Chapter 495: Chapter 314: Hermaphrodite!

“Kidnapping?”

Tang Fei’s heart suddenly tightened.

He himself wasn’t afraid of much, believing he had ample ability to protect himself.

Unless the opponent was from the Grandmaster Realm.

If possible, he wouldn’t mind chopping those who repeatedly came after him into mincemeat.

But what about Sheng Xinhua?

Sheng Xinhua was a teacher at the Imperial First Military Academy, with no martial arts experience, nor was she a Cultivator.

Her body was soft and tender…

Tang Fei had never truly laid his hands on her, but Sheng Xinhua’s softness was obvious at a glance.

As fragile as paper.

One slash, and it would tear and bleed.

Tang Fei couldn’t just look out for himself; he had to consider Sheng Xinhua’s safety.

What if a fight broke out and Mr. Sheng got hurt?

Tang Fei didn’t have many friends on New Star, but Sheng Xinhua was definitely one of them.

Although her initial kindness to him started because of Phoenix, after more interactions, they had established a very deep friendship.

After all, she was, nominally, his rumored girlfriend.

Apart from Phoenix and Little Fatty, she was someone he wanted to protect.

“Tang Fei…”

Caught off guard, Sheng Xinhua’s mind blanked for a moment, then she quickly called out Tang Fei’s name.

No matter how independent and strong-willed, when faced with life-threatening danger, the first instinct was to hope for a solid support.

Without a doubt, the Tang Fei beside her was the best choice.

“Don’t worry, I’m here,” Tang Fei said reassuringly.

He had gone to meet Zhong Daolong today without carrying any firearms, but the Yin Jiao sword was with him.

It was just that he had to go through a security check and surrender all weapons when entering the palace for an audience.

Who would have thought someone would dare to make a move on him at this time?

Logically, it should have been Imperial Guard vehicles escorting him back.

Kidnapping an Imperial Guard vehicle, what was the difference from committing treason?

Tang Fei realized that as long as he carried this Yin Jiao sword and had close contact with it,

A trace of coolness would seep into his body, stirring up the Qi inside him and naturally forming the circulation of numerous small and grand heavenly cycles.

Of course, Tang Fei had also discussed with the old man what this was all about.

Both of them tended to believe it was the “Dragon Qi” of Yin Jiao, which lived in the Burial Land for millions of years, subsisting on the decaying Qi from beneath the ground.

Day by day, the snake became a Jiaolong, and the Jiaolong grew horns, yearning to transform into a true Dragon.

Unfortunately, at a critical moment, it was slain by Tang Fei and Shen Xinglan working together.

Shen Xinglan got its Dragon Crystal organs, while Tang Fei dug out its Dragon Horn.

Tang Fei had originally thought the essence of Yin Jiao was contained in the Dragon Crystal, but he never imagined that this Dragon Horn was the real rare treasure.

A Dragon Horn that grows an inch every hundred years, how many years must it have been for such an ancient creature to have horns long enough to make a treasured sword?

That is to say, whether Tang Fei was eating or sleeping, sitting in a car or squatting in the bathroom, as long as he carried the Yin Jiao sword with him, wasn’t that the same as cultivating?

He clearly felt the Yin Yang Qi within his body becoming more vigorous and robust, with a sense of joy like improving day by day.

Heavenly System?

What was the difference between such a cheating-like method of cultivation and the Heavenly System?

Only the system kept buzzing annoyingly in his head, which seemed very silly and adolescent.

His was naturally effortless, a treasure that came into being for the virtuous.

Tang Fei felt like he truly had a compassionate heart.

The car was devoured by an octopus while speeding, and it was still in a state of high-speed motion.

The engine, striving to drag them forward, was firmly anchored in place by the two titanium tongues.

Thus, the car’s body emitted a humming vibration.

Sheng Xinhua tried to unbuckle her seatbelt across her chest but was stopped by Tang Fei’s hand.

They had been swallowed into the belly of the octopus, where it was pitch black, and one couldn’t see their hand before their face.

But that was only for ordinary people.

With Tang Fei’s current level of Cultivation Realm and his long-term training in the Ghost Prison, where every day presented conditions far more severe than this, seeing in the dark was merely a basic skill.

“Don’t unbuckle it,” said Tang Fei, his hand on her chest, “Be careful of impact.”

If a real fight broke out, Sheng Xinhua would naturally be safer buckled in.

“Impact?” Sheng Xinhua did not understand.

They were already caged; what more could cause an impact?

Tang Fei assessed the surroundings and spoke, “Close the windows.”

Sheng Xinhua drove a sports car, which was great for many things, but the exposed space was just too much.

It left one feeling very insecure.

The enemy had “locked” them inside this car, surely they would not stop there.

In case they used poison…

Before he could finish, a thick fog sprayed toward them.

“Don’t breathe,” Tang Fei urgently warned, reaching out to cover Sheng Xinhua’s mouth and nose.

Unfortunately, Sheng Xinhua had already inhaled that pervasive mist.

Feeling dizzy and experiencing a headache, his eyes blacked out and he slumped over the steering wheel.

Tang Fei held his breath for a while, but eventually he too collapsed weakly into the seat.

——

Crab Valley.

This was a valley located in the northwestern corner of Phoenix City; from a bird’s-eye view, the entire valley resembled a massive crab.

With two pincers stretching out front and back, the widest part in the middle was the belly of the crab.

Crab Valley served as a landfill, where the residential and industrial waste of Phoenix City was piled up.

Once it accumulated to a certain scale and the crab’s belly was sufficiently engorged, garbage transport ships would haul it to neighboring planets.

Before or after the great disaster, waste disposal remained a vexing issue.

It required a great deal of human and financial resources to resolve.

The Octopus Car sped along and only stopped upon reaching the edge of a cliff at Crab Valley.

