Chapter 1128: Ask

Snap—!!

A whip shadow that was fast to the extreme exploded the air, brushed past Jian Changsheng's cheek, and finally whipped heavily onto the unknown plant that was lying motionless on the side.

Facts proved that Chen Ling's whip was very powerful. The plant had a large fan leaf whipped off, and its huge body fell heavily to the ground, the break looking shocking.

Jian Changsheng was stunned.

He turned his neck stiffly, saw the "remains" of Square J that had been whipped away, and swallowed his saliva silently... Unknowingly, his back had been soaked with cold sweat.

"This is a warning," Chen Ling's voice sounded like it came from the underworld.

"Don't think that just because you're not afraid of death, I can't deal with you. This time I whipped him, next time... who I whip is hard to say."

Sun Bumian and the others turned their heads to look at the whipped-down remains of Square J, their expressions somewhat fortunate, yet somewhat worried. What they were fortunate about was that this idiot Jiangtian Sect member whipped the shell left by Square J first, and none of the three were injured. What they were worried about was not knowing who this guy would whip next time.

Sun Bumian couldn't help but poke Jian Changsheng in front with his toe:

"That... when the adult asks a question, just answer properly... don't implicate us."

Jiang Xiaohua nodded frantically and silently.

Jian Changsheng: ...

Chen Ling held the thorn whip and spoke again,

"Next, I ask, you answer. If you are half a beat slow, I will whip you... Understand?"

Jian Changsheng looked at Sun Bumian and the two behind him, and could only nod hard.

"What's your name?"

"Lin Yan."

Chen Ling's mouth twitched, and he gripped the whip silently, suppressing the urge to give this guy a whip, and continued to ask as if nothing had happened:

"Where are you from?"

"Tian Shu Realm."

"What are you doing at the Fusionist faction?"

"Looking for someone."

"Looking for whom?"

"Looking for... someone who left without saying goodbye."

Chen Ling was slightly startled, looking at Jian Changsheng's depressed face, as if he realized something, his expression somewhat complex.

He paused for a moment,

"Since they left without saying goodbye, why look for them? Did they owe you money?"

Hearing this, Jian Changsheng's eyebrows tightened suddenly, and the anger and gloom suppressed in the bottom of his heart were suddenly ignited. He stood up from the ground, carrying the stone lock:

"Damn it, I'll look for whoever I want! I'll do whatever I want!! Everyone relies on that shitty luck to bother me!! If you have the guts, kill me!! Come on!! "

Clatter—

The moment Jian Changsheng stood up, the green sprout that was drilling into his stone lock to replicate the key pattern was shaken off, and a green key fell between Jian Changsheng and Chen Ling.

Chen Ling: ?

Jian Changsheng and the others: !!!

Jian Changsheng was still maintaining the posture of venting his anger, but his expression had already stiffened in place.

This feeling was like cheating behind the teacher's back, but when the teacher turned around, the phone hidden in the drawer slid directly to the teacher's feet. The air suddenly fell into a weird and awkward dead silence...

At this moment, one thought appeared in the minds of Jian Changsheng, Sun Bumian, Jiang Xiaohua, and Square J simultaneously:

It's ruined!!

Sun Bumian's brain turned fast. Just as he and Jiang Xiaohua were about to spring up and fight this group of Jiangtian Sect members, the Jiangtian Sect member standing in front of Jian Changsheng stepped out, stepped on the green key, and then punched Jian Changsheng in the chest!

Bang!!

Jian Changsheng was smashed heavily against the surface of the stone mound by this punch, emitting a painful muffled groan.

Because the distance was too far, the watching Jiangtian Sect members didn't see the small key fall at all, only feeling a blur before their eyes, and Chen Ling punched the person away.

Chen Ling flexed the wrist he had used to throw that punch, looked at Jian Changsheng, who had been beaten to the point of vomiting blood, and spoke coldly:

"I believe I warned you... since you aren't willing to talk properly, don't blame me for hitting too hard."

Jian Changsheng’s chest ached from the punch, but that was the extent of it. He stared blankly at the foot stepping on the green key, feeling momentarily dazed...

Just then, a series of urgent shouts came from the distance!

"Found it!! Found it!!!"

Everyone present looked in the direction of the sound, only to see several Jiangtian cultists with pale faces, clutching several eerie balls of flesh they had dug up from somewhere, rushing toward the center of the village.

This shout diverted everyone's attention, and the heavy stone that had been hanging in Chen Ling's heart finally dropped...

If things had continued as they were, he really wouldn't have known how to deal with Jian Changsheng and the other two.

Come to think of it, how could those three guys be so clumsy with their little tricks? If he hadn't reacted quickly, they probably would have blown their cover.

The shouts of these people also drew Zheng Ye and the others out. Everyone gathered in the center of the village, and the moment they saw those balls of flesh, their expressions turned incredibly ugly...

"This is..."

"It's the missing people! How did they end up like this?"

"Where did you find them?"

"Right on the eaves of their respective houses... We found them while searching the village carefully."

The group unwrapped the balls of flesh, revealing pale, drained corpses restored to the ground. Their limbs had been twisted and bundled together by some immense force; from a distance, they looked like a pile of mangled parts—eerie and horrifying!

Seeing this scene, even the two Cardinals gasped.

"The count is correct... not a single one missing," Zheng Ye muttered to himself. "But... how were they turned into this..."

“*#&……#（*￥&#！”

The Cardinal spoke in a low voice; although they couldn't understand what was being said, the tone was extremely grave.

"We have already searched around the village, but found nothing unusual..."

“#&￥……！RR##”

"Yes, we will send more men to search right away!"

Even the Jiangtian cultists were deeply frightened by the way these people had died. Following Zheng Ye's order, they snapped out of their daze and scattered in different directions to search. The area around the bonfire, which had been full of people, became desolate once again.

Meanwhile, Jian Changsheng nudged Sun Bumian beside him and asked suspiciously:

"What's the situation?"

"I don't know... It seems like a monster has appeared here in the Jiangtian Cult. These cultists are all terrified."

"A monster? Is it a Calamity?"

"Not sure... but it's definitely not human," Sun Bumian said with certainty. "Look closely at the wounds on those corpses; they were caused by being pierced by something like tentacles, and there are over a dozen on a single person... How could a human have that many hands?

Besides, these bodies have been sucked completely dry... Humans don't drink human blood or eat human flesh, and even Calamities rarely do that.

If this isn't a monster, what is it?"