Your New Friend Is About to Be Done For

Your New Friend Is About to Be No More

Zhou Ming looked at the status panel.

[Divine Ability: Immaculate Body (Uninitiated)]

Hmm, it can be recorded on the panel, so the problem isn't big.

Afterward, he put away the jade slip and began looting the corpses.

Ninth-Rank Stance Training? Trash.

Three Woodcutting Forms? Martial skill?

Junk, don't want it!

Eighth-Rank Cultivation Technique, yes! Yes!

A moment later, Zhou Ming looked at the six eighth-rank cultivation techniques in his hands with a satisfied expression.

Then his figure flickered slightly, disappearing into the depths of the mountain forest.

Just shortly after Zhou Ming left.

Two figures galloped in from afar, reaching the spot where Zhou Ming had stood for a long time in the blink of an eye.

The two glanced at each other and split up to search the surroundings.

Before long, they returned to their original spot.

The man had a solemn expression and spoke, "Jiang Jiang, there wasn't a single living soul on my side, and not a single intact corpse."

Jiang Jiang looked at the corpse not far away, "My side's the same. Can you tell what kind of weapon it was?"

Chen Hao thought about it for a while and spoke, "Judging from the severed limbs and wounds, it doesn't look like any known weapon. It's as if a Thunderclap Bomb exploded and formed them."

"It's pretty close to my deduction, but it definitely wasn't caused by a Thunderclap Bomb. Current Thunderclap Bombs can't hurt martial artists, unless he killed the people first and then used Thunderclap Bombs to destroy the bodies."

Jiang Jiang walked up to the man's corpse, kicked the man's severed corpse open, and continued, "Look, this wound is like the bell of a suona, and the internal organs were pulled and torn apart by a rotating force."

Chen Hao looked at that wound, his expression somewhat ugly, and spoke, "We can't pursue anymore."

Jiang Jiang was somewhat surprised and spoke, "Why not pursue?"

"I feel like the other party doesn't seem like an eighth-rank. The intelligence given by the Sky Patrol is wrong."

Jiang Jiang raised a brow, "Is something wrong with your brain? You actually dare to question the Sky Patrol's intelligence?"

"There are no signs of resistance or fighting."

Jiang Jiang looked around, "Then I'm even more curious. Let's go. We can't catch him, but we can make friends, right?"

Watching Jiang Jiang leave, Chen Hao could only bite the bullet and give chase.

The two followed Zhou Ming's trail all the way forward.

Just as they caught up to the riverside.

The two were stunned.

The person they had been chasing for days was actually right across the river, having set up a few wooden stakes and sitting on them roasting little fish.

For a moment, the two were at a loss.

Zhou Ming looked at the two and grinned, "You're here."

The reason Zhou Ming stopped running also had his own considerations.

Jiang Jiang stood on the opposite bank, looking at the disheveled Zhou Ming, and asked with curiosity, "This young master, why aren't you running anymore?"

Chen Hao, on the other hand, wore a guarded expression.

When things are abnormal, demons are bound to exist.

This matter definitely had something fishy about it.

Zhou Ming flipped the little fish in his hand and smiled, "I figure that since the County Guard issued a wanted warrant, logically speaking, high-rank martial artists won't be dispatched for the time being."

Changing the topic, he continued, "Moreover, I also wanted to know what kind of trash the County Guard consists of. Now it seems not everyone in the County Guard is a beast."

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of both Jiang Jiang and Chen Hao didn't look too good.

Chen Hao cupped his fists and saluted, "This chivalrous hero seems to harbor deep resentment toward our County Guard. Can you elaborate and clear up the confusion for the two of us?"

Zhou Ming sneered, "What, the rotten things your County Guard did require an outsider like me to explain to you?"

Jiang Jiang vaulted across the stream and stood beside Zhou Ming, "You haven't answered my question yet!"

Zhou Ming picked up the AK on the ground and pointed it at Jiang Jiang.

Instantly, Jiang Jiang was like a frightened cat with its fur standing on end; her right foot kicked off, she leaped backward across the stream, and she stared at Zhou Ming with a terrified expression.

Chen Hao wore a puzzled look. Looking at Jiang Jiang beside him, he asked in a low voice, "What are you doing?"

Jiang Jiang calmed her mood and said in a low voice, "That thing is freakishly evil. The moment it pointed at me, I felt a fatal crisis."

Hearing this, Chen Hao's pupils constricted, and he gave Zhou Ming a deep look.

Watching the two whispering to each other across the river, Zhou Ming smiled, "I still don't know the two names?"

Jiang Jiang rolled her eyes, cupped her hands together, "Chen Hao of the Hua'an County Guard."

Chen Hao cupped his hands with an unwilling expression, "Jiang Jiang of the Hua'an County Guard."

After Chen Hao finished speaking, Jiang Jiang hurriedly said, "What about you?"

The corners of Zhou Ming's mouth curved up slightly, just as he wanted to speak.

