Chapter 00015: Laughter Rising from the Green Fire Nest (Thanks to the Alliance Master Xueliu)
# Laughter Rising from the Green Fire Nest (Thanks to the Alliance Master Xueliu)
Chapter 15
Novel: Above Destiny
Chapter 15: Laughter Rising from the Green Fire Nest (Thanks to the Alliance Master Xueliu)
The scorched wheels grazed across Lu Feng’s face, speeding past him as a wild wind surged forth.
In an instant, the roaring truck crashed directly onto the dazed face of one who seemed frozen in time, lifting that mangled figure as if it were a puppet, slamming it against the wall with a last desperate thrust!
The ground shook in a terrifying turmoil that engulfed the entire underground parking lot, dust cascading downwards, yet this was not the end.
The front half of the truck, wedged into the wall, suddenly jerked back, taking with it a mass of mangled meat.
Zhu Hong collapsed onto the ground, struggling to push herself up, but her broken face was once again illuminated by the truck’s headlights.
The truck spun in place, squealing its tires as it swerved deftly like a cat, its massive body crashing heavily against the wall.
Facing her now were only two rows of tires so thick they cast monstrous shadows.
The tires spun and raced, crushing all in their path.
The sound was enough to make one’s scalp tingle, but it was drowned out by the grinding of rubber against the pavement.
It was like a woodchipper running at full speed.
Red splattered from between the tires, along with fragments of bones and internal organs.
It replayed everything they had done to the dead in that basement!
Bit by bit, they dismantled the flesh-eating monster!
Until the exploding tire finally let go of the drive shaft.
The bright lights of the truck slowly flickered out.
The cheerful hymn came to a sudden halt.
[Spirit Quality Depleted – Agreement Ended – Duration: 4 seconds.]
In the dimness, Ji Jue was nearly swallowed by darkness, gasping for breath.
He had already barely lasted a second, but unexpectedly, just as his spiritual essence neared depletion, his watch notified him that there was still active distorted spiritual quality remaining in the remnants of that giant snake on the ground.
He was almost moved to tears.
One extraction wasn’t enough; he could still extract for so long... what kind of power bank was this?
How was it of such good quality?
But in that dead silence, beneath the front of the truck, there emerged groans and the sharp sound of tearing metal... beneath the shattered brake pads and wheel rims, a twisted and broken limb slowly lifted up.
Beneath the remaining hair, the ground face that was once charming and vibrant was now devoid of beauty, replaced with a grotesque and savage visage.
It left Ji Jue utterly breathless.
She was still alive!
“So fragrant, so fragrant, I can’t take it anymore, your scent, so fragrant, so fragrant—”
Those eye-like things trembled, locking onto Ji Jue’s direction, tendrils crawling out from the entrails, screaming and wailing frantically.
Lips, remnants of a half-bone visage, opened and closed, emitting crazed laughter: “Hahaha, ha, hahahaha, you’re all going to…”
A chilling healing began again, but rather than revival, it was more a messy reassembly and fusion, accompanied by strange sounds that mixed cries and laughs.
Zhu Hong’s arms writhed, tearing through steel, slowly clawing her way out...
Only a crisp sound approached.
From Lu Feng's hand.
That round object, after the pin was pulled, nimbly bounced across the ground, playfully rolling before finally landing on her face, proudly showing off its pineapple-like netting.
The manic and ugly expression came to an abrupt stop.
With that, the last firework was presented.
Flames and explosions consumed everything.
After the immense sound, the ruined front of the truck was engulfed in flames, the burnt flesh silent within it.
Yet Lu Feng still stood alert, holding his gun and aiming in that direction.
After a long while, no other sounds emerged.
“Is it dead?”
He looked skeptically at Ji Jue; Ji Jue, heaving and groaning, climbed up from the ground.
Supporting herself against the wall, she first used her watch to feel the distorted spiritual quality of the strange remnants and replenished her reserves.
Thus cautiously, she inched closer until her watch finally beeped—detecting external active distorted spiritual quality, should extraction commence?
He finally let out a breath, cold sweat running down his body.
Dead.
Totally dead.
If it weren’t dead, they would be the ones dead.
Ji Jue was utterly out of breath; if she still had the strength to move, all she could do was raise her neck and ask it for a feast.
Sadly, there would be no lavish headlamps to be seen anymore.
“Wait!”
Thinking of this, Ji Jue’s expression suddenly turned serious, “If this gets out, will people say that our repair shop murdered a customer for profit?”
Lu Feng practically wanted to kick the guy to death, “Let’s get the hell out of here; someone will come, and if they see this scene, we’ll really be screwed.”
The two helped each other to stumble outside, yet it was Ji Jue’s laughter that made Lu Feng’s scalp prickle.
“Stop laughing, Brother Feng.”
Ji Jue couldn’t help but sigh, “You’re making my legs tremble.”
