Chapter 8: Chapter Eight: Vajra's Wrathful Gaze, Thunderous Means

Women's clothing……

Xiao Chu's mouth corner kept twitching.

Nowadays, how can monastics be like otaku!

Yes.

Tang Luo nodded, 'Chu benefactor is a more suitable choice.'

The four men present.

Tang Luo definitely won't do; tall and handsome, no matter how he dresses, he doesn't look the part.

Li Liang's body was drained, half-dead.

The grim green high-school youth had dark skin, the black fuzz on his lips unshaven, giving off a bit of a clerk's vibe.

Xiao Chu is different.

Medium height, slim build—excellent material for cross-dressing, with great potential.

Xiao Chu furrowed his brow, thought for a moment, then nodded and said, 'Okay, Master, my life is in your hands!'

Yet he was straightforward and decisive.

If you can't participate in the mission, complete it together, and end up with no reward, what's the difference from a salted fish?

Xiao Chu thought it through clearly.

Even if he clings to a thigh and gets through this time by luck, could he do it next time? Every time?

Without experiencing danger, putting in some effort, how can one become stronger?

The so-called seeking wealth in peril.

This isn't a game where you just spend money to get strong; just top up and you become powerful.

This is a gods-and-demons game!

'Okay, then we'll act tonight.' Tang Luo set the time.

The night grew darker.

The inn's doors were tightly shut.

Tang Luo grabbed Xiao Chu, leapt up, jumped over the inn's specially heightened wall over two meters high, and landed in the dark alley behind the inn.

'Master, you said you don't know lightness skill!'

After landing, Xiao Chu pressed his pounding heart and said.

His tone was somewhat excited.

The more Master Xuanzang can fight, the more it proves he is safe, and the higher the chance of completing the mission.

'It's just a slightly higher jump.' Tang Luo said, without any pride.

Indeed, there's nothing to be proud of.

What is lightness skill?

Graceful and ethereal, flying over grass, floating on water.

Divine abilities are an even higher realm.

As for Tang Luo, he truly rushed forward, like a green giant, leaping hundreds of meters, destroying everything in his path.

There was nothing to be proud of.

He raised his head, gazing at the night sky at a forty-five-degree angle, Tang Luo missed the days when he could ride dragons and horses.

Little White Dragon, Master misses you so much.

'I'll follow you, be careful.'

Tang Luo patted Xiao Chu's shoulder; the merit jade lotus glowed faintly and flashed away.

A trace of merit power was consumed, forming a certain protective ability on Xiao Chu.

Xiao Chu nodded, shivering, and began to walk forward.

As for Tang Luo, he jumped onto the nearby roof, overlooking from high, able to see in all directions and hear from all sides.

The city at night is actually not quiet.

It's not the clamor of people, but often one can hear the crows' calls and the sound of their wings flapping.

At first, Xiao Chu was startled.

As time passed, he gradually got used to it.

After walking for over half an hour, not to mention Jack the Ripper, not even a human shadow could be seen.

Xiao Chu began to stride, deliberately choosing various alleys to walk.

Eventually, he didn't even know where he was.

He also drifted far from the relatively prosperous parts of the small town, aside from the dim moonlight and the faint light leaking from house windows.

There were no other light sources around.

Xiao Chu's speed slowed down again.

Creak!

Suddenly, an old door creaking open came from the front-left.

Then came two overlapping exclamations.

One was Xiao Chu's, the other was the door-opener's.

Both were startled.

What are you doing!

The door-opener was a man, pitch black and hard to see; although he shouted loudly, his voice sounded somewhat trembling.

What are you doing?

Xiao Chu retorted, his voice somewhat distorted, not sounding like a male voice.

"Not going home in the middle of the night, you're courting death!"

The man realized he had startled himself, apparently seeing a woman, his mind settled, and he angrily cursed.

"None of your business!"

Xiao Chu refused to back down.

"Get lost! Get lost! Don't wander around my house aimlessly; if I didn't see you were a woman, I'd have already tied you up as a thief..." The man's voice lowered, and he slammed the door shut.

I don't even know what he was doing opening the door just now.

"You're sick."

Xiao Chu muttered something, continued walking forward, and his steps became much lighter.

Although they had just exchanged a couple of insults, it also somewhat dispelled the night's chill.

But Xiao Chu didn't notice.

The man who had just exchanged a few insults with him quietly opened the window, forced himself out, and silently followed behind him.

Faintly, one could see the man holding a bundle of rope in his right hand.

"Ripper?"

Tang Luo on the roof muttered to himself, yet felt it wasn't right.

There were no signs of rope binding on any of the corpses.

In other words, Kaitangshou Jieke wouldn't need rope to kill.

The man holding a bundle of rope, not holding a knife, is more likely someone who acted on lust upon seeing beauty.

It was probably his own self-reminder from just now that sparked the evil thoughts in his heart.

So he decided to go ahead with it; anyway, the blame could be pinned on Kaitangshou Jieke.

Xiao Chu didn't notice the danger approaching at all; by the time he heard the footsteps behind him, it was already too late.

A black flash flickered before his eyes; a rough rope was tied around his mouth, turning his cry into a muffled groan.

