Monster Paradise

by Stayrr

800 years ago, 3000 dimensional gates opened across the entire world. In that moment, it was as if 3000 different colored eyes opened across the world as hordes of monsters swarmed out of these gates like tears. Some could destroy city walls with one strike; They had bodies the size of a giant and fed on humans Some latched onto humans, absorbing their bodies’ nutrients and ensla

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Chapter 225: Thunder Steps

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The next morning, Lin Huang woke up at seven to prepare breakfast. Lin Xin woke up at 7:10 a.m. on her own and woke Lin Xuan up as well.

"Brother, are you not practicing your gun skills today?" Lin Xin asked at the dining table while talking into the milk bottle.

"Not today, I'll have to practice the movement skill that my master sent. We'll see." Lin Huang nodded and smirked.

"Have you learned the third gunfighting technique yet?"

"I have learned that last night, I'll be learning the fourth one today." Lin Xin nodded. She does not seem interested to discuss further with him. After gulping down the milk, she went upstairs and brought Lin Xuan with her.

Meanwhile, Lin Huang took his time to finish his breakfast. After cleaning the kitchen, he went into the living room and started studying the movement skill that Mr. Fu sent him on the couch. It was a video that Mr. Fu recorded himself. In the beginning of the video, Mr. Fu introduced the movement skill

"This movement skill is called Thunder Steps . Just like its name, its speed is as fast as thunder. Another origin of its name is the thunder-like noise that it makes…" As Mr. Fu spoke, he moved at lightning speed; followed by a loud thud.

Lin Huang was stunned. He thought something exploded but he soon realized that the thud came from the movement skill itself. Soon, another thud was heard. Mr. Fu returned to his initial position.

"Did you see that? That's the effect of the movement skill. The sound could be heard even before you arrived at the second point from your initial position! A powerful person should be able to make his entrance …"

"Can I get a quiet movement skill instead…" Lin Huang was speechless as he felt that the movement skill was attention seeking.

Since the video was pre-recorded, Mr. Fu could not hear what Lin Huang was saying; he proceeded to explain the movement skill. The video was one and a half hour long. Since Mr. Fu put in a great amount effort to explain and demonstrate the movement skill, Lin Huang felt bad for requesting another movement skill. He continued to watch the video anyway.

The tutorial was very detailed as Mr. Fu had answered all the questions and doubts that Lin Huang had in detail; nothing was left out. Lin Huang continued watching the video until the end even though he realized that there were two to three minutes left before the video ended.

Mr. Fu demonstrated Thunder Steps on the deck of his spaceship several times before returning to speak to Lin Huang in the video recording.

"Oh right, there's something that I must say. The thud that came with the movement skill was initially a flaw when it was invented. Nobody could find a solution to it for hundreds of years. This movement skill relies on Life Power to create such a speed so it's normal to have the explosive noise. However, a genius modified the release of Life Power for this movement skill, creating a silent version. Now, I'm going to teach you how to do that…"

Lin Huang only realized that the last two minutes of the video was crucial after finishing the video. If he was to ignore the last two minutes, he would have practiced the version with the noisy thud.

"I almost got tricked by him…" Lin Huang did not expect Mr. Fu to be so playful. He turned off the video and went to the courtyard. To prevent himself from destroying his shoes from the lack of Life Power control, he removed them.

As long as he could master the force of Life Power under his feet, he would have mastered 80% of Thunder Steps . The remaining parts would be the mastery of smaller details. However, controlling Life Power was not an easy task. He lost control and dove head first into the trashcan at the entrance on his first attempt.

"It seems like I need a bigger space for this…"

Lin Huang showered, got changed and bid farewell to Lin Xin and Lin Xuan. He rode on the Alexandrian Eagle and headed to a wild zone outside the foothold.

Upon landing in an empty wild zone, Lin Huang recalled the Alexandrian Eagle and started practicing Thunder Steps . His mastery of Life Power was much stronger than a common silver-level rank-3 as he had mastered level-8 of Army Attack Tactics which gave him a 96% increment in the rotational speed of his Life Power. It was four in the afternoon; after seven to eight hours of practice, he had finally stopped tripping over the ground.

However, he was far from mastering the skill as he had only obtained slightly more than 10 skill card pieces of Thunder Steps . Since it was almost dinner time, Lin Huang summoned the Alexandrian Eagle and rode it home. When he got home, he saw Lin Xin pouring herself a cup of water in the kitchen.

"What's wrong with you?"

Lin Xin was puzzled as she looked at Lin Huang's messy clothes. She wondered if he was beaten up as he looked like he had been rolling on the ground.

"Nothing, I fell down when I was practicing the movement skill… I'll go shower now." Lin Huang waved his hand and went straight to the bathroom on the second floor.

In the shower, the water washed away the black soot that covered his body. It took him some time to clean up. Later, he threw the dirty clothes away after he changed.

"Brother, what kind of movement skill are you practicing now?" Lin Xin was curious but she did not have the opportunity to ask Lin Huang since he went straight into the shower after he got home.

"That's the movement skill that my master sent me. You can't learn it now; it requires Life Power and a high mastery of it I've been training since morning and I'm finally not tripping over anymore." Lin Huang explained.

"Oh…" Lin Xin was relieved that he was not beaten up.

Lin Huang was not in the mood to cook so he ordered takeaway instead while he looked for ways to better control his Life Power by watching the video. After dinner, Lin Huang joined Lin Xin and Lin Xuan in Gun Master instead. He was thinking of learning gunfighting techniques to relax. In four hours, Lin Huang managed to learn another nine introductory-level gunfighting techniques. He had finally learned all of the introductory-level techniques.

It was 10 at night, he went to bed exhausted…

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Chapter 226: School Transfer

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For the next 10 days, Lin Huang practiced Thunder Steps in the morning while he learned gunfighting techniques from Lin Xuan at night. He was beginning to master Thunder Steps as he had been obtaining more and more skill card pieces every day. Within two weeks, he had accumulated more than 30 card pieces. During that same period of time, he had also managed to learn all 29 of the beginner-level gunfighting techniques.

It was finally the day for Lin Xin's enrolment to her new school. There were four hunter colleges in Winter City in the four zones. Since Lin Huang stayed on the east side, they were less than two kilometers away from the college. Lin Huang rode on the Viridian Wolf with Lin Xin and Lin Xuan to the college. When they arrived, there was a crowd at the entrance with at least 10,000 people.

Lin Huang managed to locate the information counter and got directions to the admission office and brought the both of them in with him. The school was much nicer than the one in Wulin Town. It was not only bigger but had an astonishing building architecture as well. The lush greenery reminded Lin Huang of the university that he went to on Earth. Lin Xin was excited, the school was much more majestic than the one in Wulin Town. As they stepped into the admission office on the eighth floor, there were five to six people queuing up. Soon, it was Lin Xin's turn.

Lin Huang got Lin Xuan to wait at the door while he brought Lin Xin in.

"Have a seat."

The teacher responsible for school transfer did not bother to make small talk with them and got the both of them to sit down before asking all the necessary questions.

"Your name."

"Ling Xue."

"Age."

"14."

Lin Xin had memorized her new identity, she managed to answer all the questions. The teacher scanned Lin Xin's identity, school transfer application, and Lin Huang's residential token before giving her the school ID.

"You will be going to the second graduating class which commences three days later. Report to the form teacher before 8:30 a.m.." The teacher briefed.

"If you have any special skills, do let your form teacher know so that you would be arranged to attend special courses. If you passed the course, you would have to go through an additional assessment before graduation, which is good for your school application." The teacher added.

"Understood. Thank you, teacher!" Lin Xin smile and nodded. They left the admission office.

When they stepped out, both of them saw Lin Xuan was looking at the students in combat class. He was envious.

"Brother, why not enroll Lin Xuan as well?" Lin Xin suggested. Lin Xuan looked at Lin Huang in anticipation.

"His condition is special; If he were to learn like the rest, his superb learning speed would be revealed which may cause trouble. Many would want to experiment with him, even the Hunter Association." Lin Huang turned down the suggestion.

"Xiao Xuan, if you'd like to learn, I could find some other ways to help. You really can't be learning at a school." Lin Huang patted his head.

"I understand." Lin Xuan nodded.

As they were heading home, Lin Huang noticed that Lin Xuan was upset.

"Come here, Xiao Xuan. If you would like to learn combat skills, I'll teach you a Life Skill." Lin Huang got Lin Xuan to come to him.

"This Life Skill is called Army Attack Tactics , practice this for a few days and see where you stand."

Lin Huang passed the Army Attack Tactics crystal to Lin Xuan. His eyes lit up and he immediately returned to his room with the crystals.

After settling Lin Xuan while Lin Xin was playing Gun Master in her room, Lin Huang headed straight into the wild zone. When he returned in the afternoon, Lin Xuan was sitting in the living room looking upset.

"What's wrong? Is there any problem with your training?" Lin Huang asked.

"I'm stuck…" Lin Xuan said.

"Stuck?" Lin Huang thought it was strange as he managed to get to level 1 within a couple of hours and he did not encounter any issue when he was training level 2.

"Show me."

Lin Xuan nodded and performed the skill rotation. Lin Huang's jaw almost dropped; he finally understood what Lin Xuan meant. He was stuck on level 6 instead of level 2. Within eight hours, he managed to train from level 1 to level 5. It was always an obstacle when one arrived at level 6 as it requires one to transform their Life Power. Since Lin Xuan took such a short time to master up to level 5, his body had yet to adapt to the Life Power rotation which prevented him from moving up to level 6.

"You need to practice a couple more times and you'll reach level6 soon." Lin Huang explained, Lin Xuan understood what was the problem. After dinner, Lin Huang got Lin Xuan to teach him gunfighting techniques. Three days had passed and finally, it was the first day of school for Lin Xin. Within three days, Lin Xuan managed to train Army Attack Tactics up to level-8, which was the same as Lin Huang.

Seeing that Lin Xuan had already mastered Army Attack Tactics , Lin Huang downloaded a selection of battle videos from the first to the ninth floor of the Hunter Arena for Lin Xuan to watch. There were more than 30,000 videos with the longest one was half an hour while the shortest one was only a couple of seconds. Those videos would keep Lin Xuan occupied for a while. Meanwhile, Lin Huang focused on mastering Thunder Steps . He wanted to master that before leaving to hunt for the Life Seed monster.

He bought two more barbecue machines and he would prepare three sets of grilled meat for Lin Xuan and order dinner for Lin Xuan every morning before leaving. All he had to himself were snacks. Every day, he would train from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Apart from the time he spent to eat for lunch and dinner, which was only 20 minutes, he spent 14 hours training.

As he slowly mastered Thunder Steps , the number of skill card pieces he obtained increased as the day pass. Finally, on the 28th day since Lin Xin started school, he had obtained 3,000 card pieces. He received a notification from Xiao Hei.

"3,000 Thunder Steps card pieces detected. Combine the cards for an Epic Movement Skill Card - Thunder Steps . Would you like to combine your card?"

"Yes!" Lin Huang replied without hesitation.

"Combining 3,000 skill card pieces…"

"Congratulations! You have obtained an epic movement skill card, Thunder Steps ."

Lin Huang checked the card immediately.

"Skill Card"

"Skill Card Name: Thunder Steps"

"Rarity: Epic"

"Type of Skill: Movement skill"

"Skill Level: Unknown"

"Status: Available"

"Card Remarks: Not bad"

"Finally!" Lin Huang let out a long breath. It was dark, Lin Huang just realized that it was 10 p.m. He did not want to stay in the wild zone any longer. He then summoned the Alexandrian Eagle and flew back home…

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Chapter 227: Brain Eater

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After Lin Huang mastered Thunder Steps , he started preparing for his trip to hunt for the Life Seed monster. He prepared breakfast early in the morning, Lin Xin and Lin Xuan were coming down the stairs. Since Lin Xin started school, she woke up at the same time as Lin Huang and she was also responsible to wake Lin Xuan up daily. The three of them sat at the dining table and had their breakfast.

"You've been in school for a month now. How do you find it so far?" Lin Huang asked as he ate his oats.

"It has been good. I've signed up for the gunmaster course. There will be a test two days time but I believe I'll pass with flying colors." Lin Xin was confident. Even though she was even at iron-level, her performance was outstanding as she had mastered eight introductory-level gunfighting techniques by now. She might even pass the beginner level of the gunmaster assessment.

"With your capability at hand, you should be able to pass gun-related assessments in military schools." Lin Huang smiled and nodded as he was aware of Lin Xin's progress.

"How about the rest? Is there anything that you can't adapt to?"

"The courses are similar to those in Wulin Town, they are not as difficult as before so there's nothing that I have yet to adapt. However, there are more top students now but competition isn't a bad thing. I could use it as an encouragement to improve." Lin Xin was not afraid of challenges. She was the top student back in Wulin Town, competing with the rest of the students in her new school was a form of encouragement to her.

Lin Huang felt relieved when he found out that she was doing well in school.

"Brother, when do you plan to leave?" Lin Xin knew Lin Huang was hunting for a Life Seed monster.

"Within a couple of days. I haven't decided on the time yet, I will inform you when it's confirmed." Lin Huang had some preparation to do.

After breakfast, Lin Xin headed to school while Lin Xuan watched the battle videos upstairs. Lin Huang returned to the living room and called Mr. Fu after he had finished cleaning up the kitchen. Before he was able to make the call he received a notification from the Hunter's Association; it read - Suspected Brain Eater in Foothold No.7C193 . Since he read about the skills that he wanted for the Demonic Dandelion Vine, Lin Huang had selected Brain Eater and parasite as the keywords in the Hunter Association's news. Whenever there was news related to those keywords, Lin Huang would be notified.

He looked at the message. It was an article with pictures. The sewage in a small area in foothold No.7C193 was clogged this morning. When maintenance was carried out the staff found a few corpses in the sewage. Post-mortem results showed that the four bodies belong to young men who had their brains removed. Preliminary check showed that it could be the work of a Brain Eater

Finally, there was something about the Brain Eater, Lin Huang did not want to miss a thing. He started to look for articles about foothold No.7C193. Also known as Luoxi City, it was a normal grade-C foothold. Its economy was not as good as Baqi City but it was ranked far behind among other grade-C footholds. It was not a tourist destination since it was secluded on the northeast side of Division7.

Lin Huang's eyes lit up when he saw the foothold's coordinate on the map.

"This foothold is so close to Meteorite Desert!"

He checked the distance between the foothold and Meteorite Desert, it was less than 2,000 kilometers apart.

"It's just along the way. I shall kill that Brain Eater as I take the time to stabilize my Life Power before leveling up to gold-level." Lin Huang made up his mind.

After closing the page and the map, Lin Huang called Mr. Fu. Mr. Fu picked up immediately.

"Whats wrong? Have you stabilized your Life Power and are you ready to hunt for the gold-level Life Seed?" Mr. Fu laughed.

"Not yet, but I'm almost there." Lin Huang had not been using his Life Skill in the past two months. However, it was still rotating automatically. The Life Power in his body should have stabilized soon since it had been two months.

"I'm calling to ask if you have any dimensional transfer equipment as I'm too far away from the Meteorite Desert. If you have, I would like to borrow it since it could save me a lot of time on the road."

"Sure, I should have one that is set to go to that place. When are you departing?" Mr. Fu agreed to help Lin Huang immediately.

"Within the next few days, I'd like to go to Luoxi City." Lin Huang did not hide his intention.

"Why Luoxi City? The city that is closest to Meteorite Desert would be Meteorite City." Mr. Fu thought Lin Huang had made a mistake.

"I heard there's a Brain Eater in Luoxi City, I want to try my luck to catch it to train my parasite." Lin Huang answered honestly.

"You want to obtain Supreme Intelligence for your parasite?" Mr. Fu understood immediately.

"That's a great idea. If it's a mutated parasite, it would be easier to mutate it the second time when you become a transcendent if you manage to get Supreme Intelligence ."

"Yes." Lin Huang nodded without saying much. Although Mr. Fu was his master, there were still things that he needed to keep to himself.

"Sure, I will send you to Luoxi City then. Is it okay if you depart the day after tomorrow?" Mr. Fu asked.

"No problem." Lin Huang nodded.

"Send me your address later, I'll come to you early in the morning in two days." Mr. Fu hung up the phone.

Lin Huang sent his address in Winter City immediately. He was relieved that Mr. Fu agreed to help him as it would save him at least a month and a half of time.

"Now how do I find that Brain Eater?" Lin Huang thought. The Brain Eater had a high intelligence. Since it had invaded into a human foothold, it would definitely go into hiding. There were at least millions of people in a grade-C foothold, looking for the Brain Eater that was disguised as a human was like finding a needle in a haystack.

"The only way is to look is to start at the location where the incident happened. Since it discarded all the corpses at the same place, it would mean that it had been residing in the area for quite some time. Perhaps I could find some clues on the corpses. To see the corpses and retrieve the post-mortem reports, I'd have to get to the Hunter's Association division. That could be a problem…"

Lin Huang realized that looking for the Brain Eater was not a simple task at all. He put his concerns aside and started reading up on previous cases where the Hunter's Association handled a Brain Eater…

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Chapter 228: Mr. Fu's Visit

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A scrumptious dinner was served on the dining table, Lin Xin and Lin Xuan drooled over the food.

"Brother, what's the occasion?" Lin Xin asked.

"I'll tell you later." Lin Huang smiled.

Half an hour later, Lin Xin slumped into the chair with a food coma.

"I'm too full, I can't eat anymore…"

Lin Huang was speechless.

"Can you tell me now?" Lin Xin did not forget about the question that she asked him.

"I'll be leaving in two days." Lin Huang told her the truth.

Lin Xuan stopped eating and looked at Lin Huang.

"So soon?" Lin Xin had her eyes wide open as she looked at Lin Huang. She knew that Lin Huang was leaving but she did not expect him to leave so soon.

"I didn't plan to leave that soon but something came up. It's something that's along the way so I thought I might as well leave earlier." Lin Huang explained.

"How long… would you be gone for?" Lin Xin hesitated but asked anyway.

"It'll take at least two months." Lin Huang factored in the time he needed to hunt the Brain Eater which would be impossible to accomplish in a matter of two days.

"Oh…" Lin Xin stared blankly at the table.

"Xiao Xuan, protect your sister while I'm gone, alright?" Lin Huang smiled at Lin Xuan.

"Okay!" Lin Xuan nodded hard.

"Xin Er, prepare two portions of grilled meat in the morning before you go to school. One is for breakfast while another one is kept warm for Lin Xuan's lunch." Lin Huang told Lin Xin.

"Actually… Xiao Xuan knows how to use the barbecue machine." Lin Xin stuck her tongue out. She taught Lin Xuan to use the barbecue machine because she was lazy to cook for him.

"You silly girl…" Lin Huang shook his head.

"Alright then, Xiao Xuan, you can cook for yourself whenever you are hungry. I still have many monster carcasses with me, I will transfer them to you later." Lin Huang added.

"Okay." Lin Xuan nodded.

After giving it some thought, Lin Huang decided to give his modified SilverPhoenix16 to Lin Xin.

"Pass this gun to Lin Xuan if you encounter any trouble."

Although they had moved to a different home and changed their names, Lin Huang was worried that the Purple Crow would come for them. Prevention was always better than cure.

Two days passed in just a blink of an eye, someone knocked on the door when Lin Huang was preparing breakfast. Mr. Fu stood at the door in a green attire, surprising Lin Huang since it was only a little past seven in the morning.

"Good morning, I hope I'm not bothering you." Mr. Fu seemed to have trimmed his white beard, it looked much neater now. His smile was warm as always.

"No, you are not bothering me. Please, come in. I'm just preparing breakfast." Lin Huang smiled as he shook his head.

"Sure."

Mr. Fu looked around as he entered Lin Huang's house.

"Nice house. Moderate size, it's homely. It doesn't look like the style that you'd like…"

"You are right, master. My sister chose this house." Lin Huang smiled and got a cup of tea for Mr. Fu.

"Please take a seat, I'll continue making breakfast."

Mr. Fu then sat on the couch in the living room and sipped the tea.

Lin Xin and Lin Xuan followed the smell of the food downstairs.

"Brother, do we have a guest?" Lin Xin heard Lin Huang talking to someone when she was upstairs.

"My master is here." Lin Huang walked out from the kitchen and introduced the both of them to Mr. Fu.

"These are my brother and sister."

"Brother and sister?" Mr. Fu raised his eyebrow. He looked at Lin Xin and smiled. He was stunned when he looked at Lin Xuan.

"What's wrong, master?" Lin Huang noticed the odd expression on Mr. Fu's.

"Oh nothing, I was just thinking what should I give them since we're meeting for the first time."Mr. Fu smiled and explained.

"Let me see what do I have in my storage space."

Soon, Mr. Fu took out a some food and toys. He seemed to have a storage ring exclusively for gifts for kids.

"Take whatever you like." Mr. Fu smiled at the both of them.

Lin Xin and Lin Xuan looked at Lin Huang.

"Pick whatever you like. Master isn't a stranger." Lin Huang nodded and smiled.

The both of them went forward to picked out the things that they liked. Mr. Fu picked a lollipop that was the size of a head and gave it to Lin Xuan.

"A lollipop for you."

However, Lin Xuan did not take it.

"Xiao Xuan doesn't like candy, he only eats meat." Lin Xin explained immediately.

"Oh, is that so…" Mr. Fu was surprised. He kept the lollipop and looked at Lin Xuan again.

As they picked out their gifts, Lin Huang was done preparing breakfast.

"Let's have breakfast together!"

The both of them kept the gifts in their storage space and ran to the dining table.

"Master, please eat with us." Lin Huang walked into the living room and smiled at Mr. Fu.

"I haven't had breakfast in a long time, perhaps I shall taste your cooking." Mr. Fu nodded and walked to the dining table.

The breakfast Lin Huang prepared was simple. Besides Lin Xuan, everyone else got a piece of toast, grilled sausage, two fried eggs, some fruits and a glass of milk. Meanwhile, there were only grilled sausages, fried eggs and big pieces of grilled meat on Lin Xuan's plate. Lin Huang was not a great chef when it comes to cooking. However, such a simple breakfast would not require any skill. Mr. Fu was happy with his breakfast. He finished the food but not the milk. Instead, he drank alcohol from his flask.

Lin Xin went to school after breakfast while Lin Huang cleaned the kitchen.

Lin Huang then called Lin Xuan over, "You are the only man in the house when I'm away, take care of your sister." Lin Huang held up his fist.

"I will." Lin Xuan nodded and fist bumped Lin Huang.

"Call me if you need anything. Let me know once you are done watching all the videos. When it's raining, close all the windows if your sister is not around, don't let the water flow in…" Lin Huang added while Lin Xuan nodded.

Mr. Fu summoned a black dimensional door, Lin Huang stepped into the door with him and disappeared from their location…

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Chapter 229: Luoxi City

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Stepping into the black dimensional relic, Lin Huang arrived at a hotel room with Mr. Fu following behind him. A lady in a pink bathrobe was walking out of the bathroom as they appeared and she started screaming, "Help! There are perverts in my room!"

Mr. Fu giggled while he kept the black dimensional relic and pulled Lin Huang out of the window together with him.

The lady was so shocked that the supposed perverts had jumped out of the window.

"But this is the 99th floor…"

She ran to the balcony and looked down towards the direction the duo had dived but they were nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile, the both of them landed in an alley opposite the hotel.

"Hehe, I'm sorry. That was the old location that I set the last time. I didn't know that there's someone staying in there now," Mr. Fu patted Lin Huang's collar that he had pulled earlier.

"Is this Luoxi City?" Lin Huang was more concerned about that.

"Of course, it is. I wanted to send you straight to Meteorite City, but I thought you were hunting for the Brain Eater in Luoxi City?" Mr. Fu knew where Lin Huang's doubts were coming from.

"That's great. Thank you, Master, for saving much of my time." Lin Huang was embarrassed that Mr. Fu had brought him here personally.

"I'm your Master and you're my apprentice, there's no need for such formalities." Mr Fu waved his hand nonchalantly while reaching for the black dimensional relic.

"I have never gotten you anything since you became my apprentice, so here, this is yours."

Mr. Fu then disabled the authorization of the relic and a black token the size of a palm fell into his hand. He gave the token to Lin Huang.

"Master, I can't be using this. Maybe you should give me something else." A relic alone costed a bomb, what more a dimensional relic whereby its price was 10 times more than a normal relic! The dimensional relic that Mr. Fu was giving him could travel across Division 7 to Luoxi City; there was little doubt that this was a unique relic.

"Take it, Black Ink is a four-star dimensional relic which is used for long-distance dimensional travel. Not only can it be activated using Life Power, you can also use Life Crystal to activate it. It will make it convenient for you to travel. I have many dimensional equipment, so this is nothing," Mr. Fu insisted.

"Moreover, I would never take back what I give away. If you don't want it, I'll throw it away."

Since Mr. Fu insisted, Lin Huang accepted the Black Ink and kept it in his storage space.

"Let me know when you have levelled up to Gold Level. I will arrange a training session for you." Mr. Fu patted Lin Huang's shoulder confidently.

"Sure," Lin Huang assured his Master as he wanted to level up as soon as possible.

Mr. Fu proceeded to summon a gold dimensional relic. Before he left, he seemed to recall something. He turned around to Lin Huang. "Oh, I suppose your brother is not your real brother. Am I right?"

"No, he isn't. What's wrong?" Lin Huang did not deny the truth.

"Nothing, just asking." Mr. Fu did not say much, just waving his hand and stepping into the relic.

After sending Mr. Fu off, Lin Huang looked at the map and realized that he was not far away from the location where the dead bodies had been found, which was less than two kilometers away. He changed his features to the face that he had on Earth and checked into a hotel nearby using Ye Xiu's identity. The reason why he did not want to stay at the luxury hotel next to the alley was just in case he bumped into the lady in bathrobe that they had seen earlier. How awkward would that be?! Although he had a new face now, it was best that that did not happen at all.

The hotel that Lin Huang booked was even closer to the location where the dead bodies had been found. He reserved a room for three days online. After he checked into his room, he started reading the local news but there was nothing about the dead bodies found in the sewer. He proceeded to scroll to the online news a few days ago but there was nothing about the case at all.

"It seems like the news has been sealed off by the Union Government. I'm not sure if the Brain Eater knows that its identity has been revealed…"

Lin Huang looked at the Hunter Info Network and read a piece of news about the Brain Eater that was available for those ranked Silver Hunter and above. He had confirmed that the news was real. However, there was a mission at the bottom of the news.

