Massacre
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3 hours ago
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"Zhu Li."
...
"Yes?"
Zhu Li shows up from the dark. Now that I am in the Core Formation realm, I can finally sense the flow of qi and connect a thread to identify where he came from.
The technique he used is Shadow Leaping, becoming one with the dark and teleporting with it.
The Qi around Zhu Li connects a line of directions that goes out of the room towards Tianwu.
"Were you at Tianwu?" I ask.
"Yes, master, the elders from the Blood sect ordered me to keep an eye on Xie Mo." Says Zhu Li.
"Anyways, is there any location planned for attack?"
"Qiang Jin. The attack will proceed 6 hours from now."
Azrim subtly rumbles.
...?
Azrim? What's wrong?
...
"Master?"
"Ah, you may leave," I say.
"Understood."
"Argh!!" Chunhua exclaims as she grasps her eyes. "Damn it, that sword! Whenever I use Qi to peek or listen in, that sword will attack my soul. I can't spy on Wang Ji at this rate... I can't disappoint master. I need a different approach."
Chunhua racks her brain and managed to think of her connections in Tiansu. She smiles.
"Ah, they can help."
Chunhua disappears from the vicinity.
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5 hours later.
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System, search for an identity concealment technique.
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56,782 infected know identity concealment techniques.
S Rank[hide]
Huang Lo:
-Myriad Bodies[Extract](20,000 points)
A Rank[Show]
B Rank[Show]
C Rank[Show]
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Huang Lo? an unfamiliar name.
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Myriad Bodies.
The host can change his physical appearance to anyone.
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I extract it and change my appearance into Xie Mo.
Beside me is a lake, I take a look at my new appearance and find nothing out of shape.
"I look exactly like that bastard." I thought out loud.
With that, I step back onto the sword and fly off.
Qiang Jin is near.
Qiang Jin is a city governed by the Zhou family, the family that Zi Mi was exiled from. At a convenient location beside a big river that connects Wenhua, Tiansu, and the ocean. Merchants on boats usually stop here to trade.
Qiang Jin is famous for its tax-free trading market and paradise of food, attracting thousands of travellers every day.
In cities with meadows surrounding them, attacks are much riskier as preparations are direct. The first option is for the sacrifice to carry the bomb directly from start to end. The second is for the bomber to hide the bomb and set it off when he is far and safe enough.
The first requires absolute secrecy. Sacrifices for direct bombing are usually very devoted terrorists to avoid suspicions, forced sacrifices show signs of anxiousness.
The second requires luck and wits. It must be placed hidden in plain sight at the right location.
Usually, such an operation has a success rate of as low as 0.2% in developed countries with strict security. But that only applies to my original world.
No matter how many patrols or laws are set into place, a simple bribe can bypass all of that. In addition, citizens are not aware of how to be vigilant. I can safely say the success rate, in this case, is 95%.
I fly overhead of Qiang Jin and scout the layout. I can notice three sections. The first is the main plaza where every merchant or traveller gathers. The second is the agriculture section on the outskirts of the city. And finally, the residential area.
By the population density, I decided to check out the main plaza.
A flourishing hub is the only sentence to describe this place. Vendors after vendors. Workers after Workers carrying stocks of trades.
The core of the hub is a tall gold statue of an old man in heavy armour and carrying a long gigantic sword.
Since I am here, I infect the food a vendor sells with the third virus.
!
At the base of the statue, plants and flowers surround it. Hidden in nature, a small pouch is seen abandoned.
Ah. Here it is.
Before entering Qiang Jin, I concealed my Qi. If anyone tries to tail me, it will prove to be difficult.
I pick up the pouch and take a look inside, the bombs are getting better and each version evolving smaller.
I quickly pocket the pouch and get out of Qiang Jin, defusing the bomb only when I am on the outskirts.
Perfect. I need more variety in the massacre. Heck, the blood test might even be my scapegoat.
It's been a while since I commit mass murder, I should enjoy it while it lasts...
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"Kai!" a young girl calls out to a boy.
"Mei! What's wrong?" the boy replies.
"Hehe...guess what? I am having a sister! My mother gave birth."
"Eh? You didn't tell me about it."
