First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?!

The sudden attack caught both Xia Tian and Hua Qing completely off guard.

Just met for the first time, and already exploding into violence—

No one saw it coming.

Xia Tian, completely pinned down, could only flap his lips: “What did I even do to you......”

Lu Ding grabbed his head and slammed it straight into the cobblestone embedded by the roadside.

Bang!!

The cobblestone shattered.

Blood gushed from Xia Tian’s forehead.

He went limp, groggy and half-unconscious, still held up in Lu Ding’s hand like a ragdoll.“You still want to talk?”

Lu Ding yanked Xia Tian up again.

Then turned around, Qi in hand, and ripped the ground open in one brutal motion.

He also tore through the bluish water membrane that covered the cellar.

What lay below was laid bare.

A strange altar with burning incense, a standing red coffin radiating Ke Ruyu’s presence—

And that half-transformed serpent-into-flood-dragon, lunging with its bloody maw wide open.

“Hiss!”

A rank wind followed its roar.

Black mist surged across Lu Ding’s shoulders.

The Sin Dragon stuck its head out.

“Aoo!!!”

A terrifying dragon’s roar burst forth, the shockwave slamming forward.

The serpent that had lunged in a frenzy met the roar of the Sin Dragon—

Head-on.

With a squelch,

Blood exploded in all directions.

Old wounds reopened, new ones ripped open.

Didn’t even need to lift a hand.

The half-flood-dragon serpent was instantly gravely injured and crashed to the ground.

Its massive head, carried by momentum, slowly slid and slumped down at Lu Ding’s feet.

It pushed up a mound of dirt, mixed with crushed grass.

Lu Ding looked down, growing even more disgusted.

He stomped.

The snake head caved in with a hole.

Xia Tian, half-conscious in Lu Ding’s grip, saw it all crystal clear.

“Big Snake!!!!”

He screamed.

Lu Ding chuckled and casually tossed him in front of the snake.

Letting him die now? Too easy. Not happening.

“Watch him.”

Lu Ding walked toward the cellar.

Xia Tian watched him step by step go down, leaving bloody footprints behind.

Crawling painfully over to the giant snake, Xia Tian reached out to touch its head.

Until his hand found the massive wound from Lu Ding’s stomp.

His palm trembled. “Why...... why..... why would you do this to us!!!?”

Yan Feifan stepped up. The more he looked at the big snake, the more familiar it felt.

He pulled out his phone and scanned it.

Hey!

Got it.

He glanced at Xia Tian, who looked devastated and angry: “It got what it deserved. So did you. And this is only the beginning.”

Inside the cellar.

Lu Ding kicked the altar apart and ripped open the coffin.

Ke Ruyu’s corpse was still intact, but her body was covered in talismans.

He just didn’t get it.

Ke Ruyu already had a hard enough life. Why, even after death, did this kind of thing have to happen to her?

His nictitating membrane slid open.

Eye of Direct Sight activated, shattering the talismanic power on her body.

As her corpse was finally freed,

Lu Ding saw Ke Ruyu slowly open her eyes, cracks splintering from her eyelids down across her whole body.

A faint smile tugged at the corner of her mouth.

Fragments fell from her pale face, and a non-human aura began to seep out.

Lu Ding stood there, expressionless, for several seconds.

Then raised a hand.

Black petals appeared, emanating an aura of mystery and solemn reverence.

The whole world shifted.

Sunlight, waves of grass—gone.

Under a sky full of stars,

A towering flower tree bloomed, a giant flower bud opening, cradling the coffin.

With a boom,

Black petals rained down like a funeral bloom, covering the sky.

Images began to flicker inside the petals.

Lu Ding didn’t bother looking at her memories with her family. He just waited silently under the floral rain.

Until the final petal drifted to the ground.

Within it, a glimmer of light—

Ke Ruyu stood by the sea, brushed her hair back behind her ear, and turned to look back.

“Thank you.”

If she were still human, Lu Ding would’ve given her a proper burial.

But now, she was already something else.

The only thing he could do was to let her go with dignity.

[Contained Creature: Red Coffin Woman]

[Containment Reward: Coffin Woman’s Offering]

[Coffin Woman’s Offering: The red coffin can store items. Whatever you desire or think of, she will hand it to you personally from within the red coffin.]