The driver’s cabin door was pushed open, and a muscular middle-aged man walked to the edge of the cliff, looked down, and said with a smile, “Just throw them down? They’ve been drugged; that’s enough to knock them out for seven days and seven nights… by the time they wake up… oh, I almost forgot, they’ll never wake up again.”

As he spoke, the passenger’s seat door silently swung open.

Strangely, there was no sign of anyone getting out of the vehicle.

The man reached into his pocket, took out a cigarette, and was about to light it when the cigarette mysteriously disappeared from his lips.

The flame that was meant to light it lashed out at empty air; he turned around looking at the surrounding shadows and asked in a deep voice, “What’s the meaning of this?”

“You don’t want to live anymore? Do you know who they are?” A voice came from the shadows, sounding neither entirely male nor female, bizarrely and creepily as if a man were pinching his throat to imitate a woman’s speech.

Sticky and dripping, it was unsettling to the listener, evoking an extreme discomfort.

“If you carelessly leave a cigarette butt or ash, and it accidentally picks up your fingerprints or DNA… the only thing waiting for you is a one-way trip to death, not even the gods could save you.”

“If I dared to take the cigarette out, of course, I would take care of any aftermath,” the man retorted with a mocking smile, “Mr. Mo has roamed the Jianghu for so many years, those who wish to catch my tail won’t even find the door.”

“Zhuge lived a life of caution, and I don’t want any flaws in my plans,” came the commanding yet effeminate voice from the shadows: “So, when I say no smoking, you don’t smoke.”

“Who do you think you are? We’re partners, not master and slave; I don’t need to take your orders.”

“You’re not even worthy to be my slave.”

“You…”

“Release them.” The Yin Yang person didn’t want to waste time on such matters and directly issued an order.

“What? You don’t trust it?”

“That woman isn’t much of a threat, but Tang Fei… he is a Cultivator, his level of strength is extraordinary… I worry that the poison won’t hold him, and he’ll find a chance to escape.”

“I sprayed ‘Thousand Mechanism Powder’; with such a large dose… even a Great Grandmaster would be brought down.” Mo Fan argued back, but obediently went ahead and opened the wide mouth of the Octopus Car.

“That’s because you know nothing about the power of a Great Grandmaster,” the Yin Yang person sneered.

Mo Fan fumbled in his tool bag for a flashlight and shone it into the gaping maw of the Octopus Car.

Inside the red sports car, Sheng Xinhua was sound asleep on the steering wheel, and it seemed that he wouldn’t be waking up anytime soon.

But what about Tang Fei?

Tang Fei, who should have been sitting in the passenger seat, had vanished without a trace, as if he had never set foot in the car at all.

Startled, Mo Fan hurried toward the mouth of the Octopus Car, flashlight in hand.

A slit had formed in the back wall of the Octopus’s mouth; it must have been through that Tang Fei had made his escape.

“Tang Fei has run off,” Mo Fan called out.

“I see,” the Yin Yang person said coldly. “Didn’t you say your Thousand Mechanism Powder could bring down even a Great Grandmaster?”

“Who knew how he managed that? We know the limits of Tang Fei’s Cultivation Realm… at most a top-grade Wishful.”

“Without advancing to the Grandmaster Realm, internal circulation is impossible… So how come such a large dose of Thousand Mechanism Powder didn’t bring him down?”

“And another thing, I built this car’s container with Triple Moon Gold… how did he manage to cut through it?”

“What’s the point of discussing all this now? The most important thing is that Tang Fei has already escaped… What good is just having a Sheng Xinhua?” the Yin Yang person exclaimed angrily.

After a moment of contemplation, Mo Fan spoke, “Even if the Thousand Mechanism Powder didn’t knock him out, it must have left him weak… Once afflicted by the powder, it can instantly seal the Qi gates and primary and secondary acupoints, making it difficult for one’s Yin Yang Qi to circulate.”

“Otherwise, there’s no reason he would abandon Sheng Xinhua and flee alone… She is, after all, the daughter of the Finance Minister’s house.”

“What exactly are you trying to say?”

“If we go back to look for them, perhaps there’s still a chance.”

“How could that be possible?” The Yin Yang person scoffed repeatedly, saying, “We’ve forcefully kidnapped someone; Phoenix City must be in complete chaos by now. Going back to search for people at this time would be walking into a trap, wouldn’t it?”

“This won’t do, that won’t do… so what do you suggest?”

“Kill Sheng Xinhua first, we can’t leave this woman alive,” the Yin Yang person said firmly. “Having laid hands on the daughter of the Finance Minister… It will be troublesome if they catch onto us.”

“What a pity,” Mo Yan knew that Sheng Xinhua was stunningly beautiful, appraised by the lovestruck Jie Wen as “a fragrance beyond fragrance.”

To think that such a beauty would have to bury her life here, any normal man would feel a sense of regret.

Except for some who were not normal.

“If you’re not afraid of dying, you could take her back with you and enjoy her to your heart’s content,” the Yin Yang person sarcastically suggested.

“Let’s forget about it. I’m not so fortunate as to be able to indulge in such a woman.”

Mo Fan climbed into the driver’s cabin, preparing to launch the red sports car out from the belly of the Octopus Car.

Sheng Xinhua, already unconscious, would be thrown from this cliff, dozens of meters high, into the valley below, where only death likely awaited her.

By the time the Sheng Family arrived, there would probably be no remains left to find.

The dump was home to more than just trash. Rats, mountain wolves, and various other fierce creatures would not pass up any food they could find.

Just as Mo Fan was about to press the launch button, a cold, sharp weapon pressed against his neck.

“If I were you…” Tang Fei sat up from the back seat, saying fiercely, “I wouldn’t engage in such dangerous actions.”