Chapter 11 : The Truth Behind the Life-Draining Cheat!
Chapter 11 : The Truth Behind the Life-Draining Cheat!
The Truth Behind the Life-Draining Cheat!
Chu Tianxing loved life and cherished his existence. He had no interest in some cheat that would literally cost him his life.
Seeing that the guy was trying to force his hand, Chu Tianxing didn't waste time with more bullshit. He activated the Snake-Crawl Raccoon-Tumble technique again, dropping to all fours like a leopard, then shot toward the grove's edge at incredible speed.
Earlier when he'd used this movement technique, one burst had nearly drained all his stamina. But this kind of explosive drain recovered as quickly as it depleted. That madman had spent a good while rambling earlier, giving him time to recover. Now he had enough energy to use his movement technique again.
The man couldn't help but laugh as he watched Chu Tianxing dart away with feline agility.
"Interesting movement technique you've got there. Too bad you don't have any internal energy. You can leave ordinary people in the dust with that technique, but in front of me? That’s a tad too slow!”
As he spoke, his feet moved and he crossed over ten meters in a single step. In two steps or so, and he had already caught up to Chu Tianxing and reached out his massive hand to grab Chu Tianxing by the shoulder.
As if he had eyes in the back of his head, Chu Tianxing leapt diagonally away to avoid the grab without even looking back.
"Excellent! I knew I wasn't wrong! You really do have that superhuman intuition talent!"
Rather than getting annoyed, the man smiled with satisfaction. Like a shadow, he stayed right behind Chu Tianxing and struck out with another claw.
This time, as his fan-like palm shot out, an invisible suction force emanated from his palm and enveloped Chu Tianxing from a distance. Suddenly, Chu Tianxing felt like he was stuck in a swamp, every movement difficult, his agility nowhere near what it had been before.
"Your intuition talent is strong, but your martial skill is too weak. Even if you can instinctively predict my every move, I could simply suppress you through the gap between our power and there is nothing you can do!”
Before his voice had even faded, the man's hand had already just about touched Chu Tianxing's shoulder. In just another second, his five fingers would clamp down and hold him tight.
At this critical moment, a white light suddenly shot forward, accompanied by a sharp cutting sound through the air as it slashed toward the man's wrist.
The man's expression shifted slightly as he quickly pulled his hand back, barely avoiding the white light's strike.
The missed white light hit a small tree nearby and cut the bowl-thick trunk clean in half. But no blade was left behind at the scene; the tree's cut surface only showed a layer of wet moisture.
With this white light's interference, the invisible suction force around Chu Tianxing suddenly vanished. He immediately regained his agility and with a few bounds, shot more than ten meters away.
But after that desperate burst, his stamina was nearly depleted again. He had to stop his movement technique and catch his breath. He wiped the sweat streaming down his forehead and looked toward the newcomer who had shown up at the perfect moment to mess with the situation and save his ass.
What he saw made him freeze for a moment.
It’s because the newcomer was actually someone wearing a white trenchcoat with shoulder-length hair, a pretty face, seductive eyes... but it was a... man?
A flat chest and an Adam's apple—if not a man, what else could he be?
Isn't this what they call a 'trap'?
As Chu Tianxing muttered to himself, the white-clothed person holding a small decorative parasol in the middle of the woods first nodded and smiled at Chu Tianxing. He then turned to the madman and spoke in a slightly feminine but not unpleasant voice.
"Feng Yufei, you have nowhere left to run. Why don't you just surrender?"
The lunatic named Feng Yufei glared at the white-clothed person with an ugly expression, his eyes filled with disbelief. "Who are you? And how did you find me?"
The white-clothed person didn't put on any airs and answered straightforwardly. "My name is Gu Dongcang. I'm from the Eastern Depot, assigned to your case and specifically responsible for bringing you to justice."
Someone from the Eastern Depot?
Didn't the internet say that because eunuchs were too inhumane, the Eastern Depot stopped having real eunuchs over a hundred years ago? And nowadays, the Eastern Depot wasn't even a secret service directly under the emperor anymore, but has become a special department responsible for homeland security.
Come to think of it, even back in ancient times, while the Eastern Depot's leaders were eunuchs, most of the field operatives were normal people. Many of the personnel were veteran agents directly transferred from the Embroidered Uniform Guard when the Eastern Depot was first established.
So why does this Gu Dongcang from the Eastern Depot... look so much like a classic eunuch?
The 'Flower of the Eastern Depot' type, no less...
Chu Tianxing wondered to himself. Although he tried his best to restrain himself, he couldn't help but instinctively glance toward Gu Dongcang's lower body.
As it turned out, Gu Dongcang caught that glance. His lips curved into a subtle smile as he gave Chu Tianxing a rather meaningful look that sent chills down his spine.
Meanwhile, Feng Yufei's face had turned ashen as he stared at Gu Dongcang.
"Someone from the Eastern Depot? I have Future Sight! I can see the future and avoid danger before it arrives. Even True Qi Realm martial artists can't track me down. You might have some skills, and that move just now used actual water to achieve something similar to a water-type True Qi, but with just your abilities, how could you possibly find me?"
Gu Dongcang smiled slightly.
