a force like Wuwang that disregarded rules and respected no law, Lu Ding wasn't about to lecture them on law and order either!!!
When caught, they'd be ground into dust!
And that wasn't even mentioning, she had killed Qian Jin!!!
Before the coffin was lifted tomorrow,
Lu Ding vowed, she would suffer excruciating torture beyond the bounds of life and death.
He pulled out his phone.
Found the contact for Xing Xing.
He deliberately pressed the voice message button and sent a voice note, ensuring Yu Liuli could hear it clearly with her own ears.
"Prepare the cell and the tools. I'm bringing someone back soon. I want her to wish she was dead but can't fucking die!!!!!"
Yu Liuli's gaze shot toward him.
Meeting Lu Ding's sidelong, contemptuous glare.
At that moment, her stream of curses stopped.
All she could see was a face steeped in pitch-black darkness, thin lips accentuating the biting cold, cold eyes suppressing the crimson glow of murder simmering in his pupils, and his lofty, commanding posture, radiating pure brutality and ferocity.
He lifted his foot.
And stomped it directly onto Yu Liuli's face.
Knocking her unconscious instantly. Her neck snapped backward with a crack, and she fell limp, completely senseless.
Lu Ding turned and walked over to Shen Qixue.
She was crying, looking up at him.
"Grand Duke Lu... Bureau Chief Qian is dead, wuwuwuwu............"
Lu Ding took a deep breath and slowly exhaled: "It's okay, it's okay."
He crouched down, gently patting Shen Qixue's body as she sobbed so hard she could barely breathe.
Silently, he made his move.
He knocked Shen Qixue out with a single pinch.
He summoned the [Eight-Dragon Sandalwood Chariot] and loaded the shattered Yu Miaoyin and the dazed Shen Qixue onto it.
What followed was.
One of them began reassembling her own physical body.
The other started slowly regenerating her limbs.
The scene couldn't have been more grotesque.
Lu Ding let them recover from their injuries on their own.
Meanwhile, he himself went to stand beside Hou Dehai, both of them stopping in front of Qian Jin's body.
Hou Dehai wiped away his tears: "Grand Guardian, Qian Jin said before he died that you shouldn't forget what you promised him, to lead the funeral procession in front of his coffin."
Lu Ding nodded.
He looked at Hou Dehai: "I thought you two didn't get along? Why are you crying so hard?"
Hou Dehai snorted, snot flying everywhere. The bastard had zero manners, but Lu Ding didn't scold him. Given his state, he was clearly overwhelmed by emotion. As expected from a warrior.
Then Hou Dehai said: "How can I not be heartbroken, Grand Guardian? He bullied me so much before, and I never even got my revenge yet. Where's the closure? I only made things hard for him for a few days, and he just fucking bails!!"
"So what about all the suffering and grievances I've endured all these years!?"
"Now I don't even have a punching bag left! And he said, he never touched my wife or my sister-in-law. Why did he have to tell me that? Telling me that just forces me to think back on our old times."
"I can't help but cry now, Grand Guardian........."
Lu Ding took a step back: "Alright, alright. Don't try to wipe your snot on me."
"You're a grown man."
"Don't be too sad either. We should be happy for Old Qian. At least he fulfilled his wish. You go back today, bandage your wounds properly, rest up. Tomorrow, you and I will send Old Qian up the mountain."
New City had no tradition of keeping corpses.
This place used to be chaotic and complex.
Leaving a corpse lying around carelessly could easily lead to a corpse mutation.
A Qi Refiner's corpse turning, that was no joke.
When it changed, it became a Corpse Mage.
Extremely vicious.
So the local custom was, when someone died, the family had to see the deceased for the last time as quickly as possible, then cremate and take them up the mountain.
Hearing Lu Ding say this.
Hou Dehai nodded: "Understood, Grand Guardian......."
Then......
Hou Dehai's head lolled to one side, and he passed out on the spot, falling asleep wherever he stood.
Lu Ding was helpless.
But he still reached out to support Hou Dehai, helping him upright. The man was truly exhausted.
Forcing his way into demonic transformation at the Fifth Restriction cultivation level to stand against Yu Liuli's God Ascension cultivation and engage her in battle.
If Hou Dehai's Inner Demons hadn't been connected to Qian Jin, who knows what would have happened.
Now that Qian Jin was dead.
Hou Dehai's Inner Demons would naturally dissolve. After he woke up, who knows, maybe the West would gain another God Ascension powerhouse.
The current West appeared prosperous on the surface.
But in reality, it was somewhat top-heavy.
The middle and lower ranks were solid as a rock, but the high-end combat strength could only be carried by Lu Ding and Old Long.
There were too few God Ascension and Spirit Refinement cultivators.
Although they would certainly come in time, given the West's talent and the fact that Lu Ding had brought over hundreds of Hanjing geniuses, the interim development period would require Lu Ding to shoulder all the pressure alone.
That is, now that Old Long was around.
Otherwise, Lu Ding wouldn't dare make a single move, for fear of someone sneaking up and taking out his home base.
Just like this time.
"Still too few high-end combatants."
Lu Ding said this, though he admitted it was partly his own fault. He developed too fast, leaving everyone else struggling to keep up.
But they were a single unit.
They had no choice but to push themselves relentlessly to catch up with Lu Ding's pace, destined to be exhausted.
He handed the Hou Dehai he was supporting over to another investigator.
Lu Ding crouched down, knelt on one knee, his dark robe stained with blood. He hoisted Qian Jin's corpse into his arms and bellowed: "Bureau Chief of White Ridge 749, Qian Jin, born in New Era year 68, died in New Era year 279, lived to be 211 years old!!!!!"
Spiritual Energy shot straight into the heavens.
The wind picked up. Rain came. Thunder boomed and roared.
A sky full of wind and rain to see off a single man.
Lu Ding took a step forward, his stride firm: "Qian Jin!!!!! We're going home!!!!!!"
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This chapter is a bonus for Gift King previously sent by Chaotic Vortex boss. Thank you, boss. I will also add extra chapters for other bosses' gifts one by one, in the order they were given.
I posted a bit late today. I deleted a lot and rewrote some parts. I didn't want it to be too heavy.
