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Chapter 118 - 118 110 Things Hurt Their Own Kind
Chapter 118 - 118 110 Things Hurt Their Own Kind
?Chapter 118: 110 Things Hurt Their Own Kind Chapter 118: 110 Things Hurt Their Own Kind Lin An sometimes had great admiration for an old hand like Mr. Liu in society, who always had ideas for many things, which was why the junior boss valued him so highly.
Take this time for example, he had asked Mr. Liu for money twice, once for a million and another time, five hundred thousand.
Mr. Liu didn’t give him cash or make a transfer.
The payment for the million was a master’s ink painting with a very transparent market value, the kind that was particularly easy to offload.
As long as it was guaranteed to be authentic, the price was calculated by size; a ruler was all it took to determine its value.
And the five hundred thousand was even more interesting.
It turned out to be a set of properties deeply entangled in triangular debts, the details of which he explained, but Lin An listened with a completely bewildered face.
However, Lin An didn’t need to do much; he just needed to find a law firm to help, submit a few documents that had been prepared to the Imperial Dali Temple, and he would be able to free up these properties within a month.
Then, acting as the representative of the original property owner’s shell company, he entrusted it to a real estate agent.
This type of small single apartment located on the outskirts of the city near the university town was always in demand and could be sold quickly.
The general price would fluctuate between 450,000 and 550,000.
Additionally, to compensate for the inconvenience of the process, he also got a small van embroiled in equally confusing debt as a bonus, an asset of the original property owner’s shell company.
It was truly miraculous how layers of debt could leave a set of properties and a vehicle unclaimed but still freely usable.
Because of the shell company’s complex issues and historical legacy issues, it, too, was in a state that Lin An did not understand.
Very complicated.
But Lin An was very satisfied.
Since his encounter with the Supernatural World, his mind had always been tense, and he desperately needed such places to act as ‘bolt-holes’ and to easily fabricate an identity that even the junior boss wouldn’t know about.
The best part was that this property was just over a kilometer in a straight line from his residential complex.
The reason he mentioned a straight line was that there was a stretch of Yunlu Mountain between where he lived and the university town where the property was located, which blocked traffic.
But if he transformed into a black cat, he could actually get there quickly by overcoming the mountains.
Moreover…
He had just been thinking about getting a convenient vehicle for outing and handling some matters, and here Mr. Liu had delivered a van right to him.
He was truly a good Samaritan!
Delightful!
Perhaps it was precisely because Mr. Liu was also an undercover operative that he could supply such items that perfectly suited his tastes.
Others might not be satisfied with such a trade.
Lin An had asked Mr. Liu’s Spiritual Grey Wolf; aside from Mr. Liu himself, nobody knew about the painting, properties, van, or shell company.
Now, if he just killed Mr. Liu, he could take these things out for use.
Awesome~
The torrential rain in the city didn’t last long, but there was still a drizzle lingering after the downpour, and Lin An, in the form of a black cat, wandered the corners of the city.
Sometimes he felt he was really no good; he had clearly planned to come out and find some exciting trouble.
Yet, just threatening Mr. Liu and working out some compensation seemed to have already given him an extraordinary sense of satisfaction.
He had clearly seen, through ‘Sky-Scanning Eyes’, quite a few very stimulating and energizing places along the way…
How stupid~
His heart clung to some utterly meaningless bottom lines~
What’s the point?
While berating himself, his feet didn’t hesitate to continue moving forward.
…
Lin An quickly witnessed the most thrilling scene.
He swore he might never forget the subtle feelings he had when he saw that scene for the rest of his life.
The next day, Lin An arrived at the company early to work, reviewed the special project team’s progress on the green-skinned creature, and once again offered some suggestions and directions before returning to his office to expedite the rendering of Mr. Liu’s grey wolf’s grey-blue fur portrait.
In the afternoon, he followed the young boss’s car to the slaughterhouse deep within the industrial zone again.
At this moment, he was extremely grateful that he had gone to look for Shu Yun the night before and received Chen Xinmi’s help to suppress the emotional wildfire boiling within him.
Otherwise, coming here would have been like delivering oneself on a platter.
But he soon lost the mood to concern himself with these matters.
Professor Cao and Doctor Zhang were at the slaughterhouse. After they arrived, they took Lin An and the young boss to the front of a freezer.
Opening the door, cold air crazily drifted towards the scorching summer sky.
And inside…
There was a goat that had been frozen in a very strange posture.
A goat’s head, crocodile feet, cheetah’s tail, and black stripes on the goat’s body resembling those of a zebra.
This creature was huge, standing on all fours with its shoulders more than two meters off the ground.
Almost the size of an elephant.
“Damn!” the young boss exclaimed in astonishment.
“Wow~” Lin An was also full of astonishment, needing to use this astonishment to cover the shock within his own heart.
This thing…
He had seen it before!
While undercover in ‘Crazy Male Witch’s Tree Hole’, the initial ‘guide’ who appeared, a witch with the codename ‘Xiao Susu’, had a spiritual essence similar to this thing. (96)
With a high-intensity use of spiritual essence to aid his brain, Lin An quickly recalled every detail from his memories, leading to many associations.
But he still wore an astonished face, looking incredulously at Doctor Zhang who was giggling beside him like two youngsters who had never seen the world, “What… what is this?”
Doctor Zhang raised an eyebrow and said softly, “Sorcerer Zombie!”
Is… is that so?
Lin An felt his mind was in chaos.
Yet it was so clear.
He knew that the ‘Xiao Susu’ witch didn’t look too mad, and perhaps he wasn’t a very powerful wizard to begin with.
But it was precisely because of this, Lin An was very certain that this guy couldn’t possibly have reached the level of a Sorcerer Zombie so quickly.
Thinking back to what Shu Yun had previously mentioned about the Animal Husbandry Faction…
——”…under certain conditions, they torture the imprisoned witches, accelerating their emotional extremity, turning them into Sorcerer Zombies as quickly as possible. Then they strip the materials from the Sorcerer Zombies and cast them into the Furnace to aid their own cultivation. …”(62)
He could imagine what the ‘Xiao Susu’ witch had endured.
Their last meeting was only a day or two ago, and now he appeared before him in the strange form of a Sorcerer Zombie creature.
He felt a crazy frustration…
He was even filled with anger…
He felt a kind of sorrow for his kind…
He inexplicably felt a sourness in his heart…
Because, after all, he was a wizard too!
But all of these feelings, along with the frustration in his heart, seemed to swirl around his mind for a moment and then slowly dissipated.
His wildly fluctuating emotions were stuck in his chest, giving him a suffocating sensation.
He felt very sad, and he was also somewhat grateful that his dulled emotions did not stoke the sinister fire in his chest, preventing him from exposing himself, and so he felt even sadder.
Lin An tried hard to stretch his mouth into a smile, “Oh~, so this is a Sorcerer Zombie.”
The young boss was clearly someone capable of considering these matters as well, as he looked at the creature before him with increasingly complex eyes and pressed his lips together without speaking.