173: Chapter 173 Nighttime Attack, Mysterious Enemy

Li Yu spent an ordinary yet fulfilling day in cultivation.

Except for his wallet feeling a bit of a sting.

Heaven knows why the compensation for a set of tables and chairs in the company Canteen actually cost 50,000 yuan!

What could 50,000 yuan do?

It could let Bubble absorb two more demon cores, let Li Yu buy several spiritual materials, let Li Yu cultivate one-tenth of a beast, it could...

Well, although 50,000 was nothing to a Beast Tamer or a Breeder, Li Yu still felt the sting; that was the "grievance pay" he had painstakingly saved up from work, and it was gone just like that.

Late at night.

"50,000..."

Li Yu fell asleep in a daze while holding the Spirit Probing Armor, still mumbling.

Just a wall away, Chen Qing changed into her black tight-fitting suit again and gently opened the window.

Unexpectedly, her ears twitched as she heard the sound from the room next door, and a hint of embarrassed red appeared on her cold face.

"How was I supposed to know it was that expensive..."

After muttering to herself, she covered her face with a mask, leaped, and blended into the night.

Under the thin moonlight, Chen Qing was like a pitch-black phantom leaping across rooftops. Every flash took her hundreds of meters away, her speed so fast that people drunk at night thought their eyes were playing tricks on them.

Her destination was the Cultivation Department.

Today was the first day of open registration, and over sixty thousand people had signed up for the selection of Blood Refinement team members.

This number terrified the officials; even President Wu of the guild didn't know when Ningyang City had more than 60,000 Silver-rank Beast Tamers.

Ultimately, led by the officials, the Cultivation Department, the Beast Taming Guild, and several other departments formed a selection group of hundreds and utilized a newly built office building.

Inside the selection group's office hall.

The air was thick with the smell of coffee, tea, and lingering second-hand smoke. Over thirty members of the selection group on shift were at their respective computers, screening the list of those who passed the initial auditions.

"Is this a joke? A Bronze Level 5 dares to come? They must be crazy for money," one member said, speechless.

"Heh! Mine is even weirder; there's even a student who contracted a black iron Level 3 Buck-toothed Rabbit signing up." Another member was even more speechless.

"Nonsense, absolute nonsense! Don't they know people die in ruins? Record the students' information and send it to their schools for a good reprimand!" This member was a bit irritable, like an old driver with road rage.

"..."

Chen Qing quietly crept to the outside wall of the office hall. Hearing the words inside, her eyes flickered as she continued to advance.

The downside of the new building was that there hadn't been time to install cameras all over the walls, which provided great convenience for Chen Qing, who didn't take the usual path.

She moved along the outer wall, ignoring the laws of physics like a nimble gecko, climbing to the top floor.

On the top floor was the office of the group leader, or rather, Wang Jianguo's temporary office. Currently, the windows were locked, the computer was off, the water in the cup had gone cold, and there was no glowing ember in the ashtray.

It seemed he didn't have to work the night shift.

Chen Qing flicked her finger gently toward the window; her sword energy transformed into a subtle force, like a nimble little snake, prying open the latch.

Click~

The window opened.

Chen Qing gently opened the window and flipped inside.

The office was silent. Chen Qing waited for a moment, and when nothing unusual happened, she breathed a small sigh of relief.

She plugged her USB drive into Director Wang's computer. Soon, as various data were being read, she leaned over and tapped away on the keyboard.

Soon, she opened a system—it was the website established for this Blood Refinement team selection.

Using Director Wang's account permissions, she went directly to the "Create New Registration Information" column.

Name: Chen Qing

Place of Origin: Ningyang City, Nanling Province

Age: 25 years old...

Delete, delete... changed age "25" to "22".

She wrote what she could for the rest of the information and made up what she couldn't—submitting it herself, reviewing it herself, and passing it herself...

Soon, among the 62,448 applicants, there was an additional name: "Chen Qing."

At the same time, Chen Qing was also added to the more than two thousand people who had passed the initial audition.

Chen Qing confirmed everything was correct and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Stingy guy, feeling heartache over 50,000 yuan. I won't give you a single cent of the 15 million reward, hmph..."

Chen Qing thought fiercely to herself.

She turned off the computer and flipped out. The window was closed again, the lock re-engaged, and everything in the room was as it had been, as if Chen Qing had never been there.

Leaving the office building, Chen Qing sped up. Perhaps thinking of the reaction Li Yu would have, she felt exceptionally refreshed.

Facing the wind and basking in the moonlight, she showed off her skills like a parkour expert, flipping and hanging upside down, like an elf of the midnight.

As the distance from the city center grew, the lights gradually became sparse and dim.

Suddenly.

Chen Qing stopped her pace and landed on the ridge of an old house, stepping on a high protrusion.

Opposite her, across three old houses, another figure stood on a ridge.

The person was tall and thin, with slender limbs and long fingers, looking like a bamboo pole. With disheveled hair and narrowed eyes, they stared intently at Chen Qing.

That look, Chen Qing recognized it... it was the look of a hunter eyeing its prey.

The person just stood there, yet the surrounding air seemed to solidify, and the sound of distant traffic seemed to vanish.

"Something the matter?" Chen Qing asked.

The person tilted their head, looked at Chen Qing, and grinned. Their lips almost stretched to their ears, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth that glinted coldly in the moonlight.

Swish!

His figure flashed, appearing in front of Chen Qing, and he lunged to bite her neck.

Chen Qing leaned back to dodge the attack. The person's upper and lower teeth snapped shut with a "clack," and a wave of air swept out in all directions.

What terrifying bite force!

Chen Qing marveled, but her movements were not slow. She performed a bicycle kick, striking the opponent's chin fiercely. With a "bang," the person flew out like a cannonball and smashed heavily into an old house.

A large hole was smashed into the old house.

Chen Qing rotated her slightly uncomfortable leg and looked toward the hole, her gaze becoming a bit more serious.

With that strike just now, she felt as if she hadn't kicked a human body, but an indestructible piece of obsidian. It was incredibly hard; even the vibration sent back made her leg go numb for a second.

Whoosh—

The person jumped out of the hole. His entire chin was mangled and bloody, but Chen Qing knew he wasn't seriously injured.

"Did the Organization send you?" Chen Qing asked again.

The person tilted his head again. In the next second, a hideous smile appeared on his face, his expression twisting bit by bit in a gruesome manner and protruding forward. His sharp teeth grew even longer, looking as if he had merged with some ferocious demon beast.

Puchi, puchi...

A sound of tearing skin rang out as his slender fingers broke through the skin, growing longer, and strange web-like things sprouted between them.

A powerful aura was released, and the surrounding air became even more stagnant.

"It seems so."

Chen Qing sighed.

She knew that when the Organization sent someone to kill her, it meant her killing of Jin Yulong had been exposed, and her stance had been discovered.

She thought she could hide it a bit longer, but unfortunately...

Chen Qing steadied herself and quickly regained her composure, a sharp killing intent flashing in her eyes.

Longsword, unsheathed.

This time, she was serious. After all... she still owed Li Yu 50,000 yuan. Hmph! Stingy guy, no big thighs to lean on!