Chapter 92: Blood Malice

The Ten Thousand Blood Bead was in mental communion with Li Fei; the moment he unlocked the Blood Soul skill, he immediately acquired information regarding "Blood Malice."

Blood Malice: Consume Blood Souls to convert them into an aura of Blood Malice, which can be used against enemies. The more Blood Souls consumed, the stronger the aura of Blood Malice.

Just like the characteristics of the first Blood Soul skill, "Blood Rage," these are moves that require consuming one's own Blood Souls to execute; it seems all Blood Soul skills must be like this.

Li Fei was lost in thought.

With a movement of his mind, he consumed 1 Blood Soul to execute the newly acquired Blood Soul skill, "Blood Malice."

The next second, a cold aura surged out from the Ten Thousand Blood Bead and entered Li Fei's body.

Li Fei could control this cold aura with his mind, as easily as moving his own arm.

He channeled this aura to the palm of his right hand, and blood-red gas continuously emerged from his palm.

The strength of his right palm was not enhanced; Li Fei lightly slapped the wall, but it caused no extra damage.

"Could it be..."

A conjecture flashed through Li Fei's mind.

He rose and walked out of the room, then out of his home, went downstairs to the courtyard of the Inspectorate's family quarters, found a corner where no one could see him, and stood under a large banyan tree.

At this moment, the cold aura in his body was still there.

Li Fei discovered that the Blood Soul skill "Blood Malice" was different from "Blood Rage." "Blood Rage" had a time limit and could only be maintained for one minute, whereas the aura of Blood Malice produced by "Blood Malice" could exist indefinitely as long as it wasn't consumed.

He channeled the aura of Blood Malice and lightly slapped the trunk of the large banyan tree in front of him.

Squeak—

A choking white smoke emerged, as if something had been scorched.

Li Fei moved his right palm away and discovered that a clear palm print had been pressed into the tree trunk.

He leaned in to observe closely and found that the place where the print was pressed was not scorched, but rather appeared withered, causing both the outer bark and the inner xylem to become soft, which is why a palm print was easily pressed into it.

"Sure enough, this aura of Blood Malice has a special lethal effect only on living organisms!"

Li Fei muttered.

It's just that he didn't know what the difference was between this aura of Blood Malice and the Innate Qi of the Qi Transformation realm. Could it be used to pass as Innate Qi?

After the experiment, Li Fei took out a fruit knife he had brought from home and thoroughly dug out the area where he had pressed the palm print.

His naturally cautious personality meant he didn't intend to leave even a single palm print behind.

Next, he consumed another 1 Blood Soul to execute "Blood Malice" and obtained the aura of Blood Malice.

This time he did not use the aura of Blood Malice, letting it remain inside his body.

He wanted to see how long this aura of Blood Malice could be maintained. Would it diminish? If it stayed in his body for a long time, would he feel any discomfort?

This would have implications for future tactical planning.

After finishing these things, Li Fei tidied himself up, still wearing the stab-proof vest underneath, layering a white coat from the Martial Arts Hall on the outside, putting a few bags of lime powder in his pockets, and then rode his bicycle toward the Inspectorate.

Today was the day he would receive his ten-thousand-yuan bonus!

Arriving at the Inspectorate with an excited mood, Li Fei parked his bike and was quickly recognized:

"Xiao Fei is here? Are you here to find Captain Li?"

"Yes, I'm here to see him."

Li Fei said with a smile.

The fact that he had received a ten-thousand-yuan bonus had not been made public, and even within the Inspectorate, not many people knew about it.

"Captain Li should be in his office right now."

"Alright, thanks."

"Haha, no need for formalities."

Li Fei walked familiarly into a building, went up to the third floor, and walked into an office.

Li Lei was currently speaking to his subordinates. Seeing Li Fei, a smile appeared on his face. He gave a few instructions to his subordinates, let them leave first, and then beckoned to Li Fei:

"Xiao Fei, come, sit down first, I have something to tell you."

Li Fei walked over and sat down. Li Lei looked at him and said in a low voice:

"General Manager Gu happens to be free today, so after you see Inspector General Huang in a while and collect your bonus, you will have to go with him to the Administration Hall to see General Manager Gu."

"Today?"

Li Fei was startled.

He had heard from Li Lei before that Xingcheng's General Manager Gu Zhenhui wanted to personally commend him, but after several days passed with no movement, he had thought this big shot had forgotten about the matter.

He didn't expect the other party to suddenly want to see him today.

"To see the General Manager, do I need to prepare anything?"

Li Fei asked very calmly.

Because he had worked within the system in his past life, and because he had followed a leader who kept getting promoted, he had seen some truly big shots and had even eaten with high-ranking provincial officials, so hearing that he was to see the General Manager did not make him feel nervous.

Li Lei had originally prepared to soothe Li Fei first, telling him not to be too nervous, but seeing that he was even calmer than himself, he couldn't help but be amused.

He patted Li Fei's head: "You brat, you're calmer than me now."

"Hehe."

Li Fei revealed a simple, honest smile that he only showed in front of close elders.

"Just keep the composure you have now; you don't need to pay attention to anything extra. Listen more, speak less."

Li Lei said.

"Alright."

Li Fei nodded.

Then Li Lei took him to Huang Weiguang's office.

"Xiao Fei, we meet again."

Seeing the two of them, Huang Weiguang stood up proactively and said to Li Fei with a smile.

"Inspector General Huang."

"Mm, sit, be more casual, don't be reserved."

As Huang Weiguang spoke, he picked up a voucher from the table.

He walked over to Li Fei and sat down, casually handing the voucher in his hand over:

"This is a deposit voucher for the Taijia Silver House. It has already been linked to your National ID number. You can take your National ID and this voucher to any Taijia Silver House to withdraw the ten thousand yuan inside."

This world had no banks, but it had silver houses, which functioned similarly to banks.

The Taijia Silver House was the first nationwide silver house founded by the imperial court and was currently the largest in the country, with branches in almost every city.

The National ID was a product born from the Mingxin Reform seventeen years ago, issued to every citizen of the Great Lan Dynasty as proof of identity.

Of course, even after seventeen years, the penetration rate of the National ID had barely reached seventy percent nationwide; the remaining thirty-plus percent of the Great Lan Dynasty's populace did not have National IDs.

"Thank you, Inspector General."

Li Fei stood up and received the deposit voucher, which represented a huge sum of ten thousand yuan, with both hands.

"Originally, there should have been a grand commendation ceremony for you, but for the sake of confidentiality and to protect your identity, we can only give you this bonus in such a simple manner."

Huang Weiguang said.

Li Fei looked at the voucher in his hand and smiled: "Having this bonus is already very good."

"Hahaha."

Huang Weiguang laughed while picking up a rectangular wooden box from the table beside him and handing it to Li Fei:

"Xiao Fei, that ten-thousand-yuan bonus is the Inspectorate's reward for you; this, however, is a gift from me personally."

Li Fei was startled and subconsciously received the wooden box with both hands.

"Open it and take a look."

Huang Weiguang said.

Li Fei opened the wooden box in his hand:

Inside lay a small dark blue booklet and a very exquisite revolver inlaid with purple patterns.

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