Ch11 - My bones are itchy so I want to get it scratched by thunder from the Ninth Heavens?

The old lady feared Long Ya wouldn’t be able to see the thing in her hands clearly. She spoke while trying to reach out her straightened arms some more. She seemed to view this object as a life-saving talisman, holding it in a deadly grip, the bones and muscles in her emaciated hand bulging. It was very obvious even in the midst of charred black. 

The temporarily paralysed Qi Chen being carried over a shoulder maintained a blood rushing to the head posture. He lifted his head with difficulty, moving aside that plate that seemed about to touch his nose. Because the stench of blood on it was really too heavy, the instant it neared, it was so suffocating that Qi Chen felt dizzy.  

With this movement, he could clearly see its appearance——- 

That was a crow black authority token, the top circular, the bottom square, pitch black and solid. The material seemed extremely thick and heavy. Lines of golden letters flowed both left and right on top. Seal script. Only the complicated flow of the strokes was extremely strange and somewhat different from the normal seal script. It was extremely awkward to look at. 

Looking at such a strange style of script, Qi Chen felt that it was somewhat familiar. He froze for a moment, then remembered. It was exactly the same style as the seal on some of Guang He Company documents he saw before. 

He squinted at it for a few seconds and could finally sort out that strange awkward script to identify the gilded words on the token ——– 

Request for virtue, no gate to reincarnation

“It looks quite impressive.” Qi Chen whispered while rubbing his nose, blocking that thick scent of blood. He was still somewhat unable to figure out what this thing was. 

“It’s impressive indeed…..” In the instant, Long Ya saw the token, the hate, and irritability on his face receded by a layer. As he spoke, his gaze turned from the token to the old lady still sprawled on the ground. His expression showed a little surprise but then quickly returned to his usual demeanor. 

After he scanned that small wizened old lady from head to toe once again, he waved his hand impatiently yet his voice wasn’t as harsh as before: “Alright alright put that thing away! The air is too heavy with depression, there are still two living people here. If you harm them you won’t have a life left!” 

“Then, then this request token…..” The old lady looked at him with uncertain surprise as if deeply afraid he’d turn around and go back on his word. 

Long Ya tsked: “Are you done?! It’s not like I’m blind. I’ve already retracted my foot. Why are you still trembling? This smell is making me irritable. Are you going to put it away or not?!” 

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He felt that the person on his shoulder was somewhat restless, probably because he’d been hanging upside down for too long and was truly uncomfortable. Thus he turned around and walked two steps, unrestrainedly kicking open the courtyard door and walking down the dirt slope with large strides. 

Behind him, the row of daggers nailed in the wall of the collapsed house transformed into glittering powder. Then they quickly merged together to form a three-inch human doll.

That doll’s whole body was translucent. It’s head was as round as a ball and with a slightly protruding belly and short limbs, it looked similar to a radish. 

Although that radish had short legs, it wasn’t slow at all when running. With both legs stuck out straight, it yelled “wait for me” while rolling like a ball and following behind Long Ya and the others.  

The old lady who had been left behind was stunned stupid for a moment before getting up hurriedly and chasing after them. Fortunately, she had no feet and could float over otherwise it’d be unbearable to watch her hobble over. 

Long Ya found Xu Liang’s car by the road based on Qi Chen’s description. Without even fishing out the keys, the car door opened by itself with a beep at the wave of his finger.

He crudely threw Xu Liang to the back seat, not even caring that he was half dangling off the seat and closed the door with a thump. Then he threw Qi Chen into the front passenger seat. 

“Look at your foolish appearance…..” Long Ya fastened Qi Chen’s seatbelt for him while looking at his somewhat stupefied expression disdainfully, unable to control his tongue.  

Qi Chen blinked: “The situation changed too quickly. I couldn’t handle it.” 

“Hehe, your hands are crippled, of course, you couldn’t handle it.” Just as Long Ya was about to close the passenger door, there was a thump. A translucent spheroid collided into the steering wheel before Qi Chen’s eyes. 

