Chapter 515: This World Is Too Dangerous (1/2)
Chapter 515: This World Is Too Dangerous
Translator: EndlessFantasy TranslationEditor: EndlessFantasy Translation
As Ye Chong considered the issue, he saw Ban Mang toying his dagger with great interest. He said calmly, ”The dagger, you can have it.”
”Really?” Ban Meng was overjoyed.
”Yes.” Ye Chong still wore an emotionless expression, but Ban Meng felt like kissing the man. Ye Chong's daggers were not top of the line, but were in fact only extras. Guardian's daggers were first class, but since he had given Guardian to Rui Bing, he could not possibly keep the daggers for himself.
”Then what do you use for cutting here?”
”Laser blades.” Ban Meng now had a different impression of Ye Chong. The latter looked like a careless man, but was in fact quite observant. Since he gifted him such a precious item, the man must not mean harm to him, else he would not have offered this unnecessary gesture. After all, their different in strength was too great. Ban Meng now paid more attention to Ye Chong's questions, but he could not help but wonder - did this man know nothing at all?
”Laser blades? Let me see one.”
Ban Meng fished out a block that was about two fingers wide.
Ye Chong took it and studied the thing. His fingers wrapped comfortably around the block, which was probably made of some kind of unknown type of wood. The block was about 10 centimeters long, and a centimeter thick. It was in a light green color, with a hook on one end and a green colored rock near it. On the other end was a red button.
This was a laser sword!
Ye Chong recognized it instantly. The green rock must be the energy source, while the red button would activate the sword. Ye Chong pressed the red button. As expected, a white colored laser shot out from the other end, long and thin like a sword.
The white laser sword looked solid. The edges of the laser were well defined.
Ye Chong crouched down and traced the laser blade lightly on the ground. He did not feel any resistance in his hand, but the ground already had a deep mark in it.
What a powerful laser sword! Ye Chong's face betrayed nothing, but he was shocked inside.
Laser swords were not exactly high tech stuff. Ye Chong had used them before. Nevertheless, there were technical difficulties with making them, such as controlling the energy channelled into the weapon and the focusing of this energy. The more focused the laser energy was, the clearer the edges of the laser sword. This would result in better and cleaner cutting results.
These technical difficulties had long plagued the improvement of laser swords. Based on what Ye Chong knew, no laser sword could be focused so accurately. This was why most advanced mechs preferred ally swords instead of their laser counterparts.
Besides, when laser swords were used in battle, the materialized laser blade itself could be unstable. However, when Ye Chong tried to cut the ground with the laser blade he had, the blade did not waver at all.
This was a highly advanced laser blade!
”Hey, you two, you're destroying public property. That's a penalty of 30 ao!” An old woman in a red shirt approached them menacingly.
Ye Chong turned and looked at the old lady.
Ban Meng could feel his head explode. Heavens! How could he be so careless? This old lady's going to die! If the man was offended, then …
Ban Meng could see the bloody aftermath in his head. Blood would color the streets today.
”Whatcha looking at? What? You gonna argue? Lemme tell ya, this grandma's been here on the streets since 30 years ago, hehe, and I've never seen anyone make trouble here! You're too young to mess with me, little boys,” the old woman glared at them as she pulled up her sleeves, showing the tattoo of a green dragon on the wrinkled skin of her arms.
F*ck! They're truly f*cked now! Ban Meng lost all hope he had. He knew that the stranger from the woods was not open for negotiations. The tribos was killed like it cost him nothing. How would he stand being scolded like this? The legendary characters of great strength had always killed whenever it pleased them. They treated life like it was worth nothing at all.
If this man started a massacre, his life was over! Heavens, whichever deity was listening, please save him!
”Money, get your money.”
Ban Meng kept his eyes shut. He dared not watch. It would turn bloody, for sure.
”Get your money!”
Huh, wasn't that the voice of that cold hearted man? Ban Meng realized, and opened his eyes.
The first thing he saw was Ye Chong tilting his head at him and calmly signalling for him to pay up.
The old woman was still glaring at them. Ban Meng quickly said, ”Alright alright alright! Money! Money!” Ban Meng quickly took them out of his wallet.
It was unexpected, really, that the man was actually not as bad as he thought. Ban Meng had heard of how famous experts usually a bad temper and would intimidate the weak.
”Hmph, that's more like it,” the old woman snatched the money off Ban Meng's hands and stuffed a penalty ticket into them.
Ye Chong did not seem to be perturbed by the incident. He turned to Ban Meng and said, ”Let's go.”
Ban Meng stole glances at Ye Chong as they made their way to the former's house. He could not figure out the cold stranger.
The two of them travelled the rest of journey in silence.
”Well, here we are,” Ban Meng said in a whisper. It was a three-storey building, with a courtyard about 200 square meters wide.
Ban Meng pushed through the door and announced, ”I'm back.”
”Meng Meng is back! Why're you back so late today?” A woman's voice asked from inside the house. She came to the door, and turned out ot be a beautiful middle aged woman. She wore an apron, with her hair tied up into a high bun. She was surprised to see Ban Meng's sorry state. ”What happened? Weren't you flying with your Wood Kite today? How'd you end up like this? Did something go wrong while you're flying?”
”That d*mned store keeper, he sold me a spoiled one, it disassembled while I was in the air!
Ban Meng explained through gritted teeth. He did no know that his Wood Kite was destroyed by the cold man behind him.
”Long as you're okay!” Ban Meng's mother got a small towel to clean his face.
When she was done, she noticed Ye Chong. ”This is …”
”He's a classmate. His parents are outstation, so I asked him to stay with us in the meantime.” Ban Meng lied easily with his eyes open. Ye Chong was surprised.
”Aunty,” Ye Chong greeted her politely.
”Come in, come in! We'll gladly have you, make yourself at home, don't be shy!” Ban Meng's mother had never seen his strange outfit before, but she greeted Ye Chong warmly. Ye Chong's expression had changed by then. The lines on his face no longer looked so cold and hard. Instead, his face had softened, and his lanky figure gave the impression of a bookish young man.
Ban Meng stared a Ye Chong in disbelief. He could not understand how the cold stranger could conjure up this image of a meek young man, like he was simply harmless.
Ye Chong ignored the stare he was getting from Ban Meng and followed the latter's mother into the house.
It was hard to discern if the furnishings in the house were of what quality or style, and Ye Chong could only ignore all the unfamiliar things lying around. Now was not the time to investigate them.
He sat quietly like a well behaved young man.
Dinner was sumptuous. Ban Meng's father was always busy with work, so he ate with some haste.
They gave Ye Chong a room of his own.
When it was only him and Ban Meng together upstairs, Ye Chong quickly pulled Ban Meng into his room. It was only then that Ban Meng saw traces of the man who could kill a man, no, kill a tribos, without blinking.
”What do you want?” Ban Meng tried to stay calm.
”I have a question,” the meek young man now looked like the cold stranger he first came to know.
”What is it?”
Well, where should he even begin? Ye Chong was troubled. Everything here was unfamiliar to him. He remembered Ban Meng's Wood Kit then, and thought - safety first!
First, he needed to know who or what could pose a threat to him.
”Who's the strongest person here?”