Chapter 237: Exclusive Puppet Technique & Tragedy in the Cool Breeze Gang (1/2)

Chapter 237: Exclusive Puppet Technique & Tragedy in the Cool Breeze Gang

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In the carriage, Junior Leopard sat cross-legged. He had made up his mind, so he left the capital city quickly.

He planned to first go back to Yunzhou, settling those people from Zhonghe City. There were 20 or 30 of them, actually not a large group of people. Then, he wanted to check his fief, which was his own property. Though he had no clue of where it was, he had to go there someday. If the fief was not bad, he intended to settle there for a while.

Just as he had thought before, the memories of his previous life had not been erased when he entered this new world from the old world, when he transformed into a baby from a man in his 40s. Thus, he had little sense of belonging in this new world.

Therefore, he had no sense of security. Over the years, he had been working hard to strengthen his power; with a bit of luck, but mostly by hard work. As he became stronger, he felt more safe. Now, he needed to pursue a sense of belonging in this foreign world, which could not be given by others but could only come from himself.

The carriage did not run fast on the official road but was somewhat jolty, and the space inside was quite roomy, matching up with his status as a viscount. There was not much difference in terms of the rank of nobility between the Jin, even on the Central Plains, and ancient China in his previous life. They were: duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron from the top on down. Now, he at least ranked fifth as a viscount, so his carriage could not be anything less. Otherwise, it would not only make him lose face, but also the face of the imperial court.

This carriage was his new purchase and was totally worth the money. It was not too luxurious, but roomy with a soft couch and a small side table, in which people could sit, sleep or stand. It should be noted that on the edge of the soft couch hid a row of secret cabinets, being pretty useful in storing a few odds and ends, which were expected to be to a lady's liking.

Junior Leopard had his eye on the carriage mainly due to its outstanding feature of being enclosed. Inside was covered tightly by thick felt and cotton fabric, and it was separated into a private and quiet space.

Junior Leopard always favored private and quiet places with minimal interference from the outside world.

”F*ck, what season is it! There are still bugs!”

A small spinning spider was slowly crawling up from the curtain-covered window, making it all the way up to the soft couch. Junior Leopard was going to flick it away, probably to its death, when a quirky idea struck his mind.

Between his fingers flashed a dark-green, luminous spot, which was not Internal Qi but a thought.

The thought was just like a wisp of fire.

It disappeared into the spider's body in the twinkling of an eye.

ubsequently, a very strange feeling passed through the thought. At that moment, he became a spider in some way, along with the spider's sense of touch, smell, and vision.

However, it only remained for a second.

His thought died in an instant, going down with which was a similar matter. The process was like an oil drop dripping into water, popping and then disappearing.

The lifeless spider fell from the wall, motionless. Junior Leopard could still feel its breath of life. The spider was alive with no soul.

The matter that together went down with the divine thought was the spider's soul.

Well, how about taking your soul out?

Then, Junior Leopard opened the sedan curtain, lifted his hands with his palm wide open toward the roadside, and sucked in a few spiders, crickets, and the like.

After taking them, Junior Leopard started his Fiery Eyes, pumping out the spirit of a spider, and forced his thought into the spider's body. It worked this time.

Through this piece of divine thought, Junior Leopard had made himself a spider to some degree. But it did not feel good because right now the spider's head was suffering a great deal of pain as if it was about to explode at any moment.

”Crack!”

Unsurprisingly, the spider burst apart with a slight crack. But this time, it did no harm to Junior Leopard's thought, which had been retrieved by its owner timely.

After pulling the thought back to his divine thoughts, he was hit again by a strange feeling—the feeling of being a spider for a few seconds.

Although it's just a piece of thought, it is still too much for these fragile insects. What if I try something stronger other than fragile insects?

He repeated the whole procedure on other captured insects, but the results were pretty much the same, with the only difference lying in the time period before dying. However, he managed to control the cricket to move it forward a bit.

These very steps offered him a new inspiration out of his previous whimsy.

If I were able to find a few new creatures that could withstand my thoughts, wouldn't it be the same as creating several animal-like incarnations of myself?

Upon thinking this, he became excited and his mind started to get fired-up.

”His Excellency, Songjiang City is ahead. We shall rest there for a night!” said Zhu Ba outside of the carriage.

”Well, all right!” Leopard replied.

Now he could not wait to catch some cats and dogs for experiments.

