Chapter 113: Bloodthirsty Berserk

In recent years, Lei Wuye had lived in seclusion and rarely appeared, mostly staying in his own seaside fishing villa, living like a hermit.

He looked calm and indifferent, like a master outside the world, but in reality, his desire for power hadn't diminished in the slightest.

From his picturesque place of seclusion, he was still controlling the operation of his industries through various means, giving instructions, and making judgments. It was like visible shackles turning into invisible reins, wrapped around the necks of everyone who couldn't see the light.

The last time he appeared was a few months ago, at the inauguration ceremony of the new Viceroy. At that time, Mr. Lei Wuye, the citizen representative, shook hands with the Viceroy, and how harmonious they looked in the camera.

But only a short time had passed, and the person was already in the ICU.

It was completely unbelievable.

But while it was too bizarre, it also seemed to have a bit of credibility.

And the even more bizarre part was that such a life-threatening piece of news had somehow leaked out!

Overnight, everyone knew: it's not good, it's not good, Lei Wuye is going to die, making people's hearts restless and chaotic.

Logically speaking, an old dog, let him die, what's the big deal?

After all, Lei Wuye had been working in the dark side of Yacheng for so many years. To say he did good deeds is ridiculous. With a body full of sins, not to mention being full of evil, he deserved to die.

After finishing the edamame, Wen Wen had already waved for someone to come over and open champagne to celebrate.

Die well, die wonderfully, die so the Viceroy quacks!

How meow!

Even if he didn't die, one day when Wen Wen couldn't take it anymore and slammed the door to resign, she might have gone to the door and squeezed the old dog like plastic bubble wrap to vent her anger.

Unfortunately, he wouldn't be the only one to die.

"A whale falls, everything lives," this is truly a virtue, but few people can achieve such a blessing for generations.

And for some tumors that emit a foul stench, once they burst, they only leave pus and maggots crawling all over the ground, making people frown.

This is why the first department called the second department.

The bureau chief was away, the first department minister Tong Shan and the deputy bureau chief were in charge. The deputy bureau chief had also been away for many years, running around and nowhere to be seen, so the power fell entirely into Tong Shan's hands. It could be said that this eldest son of the Tong family in Yacheng was now the acting bureau chief of the Security Bureau.

After the call, starting tomorrow, Wen Wen would have to run errands, knocking on the heads of all the gangs in the North Mountain District as usual—don't go too far, if dirty things leak onto the street, it won't look good for anyone.

There are nineteen major cities in the Federation, and naturally, there are highs and lows in each city, and the oil and water are also different.

Located in the southernmost part of the Federation, Yacheng, although local industries are average, the oil and water brought by import and export trade are enough to support countless parasites.

Electronic products, weapons, luxury goods, and even banned drugs...

Imagine how many interests are hidden in the many fishing villages and dark ports along this coastline. It is simply a flowing river of gold. How many people would be tempted?

One Lei Wuye dies, the next Lei Wuye will continue to stand up.

But why can't the next Lei Wuye be me?

As an organization covering the dark side of the whole world, the complexity and scale of the Wasteland Market naturally don't need to be said. The twelve leaders are high above, like dragons riding the clouds and rain, making the snakes bow and follow.

But how many people can even think about rising and changing like a dragon? But the position of a snake is truly powerful enough to confuse people's minds.

The Wasteland Market manager is a real local snake.

The speaker for the dark side of Yacheng.

Nominally, he is here to preside over justice and avoid the two sides fighting to the point of no return.

After all, the leaders can't worry about whether it's appropriate to open another lottery stall on which street in Yacheng every day.

Those who become leaders are either the world's strongest White Deer humans, or the behind-the-scenes BOSSes who secretly integrate several regions or cities, or the uncrowned kings who control shipping routes between the Thousand Islands and can easily bankrupt any small country...

Born and died and worked to death before becoming a leader, and still having to work to death after becoming a leader, then wouldn't this leader be for nothing?

Therefore, the local director is a tool person born in this situation.

Equivalent to the local general manager of the Wasteland Market department.

In the Wasteland Market, they are under the leaders, but in Yacheng, they are undoubtedly above ten thousand people.

As long as you cleverly use this power and name, even a person without a weapon can subdue a strong dragon and settle all the fighting that crosses the line in the dark side with one word.

Not to mention the money that has turned into numbers and the authority that is almost infinite downward.

Generally speaking, such a critical position, even if the manager meets with an accident, will have a successor.

But this old dog Lei Wuye, in his life, accepted fourteen godchildren, each given responsibility, and then let them check and balance each other, so he could sleep soundly.

