A Good-for-Nothing

239. It’s Getting Interesting (I)

Translator: Dragon Rider

Not long ago, something big had happened in the real estate industry in Coastal City and it had been the topic of a lot of people’s frivolous chats. It all started with a stupid thing done by Zhou Congzhi, the patriarch of the Zhou family, a property tycoon, and all his peers in the business privately scoffed at him because of it.

Zhou Congzhi, who had a reputation for being a wily old fox in the commercial circle, had actually made a money-losing decision, spending a fortune on several pieces of land with extremely inauspicious feng shui, on which he’d built houses. That place was godforsaken, and it was the only desolate area in Coastal City where property price was insanely high.

The municipal government of Coastal City had once taken some measures to arouse people’s interest in that piece of land. One of them had been to build a school there. If a school was built, then many residential districts would appear nearby, and as the area got more populated, it would gradually become prosperous.

The government’s plan was not bad, but the reality was harsh. Back at that time, this piece of land had not been regarded as inauspicious, and a property developer had contracted for the building of the school, but this piece of land had been rather weird – before laying the foundations of the school, the government had sent a couple of staff members to explore the land, who’d set off early that morning but still hadn’t come back the next day. Afterwards, more men had been sent to look for them, but they’d also gone missing.

This had arrested the municipal government’s attention. They’d sent a large search team there and finally found those missing staff members at a vast cemetery not far away from that piece of land. All those missing people had been unconscious when they’d been found, and after waking up, they’d all claimed that there was something weird about that piece of land.

There’d been yet another strange thing. All four tires of the van of those staff members who’d been sent to explore the land had been completely worn out, and the tank had been empty, as though the van had been driving non-stop until the last drop of gasoline was consumed, and the wear and tear on the body of the van had been even worse, as if the van had been left there for over ten years.

After that incident happened, it had become common knowledge that there was something evil at work in that area, so nobody dared buy it. Unexpectedly, the Zhou family had purchased it.

Most people said that the reason why Zhou Congzhi had made such an unwise decision was because he was possessed by some ghost, but there were also some who believed that the Zhou family had hired an eminent geomancer and rid that piece of land of the evil entities dwelling on it, turning it into a piece of auspicious land.

It didn’t matter what outsiders believed. After a couple of months, the Zhou family had build a lot of houses, including several separate villas, on the piece of land where the government had once planned to build a school.

One of the villas covered a vast area, but since it was surrounded by other villas, so it didn’t look obtrusive, and naturally nobody would suspect that the one living in this villa was not a human being but the creature that the Zhou family called master – a demon.

At this moment, Zhou Yihao, who had stealthily slunk out of home, was right in front of this villa.

Ever since that incident involving that talent agency, Zhou Yihao had been forbidden to visit his master. Naturally he felt very bitter about it. As a Demon’s Attendant, his only source of power was demonic Qi which could only be obtained from a demon. If he wanted to get more powerful, there was another way apart from this one, but the cost would be his own life. Zhou Yize, his big brother, had died young and then been forcibly “brought back to life”, becoming a half-man, half-demon creature, which was an example he did not want to follow. Under no circumstances would he do such a foolish thing as to give up his own life.

If he couldn’t meet his master, he wouldn’t be able to get stronger. Naturally Zhou Yihao was unresigned to the situation.

This time around, since he had found some information about the Demonic Seed, Zhou Yihao naturally had a very good reason to pay a visit to his master.

And Zhou Yihao did it without his father’s knowledge.

In a room.

After devouring the powerful Earth Spirit dwelling in this area, the man’s demonic Qi had been growing constantly, his body gradually becoming intact. Currently, except for some parts beneath his clothes that were still black gas instead of flesh, he looked exactly like a normal human being.

The man’s uncommonly handsome features were uncovered. Zhou Yihao didn’t even dare glance at him. The moment he entered the room, the brooding aura of power radiating from the man made him hang his head in spite of himself.

“Master, I got a fresh lead on the Demonic Seed.” Zhou Yihao, trying hard to make his voice less tremulous, reported the clue he’d found to the Demon King.

“Zhu Ning… She was just a woman. How could she possibly find the Holy Land?”

Zhou Yihao swallowed hard and replied, “Master, I heard that the Zhu family are the only descendants of the God of Divination, that they are all mediums, which might be the reason why she flukily found the Holy Land of Demons. The disappearance of the Demonic Seed definitely had something to do with Zhu Ning.”

Before coming here, Zhou Yihao had done some careful thinking. The reason why he’d previously found that piece of yin jade (In Chinese philosophy and medicine, yin and yang are the two opposing principles in nature, the former feminine and negative, the latter masculine and positive) suspicious was because it had faint Qi of the Demonic Seed on it. After looking into it, he’d discovered that people of the Qiao family had never clapped eyes on that piece of yin jade, that He Yu had been unaware of its existence as well. Eventually, Zhou Yihao had ascertained that it’d been in Zhu Ning’s cinerary casket that the jade pendant was found.

Previously Zhou Yihao hadn’t found anything out of the ordinary because he’d never taken this woman He Yu called “a bitch” seriously, but judging from the message he’d received earlier this day, there was almost no doubt that Zhu Ning had stolen the Demonic Seed.

“Master, the Zhu family and the He family are the only ones related to Zhu Ning. There’s a very high chance that the Demonic Seed is in their hands!”

“If the Demonic Seed is in their hands, it would mean that it’s in the possession of the Supernaturalism Management Bureau (SMB).” The man’s voice was very pleasant to the ear. It was the kind of voice that most girls would describe as “divinely charming”, but it lifted the hair on Zhou Yihao’s scalp.