Lu Feng glared angrily, “Aren’t you the one laughing?”
“I…”
Just as Ji Jue wanted to argue, they caught each other’s eyes and realized the other had no hint of a smile, only a growing pallor on their faces.
Under the flickering lights, amidst the scattered corpses and blood in the parking lot, the cold wind echoed, bringing with it a disquieting raspy laughter.
Full of admiration and appreciation.
It was as if after watching an animal show, one offered applause and respect to the toys displayed in the cage.
Bang!
In the blood, it was as if invisible raindrops fell, creating ripples that spread out in layers, an intangible rain cloaking everything until finally, the sight of crimson was filled with a rising tide of bizarre waves.
Amidst those waves, an eye slowly opened, then a second, third, and fourth.
Countless eyes opened from within the blood, staring at the final survivor of the struggle, filled with curiosity and joy—as if they were gazing at new toys.
The two stood frozen in place.
Lu Feng swallowed nervously, “Little Ji…”
“Hmm?”
“That move just now, can you do it again…?”
“It’s gone, it’s all gone.”
Ji Jue’s expression twitched, “Even if I were to find something to take my own life again, the truck is gone!”
The one truck He had wrecked was now a heap of scrap.
Even if he activated the survival protocol, what else could he do? Could he move his fingers and make a Transformer appear?
At that moment, countless pop-ups covered his sight once more.
[Detecting external active distorted spiritual quality, signs of corruption emerging]
[Warning: External distorted spiritual quality activity index rising, has reached contamination threshold]
[Warning: Detecting rapid approach of contamination source, corruption contamination protection activated, activation failure, error, error, error—]
[Error]
Ji Jue was furious, wanting to pull out a Husky meme to point at the watch, asking what else it could do besides throwing error messages?!
He completely forgot who had relied on the watch's spiritual quality extraction and emergency survival protocol to scrape by until now.
Alas, there was no point in calling for assistance from the watch anymore.
From that raspy laughter, a hunched figure gradually emerged from the blood.
Thin and small, it looked like a mummified corpse, but those pitch-black eyes turned toward him, sending chills that struck deep into his soul.
Thus, the shadow stepped out from the blood, bending down to pick up Zhu Hong’s remaining skull, thoroughly examining the last expression frozen in disbelief, fingers gently tracing over cracks filled with ferocity and despair.
Then, with a soft smile, it said:
“Considering the [Fetal] stage, your talents are indeed barely adequate. Though with a bit of time, fueled by your greed and cruelty, one could perhaps reap a wicked reward from it. Sadly, in the best case, it might only amount to this level. I had lost hope before, but unexpectedly today I find a surprising delight—”
Those pitch-black eyes turned toward the two intruders sneaking backward, gazing at Ji Jue, and on that indistinct face, a smile seemed to bloom, filled with joy and appreciation.
“Truly, a beautiful gem of talent.”
A greedy gaze that nearly made Ji Jue tremble.
Damn, there's a psychopath!
Other villains show up laughing loudly, crushing anyone who dares kill their subordinates, yet you, just stare at this rather charming young man, your eyes sparkling with affection...
So damn scary!
At this moment, the roiling blood surged up, twisting into a bizarre nine-fingered giant hand, lunging towards Ji Jue and Lu Feng, causing Ji Jue’s face to turn pale:
“Big brother, I’m not selling anything; you’ve got the wrong person!”
The blood hand halted.
The corpse-like face’s smile momentarily stiffened, making Ji Jue increasingly convinced and certain: Damn, so you were plotting to hook me!
‘What a pity,’ it wasn’t—
He didn’t even notice what Ji Jue had said.
With countless eyes blinking, they gazed at Ji Jue’s feet, where a thread of crystalline light gradually emerged from the blood pool… like seeds sprouting, growing.
A translucent crystal flower grew out from the cement and ironstone.
Like a nail, it embedded itself into the blood pool, preventing it from stretching forward even an inch.
For a brief moment, time seemed to freeze.
Everything was frozen amidst this sudden change.
Echoing in the air was a distant deep sigh.
“But finally… I’ve caught you!”
In front of the noisy and chaotic nightclub, a figure leaning against a motorcycle sighed as they flicked the ash off their cigarette, turned around, and long hair danced in the wind.
The flickering neon illuminated her cheeks, along with the cruel smile playing at the corners of her mouth.
She raised her hand, crossing the vast distance and layers of obstacles, subtly enveloping the hunched figure within the blood, and then—her fingers tightened!
Boom!!!
The earth trembled, the buildings groaned, and within the stifling, putrid parking lot, countless crystalline blades grew forth from thin air, extending and gathering, as if transforming into a colossal tree, reaching upwards as well as downwards.
Piercing!
With ease, it tore through the material obstruction and the retaliatory crimson, reducing innumerable giant eyes, along with the blood, to dust.