"Mission: Who is the culprit responsible for the dead bodies in the sewer of Luoxi City?'

"Condition: Find, capture or kill the culprit."

"Reward: 3000 Life Crystals"

"Mission Due: 1 week"

"There will not be any punishment if the mission is not accomplished."

"Mission Eligibility: Only for Silver and Gold Hunters."

"Oh, there's an investigation mission available!" Just as Lin Huang was about to accept the mission, he recalled that he was in the city using Ye Xiu's identity.

"I can only accept this mission as Ye Xiu but Ye Xiu doesn't have a Hunter license…"

After some thought, Lin Huang called Yang Ling. It took Yang Ling almost one minute for pick up the call. He looked the same as usual with his dark eye circles and exhausted face.

"It's not even 8:30 in the morning, can't you just let me sleep?"

"I think you should really take a shower, I can smell your sweaty body from the screen." Seeing his messy appearance, Lin Huang could not help but to tease him.

Yang Ling lifted his hands and sniffed his armpits. He frowned and mumbled to himself, "When was the last time I took a shower again…?"

"Why did you call? Quick, I need to get back to sleep." Yang Ling soon forgot about Lin Huang's teasing.

"Can you upgrade the authorization of an Emperor's Heart Ring that was made?" Lin Huang asked.

"Sure, would you like an identity with the Hunter Association or something else?" Yang Ling asked while yawning.

"I want a Gold Hunter's identity," Lin Huang answered without hesitation.

"Which one would you like to upgrade?" Yang Ling asked.

"Ye Xiu."

"Sure, it would usually cost 1500 Life Crystals but since you did your identity with me, 1400 will do." Yang Ling agreed to do it for Lin Huang immediately.

"Is there anything else?"

"No, just upgrade it to a Gold Hunter authorization." Lin Huang shook his head.

"I'll send you a message once it's done. It will take two minutes at most. If that's all, we're done here." Yang Ling hung up the call straight away.

In less than a minute, Lin Huang received a message from the Hunter Association.

"Congratulations, Mr. Ye Xiu. You are now a Gold Hunter of the Hunter Association."

Once he received the message, Lin Huang logged on to the exclusive site of the Hunter Info Network using Ye Xiu's identity and found out that he had really been upgraded to a Gold Hunter. He took a look at the post titled 'Brain Eater Suspected in Foothold No.7C193' immediately and accepted the mission at the bottom.

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Chapter 230: Investigation

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Since he had accepted the mission under Ye Xiu's identity, Lin Huang applied with the local government to look at the dead bodies and the post-mortem reports as well as the contact details of the forensic scientist and the workers who had discovered the dead bodies. Before he even got any reply from the Union Government, he left the hotel and headed to the sewer. The hotel that Lin Huang who staying at was almost 1.5 kilometers from the location where the dead bodies had been discovered. On the way to the sewer, he observed the area and the hotels around.

When he arrived at the manhole cover that was shown in the document, he noticed that it was now covered properly. Without attempting to open it, Lin Huang looked around.

"There are three small inns and a hotel within a one-kilometer radius…It's very likely that the Brain Eater stayed around here. Since four of the dead bodies were all tossed under the cover, it shows that this must be the most convenient location for it to get rid of the dead bodies…"

Lin Huang noticed that there were no surveillance cameras around which could be the main reason why the Brain Eater chose to get rid of the dead bodies there. It could have kept the dead bodies in its storage space ring as it made its way there but the dead bodies had to be taken out when it wanted to dispose of them. With surveillance cameras, it could be easily noticed.

"There are many people walking around during the day, so it must have done that in the middle of the night. Although there are no surveillance cameras here, there must be some of them around the streets. The night life in Luoxi City isn't busy and not many people would be walking around in the middle of the night. I could take a look at the surveillance cameras…"

Just when Lin Huang was done with his preliminary analysis, a message came from his Emperor's Heart Ring. It was an investigation ID assigned by the local government. There was a message that came with it: "Hi, Mr. Ye Xiu, to prevent the information from documents from leaking out, we are not able to send you the post-mortem report. Kindly visit the forensic scientist."

Lin Huang was fine with that. After reading the message, he headed to a sundry shop nearby. It was located facing the direction where the manhole cover was located. The shop owner was a middle-aged man with a buzz cut. He was plump and he looked honest. Lin Huang started chatting with the shop owner as he purchased a bottle of water and some snacks.

"Boss, it's a small area next to your shop, I bet your business is good."

"It's alright, I guess, enough to get by." The shop owner smiled and shook his head.

"Is it safe to run business here since I don't see any surveillance cameras around?" Lin Huang asked.

The shop owner laughed at Lin Huang's question. "Young man, you must be a foreigner."

"The economy is bad in Luoxi City and there's nothing much to see here. However, our people are honest, so there's not much crime here, let alone thieves. Therefore, there's no need for surveillance cameras. Look, there are no cameras in my shop as well. It's not just me, most of the shops don't have that as it's not necessary."

The shop owner's answer was out of Lin Huang's expectations; he did not expect that the residents in this foothold had such faith in their safety.

"Boss, I passed by two days back and noticed that the sewer was blocked, so I walked the other way. Does that happen often? If it does, it must be inconvenient then." Lin Huang attempted to get the shop owner to talk.

"That doesn't happen often. I have been here for almost 10 years and it was the first time it happened a few days back. It was just your luck. Young man, although Luoxi City is small, not everything here is not as good as those large foothold," the shop owner explained.

"Is that so? But why was it blocked though? Did the workers explain?" Lin Huang asked.

"They did, they said the pipes underground were old. They built a shed above it and took many hours to fix it," he elaborated.

"Oh, really…?" Lin Huang just confirmed that the Union Government managed to cover the truth up.

He was relieved since the shop owners around did not know about the dead bodies in the sewer, let alone the residents. Sewage maintenance was a small matter which was not worth the publicity, therefore, the Brain Eater might not realize that what it did had been discovered.

Since he had confirmed that part, Lin Huang did not plan to waste any more time there. After bidding farewell to the shop owner, Lin Huang took a look at the address of the sewer workers that the Union Government had sent earlier. The workers who discovered the dead bodies were resting at home temporarily. The Union Government paid them a high compensation sum which amounted to years of their salary. The reason for the compensation was to avoid them from revealing the truth as well as to cooperate with the investigation of the Union Government.

Following the address, Lin Huang found the first person on the list. Brother Zhao was a tanned, skinny man. When Lin Huang arrived at his house, he was playing cards with his friends. Hearing that it was someone from the Hunter Association, Brother Zhao's wife whispered into his ear. Brother Zhao then got his friends to leave. After they left, Brother Zhao asked Lin Huang to come into his room while his wife hid herself in the kitchen.

"Hi Brother Zhao, my name is Ye Xiu. I am the investigator that was sent by the Hunter Association on the case," Lin Huang said while projecting his investigation ID.

Brother Zhao nodded immediately. "The Union Government asked me to be cooperative. Just ask whatever you have to, I will not hide anything."

"Alright, let's start then." Lin Huang nodded and got into finding out the details.

"What time was it when you guys discovered the dead bodies?"

"Early in the morning two days ago, it was about 8:30 a.m...It was our first task of the day. We received complaints from the residents once we arrived at work, saying that the sewer was blocked. Water was leaking and the stench was unbearable. We headed there right after we changed into our uniforms…"

"Could you elaborate more about how you guys discovered the dead bodies?" Lin Huang asked.

"We removed the manhole covered when we arrived. After clearing all the water, we went underground to investigate. We noticed that the silt was thick, so we went down to clean it. To our surprise, just when we started to dig, we were shocked to find a human hand. Our colleague, Little Wang, was young and brave. He pulled the entire body out of the silt. We reported it to the Union Government immediately…"

"Did you see how they die?" Lin Huang asked.

"No, it was dark down there. Moreover, the dead bodies were covered in silt. Had the Union Government not ask us to stay there till their staff came, we would've ran away immediately. We didn't dare to look."

"So, you guys only discovered one body while the rest were dug out by the staff from the Union Government?" Lin Huang proceeded to ask.

"That's right. When we called, they asked us to stay there and stop digging so that the crime scene would not be ruined. We stayed there until the staff arrived, then they proceeded to dig out the rest of the body. As we were recording our confessions while they dug, only did we realize that there was more than one dead body…"

Lin Huang nodded and asked a couple more questions until he got the answers he wanted.

"Thank you for your cooperation, we will investigate this as soon as we can." Lin Huang stood up and shook his hand after he was done with his questions.

"Mr. Ye, there were a man and a woman who came to investigate this case as well. They were not as friendly as you," Brother Zhao laughed.

"The mission was published on the Hunter Info Network by your government, so any Silver Hunter and Gold Hunter could be on it. Perhaps it's natural for some hunters to be unfriendly, please forgive us," Lin Huang explained with a smile.

"I understand that, I will do whatever I can to help. I hope you guys can catch the culprit soon." Brother Zhao nodded.

"I shall talk to your colleagues then, I'll get going."

"Do you want me to bring you there? I have nothing to do anyway," Brother Zhao offered enthusiastically.

"It's alright, I have their address here. You enjoy your holiday." Lin Huang patted his shoulder.

After leaving his house, Lin Huang took a look at the map. After confirming the address, Lin Huang summoned Viridian Wolf and headed to the address of the second person.

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Chapter 231: Forensic Lady

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Lin Huang spent the entire morning visiting the four sewer workers and got the same answers from all of them. They did not know much as the sewer was dark, hence they could not identify the genders of the deceased, let alone see the dead bodies clearly. The only thing they knew was that the first body was that of a man. They knew nothing about the rest. However, Lin Huang was glad that the four of them kept the secret pretty well, not even spilling a word to their wives, so it was unlikely that the news would leak to the public.

It was almost 12 noon when Lin Huang left Little Wang's house. He was the last sewer worker that he visited. After lunch at a random store, Lin Huang summoned the Viridian Wolf and headed to the Union Government division. He was brought to the forensic department after the staff checked his license and investigation ID. When the door opened, there was a lady in black-framed glasses watching videos while eating snacks at her desk. The lady seemed young, about 17 or 18 years of age. Her face was small with sharp features. However, the glasses, which occupied half of her face, covered most of her features. She was indulging in a battle video that seemed like the Hunter Arena. As she watched, she was grabbing a box of food that was covered in red chili oil with her gloves.

Lin Huang knocked on the door. The lady looked at him uninterestedly. "You're at the wrong place, this is the forensic department."

"I'm looking for the forensic department." Lin Huang smiled and walked over to the lady's desk.

"Hi, my name is Ye Xiu. I'm an investigator sent by the Hunter Association."

"Give me a second, let me finish this video." The lady waved her hand at him.

As the background of her video was set to be semi-transparent, as he walked closer, Lin Huang could clearly see that it was the battle of himself defeating Yu Moli. It was his 90th battle. Lin Huang frowned as he watched the screenplay. Since the battle was ending soon, Lin Huang pulled a chair and sat across the lady while waiting for her to finish the video. Two to three minutes later, a golden glow flashed across the video. Soon, the arena announced Sword Genius's victory.

"My prince charming is the best!" the lady screamed and paused the scene where Sword Genius was disappearing. She then kissed the screen with her oily lips. Lin Huang could not bear to see her disturbing actions. After turning off the video, the lady looked at Lin Huang who sat across her. "You're from the Hunter Association? Show me your ID."

Lin Huang projected his hunter license and the investigation ID from the Union Government.

"Following the protocol, I should check your work ID as well."

"Go ahead then." The lady projected her work ID from her left hand in an apathetic manner.

Her name was Liang Yin and she was 17. It showed that she graduated from the advanced medical school of the Union Government majoring in forensic science. She was not wearing glasses on her working ID and she looked much prettier in her picture.

"Alright." Lin Huang nodded after checking thoroughly.

Liang Yin then turned off the projected and said while eating, "Just ask whatever questions you have. If you'd like to see the dead bodies, we can do that after I finish eating this bowl of red chili lung slices."

"What's the investigation result of the four bodies? Was it done by Brain Eater?" Lin Huang asked directly.

"99% was done by the Brain Eater," Liang Yin replied while eating.

"How about the remaining 1%?" Lin Huang asked.

"The remaining 1% would probably be a lunatic who mimics brain eating cases. If that's so, the person must have drilled a hole on top of the head and sucked the brain out using a straw." Liang Yin proceeded to eat while she explained, her appetite not at all affected by the gruesomeness of what she was saying.

"Were all of the victims men? Besides that, are there any similarities among them?" Lin Huang asked.

"All of them were strong men and there were a couple of similarities. First of all, all of them were naked when they were found. Secondly, all of them were…having…intense sex before they died. Thirdly, all of them were well trained. Two of them were at bronze Level while another two were at silver level. The Hunter Association has confirmed that the four of them held Regular Hunter licenses." Liang Yin was checking out Lin Huang as she spoke. As she was also a silver level, she could sense that Lin Huang was on the same level too.

From the sewer workers, Lin Huang already knew that they were all naked and Liang Yin had just confirmed it. After listening to her explanation, Lin Huang could confirm that the flesh of the Brain Eater was at least a silver level.

"Is it possible to determine which rank both the silver level victims were?" Lin Huang asked.

"One was silver level rank-1. while another was rank-2. We could tell that they did not struggle before they were killed. They should have been attacked when they were having sex," Liang Yin explained.

"Since it could pierce through a silver level rank-2's skull, the Brain Eater should at least be a silver level rank-3 or even higher," Liang Yin added.

What she said at the end implied that Lin Huang would not be able to fight such a monster.

"Were there any wounds on the bodies?" Lin Huang ignored her insinuation and continued to ask.

"There were light wounds including scratches and whipping. Those should have been caused by the sex since they were just light surface injuries which were not fatal." Liang Yin explained with her eyebrow raised.

"The only fatal injury was the hit on the head which pierced through the skull into the brain."

"What was the time of death?" Lin Huang asked.

"The earliest one was four months ago while the latest one was a month ago. That's about one body per month. Looking at the Brain Eater's hunting habit, it would be doing it again within these couple of days." Liang Yin answered.

Lin Huang noticed that she had finished her food so he said, "I guess you could bring me to the dead bodies now."

"Sure, give me a second." Liang Yin then threw the box filled with red chili oil into the trash can together with her gloves.

Lin Huang thought she was ready to go. However, she walked to the refrigerator and took out a few boxes. After a pause, she decided on one and kept the rest in the refrigerator again. With the box in hand, she then waved to Lin Huang. "Let's go!"

"That's food, isn't it?" Lin Huang was speechless.

"It's intestine gravy, would you like some? It's delicious, you may try, but you can only have a piece," Liang Yin said.

"It's okay, thanks," Lin Huang rejected her right away.

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Chapter 232: My Prince Charming Is The Hottest!

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Lin Huang followed Liang Yin to the morgue and she pulled out the cold chambers containing the four bodies for him before she opened the cover of the bowl of intestine gravy on an empty bed.

"You can take a look for yourself. Let me know if you have any questions." Putting on a surgical glove, Liang Yin used her fingers to pick up a slice of intestine into her mouth. She was humming happily with her legs swinging.

Ignoring her, Lin Huang took a look at the first body. It was the body of a young man. Since he was soaked in the silt for a long time, his body was well preserved; it looked as it did when he was alive.

The body was clean, just like what Liang Yin said earlier, and completely naked. He was a good-looking man in his early 20s. He was about 1.8 meters tall with a nice, muscular body. He was not the bulky type, a closet hunk.

"I think this man has the best body among the four of them. Although he's not the tallest, but he has a nice body. Just look at his legs. He has the perfect ratio with a girthy penis. I bet the girls must have gone crazy for him when he was alive," Liang Yin commented casually as she ate.

Lin Huang did not say a word. It was odd for a 17 year old to talk about a man's penis with another man that she had just met. Lin Huang could not imagine what kind of things she would say if they became friends.

However, Lin Huang could tell that the disturbing comment had nothing to do with sex but was simply a biological observation. He thought that it was inappropriate to carry on with the topic anyway. After some observation, Lin Huang noticed that there really were not many wounds on the man's body. There were light scratches on his chest and back that seemed like the work of fingernails. The only fatal injury was the hole the size of a thumb on top of his head. Though the hole, Lin Huang could even see the structure of the hollow skull. There was no brain left.

"I bet you guys cleaned the inside of the head as well?" Lin Huang asked.

"Of course we did, or else how are we supposed to see what happened in there?" Liang Yin replied.

"I have kept the silt inside their skulls and did an extraction. There was no brain tissue left at all."

"How about their internal organs?" Lin Huang noticed that the chests and the abdomens of the bodies had been cut opened and stitched back.

"Nothing odd. We have extracted the residue inside their stomachs, it was just normal food." Liang Yin shrugged while putting another piece of intestine into her mouth. Such a topic did not seem to affect her appetite at all.

"How about their blood? Is there any trace of poisoning?" Lin Huang asked.

"We have done that too, but they were not poisoned. Can you stop doubting our professionalism? Do you think I wouldn't think of the possibility of poisoning? I'm much more experienced than you. Whatever you can think of, I have already covered that." Liang Yin was unhappy with Lin Huan's probing.

"I managed to graduate from the advanced medical school with Honors. I have also been authorized to work in the forensic field even before I graduated. This must be done by Brain Eater, I have no doubt about that."

"I'm not suspecting you, I just wanted to confirm with you all the possibilities." Lin Huang did not mean to judge her. He was merely voicing out all the likelihoods that he had in his head.

Liang Yin did not say a word. She thought about it and realized that Lin Huang was just asking questions like a normal person would and that he did not have a suspicious tone. She was being too sensitive.

"I have checked the organs, blood, and even the spinal cord. There's no residue of poison that we know of, neither is there any trail of Ecstasy," Liang Yin added after giving it some thought.

"Hmm, there seems to be nothing wrong with this body. Let me take a look at the rest." Lin Huang walked towards the second body.

It was a hunk of 1.9 meters with tanned skin and he looked like he was 27 or 28. As Lin Huang was observing, Liang Yin spoke up, "This man was the oldest among all of them and he has the highest rank. Although his Life Wheel was broken, we could detect from the remaining force wave that he was a silver level rank-2. He was the tallest and the strongest one with the largest penis. From the color of his penis, we could tell that he had the most sex among all of them…"

Once again, Lin Huang was speechless by her casual comment about the man's penis. He decided to focus on the body instead. Soon, he noticed that there were many scars on the back of this body.

"What's with the scars on his back?"

"Nothing, those are scars of whipping. If you look closely, he has quite a lot of similar scars all over his body. Most of them were healed, but those that we saw were new. Looking at the severity of the marks, they don't look like punishment, they seem more like a fetish," Liang Yin explained. Although she was young, she seemed to know a lot about the non-vanilla aspects of the bedroom.

Lin Huang did not ask further after hearing her explanation as it was just skin surface, which was unrelated to how this man died. Just like the previous man, there was a hole in his head.

"Was this man of silver level rank-2 killed in one hit as well? How could you tell that he did not fight back?" Lin Huang asked.

"You can tell from his facial expression. If he struggled or fought back before he died, his facial expression would be ferocious. After the body stiffened, the facial expression would stay. Look at him, he looked happy. This means he was killed without knowing that it was coming since he was relaxed," Liang Yin said while putting another slice of intestine into her mouth and chewing it hard.

"You know what I meant when I said he was relaxed…"

After keeping the second body, Lin Huang proceeded to check the remaining two bodies. Liang Yin answered all his questions. They then left the morgue and headed to Liang Yin's office.

"Do you have any more questions?" Liang Yin finished the bowl of intestine gravy as they arrived at her office. She then threw it away and looked at Lin Huang with her eyes eagerly wide.

"I would like to look at the complete post-mortem report," Lin Huang requested.

Liang Yin then projected the post-mortem report to him. After flipping on the screen, she showed it to Lin Huang. "You can take a look at it yourself."

Lin Huang then spent more than 40 minutes to finish the report and he had no suspicion on the cause of death anymore. Turning off the report page, Lin Huang looked at Liang Yin. "What do you think about this case?"

"I'm just a forensic scientist, what kind of thoughts am I supposed to have?" Liang Yin had her arms wide open.

"From my professional observation, it was done by a Brain Eater monster or a Brain Eater that was disguised as a woman."

"How much do you know about a Brain Eater?" Lin Huang asked.

"I studied forensic science, not monsters or monster biology," Liang Yin replied curtly.

"Alright then. No matter what, thanks for your help." Lin Huang left.

Just when Lin Huang arrived at the entrance, he was stopped by Liang Yin.

"Wait, I thought of a senior who is a monster expert. I could give you his contact details. However, whether he would be willing to help you is a different matter."

"Sure, give me his number. I will try contacting him." Lin Huang nodded.

After adding him as a friend and forwarding him the contact details, Lin Huang left while Liang Yin proceeded to watch other Sword Genius battle videos in her office.

As she watched, she mumbled, "No matter what, my Prince Charming is the hottest. No man can compare to him…"

Although she could not see Lin Huang's face under the silver mask, that did not stop her from idolizing him…

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Chapter 233: Awkward Encounter

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It was past four in the afternoon when Lin Huang left the Union Government building. He did not expect time to past so fast as he was focused on investigating the dead bodies. He rode the Viridian Wolf back to the hotel. As he entered the hotel, he ran towards the elevator which was closing and held the doors open using his hand. Lin Huang was stunned when he saw the couple in the elevator. The lady was one in the pink bathrobe in the room of the other hotel where he and Mr. Fu were transported to that morning.

Now that they were standing closer to each other, Lin Huang was surprised to find that the lady was a gold level rank-3. The tall man beside him was of the same level too. After hesitating for a heartbeat, Lin Huang decided to enter the elevator anyway. He realized that the lady did not recognize him as he had changed his features earlier. There were three of them in the elevator and coincidentally, they were going to the same floor, level 76.

Lin Huang thought it was awkward but fortunately, his back was facing them so he could not see their facial expressions. Soon they arrived at level 76. As Lin Huang walked out, the couple followed too. Lin Huang was staying in Room 28 while the duo was in Room 26 and Room 27 respectively, just next to him. Lin Huang figured that the lady had probably transferred to this hotel instead due to the morning's incident.

Although it was awkward, Lin Huang did not plan to change his stay in this hotel as it was unnecessary. Since the lady did not recognize him anyway, he could just pretend that it never happened. He then called Liang Yin's senior to whom she had given the contact details earlier. Within two rings, the phone was picked up.

"Hello, who are you looking for?" It was the voice of a young man.

"Hi, are you Liang Yin's senior, Han Ji?"

"Who are you?" the man asked guardedly.

"My name is Ye Xiu, I am an investigator from the Hunter Association. I have been investigating on a case that involves the Brain Eater and I got your contact details from Liang Yin. She told me that you are a major in monsters, a professional in this field," Lin Huang explained.

The man was silent for a moment before he started speaking, "I am Han Ji, is Xiao Yin...alright?"

Hearing his tone of voice, Lin Huang could tell that there was something between them.

"Erm…from the way she ate her snacks, she seemed great. We're not close, it was our first time meeting this afternoon." Lin Huang did not know how to answer that question, so he answered honestly.

"She must still be a huge fan of heavy food, am I right?" Han Ji asked.

"I suppose red chili lung slices and intestine gravy are considered heavy." Lin Huang nodded in certainty.

"Oh, I see that she has been eating much lighter food compared to two years ago…" Han Ji chuckled to himself.

What he said puzzled Lin Huang. "If this is considered light, what kind of food did she use to eat?!"

"I still remember she used to love raw heart slices. I enjoyed watching her eating until her face was all bloody. She looked cute like that…" Han Ji indulged himself in the 'beautiful' memory of Liang Yin.

"Raw heart slices…Bloody face…Which part of that is cute?! Can you guys eat something normal and have some normal judgment of beauty!?" Lin Huang screamed in his heart.

"I'm sorry, I was distracted. I hope I didn't scare you," Han Ji said softly.

"It's alright, let's talk business." Lin Huang attempted to get Han Ji back on track.

"You want documents about Brain Eater, am I right? I will send you a copy of my research document later. However, it's confidential. If not for Xiao Yin, I would not send it to you. Therefore, please do not forward it to anyone else. After you are done with it, delete it right away, don't keep it anywhere," Han Ji warned Lin Huang.

"I understand. I'm only using it for the case and I will destroy it after using it. Don't worry," Lin Huang promised.

"Oh yeah, would you know what is Xiao Yin's current favorite thing?" Han Ji deviated from the topic again.

"I'm not sure, how would I know that? I just met her this afternoon…" Lin Huang said and then he recalled something.

"Wait, I think she likes Sword Genius. I saw her watching videos of him when I entered her office."

"What is this Sword Genius?" Han Ji was puzzled.

"He's a participant in the Hunter Arena." Lin Huang understood that researchers like Han Ji did not keep himself updated with the Hunter Arena.

"Alright then, I'll look into it on the network later." Han Ji seemed to be satisfied with the answer Lin Huang gave.

"If you have any doubts, you can always ask me. As long as I'm not working in the lab, I will try my best to answer you."

"Thanks in advance then. I shall contact you if I have any questions then." Lin Huang did not expect that naming a random hobby of Liang Yin's would earn Han Ji's promise easily.

After they hung up, Han Ji sent the documents over almost immediately. Lin Huang looked at it right away…

The documents were detailed whereby most of the experiments came with many photos and complete lab videos. Lin Huang thought Han Ji was kidding when he said the documents were confidential and that he would only send some ordinary research documents. After flipping through the documents, he was shocked to find that it was indeed some confidential information from the Union Government which was not to revealed to the public. As there were many experiments that included human testing, such experiments were prohibited for the Union Government on the surface as it was inhumane. If the documents were exposed, the Union Government's name would be affected and it might irk the public.

It was past six in the evening after Lin Huang was done with his preliminary read. He turned his screen off and got ready for dinner downstairs. Just when he opened the door, the lady staying next door came out of the room as well. Lin Huang pretended not to see her and headed straight to the elevator. The lady knocked on the door of Room 26 and called out, "I'm ready, let's go."

The door of Room 26 opened and the tall man walked out of the room. After closing the door, the duo headed to the elevator.

Lin Huang had been waiting for the elevator to come and before it did, the duo was standing behind him. As they entered the elevator, the couple ignored him completely while starting to talk to each other.

"What did you from your end?" the lady asked.

"The association has gotten the location of the four men's Emperor's Heart Rings when they disappeared as well as their whereabouts during the last few days. They will send it to me soon. How about you?" the man asked.

