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

His subordinates, wagging their tails and begging for mercy.

This scene inflicted another psychological critical hit on Yan Yage, whose body was already wounded!

”Give it back to me!!!!”

She flew forward to snatch it.

Lu Ding, making do with the greatsword, didn’t slash. He simply swung it and smacked her with the flat of the blade.

Boom!!!

One hit!!

Yan Yage, who had just taken flight, instantly crashed to the ground, vomiting blood.

Leaving aside the spiritual energy she had expended fighting Lu Ding earlier, opening the Yama’s Gate had already consumed a great deal of her spiritual energy.After having an arm torn off by Lu Ding,

it was adding insult to injury.

Now, suffering this blow,

Yan Yage on the ground had little strength left to resist.

But her mouth was still tough.

Her understanding was still unclear.

”Lu... Lu Ding... you’re engaging in malicious competition, harming the investigators I brought. You’re stronger than me, but you can’t be stronger than everyone. The 749 Bureau’s rules and regulations will... will punish you...”

”If you have the guts, just kill me!!!”

”I’ll see how you save yourself when your crimes are compounded!!!”

Hearing this, Lu Ding dispelled the darkness of [Tian Gou Eats the Moon] and spat casually.

”Pfft...”

The single-horned demonic shadow behind him also opened its mouth, spitting out the Demonic Youth who was no longer human-shaped but still alive, though severely wounded.

”Fucking hard to chew.”

Seeing daylight again, the youth struggled to speak words of surrender. No one knew what kind of torture, what kind of pain he had endured inside the mouth of the Fear-Killing Asura just now.

It was chewing him alive like bubblegum.

If not for his tenacious vitality, he would have died who knows how many times already.

Now, finally out, he had neither the strength nor the will to oppose Lu Ding anymore.

”I am willing to sub... mit... I beg you to spa...”

Before he could finish, the only response was the sound of the [Way of the Jinche] slicing through and cleaving his body.

Cut in two, reduced to pieces.

Gotta say, this thing was indeed quite hard to kill, had some real strength.

It’s just that he ran into Lu Ding’s [Tian Gou Eats the Moon] and [Fear-Killing Asura].

In the end, it took the [Way of the Jinche] to finish him off!!!

After spitting out the stuff in his mouth and dealing with the demonic creature,

Lu Ding wasn’t in a hurry to check the rewards.

He raised his hand and adjusted the bodycam on his chest.

”Let me tell you now,”

Quite particular, knowing you shouldn’t talk with your mouth full.

Lu Ding pointed to where Luan Ji had died: ”She was a bitch from the Profound Nether Cult.”

”She came to the western region with the intention to cause chaos, to obstruct my Western Unification plan, the new city’s port project, to open up foreign trade, build the new city, and give back to the Great Han!!”

”And you, you’re her friend, you said so yourself. As a 749 special envoy, you have close dealings with people from the Profound Nether Cult. What else do you have to say?”

Yan Yage was dumbfounded. She didn’t know.

”I...”

She just started to say something when Lu Ding raised a second finger, cutting her off, and continued:

”Second, from the moment you returned here, I never initiated conflict with you. From start to finish, I didn’t even look at you much. It was always you causing trouble.”

”My target was Luan Ji. I attacked her. You attacked me. When I fought back, initially, I didn’t hurt you, right?”

”You smashed me with this door-plank of a greatsword, and I even took it with my head.”

Lu Ding’s mind was quick, so he used Yan Yage’s own previous words: ”It was because I thought you might have been kept in the dark. You didn’t know. You just thought Luan Ji was your friend, so I didn’t intend to hold much against you.”

”But then the people you brought actually tried to gang up on me?”

”So I want to ask, you’re friends with Luan Ji, and I didn’t even injure you, so are they friends with Luan Ji too?”

”What level are they, that they dare to gang up on me when you and I are both special envoys?”

”Should I not kill them? Should I praise them instead!?”

Lu Ding’s logical and well-reasoned speech left Yan Yage speechless.

”Third!!”