He was interrupted by Jiang Jiang.

"Don't go making up a fake name to fool me. Confess obediently; the Sky Patrol will dig up your background sooner or later anyway."

Zhou Ming grinned, "If you want me not to fool you, what about you?"

Caught red-handed on the spot, Jiang Jiang said with a straight face, "I'm not fooling you at all. This humble one is County Guard Chen Hao, changing neither my name..."

Watching the deadpan Jiang Jiang, Zhou Ming tossed two roasted fish toward her.

"Get lost with that. Who are you trying to fool?"

Chen Hao steadily caught one of the roasted fish and cupped his fists, "This humble one is Chen Hao."

After being exposed by Chen Hao, Jiang Jiang's expression didn't change at all. After taking a small bite of the roasted fish, she asked:

"Can you say it now?"

Zhou Ming finished the roasted fish in two or three bites, placed the AK on his lap, and cupped his hands, "Zhou Ming, a bodyguard from the Dragon Soaring Escort Agency of Xishan County."

Chen Hao asked, "Could it be the Xishan County of Jinzhou?"

Zhou Ming nodded, raised a hand to wave them over, "Would the two of you like to come over and chat?"

Just as Jiang Jiang made a move, her body paused, and she said, "You better not point that thing at me anymore."

Hearing this, Zhou Ming dismissed Blood Qi Manifestation.

Seeing Zhou Ming actually dismiss the manifestation, Jiang Jiang leaped straight across and slapped Zhou Ming on the shoulder, "I've caught you now!"

Blood qi surged inside Zhou Ming, his shoulder twitched slightly, directly shaking off Jiang Jiang's hand.

Jiang Jiang shook her numb hand, "No wonder you're so full of confidence, Eighth-Rank Peak."

Chen Hao cupped his fists and spoke, "Brother Zhou, please don't take offense."

"No matter. My strength is lacking. I invited the two of you over, so getting caught serves me right."

Jiang Jiang raised a slender eyebrow, "Broad-minded! Truly worthy of being someone I, Jiang Jiang, want to make friends with."

Zhou Ming bantered, "Make friends with me? I've killed plenty of your colleagues."

Jiang Jiang crossed her arms over her chest and raised her chin slightly, "That still doesn't affect me, Jiang Jiang, making friends."

Chen Hao casually found a wooden stake to sit on and spoke calmly, "Brother Zhou, I wonder what you wanted to talk about by deliberately waiting for the two of us?"

Zhou Ming didn't hesitate and asked directly, "Can this wanted warrant be rescinded?"

Chen Hao shook his head, "According to the laws of the Yan Kingdom, killing County Guards calls for decapitation. Sorry, with Jiang Jiang's and my capabilities, we can't help Brother Zhou."

Zhou Ming sighed and inquired, "Without exception?"

"Without exception. The intelligence given by the Sky Patrol says you are eighth-rank. If Jiang Jiang and I are unable to bring you to justice, next the seventh-rank will be dispatched, and if that still doesn't work, then the sixth-rank will be sent out."

Saying this, Chen Hao didn't continue.

Zhou Ming didn't have the slightest bit of awareness and asked with curiosity, "I heard your County Guard's highest is the sixth-rank. What if none of them catch me?"

Jiang Jiang hugged her knees, squatting on the wooden stake, and smiled, "My new friend, then things will get fun. I hope you can pull it off. By that time, the Sky Patrol—which hasn't made a move in a hundred and eighty years in the Yan Kingdom—will take over all matters and directly dispatch a Second-Rank Celestial."

Hiss!

Not playing according to the rules at all, huh.

Going up rank by rank slowly, Zhou Ming felt that with his talent, coupled with the help of his destiny,

his advancement speed might not necessarily be unable to put up some resistance.

How is one supposed to play now? Run a couple of times, and then face the current martial dao ceiling head-on.

Unreconciled, Zhou Ming asked, "Is there really no exception?"

Chen Hao shook his head, "The Sky Patrol that Jiang Jiang just mentioned hasn't made a move in a hundred and eighty years. Does Brother Zhou know who they caught the last time they struck?"

Before Zhou Ming could ask, Chen Hao answered his own question, "They captured a Second-Rank Celestial. Trading two for one, they beheaded that powerful Second-Rank Celestial."

Hearing this, Zhou Ming couldn't sit still anymore, and urged anxiously, "Brother Chen, I was doing a good deed and performing a righteous act, eliminating pests for the people."

Chen Hao looked at Zhou Ming with a strange expression, "Brother Zhou, to not hide it from you, that Second-Rank Celestial was also doing a good deed and performing a righteous act."

Zhou Ming's eyes widened, and he exclaimed, "What! He was also doing a good deed?"

Jiang Jiang looked at Zhou Ming's appearance and burst into loud laughter.

Zhou Ming glared at her irritably, "Still laughing, your new friend is about to be no more."