(Strike)
The brat moved his feet and was about to flee subconsciously when he recalled that he was already the ghost king, and there was no reason to be scared of Shen Dongqing anymore, so he boldly met him head-on.
His feet then left the ground, and he was immediately pulled up by Shen Dongqing.
The brat was dumbfounded: “Huh?”
Shen Dongqing stepped on the stool and spanked the brat twice on his ass, the sound reverberating loudly.
The brat’s eyes turned red, and he endured and endured, but he couldn’t help but cry out with a “waah-”
Shen Dongqing was holding back his stomachful of anger, but when he heard the sound of weeping, he laughed again: “You still want to play dirty tricks and become Ghost King with only this little courage?”
“Don’t I just want to be the ghost king?” the brat exclaimed after gasping for breath and hiccuping.
Shen Dongqing spanked him again, directly interrupting his words: “Then explain why you want to be the ghost king to me.”
The brat responded instantly, “Style, prestige.”
Shen Dongqing: “What else?”
The brat eagerly glanced up at him, but he couldn’t think of any additional advantages to his surprise, so he could only say, “Nothing more…”
Shen Dongqing: “Is that it? You’re like this and still want to be Ghost King?”
“I just want to be one!” grumbled the brat.
Shen Dongqing delivered two further smacks: “Stop dreaming.”
The brat’s eyes welled up with tears: “Wh..why? You used to be the ghost king, but now that you’re a human, it’s my turn!”
“What are you saying?” Shen Dongqing put the brat on the ground and patted the dust off his hands, “You are not even a ghost and you want to be Ghost King, are you kidding me?”
The brat was shocked: “I’m not a ghost?!”
His worldview was shattered.
Shen Dongqing: “You’re not.”
The brat was in a daze and was unable to control the massive figure behind him. When the massive yin energy figure escaped his control, the entire black mass whirled and gradually revealed a malevolent form with a horrific face and fangs. It had a pair of scarlet eyes that were glaring menacingly at Shen Dongqing.
In comparison to this Giant Shadow, Shen Dongqing was as insignificant as an ant. Giant Shadow’s palm could smash him into tiny pieces as long as it dropped gently.
Giant Shadow’s blurred face had a mocking expression on it. They saw the black air around it roll, becoming a palm that slapped down unexpectedly.
Shen Dongqing lifted his palm at the same time.
You’re overestimating your ability…
Such a notion raced through Giant Shadow’s thoughts as it proceeded to press its palm down.
The rolling dark mass froze for a moment as two palms, one large and one small, collided, and a horrible wail rang out in the basement.
It wasn’t from Shen Dongqing, but rather from Giant Shadow.
Giant Shadow clearly did not anticipate the situation to be reversed in an instant, and the palm it extended ruptured from within, transforming into pure yin energy.
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An ordinary person could change their profession and become a zombie in an instant if they stayed in this kind of yin energy for two or three seconds, but when Shen Dongqing stood in it, the yin energy was obedient and crouched beside him like a puppy, and even the person next to him who hadn’t done anything was unaffected.
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He seized Giant Shadow and stopped it from fleeing as he spoke.
Shen Dongqing may appear diminutive in comparison to Giant Shadow, but what was amusing was that he simply lifted the massive Giant Shadow in his palm and flung it squarely against the wall, as if throwing noodles.
Bang—
The entire house shook three times, and Giant Shadow became dizzy as well.
“Oh, I’m sorry, I almost wrecked your house,” Shen Dongqing said.
Zhou Wenyan: “It’s fine, wreck it as you wish.”
“That won’t do, this is your house,” Shen Dongqing replied while sorting out Giant Shadow.
“Isn’t my house yours?” remarked Zhou Wenyan, smiling.
Poor Giant Shadow was forced to eat dog food while being beaten, and it attempted to resist in the intervals: “Do you know who I am?”
Shen Dongqing ceased thrashing it and let it begin its performance.
Giant Shadow took the opportunity quickly: “I…I am the ghost king, it’s just that my power has not yet been restored. As long as you let me go, I will let a hundred ghosts be at your disposal in the future. We can sign a contract!”