”When the demonic creature was released, not only did you not follow the 749 Bureau’s emergency containment regulations, you even teamed up with it to deal with me. Do you think the Great Han will investigate me? The Review Office will sanction me!!!?”

Yan Yage looked at Lu Ding, her pupils gradually dilating, her heart shaken.

”How could she... how could she be from the Profound Nether Cult? She’s one of the department heads of the Feihuang Group!!!!”

”The Feihuang Group is a splinter faction of the Profound Nether Cult. Is that so hard to figure out?”

Lu Ding said casually.

Yan Yage’s thoughts swirled. Yes.

Although Lu Ding was brutal, his reputation for how he handled matters was there.

If he didn’t have evidence, wasn’t certain, how would he dare to come knocking like this.

Thinking back on the previous fight, Lu Ding indeed had many opportunities to kill her.

Even more, if Lu Ding had shifted his focus slightly toward her during the fight, he could have killed her on the spot.

Yan Yage’s spirit deflated all at once. Her eyes vacant, she said, ”Wrong... wrong... I was wrong........”

”I am willing to accept punishment. I will remove my shoulder insignias and return to my original jurisdiction to face punishment..........”

Lu Ding nodded: ”Good that you know you’re wrong.”

”You don’t need to return to your original jurisdiction.”

Then, a Slash Attack erupted without the slightest warning, as if his face changed suddenly. One second they were talking, the next he directly attacked. The [Way of the Jinche] swept out, slicing off Yan Yage’s head.

As her head separated from her body, Yan Yage’s life force rapidly dissipated.

On that handsome, heroic face, a pair of eyes reflected emotions of shock and incomprehension.

Death was inevitable, but Lu Ding didn’t bother with excessive follow-up strikes. Those killed by the Way of the Jinche couldn’t possibly live.

Giving her a chance for last words was respect for her status as a special envoy, but not for her as a person.

”Wh... why......”

Lu Ding’s voice rang out: ”Don’t misunderstand. I never intended to let you go. I said all that just to say it, to have it recorded.”

”To those who want to kill me, I never let them go. Giving you an explanation is because you hold the title of special envoy, not because your name is Yan Yage.”

So what if you’re good-looking? So what if you’re a prodigy?

The loser eats dust.

If you repay kindness with kindness, how do you repay enmity? Only by repaying enmity directly, and kindness with kindness.

Dare to harbor killing intent? Only a protagonist would let you go. Lu Ding had zero serendipity, couldn’t pick up scraps anywhere he went. He accepted his fate; he just wasn’t a protagonist.

If I’m not the protagonist, why should I let you go? You want to kill me, you can’t kill me, then you apologize, and I’m supposed to let you go!?

Dream on, still thinking about accepting punishment, doing that whole ’removing shoulder insignias’ thing.

Let’s be clear, Lu Ding knew this routine all too well.

If he didn’t kill Yan Yage now, once she went back, whatever else might happen, Lu Ding didn’t know, but she definitely wouldn’t die.

Holding the newly confiscated greatsword, Lu Ding wanted to see if he could use it. It looked pretty good, hadn’t broken. But before he could even channel spiritual energy into it, the thing started shrieking and trembling.

Forget it.

Keep it to give to Zhou Chu later, as a reward for being the top performer, to motivate other investigators too.

Lu Ding still remembered that the reason Zhou Chu had left the Liberation Sect with him before was because the sect’s deputy leader or deputy sect master or whatever wanted to give the sect’s treasured sword to someone else.

An outsider, even.

That’s why Zhou Chu quit.

Although he didn’t know what was so great about that treasured sword,

the greatsword Yan Yage used now was definitely better than the sword the Liberation Sect wanted to give away.

After all, certified by a 749 prodigy, that’s the reputation.

Just as Lu Ding was straightening the bent greatsword, Yan Yage, breathing her last, uttered the final sentence of her life.

”Bury me... bury me in Tian... Tianwu....”

Lu Ding gave a sharp *crack* as he straightened the greatsword, not even looking at her: ”Do I owe you?”

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Stuck on the plot, need to organize my thoughts for what comes next, then continue with extra updates.