"Shut up!"

At the same time, a gruff male voice came from his ear.

"Damn it!"

In Xiao Chu's mind, ten million alpacas galloped wildly; in an instant, his thoughts raced extremely fast.

He almost immediately came to the same judgment as Tang Luo.

The person behind him was probably not Kaitangshou Jieke.

But rather someone who acted on lust upon seeing beauty!

At the same time, Xiao Chu recalled a news story he had seen.

It said that a certain cross-dressing big shot returning home from a comic convention was brutally assaulted by a pervert; after discovering he was male, the pervert not only didn't stop but became even more excited!

He had originally thought it was just a fabricated rumor, but never expected it to actually happen to him at this very moment.

Just as the rope tightened around Xiao Chu's mouth and forcibly pulled him backward,

Suddenly, a burst of golden light erupted from Xiao Chu's body.

The protective merit power that Tang Luo had bestowed upon Xiao Chu activated on its own.

The golden light formed an arc-shaped barrier, directly separating the rope and the person behind Xiao Chu.

However, it consequently became extremely dim, like a candle in the wind, about to vanish in the next second.

After all, it was only a tiny trace of merit power.

Seeing the mysterious arc-shaped barrier appear on his body, Xiao Chu was utterly shocked.

What is this?

Could this be the legendary "gene lock" opened between life and death, thus granting this ability?

No, according to the settings of the god-and-demon game, as the veteran Lao Zhou said, this should be a benefit obtained during the mission.

So this is how one obtains a benefit?

After all, being young and inexperienced, Xiao Chu didn't seize this great opportunity to flee or pull out his revolver to fight back.

Instead, he stood frozen in place, caught up in astonishment.

Meanwhile, the man behind him didn't stop; he simply tossed aside the rope, reached into his pocket, and pulled out a short dagger.

The man said nothing and stabbed directly at Xiao Chu's back.

It seemed his plan to capture him had failed, so he switched to killing.

The blade struck the arc-shaped barrier; silently, the barrier trembled and turned into specks of starlight.

Like sparks, they drifted away and vanished into the night.

Xiao Chu, however, remained unaware, still wearing a smile.

Just as the blade was about to pierce Xiao Chu, a sharp whistling tore through the air.

A black streak arrived like lightning.

But the man's reaction was even faster; he moved his body and retreated several meters.

The black streak grazed past his body, landing where he had originally stood, almost completely sinking into the ground.

After it came to rest, the exposed part of the black streak turned out to be the tip of a staff!

Xiao Chu was also startled awake by the sharp whistle, realizing he was still in danger, and immediately turned around.

Next, he saw—

Like an eagle or a bat spreading its wings, a black silhouette obscured the dim moonlight as it descended from the sky.

Almost at the moment the man landed after dodging the staff, Tang Luo had already arrived before him.

The black windbreaker fluttered, and a hand reached out.

Pressed against the man's face, the five fingers curled inward.

The man's head was directly gripped and held in Tang Luo's palm.

Tang Luo grabbed the man's head with one hand, as if holding a large doll, lifted it up, then twisted his elbow.

He slammed it down violently!

The stone slab road beneath his feet made intimate contact with the head.

A cracking sound came, making it impossible to tell at once whether it was the stone slab or the head that had shattered.

Or perhaps both.

At the moment of impact, Xiao Chu felt the ground tremble slightly.

After regaining his senses, he saw Tang Luo already standing, bending over to pull out that staff, waving it casually twice, as if checking for damage.

Behind him.

One could see a headless corpse, its head completely merged with the sunken pit.

It was impossible to distinguish them.

A pungent smell of blood wafted over.

It made Xiao Chu gag dryly.

After vomiting for a while, Xiao Chu finally looked at Tang Luo and asked, voice trembling: 'Master, did you kill him?'

Naturally, the question was pointless.

'Mm.'

Tang Luo looked at the damaged tip of the staff; even with a bit of skill, such a collision still caused some damage.

'When he pulled out the knife, I thought he was Jack the Ripper,' Tang Luo explained, 'so I didn't deliberately spare his life.'

'Heh.'

Xiao Chu gave a dry laugh.

Back at the church, he spoke of benevolence, yet when he actually acted, he was so violent that he immediately broke the precept against killing.

Heh, man, heh, monk.

'It's a pity he isn't; otherwise we would have finished the mission by now.'

Tang Luo continued, 'Amitabha.'

Finally, he uttered a Buddhist chant.

'Right.'

Xiao Chu felt a bit regretful inside; if this person really were Jack the Ripper, this mission would have ended.

'But——'

Tang Luo looked at the headless corpse he had made and said, 'If this person were an ordinary man, even I, a poor monk, wouldn't believe it.'

'Huh?' Xiao Chu, not understanding.

'If he were an ordinary person, when I threw the staff just now he would already be dead—why would I need to act myself?' Tang Luo said, 'But he managed to dodge. Let's go, let's check his house; maybe we'll find some clues.'

After witnessing Tang Luo's 'wrathful vajra gaze, thunderbolt methods,' Xiao Chu would certainly have no objections.

Master, everything you say is correct!

Leaving the headless corpse behind, the two walked toward the house where that person had just emerged.