Chapter 38: Mysterious Green Smoke

"Ku Family's, Ku La and Lin Family's, Lin Xiao found dead in their hotel room!" Next day, the whole city was thrown into chaos, same news repeated in every news channel. While the culprit, me, was walking around the town leisurely like nobody's business.

Exchanging the gold ingots for money I shamelessly swindled from Qinlian, I was busy buying technological things since I didn't know if I would get the chance to come back here anytime soon. After some hours of shopping, I went to meet with the group at the rendezvous point.

Whistle~

"Is this a festive season, or are you trying to impress me?" I winked towards Nanfeng Jiao. She was dressed in a designer red T-shirt and black skirt, showing off her sexy long legs. I can only wonder which unlucky guy did she rob.

Rolling her eyes, she snorted. "You wish. I just found the clothes here to my liking."

"Well, if you are embarrassed to admit, its fine." I shrugged my shoulder and gave a knowing smile which elicited an irked twitch of lips. "What about you... actually, what happened to you?"

"Ai, Yo! 'Sup man?" Chen Fei was dressed in a baggy jeans and shirt too big for his body. He was trying to copy rappers. Wtf happened in one night?

Shaking my head, I said seriously, "putting aside the shenanigans, did you found anything related to the mission?"

"Did you call my outfit shenanigan? Whatever. How would you understand the miracle of Hip-Hop. And I didn't find anything."

"Thought so. What about you?"

Nanfeng Jiao simply averted her eyes.

"Perfect."

Armed with absolutely zero knowledge, and Chen Fei's car? We zoomed towards our destination, breaking every speed limit and traffic signal. Our destination was about a hundred kilometres away from here and in an hour we were able to cover that distance.

"The Qi here is..."

"Yeah, it's remarkably thick. No wonder people here could enter Qi Assimilation Realm."

From the outside, it appeared to be a normal forest but after an hour from when we entered inside, drowsiness began overcoming us. I was quickly alarmed, and rapidly circulated my Qi and got rid of this weird phenomena.

"What is this?"

"I feel so sleepy."

Unfortunately though, Chen Fen and Nanfeng Jiao condition wasn't looking good. Well, you cannot use Qi to refresh your mind in Qi Assimilation Realm.

"Do you guys wanna stay out? I should be enough." I shrugged my shoulders and offered.

"Humph. Don't think I don't know that you just want recognition. I ain't dropping soon." Nanfeng Jiao snorted and poured cold water onto her face.

"Well, it was a group activity. Let's see what's the cause is."

"Don't blame me later on." I said and began walking around leisurely. Towards a particular direction, I felt that this drowsiness was getting intense and followed that direction.

As we were going deeper in forest, abruptly I felt the ground tremble violently. Sounds of birds flapping their wings increasingly got louder; it was coming in our direction. They group of birds appeared in front of our eyes in seconds and behind them was a wave of green smoke sweeping everything in its path. Like a wave of tsunami, and speed akin to lightning, it directly flew towards us.

We glanced at each other, nodded once, and quickly turned around to run away. Even though we didn't really know what that smoke was, no one wanted to be the Guinea Pig.

"What the fuck is that?"

"How would I know? Ain't I running with you?"

"Shut up both of you, just focus on running."

I discovered that the sweeping smog was getting faster and it would catch up to us sooner than later.

"Phoenix Cry!" Exclaimed Nanfeng Jiao and concurrent ripples of Qi originated from her hands, speeding towards the green smoke. But as soon as it came in contact, like an ocean swallowing a pebble, it was devoured immediately.

As if angered by her action, the green smoke became even faster. Within five breaths, it was on our ass, chasing us relentlessly.

"Fuck!"

The first to get swallowed was Chen Fei, then Nanfeng Jiao. Since my speed was fastest, I stood my ground for another ten breaths before it covered me too.

Surrounded by the green smoke, my mind buzzed and drowsiness like never before assaulted me. Coldness enveloped my body, and heartbeat hastened. Closing my eyes, I took deep breaths to calm myself down, and simultaneously fought the sleepiness. Since I couldn't see anything, not even the other two, I pondered if I should move or just stay in a spot. After some time, I began to move in a random direction.

One step... two step...

Hundred steps...

Ten thousand ninety...

Hundred thousand...

Five millions...

I didn't know how long I was walking but I knew that I was rapidly consuming the Qi reserves. Surprisingly, my tenacity was quite resilient since I still haven't succumbed to this sleepiness. Ironically, even though I wanted to do nothing more than sleep, and even all the conditions were perfect, I can't let myself sleep. I had a feeling sleeping equals death. With hazy mind, I could only continue walking. Sometime in between, hallucination started appearing in my mind.

"So you just wanted my body after all. Should have known, you are just like other men." Qinlian's projection appeared in front of me, and her cold voice entered my ears.

Although I was hazy and exhausted beyond belief, falling for these cliches would definitely incite curses from all the reincarnated protagonists.

Stretching my hand, I grabbed her breast, and began groping it in unrestrained manner. "True. I am just like other man. No, I am worse. But it doesn't change the fact that you still have to cope up with me."

The projection eyes closed and it disappeared.

"Unfilial son, why didn't you come to save me? Did you knew how miserable I was when I was beaten to death." This time, it was my father who appeared. His eyes were riddles with indignance.

"Why scream old man? Didn't I kill those breasts? Shut up and just go to afterlife already. Also, say hi to mother for me." I shrugged my shoulders casually but at the same time, I was quite irked with whomever was doing this. It's like they can see through my memories and it made me very uncomfortable.

Instantly afterwards after my reply, a wave of clarity entered my mind, resolving all the drowsiness without of a trace in a second. With a puff, green smoke also disappeared in thin air.

"Humph. Petty tricks." I snorted coldly and began observing my surroundings.