New Supernatural Bullets

Two black shadows lunged viciously at Tang Qi. They were both beautiful women on the outside, yet what Tang Qi smelled was a stench—the rotten reek of corpses mixed with blood, nauseating enough to provoke instinctive disgust.

Two pairs of claws clawed at Tang Qi's head and chest. Thanks to his powerful eyesight, Tang Qi could still make out the red and black nail polish on their fingernails at that moment.

Mottled and cheap, with more than half of it peeled away.

"Terrible taste, just like the book said."

Bang

Hisss~

As he spoke, Tang Qi made no dramatic movement. He merely stepped half a pace back and turned sideways, dodging both Ghoul Nightingales' attacks at once.

His fair hand slowly clenched into a fist. As the two foul-smelling nightingales shrieked, one of Tang Qi's fists landed squarely on one of their faces, while the other took the full force of his sweeping kick.

Bang~ Crack

Boom

They came quickly, and they were sent flying back just as quickly.

If they had retained enough intelligence, this exchange should have told them that Tang Qi was no ordinary human teenager. At the very least, they could gain no advantage over him in close combat.

Yet they did not flee. Instead, they shrieked at Tang Qi even more furiously, then charged at him again under the guidance of their beastly instincts.

Tang Qi shook his head and suddenly strode deeper into the alley. A few more steps and he would have stepped on the unlucky middle-aged office worker's corpse. His slender hand shot out, seizing the head of the first Ghoul Nightingale to rush him, then smashing it straight into the nearby wall with a boom.

Then he kicked again. After the wind exploded, violent force lashed directly into the second Ghoul Nightingale's jaw.

With a crisp crack, half of the nightingale's head, along with its jaw, was shattered by Tang Qi's kick.

Three seconds?

No, not even three seconds.

A battle that should have been brutal was declared over. Their strength was simply not on the same level.

Tang Qi finally turned his gaze upon the two dying Ghoul Nightingales. As expected, the Special Interface appeared.

Supernatural Creature: Ghoul Nightingale.

Status: Near death.

Information Fragment One: The once-prosperous ghouls, after being exterminated, left behind highly contagious viruses across the world. They might not be able to recreate the ghoul race, but producing some disgusting creatures takes no effort at all.

Information Fragment Two: The Ghoul Nightingale is one such creature.

As always, Tang Qi saw Information Fragments.

But this time, the information provided by his Special Ability was no more than what he had read in books.

Tang Qi recalled a chapter in Centennial Oddities of the Federation: Absurdity and Truth. It had used considerable space to describe these so-called Ghoul Nightingales in detail.

Of course, that was ignoring the stories of uncertain truth.

Simply put, they were Supernatural Creatures created when prostitutes became infected by the ghoul virus.

Before the outbreak, they were ordinary prostitutes.

But once they entered a ghoul state, they became man-eating monsters, and their physical abilities increased dramatically as well. Otherwise, how could they eat those clients?

Unfortunately for them, no matter how much they were enhanced, they were still no match for Tang Qi.

Having only just entered the Chaga Combat Technique, Tang Qi's various physical attributes were increasing every day. Once he made a move, his lethality rivaled that of a top-tier fighter.

They, on the other hand, were merely man-eating beasts driven by instinct.

Tang Qi came back to himself and looked at the office worker's corpse on the ground, then at the two Ghoul Nightingales that were still struggling and truly recovering slowly. He clenched both fists, and a warm current of power surged into his hands before being released in full with two bangs.

At the same time, two cracks rang out from the wall and the ground.

With their skulls reduced to fragments, not even ghouls could survive.

The moment they died, two gray, hazy wraiths drifted out. Before they could attempt to flee, a pair of hands surging with Golden Flame seized them.

Whoosh~

A breeze swept through, and the alley returned to calm.

Two small new clusters of golden light appeared in the gray fog space within Tang Qi's mind.

He looked at himself again, and the interface appeared.

As expected, the skill column had changed. The progress of the Meditation Method and Furnace Eyes had each increased by 0.02%, while the Chaga Combat Technique had increased by only 0.01%.

"It seems that after devouring the wraiths of Supernatural Creatures, the Meditation Method and its derived skill receive the greatest boost. This time, I killed them entirely with Combat Techniques, yet it received the smallest increase. Still, compared to arduous training, this is a much faster path."

"Perhaps I can develop it a little further. It doesn't seem too difficult."