"I have gotten the history of the phones from the association, but I didn't find anything odd." The lady shook her head helplessly.

From their conversation, Lin Huang could tell that they were investigating the same case as he was. Unfortunately, the elevator soon arrived on level one and the duo walked out of the elevator. Lin Huang hesitated and decided not to follow them in the end.

"I shall have dinner first. After that, I'll get the Hunter Association to get me information about the four men's Emperor's Heart Rings and see if there are any clues," He thought to himself. It seemed like there was only one Brain Eater in this city. If the duo managed to kill it, Lin Huang would have to find another way to obtain the Supreme Intelligence skill for his Demonic Dandelion Vine. Now that there were competitors, Lin Huang could no longer stay calm.

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Chapter 234: Chilly Night

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After dinner, the first thing Lin Huang did when he got back to the hotel room was to look at the Hunter Association's official website. He then submitted the app to look at the locations of the four men's Emperor's Heart Rings as well as the history and the messages on their phones. Later on, he started reading the documents of Brain Eater that Han Ji had sent him earlier.

The documents about the Brain Eater were detailed. In fact, they were even more detailed than the monster encyclopedia that Mr. Fu had sent him. The difference between them was a Ph.D. holder's thesis and a primary school kid's homework. The information alone was 1,000 times more complete than the monster encyclopedia. Before Lin Huang had the chance to look at the video of the first experiment, he received a couple of messages from the Hunter Association.

"Location request app for Emperor's Heart Rings has been approved, please see attachment for details."

"Phone history app has been approved, please see attachment for details."

"Message request app for Emperor's Heart Rings has been approved, please see attachment for details."

He turned off the Brain Eater's documents and started reading the attachments in the messages. The first attachment was the images of the four men's last seen location before they died. As Lin Huang opened the images, he opened Luoxi City's map as well to compare the locations.

"They were all in underground hotels…" Lin Huang frowned.

The last location that appeared on the four men's Emperor's Heart Rings were in four different underground hotels. An underground hotel was not really beneath the ground or a filthy motel; it was a special hotel that exclusively catered to one night stands. Such hotels were usually well-decorated with ample equipment and the rack rate was expensive too. Many were willing to pay for such hotels as there would be no surveillance cameras around. There was no registration needed either, as all they had to do was to transfer credit points onto a trading chip and get a room that they wanted. There was a back door in each room so people could leave from the back anytime they wanted.

Such hotels were usually occupied before 11 and at night, business was booming. The owner of such hotels usually had a powerful background. If something bad happened, it was hard to get them to speak. That was why Lin Huang frowned when he saw that the four men had last appeared in underground hotels.

"This is tough…" Lin Huang was in a pickle as he knew that the hotel owners would not assist him in the investigation. Even if they did, there were no records of clues that he could investigate further.

Glancing at the whereabouts on the day that they were killed in fast forward mode, Lin Huang could not find any similarities. The only similarity was that the locations of the four of them were close to this area. Two of them had been staying in the same hotel before they died, which was the hotel where Mr. Fu had brought Lin Huang to earlier. Meanwhile, the other one stayed at the hotel that Lin Huang was currently in while the last one stayed in a luxurious hotel nearby.

Without a clue, Lin Huang opened the second attachment. It was the records of their calls and messages. All of the messages looked normal without anything about any one-night stands. No lusty messages could be found and this puzzled Lin Huang.

"How did they contact the murderer then? Could the four of them have had a different Emperor's Heart Ring?"

Putting that thought aside, Lin Huang opened the last attachment. It was the browsing history of their Emperor's Heart Ring including the time of whichever network they logged onto when they did any credit points transfer and the number of times the app was opened. However, there was no concrete information. All he could see was the main page of the network that they logged onto and he could not see what kind of information they were looking at. As for the credit points transfer, he could only see the transaction time but not the amount transferred. Meanwhile, for the app, he could only see the name of the app but not any other details including the amount of time spent on the particular app or the activities.

However, Lin Huang noticed that all of them had used the same app before they died.

"What is this Chilly Night? There's this same app on all their Emperor's Heart Rings and two hours before their death, the app was either opened all the time or sporadically…" Lin Huang then looked at the app.

"So, it's an app for one-night stands…" After reading the description of the app, Lin Huang finally understand what it was for.

"That means the murderer must have used this app to lure all of them. No wonder there's nothing on their phones as they never contacted each other using their phones."

Lin Huang was in yet another predicament as the attachment provided by the Hunter Association did not include the conversation on the app, so he could not find out who was talking to them. Helpless, Lin Huang replied to the Hunter Association, "Is it possible to provide more details on the app utilization?"

This time, he received a reply in a blink of an eye.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Ye. We are unable to go further into the user's privacy to provide you with more details."

Although he had seen it coming, Lin Huang felt helpless when he saw the reply. After closing the attachments, Lin Huang gathered his thoughts.

"The messages on the phone were not helpful. Although I have identified their locations of death, the chances of obtaining information about the murderer from the underground hotels are slim. The only way to identify the murderer's identity is by looking at the conversation history on the Chilly Night app…"

Lin Huang thought that Yang Ling was the only person he knew who might be able to provide him with that information, so he called Yang Ling straight away. After two rings, his phone was picked up. For the first time, Yang Ling did not look tired. He looked like he was full of energy this time and he was even dressed in new clothes with neat hair.

"Good evening, my regular customer." Yang Ling seemed to be in a good mood as he waved at Lin Huang with a smile.

"You look great today." Lin Huang smiled back at him.

"That's because you always call me in the morning. I'm a night owl, I'm usually energized after eight at night." Yang Ling rolled his eyes.

Lin Huang then looked at the time, it was almost 8:30 p.m.

"Are you making a fake identity for your friend again?" Yang Ling knew that Lin Huang would not call for anything but business.

"It's something else this time, I need your help." Lin Huang was aware of Yang Ling's response as he spoke and he was worried that Yang Ling might reject him.

"What's that?" To his joy, Yang Ling did not reject him straightaway.

"I'm sure you know about the app called Chilly Night," Lin Huang started.

"Of course, I do, I'm always using it. Do you use it too? Do you need me to recommend some chicks for you?" Hearing the name of the app, Yang Ling smirked at Lin Huang.

"I need you to get me a conversation history from the app." Lin Huang ignored Yang Ling and told his purpose of the call.

"You have such a fetish of looking at others' conversation on the one-night stand app? Tsk tsk…" Yang Ling smirked again.

"I'm investigating a case whereby the four victims were on this app before they died. I'm suspecting that the murderer was the lady who asked them out," Lin Huang told the truth.

"Oh...I know which case that is! It's the one in Luoxi City. Are you really that far away?" Yang Ling knew what was happening; it was clear that he read the news on the Hunter Info Network.

"Could you help me?" Lin Huang asked.

"Sure, I can, but my assistance isn't free…I want half of the 3,000 Life Crystals reward!" Yang Ling demanded greedily.

"Sure. However, I have a condition. From the beginning to the end of the case, you are not allowed to reject my request, you are not allowed to add any conditions or ask for more Life Crystals," Lin Huang stated.

"You've got my word!" Yang Ling agreed immediately.

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Chapter 235: Asexual Reproduction

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After he hung up, Lin Huang sent the codes of the four men's Emperor's Heart Ring to Yang Ling. Within minutes, Yang Ling sent him the images of the four men's conversations. However, the four of them were talking with four different accounts. All of them were females without profile pictures. The conversations were explicit with the exchanging of images. However, the images that were sent by the ladies were deleted, so Lin Huang could not tell who they were.

Just when Lin Huang was planning to call Yang Ling to ask about the deleted photos, Yang Ling called.

"I have investigated the four female accounts and although their addresses were all in Luoxi City, they were in different locations. However, all of the accounts were temporary ones whereby they would stop using the account after two to three days. Besides the first account, the other three accounts were created 25 to 26 days after the first account was created. Therefore, it was normal that the locations were different. It's highly likely that the four accounts belong to the same person." Yang Ling started talking since Lin Huang picked up his call.

"Is it possible to retrieve the deleted photos?" Although Lin Huang knew it was not possible, he wanted to try his luck anyway.

"That's not possible as the application's programming is very simple. It's good that it can keep the messages but it's impossible to retrieve deleted photos. Moreover, the creator of the application made it for fun without the intention to make the application big, so it's not connected to the cloud network of the Emperor's Heart Ring. There's no backup of messages in the application," Yang Ling said with his arms open.

"Are you the creator?" Lin Huang had the assumption when he heard Yang Ling said that the application had been created just for fun.

"Oh…You got me." Yang Ling shrugged his shoulders.

"Is there nothing that you can do?" Lin Huang asked.

"There's really nothing that I can do as the programming itself is flawed. I never wanted it to be perfect. All I wanted was a smooth conversation in the application, so I didn't put in many functions on the application. I used less than two hours to create it and launched it right away…" Yang Ling explained.

"Send me all the four addressed of the ladies then." Lin Huang thought the only clue that he might get was from the addresses.

Yang Ling sent the addresses immediately. Lin Huang projected the map and located the coordinates of the four underground hotels. He then connected all the coordinates to the manhole where the dead bodies were found.

"Please check for me all the surveillance cameras on the route to the manhole on the same night when the four men died. See if there's anyone who appeared repetitively. If that person appeared several times when the bodies were getting rid of, the person could be the murderer that we are looking for," Lin Huang said to Yang Ling.

"I'll do that. Besides on the day itself, I will also look at the days after the incident happened."

"If there's anything else that you need my help with, tell me now. I have things to do after 10 at night, you know," Yang Ling added.

"Not at the moment, I'll let you know tomorrow. Is it possible to send me the surveillance footages by today?" Lin Huang asked.

"I need time for that, I'll send them to you before 10." Yang Ling hung up the phone right away.

It was almost nine o'clock when the conversation ended. Lin Huang proceeded to read about the Brain Eater. However, the more he read, the more difficult he realized it was for him to handle the monster. The Brain Eater was a monster who relied on asexual reproduction. They usually lived up to 300 years and then would they start reproducing when they knew they were almost at their end. Their reproductive method was unique as a ball-shaped baby Brain Eater would grow on its head. The baby would absorb all the nutrients that it needed from its mother and grow. Once the mother was dead, it would detach from its mother.

Within 48 hours of detachment, it needed to find a host or else it would die. A Brain Eater that was just detached from its mother was only a size of a thumb, so it was hard to discover. It would usually go into another creature's body and head to the brain. Once it arrived at the brain, it would attach its bottom on the host's brain and release a massive amount of neurotoxins. The brain would lose its nerve function without feeling any pain. The Brain Eater would then devour the brain as the host was in deep sleep and take over the host's body.

Han Ji had done many experiments on dead criminals by getting the Brain Eater to take over the dead criminal's body to see what would happen. According to the research, the Brain Eater would most probably inherit the host's character on its first attempt. For instance, if the host loved smoking, he would still be smoking after his body was taken over. The same applied to those who loved drinking and eating spicy food. Such inheritance proved that the Brain Eater would take over most of the memory of the host.

The Brain Eater would not have its own consciousness during its first attempt of inhabiting a host's body just to survive. Therefore, the first attempt would affect its own consciousness as it would mostly be affected by the host's memories. Its consciousness was basically built on the host's memories. For the following infections, the Brain Eater would acquire the memories of the following hosts as well especially after it has experienced the memory from its first host. However, the memories of the following hosts would do little to affect the Brain Eater.

Once the first takeover was done, the Brain Eater considered as an adult. It could absorb all the information from the memories that it wanted and learn from them to adapt to the environment as soon as possible. If the Brain Eater took over a human body, its learning speed would be terrifying because it could learn to use most of the tools within a couple of days. The most it needed was two to three days to perform exactly the same as the host without exposing itself to others.

Although the reproduction ability of a Brain Eater was weak, it was the most difficult one to handle among many parasites. As Lin Huang was indulged in the documents of Brain Eater that Han Ji sent, a message snapped him out of his focus. It was a short, single-sentence message from Yang Ling.

"I've found the culprit but I can't see the face…"

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Chapter 236: The Cautious Brain Eater

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"I've found the culprit but I couldn't see the face…"

There were four attachments in the message that Yang Ling sent and they were all videos. Lin Huang downloaded the attachments immediately. Once they were downloaded, he looked at the first video that was less than 20 seconds long. It was an empty crossroad and on the top right of the screen, the timestamp showed that it was taken at 1:28 a.m. Although it was late, under the lights along the street, the crossroad was brightly lit.

The crossroad remained empty for five to six seconds, then suddenly, a person in black robes appeared on the screen. The black robes were oversized and it was hard to ascertain the person's gender, let alone the person's face. Lin Huang could tell that it was a lady from the black heels that occasionally flashed from under the robe. The person's strides were short but fast, and within seconds, the person walked out of the area monitored by the surveillance camera.

Lin Huang proceeded to look at the second video. It was also around 20 seconds but this time, it was at a T-junction. The same thing happened. A person in black robes walked by quickly. Although the person was covered in the robes, judging from the gait and the speed of the steps, it was the same person who had appeared in the first video. Lin Huang proceeded to look at the third and fourth videos, all of them featuring the same person in black robes. The date stamp shown on the video showed that it was on the second day that the fourth man died. All of them had happened between 1:30 a.m. to 2 a.m.

Lin Huang could confirm that all of them were the same person, that that was the Brain Eater that he was looking for. However, without being able to recognize the face, Lin Huang was clueless. It was past 10 o'clock at night when Lin Huang checked the videos and he did not want to bother Yang Ling, so he continued to read about the Brain Eater. He finished all the documents until it was past 7 a.m. He did not sleep at all. He took a cold shower and had breakfast downstairs with a cup of coffee.

Later on, he sent Yang Ling a message: "Please get me the surveillance camera footages from around the four underground hotels to see if we can find the person who was with the four victims on the night that they were killed. Also, take a look at the camera footage of the four users of the Chilly Night app who appeared on that night. The Brain Eater should've headed home after it got rid of the dead bodies around 1:30 a.m. If she headed home without her black robes, we can see her face on the camera."

After sending Yang Ling the two messages, Lin Huang left the hotel and headed to the first registered address of the first Chilly Night user's account on the Viridian Wolf. It was an old, small area without any surveillance cameras around. Yang Ling managed to find the room, which was Room 401 in Block 4. Using a Specific Transformation Card, Lin Huang transformed himself into Spectre and went into the room.

It was a unit with two bedrooms and a living room. It was around 60 square meters large with a kitchen and a bathroom. There was nobody but it was clear that someone was living in there as it was clean. The master bedroom was neat with the bed made and the blanket folded. There were two pillows on the bed and there was a photo frame near the bed head, facing the corner. It was a photo of a young couple. It was obvious that the new occupiers were a young couple.

Lin Huang looked around the room but he found nothing. Although there must be clues that the Brain Eater had left a couple months ago before it left, now that there were new people moving in, those clues must have been wiped clean. Lin Huang had expected to not find any clues here. He then left the room, transformed back to himself and walked to the security office downstairs.

The security guard was an uncle in his 50's. Seeing that he was the only one in the office, Lin Huang had a silver glow in his eyes as he spoke to the man.

"Uncle, are there no surveillance cameras in the security office as well?"

"No, Luoxi City has always been safe so there's no need for that. Moreover, I am here. We don't need surveillance cameras." The man patted his own chest confidently.

"I would like to ask, was there a beautiful lady staying in Room 401 of Block 4 four months ago?" Lin Huang asked.

"Yes, she's really pretty with a banging body too." The man nodded immediately.

"What does she really look like? Do you have any photos or videos of her?" Lin Huang asked.

"Of course not, why would I have any of that?" The man waved his hands.

"You can only get a photo of her from herself, even the house owner does not have it. She signed her unit contract with me. There were some issues with her Emperor's Heart Ring that day, so she could not retrieve any of her personal details. She stayed here for only a month, so the house owner did not even register the house rental with her."

Lin Huang realized that it was a tactic of the Brain Eater so that her face would not be exposed. She figured that if any hunters were to come for her, it's likely that the places that she stayed at would be exposed. After obtaining the information, Lin Huang left the security office. After he left, the illusion that he cast on the man disappeared.

"Eh, I thought I was talking to Aunty Zhang? Where did she go?" The man looked around trying to find where Aunty Zhang went.

As Lin Huang walked out of the area, he bumped into the two hunters who were staying next to him in the hotel. They must have followed the clue that they got from the Chilly Night app. Noticing Lin Huang, they finally figured that he was in the same case as they were. They both glanced at Lin Huang without saying a word and passed by him. It was normal for different hunters to be on the same mission. Clearly, the duo was calm as it was not the first time they had encountered something like this.

After the duo entered the area, Lin Huang summoned the Viridian Wolf and headed to the second address. It was 11 in the morning when Lin Huang managed to visit the third house. The three houses were all located in an old, small area without any surveillance cameras and had new tenants. All traces of the Brain Eaters were all gone. Lin Huang did not find anything the entire morning.

Helpless, he summoned the Viridian Wolf and headed to the fourth address. It was the address of the account user who had registered more than 20 days ago. It was also an old, remote area without any surveillance cameras. As Lin Huang arrived at the entrance of Room 502 in Block 3, he realized that he had used all of his Specific Transformation Cards. He then redeemed a couple of Spectre Transformation Cards using his card pieces and entered the room after transforming himself into the Spectre…

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Chapter 237: A Fingerprint

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The fourth house was a small apartment with a bedroom and a living room. It was about 50 square meters large. The floor and the coffee table in the living room were covered with a thin layer of dust. It was obvious that it had been vacant for a while. After looking around the living room, Lin Huang headed to the bedroom.

The bedroom was simple with a bed and a cabinet behind the bed. Across the bed was a walk-in wardrobe with a one-meter wide space in the middle. There were neither bedsheets nor blankets on the bed; it was just an empty wooden bed frame with a mattress that was 20 meters thick. Besides an empty facial cream container, there was only dust on the cabinet with three drawers behind the bed.

There was half a packet of tissue paper and an opened packet of half-eaten candy in the drawer. After packing both of the items for analysis, Lin Huang proceeded to open the second and third drawers but realized that they were both empty. Under the bed was a thick layer of dust. After looking around and confirming that he did not miss anything, Lin Huang turned around and headed for the wardrobe.

It was a big wardrobe with sliding doors. He opened the left side of the wardrobe, which was empty, save a couple of hangers. However, Lin Huang smirked as there was an unmistakable clue in the wardrobe. As he opened the wardrobe, a perfume scent wafted out of it. The scent was different from the facial cream that he had smelt earlier. Neither was it any scent nor detergent; it was definitely perfume.

Lin Huang recalled a female colleague back on Earth. The colleague did not like the detergent scent on her clothes, so she would do something luxurious after she hung her clothes in the wardrobe. She would spritz perfume into the wardrobe. The perfume that she used was not cheap. A small bottle costs a couple thousand of dollars. Because of that, she would spend more than $10,000 per year on perfume alone. Whenever he visited her house, he could smell perfume, which came from the wardrobe, as he stepped into her room.

Clearly, the Brain Eater had the same habit which might have been inherited from the host. The perfume in this world cost even more than on Earth, so the host of this Brain Eater was clearly a silver level or even higher. To a silver or gold level person, spending 100 million credit points on perfume alone per year was nothing. Lin Huang shook his head to clear his mind from the fog of perfume. After looking around in the room, he did not find anything else.

He walked out of the area after transforming himself back. It was past 12 noon. He was not sure if Yang Ling was still sleeping or some other reason because he had yet to reply Lin Huang's messages. He then found a random restaurant and had a bowl of ramen. After lunch, he summoned the Viridian Wolf and headed to the Union Government. As he arrived, Liang Yin was having lunch in her office.

Lin Huang knocked on her door and asked, "What're you eating?"

"Intestine cup rice!" Liang Yin looked at Lin Huang.

"Why are you here again?"

"I brought clues this time." Lin Huang took out the items that he had obtained from the Brain Eater's house.

"What's this?" Liang Yin blabbered while eating.

"I found the last house that the Brain Eater was staying at and these are the items that she left behind before she moved away. Please see if you could retrieve anything such as fingerprints." Lin Huang dangled the plastic bags in front of her.

"Put them on my desk, I'll do it for you after I am done eating," Liang Yin said with her mouth full.

Lin Huang placed the three plastic bags on her desk and sat on the chair behind while waiting for her to finish her lunch.

About five to six minutes later, Liang Yin finished her food and wiped her mouth with tissue paper, then she walked to the test station with the three plastic bags.

"How did you find the Brain Eater's house?" Liang Yin chatted with Lin Huang while testing the items.

Lin Huang smiled as he explained, "As I was investigating their similarities, I found out that they were using the same app on their Emperor's Heart Ring to talk to the culprit. I got a friend to find the coordinates of the account user."

"You have such a friend?" Liang Yin looked at Lin Huang in wonder.

"Then, could you ask your friend to get me Sword Genius's identity and contact details?!"

"No, that would be violating the privacy of others," Lin Huang rejected without even thinking.

"Aren't you violating the privacy of others right now?" Liang Yin argued, clearly upset.

"I'm doing it for the case, there's nothing else that I can do. Moreover, I'm investigating a Brain Eater. She's a monster that is not eligible for the primary of a Union Government citizen.

"Hmph, I give up then!" Liang Yin did not speak anymore.

Around 10 minutes later, Liang Yin started eating the candy that Lin Huang had brought from the Brain Eater's house.

"Hey, that's evidence…" Lin Huang was speechless by her behavior. "Moreover, have you considered if that's even edible?"

"It is, I have checked. It's just a piece of normal candy," Liang Yin said while shaking the packet of candy at Lin Huang.

Lin Huang rejected her 'kind' offer, "I don't want any, you can have it."

"When will I get the results of the test?" Seeing her relaxed, Lin Huang could not help but ask.

"It's out," Liang Yin declared while shaking a semi-transparent film the size of her palm in front of Lin Huang. There was a clear, black fingerprint on it.

Lin Huang got closer and took the film.

"I'm not responsible for the matching of fingerprints, so you will have to go to the information department," Liang Yin said.

"If she's a Luoxi City's resident, it will take less than 30 minutes to find out her identity. If she's a foreigner, it will take longer, perhaps two to three days," Liang Yin added.

"I understand, thanks!" Lin Huang took the film and left.

Instead of heading to the information department, Lin Huang took a picture of the film and sent it to Yang Ling. After the image was sent, he called Yang Ling, who picked up almost instantly.

"What did you send me?" Yang Ling seemed like he had just woken up. He was wearing a red sleeping robe. He was puzzled by what Lin Huang sent him.

"Did you get the stuff that I asked for this morning?" Lin Huang asked.

"I overslept, I just saw your messages half an hour ago. I'm still on it, I need a while." Yang Ling admitted, embarrassed.

"Alright then, help me check whose fingerprint does this belong to. I have just gotten this from the forensic department. If I'm not mistaken, this fingerprint belongs to the host of the Brain Eater," Lin Huang explained.

"Sure, I will do the identification. I will start with Luoxi City. If the person is a resident there, I will get the result soon." Yang Ling nodded and hung up as he had work to do.

As Lin Huang walked out of the Union Government, he received a message from Yang Ling.

"It's a lady's fingerprint."

Lin Huang was excited as he opened the attachment…

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Chapter 238: Wild Beauty

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Lin Huang frowned when he saw the image that Yang Ling had sent him. He did not think that the lady in the photo was the murderer that he was looking for. It was a middle-aged woman who looked like she was at least 47 years old. She was fat, and although it was a photo of her upper body, Lin Huang could tell that she was not tall. She did not look like she had any combat strength. No matter what, Lin Huang thought her body was too different from the lady in black robes that he saw in the surveillance camera footages. Although her body had been covered by the big robes, Lin Huang could see the shapeliness of her body. If this middle-aged woman was to put on the same robes, she would look completely different.

Moreover, among the four hunters that had died, the oldest one would be in his 30's while the youngest one was not even 20. If they were really met the woman in the photo, they would have probably run away instead of following her to an underground hotel. Besides, Lin Huang had asked the security guards in the apartments that the Brain Eater used to stay in with the help of illusion, and all of them had said that the lady was beautiful with a nice body.

Perhaps the victims and the security guards like this type of women. Just as Lin Huang was puzzled over this, Yang Ling called.

Lin Huang picked up immediately.

"Is that a mistake? Are you messing with me?"

"No, it's not a mistake. The fingerprint belongs to this aunty," Yang Ling said.

"However, she's not the culprit, but the owner of the house. She must have touched the stuff that you retrieved after the Brain Eater left. I was shocked when I found the identity of the woman and realized that she's not the one that we're looking for after I checked the registration of her Emperor's Heart Ring," Yang Ling explained.

Lin Huang was relieved after he heard Yang Ling's explanation. It would be hard to accept if the culprit was that aunty.

"I'm still looking for the information that you asked for this morning. I will contact you again once it's done."

After hanging up the phone, Lin Huang summoned the Viridian Wolf and headed to the hotel. Awhile after he got into the hotel room, Yang Ling called again. He picked up immediately.

"I have looked at all the surveillance cameras. All the four victims went to the underground hotel alone on the day they died without any companion. Also, I have also looked at the surveillance cameras around the area the culprit was staying in the day the bodies were dumped. Until past five in the morning, nobody appeared. It seems like the culprit never returned home after she got rid of the bodies," Yang Ling told Lin Huang the result of his investigation in all seriousness.

"That means that before the Brain Eater carried out the murder, it was ready to move away…" Lin Huang frowned as the investigation came to a dead end again.

"However…I followed the way you think and investigated the four underground hotels. I found something…" Yang Ling smirked.

"What did you find out?" Lin Huang asked.

"I found out that the hotel owner of one of the underground hotels had surveillance cameras secretly installed in every room. The stuff that I saw was interesting. Even a professional like me learned a couple of new positions." Yang Ling smirked again.

"You saw the face of the murderer?!" Lin Huang's eyes flew wide open.

"Hehe, not only her face, I saw the entire process of the murder. Unfortunately, a great porn video turned into a horror movie abruptly. I couldn't take it." Yang Ling patted his chest as a gesture of fear.

"Send it over right now!"

"Look at you…Would you want videos of other rooms as well? They are all high-definition, it's complimentary for you." Yang Ling winked at Lin Huang.

"I'll tell you what, if I were to upload all these videos to the network and make them available for download for 10 credit points, I would make big money from that…"

Lin Huang stared at him without saying a word.

"Alright then, it's no fun to talk to you! I will send it over now." Seeing Lin Huang ignored him, Yang Ling stopped his nonsense.