After all, the White Deer Path is like this. Loyal dogs are not few, but white-eyed wolves are more. It is common for younger brothers to kill their bosses after their power grows. No matter how many second brothers you worship, it's useless.

He played this set too well, so much so that when he let go, no one could control the whole situation, turning it into a plate of loose sand. Even, in the years of conflict and the gaps brought about by it, they regarded each other as enemies.

Now Lei Wuye hasn't died yet, just lying in the ICU, and the great cause he created has already begun to fall apart, about to kill each other.

I really don't know if the old face under the oxygen mask is angry or panicked right now?

It's possible that before he stops breathing, everything he cares about will no longer belong to him.

At that time, Wen Wen thinks the look of him dying without closing his eyes is ridiculous and sad.

But thinking of the many struggles and the innocent people involved, she couldn't help but want to rush over and smash this old thing into pieces.

Look at the good things you've done!

"When can we kill all this trash?"

She sighed and looked up, drinking the celebratory and lamenting strong liquor in one gulp.

Lei Wuye loses the deer, and everyone involved will begin to chase madly.

Or rather, that hungry, never-satisfied ferocious deer, after getting tired of Lei Wuye's staleness, has already begun to look for the next sacrifice among countless prey...

The dark side of Yacheng is about to become chaotic.

"Another storm of blood."

Wen Wen looked up at the pitch-black sky, and amidst the dark clouds, she could no longer see the moon and stars.

"Holy crap, what kind of storm of blood is this..."

The next morning, Ji Jue looked at the doubled homework, and in his wailing, his vision went black, and even the sun that had just risen into the sky became dim.

The world was gloomy.

According to Professor Ye's instructions, since he asked for a whole day off, he should take the time to make up for the progress himself.

Looking at Ji Jue's subjective initiative, supervision and review were unnecessary, but if he didn't brush questions for a day, he knew it, and if he didn't read for two days, Professor Ye would definitely know. At that time, maybe he would have to add another session to the spiritual quality defense class at night.

If you can't eat the bitterness of learning, you'll eat the bitterness of fists, why bother?

Ye Chun watched from the sidelines and was speechless about this weird teacher-student relationship.

After all, such a free-spirited management and training method for an apprentice can only be described as a strange flower in the entire craftsman world.

In an ordinary workshop, an apprentice with no advantages, no money at home, and average ability is no different from a corporate slave. They clock in in the morning and get off work in the evening. If the tuition is paid, they help the craftsman, and if they are in a good mood, they teach you two sentences, and if they are in a bad mood, they give you a slap, and you can only go home and shed little pearls quietly.

Or they are students with extraordinary talent, amazing talent, tight hooks, and the teacher's favorite, who are often brought by their side, listening to teachings all the time, and working hard every day, from entry to burial. Until they become new craftsmen after finishing their apprenticeship, they go to enjoy other flattery, respect, and hooks.

But Ji Jue is neither.

If you say he is valued, he is indeed valued. He knows everything and says everything. As long as he has time, Professor Ye has never refused Ji Jue's questions and doubts, not to mention the clues of Non-Aggression and the inheritance of the Disintegration Technique.

But if you say he is not valued, he is indeed a bit indifferent, because after teaching the basics and pointing out the direction, Professor Ye lets go and doesn't care, continuing to be busy with her own projects, throwing the student into the warehouse and library, and letting him play with electricity by himself.

She doesn't look at the progress, doesn't ask about the results, and doesn't care about what kind of trouble he causes outside or if he is locked by a sniper. So much so that although he is a home-raised apprentice, he was raised with a wild beauty.

But both of them are self-satisfied and don't care about other things.

"The foundation of the ascension element is already okay. You have your own understanding of the purification part because of Fluid Alchemy, which is enough for now. You can make up for the lessons later."

Professor Ye said slowly after reading Ji Jue's reading notes: "The next direction to attack is 'Extraction and Change'. This is your real weakness. Apart from practicing the Disintegration Technique, for the rest of the time, you should read this part of the material first."

The four major elements of modern alchemy: Ascension, Extraction and Change, Purification, and Harmony.

Ascension refers to giving matter spiritual quality, such as turning stone into gold, making it lean toward the nature of the Superior Good, so that it can accommodate blessings.

Purification is to make the physical properties purer, filter out impurities, shield interference, and make it transition and evolve infinitely toward the purest direction.

Harmony is to integrate all components, making multiple spiritual quality circuits, structures, and Superior Good blessings completely melt into a whole.

And Extraction and Change is to make two or more materials and blessings stimulate each other and then transform into a brand-new state.

In short, to use the words that card players like most, it's called "Fusion."