"Feng Yufei, you're seriously delusional if you still believe in that so-called Future Sight even now. Even Astral Qi Realm powerhouses who are like living gods can't see the future. What makes you think you're more special than them?"
Feng Yufei's eyes turned slightly red as he gritted his teeth.
"What do you know? If I can't see the future, how could I repeatedly avoid the traps set by the Embroidered Uniform Guard in advance and escape with ease? How could I slip away time and again from True Qi Realm experts pursuing me? It's because I saw the future and knew about the danger beforehand!"
Gu Dongcang smiled. "It seems you don't have a clear understanding of what's actually happening to you. I won't argue with you about it. Let me just ask you this. Do you remember what the people you killed looked like after they died?"
Feng Yufei replied, "What could they have turned into? Although I killed them, I only shattered their hearts with a single strike. I neither tortured them before their death nor did I desecrate their corpses. The bodies of all the deceased were perfectly intact."
After a pause, he emphasised, "Everyone I killed would have brought disaster to the country and its people in the future. I was carrying out heaven's will, using my own life to save those future victims."
Hearing this, Gu Dongcang sighed softly. "You... you're deeply possessed by evil, yet you don't even realize it..."
As he spoke, he pulled several photographs from his coat and tossed them toward Feng Yufei.
"These people died by your hand. Take a good look at what they actually became."
Feng Yufei cautiously caught the photos and looked at them. His eyes immediately bulged and his expression changed dramatically.
"No... impossible!"
His hands trembled as he stammered, "I clearly only... only shattered their hearts... How could they... become like this?"
The corpses in those photos were all withered flesh and bone, looking like mummies that had been weathered for years.
Moreover, their eyes were bulging and their faces were twisted, clearly having died in extreme pain. This was completely different from Feng Yufei's claim that the bodies were preserved intact and the victims weren't tortured before death.
"You can't even remember how you actually killed people, yet you still firmly believe you can see the future?"
Gu Dongcang sighed.
"Feng Yufei, you're actually possessed by an evil entity. Your so-called Future Sight, your ability to sense and avoid danger—it's all that evil thing's doing. You think those people you killed were all future threats who would bring disaster to the country, but you don't realize that's also the evil entity manipulating you.”
"Every time you use that evil entity's power, it devours a portion of your life essence and spirit. That's why you're dying. And those people who died by your hand also had their life essence drained by the evil entity possessing you.”
"The reason I was able to track you down is simply because I have methods that can restrain that evil entity's power, so you couldn't 'foresee' my arrival and avoid danger like before.
"Feng Yufei, if you still fancy yourself a righteous hero, then surrender. Come with me to the Eastern Depot. We have ways to remove the evil entity from your body and help you regain clarity."
Hearing this, Chu Tianxing felt secretly relieved.
Good thing I stood firm and didn't get swayed by that Feng Yufei guy.
Otherwise, wouldn't I have become that evil entity's next host and gone crazy like Feng Yufei?
Going crazy would be bad enough, but the key thing is I'd be using my own life to feed that evil entity while thinking I was doing something great and righteous.
Just thinking about it was depressing.
However, Feng Yufei didn't see it that way.
Gu Dongcang's words initially shook Feng Yufei a bit, and there was a hint of regret in his eyes.
But as a blood-red light flashed through his pupils, his expression became firm again and his gaze revealed even more madness.
He lowered his head and squeezed the photographs fiercely in his hand. With a soft puff, he crushed them all into a fine powder.
Opening his hand and letting the powder fall from his palm, he growled through gritted teeth.
"I don't believe it... These photos are all fake! Trying to shake my will and crush my beliefs with some forged pictures? You underestimate me!"
He suddenly raised his head, his twisted face revealed a pair of blood-red eyes as he stared at Gu Dongcang.
"Gu Dongcang, right? My eyes have seen your future. In the future, you'll hold power over everything, levy heavy taxes, start wars, and bring disaster to the country and people! A scourge like you shouldn't be allowed to live! Go to hell!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he lifted his foot and stomped hard. The ground shook as his body shot forward like a cannonball and instantly closed the distance between them. His fists came down like meteors in a continuous barrage toward Gu Dongcang.
"What a stubborn fool."
Gu Dongcang sighed softly. The hand that had been in his pocket suddenly shot out to form a blade-like stance with his fingers before thrusting forward swiftly.
His hand-blade was like unstoppable wind, cutting through Feng Yufei's cascading punches with ease. First, he lightly touched Feng Yufei’s left wrist, then suddenly twisted to strike his right wrist.
A crisp sound of breaking bone rang out as Feng Yufei's hands went limp to his sides. Gu Dongcang had broken both his wrist bones with his hand-blade strike.
Feng Yufei's eyes were wide with utter disbelief. He clearly had never imagined that Gu Dongcang would be this strong. His realm is clearly more than one level above his own.
But even though his hands were crippled in a single exchange, Feng Yufei showed no signs of despair. Instead, he grinned wickedly.
"Looks like I'm definitely dying today. But my will, my beliefs, won't end here! Gu Dongcang, does the current Eastern Depot still dare to kill innocents indiscriminately?"
The moment his voice fell, he let out a furious roar. With a loud bang, a hole actually exploded open the crown of his head and from that hole, a semi-transparent blood-red shadow suddenly flew out and bolted toward Chu Tianxing.
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