Chapter 28: Cousin
Cafe, under the pergola.
Holding a cup of steaming coffee, Zhang Yuanqing stared dully at the street, where streetlights, car lights, and store lights intertwined into a gorgeous and prosperous night scene.
After a long time, he took a sharp gulp, then sighed like a cloudy breath in his chest, as if he had spat out all the spiritual pollution.
"Devouring spirit bodies to enhance strength seems like a crooked path."
He finally understood why the Night Wanderer of the Taiyi Sect was unwilling to devour spirit bodies.
If the world was compared to a sea of suffering, mortals were the flat boats that sank in it, wracked with sorrow and suffering, each with their own misfortunes and pains.
These sufferings would be transferred to the night wandering god, along with the spirit body, and even if it was only a small portion, the amount accumulated to a certain level caused extremely terrifying spiritual pollution.
In the long run, schizophrenia would be light.
But the benefits are really immediate, his current experience value is 46%, "night wandering" skill time limit has not been extended, or nine seconds, but the quality of the body has a more obvious improvement, vitality, healing power has also increased.
This was a real gain.
"By the way, I still don't know the cause of that faggot's death ....... No, I don't want to know at all."
He took a heartfelt sip of his coffee.
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Early morning, the villa.
In the large conference room large enough to hold thirty people, Fu Qingyang swept across both sides of the long table, his eyes calm and deep, like clouds accumulating a storm.
He was handsome, with the nobility and arrogance of a son of a worldly family, and when his face was expressionless, his aura was powerful, bringing extremely strong psychological pressure.
"Five captains, a dozen team members, and dozens of vigilantes were deployed, but the Demon of Compulsion was still allowed to escape." Fu Qingyang's expression was cold: "I'm very disappointed in you guys."
On both sides of the long conference table, sat the participants of this operation, five captains and twelve team members, Li Dongze and Guanya were among them.
Facing the criticism of their deacon level superiors, the captains lowered their heads, not daring to make a sound.
Big Muscle Buster wanted to say something, but he still couldn't hold back and whispered:
"Centurion Fu, Ou Xiangrong seems to have been contaminated by some kind of evil power, becoming especially powerful and crazy, which is the reason why we missed. Moreover, the Demon of Compulsion itself is a top profession ......"
Fu Qingyang said indifferently, "Failure is failure, any reason is an excuse for cowards to refuse to recognize their failure."
He swept his gaze sharply over the crowd, and no one of the Spirit Realm Walkers at the table dared to meet their eyes, except Guanya.
Guanya was playing with her nails with her head down, absent-minded.
Fu Qingyang continued:
"Because of your failure, the incident has escalated, a severely injured Demon of Compulsion that has been contaminated by the power of Evil can easily go completely out of control, and with the cruelty of the Demon of Compulsion, it is bound to cause a large number of casualties.
"Now that all the Spirit Realm Walker squads in the entire Songhai City are involved in the search, within three days, if you can't kill Ou Xiangrong, all of you get the hell back to the training camp."
Li Dongze, Qingteng, Tang Guoqiang and the other captains, looked at each other with ugly faces.
Fu Qingyang snorted:
"Of course, in this matter, I have also failed miserably, because I reported wrong expectations of you guys and overestimated your abilities. Therefore, for the next three days, I will personally participate in the search. Since Ou Xiangrong is looking for the roster and the Holy Grail, his target will definitely shift to Zhao Yingjun's family members or women with close ties, so search along that line."
When his subordinates nodded, he glanced at his expensive wristwatch and said:
"Your time is running out, adjourn! Guanya stay for a while."
The long meeting finally ended, and it was already past meal time at this moment.
The Spirit Realm Walkers got up rather dejectedly, bowed towards the end of the long table, and exited the meeting room in a well-organized manner.
The five captains led the way, and the one meter nine tall Big Muscle Buster lowered his voice and said angrily:
"I don't deny my failure, but Centurion Fu is too arrogant, he wasn't even there and doesn't know how powerful Ou Xiangrong is."
Wearing tights, he touched the blood seeping knife wound on his chest and grunted:
"While we were fighting outside, he was sitting on the villa's handmade sofa, sipping fine wine, smoking cigars, and enjoying the services of the rabbit girls."
As he was talking, the three rabbit girls came upstairs with snacks and entered the conference room.
The ones serving in the villa were all wonderfully aged rabbit girls, tall and pretty.
Bai Long gently patted the rabbit girl's arse and lowered his voice:
"I've heard that Centurion Fu has an extremely high popularity among the White Tiger Soldiers crowd, and that he is the only character among the Four Dukes who can compete with that Duke of the Red Fire Gang."
Fu Qingyang was transferred from the capital to Songhai at the end of last year, and it was said that after coming down to train for a few years and accumulate seniority, he would return to the capital and be a reserve member of the Elder Corps.
Upon hearing this, Big Muscle Buster lightly grunted, "It's just a rumor, our Young Lord is the most outstanding in the younger generation of the Five Elements Alliance."
