Chapter 41: No wonder you’re my opponent!
Fortunately, the gentle man who had been persuading her earlier had quietly approached the girl at some point. The moment the girl’s mother rushed over, he knew something was wrong and lunged forward, carrying the girl down.
Seeing this, Xia Feng used the Left-Right Foot Step Heaven Ascension, spiraling upwards in a somewhat awkward manner.
Fortunately, no one could see him. Otherwise, everyone would have seen a black-robed person wearing a bizarre Spade mask slowly ascending into the sky, left foot stepping on the right, and right foot stepping on the left.
Arriving on the fourth floor, Xia Feng made up his mind never to use such a ridiculous method of flight again!
As he was thinking, he heard a crisp, angry slap.
“Slap!!” The middle-aged woman slapped the girl across the face, her trembling voice filled with rage, “Ungrateful thing! After raising you for so many years, how could I raise such a thing!”
The girl’s hair strands danced with the wind, her head tilted, and her dark eyes completely lost their luster. At this moment, the scolding of the surrounding world faded into silence amidst the dizziness and ringing in her ears. She just watched the middle-aged woman’s mouth open and close, and was pushed forward like a puppet as people pulled her.
“Alright, alright, calm down.” Her husband frowned and pulled the agitated middle-aged woman away. “I told you long ago, she never intended to jump. Otherwise, she would have already.”
Xia Feng stood at a high vantage point, frowning at the oppressive scene that made one want to curse. He keenly perceived that with his mother’s slap and his father’s indifferent words, the Calamity Force within the girl began to grow and spread rapidly!
“Argue, argue! Shut up, all of you!” The gentle man suddenly roared. He could no longer stand the couple’s words. “I’ve already told you, your daughter might have Calamity Disease, a mental illness! You’re only worsening her condition!”
“Calamity Disease? How could our daughter have Calamity Disease when she has good food and clothing?!” The middle-aged woman was enraged upon hearing this. She gave the man an unhappy glance and forcefully pushed her daughter forward towards the stairs. “I think this girl is just putting on a show! Hurry up, I’ll deal with you when we get home!”
Xia Feng had heard of Calamity Disease. It was said that some humans in extremely suppressed emotional states, upon contact with Calamity Force, would become infected by the Calamity Aura and contract this mental illness called Calamity Disease.
The symptoms of this disease varied, but most had suicidal tendencies.
Furthermore, as the symptoms deepened, the sufferers might even mutate, becoming a half-beast, half-human creature known as a Calamity Eater.
Calamity Eaters were ostracized and discriminated against in the Emperor’s citizens’ minds, and consequently, sufferers of Calamity Disease were also unwelcome.
It was the kind of unwelcome that involved being secretly gossiped about, isolated, ridiculed, and even bullied by classmates at school.
“Whoosh— Whoosh—”
Just then, two breaking sounds came from a distance.
“Damn it, stop!”
Everyone turned their heads and saw a black-robed person wearing a Red Spade mask leaping and running between buildings, slightly bent over, with a murderous Holy Department agent in hot pursuit.
Upon seeing this scene, the crowd showed no reaction, lowering their heads and continuing with what they were doing.
Such chase scenes were commonplace on Blood Calamity Street, and black-robed figures were seen everywhere, so there was nothing to be surprised about.
“You’re courting death again, aren’t you!!”
A cursing voice exploded. Xia Feng turned his head at the sound, and his heart skipped a beat.
“Bang—”
Her white dress fluttering, the girl leaped and disappeared from the tiled platform with a soft thud of landing.
The low laughter and murmurs in the crowd abruptly stopped, and the scene fell into dead silence.
No one saw when the girl went back up. Some people just found it incomprehensible. Why did she suddenly jump for real?
The middle-aged woman’s face turned ashen white as she stood frozen in place. She also couldn’t comprehend it. How could she have jumped?
She parted her lips, looked at the gentle man in disbelief, and stammered, “It’s you! You said my daughter was crazy, and that’s why she jumped!”
“Give me back my daughter! You demon, give me back my daughter!!” She grabbed the gentle man and started to make a scene like a madwoman.
“Damn it! No, no—” Xia Feng sighed, holding his forehead. “If I keep watching, my blood pressure will go up.”
While contemplating, he closed his eyes and concentrated, then opened them again—
Like shattered glass, the scene before him slowly faded, revealing its original appearance. The girl in the white dress had just been slapped. She stood there with her head tilted and her eyes vacant, while the people around her also stood in a daze.
“As expected, I was unknowingly dragged into an illusion.” Xia Feng looked around thoughtfully.
He had been looking for the Nightmare Beast hiding in the shadows. When he ascended to the fourth floor, he suddenly felt a mental fluctuation.
If it were an ordinary First-stage Spirit Master, they might have fallen for it, but he was a Mu Shen Brand First-stage Spirit Master with incredibly high Mental Power. Such a small illusion was easily seen through by him.
However, because of this, he was forced out of his concealment, and his black-robed figure appeared on the rooftop.
Rustle—
With the sound of leaves rustling, Xia Feng turned his head and found that on a large tree not far away, another black-robed person wearing a Red Spade mask was also standing, quietly staring at him.
“Hiss— I actually fell for it…”
The Holy Department agent who had been chasing them also emerged from the illusion. He rubbed his head and muttered, “This illusion is quite potent, my head hurts so much.”
He cursed and opened his eyes, then was stunned because two black-robed figures, one Red Spade and one Spade, turned their heads to look at him.
W-What’s going on? The agent’s pupils contracted sharply, and he was greatly alarmed. Was this a trap?
!
The Red Spade actually had an accomplice!
With this thought, his mood worsened. One Red Spade was already enough trouble for him, and now another Spade?
Is this a joke?!
Xia Feng recognized this man. He was the same agent who had chased Mu Qingtong into the academy last time.
After thinking for a moment, just as he was about to speak, he saw the expression on the agent’s face change dramatically before he turned and ran. In the blink of an eye, he disappeared into the sky like a meteor.
“Red Spade and Spade! Just you wait, justice will never be absent! I will return!”
Xia Feng: “.”
Mu Qingtong ignored the agent. She calmly turned her head back and stared intently at the Spade mask.
She naturally recognized that the Spade person was using the ‘Bronze Mask’!
The Bronze Mask was her own creation, and she had only given it to Xia Feng.
Therefore, it was obvious that this mysterious Spade person was her cheap fiancé.
However, what surprised her even more was that Xia Feng had actually improved the Bronze Mask into a D-class Spirit Artifact that prevented scrying.
All she could say was… No wonder you’re my opponent!
She felt a sense of recognition mixed with surprise.
“Mmm…” Xia Feng coughed, not revealing Mu Qingtong’s identity. Instead, he spoke first in a mechanical, muffled voice, “Do you know what’s going on here?”
The Red Spade glanced at the stunned crowd, and a similarly muffled, neutral voice came from the mask:
“Calamity Eater experiment. Someone is using Illusory Calamity to conduct a Calamity Eater experiment. They probably want to turn this girl in the white dress into a Calamity Eater. The soul of a Calamity Eater is a very rare Spirit Material with a wide range of uses.”
“Clap—Clap—Clap!” Crisp clapping sounds rang out. At the same time, a man walked out from behind the girl in the white dress and chuckled,
“You guessed correctly. It seems you two know a lot about the Calamity Eater experiment. Are you perhaps fellow practitioners?”
Dinner, Chapter Two will be updated at 12 o’clock.
