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

On the other side, Lu Ding was on his way to the Dong Family.

He was currently immersed in his gains, unaware that the Dong Family patriarch had already fled.

[Contained Monster: Nine Kui Dragon]

[Containment Reward: Kui Dragon Agarwood Chariot]

[Kui Dragon Agarwood Chariot: Nine Directions, Nine Positions, Swift as the Wind and Quick as Lightning]

Looking at the prompt on his Golden Finger, Lu Ding thought to himself, perfect. This was a great start after returning to Hanjing.

Although the Nine Kui Dragon that dropped from Dong Changgong didn’t seem to have any particularly significant use.

But when combined with the Nine Dragons Agarwood Chariot, this thing could be considered a key component.

It was basically equivalent to a car’s power steering and alignment system, and it also enhanced speed.

As for why it was ’Nine Directions, Nine Positions’ when there are clearly ten directions—east, south, west, north, southeast, northeast, southwest, northwest, plus up and down.That’s because nine is the number of honor.

’Ten Dragons Agarwood Chariot’ just doesn’t sound good, does it?

It says nine directions and nine positions, but ’down’ can still work—just step on the brake, pull the reins.

If that doesn’t work, slam the brake pedal down hard, like a mountain crushing down!!

With the sheer tonnage of the Nine Dragons Agarwood Chariot, if it fell, wouldn’t it sink an entire realm?

It could be considered a hidden technique, high or low.

Didn’t expect that, did you?

Thinking of this, Lu Ding smiled, his gaze falling on the words ’Nine Kui Dragon’.

Truth be told, with this thing on Dong Changgong, no wonder he had the strength to fight Lu Ding on equal footing within the same realm.

Although he didn’t last more than a couple of exchanges, didn’t even finish swinging his three axe techniques.

He was killed by Lu Ding, man and dragon together.

But this still proved his worth.

After all, this ’Nine Kui Dragon’ thing had quite a story.

Lu Ding vaguely remembered that in his previous life, during his childhood, the 86 version of Journey to the West accompanied every one of his holidays, and the Monkey King was the great hero in every child’s heart.

Later, when he grew up.

During a drunken bragging session, starting from emotional setbacks and life’s fatigue, moving on to astronomy, geography, history, culture, and things he didn’t understand.

The topic of Journey to the West came up.

One AUV friend bragged, ”Have you guys watched Journey to the West? Have you watched Journey to the West without pinyin? Have you read the ancient prototype books of Journey to the West?”

*Thump*, he slapped his chest.

”I have.”

That guy started bragging.

He even set the stage, saying something like, the TV series version of Journey to the West was beautified and censored.

Many parts weren’t filmed.

Who doesn’t know that?

Someone chimed in, ”Right, right, right.”

Then gave examples like Emperor Taizong of Tang’s soul returning from the underworld, the passage through the Stinking Persimmon Lane, etc., weren’t filmed.

But that AUV guy glanced at him, ”You only know that? Let me tell you, there’s a lot more. Even Journey to the West itself was adapted from existing storybooks.”

”Do you know why Tang Monk was never in trouble?”

Everyone said it was because Brother Monkey protected him.

The AUV guy said, ”Wrong!”

”That’s because Tang Monk had a treasure on him that allowed him to travel eight hundred li in a day. Of course, the imagination of ancient people was limited. According to later, even modern interpretations, it wasn’t much weaker than Brother Monkey’s Somersault Cloud.”

He even added patches to his story.

They were all friends, and it was fun when drunk.

Lu Ding laughed and chimed in at the time, ”What? Did Tang Monk ride on Dai Zong?”

”That’s pretty awesome. I originally thought Lu Bu riding on Dian Wei was already mind-blowing, but I didn’t expect something even more awesome than that.”

As for what they talked about later, Lu Ding didn’t remember. Anyway, everyone was quite happy at the time.

It wasn’t until once when he went to the library and saw [”The Record of the Great Tang Tripitaka Master’s Journey to Fetch the Scriptures”] that Lu Ding belatedly realized.

Turns out what that AUV guy said was true.

And in this [”The Record of the Great Tang Tripitaka Master’s Journey to Fetch the Scriptures”], the Nine Kui Dragon was precisely the prototype of the White Dragon Horse in the later Journey to the West.

