Chapter 20 (2/2)

Undoubtedly, Li Liang was one of those in the greatest danger.

“Actually, you don’t have to follow him so closely.” Chu Chongtian felt threatened.

“If I don’t, what if the Ripper finds an opportunity?” retorted Li Liang. Only oneself would really care for oneself.

Chu Chongtian patted Li Liang on the shoulder, and said sincerely, “In case, I mean just in case.”

“In case? In case of what?”

“In case you are possessed, if you are far enough away, there may be hope for life,” said Chu Chongtian. “But if you happen to be right beside Master, then it’s game over for you.”

“Then Master can save me at once!” said Li Liang, completely forgetting the words he used to educate Little Zhou.

“No, I think, taking into consideration Master Xuanzang’s actions, he would break your head instantly,” said Chu Chongtian.

“Is he not a monk?” asked Li Liang.

Monks were supposed to be kind and merciful, no?

“You don’t know Master Xuanzang,” said Chu Chongtian. “Monks also worship the Acala1.”

Li Liang swallowed, remembering the fear of being manipulated by Tang Luo with a candlestick the other night.

Suddenly, his footsteps slowed, pulling away from Tang Luo.

“Hmph!” Chu Chongtian snorted with pride internally.

Zhou Zhenguo gave Chu Chongtian a strange look. ‘The young man fell so fast.’

Then he looked at Tang Luo and asked, “Master, is it okay to just kill like this?”

Though they agreed to stay put and wait for Jack the Ripper to come to them, they wouldn’t really do nothing. Especially when they currently had pretty much no clue about Jack the Ripper.

It was arguably not a bad option to start a sub-mission.

Presently, the target of Tang Luo’s group was one of the organization’s members. It was time to lead everyone into punishing the evil!

…

For three days in a row, Tang Luo had been leading the others and easily dealt with the organization’s remnants.

He had gained a significant amount of merits, while Zhou Zhenguo and Chu Chongtian had obtained various weapons. The most common were revolvers and bullets. There were two stick swords, practically swords hidden in the shaft of the cane, brass knuckles, kukri knives, as well as a small number of explosives.

Finally, Zhou Zhenguo had been able to showcase the remarkable battle prowess of a veteran. In addition to his Imprisoning Chain, he had another skill—Powerful Single Strike.

He could focus his strength and make a strong, powerful single strike. There were many possible ways to release the power. For example, banging with his head, hitting with his fists or palms, kicking, or even biting. It could also be used on other objects when hurling them.

The usage was also very simple, it could basically be used at will. It could be counted as one of the more typical combat skills.

Simply put, it was a momentary burst of power.

Zhou Zhenguo used Powerful Single Strike to unleash energy comparable to guns in this world with a small stone.

He had successfully dealt with a dangerous enemy, but after using it, Zhou Zhenguo had also fallen into a state of weakness.

Zhou Zhenguo didn’t hide anything from Tang Luo. Currently, his Powerful Single Strike had a cooldown time of two hours. After usage, he would fall into a state of weakness for 30 minutes. Zhou Zhenguo would feel like he had run for several kilometers under the state of weakness, and even continuing to walk took willpower.

It was like an ultimate trump card. It wouldn’t be used unless as a last resort.

This disappointed Chu Chongtian somewhat. He didn’t expect the cooldown time for skills to be so long.

It was alright for the chain, but his Powerful Single Strike, a typical combat skill actually had a cooldown time of so long as 2 hours.

It was impossible to use it frequently in combat. Daily battles still depended on ordinary fighting.

Keep using skills?

There was no such thing.

Of course, it did not mean that all skills had such a long cooldown time.

At first, it would indeed be quite long, but as one’s mastering of the skill and the level of the skill improved, it became different. It was not impossible to routinely use some skills.

But for the current them, that was too far a goal. Even Zhou Zhenguo was just getting started.

In the evening…

Outside a vast manor, the four stood in the shadows beside the road.

“The biggest sponsor of the organization, Earl Leo Thorndike,” said Tang Luo. “The security is very tight, huh?”

In these three days, the remaining members of the organization would definitely have responded. Not to mention that Tang Luo’s group also worked as scavengers, cleaning up the remnants of the organization.

There was no way this Earl Thorndike wouldn’t respond.

Presently, his manor was tightly protected with bodyguards and hounds.

Interestingly, he had a dinner party tonight. He might have used this as an excuse to regather the remaining forces of the organization in order to deal with the new dangerous enemy by starting with a new round of research.

This dinner party arguably included all the famous people of the small city. Its publicly announced purpose was to work together to tackle the problem of deteriorating security in the small city.

In these days, aside from the cases created by Tang Luo’s group, there was also Jack the Ripper, who had begun a mad killing frenzy.

In just three days, the number of victims had reached nine.

Every morning, there would be three more ripped-up corpses in an unknown alley, or even in a house.

Terror spread, and it was impossible to suppress it. It hovered over the whole city like a black cloud.

Nobody could stay out of it.