Giant Shadow was certain that once its title was disclosed, it would deceive those who comprehended this path, and that adding the sweetener of ordering about a hundred ghosts would, in general, make them think about it.
Giant Shadow was full of confidence, but when it looked up, it saw Shen Dongqing laughing.
Shen Dongqing: “Ghost King? I’m also Ghost King.”
Giant Shadow thought he didn’t believe it and hurriedly said: “I really am Ghost King. I’ve been sealed here for a hundred years by fate. I can become Ghost King as long as I break the seal!” He spoke a series of words, attempting to establish his identity as the ghost king.
It didn’t expect Shen Dongqing to only respond lightly: “Are you out of your mind?”
Giant Shadow: ?
Shen Dongqing: “Do you think becoming Ghost King is that easy? Then, if everyone, no, if every ghost buries itself underground for a hundred years, wouldn’t the streets be crawling with ghost kings?”
Giant Shadow was dying to refute him, but what he said made a lot of sense, and there was nowhere to argue with him.
For a while, the atmosphere was utterly awkward.
Thankfully, the ground beneath their feet trembled at this point, relieving the awkwardness.
Zhou Wenyan: “Let’s go, the house is about to collapse.”
Shen Dongqing: “Wait a second. I’ll take care of this.”
Giant Shadow was most likely also an arrangement of the game, thus leaving it like this was not an option. Perhaps the game would still successfully plot it, and a new ghost king would be born.
Giant Shadow insisted, its body quivering uncontrollably, “You can’t kill me, the ghost king is immortal…”
Shen Dongqing reached out and gripped the shoulder of the “ghost king” and showed a simple smile: “Really? Then let me try.”
Giant Shadow: “Try what…”
Before it finished speaking, it felt a flash of pain on its shoulder, and then the yin energy in its body drained fast, all of it following the gash on the shoulder and pouring towards Shen Dongqing’s body, like a faucet being flipped on.
Giant Shadow had decreased by one size in a short amount of time, and in the blink of an eye, Giant Shadow had shrunk to the size of a normal human. If it kept on, it might turn into a dwarf.
Giant Shadow only then reacted: “Im..impossible! Do..don’t—”
Giant Shadow was already the size of a palm when Shen Dongqing withdrew his hand. Shen Dongqing sapped all of its yin energy, leaving only enough to sustain its body.
At this time, the Zhou family’s old house lost the power supporting it and began to collapse.
Zhou Wenyan: “Let’s go.”
Shen Dongqing extended his arm and took Zhou Wenyan’s hand in his. After a few steps, he recalled something and turned around to retrieve the brat who had been left behind.
The brat was surprised when Shen Dongqing turned back to help him, and he was so touched that he mumbled, “I’m sorry…”
“I’ll settle the score with you when we go out!” said Shen Dongqing without looking at him.
Rumble—
The old mansion of the Zhou family collapsed, spreading dust plumes everywhere and shaking the surrounding area.
Fang Qi and Wu Jia stood outside, powerless as the house crumbled and no one emerged.
“No..no way.”
Fang Qi walked inside subconsciously, wanting to know what was going on.
Wu Jia tried to stop him, but he couldn’t, so he had no choice but to go in with Fang Qi.
The two passed through a cloud of dust and came across a ruin where rubble, splintered wood, and steel reinforcing bars overlapped, and the original old house was no longer visible.
“Impossible! They couldn’t not have come out!” Fang Qi said firmly, “I’ll go check.”
Wu Jia also went up to help.
They’d just lifted a wooden plank when they heard a mechanical sound in the air.
[You have cleared…]
A huge amount of information poured into Fang Qi and Wu Jia’s minds. They went into a trance for a bit and then regained their clarity.
“Fuck, the game tricked me!” Wu Jia erupted in profanity.
Fang Qi, too, began to curse.
The game had clearly fooled them all.
They were in the rest area when the game abruptly notified them that there was an urgent special instance to enter, and they were pulled over without being asked for their opinion. Their memory was erased after entering the instance, which was simply asking them to give it away for free.
