Chapter 17 (2/2)

Chu Feng grew stiff with unease and chagrin. It was conceivable what this silly cow had done to all the rest of the people from his contact list. Who else had the misfortune to sit through and endure this blatant series of hara.s.sments?

Chu Feng did not need to worry about Zhou Quan. After all, he had had personal experience of the frustration that came with this golden calf. He would have easily understood the cause of the troubles without much explanation.

After moments of silence, Chu Feng finally decided to make a call to Lin Naoi.

The call was picked up, but there were no words being exchanged between them. Soothing music was playing in the background as Chu Feng remained in silence. He did not want to rush to a serious talk about the issue at hand straight away. ”I'm not a humdrum person,” Chu Feng thought to himself.

Music faded away on the other side, but Lin Naoi remained taciturn. The two were left in muteness. Vaguely, they could hear the faint sound of each other's breath.

Silence lingered for over a minute.

Suddenly, Yellow Ox rushed to the stone table with its head raising up. It growled at the communicator with a blaring roar that almost deafened Chu Feng.

Chu Feng could clearly hear a sharp clicking of a shattered gla.s.s from the other side of the call. Without a doubt, the ear-splitting roar of the calf had also stunned Lin Naoi with a start. But then, she hung up on him.

For an extensive period of time, Chu Feng was stiff and rigid with disbelief and horror. He froze there until he suddenly gave vent to an angry shout. ”You b.a.s.t.a.r.d! I will tear you limb from limb!”

Innocence was written all over Yellow Ox's face as if it was saying, ”Didn't you just tell me to cooperate with you by making some bellow sounds?”

Chu Feng once again started chasing after the calf. The yard turned into a battlefield where man was screaming and ox was mourning.

At long last, Chu Feng was dead beat and done up. He went straight for his bed at his room. At this stage, he could not care less about those people on his contact list. All he wanted was to take a break from all the unrest and tumult that happened today.

Daylight had already given way to the darkness of the night when he finally woke up.

Chu Feng prepared a rich and sumptuous dinner to treat himself. This was his merit as well as his virtue. To rid any annoyance of the day, all he needed was a hearty feast.

Early on, his fingers were all itching for a fray with that bothersome calf, but his anger had started to dwindle now. Eventually, he forgave Yellow Ox and even fed it with some fresh gra.s.ses and fruits.

At night, Chu Feng was browsing through all sorts of reports on the process of the mutation that happened around the world.

Suddenly, the signal on both of his communicator and the television started losing stability. Clearly, it was under the effect of a disturbance of some sorts. He supposed it was most likely due to the loss of another satellite in s.p.a.ce thanks to the attack of an extra-terrestrial plant.

At last, the effect of the disturbance dissipated, and the signal restored.

The internet then boiled with discussions.

Some semi-official news had come out, stating that almost all of the horrific plants that had been floating in mid-air had been destroyed and cleared up.

He was a bit worried, believing that this might not be the end of it, because many regions had been undergoing many complete alterations at the current stage.

Someone had uploaded a vivid photo that depicted the emergence of tens of thousands of great mountains outside that person's house. Just like those that appeared amongst the mountains of Taihang, these mountains were a sight of great majesty. Their towering height pierced through the clouds high above. They const.i.tuted the scenery from a fairy tale or a great fable that described the secret workings of nature.

There was another report stating that a young man ended up travelling hundreds of li before reaching a town that was supposedly ten li away.

Right now, the strange occurrences were no longer only a privilege to mountain ranges such as Mount Song, w.a.n.gwu Mountain and Taihang Mountains. Incomprehensible scenes and sightings emerged in many places. Mountains of tremendous height cropped up in groups of thousands everywhere across the globe. August waterfalls hung by the arduous cliff.

A revulsion of changes all seemed to have happened in a one-step process. It was not only limited to some special regions. Well-known mountains and rivers had all steamed with spirits and nimbus. Ferocious beasts and birds of prey indistinctly appeared in these areas, making the world a place ever so dangerous.

Ground fissure, power outage, communication failure, building implosion and collapse were no longer scenes of profound rarity. They could happen anywhere anytime, posing an ever-lingering threat to the life and well-being of people around the world.

It was late at night. Chu Feng quietly sat on the floor in his room. He knew that what had supposed to come had now come. It was time for the fiercest episode of changes to take place.

”Boom!”

Someone knocked on the door. Yellow Ox made a bellow.

Chu Feng opened the door. The golden calf signalled him to follow it into the yard.

Then, Yellow Ox sat on the ground, cross-legged with its head raised to face the starry sky. It began its special breathing exercise and hinted him to copy after it.

Chu Feng was surprised by the fact that Yellow Ox was pressing him to adopt its breathing system.

He calmed himself down and breathed according to that strange system, feeling that his body was surrounded by vigorous essence of life.

Moonlight was soft and gentle. It had been dim and hazy all night, but then it started thickening over Chu Feng's hair, as if there was an invisible force pulling over and gathering the light around him. At last, it became a holy aura of unmatchable sanct.i.ty.

Besides, the stars in the sky were also scattering their essence like a river trickling in the direction of Chu Feng.

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