"You didn't ask. Anyways, come! Let's go see her-"
*snaps*
*BOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!*
!!!???
"Fire! Fire!" an adult shouts as he attempts to gather people to put the fire out.
"Something exploded!" another person shouts.
...
"Eh? Isn't that... the direction of my house...?" the young girl mumbles.
The boy has his eyes wide open.
The girl makes a run for her house.
"Wait!" The boy attempts to stop her but to no avail. Both of them ended up running towards the explosion.
"No no no!!"
The girl's eyes widen as she sees her family's charred body. "NOOO!!" she leaps at the fire but many people pulled her back. "Stop! Let me go!!"
"Stop! You will hurt yourself!" the woman pulling the girl back says.
Wang Ji smirked. Although the description for "Qi ignite" specifically only mentioned infected cultivators, his virus itself contains some Qi and the process to set off the spark for an explosion is similar.
Unknown to everyone, a man in a mask hiding in the shadow is enjoying their suffering. He sets off another explosion, this time it is the lady holding the girl.
??!!
Her skin starts to have many blisters that increasingly expand.
"A-A-AHHHHHHH!!!!"
"What-" the young girl mumbles.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
Wang Ji has seen enough up close. He needs to escape and get to higher ground to avoid detection. Luckily for him, there is a tall cliff directly beside the city and Wang Ji leapt to the top of the cliff.
"Hm?" Wang Ji glances behind him and realises eyes are watching him in the bush. But that's good, he can frame Xie Mo for the attack.
"Now then..." Wang Ji purposely says out loud as he rubs his thumb with his middle finger.
One snap is all it took, Many parts of the city exploded into a firework of terror and confusion.
"AHHHHHH!!!!"
"GET AWAY FROM ME!!!"
"GET OUT OF MY WAY!!!!"
Many people tried to run away in horror. Cultivators in particular were causing widespread damage as their detonation is severe compared to mortals.
Men steps over one another for escape. Several people were trampled to death.
"Wait! Everyone calm down! We are here!" a cultivator shouts. It is a young teenager with several more of his friends behind him. "We will only cause more damage if we panic, everyone will move out of the city in an orderly manner."
"The disciples of the Mountain Fist sect are here! We will be saved!" They start to calm down.
Unfortunately for them, the disciples are in the Foundation Establishment Realm.
The leader who said that starts to have blisters around his arm.
?
"There's something on your arm?" a mortal points out to the disciple.
"What-"
The blisters expand all around his body and bloated his body. Words cannot describe the chaos. The discharge erupted that entire part of the city with scraps and fragments of rocks and fire expelled away like water in a fountain would.
Haha...this is amazing. Wang Ji thought.
What could not be possible in his original world was done so easily here. As he expected, this world is very interesting.
Moving on to the second city, Fei Quan, could it get any worse?
Wang Ji infected a merchant to carry two bombs he plundered into the city and instruct the merchant to rewire the bomb. Afterwards, the merchant detonated the bomb beside Golden Steal's headquarters.
*BOOM!*
"ARGHH!!!!"
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"Oh? The bomb is interesting..." says Wang Ji. The structure is similar to bombs used in Wang Ji's original world yet the results are far more devastating.
The detonation released a huge cloud of the green fog that spreads fast. In addition, one small sniff causes the victim to lose consciousness. The poison fog itself isn't potent if you breathe in a small amount. However, something was added to the formula to induce drowsiness and force the victim to inhale more of the fog. The victim also retains their sense of pain and can slowly feel their body being torn apart from the inside by the poison.
What a vicious way of killing. Wang Ji has to give the blood sect that.
"No, not the blood sect, the credit goes to the fellow reincarnated terrorist." Wang Ji mumbles.
Some who tried to escape were also met with an explosive end.
To be safe, Wang Ji decided to attack one more city Golden Steal have activity in with the remaining bomb he kept for himself.
That dark day was rooted deep into history. An unknown entity attacked 3 cities and completely wiped out 70% of citizens in those cities. Any attempt of help was impossible as people mysteriously blows up.
Many blamed the attack on the Blood Sect but there were a few sharp minorities that realised this wasn't the plan of the Blood Sect but a completely unknown individual.