But how to fuse two things together, when to fuse, how much more or less, different times, altitudes, and positions, magnetic field strength, and even character... will have world-of-difference changes.

Even if there are infinite formulas in modern alchemy, and this number is still expanding and rising every year in various explorations, it is still far from enough.

Rote memorization is useless to a certain extent. Every craftsman should have their own understanding and feelings in this process.

Through massive practice and attempts, accumulate experience, and then let instinct and perception tell you what to do and when.

At the same time... this is also the most krypton-gold place, none of them.

Ascension entry is simple but it is extremely difficult to improve. Purification steps are troublesome, operations are delicate, and twelve thousand points of caution are needed. Harmony needs to control the overall situation and control all components, making each component stay in its place and cooperate with each other without interfering with each other.

These few have one characteristic: success is success, and if it doesn't work, be careful and come again. As long as you follow the process, it will never be wrong. If you make a mistake, give yourself two big mouths, and you will remember it in the future.

But Extraction and Change is a desperate dead cycle for apprentices—if you don't have money to buy materials to try, you won't learn it. If you don't learn it, you will make mistakes. If you make mistakes and the materials are scrapped, you will get big mouths and money will be deducted. After the money is deducted, you will have even less money to buy materials.

Mentioning this, Ji Jue, as a senior poor person, subconsciously felt a headache.

Touching the one million plus in his arms that hadn't been warmed yet, he only hoped that Chen Yubo, the heartless ghost, would hurry up and pay him the final payment.

"Don't worry about the money."

＿￠o

Professor Ye drank tea and placed a black card on the table, pushing it to Ji Jue, "It seems you didn't work for nothing last night."

"Someone has already solved it for you."

The exquisitely shaped pitch-black card on the table, the hot-stamped code on it glowing with golden light in the sun, illuminated Ji Jue's eyes.

It exuded an aura of money, making one instinctively feel noble.

Deterring the poor.

"My... god."

Ji Jue's heart skipped a beat, and he almost couldn't restrain himself from saying a dirty word in front of the professor, hurriedly changing the subject: "What kind of card is this? I've never seen it before? Who gave it?"

?￠o

"Chen Hangzhou sent it over this morning. Usually, the two brothers don't associate with each other and don't even send people. Now it seems that he is quite concerned about his own younger brother's life and death."

The professor sneered: "I only said you were an apprentice who had just started, and that guy knew what to take out."

"This is a membership card provided only to high-end customers of the Balance Chamber of Commerce. He should have bought it urgently last night, and the name and information have all become yours now."

"There's about twenty million in it. If you find it troublesome, you can take it out and put it into your own card. However, with this money, you don't have to worry about expenses for at least half a year."

Damn!

The dirty words in Ji Jue's heart couldn't be restrained anymore, and he was dumbfounded: Is this what a big boss is? Twenty million given away just like that? Is the thank-you gift so exaggerated?

Directly increasing the final payment by ten times?!

And...

"Half a year?"

He looked at the professor in front of him blankly, several times, wanting to say something but stopping—is the speed at which this alchemy burns money a bit too fast?!

Twenty million divided by one hundred and eighty, it's about 111,111.11 per day. This number makes single dogs feel sad, but when this number is multiplied by the day, it's enough for any single dog to transform into a diamond king, a mental shareholder of manufacturers like Black Spade Q, and a world-class hero who dominates the nightlife.

Eleven thousand per day?!

Ji Jue wouldn't need that much even if he ate, drank, and played himself to death!

What kind of good alchemy burns so much money?!

"Your own progress is too fast, don't blame alchemy."

Professor Ye glanced at his ignorant, stupid look: "Two months, other apprentices haven't even finished learning the basics yet. Who else is like you, not learning enough modern stuff and then tossing out the ancient stuff again?"

"If you want to have a long stream, it's no problem. Ten or eight years is enough for you. If you endure the qualifications, maybe you can become an official craftsman when you are thirty. At that time, others will have to praise you for being young and promising."

"Chen Hangzhou probably planned it this way too. After eight or nine years, you rely on his money to become a craftsman. Wouldn't it be simple and convenient if he had any needs?"

Ji Jue accompanied with a smile, not daring to speak.

He could only sigh, as expected of Ember, krypton-gold makes you stronger, and you can even recharge to speed up progress.

It's just that he originally thought rich people were just burning money, but he didn't expect that even a thank-you gift could have so many tricks. Although if you look at it from a dark perspective, this possibility is undoubtedly very large, but... people didn't sign a contract with you!

Even without an extra word.

Human feelings come and go, and if they come and go more, human feelings will exist. This kind of thing always requires mutual consent.