It gave a childlike cry, falling backward onto Qi Chen’s knee, limbs spread out like a cat, its posture extremely smooth. 

Qi Chen: “……” What the hell was this thing?! 

Long Ya’s face twisted, unrestrainedly picking up the doll and shaking it: “Have thousands of years of your cultivation been eaten by dogs?! You can even roll past a road. Aren’t you becoming more and more capable eh?!” 

The doll’s face split in a stupid smile and said, currying favour: “Master, your legs are too long. I couldn’t keep up for a moment.”

Qi Chen: “…..” What a tiny lackey!

Long Ya released his hand expressionlessly, throwing it back onto Qi Chen’s body. Then he turned around, slamming the car door shut behind him. He leaned on the car door with crossed arms, frostily raising his chin at the old lady that had followed: “Let’s hear it. You beg for help while looking like you’re going to kill someone. What do you actually want to do?”  

Qi Chen and the doll sitting on his knee stared at each other, big eyes meeting little eyes. For a moment, he was unclear as to what this little thing was. 

In the end, it opened its mouth itself and muttered to Qi Chen: “I’m Master’s knife child.”

Qi Chen greeted it with awkward enthusiasm and couldn’t help asking it: “Little one, can you reach that button by the door? Yeah, that one. Press it, open the window a little. I want to hear what they’re saying. 

Long Ya only felt the car window behind him shudder. Then two heads squeezed out from behind his waist.  

“….” He put a hand to his face, turning around to glare at one big and one small. Then he continued to interrogate the old lady, “Speak instead of just trembling! I don’t have the time to dawdle around with you. You have these few minutes. Go back to where you came from if you aren’t speaking. If you wander in front of me capturing people again, I won’t care even if you carry a whole sack of request tokens!” 

“This, this old one didn't intend to harm him…..” The old lady stooped over, her turbid pupils within excessive eye whites cast a glance at Qi Chen: “I heard that person say that if I guided him here and fed him a bowl of drugs, he wouldn’t be able to refuse help me.”

Long Ya’s gaze cut through her. She gestured frantically and added: “That drug can’t harm people. It only temporarily prevents resistance. I on-only  wanted him to be more obedient and make him agree to help me.” 

Long Ya was practically angered to the point of laughter: “Which moron taught you such a roundabout way to seek death?! He speaks and you believe? Why don’t you just have him help to the end and feed people drugs with you? I can slaughter two at once, what a bargain! You’ve already gotten a request token, why don’t you just drop by and seek help directly?! Keeping it for the new Year? Is it crunchy and delicious?”  

The old lady: “I, I was afraid you wouldn’t recognize this request token….” 

Long Ya gave a cold laugh: “Am I that cocky? You’ve already pushed this thing in front of my eyeballs and I’m going to pretend I haven’t seen it because my bones are itchy so I want to get it scratched by thunder from the Ninth Heavens?” 

Qi Chen: “…..” Why does this person always speak so savagely…..

The old lady didn’t speak, seeming somewhat upset and remorseful. But between the barrage of taunts from Long Ya, her gaze still often drifted towards Qi Chen.  

Long Ya glanced at her, lifting his head and pressing Qi Chen’s head back into the car. He spoke to the old lady: “You keep saying you want him to help you. What are you asking him to help you with?” 

Hearing him ask this, the old lady’s perpetually lowered head finally lifted. The mistiness in her turbid eyes was like water vapor that’d been contained for too long and could no longer be dispersed. She sighed extremely lightly, kneeling on her knees in the cold night wind. She bowed her stooped back and kowtowed once on the ground 

“This old one has waited at the cenotaph for four hundred and thirty-one years. I only wish that someday, my son’s bones would be returned to our homeland.” 

Her voice was the same as what Qi Chen had heard in his dreams. It was old and hoarse, as if she’d cried too much, for too many years. 

Translator’s Corner: 

(extra update cuz I felt like it ohohohohoho)

Fisho says: Long Ya and Qi Chen’s antics in this chapter pftttt 

Lazy Panda says: Please remember children that drugging people is illegal and don’t try at home