Songjiang City was a small town in central Jin, whose gate had already been shut in the middle of the night. However, Junior Leopard served as a Level Five Viscount, who had the power to command the opening of the gate at midnight.

Entering the city, he ran into some city officials serving as magistrate and garrison, who graciously offered an invitation to rest for the night in the government house. Junior Leopard refused them after a perfunctory small talk. Later, Zhu Ba reported to him that he had checked into an inn.

Songjiang City was a small city with few inns. There was only one inn available to receive so many people at midnight. That was Yuewen Inn, whose spelling was just a word different from that of the most well-known chain inn in Jianghu—Yuelai Inn, or the so-called Happiness Inn.

Junior Leopard and his followers checked into the courtyard, the only spacious courtyard in Yuewen Inn, and the only one that could accommodate so many people in Songjiang City.

It took a while to properly allocate rooms for everyone, but none of the details bothered Junior Leopard because his room was no doubt the deluxe suite among all the kinds of rooms.

The Deluxe Suite was spacious and truly deserved its title with a decent study and a reception room.

Marvelous!

His facial expression was slightly changed as he was stepping in the door, and suddenly showed a trace of weirdness. But such weirdness was gone in no time and he walked straight toward the bed like everything was fine.

There was a hanger at the bedside. Junior Leopard took off his coat, hung it up, and walked toward the table located in the middle of the room.

The teapot and cup on the table were well-placed with hot water.

Reaching for the teapot, Junior Leopard murmured, ”That's very considerate!”

The moment the teapot was picked up, a bright green light that was hidden below the teapot shot at his wrist.

Fast!

Unbelievably fast!

It was so incredibly fast that even Junior Leopard could not escape even with mental preparation.

A bit of numbness went through his right arm almost in the blink of an eye.

What a strong poison!

With a closer look, Junior Leopard had seen through the green light, which turned out to be a green, bean-sized spider.

At this point, the dark green spider, stiffening all over, was biting tightly on Junior Leopard right wrist.

Logically speaking, this spider's light should go out as fast as before after it had bitten him.

At the moment, Junior Leopard had independently defended himself through his Poison Cold Shield while being bitten.

The green spider was extremely virulent. However, Junior Leopard had always carefully nourished the Poison-absorbing Green Bead and successfully cultivated the Poison Cold Shield. Therefore, this virulence could at most paralyze his right hand before being fully absorbed by the shield. Then, Junior Leopard's right hand returned to normal while the spider was frozen by the shield with no jumping ability at all.

”What a sophisticated plot!” Junior Leopard remarked. He smiled and flicked the poor green creature onto the table top.

My team didn't go in secrecy, so they must have figured out that we would spend the night in this courtyard in Yuewen Inn based on our numbers and routes. Even more, they expected that I would be at the Deluxe Suite in accordance with my status. Therefore, they plotted it all to hide the strange spider below the teapot, sat back and waited, only waiting for me to pour some water to consummate their plan of a one-hit kill!

It did not take long for Junior Leopard to see through this little game—a simple but good scheme.

It seems that whoever wants me dead holds high expectations of you, poor thing!

Junior Leopard looked at the stiff, dark green spider and remembered its origin.

It's among the five green-scaled poisonous creatures, one of the most vicious and poisonous creatures in the world. Sadly enough, it never occurred to you that I have the Poison-absorbing Green Bead with me!

Junior Leopard was shielded by the Poison Cold Shield and carried the Poison-absorbing Green Bead with him, and was absolutely familiar with poison. In addition, the appearance of that spider was nothing but conspicuous, which made it easy to spot its origin.

The mixture of five green-scaled poisonous creatures was known as one of the top nine poisons in the world.

Why so?

The reason was that only when synthesized by all five green-scaled poisonous creatures could such a toxin be listed as one of the top nine poisons. While the individuality of the five, though they could easily bring down Level Seven or Eight experts, was still far away from the top nine.

The poison that could cause the death of Level Nine experts instantly won the glory of being one of the top nine poisons. If this time Junior Leopard was hit by one of those, he could die soon before his Poison-absorbing Green Bead could dissolve it.

Junior Leopard's right arm did become numb for a little while.

That was because the toxin had spread beyond his right arm before the Poison-absorbing Green Bead could fully absorb the poison.

The Poison-absorbing Green Bead was able to detoxify every sort of toxin, but it required time.

Junior Leopard was not eager to find out who was behind all of this. He stared at the stiff Green-scaled Poisonous Tarantula, twitching his mouth twice.