Qingteng then looked at Li Dongze, "What does Shishang Li think."
Li Dongze took on a rolled cigarette and let out a heckle:
"Of course it's because of the money, that's what you think, right?"
Isn't it? The other captains looked at him.
"Stupid!"
Lee Dongze pointed to his head:
"Use your not-so-smart brains to think about it, when it really comes down to what Centurion Fu said, such a nasty incident, there's always a need for someone to take the blame, right, for something that big, going back to the training camp is fine?
"When Centurion Fu said for us to get the hell back to the training camp, the other meaning of that statement is that in the event of a worst case scenario, he takes all the blame, we don't have to be dismissed, we won't be held accountable, we just have to stay in the training camp for three months, even if we messed up something this serious."
He pulled out a lighter and lit a cigarette, shrugging, "Alright, do your work, and pull out that bastard Ou Xiangrong early."
.........
In the conference room, Fu Qingyang stared at the woman manicuring her nails and frowned:
"Li Dongze said you were injured?"
Guanya blew on her nails, and took out the makeup mirror from her handbag, while replenishing the powder:
"Let go if you have a fart, I have to go back to work."
Fu Qingyang's cold face revealed a touch of helplessness, "Auntie called me, asking you to return to China next month to meet the fiancé she arranged for you."
"I already made it clear to her when I came back that I won't marry for the sake of the family, just because she herself is willing to be a victim of the family doesn't mean I am willing to do the same."
Guan Ya "snapped" closed the make-up mirror, said: "Your Fu family is really meaningless, Qing Yang ah, take power earlier, let the old things go to retirement."
Fu Qingyang said in a deep voice:
"If you don't want to join the marriage, show some results, don't loiter all day and waste your talent for nothing. The elders of the family only respect the strong, like me, like her.
"Tell you what, I'll transfer you to another team, the third team in Changtai district is very good, they get collective second class honors a few times a year, you'll gild the lily over there, and I'll have a reason to rebuff my aunt.
"Li Dongze's second team has too little talent, it's hard to get credit."
Guanya frowned and sighed: "The second team is really not competitive, it's hard for me to refuse ....... Besides, there's a little guy in our team, quite interesting, let me observe again."
She put her makeup mirror away and walked towards the door with her handbag, laughing:
"You'd better worry about yourself first, if Ou Xiangrong goes on a killing spree in Songhai, it's a stain on your resume that you can't erase, and they'll do whatever they can to stop you from entering the Elder Council.
"Cousin is leaving, bye~"
.........
Early in the morning, Zhang Yuanqing carried his duffel bag and walked towards the complex.
His schedule for today was to have a professional class in the morning, and to find Old Si Ji to chat with at noon and in the afternoon, no, to find his colleagues to exchange feelings, promote friendship and expand socialization.
Three by three, two by two, the flow of people flocked to the comprehensive building, just arrived at the downstairs, Zhang Yuanqing heard someone calling himself.
Turning his head to look, it was Li Lesheng and a few fellow classmates.
Li Lesheng brought a few boys to catch up and issued an invitation with an expectant face: ''We're planning to have a sorority with a few girls, just this weekend, do you want to join us? I heard that you are a Songhai local."
A fellowship? If it's the weekend, it'll be the day after tomorrow ...... Zhang Yuanqing pondered a little and said, "Sure."
Li Lesheng and a few of the boys sighed in relief and revealed a smile, "Then let's add a friend, ha, with you along, I believe the girls will be willing to come out and play."
"Let's add friends too."
"Let's add it too." A few other male classmates pulled out their cell phones one after another.
After Zhang Yuanqing and his classmates added their friends, the group walked together towards the complex.
Li Lesheng laughed, "I heard a girl from my hometown say that a vigilante came to look for Xu Yingying yesterday, and then Xu Yingying cried out in the dormitory."
"A vigilante? What happened."
Several boys were taken aback, after all, to college students, vigilantes were an incredibly distant group.
Li Lesheng said, "I heard that it's the rich man who adopted Xu Yingying who had something happen, but the specifics aren't too clear, and the vigilantes were looking for her to inquire about that man."
"It can't be that he escaped with the money, now that the economy is in the doldrums, there aren't too many examples of rich people getting mined." Someone speculated.
Zhang Yuanqing listened to his classmates gossip, his eyes swept over the students coming and going, not too crowded crowd, saw a familiar figure.
It was a pretty girl in a long white dress, with long straight black hair draped over her head, wearing exquisite light makeup, and it was none other than Xu Yingying, the heroine of the topic just now.
She was snuggled up like a bird on a man, who was wearing a mask, with a head of inch hair, sparse eyebrows, and a small scar showing on the top edge of the mask.
Zhang Yuanqing's pupils abruptly contracted.
Ou Xiangrong?
He looked at Xu Yingying again and observed carefully, and it was then that he found some clues.
Xu Yingying's expression was stiff, seemingly snuggled in Ou Xiangrong's arms, but it was more like she was being coerced by his shoulders.
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ps: the wrong word first more and then change.