Wu Jia peered at the ruins after he stopped cursing, but there was still no movement: “It can’t be that they didn’t come out, right?”
Yet he wasn’t that concerned. After all, with Zhou Wenyan and Shen Dongqing’s combined lethality, only the game could be vomiting blood in rage. It was impossible for them to suffer a loss.
Wu Jia had intended to wait for Zhou Wenyan and Shen Dongqing to emerge, but he had no idea the game would teleport them directly. Just as he was about to leave this world, he spotted the two figures emerging from the ruins.
Shen Dongqing crawled out of the ruins, pushing aside a wooden board that was obstructing the exit. “Hack hack—” he coughed as he patted the dust off his body. He was completely covered in dirt. “I’ve written this grudge down.”
To avoid being affected, the brat shook and shrunk his sense of self.
Shen Dongqing remembered his other little friends as he walked out of the ruins: “Where are they?”
“They have cleared the instance,” the brat answered weakly.
He had just heard the game announcement from beneath the ruins.
Shen Dongqing: “How come I didn’t hear it?”
Zhou Wenyan: “Neither did I.”
“Perhaps…you both aren’t players anymore?” speculated the brat.
“Then the game fouled!” exclaimed Shen Dongqing.
He had forgotten a lot of things, but when he acquired the controller, he remembered a few more crucial things, such as how the game was also bound by rules and couldn’t run wild.
For example, if a player died in the game, they could become a part of the instance, but the game could not just transform the player into a NPC in the instance, let alone wipe the player’s memories to make the instance more challenging.
In this instance, the game had almost breached every regulation.
Only, the game’s initial intention was to exploit this instance to trap Shen Dongqing and Zhou Wenyan, after which it would be able to control the game world on its own, therefore it didn’t matter if it fouled or not.
Yet it never expected that all of its calculations would be in vain against Shen Dongqing’s fist. It was presumably vomiting blood at the time.
“Because it fouled, I don’t have to follow the rules either,” Shen Dongqing stated, rubbing his chin.
Both he and the game system had the highest rank in the game world, and both were restricted as part of the mutual supervision and mutual enforcement relationship. He could naturally run amok now that the game had fouled first.
Brat: “What do you want to do?”
“Rebel,” said Shen Dongqing, cocking his head.
Zhou Wenyan: “Rebel how?”
Shen Dongqing: “Unify the NPCs and bosses in the instances and go on a strike together.”
After all, rebuilding a controller was a bit troublesome. To force the game to compromise, it was better to employ a simpler, faster, and cooler method.
Shen Dongqing preferred this style.
The brat reminded him in a low voice: “Will they all listen to you?”
“Not listen?” Shen Dongqing rolled up his sleeves and asked rhetorically, “Do you think they won’t listen?”
“They definitely…won’t, right?” the brat swallowed.
Shen Dongqing displayed his gleaming white teeth: “Not only am I not a violent person, but I’m also reasonable. You see, this game is so deceitful, and there is no security of the five insurances and one fund. Heck, even the safety of one’s life is not guaranteed. Wouldn’t you want to go on strike if it were you?”
The brat thought to himself that the average player may not endanger the NPCs’ lives, that only the NPCs toy with the players, and that the only life threat is probably just you.
But he’d recently angered Shen Dongqing, and now he didn’t dare to speak the truth. He dared merely to say: “You’re right! You said it perfectly.”
After saying this, the brat shot a glance at Zhou Wenyan.
Zhou Wenyan got the message and clapped.
Shen Dongqing: “When reasoning doesn’t work, there’s still time to use your fists.”
The brat cursed silently: Then you might as well just kill all the NPCs, which would be more convenient and quicker.
Shen Dongqing appeared to know what the brat was thinking. He reached out and patted his shoulder, sincerely and earnestly saying: “You must use civilized methods in a civilized world. If your performance is good, I might revoke your punishment.”
“I will definitely perform well!” said the brat promptly as he straightened his back.
The game will surely cry because of its wrong decision in trying to outwit Shen Dongqing.😅
Yes, be good boy!
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Thank you for the chapter
So, what happened to not eating weird stuff, Dongqing? 😂