A moment later, Yang Ling sent a couple of photos, a video and some personal details to Lin Huang.

"The Brain Eater went to the black market a few months back and got her location system on her Emperor's Heart Ring removed. Even if we got her identity and her Emperor's Heart Ring's code, as long as she doesn't launch the Chilly Night app, we can't locate her at all.

"However, I'm trying to get into Luoxi City's surveillance system to look at the areas that she had appeared in before. Hopefully, I can get the location of her current accommodation. I'll contact you once there's news."

After they hung up, Lin Huang looked at the photos immediately. In the first photo, a naked lady was walking out of the bathroom. Her hair was wet and she seemed to have just showered. There was a naked man on the bed. He was the fourth victim who had died more than 20 days ago. He was the one with the nicest body according to Liang Yin. In the second photo was a naked lady closing the curtain at the window. As she was very close to the camera, Lin Huang could even see the pores on her face. He finally understood why Yang Ling said that the videos were of high-definition. From the quality of the photo, the owner of the hotel had spent big money on the surveillance equipment.

The lady had long, dark brown hair that reached her waist and she was pretty but she was not the type with sharp features. Her eyes were big and she had a high nose bridge. Although her lips were not small, after she put on red lipstick, she seemed extra sexy. She had a healthy tan on her body with long, toned legs. The killer feature on her body were her boobs; perhaps 99% of the ladies in Luoxi City would have low self-esteem when they saw her boobs. She exuded a wild kind of beauty, and even Lin Huang was drooling when he looked at the photo.

After looking at the photos, Lin Huang started watching the videos. In the video, the lady got out of the shower. She used a hairband to tie up her hair and got onto the bed to kiss the man…

Their bodies got closer together and the man was breathing heavily as he indulged in the lady's multiple kisses.

Suddenly, the lady opened her eyes. There was a silver antenna-like thing the size of a thumb extending from the top of her head and it made its way to the back of the man's head. After staying mid-air for a moment, the antenna plunged and pierced into the man's head. The man experienced a sudden death before he could even react. As the antenna pierced into the man's head, it was like a snake slithering deeper into his head. There was no blood coming out of the wound.

Around 10 seconds later, the silver antenna came out of the man's head. In the video, Lin Huang could clearly see that the antenna was slick with blood and brain juice. After the antenna returned to her head, the lady let go of the man softly, let down her hair and showered in the bathroom. Later on, she slowly cleaned up the scene in her naked body. She kept the man's body in her storage space while looking around to see if there were any blood stains. After cleaning the room and keeping the man's shoes and socks in her storage space, she put on her clothes. She then put on a big, black robe and looked into the mirror. Confirming that nobody could see her face, she left via the hotel back door…

After finishing the complete video that was 20 minutes long, Lin Huang opened the last document that Yang Ling sent. It was the lady's identity…

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Chapter 239: The Disappearance of Zheng Yihan

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Name: Zheng Yihan

Age: 20

Combat Strength: Silver level rank-3

Hunter Association Authorization: Silver Hunter

Remarks: Expert in hidden weapons and close-quarter combat

After looking at Brain Eater host's basic information, Lin Huang felt relieved that it had confirmed the identity of the murderer. Finally, after two days of no sleep there was a breakthrough in the development of the case, but knowing the identity wouldn't be enough on its own as nobody knew where she was right now or if she was even in Luoxi City.

Zheng Yihan was a silver level rank-3, with authorization to log into the Hunter Info Network. Using this she must have found out that the Hunter Association was after her but with Brain Eater's intelligence how would she react? would she choose to mess around with the hunters who were after her, would she change to another host so that she could stay in Luoxi City or would she escape the city? Those were all unknown.

Lin Huang did not plan to do anything before obtaining more information. Since he had not slept for a night, he took a nap while waiting for any news from Yang Ling. Finally, after two hours of napping, Yang Ling called. Lin Huang was only resting and wasn't in a deep sleep. As his Emperor's Heart Ring beeped, he sat right up immediately and picked up the call.

"So what? Did you see her appear anywhere?" Lin Huang asked.

Yang Ling opened his arms wide in the video call.

"I didn't see her anywhere. After she got rid of the bodies, she seems to have disappeared completely from Luoxi City. I watched all of the 8,000 surveillance cameras around the city three times since the day she got rid of the body, I haven't seen her face once."

"Do you mean she has left Luoxi City?" Lin Huang frowned.

"Maybe she has left, maybe she's hiding or maybe she has a new face. Those are all possible." Yang Ling gave three different answers.

"If she's hiding, isn't it impossible that she doesn't appear anywhere on the surveillance cameras for more than 20 days?" Lin Huang figured since the Hunter Association had launched the mission many days before; the host, Zheng Yihan might have been disposed of.

Yang Ling disagreed with Lin Huang. "That's not impossible, I could do that."

"There are not that many surveillance cameras in Luoxi City. If she chose to stay in an old, small area without any surveillance, she could wander around without getting captured as long as she does not enter any areas with surveillance."

"I have been watching her Emperor's Heart Ring and looked at the user record. It has been more than 20 days since she last used the 'Chilly Night' application. Judging by her behavior, it's not possible that she had found her new target for face-changing." Yang Ling suspected.

Lin Huang agreed and nodded. "That's right. She's now in the body of a silver level rank-3 with outstanding combat strength and an attractive appearance. Such a host is like a beautiful flower exuding an amazing scent that attracts bees around her, providing her with good food. Without finding a better host, it's not possible that she'd give up on the current host."

Yang Ling thought and voiced his suspicion. "It's not possible that she'd leave Luoxi City unless she's forced to. Although I have no idea how she's managed to get into the city, looking at the Union Government's security system it's hard for her to pass through the other footholds."

"Do you mean among the three possibilities, the possibility that she's hiding is the highest?" Lin Huang asked.

"This is what I thought. However, my analysis is just for reference. Exactly what happens depends on what this Brain Eater is up to." Yang Ling shrugged his shoulders with the attitude that Lin Huang was on his own now.

"Alright then… The Brain Eater would need to eat at least once a month. It has been 25 days since she'd last eaten. If she's still in the city, she'd be eating again within these next few days. I think she'll use the Chilly Night app again, watch it for me." Lin Huang planned to wait for another few days. If the Brain Eater had left the foothold, he'd have to abort the mission and think of other ways to get the skill for the Demonic Dandelion Vine as he didn't want to spend too much time here.

"Don't worry, I'll do that. I'll receive a notification as soon as she logs into the app." Yang Ling was confident.

It was five in the evening after he'd hung up the phone. Lin Huang had dinner downstairs and returned to his hotel room. It seemed like all he could do now was wait for Brain Eater to log into the app. It had been 25 days since the Brain Eater had last eaten. If she was still in Luoxi City, she would definitely kill someone again within two to three days as she'd die if she didn't eat for more than a month.

It was past six in the evening. After reading the news for a while, Lin Huang started playing Gun Master in the living room. Since he had nothing to do, he wanted to get Lin Xuan to train with him. Before entering the game, he connected the game with his Emperor's Heart Ring's notification so that he could be notified even when he was playing the game.

As he entered the game, he realized that Lin Xin and Lin Xuan were online too. He pulled the both of them into the virtual training ground that he'd built inside the game. Although they're in different game consoles, as long as the virtual training grounds number was the same, they'd be on the same battle map. Seeing Lin Huang in the game, Lin Xin ran towards him.

"Have you guys had dinner?" Lin Huang patted her head.

"Yes, we have. Brother, why are you so free today?" Lin Xin smiled and asked.

"My task here is stuck at the moment. I'm waiting for news from a friend and since I have nothing to do, I thought I'd train here." Lin Huang explained.

"How long will you stay there?" Lin Xin asked.

"I would be in Luoxi City for four to five days at most. If it can't be done, I will abort my mission. I don't have time to waste here, I have more important things to do."

Lin Huang had not been training his Life Skill recently as his Life Power was being stabilized. It would take less than a week for it to completely stabilize naturally. If he didn't manage to kill Brain Eater this time, he could always train his Demonic Dandelion Vine once he became a Gold Hunter. It was unnecessary for him to waste too much time in Luoxi City. After a quick chat, Lin Huang started training his gunfighting techniques with Lin Xuan…

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Chapter 240: The Professional Got C*ckblocked!

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For the following two days, Lin Huang spent most of his time inside the Gun Master game. After two days he'd only managed to learn three intermediate gunfighting techniques. He was training past 10 at night when his phone started ringing. Seeing that it was Yang Ling, Lin Huang exited the game and picked up the call.

"Is there any news?!" Lin Huang was worried.

"The lady has just logged into the Chilly Night app…"

"What's her location, send it to me right now and I'll go over!" Lin Huang asked for the address before Yang Ling could finish talking.

"Erm… This is the reason why I called. I can't locate her…" Yang Ling looked embarrassed.

"Didn't you tell me you could locate her as long as she uses the application?" Lin Huang was suspicious.

"That's because I thought she only had the programming removed from the location service and it wouldn't affect the location of the app. I didn't know that she got the entire location receiver in her Emperor's Heart Ring removed."

Yang Ling said helplessly, "To crack the ring open and work on the chip isn't easy. I don't think anyone in Luoxi City would be able to do it, that's why I thought she had only gotten the code for the location system removed. Now that the location receiver has been destroyed, even my personal code for the location services couldn't locate where she is…"

He was embarrassed as he had told Lin Huang that he could do it.

"Can't locate her…" Lin Huang frowned as he listened. He had faith in Yang Ling to get it done, he did not expect to hear this.

After thinking for a while Lin Huang thought of an idea.

"I'm thinking to download the app myself and register an account. Since we can't locate her, I'll ask her out.

"That's a great idea!" Yang Ling agreed with Lin Huang but not completely.

"However, it's too suspicious to register a new account now; as she could see the date and time of registration. She knows that she's being hunted down by the Hunter Association, so she will be wary of accounts that are new. Let me give you the testing account that I used, it was registered three years ago. Upload a picture of yourself and key in your own profile. She won't suspect a thing. Don't expose yourself when you talk to her… Never mind, I'll help you with the talking. You're such a serious guy that she'd never fall for you. I'll be monitoring your conversation with her, you can copy whatever I send you and send it to her."

"Sure!"

Lin Huang agreed immediately. Although he'd used a similar phone application when he was on earth, he couldn't bring himself to flirt with a stranger. Using Yang Ling's method, he was just being a middleman where Yang Ling was the one actually talking to the lady. All he had to do was forward the messages. Immediately after the phone hung up, Yang Ling sent the password to his account. Lin Huang logged into the application after he'd downloaded it using the username Super Hunk, Lin Huang was tempted to change the username, but he couldn't find the settings button.

He then started to amend his profile. Now that he looked like himself on earth, he was sure of his own body and in less than a minute, the new profile was done. He changed into something more casual and took some photos from different angles, uploading the photos to his own page.

"I didn't expect you be so skilled with selfies. Are you sure that you've never used any one-nights stand apps?" Yang Ling teased him.

"Thanks for the compliment. Now, how do I change the username?" Lin Huang ignored Yang Ling

"You can't change that. I created the username on purpose, why would you want to change it?" Yang Ling replied.

"Alright then, send her account to me." Lin Huang did not want to waste his time on small talk and got straight into business.

Yang Ling sent a voice message this time, "Her new account username is Waist Length Hair. Don't talk to her first, just look at her profile. Although there's nothing much to see, she'll see that you've visited her profile. If she's not talking to anyone else, she'd probably look at your profile. Since you have photos and clear biography, if she's interested, she'll definitely talk to you. If she doesn't talk to you, but she looks at your profile several times then she's letting you know that she's interested in you and by then, you should be halfway there."

Lin Huang didn't know that there were so many rules on a one-night stand app.

"Alright then, I'll do as you say." Soon, Lin Huang found Waist Length Hair's account. He looked at her profile carefully. It was simple - only listing her weight and height; she didn't even fill in her age. There was only one picture on her profile and it was a picture of her upper back. Her hair touched her waist and her back was naked all the way to her bum cheeks. Anyone could see that she wasn't wearing anything in the picture.

The picture of her back wasn't enough, Lin Huang couldn't tell if it was Zheng Yihan herself. The hair color didn't look like hers. However, the body and skin color were similar. Realizing that there was nothing useful, Lin Huang left her profile. A moment later, Lin Huang realized that she was looking at his profile and within a minute, she sent him a message.

"Hi, handsome."

Just when Lin Huang was ready to reply 'Hi', Yang Ling sent him a message.

"Hey, beautiful." There was a smiley face at the back of the message. Lin Huang smiled as he thought he was too innocent. He copied Yang Ling's reply and sent it back.

Waist Length Hair replied in an instant. "How do you know that I'm beautiful? What if I only have a beautiful back?"

As Lin Huang was thinking how to reply the message, Yang Ling sent him the reply. "My instinct told me." Lin Huang forwarded the message.

"Instinct? Tell me, what other things are your instincts telling you." She replied immediately.

"Hehe, she's hooked." Yang Ling sent a disturbing voice message. Soon, Yang Ling sent his reply.

"My instinct told me that not only you're a beauty but you have a nice body too."

Lin Huang forwarded the message again.

"What if I told you that this is not my photo, would you still think the same?" She replied again.

"Of course. It's my instinct, it has nothing to do with the photo that you have." Yang Ling replied.

"If your instinct is on point, can you sense what kind of person that I am?" She replied.

"My instinct is telling me that you're a dangerous woman." Seeing that reply, Lin Huang thought it was not right and sent Yang Ling a voice message.

"I don't think that's appropriate, she might have her guard up."

"Don't worry just forward that. I know what to do." Yang Ling replied.

Helpless, Lin Huang forwarded the message anyway. This time Waist Length Hair was silent. She hadn't replied 10 seconds later either.

"This is bad…" Lin Huang frowned.

Just as Lin Huang had mumbled to himself, he received another message.

"Please tell me, how am I dangerous?" It was still Waist Length Hair.

"Hehe, what did I tell you…" Yang Ling sent another voice message.

"My mother once told me that the more beautiful a woman is, the more dangerous she is. My instinct doesn't tell me what kind of danger you are; all it's telling me is that you're more dangerous than 99% of the women in this city." There was a smirk emoji at the end of the sentence.

Lin Huang secretly complimented Yang Ling in his mind, he had to admit that Yang Ling was really good at flirting.

"Such a sweet talker, I'll take that compliment then." She replied immediately.

As they chatted, the conversation became more and more explicit. Although Lin Huang did not want to forward the messages but for the sake of hunting down Brain Eater, he did it anyway.

After chatting for 10 minutes, Lin Huang could not take it anymore.

"Stop messing around, ask her out now." Lin Huang sent Yang Ling a voice message.

"What's the rush, can't you see that I'm waiting for the perfect timing?" Yang Ling seemed to be indulging in the conversation

However, two to three minutes later Waist Length Hair sent a message abruptly.

"Let's talk next time. It's late and I'm going to sleep."

She went offline right after she sent the message.

"What happened?" Lin Huang was stunned. He did not expect her to go offline suddenly before he could even ask her out.

Soon, Yang Ling called.

"I thought it was going well, why'd she go offline?" Lin Huang was puzzled.

"She set me up! F*ck!" Yang Ling cursed.

"Somebody else got her?" Lin Huang finally understood what was happening.

"Do you think she really went to bed?" Yang Ling rolled his eyes.

"I knew she's talking to other guys as she was talking to me. I was too indulged in the conversation; I didn't see what they were talking about."

Yang Ling uploaded the chat history of the man who managed to ask Waist Length Hair out.

"Although we didn't get to ask her out, at least we could locate the man who had managed to and find out where they are meeting." Yang Ling was pissed but he did not forget about what was important.

"Wait, do you have a picture of this man? Why does he look so familiar…?

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Chapter 241: Fight!

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Lin Huang was speechless when he saw the photo of the man Yang Ling sent. He was the partner of the female hunter who was staying in the hotel room next to Lin Huang. The same tall man that he had bumped into in the elevator. Lin Huang was staying in Room 28 and the female hunter was staying in Room 27 while the man who asked Brain Eater out was staying in Room 26.

"Does he know that Waist Length Hair is Brain Eater or is it a coincidence that he's having a one night stand with her?"

If it was the former the man would kill it immediately but it was the latter, not only would the man become Brain Eater's food but probably its host too. He was a gold level rank-3, who was more outstanding than Zheng Yihan in any way. Moreover, now that Brain Eater knew it was being hunted down, it would not let go of such an outstanding host that came its way. No matter what it was, Lin Huang could not let any of that happen.

Seeing that Lin Huang was silent, Yang Ling asked. "Did you recognize him? Who is that guy?" Clearly, he was unhappy that he got c*ckblocked.

"He's a hunter who lived next to me at the hotel, I've met him before in the elevator." Lin Huang explained.

"I'm not sure if it was a coincidence or he knew that she's Brain Eater."

"It's quite impossible that he knew as her accounts fresh, it had been less than half an hour since she'd created the account. I don't think anyone could've found her as fast as I could!" Yang Ling was confident in his ability.

"Moreover, I've hacked into the man's account, he's been asking other women out during these last couple of days."

Lin Huang was speechless. "I don't think you should violate his privacy…"

"It's he who c*ckblocked me! I've shown him mercy by not informing his fiancee!" Yang Ling was pissed.

Lin Huang was sure that Yang Ling researched the man.

"Alright, please focus on what's important here. Get the man's location and I'll follow him." Lin Huang reminded Yang Ling that he could have asked Brain Eater out but Yang Ling was talking too much and she got away. Yang Ling shared the location with Lin Huang while he proceeded to mumble to himself. The man was moving, he had left the hotel and was headed far away. Lin Huang left the hotel immediately and chased after him.

Lin Huang was worried that he'd be exposed so he didn't follow too close. He walked hundreds of meters away from him. 15 to 16 minutes later the signal on the map suddenly stopped. Lin Huang slowed down but soon the man's signal had disappeared.

"What happened?" Lin Huang asked while Yang Ling ran to the signal's location. When he arrived, the tall man had disappeared.

"The lady might have a signal isolator with her. Besides, the area we're currently in has no surveillance within a couple of kilometers… I have always heard people saying that monsters are smarter than humans but I didn't believe it, now I have to believe it. This Brain Eater is much scarier than I imagined." Yang Ling sounded disappointed.

"Then you have never encountered a Ghastly Clown then…" Lin Huang thought to himself.

"Since they're meeting here it's definitely not to chat with each other. Go and check to see if there're any underground hotels around." Lin Huang said.

"There's one 300 meters on your left and another one just 400 meters on your right. I have marked them both on the map for you although there are more than 600 rooms in total. Do you plan to look one by one?" Yang Ling was doubtful.

"There's nothing else I can do, I'll have to search the rooms one by one."

After hanging up the phone, Lin Huang walked to an empty alley and transformed himself into the Spectre. He then dived underground and headed to the underground hotel on his left. When he arrived, he hid within the walls and started looking one by one. 20 minutes later he'd managed to look at more than 300 rooms but they were nowhere to be seen. Lin Huang headed to the other underground hotel just up on the right.

After searching half of the hotel, Lin Huang found his target. It was no good he was too late. Lin Huang didn't see Zheng Yihan but you could smell her perfume scent in the room. The tall man was adjusting his clothes in front of the mirror. Clearly, Brain Eater had completed the change of host and must have kept Zheng Yihan's body in its storage space. Lin Huang headed to the room entrance and transformed back to himself. He summoned Bai and took out the modified GoldEagle11.

He kicked open the room door and started shooting at the man. As the door crashed open Brain Eater knew that it was exposed. It then tried to get away towards the back door of the room. Before he could escape, Bai had transformed his Blood Spirit wing into a curtain to block the backdoor while the other wing transformed into a whip, tying the man's left arm. As the man's movement was restricted, Lin Huang seized the opportunity and used the intermediate gun-fighting technique Tidal Wave and opened fire at the man. Silver bullets flew out of the gun like a silver tidal wave devouring the man.

As the shots were fired people in the hotel started screaming. Some of the people in the rooms nearby thought they were being attacked and left through the back door, naked. Although the man's movement was restricted, he managed to avoid all the bullets coming his way. Some of the bullets hit his body but they were blocked by his gold-level armor. After attempts at trying to break away from Bai, he activated the gold-level battle sword on his finger and slashed at Bai's Blood Spirit whip. There was golden sparkle that flashed out from the collision.

Now that he was sure that he could not break away from Bai, the man chopped off his arm. Blood was all over the floor. Staring deadly at Lin Huang and Bai, the man plunged towards the window and escaped. Lin Huang did not expect him to come up with such sudden decision to get rid of his arm. As Lin Huang got to the window, the man ran into the crowd. After recalling Bai, Lin Huang hopped out of the broken window, summoned his Viridian Wolf and chased after the man…

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Chapter 242: Killing The Brain Eater

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It was past 11 at night with very few people out on the streets as there was not much of a nightlife in Luoxi City. Lin Huang's Viridian Wolf's chase was smooth; it had managed to catch up with the man in a nick of time. Seeing that it was an area without surveillance like Yang Ling said earlier, Lin Huang summoned Bai again.

"Beat him up but don't kill him." Lin Huang instructed.

Standing on the back of the Viridian Wolf, Bai nodded while transforming one of his Blood Spirit wings to a spear, piercing through the middle of the man's chest from his back…

He stopped running. Bai lifted him up with his spear and while staring coldly at him Bai turned him around. The man was like a piece of meat hanging on a hook, he panicked as he looked at Lin Huang and Bai beneath him. The people around who saw started screaming and running away. They thought it was a vampire invading the foothold; some of them even called the Hunter Association for rescue. Lin Huang did not bother to explain as his target was to kill the Brain Eater.

The man lost his ability to fight as he was badly injured, Lin Huang then summoned his Demonic Dandelion Vine.

"Bloody, take the Brain Eater's Supreme Intelligence." Lin Huang instructed. The appearance of a Demonic Dandelion Vine scared the man even more. As a parasite itself, a double mutated Demonic Dandelion Vine would naturally be a threat to the Brain Eater.

The vine on Bloody bent like it was nodding. Suddenly, Bloody extended a couple of vines and lunged towards the man's brain. Just when the vines were reaching the man's head, a golden glow flashed in the air. Bloody's vines were broken and a person stood before the man, it was his female partner, a gold-level sword in her hand and equipped with gold-level armor staring deadly at Lin Huang.

"How dare you kill someone in this foothold?!"

Lin Huang gave a deathly stare back at her too. "His body has been taken over by a Brain Eater, he's not human anymore."

The lady was confused, she turned around and looked at the man behind her.

"Qin Wei, don't listen to him. I'm a gold level rank-3, how's it possible that the Brain Eater could take me over? Think about it, the victims before were not even a gold level rank-1. This guy is the one who has been taken over by the Brain Eater. I knew something was wrong with him so I followed him today and found out that he was killing again. I tried to stop him but it was too late the lady was dead."

"I wanted to kill him but he's an Imperial Censor, he has a powerful summoning beast. I couldn't fight him so I took the dead body with me and ran here. If you don't believe me, I can show you the dead body in my storage space!"

Qin Wei believed in him.

"How could he turn the whole situation around…" Lin Huang shook his head. He hadn't expected Brain Eater to be this intelligent and manage to point its fingers at him instead.

"The lady is called Zheng Yihan, she's your previous host. Since you killed her and changed into another body, it's natural that you can't leave the dead body aside." Lin Huang said.

"Before I agreed to get on board with this mission at the Hunter Info Network, a friend of mine had created an elixir that could identify parasites, I brought some with me."

"This elixir is transparent, it's similar to water. Nothing would happen if it touches people but if it touches a human with a parasite, the person's skin would turn yellow that looks like it was smeared with a yellow powder. I'm not sure about the theory behind this but I have seen the videos that he sent me. This elixir works on a human who has been taken over by a Brain Eater too." Lin Huang added.

He then took out a half bottle of mineral water from his storage space. He slowly opened the bottle cap and smiled at the both of them.

"Since you said I'm the Brain Eater, let's test it."

Lin Huang poured the water on his palm, nothing happened seconds later. He closed the bottle cap and tossed the bottle at Qin Wei.

She was stunned but she opened the bottle anyway and poured some water on her hand. Nothing happened as well.

"Why not you ask your partner if he's up for this test?" Lin Huang smirked while he looked at the man.

"Wu Hao, let's try this…" Qin Wei hesitated and walked towards the man with the bottle.

"You would rather believe in a person that you don't know than me?" The man attempted to distract her.

"Why bother talking to him…" Lin Huang walked to Qin Wei and took the bottle out of her hands and splashed the water on him.

"Noooo!" Wu Hao used his hands to block the water.

"Did you see that?" Lin Huang looked at Qin Wei.

Qin Wei looked at Wu Hao with a complicated expression.

Seeing that the both of them were looking at him, Wu Hao looked at his body to see if there were any changes however, everything was normal.

"You don't have to look around, it's just normal drinking water although your response had said everything." Lin Huang explained.

Qin Wei took a step closer.

"Could you let me kill this Brain Eater? I would like to use its body to commemorate Wu Hao."

"I'm sorry, you can take the body with you but I must kill him. I have been waiting for many days for its monster skill." Lin Huang did not plan to give in.

"Alright…" Qin Wei hesitated but she decided to give in. Since the Brain Eater was discovered by Lin Huang, she shouldn't steal his thunder.

"Bloody, take his Supreme Intelligence !" Lin Huang instructed again.

A couple of vines lunged again from Bloody and pierced through Wu Hao's head. Suddenly, black shadows were escaping from his head and attempted to run away.

" Reproductive Fission ?!" Lin Huang frowned.

Reproductive Fission was the second reproduction method of a Brain Eater. When facing fatal attacks, it would split its body into tens of pieces to reproduce separately. That was the main reason why the Brain Eater tribe had yet to become extinct. As long as one of them managed to find a host, their genes would live on.

Without waiting for Lin Huang and Qin Wei's reaction, Bloody plunged its vines again and transformed them into spears, killing all of the divisions. Soon, Bloody recalled all its vines and transformed back into a card placing itself into Lin Huang's body. Since Qin Wei was around, Lin Huang didn't look at the card immediately.

"Bai put down the body."

After placing Wu Hao's body on the ground, Bai removed his Blood Spirit wing from his chest. Lin Huang then recalled Bai.

"You can have the body, I'm done here. I shall make a move."

"Wait, I will go back to the hotel with you. Wu Hao is dead, I need to submit a report to the organization. I'll need some information from you, I hope you can cooperate." Qin Wei stopped Lin Huang.