Afterwards, the sound of the floor shattering could be heard, a cacophony followed, and that tall, slender figure fell from its place, plummeting downwards.
In an instant, it fell into the lowest level of the parking lot.
Amidst the dim flickering lights and billowing dust, a not-so-gentle smile could be seen as it loomed over the dry corpse in the blood pool: “In these times, you scum from the Dragon Sacrifice Society dare to show your faces in Ya City?”
“Supernatural Level—”
At this moment, the blurred face of the corpse lost all mockery and excitement, as if facing a formidable enemy.
The vast parking lot had already been filled with the surging crimson and countless beautiful crystalline trees, the dazzling light clashing with the bloody hue in a whirlpool of chaos.
The rising wind alone was enough to blow Ji Jue and Lu Feng, who were hiding for their lives, away.
In the chaos of wind and debris, the terrified duo pressed themselves to the ground; after a glance at each other, they instinctively... looked towards the exit.
Lu Feng crawled forward while Ji Jue wriggled behind him.
Though clueless about what was happening, they knew they couldn’t just stand there waiting for the gods to battle and crush them!
However, there was no epic battle as they had imagined; rather, it all ended before it started.
In the instant of the endless explosion of blood, the corpse abruptly collapsed and vanished, fleeing faster than Ji Jue and Lu Feng!
It had not a trace of dignity or presence of a real strong warrior.
So embarrassing!
While Ji Jue grumbled to himself, he halted his desperate movements.
The two brothers looked up to see the black leather boots standing before them.
Rising to meet the gaze of Wen Wen, they knew they were in trouble.
She tilted her head, relighting a white star before lightly exhaling smoke, asking with a smile, “Hey, where are the two of you going?”
It was completely unexpected.
Faced with such a rampant threat from the bloodthirsty disease, the safety bureau closely monitored all alarm records from various regions.
Whenever abnormal situations or cases arose, they constantly checked and dispatched personnel.
By the time Tong Hua clarified the assailants' route, Wen Wen thought she’d arrived too late and might be running into nothing.
However, she did not expect to see such a strange sight.
This world is indeed wondrous.
Facing such a serene smile, Lu Feng’s face twitched; with one hand, he subtly stuffed back that black, soft, gel-like substance he had just pulled from his bag, deeper and deeper.
Sadly, Lu Feng wasn’t one for words; he just nudged Ji Jue, suggesting he say something to ease the awkwardness.
After stuttering for a while, Ji Jue finally squeezed out a business-like warm smile, saying, “Sister, when did you arrive?”
“Hmm, let me think.”
Wen Wen pinched her chin, seemingly pondering, before she couldn’t help but burst into laughter, “From when you said you were trying your best to become a raccoon, not to become something like this…”
“Stop, please!”
Ji Jue felt tension spread throughout his body; even though he was the one who had said that nonsense earlier, his toes instinctively dug into the floor, feeling that this damned parking lot owed him a three-bedroom suite.
“Thank you for your help, sister!”
He coughed for a long time before finally managing to stand up, clasping his hands together: “Rest assured, what happened today, my brother and I definitely won’t spill to cause you any trouble. If the mountain doesn’t turn, the water will flow; fate will bring us together later—”
Before he could finish his sentence, he pulled along Lu Feng, preparing to flee.
Unfortunately, they still didn’t manage to escape.
A document unfolded right before him.
“Let me introduce myself. I am Wen Wen, the head of the Operations Department of the Ya City Safety Bureau, responsible for the patrols of the northern district.”
As she spoke, she held onto both their shoulders and ‘warmly’ invited:
“Let’s find a place to talk?”
Half an hour later, the motorcycle and Ji Jue’s little sheep were left by the roadside.
In the Ya City night market, bustling and lively, the streets were filled with energy.
Slap!
A large jug of ice-cold beer and mountain-high skewers from Dongcheng slammed down before the two of them.
“Here, let’s have a toast—”
Wen Wen was the first to raise her beer mug, tilting her head and gulping it down in one go, letting out a hearty belch before jumping into some crispy beans.
There was no interrogation room, no slogans about honest confessions for leniency, and no theatrics of good cop versus bad cop.
In a daze, Ji Jue and Lu Feng exchanged glances.
“Uh…” Ji Jue began, “Didn’t you say you wanted to ask…?”
Before he could finish, a mug of beer was already shoved into his hands, crashing it with a cheerful clink, while Wen Wen waved her head dismissively: “At this time, it’s off duty. Why rush to clock in overtime? Drink!”
Ji Jue was at a loss for words.
At this point, he couldn’t bring himself to say that he didn’t know how to drink at all!
Unknowingly, they swapped beers for reds, then reds for whites, and after downing who-knows-how-many cups, Ji Jue rested his head on the table, feeling that this sister’s capacity for liquor truly matched her vastness of heart.
Then, he remembered nothing more.
He had passed out.
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(End of Chapter)