My Arms Can Turn into Blades-Chapter 53 - 47: The Second Assignment

"He’s feeding them like pigs; how can he not be fast?"

Wu You directly replaced Chen Lusi, replying, "You have no idea. He’s getting more and more skilled at forming Spirit Balls now. Do you want to try?"

"Such forcibly crammed spirits don’t have much effect on me..."

Si Yujie lightly shook her head, looked Chen Lusi up and down, then turned her eyes back to Wu You: "It’s a good thing you’re advancing. I’ll help you apply for Stone Stage data later, but as for going to the site... How’s your training going?"

Wu You looked at Chen Lusi.

"Currently, Brother Wu You and Xia Panqiu’s Techniques basically aren’t taking shape."

Chen Lusi thought for a moment and replied, "The proficiency of the Dismantling Technique has improved, but the speed of forming the ’Invisible Blade’ I learned from Lu Hao is still slow."

"Additionally, in close combat, Chen Lusi can now evenly match Little Panqiu."

Wu You added, "His Offensive-Defensive Transformation of the Enhancement Technique is the fastest I’ve seen... The only thing he’s lacking right now is the use and defense against modern weapons. His own Incarnation Stage is a drawback, but the Dismantling Technique doesn’t need to use his inner spirit, so it’s not a big problem."

"Then, for now, don’t go on missions."

Si Yujie responded directly, "Learn to defend against modern weapons first."

As she said this.

She paused, looked at Chen Lusi, and explained, "Don’t think superpower users won’t play dirty. For a long time, the best way to deal with Empowerers was sniping assassination: long distance, one hit kill.

And this way of sniping is still very effective now. Celestial Strategy Mansion has suffered quite a bit from this, which is why there’s training specifically to deal with such situations. On the other hand, ordinary ’Armor’ can’t block bullets. Sometimes modern weapons are more useful than fists, so getting familiar with modern firearms won’t hurt."

"Understood."

Chen Lusi understood, considering this isn’t a cultivation world.

Modern weapons are an obstacle you can’t avoid.

"So you all should continue training, no need for missions. Later, I’ll arrange for a nearby city’s squad to come handle it."

Si Yujie instructed, "As for the future, wait for Kunlun to figure it out."

"Did Ah Yue leave?"

Wu You thought for a moment and asked.

"He has to rotate; he needs to go to the sea."

Si Yujie calmly replied, "It’s his duty. No matter the cause of this large-scale activation of legends, he can’t stay here forever... I’ll be paying more attention these days, you should focus on training first."

"Alright."

Wu You thought for a moment, didn’t say much, just agreed.

...

From then on.

Chen Lusi lived like he was going to work, two-point life.

Apart from training, it was still training.

Luckily, the training content wasn’t dull.

After all, he was still very interested in firearms.

However, for some reason... he quickly mastered how to improve the quality of ’Armor’ to block bullets in terms of defense.

Even the mystical ’Secret Technique’ of determining bullet direction by moving spirit that Wu You described fantastically, he learned to use competently within a short time.

But in terms of using guns... he practiced for nearly half a month, yet half a magazine still remained empty.

You can’t say it’s a special talent, rather it’s simply horrible.

He’s practically a human-outline master.

Every day he trained, every day he missed targets, missing until he was numb, he even had the absurd idea of using spirit to control bullet trajectory, but had to give it up due to the bullet’s speed.

Meanwhile.

In this half month.

Peng City was still frequently reporting ordinary people sighting ghosts.

Typically one or two cases a day, sometimes a day or two apart.

And the most outrageous case occurred, when in one day, similar cases happened in four different places.

Although, due to the existence of Spiritual Authority, such events hadn’t widely spread, there were related urban legends online.

However.

Despite their frequent occurrence, the impact wasn’t too significant.

On the day such cases happened in four different places, Si Yujie didn’t notice anything unusual near Celestial Strategy Trading.

During this, Ah Yue returned once, stayed for two days, then left again.

Still, nothing happened at all.

And Kunlun’s investigation concluded... it didn’t seem to be the cause of any recorded Authority or Ancient Object.

Doesn’t seem like an Authority Ability or caused by an Ancient Object.

So making rounds back and forth.

The cause remained unknown.

In a flash, it was already May.

The weather was getting hotter.

On this day.

When Chen Lusi got up, he was sweaty because the air conditioner was set to turn off.

"It’s only May, right?"

Chen Lusi turned the air conditioning back on, looked at the glaring sunlight outside the window, thought for a moment, and decided to take a shower.

And when he came out after showering.

It was almost nine o’clock.

He tidied up a bit and headed out on time.

The place Lin Ying rented wasn’t far from Celestial Strategy Trading, so he arrived at the company quickly.

"Good morning."

Chen Lusi greeted the receptionist Si Yujie and continued to move inside, intending to enter the gourd as usual.

"Wait a moment."

Si Yujie suddenly stopped him.

"Hmm?" Chen Lusi paused.

Si Yujie explained, "Wait a bit, Xia Panqiu and Wu You will be here shortly. There’s an activated legend event in Gui Shan District you all need to deal with."

"..."

Upon hearing this, Chen Lusi turned to the front desk and directly waited while feeling a bit emotional.

Indeed, simply relying on training to idle away time doesn’t work.

To earn a salary, work still needs to be done.

Here it goes, the second mission has come.

"Feeling nervous?"

Si Yujie, standing behind the desk, glanced at Chen Lusi and suddenly asked.

"Not really."

Chen Lusi shook his head, "As long as we don’t encounter a situation like Lu Hao’s... Speaking of which, we shouldn’t encounter a similar situation, right?"

"Not necessarily."

Si Yujie thought for a moment and shook her head.

Chen Lusi: "..."

Alright.

Now he was actually a bit nervous.

Though not much.

After waiting for nearly ten minutes.

Wu You and Xia Panqiu finally arrived.

And both were not surprised by Si Yujie’s request.

Currently, many anomalies in Peng City were being handled by squads from nearby cities, and they were starting to have complaints.

After all, the main squad, led by Ah Yue, hadn’t done a thing.

No one could complain if there were no people... But Wu You is quite famous in the Empowerer circle, and everyone knew he was in Peng City.

Yet there had been no sign of Wu You all this time... anyone would have issues with that.

It was indeed time for them to step up.

After all, Chen Lusi had also trained enough... though his shooting wasn’t great.

"What’s the location? What level?"

Wu You looked at Si Yujie and asked the question he was most concerned about.

"Gui Shan District, this supermarket."

Si Yujie took out her phone, opened the navigation, and pointed to the destination: "An hour ago, someone in the basement of this supermarket witnessed a hanging person."

"A ghost-story type of scary legend?" Wu You was a bit surprised, "One person should be enough for this, why three?"

"Let me finish."

Si Yujie shook her head, "Half an hour ago, five people entered the supermarket basement and saw someone hanging.

And just now, the supermarket reported that someone committed suicide by hanging... In the basement hallway of the supermarket, five lined up, hanging themselves at the same time.

It was the same five people who claimed to see the hanging person in the basement half an hour ago."

Wu You: "..."