"Bait? Oh, no, it should count as some kind of trigger."

"But I can't be completely certain yet. I'll verify it again tomorrow?"

Tang Qi muttered as he turned around, retrieved the cloth bag full of books from the corner, and headed home.

Behind him, the three corpses gradually stiffened.

As unbelievable as it was, the Bronx District truly was this chaotic.

Otherwise, things like corpse collection trucks and professions like corpse collectors would never have appeared.

And as that drastic change intensified, Tang Qi could almost foresee that districts like Bronx might become truly terrifying places where the living dared not enter.

Before that happened, Tang Qi intended to strengthen himself by every possible means.

Especially after discovering that "shortcut," Tang Qi planned to alter his strategy.

When he returned to the Brick House, Tang Qi found that the entire first floor had already been repaired. It was flawless, without the slightest trace of damage.

There was no need to say it. For the official police department to work with such efficiency, Sheriff Stana must have intervened personally.

After sighing that having connections in official circles really was different, Tang Qi carefully prepared dinner for himself.

Powerful ingredients, paired with Tang Qi's cooking skills brought from Earth, produced exquisite flavors that left him savoring every meal.

After satisfying himself, he brewed a pot of Volcanic Rock Coffee and placed the hefty volumes borrowed from Messer Library on his desk one by one. Finally, Tang Qi walked over to the workbench.

Before his nightly training, Tang Qi still had one task to complete.

He should have tried it last night, but his breakthrough in the Meditation Method had delayed it.

Now, he was finally beginning another attempt.

Making bullets!

After obtaining Furnace Bullets, Tang Qi understood that to make Supernatural Bullets that met the requirements, he had to maintain at least one principle.

That was, the materials also had to be of a supernatural level.

Moreover, they had to be supernatural materials verified by his Special Ability, Omniscience.

The holy water, Rouge Flower Seeds, and similar things he had bought that day were all useless.

If not for his battle with the Dugong Sea Demon, then to prepare bullets for Blood Python No. 1, the Most Powerful weapon he currently possessed, Tang Qi could only have used his own Supernatural Blood.

To avoid anemia, Tang Qi planned to make another kind of Supernatural Bullet.

Snap

Tang Qi took out his only material and placed it on the workbench.

He opened the small cloth bag. Inside, diamond-like grains gleamed with a deep blue radiance.

Having made Furnace Bullets before, Tang Qi moved quickly, without the slightest awkwardness.

He first lit an alcohol lamp. As the flame sprang up, he placed a crucible over it. Once the bottom of the crucible turned faintly red, Tang Qi swiftly picked up tweezers with his other hand, reached into the cloth bag, and emerged gripping a brilliant grain of Blue Sea Salt.

With a clang, the sea salt fell into the crucible.

The dazzling crystal let out a hiss the instant it touched the red-hot portion of the crucible, and a wisp of blue smoke carrying a faint salty scent drifted out.

In a daze, Tang Qi seemed to hear the sound of rolling waves within that smoke, to see the brilliant sights beneath the sea, and to hear faint, sacred singing.

Unfortunately, the strange vision vanished swiftly as the smoke dispersed.

When Tang Qi looked again, only blue liquid remained in the crucible. It began to bubble like seawater, filling half the crucible in an instant before rapidly diminishing as the temperature rose.

But Tang Qi could not remove the alcohol lamp. The Information Fragment captured by the Special Interface in his vision told him that the instant he removed the flame, the liquid inside would solidify and turn back into solid sea salt.

At that moment, Tang Qi displayed his terrifying speed once again.

With one hand, he took a glass rod and rapidly stirred the blue liquid. With the other, he held the tweezers and quickly placed a brass bullet into the crucible.

The vortex Tang Qi had artificially created seemed to carry some strange magic. The moment the bullet entered, a streak of blue light followed the vortex and instantly fused into it.

Buzz

Clang

He put them in quickly and took them out instantly. Tang Qi did not even have time to look at the bullet that had already transformed before moving straight to the second, then the third, fourth, fifth... One of his hands stirred at a steady pace, while the other had become a blur.

To avoid wasting even a trace of Sea Demon Magic Power, Tang Qi had even employed techniques from the Chaga Combat Technique.

Inside the crucible, the deep-blue liquid vanished rapidly. At the same time, more and more bullets appeared in the wooden box on the workbench.

Every one of them was somewhat different from ordinary bullets.