Lin Huang thought and agreed to Qin Wei's request. "Sure, I'll try my best. I apologized for not being able to reveal some parts of my doing." Qin Wei kept the body and the both of them returned to the hotel…

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Chapter 243: Extracting A New Skill

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On the way back to the hotel, Qin Wei started asking Lin Huang about what happened. As Lin Huang told him the brief background of what was happening, they arrived at the hotel. It was 11:30 p.m. when Lin Huang checked the time.

Qin Wei looked at the time as well and said, "It's too late now, I'll not bother you. I might need some of your time tomorrow though to talk further."

"Sure, what time?" Lin Huang nodded.

"Let's meet at the restaurant at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow and after breakfast, let's go to the Union Government division together to submit the mission. Since you killed the Brain Eater, the reward belongs to you but I'll have the body. We'll talk more after that." Qin Wei said.

"Will I be bothering you? If it's not convenient for you, we can reschedule." Qin Wei thought and added.

Lin Huang nodded. "8:30 a.m. is fine."

"Since I have settled the Brain Eater, I'll take a few days' rest in Luoxi City."

Lin Huang had been stressed for the past few days and occupied with the massive amount of information about the Brain Eater so he hadn't managed to rest well. Besides, he planned to stay in the city for a week. Since he needed two to three days for his Life Power to stabilize and he wasn't in a rush to leave to Meteorite Desert. He decided to stay in Luoxi City for a few days to rest and to adjust himself before departing.

The both of them took the elevator to level 76 and headed back to their own rooms. As he arrived in his room, he immediately looked at the Demonic Dandelion Vine monster card.

"Monster Card"

"Rarity: Epic"

"Monster Name: Bloody (Demonic Dandelion Vine)"

"Type of Monster: Parasite Species"

"Combat Level: Silver Level Rank-3"

"Skill 1: Leech Pods"

"Skill 2: Absolute Control"

"Skill 3: Supreme Intelligence"

"Summon Authority: Activated"

"Remarks: Monster skill has yet to be fully discovered, two more skills on the way"

"Card Remarks: Trainable"

Lin Huang then looked at the detailed description of Supreme Intelligence.

"Supreme Intelligence: Passive skill that can immensely increase one's intelligence."

"Remarks: The higher foundation in intelligence will result in an increase in intelligence."

Lin Huang was tempted when he saw the skill.

"Xiao Hei, extract the skill for Demonic Dandelion Vine."

If Lin Huang was to extract the skill now, the probability of obtaining Supreme Intelligence was only 1/3. Moreover, he did not need to add any other survival skill for it in the future so he decided to extract the skill now.

"Skill is being extracted… Randomly choosing a skill… Skill has been chosen… Congratulations, you have received a new skill - Leech Pods."

Lin Huang was speechless at what he got.

"Can I use Leech Pods?" Lin Huang was skeptical.

"I'm not a plant like Demonic Dandelion Vine with the gift. Even if I could transform my Life Power into pods, before I arrive at transcendent, there's no way that my Life Power could leave my body so it'd be useless."

Lin Huang attempted to activate the skill. There were silver dandelion pods growing on his palm, however, they disappeared automatically.

"Just as I expected, Leech Pods will only work on parasites but no other creatures…" What just happened proved Lin Huang's speculation right but soon, he thought for something else.

"What if I transfer the pods into a host, would my Life Power disappear as well?"

He thought of an experiment he could try and quickly summoned his Viridian Wolf and activated Leech Pods on his palm. He placed his palm on the Viridian Wolf's abdomen. Soon, the pods seemed to grow to Viridian Wolf's body.

A warning came from Xiao Hei.

"Warning: Something is wrong with your summoning card Viridian Wolf! A parasite has been detected inside it, would you like to recall the card?"

"No." Lin Huang shook his head and rejected to recall the card.

"I want to see if the pods that I've made would disappear."

Lin Huang noticed something strange as the pods went inside of Viridian Wolf. He seemed to have the same sensory ability that it had, where he could look from its point of view and even smell better. However, he could get out of that zone whenever he wanted. He could also control Viridian Wolf's movement including getting it to roll over, shake hands and greet with both hands…

"I shall go to bed and see if the pods disappear tomorrow." Seeing that it was near 12 a.m., Lin Huang didn't plan to recall Viridian Wolf as he was afraid that the parasite would be removed if he did. After a quick shower, Lin Huang went to bed in the bedroom while his Viridian Wolf stayed in the living room.

Lin Huang woke up at seven the next morning. As he brushed his teeth, he was observing his Viridian Wolf. The Viridian Wolf found it strange that Lin Huang was looking at it. The pods in it hadn't disappeared while his control over it had not decreased either.

"Could it be the same as Bloody's parasite where as long as I don't recall the parasite, it would stay forever?" Lin Huang thought as the pods remained inside Viridian Wolf after a night's sleep.

"I'll be heading out later. Stay in the room and don't run around." Lin Huang patted Viridian Wolf's head, he didn't plan to end the experiment just yet.

Viridian Wolf looked unwilling as it laid on the floor but it didn't dare to disobey Lin Huang.

After showering, Lin Huang left without Viridian Wolf to breakfast. It was almost eight when he finished his breakfast at level 3. He started reading the news while waiting for Qin Wei. Qin Wei soon walked into the restaurant and got herself some food before sitting across Lin Huang.

"You're done eating?" Qin Wei was not sure as she saw the table was clean.

Lin Huang nodded. "Yes, I'm done. The service crew cleared the table."

"Are you just in Luoxi City for the mission alone?" Qin Wei asked while eating.

"It's mainly to kill a gold level Life Seed monster." Lin Huang didn't hide his intentions but he hadn't revealed what he was hunting.

"Oh, I see…"

They chatted for a while, as Qin Wei finished her breakfast, it was almost 8:20 a.m...

Qin Wei looked at the time, stood up and said to Lin Huang. "I'm done! We're 10 minutes ahead of time, let's go!"

"Let's go." Lin Huang stood up and followed behind her to the elevator.

They got a monster car at the hotel entrance and headed to the Union Government division.

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Chapter 244: Truth or Lie?

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The Ground Rhino pulled the black monster car to the entrance of Union Government in less than 10 minutes. Lin Huang got off the car first and as he held the door open, he extended his hand. Qin Wei hesitated before she decided to let Lin Huang hold her.

"Thanks." Qin Wei said softly after she got off the car.

Liang Yin who was rushing to work saw what happened and smirked as she asked, "Is this your girlfriend?"

"No, she's a friend." Lin Huang knew Liang Yin would not let him off so easily so he attempted to distract her.

"Have you just arrived at work? Have you had breakfast?"

"Is she really not your girlfriend?" Liang Yin knew what kind of trick Lin Huang was trying to pull on her so she asked again.

"She's really isn't." Lin Huang nodded as he knew there was nothing that he could do about her quirk.

"This is no fun at all…" Liang Yin was unsatisfied.

"Are you here for me?" She asked.

"No, the Brain Eater has been killed. We're here to submit the mission." Lin Huang said.

"I really must thank you for helping me this time." Lin Huang added.

"If you really want to thank me, how about you give me the carcass after you've submitted your mission? I have never dissected a Brain Eater…" Liang Yin was excited.

"I don't think I can give it to you because it belongs to Qin Wei." Lin Huang said.

"Her partner who was on the mission with her was killed by the Brain Eater. She must bring the body back."

Liang Yin then looked at Wei Qin but decided to let it go.

"Nevermind then, treat me to a good meal when you're free. I won't bother you anymore, I'm leaving for my office."

Liang Yin left, waving her hand to Lin Huang who was standing behind her.

"Your friend is interesting." Qin Wei commented as Liang Yin left.

"The food that she eats is even more interesting…" Hearing that comment, Lin Huang could not help but laugh.

"What does she eat?" Qin Wei did not understand what Lin Huang meant.

"Nothing." Lin Huang did not think that it was a topic that he should continue.

"Let's get down to business."

The submission of the mission was simple. All he had to do was to show the carcass and describe how he managed to accomplish the mission. In less than 10 minutes, Lin Huang had submitted the mission and received the reward of 3,000 Life Crystals. Later on, he passed the body to Qin Wei and they left the Union Government office together.

"Let me get you a drink, we can talk about the Brain Eater as well." Qin Wei took the initiative to invite Lin Huang out.

"Sure." Lin Huang did not reject her.

"I know a nice cafe here. A friend recommended it, I've been there a couple of times in the past few days." Qin Wei suggested.

"It's not far from here, just five to six minutes away."

"Let's go there then, I haven't had coffee for a while." Lin Huang nodded.

Luoxi City was not a developed foothold. However, it was crowded on the streets when it was nine in the morning. Many were looking at them as they walked on the streets as Lin Huang was handsome while Qin Wei was pretty. They looked like an old couple when they walked together.

After five to six minutes of walking, they found a cafe in an alley. It was not really big but it looked rather exquisite. The entire building was made of bamboo, including the floor and furniture.

The owner of the cafe was a middle-aged man with a mustache. He was almost 1.8 or 1.9 meters tall. Her footsteps were loud when he walked on the bamboo floor. Although he did not look friendly, he was passionate.

"You brought a friend today?" The cafe owner smiled while looking at Lin Huang as he greeted Qin Wei.

"Yes. Same old same old." Qin Wei said.

"Which flavor would you like? He could get you anything here." Qin Wei asked Lin Huang.

"I would like a black coffee please." Lin Huang decided without even thinking.

"Black coffee is bitter, are you sure you want that?" Qin Wei did not understand Lin Huang's odd preference.

"Would you like milk and sugar?" The cafe owner was calm.

"No, just a regular black coffee will do." Lin Huang shook his head.

"Please take a seat and wait a moment." The cafe owner gestured them to sit.

Qin Wei brought Lin Huang to the rooftop balcony on the third floor like it was her second home. They then got themselves a table.

"It seems like you've been here many times." Lin Huang laughed.

"I come here almost every day in the past few days." Qin Wei nodded and smiled.

"When you taste their coffee later, you'll understand why I come here every day."

"You've got me excited now." Lin Huang smiled.

"I've quite a few questions to ask you regarding the mission. Before I slept last night, I came up with a list." Qin Wei said while she projected the list.

Lin Huang took a quick glance and saw 20 to 30 items on the list.

"I'll start with the question that I've been dying to ask." Qin Wei moved the projection to the table in front of her. After some browsing, she looked up at Lin Huang.

"First question, how did you know Wu Hao was meeting the Brain Eater? Also, why were they together?"

"Would you like the truth or a lie? Wu Hao was your partner, if there's something that you don't want to know about, I can make up a story. If you're just writing a report to your management, there's no need for them to know the truth." Lin Huang did not answer Qin Wei directly as he looked at her in all seriousness.

Qin Wei hesitated and said, "I'd like to know the truth."

"Alright then. The truth is, Wu Hao coincidentally asked the host of the Brain Eater out when he was using the application Chilly Night. That's how they met, you know what happened next… I know about this as the application was created by a friend of mine. He had the authorization to look at their conversation." Lin Huang told the truth.

Qin Wei was silent when she heard what Lin Huang said. A while later, she asked, "How about a lie? How would you come up with a lie?"

"Wu Hao figured out who the Brain Eater's host was but he was killed while he was hunting it down. I happened to pass by and saw what happened, that's how I know he was the Brain Eater." Lin Huang spoke the story that he made up.

"Alright then, second question…" Qin Wei went silent after that and asked her second question.

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Chapter 245: Bloody Is Now A Genius

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As Lin Huang finished his coffee at the rooftop balcony of the cafe, Qin Wei had not even touched hers at all. After she was done with her 20 over questions, she turned off her notepad and started drinking her now cold coffee. She then slowly put her cup down.

"Thank you for giving me all the answers. Without you, I'd have had no idea how I'm supposed to write the report." Qin Wei let out an awkward smile.

"How long have you been partnering with him?" Lin Huang asked.

"Not long, only nine months…" Qin Wei shook her head.

"However, he's my fiancé…" Qin Wei added after keeping silent for a while.

Now it was Lin Huang who didn't know what to say. He'd heard from Yang Ling that Wu Hao had a fiancée but he hadn't known the fiancée was Qin Wei who was also his partner.

"He's gone now, my condolences." Lin Huang tried to console her.

"It's alright, I'm not exactly sad. It was an arranged marriage by our family. Before partnering with him I'd never seen him before. Both of us were unhappy with the marriage."

"I know he had a girlfriend that he'd known for more than 10 years, she came from an ordinary family background. His father killed the girlfriend in front of him and chopped her into pieces while forcing Wu Hao to watch while he fed the pieces to the pigs. The father told him that if he doesn't accept the arrangement, even if he killed himself, all of the girl's family members would have faced the same consequence."

"Since then he'd lost himself, he would go out with different women every day. He had been like that for the past two years. He was frustrated. It was his family's idea for us to partner up, hoping that I might be able to control him. However, he was still the same doing whatever he wanted to do. I hadn't expected such things to happen… Although, death was probably a release to him."

While Qin Wei didn't have strong feelings for Wu Hao, he was her fiancé after all. Now that he was dead, not only did she have to report to Adventure Paradise, she also had to speak to Wu Hao's family.

"That's why you suspected him when he tried to tell you that he was not the Brain Eater yesterday?" Lin Huang asked.

"Yes, because I knew he always wanted to die. However, I was still not sure that time as it was an instinct for humans to ask to live in a crisis. When I saw his reaction as you splashed the water on him, I knew you were telling the truth." Qin Wei explained.

"So are you writing two copies of the report for the Adventurer Organization and the Wu family?" Lin Huang finally understood why she'd asked for two answers earlier.

"The Adventurer Organization doesn't have to know the truth as it would bring shame to the Wu family. However, the Wu family must know the truth. I should thank you for giving me two answers to some of my questions." Qin Wei smiled and nodded.

After chatting for a while, they bid farewell to the café owner and left the cafe.

"When do you plan to leave Luoxi City?" Qin Wei asked as she stepped out of the cafe.

"In the next two to three days, how about you?" Lin Huang asked.

"I'll leave in the afternoon since I'm done with my task, there's no reason for me to stay." Qin Wei said.

"If you don't mind, please send me your contact details." She added.

"Sure." Lin Huang gave her Ye Xiu's number.

After adding each other as friends, they went back to the hotel together. When Lin Huang arrived in his room, his Viridian Wolf that was laying on the floor stood up and rubbed its head against him. Lin Huang patted its head and noticed the Leech Pods still growing inside. Thinking about the Leech Pods, Lin Huang summoned Demonic Dandelion Vine. Bloody was like a red baby snake that was less than two meters long and was as thick as a thumb.

"Let's see how smart you are; I'll get you to learn a human language these next few days." Lin Huang then downloaded the Union Government's learning materials on words from the network. He placed his Emperor's Heart Ring on the coffee table and projected the materials, allowing Bloody to read them for itself. Just like a baby snake, Bloody lifted its upper body to read all the documents that Lin Huang downloaded while Lin Huang was using Ye Xiu's Emperor's Heart Ring to read the news on the couch.

When it was almost 11:30 a.m., Lin Huang told Bloody and Viridian Wolf to behave themselves before heading out. Instead of lunch, he went to the Credit Bureau to transfer the 1,500 Life Crystals to Yang Ling.

Lin Huang sent Yang Ling a message. "I've transferred you 50% of the reward make sure you check later." He then found a nearby food store and had lunch before heading back. What he didn't know was, while he was out, Qin Wei who stayed next to his room was ringing at his doorbell.

Bloody made its way to the door and peeped at Qin Wei stood outside. It had seen her last night so she wasn't a stranger to it. It hesitated for a second but decided to open the door for her.

Qin Wei found it odd that it was Bloody that opened the door. "Ye Xiu?" She shouted at the door but there wasn't any response.

Just when she wanted to leave, she saw Bloody was using the tea in the cup to write something on the floor.

"Master is out for lunch."

"A summoning monster that could write?" Qin Wei was shocked. She then realized that this vine monster must have taken the Brain Eater's Supreme Intelligence earlier.

"Sure, I know that now. Thank you." Qin Wei patted Bloody's head.

"I thought he would be here so I wanted to say goodbye. Since he's out, let him know that I'm grateful for his help for the past two days and I hope he had a good time in Luoxi City."

Bloody nodded,

"Thank you for opening the door for me, bye!"

"You're welcome, goodbye." Bloody written on the floor again.

Qin Wei smiled and left. When Lin Huang returned to the hotel after lunch, Qin Wei had already left a long time before. Just when he arrived in his room, Bloody tangled his arm and pulled him to the couch.

"What's wrong?" Lin Huang thought it was absurd.

Bloody used the water in the cup and started writing on the transparent coffee table.

"The girl next door came earlier; she was here to say goodbye to master. She asked me to tell you that she is grateful for your help the past few days and she hopes you've had a great time in Luoxi City."

Lin Huang was shocked when he saw.

"Damn, you've learned how to write so fast?! You must be a genius now."

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Chapter 246: The Saints

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It was six in the morning, Lin Huang sat on the rattan chair in the balcony while watching the sunrise. Since Qin Wei left, it was his third day staying in Luoxi City. For the past few days, he did not slack at all. Besides eating and sleeping, he was learning a gun-fighting technique from Lin Xuan in Gun Master. He had mastered one more intermediate gun-fighting technique, the Life Power in his body had finally stabilized.

"It's almost time to leave, I'll leave tomorrow morning after my last task today." After admiring the beautiful sunrise, Lin Huang returned to the room.

The Viridian Wolf was still sleeping in the room while Bloody had been up for a couple of days reading the documents and learning the humans' language.

"Bloody rest if you're tired. There's no need to read them all at once." Lin Huang advised.

"It's alright, I'm not tired. Unlike humans, I don't really need to sleep." Bloody wrote on the coffee table using the tea in the cup.

"Alright then, I'll go for breakfast now. I'll be out the entire morning and afternoon and will only be back in the evening. Both of you stay in the room and don't run around."

He planned to buy some souvenirs and food on his last day in the city so that he could bring something back for Lin Xin and Lin Xuan.

"Go, I'll look after the Viridian Wolf." Bloody wrote on the coffee table.

Lin Huang nodded and headed out. After breakfast downstairs, Lin Huang called Liang Yin.

"What's up? Speak quick, I'm a bit busy right now." Liang Yin picked up the video call, Lin Huang could see that she was dissecting a male body. The chest of the man was opened up and his heart could be seen.

"Oh…" Lin Huang was stunned at what he was seeing.

"Why are you working so early today? Isn't it only 7:30 a.m. now?"

"Something happened in the city in the middle of the night. 33 people in the Luo family were killed. The forensic team for the city went there before 5 a.m., I was lucky that I managed to get a couple of bodies." Liang Yin explained as she proceeded to dissect the body.

"Killing so many people in the foothold? I guess only people from the underworld would do something like that." Lin Huang frowned.

"I heard they offended the Saints but I'm not sure what exactly happened. I'm busy right now, speak quickly please if you have anything to say." Liang Yin said.

"Oh, I'm leaving Luoxi City tomorrow morning. Didn't you ask me to treat you to a meal a few days back? Let me know if you're free today." Lin Huang finally said telling Liang Yin why he was calling.

"You're leaving tomorrow?" Liang Yin stopped what she was doing and looked into the screen.

"Unfortunately, I'm really busy today. I'll try my best to find the time, however, I think I'd only be free at night and I'm not sure if I can spare some time right now, I'll contact you again when it's eight at night."

"Sure!" Lin Huang agreed immediately.

"I won't bother you then. I'll talk to you tonight."

After hanging up the phone, Lin Huang left the hotel restaurant and shopped at the stores that he saw on the map buying many souvenirs and food. It was past seven at night when he returned to the hotel. As he arrived in his room, he took out a roasted pig. The size of the roasted pig was comparable with the one he made at home. The Viridian Wolf stood up immediately, starred at the roasted pig while drooling.

"Don't eat all of it, put away some for Bloody." Lin Huang patted the Viridian Wolf's head. Since it had gotten Lin Huang's approval, it started feasting on the roasted pig. Meanwhile, Bloody just looked in their direction and proceeded to read. Lin Huang sat on the couch while reading the news, the top local news read - Murder of 33 People from the Luo Family . Lin Huang frowned as he read the news.

The Luo Family was a family known by many in Luoxi City. Although there were no transcendents or royalty in the family, they had a very successful business and well known throughout the city. The family home was in the middle of the foothold, which was the most crowded place in the city. Many people had seen two people in white robes kill their guards, invade into the house and leave in less than 10 minutes.

With the description from the witnesses, the duo should be members of one of the underworld organizations, the Saints. The Saints were easy to recognize, they wore a white robe with a cross on their faces. Nobody would dress as one of the members because if someone did, he or she would be hunted down by the organization and savagely killed.

"The Saints…" Ever since he arrived in this world in the past year, Lin Huang had encountered the Purple Crow and the Heretics. His impression of the underworld was not good.

The Saints had a bad reputation, which was almost the same as the Purple Crow.

"I shouldn't spend any more time here; the other hunters can handle this." Lin Huang didn't want to have anything to do with such an organization as he'd be bringing trouble to himself.

It was almost eight as he read the news, Liang Yin called as she promised. Lin Huang picked up the call immediately.

"I've finally finished with my work, where are we meeting?" Liang Yin asked right away as the call was connected.

"Let's meet at the Union Government entrance, I'll pick you up."

"Sure, I'll wait for you." Liang Yin nodded.

Lin Huang then patted the Viridian Wolf who was still eating, "Buddy, we need to head out for a while."

The Viridian Wolf was unhappy as it transformed into a card. Through the three-day-long experiment, Lin Huang confirmed that his pods had the same effect as Bloody's. As long as it wasn't recalled, the parasite would remain there forever. However, compared to Bloody, his version of Leech Pods was the weaker version where he had to touch the host's body to make it work. Moreover, he could only put in one seed at a time.

"Bloody stay here and don't forget to eat when you're hungry." Lin Huang pointed at the remaining one-third of the roasted pig on the floor. Bloody nodded and Lin Huang left. When he got out of the hotel, Lin Huang immediately summoned the Viridian Wolf. Seeing that there was still a parasite in it, Lin Huang frowned. He rode on its back and headed to the Union Government.

Lin Huang then spoke to Xiao Hei.

"Would the parasite stay even if I've recalled the card and summoned it again?"

"Yes, some of the parasites can only be removed by a Cleansing Card. Returning it to its card form will not change anything."

Lin Huang just realized that his experiment did not require him to summon the Viridian Wolf all the time. However, since he could not remove the parasite himself, that also meant that other people could use parasites to take over his monster. He didn't like that.

10 minutes later, Lin Huang arrived at the Union Government's entrance. Liang Yin was already waiting. Riding on the Viridian Wolf, she asked.

"Where are we having dinner?"

"I know of a place that makes good offal dishes, you should have been there before, it's not far from here." Lin Huang knew Liang Yin loved such food that's why he picked the restaurant.

"Do you mean Tang Sanzhang?" Liang Yin asked.

"Yes, that's the one." Lin Huang nodded.

"But it's expensive, are you sure you want to treat me there?" Liang Yin was unsure.

"Don't worry about it. Although it's a little bit pricey, I can afford it." Lin Huang nodded and smiled.

Lin Huang had researched the place before; it was pricey because all the food was fresh from iron level to gold level monsters. Silver level hunters like Lin Huang would need at least tens or hundreds of Life Crystal for a meal there. It was not for the ordinary people.

"Since you insist, I won't decline." Liang Yin said.

After riding on the Viridian Wolf for another four to five minutes, they stopped at a cross junction. Lin Huang recalled the Viridian Wolf and headed to the luxurious restaurant. It wasn't even 8:30 p.m. yet and it was already crowded inside. However, Lin Huang had made reservations earlier after speaking to Liang Yin on the phone. After confirming his identity, a tall female service crew brought them to a table for two.

As they sat down, Lin Huang started ordering. Most of them were intestines of different monsters which were Liang Yin's favorite. Besides that, they ordered a plate of meat, vegetables, and fruits.

"See if there's anything else that you want." Lin Huang passed the menu to Liang Ying after ordering.

"It's okay, it's enough, I don't think I can finish all of it." Liang Yin didn't take the menu Lin Huang passed her.

"What would you guys like to drink?" The service crew asked while smiling.

"I would like a cup of passion fruit juice. How about you?" Lin Huang looked at Liang Yin.

"I'll have the same, I like passionfruit too."

As the service crew left, Lin Huang laughed.

"I thought you would have some exquisite drink preference as well."

"You're overthinking things. Girls usually love drinks that are sweet and sour, I'm like that as well. What about you, why don't you drink any alcohol?" Liang Yin asked him.

"I've something to do tomorrow morning once I have left Luoxi City, I must maintain my peak performance." Lin Huang didn't dislike alcohol but he disliked the hazy feeling he got after drinking. Especially in this world where anything could kill him, he did not want to let his guard down.

"Why not you stay for a couple days more? Although the city isn't bustling, it isn't bad at all." Liang Yin asked.

"Maybe in the future. It's true that this city has an odd sense of peace that I don't feel in many of the footholds." Lin Huang nodded as he said what he felt.

"I thought so too. Unfortunately, the peace was broken this morning." Liang Yin smiled awkwardly.

"You mean the Saints? The Hunter Association will send someone to handle the situation. Don't worry about it, the Union Government would do something to get them too." Lin Huang comforted her.

"These underworld organizations are too much! I heard that the family was killed just because one of the sons published a post called Cult Religion on the Heart Network. There were only two sentences about the Saints in the post which read - The so-called Saints are just a bunch of lunatics who show off about their religion . What they are doing is the total opposite of what moral and decent religions have. They are just a bunch of lunatics who do whatever they want . Just because of that, the two Saints members killed his entire family." Liang Yin knew the entire incident.

Lin Huang frowned as he listened.

"We can never understand what such people are thinking, the way they think is different from ordinary people."

"You're speaking as if you are related to many people from the underworld organizations." Liang Yin looked at him.

Lin Huang smiled without saying anything. Soon, the food was served and out of the many different intestine dishes, Lin Huang only tasted a few pieces. Two of the dishes were good and he could not tell that those were intestines.

It was almost 10 at night when they were finally done with dinner. As they walked out of the restaurant, Lin Huang asked her.

"Where do you stay, do you need a ride?"

"It's alright. If my mom sees you, she might bring me to try on wedding gowns tomorrow. She's afraid that I might not marry anyone." Liang Yin rejected.

"Alright then…" Lin Huang hailed a monster car for Liang Yin.