The surrounding scene faded away.

Coffin Woman’s Offering activated.

A slender arm reached from behind Lu Ding to his front.

Pale, delicate fingers picked up a black petal and gently pressed it into his hand.

Something like a storage pouch.

But a thousand times more elegant.

It was practically a must-have spell for Lu Ding, yet he’d never triggered it before.

He had wanted it, genuinely.

But not like this. Not under these circumstances.

He could still hear arguing outside.

Xia Tian was clutching the big snake and roaring.

“Deserved? What do you mean deserved? What did I do wrong?! What did it do wrong?!!”

Yan Feifan responded.

“What did you do wrong?”

“You stole someone’s corpse to perform your spellwork. That’s not wrong?!!”

“And what did it do wrong?”

“It tried to transform from serpent into flood dragon, caused flooding in Ninglong County, led to deaths and injuries, and even destroyed a dam. That’s not wrong?!!”

Xia Tian forced himself to breathe: “Ke Ruyu’s already dead. She’s dead. I used her corpse for a bit—I was wrong, but I can make it right!”

“The big snake was just going through its transformation. That’s its natural cultivation process. As for the dam—if the 749 people hadn’t stepped in, it wouldn’t have broken!!!”

That twisted logic infuriated Yan Feifan to no end.

“Make it right, my a**! If we hadn’t come, would you have ‘made it right’?! She’s dead—so what? That means you can dig up her corpse whenever you feel like it?!!”

“Natural process? Then why didn’t it go to the mountains to transform? Why specifically come to a populated area? Wasn’t it trying to feed off people’s ‘wish’ power to cheat its way into becoming a flood dragon? If we didn’t stop it, more people would’ve died!”

Their argument reached Lu Ding’s ears.

He shot out of the cellar.

Swung his arm: “Still talking nonsense, huh?!”

Smack!!

One slap shattered Xia Tian’s face.

Lu Ding grabbed him by the collar and yanked him up to his face: “Before I came here, I told myself—if it’s a monster, I’ll rip it apart, tear it to shreds, beat it into a pulp.”

“If it’s a person, I’ll hang him on a tree, slice him into ribbons, let him flutter in the wind.”

As those words landed,

Xia Tian’s face twisted with fear, mumbling pleas: “Don’t...”

Lu Ding raised his hand and unleashed a slash, slicing the branches of the tree outside into sharp spears.

Then grabbed Xia Tian and hurled him.

The sharpened branch pierced his chest, impaling him on the tree.

The unbearable pain twisted his expression.

He watched Lu Ding turn toward the big snake.

Xia Tian’s mind echoed with the words Lu Ding had just said: “No!! Please!! Don’t!!!”

“I’ll do anything!! I can make up for it!!”

“Come at me!! If you’ve got the guts, come at me! Be a man and come at me!!!”

Lu Ding slightly turned, glancing at him from the corner of his eye: “Oh, I will come for you.”

“But right now, you need to watch me.....”

His tone darkened: “Rip it open! Tear it apart! One punch! One punch at a time—beat it to death, smash it to bits, grind it into paste.”

Everything has a price.

This was the price of stealing corpses and hiding monsters.

Dark red halos flared from Lu Ding’s shoulders.

He reached out.

Rippppp......

Demonic blood splattered.

“AHHHHH!!!!”

“You f***ing beast!!”

Xia Tian’s eyes nearly burst as he watched it all happen, completely powerless to stop any of it. His roars, his curses, his begging—none of it slowed Lu Ding down.

And still the serpent screamed in agony.

And still Lu Ding did not stop.

And then came the pounding blows, each one crashing down with deafening force.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang......

The ground trembled with each strike.

Xia Tian hung on the tree, blood and spit mixing and dripping slowly from the corner of his mouth.

He couldn’t stop anything.

He couldn’t change a thing.....

Even now, he still believed—he hadn’t really done anything that wrong.

The ones who were wrong were 749, Lu Ding, and Hua Qing who brought Lu Ding here.

“Hua Qing!! I won’t forgive you! I won’t forgive you!!!”