Chapter 138 - 90: Battle Royale, Zhao Ci 1v99 (2)

Chapter 138: Chapter 90: Battle Royale, Zhao Ci 1v99 (2)

The terrifying sense of spatial distortion left him feeling completely uncertain. Fortunately, the fragmentation of space wasn’t severe enough to cause total confusion.

But now, he was a little lost.

Because...

He had just run into a Junior Official—the same one he had seen earlier.

Still between the two black-leaf privet trees.

Except, when he’d seen the Junior Official before, the man had been unconscious.

But now, he was awake.

He was sitting on the ground, dazedly rubbing his head.

Hearing footsteps, he instinctively looked up. When he saw it was Zhao Ci, he scrambled to his feet and bowed.

"Your Highness!"

"At ease."

A chill ran through Zhao Ci, but his expression remained relaxed. He chuckled and said, "I didn’t expect we’d get caught up in this even within the city walls."

The Junior Official nodded. "Tell me about it! This is bizarre. There’s never been a case in the Northern Three Prefectures of anyone being pulled in from inside a city! But don’t you worry, Your Highness. Quite a few of us brothers got pulled in. With us here to protect you, nothing will happen."

Zhao Ci smiled and nodded. "That won’t be necessary. There aren’t many people who can actually threaten me. You just stay put. I’m going to take a walk around."

With that, he turned to leave.

But the Junior Official anxiously replied, "Your Highness, you mustn’t! If anything happened to you, how could I possibly answer to the Prefect! I should call the other brothers over first..."

As he spoke, he reached for the whistle on his chest.

It was used by the Junior Officials to send signals.

But before the whistle even reached his lips, he heard a heavy WHOOSH cut through the air.

Looking up, he saw the thick tungsten-steel shaft of a spear swinging at him.

Along with the sound of rushing air came Zhao Ci’s cold, sharp voice.

"I said, that won’t be necessary!"

"!!!"

The Junior Official’s expression instantly turned vicious. He twisted his body to dodge, but the spear shaft abruptly changed direction.

With an upward flick, it snapped his arm and shattered the whistle.

The intense pain made him want to scream, but just as he opened his mouth, a hand grabbed a fistful of dirt and shoved it inside.

All he could do was make muffled sounds.

[Lv Maogui’s Current Wish]: Kill Zhao Ci! Wish Completion Reward: None.

Zhao Ci: "???"

’I’ve seen all sorts of wishes at every level.’

’But I’ve never seen one with no completion reward!’

’What kind of ridiculous crap is this?’

A sense of unease fueled Zhao Ci’s anger. He grabbed Lv Maogui by the neck. "Speak! Who ordered you to kill me?"

Lv Maogui: "Mmph... Mmph..."

Zhao Ci flipped him over, forcing him to spit out the dirt.

Empowered by his First-Grade Flesh Soul, this Military Official, who was also in the Body Refining Stage, was as helpless as a baby chick in his grasp.

Unexpectedly, the moment the man’s mouth was free, his first instinct wasn’t to beg for mercy, but to bite down on Zhao Ci’s wrist.

"Fuck!"

Startled, Zhao Ci tightened his right hand and snapped the man’s neck.

He quickly dropped the Junior Official’s corpse, only to see that the man’s two rows of teeth had, at some point, turned black and rotten.

Tiny insects were crawling out of his mouth.

"Gag..."

Zhao Ci felt a sudden urge to vomit but forced it down, quickly looking at his own hand.

A few of the tiny insects had somehow already crawled onto the back of his hand and were rapidly scurrying up his arm.

’Damn it!’

He cursed inwardly as tiny wisps of flame suddenly erupted from his pores.

The Yu Xin Flame instantly incinerated the small insects, turning them to ash.

’This is bad!’

Zhao Ci’s expression grew grave. He recognized these little black insects. They were in the Hundred Poison Secret Manual, and their scientific name was the One-Day Flower-Blooming Gu.

This type of Gu Insect could enter through the seven orifices. It would immediately burrow toward the victim’s Spirit Platform and implant an idea from the Mother Gu deep within their consciousness.

However, this Gu Insect couldn’t reproduce and could only survive for a single day. When it died, it would take the host’s Primordial Spirit with it.

That was why it was called... the One-Day Flower-Blooming Gu.

This flower.

Was the flower of the Sub-Insect’s loyalty to the Mother Gu!

’No wonder the wish had no reward. It was an idea implanted by the One-Day Flower-Blooming Gu!’

’This is a fucking headache!’

’The ruin’s entrance had suddenly and inexplicably appeared above the city.’

’It sucked me and a group of Junior Officials inside.’

’And this particular Junior Official just happened to be infected with the One-Day Flower-Blooming Gu. Not before, not after, but right when we all got trapped in the Black Fog Space.’

’If this one Junior Official was infected...’

’...were the others infected too?’

’I don’t even have to think about it.’

’This is all for me!’

A chill went down Zhao Ci’s spine. Although he believed few below the Physical Body Realm could threaten him, he hadn’t yet achieved Muscle and Bone Refining. He was still far from being able to crush his opponents effortlessly.

’If I get surrounded by ten or twenty people, I’m in deep shit!’

’And... it wasn’t just ten or twenty Junior Officials trapped in here with me. There were also a lot of strangers. Could there be agents sent by the mastermind among them, too?’

’Damn it!’

Zhao Ci felt a sense of dread. He quickly put away his spear and rushed toward the broken cliff.

But he had barely taken a few steps before four or five men in the same Official Uniforms appeared in his line of sight, walking together.

Zhao Ci: "???"

...

Trouble!

Big trouble!

Zhang Delv was truly dumbfounded. He never would have imagined that the entrance to the ruins would appear directly over Qingyang County.

And that it would suck both His Highnesses inside.

Normally, there shouldn’t be any problems inside the Black Fog.

But this time was clearly not normal!

Besides, he had just seen what looked like a lot of unfamiliar faces being pulled in as well, and those people... were all armed.

If something really happened, he would definitely suffer the consequences.