Hopping on the monster car, Liang Yin turned around and smiled widely at Lin Huang before she even sat down.

"Safe journey!"

"Okay, thanks." The monster car left leaving Lin Huang waving goodbye to her.

After sending her off, Lin Huang summoned the Viridian Wolf and headed back to the hotel. It was past 10 when they arrived at the hotel. As he went into his room, Bloody wrapped itself around his arm and pulled him towards the couch.

"What's wrong?"

Bloody used some water in the cup and wrote on the coffee table again.

"I have learned all 120,000 words; the human language is really profound. I would need a couple more days to be able to use all of them.

"I'm envious of such a learning ability…" The main reason why Lin Huang wanted the Supreme Intelligence skill was because he wanted the learning ability of a transcendent. There were 120,000 words in this world's most common language. So far Lin Huang had only mastered 8,000 words. However, Bloody had managed to learn 120,000 words within three days.

"We'll be leaving Luoxi City tomorrow morning. I'll have to put you away and let you out when we arrive at the Meteorite Desert. I'll need your help then." Lin Huang said.

Bloody nodded and wrote on the coffee table again.

"Sure, let me know if you need anything."

After recalling Bloody, Lin Huang cleared up the mess in the living room that the Viridian Wolf had made. It was almost 11 when he was done, he took a shower and went to bed…

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Chapter 247: Meteorite Desert

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Dawn in Luoxi City was extremely peaceful. Lin Huang woke up at seven in the morning and walked to the balcony to stretch his body. The sun had just risen as a red ball but it did not hurt the eyes. Instead, it shone down on him with warmth. Looking into the distance, half of the city was within his field of vision. There was a tall clock tower far away and houses close to him as well as people on the streets…Perhaps, the lack of bustle made the city oddly peaceful.

"It's time to leave…" Lin Huang sighed.

After washing up, he returned to his room and looked around, making sure that he did not leave anything behind before heading out. Taking the elevator to level 3, he spent around 10 minutes at the breakfast buffet line before checking out of the hotel. As he stepped out of the hotel, he summoned the Alexandrian Eagle and headed in the direction of the Meteorite Desert.

The Meteorite Desert was located around 1,800 kilometers from the west-north of Luoxi City. With the speed of the Alexandrian Eagle, Lin Huang arrived at the destination in less than three hours. The gold level Life Seed monster than he picked was the Starlight Beast that Mr. Fu had recommended. The Starlight Beast was rare whereby it was only spotted in the Meteorite Desert in the entire Division 7. The Meteorite Desert was 12 million square kilometers and if it was placed on Earth, it was bigger than most countries. Even here, it was much bigger than an A-grade foothold.

Though barren, many powerful monsters existed in this wide land. In reality, the Meteorite Desert surpassed the level of the wild zone; it belonged to the danger zone that most hunters would not step into. In this world, there were no Transcendent monsters in the wild zones, so there were only four levels where the most powerful one would be at gold-level. Those areas with Transcendent monsters were labeled as danger zones.

There were three grades of danger zones. The mild danger zone would usually have one to four commander-level monsters. One commander-level monster was comparable to the combat strength of a human holy fire-level. The moderate danger zone would usually have more than five commander-level monsters or one chief-level monster. The chief-level monster's combat strength was comparable to a human immortal-level. Meanwhile, the severe danger zone would usually have more than 10 commander-level monsters or more than three chief-level monsters. Such a place was considered an extremely dangerous zone and only the top hunters would dare to enter.

A danger zone that was even higher would be considered forbidden land which was terrorized by a king-level monster. It was comparable to an imperial-level transcendent. Only the general of the Union Government or the elder of the Hunter Association would be able to fight such a monster. The Meteorite Desert belonged to the moderate danger zone. While there were only seven Transcendent monsters that were identified, there could be more.

With Lin Huang's ability, he had to be careful as he entered the zone. Although Bai and Charcoal were powerful, they were not powerful enough to fight a Transcendent monster. Under his instructions, the Alexandrian Eagle landed in the southeast zone of the desert, not venturing any deeper. The reason why they decided to land based on the document that Lin Huang had shown was because someone had witnessed a Starlight Beast near the coordinates. Recalling the Alexandrian Eagle, Lin Huang looked into the distance. There was nothing, not even weed or a dead tree; it was just endless sand all the way to the horizon.

"This is such a huge area. I'm not sure when can I find the monsters that are secretive…" Lin Huang mumbled to himself and summoned Bloody. Bloody curled around his arm and looked around curiously. This was its first time coming to a desert, so this was something new.

"Master, is this the desert?" Bloody extended an antenna and wrote on the ground.

"Yes, this is the desert. It's called Meteorite Desert, a danger zone with many transcendent monsters," Lin Huang nodded as he explained.

"It's even more beautiful than it was described in the books. Although it looks barren, it's majestic," Bloody wrote.

"It seems beautiful but danger is everywhere." Lin Huang smiled sagely.

"Master, what do you need me to do this time?" Bloody wrote.

"My purpose of coming to this desert is to kill a gold-level Life Seed monster called the Starlight Beast. However, it's very rare and elusive. It was last seen 17 years ago right where I'm standing. So, I need your help to find this monster," Lin Huang explained.

"So, Master, do you need me to release my parasites onto the monsters here and get them to look around?" Bloody knew what Lin Huang was thinking immediately.

"Yes! This desert is too big, so that's the only way," Lin Huang affirmed. Without Bloody's help, it would take too much of his time and strength.

"Sure, can I take a look at its picture?" Bloody agreed. Lin Huang projected the photo of Starlight Beast immediately.

Starlight Beast looked like a robot. Most of its body was orange in color and had a unique metal reflection under the light. Its face was turquoise and it looked like it was wearing a mask. Besides its eyes, there was nothing else on its face. There was a purple crystal the size of a fist under its neck. On both sides of its chest were four antenna-like arms in blue and green. It had a long torso and its waist was so tiny that it could be completely held by both adult hands. Both its legs were long like two thick antennas with no soles, so it had to balance on its pointy limbs.

After some observation, Bloody asked, "Are all of these monsters the same color?"

"Yes, the majority of them."

"So far, I've never heard of any other color."

"Alright, I shall look for them with this reference," Bloody confirmed.

It glided from Lin Huang's arm, its body enlarging. Soon, it grew to the thickness of an adult thigh and unraveled to become up to 1000 meters long, looking like a giant boa.

Bloody coiled around on the ground and there were buds growing out of its body. At a speed that could be captured by the naked eye, purple flowers that looked like dandelions grew out of the buds. Within seconds, the purple flowers bloomed and flew far away, carried on the wind.

"Bloody, try to be low-key. There are many Transcendent monsters in this desert, so let's not get their attention," Lin Huang reminded, looking at the purple flowers flying in the air.

"I understand!" Bloody responded and slowed down the speed of the purple flowers. The density of the leech pods was more than 10 times less than before. Looking at the seeds that were numbered to be at least 100,000, Lin Huang stood where he was and exclaimed, "What an amazing ability that Bloody is born with!"

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Chapter 248: Free Man

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It was a cloudless sky. The azure blue was like a painting so beautiful that it was unreal. The sun that was hanging high up in the sky was shining its best golden glow across the land. While the temperature in the Meteorite Desert was not high, the sun at 10 in the morning hurt his eyes. Lin Huang put on his sunglasses while waiting next to the portable tent to build itself.

Bloody spent more than half an hour spreading out all the 100,000 leech pods far away. If Lin Huang had not asked it to remain low-key, it could have done that within two minutes. Later on, Bloody shrunk to its original length of two meters and plunged into the tent while tangling itself on Lin Huang's left arm.

"How long does it take for all the pods to complete its parasitizing?" Lin Huang asked immediately.

"The desert is huge and the monsters don't gather together. Without getting the transcendent's attention, I slowed down their speed of flight to make them look like they were just wandering in the wind. Looking at the current situation, it'll take at least two to three days to be complete," Bloody wrote on the ground with its vine.

"Two to three days...I'll need more time to find the Starlight Beast…" Lin Huang planned in his own head.

"It seems like we'll have to stay here then."

With the help of many parasites, Lin Huang decided to stay and wait patiently. After some deliberating, Lin Huang summoned the Enchanted Poisontail Scorpion to guard the tent outside. The Enchanted Poisontail Scorpion and the Golden Armored Skeleton were two gold-level cards that Lin Huang had accumulated on the Little Devil Island. The reason why he picked the Enchanted Poisontail Scorpion was that because of the fact that Tyrant side, it was the only monster that best suited the desert.

There was no desert in this area, so there were passers-by sometimes. On some level, Tyrant had evolved into a new species so any passer-by might take photos or videos if they saw Tyrant. As the last few summoning monsters that he owned, Lin Huang did not want it to be exposed. Furthermore, at the border of the desert, there were hardly any monsters of silver-level. Therefore, the Enchanted Poisontail Scorpion that was gold-level rank-2 would be the best to defend them if monsters were to invade. Therefore, there was no need for Tyrant to guard the tent.

"If anyone comes, don't attack. Inform me or Bloody first. If there are monsters, you may kill them without informing us," Lin Huang instructed Enchanted Poisontail Scorpion. In reality, most of the monsters would not understand human language, especially the Enchanted Poisontail Scorpion which did not have high intelligence. The reason why it could understand Lin Huang was not because it could understand the human language, but it was owing to his summoning card which could read Lin Huang's instruction on the surface.

However, it was a different story for Bloody. Ever since it had gotten the Supreme Intelligence skill, it could understand the human language. No matter if it was Lin Huang or other humans, it could understand them. The reason why it could not speak was either because its biological structure did not allow it to, or because there was no need for it to since it could write whenever it needed to communicate with Lin Huang.

After getting the Enchanted Poisontail Scorpion to guard the outside of the tent, Lin Huang took out his Emperor's Heart Ring and projected the monster encyclopedia that Yi Zheng had given to him. He took it off and passed it to Bloody. After an Emperor's Heart Ring was removed from the human finger, even with the authorization from the host, it could only work in offline mode. Communication, network, storage space, and other functions would be shut down with the basic function remaining. Such a restriction was for the safety of the user. If there was no such restriction, Lin Huang was more than happy to let Bloody learn by itself.

"If you are bored, you can look at the monster encyclopedia. This monster encyclopedia is so much more complicated than the basic one that I used to learn with. After you are done with this, I have another one that's more detailed on parasites. You can take a look at that as well and think about which are the two skills that you desire the most." Lin Huang lined out the learning mission for Bloody.

"However, I have a suggestion. The best skills that you look for would be survival and defense. You could consider that yourself."

"Sure, I will consider after I am done reading all the documents," Bloody responded.

"In the following days, I will be training my gunfighting technique in the gaming pod. My Emperor's Heart Ring will be offline with the communication systems shut down, so you won't be able to contact me from the outside. If something happens, you can press the emergency stop button on the gaming pod," Lin Huang said and he activated the game outside the tent. A gaming pod that was three meters long appeared less than two meters away from the tent.

Lin Huang walked out of the tent and pointed at the red button that was covered with a transparent cap on the right side of the pod door. "There's a red button that's covered with a transparent cap. That's the emergency stop button. If something happens when I'm inside the gaming pod, open the cap or smash the cap and press the red button. I will get out of the game right away."

"I understand!" Bloody nodded and wrote.

"If you have any news on the Starlight Beast, that'll be considered an emergency as well. By then, you should also press the emergency stop button," Lin Huang added.

As the Starlight Beast was secretive about its whereabouts, Lin Huang hoped that him training his gunfighting technique would cause him to miss the monster. He could always train any time he wanted but if the Starlight Beast ran away, he would have to wait for days for its next appearance. He hoped to complete that as soon as possible so that he could go home.

"Sure," Bloody responded.

"If you need to eat, settle that yourself. Don't bother me, I have my own snacks. If I feel like eating meat one day, I can always hunt myself," Lin Huang said that as Bloody was a summoning card which was different from a real summoning monster. They barely needed food or water to survive. As long as Lin Huang was alive and Xiao Hei's card system stayed, it was basically immortal. It would not feel hungry or thirsty. Even if it needed to eat, it did so to satisfy its craving before it became a card.

"Please help me watch the Starlight Beast, that's your top priority. Look at the monster encyclopedia when you have the time. If you don't, you can always look at it in the future. Anyway, I am putting you in charge here while I train in the gunfighting technique."

Lin Huang became a free man after he put Bloody in charge. He then opened the door to the gaming pod and entered. Seeing that Lin Huang was already in the gaming pod, Bloody returned to the tent and started studying the monster encyclopedia…

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Chapter 249: A Small Incident In The Desert

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On an early morning, the sun had risen in the sky and it shone on the Meteorite Desert, reflecting a red radiance like it was the Red Sea itself.

In the red ocean, there were six Megalodon Wolves lined up in order, resembling six boats slowly crossing the ocean.

Upon closer inspection, on each of the six Megalodon Wolves' back was a person. There were five young men and a young woman.

They were led by a man that was about the age of 25, with a muscular body and short hair.

"Brother Du, we are at the periphery of the Meteorite Desert. You don't have to be on alert and let the Megalodon Wolf run so slowly. We left the desert at five o'clock. It has been three hours and we've traveled less than 200 kilometers…" said a skinny, young man in his early twenties as he rode the Megalodon Wolf closest beside him.

"You know nothing!" Du Feng immediately turned his head back and scolded, "Do you know how dangerous the Meteorite Desert is? It is not an ordinary wild zone! It is a moderate danger zone."

"When I was still a Silver Hunter, I followed the gold Hunter team here. I witnessed a team of 20 gold-level rank-3 members being engulfed by a Transcendent monster. This incident remains clearly engraved on my mind. I can't forget it."

"Little brats, you have just leveled up to gold-level rank-1 and you think that you're indestructible. I brought you to the Meteorite Desert so that you know how powerful the monsters in this world are. They are beyond imagination. Of course, there must be a reason for the danger zone to be regarded as one. Don't fool around here…"

"Brother Du, there…" The skinny young man suddenly pointed towards a direction that was not far off.

The rest of them were startled, looking towards the direction as well.

"What's it? Don't interrupt while the leader is talking!" Du Feng scolded again.

"It seems like there is a Gun Master game cabin over there," said the only female member of the team to the young man next to her.

"Yes, you're right. It's a game cabin. From its appearance, it must be an outdoor deluxe edition," answered the young man next to her softly.

As the team members started whispering to each other, Du Feng finally glanced towards the direction they were looking at and he was shocked.

What's happening? Playing Gun Master in the Meteorite Desert! Was the person crazy?!

Lin Huang had woken up just after eight o'clock in the morning. After washing up, he immediately activated the game cabin.

He did not enter the game cabin right after that though. He ate his breakfast instead.

He never expected that a hunter team would pass by right after the second day he entered the Meteorite Desert.

Seeing the six of them riding on the Megalodon Wolf, Lin Huang did not pay much attention to them. After taking out the oven, he started to reheat his breakfast.

He ate snacks in the afternoon and at night during the first day. He then decided to make some changes in his diet.

At that moment, the fragrance of the food was wafting out of the oven.

"How fragrant!" the six of them exclaimed at the same time.

"It smells like cake!"

"It's a special local product from Luoxi City, quick-frozen cake. I've tried this before and I can still remember its taste," reminisced a young man immediately, "The cake is quickly frozen right after it is baked. You can either eat it cold or after it has defrosted in the oven. It's delicious both ways."

"He's living the good life. Why do we only have snacks?" the woman complained.

"What if…we take some from him? The smallest of this cake is 10 inches. He won't be able to finish it alone. We don't have to eat until we feel full. It's good enough to eat it for breakfast," the young man who recalled the taste of the quick-frozen cake suggested.

"It's not that good..." She turned shy upon hearing his suggestion and her face reddened a little.

"There's nothing to feel bad about. We can even pay him 10 times the credit points since the cake is relatively cheap. It costs less than 500 credit points. 10 times of that is only 5,000 credit points," the man beside her suggested.

"What if he only has one cake and he doesn't want to sell it?" The woman was still hesitant.

"If he doesn't want to sell it, we can't force him. We'll eat our snacks then," the skinny man said with his palms up in mock surrender.

"Alright then…"

"Eh, do you know that your leader is standing right here?" Du Feng never expected that they would have completely ignored him because of food.

"Brother Du…" The few of them suddenly realized that their leader had not raised his opinion at all.

"I've told you that you have to be alert all the time while you're outside. The guy there looks strange. He's only a silver-level but he's eating cake leisurely in the moderate danger zone. He's even playing games as if he's on a holiday. He has no sense of danger at all. There must be something wrong with him…"

As Du Feng was talking, Lin Huang cut a piece of cake and blew a whistle.

An Enchanted Poisontail Scorpion drilled out from the sand and Lin Huang passed him a big slice of cake.

He took out a lounge chair from the storage space, then he enjoyed the cake and drank his beverage. He indeed looked like he was on a holiday.

"I thought that it was a sand dune but it's a scorpion instead! One can hardly notice it if it had not come out on its own," one of them remarked in surprise.

"It is a gold-level rank-2 Enchanted Poisontail Scorpion. He is an Imperial Censor…" Du Feng said in fear.

An Imperial Censor could summon a monster of a higher level. Despite the fact that the young man was only a silver-level hunter, he could control gold-level rank-3 monsters. Furthermore, the number of monsters that he could summon was more than one, putting Du Feng on alert. Du Feng then understood why he looked like he was on a vacation in the desert.

"It is such a waste to give the slice of cake to the scorpion." The woman was staring hungrily at the cake in Lin Huang's hand.

"Do you really want to eat that?" Du Feng frowned as he asked.

They immediately nodded their heads.

"Alright. Wait over here. I'll ask and see," Du Feng compromised.

He then rode on the Megalodon Wolf and headed towards Lin Huang. The rest of them waited at their original position.

Lin Huang leaned back in the lounge chair, feeling cautious as he saw that a man was approaching him.

Right when the Enchanted Poisontail Scorpion saw this, it raised its tail, preparing to fight.

"Relax. He has no bad intentions." As Lin Huang saw that he was coming alone, he guessed that he was harmless. The Enchanted Poisontail Scorpion then retreated.

Du Feng got off the Megalodon Wolf as he approached him and slowly walked towards him.

"What's up?" Lin Huang had no idea why he was coming to him.

"Err…Bro, do you still have the cake that you were eating just now?" Du Feng's aged face blushed as he asked.

"Oh, yes, I do. Haven't you had your breakfast yet?" Lin Huang then knew that they must have smelled the aroma of the cake. He then nodded his head with a smile.

Du Feng told him the truth, "We actually have some snacks but the cake smells so appetizing. So…"

"It's alright. I have a lot with me. Otherwise, I wouldn't have given it to the scorpion." Lin Huang nodded and took out two cakes. "There are six of you there. Two should be enough."

"One is actually enough," Du Feng immediately said.

"There are two ways to eat the cake. You can either defrost it or eat it directly. Try it both ways so that you'll have no regrets," Lin Huang explained with a smile.

Du Feng did not reject his offer.

Lin Huang took out a table, placing one of the cakes into the oven and putting the other on the table.

He then simply cut the cake that had yet to defrost into six equal pieces. His cake-cutting technique was amazing.

Du Feng was also good in swordsmanship. When he saw Lin Huang's cutting skills, his eyes brightened.

"Bro, are you trained in swordsmanship?" Du Feng immediately asked.

"Yes, I majored in swords." Lin Huang nodded with a smile. When Du Feng got off the Megalodon Wolf, Lin Huang already knew that he majored in swords as well.

"So, you're not an Imperial Censor? Did you not summon the monster?" Du Feng kept asking.

"I majored in swords and I'm also an Imperial Censor," Lin Huang explained with a smile.

"Oh, I almost forgot that many of the Imperial Censors have other occupations as well."

A sound from the oven signaled that the cake had been defrosted. Lin Huang immediately took out the defrosted cake and placed it on the table. He then cut them into six equal pieces as well.

"You can bring this to them or ask them to come." Lin Huang knew that he had purposely come here on his own out of caution.

He turned back, waving his hand at them.

They immediately rushed over, riding on the Megalodon Wolf.

Lin Huang took out a few chairs and placed them in front of the table. He sat back on the lounge chair and continued to drink his beverage.

Once they arrived, the area near the tent became lively.

"Brother Du, he is such a kind-hearted person. You're overthinking," a young man said, smiling at Du Feng.

Du Feng stared at him and said, "Just eat your cake!"

"Brother Du, are you the one who cut the cake? They are cut neatly and all six pieces have exactly the same size as if they were measured," flattered the young man said.

"No, I didn't." Du Feng stared at him again.

The young man immediately shut up, knowing that he had flattered the wrong person.

They then shifted their gaze to Lin Huang, feeling curious.

Du Feng did not eat the cake. He moved the chair t nearer to Lin Huang and ate his snacks.

Lin Huang took a glance at the snacks that he was eating, smiled and remained silent.

"Don't misunderstand me. I'm not used to eating dessert," Du Feng immediately explained.

"I don't actually like dessert too. I can only eat a piece of the cake. I'll feel grossed out if I ate too many." Lin Huang nodded as if he could understand him. In fact, he did not actually care whether he liked dessert or not.

Soon, both of them kept quiet.

After a moment, Du Feng asked, "Why are you playing the Gun Master here? Is this a performance art?"

"No, of course not." Lin Huang shook his head with a smile. He then explained, "I've been waiting for a monster to appear. I'll be here for a period of time and it's too boring to stay here alone, hence the game."

"Oh, I see…" Du Feng did not continue asking as he felt that it would be invading his privacy.

"Why did you come here? For training?" Lin Huang knew that other than Du Feng who was at gold-level rank-3, the five of them had just upgraded to gold-level rank-1.

"Yes, so that they can walk around the Meteorite Desert and gain some knowledge as well."

Both of them chatted for a while. Five of the youngsters had finished their portion of the cake. There were two remaining pieces for Du Feng.

"Leader, we left two pieces of cake for you. Come over and have a try!" the female member turned back, shouting to Du Feng.

"Didn't you know that I don't like dessert? You have it." Du Feng waved his hand.

They shook their heads and smiled, keeping the cakes in a fresh food bag.

"Oh yeah, we've been chatting for so long but I don't know what's your name." As they had finished eating, he stood up, putting his snacks away.

"My name is Ye Xiu." Lin Huang stood up too.

"Thank you for serving us. My name is Du Feng." Du Feng extended his hand.

Lin Huang shook hands with him.

Then, Du Feng took out a Life Crystal and gave it to Lin Huang. "I'll pay you for the cake."

"It's okay. I'll treat you and your team members. The cake is cheap. If you pay me one Life Crystal, I don't have any change for you," Lin Huang rejected, pushing Du Feng's hand away gently. "If there's a chance, treat me back."

"Alright. I'll add your contact number, let's keep in contact." Of course, Du Feng knew that the hunters would not actually care about the credit points that he had spent to buy the cakes. Nevertheless, he did not want to owe him, so he could only treat him next time.

"Sure."

After adding each other as friends, Du Feng asked the youngsters to clean up the space and they left.

To Lin Huang, the appearance of Du Feng and the rest of them were simply a small incident that had happened during the journey.

After they had left, Lin Huang quickly entered the game cabin of the Gun Master and started practicing his gunfighting technique…

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Chapter 250: Arrival Of The Saints

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The six of the Megalodon Wolves had been traveling in the golden desert for a few days.

Led by Du Feng, the Megalodon Wolves' active period was only about 10 hours. The rest of the time, they were recalled back to the monster taming token so that they could rest.

It was almost sunset by now and Du Feng instructed them to take a break again.

"There's a sand dune there. Let's set up our tent behind the dune." Du Feng pointed at the sand dune not far away from him. He then led the Megalodon Wolf towards the sand dune.

The youngsters immediately followed after him.

"Brother Du, we're too slow. We're only walking for 10 hours each day and the Megalodon Wolf can maintain a speed of about 70 kilometers. We didn't encounter any dangers all the way here. If the Megalodon Wolf were to lope at its full speed, we must have reached our training ground yesterday," grumbled Ai Peng, the skinny man. He was an impetuous man as he used to feel that Du Feng was being too cautious.

"Stop talking nonsense. Have a good rest tonight. We will reach our destination tomorrow afternoon if we maintain at this speed." Du Feng was lazy to explain his rationale.

"We have delayed the journey for at least two days because we're going at such a slow speed…" Ai Peng mumbled in a low voice.

"Get back to your own tent and rest!" Du Feng's facial expression changed. Liang Qian, who was standing beside Ai Peng, immediately pulled him away, not allowing him to continue talking. As the only female member of the team, she had been regulating everyone's relationship.

"Leader, I've always wanted to ask you why did you name our team 'Dian Feng'? Is it because there's a 'Feng' in your name?" Liang Qian asked and changed the topic after Ai Peng had left.

"No, of course not. It's because the previous team that I joined is called Dian Feng as well. I hope that I can continue using this name…" Du Feng explained with a smile.

"Your previous team?" When the rest of them heard of their leader's history, they immediately came over.

"Brother Du, why was the former team disbanded? Were there any conflicts between team members?" Duan Yang immediately asked.

"It was not because of conflicts, of course. We have a close relationship with each other like brothers." Du Feng smiled kindly. However, his face suddenly turned grave and he said, "The reason why the team got disbanded is that I'm the only one who survived…"

"What?!"

They were all shocked, gaping at Du Feng. They had joined Team Dian Feng for a few months and it was the first time they heard about this from Du Feng.

"Do you still remember the incident in Meteorite Desert that I told you about?" Du Feng glanced at the five of them.

They immediately nodded their heads.

"Our mission was to help a member of royalty kill a Transcendent monster so that he could be upgraded to the holy fire-level. There were a total of 53 gold-level hunters who joined the mission. I was the only hunter who was on silver-level. The rest of my team members had upgraded to the gold-level. But I hadn't made up my mind on which Life Seed monster to choose, therefore, I was not upgraded. I was only a handyman during the mission. I've told you that I joined the battle with the Transcendent monster. In fact, I didn't. I was standing at a few kilometers away, witnessing everything that happened…"

Everyone was quietly listening to Du Feng's story. None of them interrupted.

"The moment when they saw the monster, everyone pounced towards the monster. The leader told me to stay in my original position and not get involved in the battle because I couldn't use any relic yet and I could do no harm to the Transcendent monster. I understood that and agreed with him, so I witnessed the battle on the sand dune from a few kilometers away.