It said something like:

[Traveling forward, they passed the Nine Dragons Pool. The Monkey Traveler said: ”My Master, look, these are nine Kui-headed Alligator Dragons, often causing mischief....” Suddenly, they saw boundless waves, vast white waters, a thousand li of dark river, ten thousand layers of black waves. They saw only the Kui Dragons roaring, fiery manes glowing, shouting as they charged forward.

The Monkey Traveler used his Invisible Hat to transform into a Sky-Covering Formation, the alms bowl contained ten thousand li of water...... The alms bowl contained ten thousand li of water, the golden-ringed monk’s staff transformed into an iron dragon, fighting day and night on both sides......]

Roughly speaking, Brother Monkey and Tang Monk, acting as envoys from above, passed through an area and saw this Nine Kui Dragon was quite tough, causing some harm to the region, so they had to deal with it, sweep away the black and eliminate the evil.

That fight was fierce, darkening the heavens and earth. The Nine Kui Dragon was also fierce, actually managing to exchange blows with Brother Monkey for a while without immediately losing.

Compared to Journey to the West, this [”The Record of the Great Tang Tripitaka Master’s Journey to Fetch the Scriptures”] didn’t have Piggy or Sandy, it was purely Brother Monkey’s solo show.

Baldhead Tang wasn’t the weak monk from Journey to the West either.

He had moves too.

Although the ancient text didn’t explicitly say.

But the small-print annotation translation said that this guy surnamed Tang was all muscle, his fists could shatter mountains, his alms bowl could hold seas, his monk’s staff could transform into a dragon. He just walked a bit slowly, needing several old-fashioned steamed buns per hundred kilometers, and had to have some pickled vegetables with them.

This aspect was somewhat reflected in Zhang Jizhong’s version of Journey to the West.

Lu Ding, who watched it with great interest at the time, even commented, ”Isn’t this Tang Sanzang? Just a bit lopsided, stats not fully allocated.”

Coincidentally.

When they encountered the Nine Kui Dragon, Brother Monkey beat it a hundred or so times with his staff, pulled out its dragon tendon, and made a belt for Baldhead Tang to tie around his pants. The feeling was instant, he immediately walked with vigorous strides, covering eight hundred li a day.

This was even better than Dai Zong’s Paper Horses.

Later, after the baldhead returned from fetching the scriptures, this dragon tendon flew up to the sky.

Later generations probably thought pulling out a dragon’s tendon was a bit too cruel, so they changed it into the White Dragon Horse.

Thinking of all this, Lu Ding was even more looking forward to his trip to the Dong Family.

Although it might not sound pleasant, how was this any different from a mouse going to a granary?

And it had already given him a taste of sweetness several times in advance.

At this moment.

Even the wind on the way to the Dong Family tasted sweet.

Just two words: boisterous.

His mood, though not expressed with particularly obvious gestures, was an inner-to-outer radiating sense of pleasure that somewhat infected the emotionally tense Old Man Long.

From the moment they set out, he could tell this wasn’t the road to the 749 Bureau Director-General’s office.

If not going to 749, combined with Special Envoy Lu Ding’s identity, this must mean going on a mission first.

And he was now accompanying him.

The mere thought of following the special envoy on a confidential mission made Old Man Long unbearably nervous.

Now seeing that Lu Ding seemed quite happy, his tense emotions eased slightly, and he asked, ”Special Envoy, where are we going?”

Lu Ding replied casually, ”To the Dong Family.”

Old Man Long: ”Ah!!?”

He doubted if he had heard correctly, ”Special Envoy, you just killed Dong Changgong! Going to the Dong Family now isn’t that adding fuel to the fire?”

Fu Xinghe quickly picked up Lu Ding’s thread, starting his work as an assistant investigator, ”Master, Brother Lu wants precisely to add fuel to the fire.”

Old Man Long was somewhat unclear about the situation, but once fighting was mentioned, he instantly didn’t want to know other details anymore and directly asked, ”So, what’s my arrangement? What do we need to do?”

Lu Ding smiled, looking ahead at the Dong Family manor nestled against mountains and water, with spiritual energy forming mist. He flicked his scholar-warrior sleeves, ”I’ll fire the opening shot, you do as you please. See who you don’t like and just hit them. Don’t hold back at all, beat them to death, make a huge scene!”