Way of the Devil - Chapter 92

Chapter 92: Sisters (2)

"Lord Jade Lotus goes to the headquarters once in a while for routine meetings. Everything else is the same. Nothing out of the ordinary for now. Once the situation changes, Crimson Whale will dispatch someone to notify you," Ning San replied.

"I’ve run a check. They’re foreigners indeed. They’ve been to Mountain-Edge City for less than a month. But, they’re running the greenhouses really well. The greenhouses under their care are growing better than other greenhouses. They don’t steal or laze around. They’re of good character," Ning San smiled.

"Yes, sir."

"When we get back, take my command tablet and make a trip to our blacksmith store. I want to forge a fine weapon suited to myself. An average saber isn’t suitable," Lu Sheng ordered.

"It’s Lu Chenxin’s funeral?" Lu Sheng sighed.
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"I’ll head back a little later," Lu Sheng shook his head. "Any word from Fine Treasures Hall?"

"I’ll go take a look later," Lu Sheng wolfed down his lunch. A huge tub of rice disappeared as if into a black hole in a matter of minutes.

As he passed by a greenhouse, he spotted, through the entrance, the two sisters chatting with the gardener.

From his subordinates, Lu Sheng understood that a great tragedy had befallen their family. All their family members had perished, leaving them in destitution.

As he passed by the greenhouse presently, Lu Sheng noticed an exposed stretch of bare skin on the elder sister Liu Qin’s arm, which hung by her side.

Lu Sheng smiled and nodded at the two of them. The two sisters nodded in response while the gardener bowed his head reverently. Only after Lu Sheng had walked on a distance did he leave in a hurry for his duties after some final instructions to the sisters.

"Big Sis, can we stay here for a few more days?" The younger sister Liu Caiyun asked in a whisper.

"Mm," Liu Caiyun nodded.
"Those things will come again. If we stay here too long, this place will be destroyed too," a trace of pai

n flashed across Liu Qin’s eyes.

"Me too…" Liu Qin spoke in a hushed voice as well. "But Young Master Lu is but a mortal. So is everyone else here."

After a long while, she finally replied chokingly, "I understand…"

"…" Liu Caiyun did not speak. She only rested her cheek against her elder sister’s bosom, bursting a patch of blisters on her cheek. Yellow pus oozed our of them, wetting Liu Qin’s robes.

The door opened and Lu Sheng strode into the room, closing the door behind him. He was about to rest on his bed when he suddenly froze abruptly and surveyed the entire bedroom.

What made Lu Sheng’s face turn dark was that he saw a pale hand lightly gripping on to the edge of the curtain beside his bed.

But from Lu Sheng’s angle, he could only see the hand.

There was no reply. Very slowly and gradually, the hand retracted back into the bed. It moved at a tortoise’s pace, without a sound. But Lu Sheng was clear that there was only a wall in the direction of where the hand was retracting.

"RIP!"

The bed was placed in the corner of two walls. On two of its sides were walls. The other two sides were empty and visible to plain sight. Lu Sheng’s gaze swept across the entire room again.

A scorching wave of heat radiated across the air, producing a ear-piercing sound of breaking wind.

The entire bed collapsed. Broken wood creaked as thick splinters rubbed against each other. In the midst of the sound, a faint scream rang out.

"Blood web!" Lu Sheng did not move, but inner Qi rolled around his body. Level Seven Ultimate Crimson Mantra activated and immediately, an invisible layer of blood web spread out over the area in front of him.

A blood-curdling scream rang out in the air.

After the wind had ceased, Lu Sheng carefully sensed his surroundings before finally putting down his guard.

"External Head! Are you alright!?"

The subordinates entered the room to see a collapsed bed. Instantly, they stared at each other dumbly in shock.

While the subordinates changed his bed, Lu Sheng bent at his waist to pick up a small pink purse on the ground.

But Lu Sheng felt that it was cold to the touch.

"Szzz…" after a faint and indiscernible sizzle, a thin strand of Yin Qi flowed into Lu Sheng’s chest through his arm, where it was absorbed.

"Who’s that!" Suddenly, the voices of sect disciples standing sentry outside rang out. "How dare you attempt to barge into the External Head’s resting room? Are you courting death?!"

"Danger?" The men laughed. "Only our boss ever puts others in danger. Alright now, you two ugly hags, go back and sleep. Don’t hang around here."

Lu Sheng overheard the exchange from inside his room. A trace of humor flashed across his eyes. He walked out of his room and immediately saw the two sisters still trying to get past the sect disciples.

"Young Master Lu… you… did you encounter any strange phenomena?" Liu Qin instantly heaved a sigh of relief at the sight of Lu Sheng, as if a huge burden had been lifted off her.

"That’s…!?" Seeing the purse, both Liu Qin and Liu Caiyun trembled in shock.

"It’s nothing. I was bored anyway. I’ve been training martial arts day in and day out… I was just hoping for some excitement," Lu Sheng grinned as he cast the sisters a meaningful look.

"Afraid?" Lu Sheng waved his hand, dismissing the guards. "Both of you follow me," he said to the pair of sisters.

He sat on a stone stool without further ado.

At the sound of the word "ghosts", the pair of sisters stared at him blankly. Then, strangely, instead of looking surprised, fearful, or grim, their blank stares gradually turned into looks of liberation and exhilaration.

"You… you know about ghosts too?" The younger sister Liu Caiyun asked cautiously.

"That’s true… since Young Master Lu already knows about them, then we don’t have to beat around the bush," Liu Qin said, a sense of relief and liberation in her tone.

Lu Sheng’s mind was befuddled.

"Alright, we’ll start right from the beginning for you," Liu Qin said earnestly.