Chen Hangzhou's shot was generous, but Ji Jue didn't do nothing. Besides, if it weren't for Professor Ye's relationship, he wouldn't have gotten such generous treatment.

Ji Jue wasn't stupid enough to take out the card and ask, "Would you like to share half of it?" Only then would he get a white eye from his teacher.

He could only try to speed up the progress.

He had no idea that his progress in modern alchemy had reached such a speed, and the soul of the corporate slave had once again started to burn.

If the professor wasn't nearby, he would have wanted to look up to the sky and laugh three times:

I have liver, and I have krypton!

Liver and krypton dual cultivation, who in the world can match my practice level?!

But soon, his gaze was attracted by the pendant next to the card.

"What is this again?"

"Your spoils of war, sent over after Chen Hangzhou's people cleaned up the scene."

"Looks like an alchemy work?"

Ji Jue picked it up and examined it. It looked like one, and in fact, it was.

It was just that he could feel the aura of blessing in his hand, this feeling of being there and not being there, floating upward, was Ascension.

He became even more cautious.

Generally, the blessing of Ascension acts on the soul and consciousness. If used improperly, maybe his brain would have problems.

Besides, this workmanship...

How to say it, it looks fancy and very much like a thing, and it can be seen that the technique is very skilled, much stronger than Ji Jue.

But having seen the beauty of the unity of matter and self in the mercury work, and having felt the strict spirit of meticulousness and inclusiveness in Professor Ye's work in the study of modern alchemy... he could only say, it was just like that.

Even, it seems...

"A bit flawed?" He was a bit uncertain.

"Looks like your eye has improved."

Professor Ye rarely praised him, and then commented: "Don't be so polite. To make such materials and blessings into this kind of clumsy goods, apart from garbage, there is nothing else to say."

"Being able to melt blessings into this kind of clumsy goods, and having the courage to take it out to sell, is completely losing face. It's no wonder that the craftsman didn't dare to carve his own badge on it. If it is ever dug out by someone, I'm afraid he will be treated as a joke for the rest of his life."

The materials are good, and the blessings are also very good.

Only the workmanship is rotten to the core!

Ascension has the form but not the essence, Extraction and Change copies the formula, Purification is uneven, Harmony is a mess, there is no more "look-like-a-thing" thing than this.

It is estimated that the blessing inside knew it would become like this, I am afraid it would have jumped down directly and rotted in the vortex with the nine evils.

Professor Ye had already seen the specific situation of the blessing.

It is called "Transcendental Vision."

In a word, it is the ability to accelerate the user's self-perception and thinking speed, thereby achieving the effect of slowing down time in disguise.

It's not ordinary, but it's not precious, because there are many blessings with the same effect. Such as White Deer's "Lightning Reflex," Wasteland's "Unity of Matter and Self," Vortex's "Neural Spiritual Quality,"... and even the legendary blessing "Time Interception" given by the Gate of Eternity!

In fact, "Heaven-made Skill" also has similar models.

Daqun has "Hand of Conquest," Bai Lu has "Finger of Spiritual Rhinoceros," and Wo has "Miraculous Hand Rejuvenating," but one focuses on strong destructive power, one focuses more on dexterity and counter-measures, and the other is simply a healing ability, which cannot be compared with the terrifying versatility and growth potential of the Miraculous Hand.

"Alright, stop looking, it's nothing more than a clumsy piece of junk."

Professor Ye interrupted Ji Jue's thinking and then made a sound that seemed to come from the deepest part of a nightmare: "Since this thing is in your hands, let's add an assignment for you—"

Don't!

Ji Jue's face changed in shock, and he subconsciously wanted to throw this thing away.

Can't I just not want it?

How can you just add an assignment like that?!

"Next, for your introductory practice of the Dissociation Art, let's change the target to this."

Professor Ye picked up her teacup mercilessly: "What you need to do is take it apart, strip away those messy spiritual circuits and material contamination, and keep the internal blessing as unaffected as possible. Ghost Work will stay in the workshop to assist you in extracting the blessing completely."

"Uh..."

Ji Jue asked hesitantly: "Is there a time requirement?"

"Up to you, it doesn't matter if you do it fast or slow."

The professor took one last look at him and gave him a shot of adrenaline that made Ji Jue go completely crazy: "I think, after the blessing is stripped out, it should be about time to start."

She said faintly: "Your first, true, alchemical creation."

"..."

In the dead silence, Ye Chun closed her eyes in despair.

But Ji Jue's eyes lit up, as if they were emitting bloodthirsty light...

In that instant—

—The grind-dog, berserk mode, complete!