"I thought that it was not difficult to kill a commander-level monster as there were more than 50 Gold Hunters. I never expected that it was a Transcendent monster that had gone through a double mutation. Also, it was neither a white flame-level nor crimson flame-level Transcendent monster as recorded. It was of a higher level, the blue flame-level…

"At the beginning of the battle, the gold-level members had worn their defensive relics. However, with just one hit, they died. They had no chance of fighting back at all. The incident was a mass slaughter.

"The battle lasted for less than half a minute. As soon as the monster opened its mouth, half of the Gold Hunters were engulfed. Even those who found out that something was wrong and wanted to flee did not survive. They all became its food…

"Do you know what I did? I was a coward. As soon as I saw that, I immediately crept into the ground, hiding my head in the sand dune. Behind the sand dune, I maintained the same position for about three hours, only then did I dare to raise my head to see whether the Transcendent monster had left!"

"I'm a damn coward!" After he had finished telling his story, he scolded himself.

"Brother Du, you can't blame yourself. Everyone will, of course, strive for survival…" Before Ai Peng could finish his sentence, Liang Qiang slapped him on the back.

"Leader, you didn't do anything wrong. I think that your decision is right. Staying alive is the only way to take revenge!" Liang Qian said to comfort him.

"I think what Qian Qian said is right!" Ai Peng immediately agreed with her while the rest of them nodded their heads too.

"The reason why I named the new team 'Dian Feng' is because I hope that I could pass on Dian Feng's legacy. The revenge is my affair. I'll seek revenge on the monster after I've upgraded to Transcendent." Obviously, Du Feng did not want his team members to get involved in this.

"The main reason why I brought all of you to the Meteorite Desert is to meet my old mates. They must be happy to see all of you here if they find out that Dian Feng has new team members to carry on the legacy." Du Feng's mood turned better.

"So, we're not here for training?" Ai Peng frowned.

"You wish! Since we're here, of course, we have to train. We have to at least kill some monsters and earn some money," Du Feng said.

After dinner, they rested. The next morning, Du Feng woke everybody up.

After having some snacks for breakfast, the six of them rode on the Megalodon Wolf and headed towards their destination before 8 a.m.

After listening to Du Feng's story last night, even Ai Peng, who was the most impetuous ma, did not complain that he was slow anymore and the team became less lively than before. They were upset after listening to the story behind Du Feng's past.

It was slightly after noon when Du Feng saw a withered tree and was agitated.

Getting off the Megalodon Wolf, he quickly ran towards the withered tree and stood still.

A few of them quickly followed after Du Feng on the Megalodon Wolf and arrived somewhere near the withered tree. Five of them then got off their Wolf and put it back into their monster taming token.

"Leader, are the elders buried here?" Liang Qian asked.

"Yes, they are buried under this tree. However, their dead bodies are all gone. Only the graves remain here…" Du Feng slightly nodded his head.

As he finished his words, he took out a bottle of wine, pouring the liquid in front of the withered tree and announcing, "Bros, Xiao Du came back to visit all of you!"

The rest of them kept quiet, looking at Du Feng until he had poured the wine and bowed.

"Guys, introduce yourself so that you will know each other." Du Feng waved his hand at them.

Ai Peng was the first one who walked forward. While he bowed, he said seriously, "Hi, my name is Ai Peng. I have low emotional quotient and I'm a straight-talking person. We'll grow stronger together with our leader. The next time when we return, we'll kill the Transcendent monster and take our revenge!" This was the first time that everybody agreed with him.

"Hi, my name is Liang Qian. I'm the new member of the Dian Feng team. Brother Du has taken good care of all of us. We'll try our best to take care of him in future. Don't worry…" After Liang Qian had finished, she bowed.

The rest of them came forward and introduced themselves as well. After they had bowed, they stood aside.

After everyone was done, Du Feng waved his hand and said, "Five of you may wander around here. Don't go too far. I have something to talk to my old mates about."

After listening to him, they left. Only Liang Qian did not leave, his gaze upon Du Feng.

"Dear old mates, I'm sorry that I didn't visit you during the past two years. I'll bring along the youngsters and come here more often…We now have the new teammates to join Dian Feng hunter team. The legacy will be passed down from one generation to the next…" Du Feng sat with his legs crossed in front of the withered tree and muttered as if he felt that his teammates who had passed away could still listen to what he had said.

"Brother Du, something bad has happened!" Ai Peng suddenly ran quickly towards him and shouted.

"Ai Peng, what are you doing?!" Liang Qian immediately stopped him.

Du Feng frowned, staring at Ai Peng. "What's happened? Why are you shouting?"

"I saw two men dressed in white robes walking towards our direction. Judging from their attire, they look like they are the members of the Saints…"

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Chapter 251: We Have to Fight

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"Members of the Saints?" Du Feng immediately frowned.

Du Feng remained silent for a moment, he then instructed, "Ai Peng, ask the others to come back."

Ai Peng immediately left. Liang Qian looked extremely worried.

"Leader, should we leave?"

Du Feng shook his head. "No, members of the Saints have a peculiar way of thinking. Since they have discovered us, they will feel like they are being discriminated against if we try to avoid them. Then, they will trouble you. We shall just treat them as the normal passersby."

Soon, Ai Peng came back with three of his teammates.

"The two of them should be the ones who triggered the massacre in Luoxi City. They'll slaughter your whole family simply because of one comment on the network. There are people who have said that the members of the Saints are a group of madmen," Duan Yang scolded as he had heard from Ai Peng that the members of the Saints were coming towards their direction. "Brother Du, you asked us to come over. Are we going to kill the murderers together?"

"I've watched the live video of the incident that you mentioned. Both of them are at gold-level, so we are incapable of beating them. Therefore, don't act rashly. Otherwise, we will probably die here," Du Feng said with a serious expression and warned them, "From now onwards, the five of you, act like you're dumb and like you're not allowed to talk. I'll answer any of their questions. Do you understand?"

"Yes, Leader!" Ai Peng answered while the rest of them nodded their heads.

"Ai Peng!" Du Feng stared at him. Ai Peng then covered his mouth and nodded his head.

"Alright, let's set up the tent now and treat them as the normal passersby. Try to act naturally," Du Feng instructed five of them.

Right after each of them had set up their tent, two of the Saint members arrived, riding the Holy Light Lion.

The Holy Light Lion was a white, lion-like gold-level monster. It was a lot bigger than the lions on Earth. Its shoulder height was more than three meters and it had claws the size of the average face. The biggest difference between the Holy Light Lion and the normal lion was not the size of their bodies but the former had a huge pair of white wings attached on its back. They would usually hide their wings, expanding them only when they were flying.

The flying speed of the monster was very impressive. However, the monster was weak at traveling over a long distance and for a long period of time. It symbolized the reserve members of the Saints as almost each of the reserve members would have one on hand.

Although the two of the Saint members were dressed in white robes, one could still see that the both of them were skinny. However, they were tall, above 1.85 meters.

There was a black cross on their face and the crossing point of the marking was exactly on their nose tips.

Although the cross had covered half of their face, their age could still be estimated. The young man was about 20 years old and he had a fair, clean-shaven face. The older man looked like he was at the age of 25, with a short beard and yellow skin.

"Is this the place?" asked the short-bearded man, turning his head to his companion.

The fair-skinned man glanced at the map and nodded. "The coordinates show that the energy reaction occurred here." He then raised his head, seeing Du Feng and the rest of them in the tent. He said, "There are some other people here…"

The short-bearded man frowned. "Ask them to leave, otherwise, kill them all!"

The fair-skinned man then got off his Holy Light Lion and recalled it. He stood in the sand and shouted at Du Feng and his teammates, "Everyone who's in the tent, you have three minutes to leave. If you're still here after three minutes, then all of you shall just stay here forever!"

When they heard what the fair-skinned man said, their expressions turned grave. However, Du Feng still forced a smile and walked out of the tent.

"Relax, we'll leave immediately!" As soon as he finished his sentence, Du Feng and his teammates immediately put away their tent, preparing to leave.

Although they were unwilling to do so, Du Feng hinted that they had to leave. They summoned the Megalodon Wolf to depart.

"Wait!" shouted the short-bearded man suddenly.

"Let's go!" Du Feng acted as if he did not hear anything.

"I asked you to wait, didn't you hear me?" The short-bearded man suddenly leapt from his Holy Light Lion and appeared in front of them, blocking their way forward.

The fair-skinned man blocked behind them as well.

"I'm sorry, it's noisy here. I didn't hear you. How can I help you?" Du Feng's heart immediately sank but he asked with a smile.

"The men can leave but the woman has to stay. We want to bring her back as an oblation." The short-bearded man then shifted his gaze to Liang Qian.

"No, you can't do that. You have to choose other people as your oblivion," rejected Du Feng with a heavy heart.

"Saint members, I think you're looking for a virgin as an oblation. However, I'm a married woman. He is my husband," Liang Qian said, pointing at Du Feng who was standing beside her.

Ai Peng and the rest of them were shocked when they heard what Liang Qian said. Even Du Feng was startled.

"Woman, you're quite clever. But you're wrong." The short-bearded man smiled after listening to what she said. "Whether you're a virgin or not, we've identified the facts from the aura released by your body just now. Are you a married woman? Is the junk at the bottom half of your husband useless?"

"Whether it is useless or not, it's none of your business, Mr. Saint. She's married and she's my woman. Perhaps your god wouldn't want a married woman," Du Feng was helpless and could only emphasize the fact that she was married.

While the short-bearded man was still hesitating, the fair-skinned man who was standing behind said, "Cao Yang, if she's really married, regardless of whether she's a virgin or not, she can't be an oblation."

"Mu Ping, they are probably lying. The woman doesn't want to become an oblation, that's why she lied."

"Do you think that I'm lying?" Liang Qian smiled when she heard that. She then jumped to Du Feng's Megalodon Wolf.

"Hubby, give me a front hug." Liang Qian blushed as she spoke lovingly to Du Feng.

Du Feng was stunned. He did not know what Liang Qian wanted to do but still, he turned back and did what she asked.

Right after Liang Qian was sitting straddled in front of Du Feng, she kissed him.

Du Feng was shocked. He then knew what she wanted to do. He closed his eyes and kissed her. After a few moments, she put her slippery tongue into his mouth. Du Feng hesitated for a moment but still, he acquiesced.

Both of them kissed for a long time before they stopped. Everyone was stunned and even Du Feng was blushing.

"How's that? Is it enough to prove our marriage? Or do you want more?" Liang Qian turned her head back, glancing at Cao Yang.

"Cao Yang, for the sake of safety, it'll be better if we look for other oblation." Mu Ping who had watched from behind believed them.

Cao Yang sized up the rest of them, nodding his head after he had remained silent for a moment. "Alright, you may leave now."

"Let's go!" Du Feng immediately asked his group to leave.

After walking for a while, Mu Ping shouted in joy, "Cao Yang, I've found it. It's here!"

Du Feng and the rest of them turned their heads back. They saw that Mu Ping was walking towards the withered tree.

"What are they going to do?" Du Feng frowned.

Under the withered tree, Mu Ping and Cao Yang quickly took out a tool and started digging.

Du Feng could no longer stay calm as he saw this blasphemous scene in front of him.

"Leader, bear with them. I think they are looking for something. We can bury them again right after they leave," Liang Qian advised him.

"I can bear anything but those are my old mates' graves! I was a coward two years ago, seeing them die in front of me. I can't bear to see them digging their graves and do nothing…" Du Feng's eyes turned watery.

"You all should leave as soon as possible. Don't get involved in this!" Du Feng had a cold expression on his face. He was determined to stop them.

"Brother Du, if you're not leaving, we aren't going to leave too! Let's fight them!" Ai Peng shouted.

They did not want to helplessly see Du Feng get killed.

"No, you have to go! Even if I die, all of you must pass down the legacy of Dian Feng!" Du Feng did not want to disband the team so soon.

"It'll not end as long as one of us survives. Let Liang Qian stay here and we'll accompany you to fight!" Ai Peng shouted and the rest of them nodded, agreeing with him.

Liang Qian immediately shook her head. "Brother Du, don't leave me alone. I want to go together with all of you…"

Du Feng suddenly raised his hand and hit Liang Qian's neck. Her body instantly turned limp.

"I'm sorry, Qian Qian…I know that I'm selfish and it's unfair to you but I have to do this." He then placed Liang Qian's body on the Megalodon Wolf and put his monster taming token into her pocket. Du Feng then kicked the Megalodon Wolf's butt and jumped onto the Megalodon Wolf that Liang Qian rode previously.

The Megalodon Wolf that was in pain immediately fled while Du Feng turned around on Liang Qian's Megalodon Wolf.

The other four of them turned back as well.

"Bros, thanks for the company!" Du Feng shouted, embracing the wolf's body and loping towards the intruders.

Under the scorching sun, the five of them rode on the Megalodon Wolf in the golden desert, pouncing towards the withered tree…

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Chapter 252: GoldEagle11's Third Form

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As time passed, Lin Huang had been in the Meteorite Desert for a week.

He had bumped into a hunter team on the morning of the second day. However, he did not meet anyone after that.

Lin Huang knew from Bloody that there were two other teams that passed through the desert. They did not stay there or approach him. Other than sleeping and eating, Lin Huang spent most of his time in the game cabin. Therefore, he did not meet the other two teams.

However, there were monster attacks in the last three days.

During the daytime, there were only a few monsters that appeared. However, the monster attacks became more frequent at night.

Ever since Lin Huang had set up his tent, he had not moved. The smell of the blood from the Enchanted Poisontail Scorpion's slaughter had spread throughout the entire region. The higher the number of kills, the stronger the scent of blood, attracting more monsters to come over.

Such a situation lasted until the third night.

Although the Enchanted Poisontail Scorpion was present and it could instantly kill all the monsters that appeared every night, Lin Huang would still be awakened by the attacks several times a night.

In order for Lin Huang to have a good night's sleep, Bloody had to control all the bronze-level monsters around him. Initially, Bloody wanted to track the trail of the Starlight Beast and had collected all the silver-level monsters as parasites.

In fact, Lin Huang could actually sleep in the game cabin as it was well soundproofed.

Furthermore, the game ring that Lin Huang had bought was the deluxe edition and it was designed to be water- and shock-resistant. Also, it had an automated gas scavenging system. When the game cabin was being designed, the factor of it being an accommodation facility was considered by the designer as well. It was not a problem at all to treat the game cabin as a field camp.

Lin Huang could somehow feel that sleeping in the game cabin was strange. He had chosen to keep the game cabin while he was sleeping and he slept in the tent.

Seven days had passed and Lin Huang had learned four types of middle-rank gunfighting technique.

Bloody had finished reading the monster guide and had even gone through the detailed information on the parasite species that was sent by Mr. Fu on the third day. Lin Huang then downloaded the battle videos between the various types of parasite species and humans from the Heart Network as well as the Hunter Info Network. Bloody had also been watching these videos for the past two days and did some research on the parasite species' combat techniques.

Bloody's parasite species had completed the parasitism process on the third day. There were more than 100,000 of parasite species that had been looking for traces of the Starlight Beast. However, they could find nothing.

The result was as expected by Lin Huang because the last time the Starlight Beast had been discovered by humans was 17 years ago. The monster's whereabouts were too difficult to track in a short period of time. What he could do now was to wait patiently.

On the morning of the eighth day, the game was stopped after Lin Huang entered it for a while.

He knew that Bloody was the one who had pressed the "stop" button outside the game cabin. He then exited the game cabin, pushing against the door.

"What happened?" Right after Lin Huang asked the question, he saw a Giant Armored Elephant carrying a woman and walking towards him.

After the Giant Armored Elephant tossed her off its back, it left. Lin Huang could only recognize her when her hair flipped away from her face in the toss.

"You're the female member of Du Feng's team. What happened?" Lin Huang asked curiously.

"One of my parasites discovered her in a burrow last night. She's lost her consciousness. I instructed the Giant Armored Elephant to bring her over," Bloody wrote on the sandy ground.

"She's severely injured. I think she's dehydrated, that's why she's in such a state of unconsciousness…" Lin Huang was not a doctor. However, he had studied the fundamentals of outdoor medical sciences at the Hunter Reserve College before. There was some simple medical knowledge taught in this course and most of them included outdoor survival skills and medical treatment for companions.

Lin Huang took two tubes of dextrose out from his storage space and injected them into Liang Qian's arm.

As she slowly regained consciousness, he then took out a tube of nutrients elixir and injected it into her other arm.

After a few moments, Liang Qian slowly opened her eyes. As she saw Lin Huang, she was apparently shocked. She looked around the surroundings on high alert.

"Don't worry, you're safe here." Lin Huang noticed that Liang Qian's emotions fluctuated drastically between fear and confusion.

"Why am I here? I remember that I was hiding in a hole." Liang Qian sat up and stared at Lin Huang, remaining alert.

"One of the monsters that I've summoned discovered you when it was hunting for prey and brought you back," Lin Huang explained with a smile. He then asked, "What happened? Why are you alone? Where are your leader and your teammates?"

"They've all died…" Drawing both knees to her chest, Liang Qian hugged herself and she was clearly shaken.

"Died? How did they die?" Lin Huang frowned.

"They were killed by two of the Saint members!" Liang Qian was having an emotional breakdown, tears rolling down her cheeks.

"Saint members? Are they the ones who triggered several massacres in Luoxi City?" When Lin Huang heard about the Saint members, he could only relate to those two fellows.

Liang Qian nodded. She was crying and she could not speak at all.

Lin Huang wanted to ask her what had actually happened. However, looking at her condition, he could not ask about it any further. He then took out a pack of tissue from the storage space, tore it open and passed it to Liang Qian.

"It's good if you can vent your emotions. I'll get you some food." Lin Huang then took out an oven and a quick-frozen cake. After defrosting the cake in the oven, he took out a small snack table and placed it on the sandy ground.

After three minutes, the oven chimed. Lin Huang immediately took out the quick-frozen cake and placed it on the table. He cut the cake into four slices and placed one of them on a plate which he passed to Liang Qian.

"Although I've injected the nutrients elixir into your body, you still have to eat something."

"Thank you…" Liang Qian did not stop crying. However, she still took the plate and fork from him. She was really hungry these days.

Although Lin Huang just had his breakfast half an hour ago, he cut the slice of cake in half and ate it together with Liang Qian. Otherwise, it would be awkward to watch her eating alone.

"What's your name?" Lin Huang ate two mouthfuls of cake and asked.

"Liang Qian." Liang Qian raised her head, glancing at Lin Huang. "I remember your name. You're Ye Xiu."

"Yes, you have a good memory." Lin Huang smiled, nodding his head. He had no idea if Liang Qian was really hungry or if she originally had a big appetite. Other than the one-eighth of the cake that Lin Huang had eaten, she devoured the rest of them.

Lin Huang tried to make her feel more relaxed as they chatted about other topics. He avoided asking her what had actually happened.

Right after she had finished eating the cake, Liang Qian seemed to have realized that she could not avoid the problem anymore. After remaining silent for a moment, she told him everything that had happened…

"I didn't know that my leader would actually hit me. When I regained my consciousness, it was already late at night. I immediately went back on the Megalodon Wolf to where they had last been as I wanted to know if they were still alive...The next morning, I saw a scene that I'd never be able to forget for the rest of life…Five of their skulls were beheaded and placed on the ground, forming a toy-like circle. Their reproductive organs had been cut off as well and inserted into their mouths. There were wounds all over the headless corpses as they were tortured. They were naked and pierced through from the lower half of their bodies to their necks with a sharp spike like roast pigs…"

Lin Huang clenched his fist as he heard this.

"What I didn't expect to happen was for the two of them to have been waiting for me over there…However, they never expected that I'd have a flying relic with me. Brother Du and the rest of them saved up for a few months and bought it for me. As soon as I saw the both of them, I immediately activated the relic and fled. Both of them chased after me for three hours on the Holy Light Lion. Fortunately, the Holy Light Lion was exhausted, only then did they stop pursuing me. However, my Life Crystals have almost been depleted. After escaping for a certain distance, I hid in a hole. I sealed off the exit of the hole and dared not get out of the hole at all. I didn't have any water or food in my storage space as Brother Du has always kept it for me…I was staying in the hole for one day one night, then I found out that I'm here as soon as I regained my consciousness."

Lin Huang suggested, "You have some wounds on your body but you'll be fine. I'll send you back to the Meteorite Desert first. Meteorite Desert is a B-grade foothold. Saint members can be easily identified and as they have committed serious crimes, they will not go to the Meteorite Desert. I'll report this to the Hunter Association and they'll send the hunters to kill them."

In fact, Lin Huang actually wanted to send Liang Qian away to come back to kill the both of them.

"Alright." Liang Qian nodded her head and agreed with him. She had no faith in Lin Huang that he was capable of killing both of them. However, she wanted to return to the city so that she would be safe.

"Wait for a while. I'll have to pack my things first. Let's go back to the city together."

After that, he walked into the tent and said in a low voice, "I'll keep you in your card form first. Will it affect your parasites' search for the monsters?"

Lin Huang then passed Bloody a bottle of purified water. Bloody soaked up a drop of the water and wrote on the sleeping bag, "No, it won't. However, in the card form, I'll not be able to receive the search results."

"Then, you shall hide in my sleeve." Lin Huang extended his hand. Bloody then got into Lin Huang's left sleeve and it wrapped itself around Ling Huang's arm, making him feel chilly.

After the conversation with Bloody, he walked out of the tent. After putting the portable tent and the game cabin away, he finally recalled the Enchanted Poisontail Scorpion.

As he was about to summon the Alexandrian Eagle and leave, two shadows abruptly appeared in mid-air.

Lin Huang activated his Boundless Vision and he could clearly see that they were the Saint members who were riding the Holy Light Lion, moving quickly towards his direction.

"They are coming again. Let's run!" Liang Qian immediately exclaimed.

"Get up first!" Lin Huang then helped Liang Qian to climb onto the Alexandrian Eagle and patted it. "Send her back to the Meteorite City!"

Liang Qian panicked, then she shouted, "You quickly get up too!"

However, the Alexandrian Eagle had flapped its wings and quickly flew away.

When the Saint members saw this, they wanted to ignore Lin Huang and chase after her. However, they saw that the gold ring that Lin Huang was wearing had transformed into a huge shoulder gun barrel. The length of the gun barrel was more than two meters with a diameter of at least 20 centimeters. It was the third form of the GoldEagle11 – Artillery.

"Eh, the both of you have ignored me. You'll have to pay for it!" Lin Huang shouted while taking aim at them in the sky.

After a few moments, a silver flame fired into the air…

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Chapter 253: Killing Saint's Members

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Lin Huang took aim at one of the Holy Light Lions and the muzzle of his gun emitted a silver flame into the sky. After a few moments, a loud thud was heard followed by an explosion that spread throughout the bloody desert. Holy Light Lion roared in pain and it soon fell onto the ground.

Lin Huang did not even look at the shadow that was falling and immediately shifted his aim at the second Holy Light Lion.

"Damn!" Cao Yang did not expect that Lin Huang would attack them.

As the Holy Light Lion that Mu Ping was riding fell after being shot by Lin Huang, Cao Yang noticed that Lin Huang had taken aim at him. He immediately shifted his direction to dodge the attack.

Lin Huang grinned and soon, two beams of silver from the muzzle of the shoulder gun barrel flashed into the air one after another.

In mid-air, despite the Holy Light Lion managing to dodge the first beam of glow, it was then struck by the second beam. In an instant, half of its head exploded and died. The carcass then slumped hard onto the ground.

After killing two of the Holy Light Lions, Lin Huang instructed, "Bao, Ghastly, show up!"

Two of the epic monsters, Bai and Ghastly were instantly being summoned.

Lin Huang knew that although two of the Saint's members had fallen to the ground, they would definitely not die. Despite the fact that they had no defensive relics with them, they had the gold-level equipment at the very least. Since it was just a short fall, their bodies would only experience a mild shock instead of death.

"Control the bearded man and kill the other one," Lin Huang quickly instructed.

Thanks to Ghastly's ability to control, the battle became much easier.

The three of them ran towards the direction where Cao Yang had fallen. As soon as they saw Cao Yang, a face mask appeared in the Ghastly Clown's hand. Before Cao Yang could even react to them, the face mask was put on him.

The next moment, the three versus two battle had immediately become a one-sided four versus one battle.

Just as when Lin Huang was about to lead the monsters to kill Mu Ping, the Ghastly Clown blocked his way, expressing a wry smile.

Lin Huang was startled and at the same time, Cao Yang ran towards Mu Ping.

"Mu Ping, are you okay?"

Mu Ping did not realize that Cao Yang was acting strangely. He struggled to move the Holy Light Lion away as it was pressing on his leg. Cao Yang then extended his hand and pulled him up.

Mu Ping extended his hand as well. At that very moment, Cao Yang's hand suddenly shifted aside and a sharp blade appeared in his hand. While Mu Ping was still trying to comprehend what was happening, the sharp blade that was about 10 centimeters long pierced through the left side of his chest and went straight through his heart and out his back.

"Cao Yang, you…" Soon, Mu Ping's eyes grieved. Even after he died, he still would not know why Cao Yang had killed him.

Removing the sharp blade from Mu Ping's body, Cao Yang wiped it with his hand. The weapon immediately returned to the state before it had been activated which was in the form of a gold ring.

Even Lin Huang felt that the Ghastly Clown's killing rate was unbelievable. Of course, even without the Super Intelligence, the Ghastly Clown's intelligence could not be underestimated.

He was stunned for a short while. As soon as Lin Huang recovered from his thoughts, he said, "Bring him over, I have something to ask him."

Controlled by the Ghastly Clown, Cao Yang slowly walked towards him.

Lin Huang took out a lounge chair from the storage space and started questioning him.

"What's your name?"

"Cao Yang."

"Which organization are you from?"

"Saint."

"What's your identity in Saint?"

"I'm becoming a reserve member soon. I'll be upgraded to Transcendent after killing a holy fire-level monster," Cao Yang explained in detail.

"After joining Saint, have you ever violated the Saint's principles?" Lin Huang would always ask questions about privacy to make sure that he was telling the truth.

"I've eaten meat three times…"

Meat was prohibited in the Saint's principles as they believed that one was unable to be spiritually pure if they consumed meat. Therefore, all the Saint's members were vegetarian. They would be severely punished if they were found out. The punishment would be to cut off the same amount of meat that they had eaten from their body. The meat that was removed from their body would then be fed to the swine beast. If they had eaten meat that weighed more than one-third of their body weight, they would be put to death. Other than the equal weight of meat which would be used to feed the swine beast, the remaining parts would be used as an oblation to serve their god. To them, they would be able to cleanse themselves from impurities by removing the same amount of body part so that the remaining body would be pure.

