A Good-for-Nothing

182. He Zheng Is Gone (2)

Translator: Dragon Rider

This remark was full of self-contradiction. There might be a demon in the alley, and they had no weapons, which meant that it was nothing short of seeking their doom if they directly went inside, but that voice had instantly rendered their minds blank as though by magic. None of them perceived anything wrong in this remark and they actually followed that voice’s suggestion, making towards the entrance of the alleyway.

Qiu Luo was the first one to be rid of what was messing with their minds.

With a clank, a bolt of sword-light split the air. The couple of people that were walking towards the entrance as if in a trance felt pains in their palms at the same time. Qiu Luo had used his hand as a sword, and it was now blood-stained, his well-featured face going cold out of seriousness. “Be careful, guys. Don’t be fooled. This is mind control.”

Qiu Luo’s silvery voice made all of them start.

As the pain brought them back to their senses, they all stopped dead where they were and found that they were only one pace away from the entrance of the alley!

Chen Qianlin clenched his teeth. This was such a great humiliation. It was unsurprising that these fools had failed to resist the mind control, but he himself actually had also fallen prey to it!

“Step back.”

Qiu Luo, standing behind them, gazed fixedly at somewhere in the dark.

He Zheng and Jin Qianlai looked in that direction at the same time. Jin Qianlai was a half-bred dragon cub, and not only his dragon Qi was very faint, his dragon pupils were no good either. He stared for quite a while and his vision was beginning to blur but he still couldn’t make out anything. He Zheng, however, could vaguely see black gas churning more violently in the spot that Qiu Luo was gazing at than it did anywhere else.

“It’s there. That’s where the black gas is the thickest.” He Zheng knitted eyebrows so tight that they could have squeezed a fly to death.

“What the hell was going on?!” Chen Qianlin was gasping from anger.

“Shit. What is this thing?!”

They all had grave faces. At this moment, the swirling black gas suddenly came at Qiu Luo as though someone was controlling it. Pupils contracted slightly, Qiu Luo flipped his hand and a gorgeous sword materialized in his palm. “This is at least a high-level demon! You don’t have any weapons with you. Stay alert and get away from the entrance! All of you!”

After saying this, he brandished his sword and started dealing with the black gas which was actually capable of shaping itself and attacking people.

He Zheng and the other two immediately came to realize that they encountered an enemy. Chi Li’s first reaction was to take out her cellphone, the bridge of her nose covered with sweat from nervousness. “Crap. The mobile phone signals are blocked! I can’t reach Group Leader Li!”

This was the first time that He Zheng and the others had been faced with this kind of situation, and they were all rather flustered due to the unavailability to their weapons. To make things worse, Qiu Luo was actually no match for the black gas, which gradually got the better of him in the fight.

As the sword-light and the black gas clashed again, Qiu Luo was abruptly pushed back two paces by the reactive force and spat out a mouthful of blood with a puff.

“Qiu Luo!” Wu Fangshuo was taken aback and they all immediately clustered around Qiu Luo, who was facing squarely the entrance of the alleyway after being forced into backing off. At this moment, the huddle of them heard that highly spellbinding voice once again, which was saying, “Let’s go inside together and take a look. It must be a demon at work. Although we don’t have our weapons in hand, there’s strength in numbers. We can handle it.”

Their heads became groggy again. Nobody knew who was the first to move. Head suddenly feeling considerably heavier, He Zheng, who was the closest to the entrance, started making towards the alley as the voice had just told them to…

Qiu Luo had never expected that that demon would be able to find another opportunity and hex them once again. Watching his companions approaching the entrance to the alleyway, Qiu Luo had no alternative but to wipe off the blood at the corners of his mouth and abruptly threw his sword upward, which gave off a blinding light and slashed at the ground between the entrance and his fellow trainees, creating a straight, wide chasm in it with an almighty bang. The three of them instantaneously came back to themselves as though waking up from dreams.

“What happened?” Chen Qianlin leaned against the wall, clapping his hands to his head which was aching badly.

“Fuck! Just now we were put under mind control again!”

The intensity of the mental attack was beyond Chi Li’s endurance. Her face was ghastly pale, her breath coming in short gasps, droplets of cold sweat were welling up on her forehead.

As a psychic, Wu Fangshuo had been influenced the most deeply. Just now Qiu Luo, by exerting the power of his primordial spirit, had pulled Wu Fangshuo out of the mind control, and Wu Fangshuo had directly sunk to the ground, lying unconscious.

Chen Qianlin and Jin Qianlai were holding their heads, groaning with misery constantly, but Qiu Luo’s powerful strike had also caused injury to the demonic Qi. Qiu Luo spat out another mouthful of blood.

“We… need to figure out a way to contact Group Leader Li… What is going on exactly…”

Chen Qianlin suddenly felt that something was missing. He reached out his hand and fumbled on the ground beside him but failed to touch He Zheng whom he always loathed. Chen Qianlin’s pupils contracted drastically, his face etched with coldness, his throat constricting. “He Zheng’s gone.”