Obviously, he was not lying as he had told him about this.

Lin Huang continued questioning.

"Did you kill the Luo family in Luoxi City?"

"Yes."

"Why did you kill them?"

"They deserve it as they insulted the Saint!"

Lin Huang frowned when he heard the answer.

"What's the purpose of coming to Meteorite Desert?"

"Three years ago, one of the Saint's reserve members stole the ruin key and betrayed the organization. We have found his whereabouts last month, knowing that he last appeared in the Meteorite Desert. We came to the Meteorite Desert as we wanted to kill the traitor and take back the ruin key."

Lin Huang's eyes brightened as he heard about the ruin key.

After the Virtual Eye was opened, due to human interference or some other reason, the Virtual Eye was not completely closed. It continued to exist in some special way, creating an independent small space. It was called the ruins or the dimensional ruins.

In the small space, there were monsters everywhere. Moreover, if the number of monsters fell below a certain percentage, new monsters would be sent to the ruins. Therefore, many of the strong adventurers would train there.

As for the ruin key, it was the only item that could open the dimensional ruins. Each of the dimensions would have one key. Lin Huang had no idea how the key was formed. However, owning the ruin key would be the equivalent to possessing the resources of the entire dimensional ruins.

"So, have you found the traitor and taken away the key?" Lin Huang asked about as he felt that they would not be chasing after Liang Qian for a few days if they had not completed their task.

"The traitor has died. His dead body and the ruin key have been buried. Fortunately, he would have no way to store the ruin key in any storage space and we have dug it out a few days ago."

What Cao Yang said matched what Liang Qian had told him previously. The traitor must have been one of the guys who had joined Du Feng's team to kill the Transcendent monster two years ago. Therefore, what he left behind had been kept by Du Feng, buried together with the bodies in the grave. This was also the reason why they dug up the burial site.

Lin Huang gave a new instruction "Take out the ruin key and everything valuable you have in your storage space.".

Cao Yang then gave him everything he had in the storage space.

Lin Huang quickly looked through each item. He then stored the valuable items in his storage space, including the 3,000 Life Crystals he received.

Lastly, he finally found the ruin key. It looked like a conical magic cube and it was black in color. If Cao Yang did not mention the ruin key, he would have treated it as rubbish and thrown it away. Perhaps this was the reason why Du Feng did not retrieve it and buried it instead.

Keeping the key in his pocket, Lin Huang checked again to make sure that there was nothing valuable left. He then gave the rest back to Cao Yang. He continued asking, "Why did you want to torture and kill the hunters a few days ago?" As Lin Huang asked this, he had a cold, stony expression on his face.

"We have no intention of killing them. However, the skinny guy insulted us when he saw that we killed one of his companions. He said things like how the Saint's members are mad dogs that are not even comparable to the swine beasts. That's why we killed the other teammates in front of him. However, the guy did not stop insulting us. I've tried all sorts of ways, torturing him from the afternoon until the next morning. He was stubborn. He only stopped insulting us right after he died," Cao Yang explained in detail.

After asking another few questions, Lin Huang gave a new instruction after he confirmed that he had nothing else to ask, "Take me to the place where you killed the hunters."

After recalling Bai, Lin Huang summoned the Viridian Wolf. He rode on the Viridian Wolf with Cao Yang and the Ghastly Clown, heading north.

They were led by Cao Yang and three days later, the Viridian Wolf finally arrived at the withered tree where the graves were buried.

Lin Huang frowned as he saw the dead bodies. However, he noticed that although the dead bodies had been there for several days, they had not been engulfed by the monsters.

Getting off the Viridian Wolf, Lin Huang asked, "Why didn't the monsters eat the dead bodies?"

"We've sprayed drugs to banish all monsters as we wanted to stop them from eating or dragging away the dead bodies. We are waiting for the runaway girl to witness this," Cao Yang said.

Lin Huang did not say anything. He then took out an empty storage ring and stored all the dead bodies in it. The corpses were emitting a foul odor as they had been exposed to the sun for many days. However, Lin Huang did not mind.

Du Feng's skull was the last skull that he put away. After taking out his reproductive organ from his mouth, Lin Huang sighed emotionally. He had never expected the person that he met a few days ago would die so distressingly.

"In this world, humans are sometimes scarier than monsters…If there's such a thing as reincarnation, I hope that all of you can live in a peaceful world when you start a new life. Live where there are no battles and no fights. Everyone can live a peaceful life there…"

After storing the corpses, Lin Huang turned back and looked at Cao Yang. However, the next instruction was directed at the Ghastly Clown, "Ghastly, make him commit suicide."

The Ghastly Clown nodded. In an instant, the gold ring that Cao Yang was wearing had transformed into a sharp blade.

He held the handle of the blade tightly and made it penetrate hard through his own chin.

In an instant, the cold, sharp blade pierced through his chin and part of the blade had gone through the back of his head. The blade was stained with sticky white fluid as well as some blood…

After recalling Ghastly Clown and the Viridian Wolf, Lin Huang then summoned the Alexandrian Eagle.

The Alexandrian Eagle had transformed back into its card form a few days ago after sending Liang Qian back to Meteorite City.

"Let's go to Meteorite City."

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Chapter 254: Passing On A Legacy

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After killing two of the Saint members, Lin Huang went back to the Meteorite Desert on the Alexandrian Eagle.

He did not even bother with the two dead bodies as he knew that the monsters in the desert would settle them for him. Although Cao Yang's dead body was within the area where they had sprayed a drug to banish all monsters, the drug was only effective for a maximum of three days. In the desert, with the strong winds and sand violently blowing around, the period of effectiveness of the drug would be shortened.

Arriving at the Meteorite Desert's entrance, Lin Huang recalled the Alexandrian Eagle and Bloody at the same time.

If Bloody was not transformed back into its card form, it would not be able to pass the entrance gate of the foothold.

As soon as Lin Huang had passed the verification and entered the Meteorite Desert, he immediately summoned Bloody again. Bloody wrapped itself around Lin Huang's arm and hid in his sleeve. It had been recalled for less than 10 seconds and was summoned again because Lin Huang was afraid that the investigation of the Starlight Beast would be delayed.

After entering the city, Lin Huang went to the Hunter Association first and asked about Liang Qian.

Normally, the Hunter Association would not reveal any hunter's information to another hunter. However, after Liang Qian had returned, she had mentioned Ye Xiu in the description report before. Furthermore, Lin Huang knew the name and contact number of Liang Qian's hunter team leader. In addition to that, they would not usually add an anonymous contact number through the Emperor's Heart Ring. Therefore, the division of Hunter Association at Meteorite Desert gave Liang Qian's hotel information and room number to Lin Huang.

"083021…" After a short while, Lin Huang found the hotel that Liang Qian was staying. By going up the floating stairs, Lin Huang had arrived on the 83rd floor and soon, he found room No.21.

Standing outside the door, he pressed the doorbell.

As the bell rang, Liang Qian felt weird as she had no friends in Meteorite Desert and she had not asked for any room service as well.

"Is there any news from the Hunter Association? Why didn't they contact me via the Emperor's Heart Ring?" Liang Qian wondered. She then activated the gold ring that she was wearing and a long sword appeared in her hand. She peered through the sight glass to see who was at the door.

Liang Qian was startled the moment when she saw that Lin Huang was standing at the door. She immediately opened the door.

"You're still alive?!" She thought that Lin Huang would have been killed by the Saint members since he had helped her to block their way.

"Yes, I have my way to escape from them. Plus, the Hunter Association's backup team arrived on time and we killed the both of them," Lin Huang lied.

"Is that true?!" Liang Qian was in disbelief.

"Of course, I've stored Du Feng's and your teammates' dead bodies for you." Lin Huang nodded, then asked, "May I go in?"

"Yes, I'm sorry…" Liang Qian then realized that she had been blocking Lin Huang from entering. She immediately opened the door.

After entering the house, he took a glance at the living room floor and asked, "Can I put the corpses on the floor? But they've started to smell…"

Liang Qian was stunned for a while and said, "Please hold on for a minute."

She then cleared out everything from the living room by putting the chairs and tables aside and flipping over the carpet.

Lin Huang then took out five of the dead bodies. He first took out their body parts, followed by their skulls and the remaining parts. The dead bodies had decomposed, giving off a foul odor.

However, the both of them did not avoid that.

Liang Qian's eyes teared as she saw the five corpses.

"I've no idea what should I do next…" Liang Qian's mind was blank. She actually knew the procedure but she could not remember it at all.

"You'll have to look for a forensic pathologist to have their heads reattached first. Then, look for an appropriate place to bury them," Lin Huang reminded.

"Yes, I should first reattach the dead bodies' decapitated heads and bury them…"

"The Hunter Association has a forensic pathologist that specializes in this. I'll go with you." Lin Huang knew that Liang Qian was confused and traumatized. He shook his head and said, "I'll put these away first."

Lin Huang stored the dead bodies again and wanted to pass them to Liang Qian. However, Liang Qian was about to have an emotional breakdown and she could not keep them with her now.

"I'm sorry. These corpses have reminded me of the scene when I first saw their dead bodies." Liang Qian trembled and burst into uncontrollable tears.

Lin Huang did not say anything. He walked towards her and carried her to the sofa.

After sitting with her for a while until she had calmed herself down, he stood up and walked to the kitchen. He found some tea and made her a cup.

Liang Qian took the cup of tea gratefully. However, she did not drink it as she was still crying.

Lin Huang waited patiently beside her…

After about 20 minutes, Liang Qian finally calmed herself down. She put down the cup of tea that she was holding and Lin Huang passed her a piece of tissue.

Liang Qian's eyes were red and she apologized to Lin Huang, "I'm sorry. I've wasted so much of your time." Taking the tissue, she wiped her tears.

"It's okay. If I were you, I would have collapsed too. It's better to vent your emotions than to suppress them," Lin Huang comforted her. "Take a good rest and we'll meet the forensic pathologist tomorrow."

"It's better if we go today. I know that you have something to deal with." Liang Qian's emotions seemed to have completely returned to normal.

"Are you sure you're fine?" Lin Huang asked.

"Yes, I'm running out of tears," Liang Qian joked.

"Alright, let's go." Lin Huang then stood up.

After leaving the hotel, the both of them quickly went back to the Hunter Association by riding on the Viridian Wolf.

Lin Huang and Liang Qian then went to the forensic room.

The person who was in charge of reattaching the decapitated heads was a man in sunglasses. He wore a white coat and a face mask. He was completely different from Liang Yin whom Lin Huang had met previously.

"This is the place where the dead bodies are fixed up. Autopsy and medical examination will be carried out in the room next to this," said a man in glasses who was preparing a report when he saw that there were shadows outside the room without even looking up at them.

"We came here to reattach the dead bodies," Lin Huang explained.

The man in glasses then raised his head and took a glance at both of them. "Come in."

"Wait a minute. I need five more minutes to complete this report," said the man in glasses, continuing with his work and not caring about them at all.

After about five minutes, the man in glasses seemed to have completed his work. He then stood up and said, "How many corpses do you have?"

"Five."

"Take them out." The man in glasses then took out four morgues and placed them together with the morgue that he had brought out earlier.

Lin Huang placed the corpses on the morgues.

The bespectacled man frowned the moment he saw the dead bodies."Who did this? How could they be so cruel?"

"The Saint members," Lin Huang answered.

"You may wait outside. I'll need some time to get this done." The man turned to glance at them.

"Alright."

When Lin Huang was about to leave with Liang Qian, he asked, "Erm… It's not difficult to distinguish their heads. But how do you make sure that you'll not attach them wrongly?"

"I have my ways. Don't worry, I won't make any mistakes," answered the man, with no intention to explain.

Since he did not want to answer his question, Lin Huang then left together with Liang Qian.

Both of them sat outside the forensic room for more than half an hour and soon, a voice called from the room, "You may come in now."

After entering the room, they could see that the five bodies looked completely fine. The man had used a transparent thread which could only be seen when they went closer to the corpses. The parts of the body that had decomposed had been fixed as well.

Liang Qian's face blushed slightly when she saw that the lower part of their bodies was perfectly fine. She immediately shifted her gaze.

"Amazing…" Lin Huang was impressed by the man in glasses. "How did you handle the decomposed part? Why aren't there any marks at all?"

"I extracted their skin cells. Then, bacteria is used so that they can regenerate another layer of skin to cover the wounds. I've removed the decomposed part and filled it with the skin that has been thickened," he explained.

At least, Liang Qian's emotions were no longer affected as the dead bodies were complete now.

"I've passed the fee slip to the counter. If there are no other problems, you may pay over there and collect the bodies here. If you have any other requests, go ahead and suggest them. I'll do it for you." The man still had a poker face.

"I'll pay now. Wait for me here."

Of course, Liang Qian knew that she could not let Lin Huang pay for her and she immediately left the forensic room.

After a short while, Liang Qian came back with her face red.

"It's done so quickly?" Lin Huang asked.

"I don't have enough money. Could you please lend me some Life Crystals? I've used up all my Life Crystals when I activated the relic." Liang Qian dared not look at Lin Huang. "I'll return it to you as soon as possible after hunting down some monsters!"

"How many Life Crystals do you need?" Lin Huang asked.

"Five."

Lin Huang immediately took out five Life Crystals and passed it to Liang Qian. "Anyway, you don't have to return me the money."

"I have to. Thank you!" Liang Qian took the Life Crystals and immediately left.

After a few minutes, she finally came back. She then asked the man in glasses, "I've made the payment. May I take the corpses now?"

"Yes, go ahead ." The main in glasses nodded in his own seat without looking at them.

Liang Qian then carefully put away the bodies. It seemed like the complete corpses did not remind her of the scene that she had witnessed, so she was calm.

"Where are you going to bury them?" Lin Huang asked after she had stored the bodies.

"The leader told me before that he wished that he could settle down at foothold A-grade, living a peaceful life. I'll bury them as well as the items left by the other members in the grave there," Liang Qian said with a wistful smile.

"What's your plan after this?" Lin Huang asked again.

"I will re-establish Team Dian Feng and pass on the legacy. Brother Du will be happy if he could see this…" Liang Qin eventually figured out what she had to do after this.

"All the best to you!" Lin Huang raised his fist.

"Same goes to you!" Liang Qian raised her fist as well.

At that moment, Bloody who was in Lin Huang's sleeve suddenly twisted slightly.

"Have you found the Starlight Beast?!" Lin Huang communicated with Bloody through his mind.

Although he had no idea what Bloody was saying, Lin Huang could briefly understand that it was a confirmation reply.

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Chapter 255: Suspicious Identity

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"Liang Qian, my summoning monster has detected the monster that I'm hunting down. I need to make a move. I'm sorry!" Sensing Bloody's notification, Lin Huang had to leave right away. Of course, Liang Qian knew that Lin Huang had been waiting in the desert for many days just for the monster. Although she had no idea what he was after, she smiled and nodded anyway.

"Go ahead then. Your matter is more important and you've been waiting for many days now. There's nothing urgent on my side. I can handle myself."

"Okay, let's get each other's contact number. I'll contact you after I'm done with my task. I'll try to make it to Du Feng's and the rest's funeral." After exchanging contacts, Lin Huang left.

As he exited the Hunter Association's entrance, Lin Huang projected the map of Meteorite Desert immediately and asked Bloody, "Where did you detect the Starlight Beast?"

Bloody extended its twine and pointed at the map, then Lin Huang marked the coordinates immediately. He then summoned the Alexandrian Eagle and patted its back. "Head northeast."

The Alexandrian Eagle flapped its wings and headed northeast.

Four hours later, it landed at the destination. Lin Huang leaped off the Alexandrian Eagle's back and recalled it.

"Bloody, is the Starlight Beast still here?" Lin Huang looked around. Aside from sand, he did not see anything else.

"It's gone. It was killing another gold-level monster that appeared nearby four hours ago, according to one of my parasite hosts. After the killing was done, it left with the body. It was too fast, so my parasite's host did not manage to catch up with it," Bloody scrawled on the ground.

"If the hunting was done here, its nest should be nearby and not too far away," Lin Huang figured.

"Bloody, spread some of your pods here. We shall camp out here for a couple of days. Hopefully, we should be able to find something."

"There's no need to do that. Let's see if there's an oasis around; it should be hiding there," Bloody wrote.

"In the oasis? Why would you say so? From what I remember, the monster encyclopedia never mentioned that the monster likes areas that are rich with plants," Lin Huang questioned.

"The monster encyclopedia had never mentioned that but the open desert isn't suitable for it to hide in. Such a monster has pride and it wouldn't want to hide in places such as caves. The only place that it could be possibly hiding would be an oasis," Bloody explained.

"That makes sense." After hearing Bloody's explanation, Lin Huang projected again, enlarging the areas nearby looking for an oasis.

Soon Lin Huang found out that there were three oases nearby. There was one in the north, one in the west and one in the northeast.

"Looking at the distance, the one in the west is nearest to the location we are currently standing in. However, the one in the north looks like it's the biggest. There's even a huge lake in the middle," Lin Huang observed the three locations he had found on the map.

"Let's go to the north and see," Bloody suggested.

"Sure, let's go to the north then," Lin Huang accepted Bloody's suggestion.

He summoned the Alexandrian Eagle again and headed north. It was around 280 kilometers from the location that Lin Huang was standing at previously. In 20 minutes, the Alexandrian Eagle arrived at the destination and landed at the border of the oasis. It was big with lush greenery and it felt like there was a primitive jungle that had appeared in the desert out of nowhere.

After recalling the Alexandrian Eagle, Lin Huang explored the jungle while looking at the map. Purple parasite pods were sprayed out from his sleeve into the jungle air. Following the directions, Lin Huang arrived at the lake after 10 minutes. He walked to the side of the lake and cupped the lake water with both his palms. He took a sip of the water after sniffing it.

"There's nothing wrong with the water, it's drinking water. This lake should be the water source of many monsters nearby," Lin Huang observed.

"Let's stay here for awhile, I'm afraid we might catch the Starlight Beast's attention if we go further in. Such a monster doesn't like seeing humans. If it noticed me, it might run away. You might reveal yourself if you do mass parasitizing, so let's spread your pods around here and get them to watch. If the Starlight Beast is really in this oasis, it'll definitely drink from this lake. We will get it then," Lin Huang said to Bloody.

Bloody nodded. It had not stopped spreading its pods ever since they entered the jungle. Lin Huang returned into the jungle and climbed up a big tree and sat on a branch. The tree was filled with overlapping leaves. From the bottom, nobody could see Lin Huang on top of the tree. As long as he did not make any noise, he would basically be undetectable. Just when he had settled down on the tree, he received a message. He looked at it immediately. It was a message from Liang Qian.

"Brother Ye, thank you for taking care of me for the past few days. If not for you, I would have been dead. Thank you for bringing back the bodies of Brother Du and the rest as well as bringing me to the forensic. As soon as my father knew about the attack, he came to get me. I'm at their graves retrieving their belongings and I will head back to Sakura City with my father. The funeral will be held in Sakura City as well. I don't have the exact time yet, but I will contact you again once the time is confirmed."

"Sure, safe journey," Lin Huang gave her a simple reply.

In the Meteorite Dessert, a young, short-haired man was digging the grave next to the withered tree while a serious middle-aged man stood beside Liang Qian. She received a reply from Lin Huang shortly after she sent the message. She looked at the message immediately.

"Who is that?" The middle-aged man next to her frowned.

"Brother Ye," Liang Qian replied without even lifting her head up.

"Oh, is he the one who saved you a few days back?" The man's frown deepened even more.

"Try not to contact him anymore," he added.

"Why not?" Liang Qian was puzzled and looked at her father.

"I suspect his identity is fake. He told you that he killed the two Saint members with the assistance of the Hunter Association. From what I know, although the Hunter Association was hunting down the two members, none of them encountered the both of them."

"The most skeptical thing is the way the two members died. Their bodies were found and the post-mortem report showed that the younger member was killed by the bearded Saint member."

"I think this Ye Xiu guy is trying to approach you with bad intentions." The man looked at Liang Qian with all seriousness.

"I don't think so. Even if he's using a fake identity, I believe he has his own reasons. I'm also using a fake identity, so according to your logic, I'm a bad person as well. As for the cause of death, the two members might have been killed with spells. There're many people who could do that, so what makes you think that Brother Ye is capable of doing that?" Liang Qian insisted to speak from Lin Huang's perspective.

"You…" The man was upset.

"Dad, stop fighting over this with her. If they start dating, I'll watch them," the short hair man who was digging shouted.

"This girl is spoilt rotten by you!" yelled the middle-aged man and he stopped arguing with Liang Qian.

Liang Qian did not say anything about her brother's suggestion. She knew that her father and brother were concerned for her. Soon, all the belongings in the sand were dug out and stored properly.

"Is there anything left behind?" Liang Qian was worried.

"I have checked three times, don't worry about it," replied the short hair man.

"Alright then…" Liang Qian nodded. Seeing that the man was drenched in sweat, she did not want him to continue digging.

"Let's go home then," said the middle-aged man and he summoned a blue dimensional relic. The three of them entered it and after the door was closed, they disappeared…

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Chapter 256: Bloody's Discovery

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The sun rose in the morning and the air in the lush jungle was extraordinarily fresh. Lin Huang stretched his body in the hammock that was strung between two branches, then with sleepy eyes, he sat up. He looked around him, the lush leaves reminding him that he was in the desert oasis. After confirming the direction of the lake, Lin Huang hopped down from the hammock and walked to the nearby lake barefooted.

There were a couple of tiny monsters drinking water at the lake. Seeing Lin Huang, they looked at him with their guards up. They seemed to be zoned out, looking like stupid but adorable monsters. Lin Huang waved at the monsters.

"Good morning! Are you here to drink? Do you mind if I take a shower here?"

Not understanding what he was talking about, Lin Huang's hand that was lifted up scared them. They ran away immediately, two of them even running into each other and before falling. They got up immediately and disappeared.

"Oh, they're so timid…" Although different monsters had different characters, it was the first time Lin Huang saw such timid ones. The monsters that he encountered would always attack humans. Monsters would only run away when they saw powerful summoning beasts with Lin Huang. He shook his head and laughed. He then took off all his clothes and put everything in his storage space before leaping into the lake.

It was spring and although the temperature in the desert was slightly high, the lake water was cool. As Lin Huang's physique was comparable to a gold-level rank-3, he did not think it was cold; it felt cool against his skin. Entering the lake, Bloody returned to its normal size with its 1,000 meter-long vine, swimming in the water. Although it was a parasite, it was still a plant that loved water. Seeing it having fun in the water, Lin Huang did not want to stop it.

"Have fun in the lake, I'm going back to the hammock after I'm done bathing."

Bloody nodded as it heard Lin Huang and headed deeper into the water. Lin Huang swam for a little while after he bathed so that he could stretch his body before leaving. The body that he used for Ye Xiu's identity was exactly the same as his old one on Earth; even his body ratio was the same. He looked like a closet hunk about 1.83 meters tall in his mid-twenties. Now that he had arrived in this world, his six packs had developed into eight and his abs were even more defined on his body.

He walked to the shore naked, wiped himself with a dry towel and put on his clothes. The lake was quiet. Bloody was nowhere to be seen and Lin Huang had no idea where did it go. However, he was not concerned about its safety. Even if it encountered a gold-level rank-3 monster, Bloody which was a double mutated silver-level rank-3 might not be able to fight it but it would be easy for it to escape. As long as it did not encounter any Transcendent monster, then it would be alright. Bloody's intelligence was terrifyingly high now, so it was impossible that it would find fault with any Transcendent monster.

Lin Huang returned to his hammock and sat down. He read the news while eating some snacks for breakfast.

"Wow, Zhu Nian has been promoted to a senior executive officer..." Seeing the picture of the middle-aged man in the top news, Lin Huang was stunned. He remembered the man was the Transcendent who had been defeated by the Ghastly Clown outside of Daxi City.

"No wonder he's so much more powerful than the other people of holy fire-level. Only immortal-level people could be a senior executive officer. Now that he is promoted in the Division7 Hunter Association, that means he's now an immortal-level. Although he was not immortal-level yet when he fought the Ghastly Clown last year, he should have been close by then." Lin Huang did not expect that the Zhu Nian that he saved using a seal card earlier could achieve such an impressive accomplishment.

Apart from the first to the third safety zones, all of the Hunter Association divisions in the safety zones would have less than 20 senior executive officers in each division. In Division7, there were only 12 of them before Zhu Nian was promoted. They now had 13 senior executive officers in Division7. Lin Huang then read his personal biography.

"He graduated from basic military college when he was 28 with only a pass…He was not accepted into any privilege military school…With his own abilities, he managed to get to holy fire-level when he was 58 and immortal-level when he was 75…This guy's a late bloomer!" Lin Huang exclaimed after reading Zhu Nian's biography.

In reality, his being such a genius was not terrifying but many of them could not accomplish anything as they had not put in enough effort. Lin Huang had heard similar stories when he was on Earth. However, it was even crueler in this world. Not only would geniuses be lacking if not enough effort was made, they might even be assassinated by the dark world. Moreover, the younger one achieved fame, the more arrogant one would usually be. Once he encountered any failures, he would not be able to get up and that would be the end of his glory.

However, people such as Zhu Nian was scary as he had stood up many times from countless failures. Through the struggles and many lessons in life, with enough experience, he grabbed his opportunity to achieve what he had today. Zhu Nian was the classic example of such a case. Many people thought that famous people were born geniuses and that that was how they achieved what they had today. Many did not know that most of them were the same as the rest; they were just ordinary people. Most of the mythical stories about the powerful people when they were young were either exaggerated or made up. The truth was that the effort they put in as they grew were much more than the others, hence contributing to their accomplishments. Hard work was much more important than talent!

Because of that, Lin Huang had never stopped training himself although he had a powerful Goldfinger. After reading the news about Zhu Nian, Lin Huang glanced at other news. Just when he was done with breakfast, a red glow plunged towards him like lightning, twisting around his arm. Lin Huang knew that it was Bloody. However, it seemed to be in a rush.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that Bloody was pulling him down, Lin Huang leaped onto the ground immediately.

Bloody then detached from his arm and gestured to Lin Huang to follow it before hurrying away. Lin Huang followed it immediately. As they arrived at the edge of the lake, Bloody wrote on the ground beside the lake, "I found the Starlight Beast's lair. It's at the bottom of the lake!"

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