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

”Just now, I ate it prepared as steak.”

”Now that you’re here, let’s have it the freshest way.”

Ying Gou said to the young woman beside him, ”Begin.”

The young woman took a knife and carved out a piece of tender flesh from the snake demon’s body.

Then she discarded it.

Next, she applied a stimulating medicinal liquid.

The snake demon, who had been half-unconscious, was instantly jolted awake by the pain. Veins bulged on its neck and forehead, and its eyes became bloodshot.

It screamed incessantly.

Ying Gou smiled, his crimson tongue licking his pale lips as he explained to the person beside him.”There used to be a very cruel dish called ’Live Screaming Donkey’.”

”You select a top-quality donkey, with specific requirements for its age and its usual diet.”

”It must be a young, not fully grown donkey, raised since childhood on medicinal herbs and tender grains. You pick the part of its body with the best meat, carve out a piece, don’t eat it, throw it away.”

”Wait for the wound to heal, then peel off the skin from that area, revealing the tender flesh underneath.”

”At this point, there are two ways to eat it. The first: scald the tender flesh with boiling water until cooked, slice it off, and dip it in sauce.”

”The second: carve out the tender flesh, shred it, mix it with soy sauce and sesame oil, and eat it raw. It’s smooth and tender in the mouth...”

As he spoke, Ying Gou swallowed his saliva.

His eyes stared fixedly at the demon on the rack. ”Don’t worry, I will carefully taste every part of your body, guaranteed to use multiple cooking methods, and absolutely not waste a single bit.”

The snake demon struggled on the torture rack. ”You... you bastard, have the guts to kill me!!!!!!”

Ying Gou laughed heartily, even with a hint of pride. ”Hahahaha, so you know I’m mixed-blood too?”

”But don’t be in such a hurry. You impersonated a water god here at the Mouth of the Evil Prison, eating people, even devouring young boys and girls, holding evil and lewd sacrifices.”

As he spoke, Ying Gou’s expression turned puzzled, and he slowly uttered a sentence mixing dialect with standard Mandarin: ”Why is it... that now when I eat you, you get so triggered hahahahahaha.........”

That’s right.

Ying Gou’s mixed blood was precisely Third Circle mixed with Second Circle.

His father was one of the warriors who fought his way up from the Third Circle back then. After things stabilized, he married Ying Gou’s mother in the Second Circle, settled down, and built a career.

With another scream from the snake demon.

The young woman holding the short knife dug out the tender flesh that had regrown after the medicinal liquid was applied.

She shredded it, arranged it on a plate, poured soy sauce and dipping sauce.

Placed it before Ying Gou.

He picked up a bite with his chopsticks, his face showing enjoyment. ”Melts in the mouth...”

”Old Zhu, try some quickly.”

The man beside him had a gloomy expression. ”I’ll say it again, my surname is Zhuge, my full name is Zhuge Xing, not Zhu!!!!”

Ying Gou smiled. He did it on purpose, because earlier this Zhuge Xing had pointed at his nose and cursed him.

Then he turned and casually took out a bottle of fine wine, pouring two cups.

”Eating this dish, drinking some wine, while listening to her screams... a perfect match...”

The feast on this side continued.

On the other side.

At the Lady’s Temple, it was already dawn.

Yu Liuli, one of the Southern Wuwang Commanders, brought her younger brother to a secluded courtyard within the Lady’s Temple.

They waited quietly for the arrival of forces like Wuliang Temple, Giant Wave Group, and Star-Plucking Tower.

They waited until daybreak.

Yu Liuli waited and waited, but no one came.

Yu Luochen beside her couldn’t help but voice his concern. ”It’s been so long past the agreed time, why haven’t they come yet? Sis, has something happened?”

Before Yu Liuli could emerge from her thoughts and answer her brother’s question.

A secret letter flew in from outside the door.

Yu Liuli snapped back to attention and reached out to take it.

It read:

[Wuliang Temple, Giant Wave Group, Star-Plucking Tower, Songyuan Valley, Tianjin Zhai, Feihuang Group have all been slaughtered by Lu Ding.]

Seeing this, Yu Liuli abruptly stood up.

”How is that possible!!!?”

Yu Luochen beside her leaned over to look. When he clearly saw the words, shock was evident in his eyes.

”In... in one night, he killed the people from six forces!!!!?”

”How!?”

”Even if he has that level of strength, worthy of the saying ’a great reputation is not undeserved’, truly living up to the name Corpse-Shattering Taishui, but how did he find these six forces!!!?”

Yu Liuli’s expression was grave. ”Finding them isn’t difficult, but how did he know the precise information about these six forces?”

”The Lady’s Temple has people coming and going every day... to distinguish those with ulterior motives...”

”Unless...”

Yu Luochen instantly picked up the thread. ”There’s a mole!!!!!”

”There’s an inside agent for Lu Ding within our alliance this time!?”

Once prompted, Yu Luochen immediately began analyzing. ”The possibility of a mole within these six forces themselves isn’t high. If the mole was among them, now that Lu Ding killed them, the mole surviving would be too easy to expose.”

”Then whoever isn’t dead would be the spy, and then they’d rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go!!!”

”If the mole isn’t among them, then it can only be someone from within our Wuwang, or, it’s a high-level member from the other eight families who didn’t come to the western region but could know the details!!!”

Yu Liuli thought and nodded in agreement. ”Correct!”

”It can’t be Divine Sword Sect or Child Association. These two sides, though not as closely aligned as Tianjin Zhai and Songyuan Valley!”

”But these two sides are on good terms. Either side knows the other’s hidden locations.”

”If the mole was from either of them, then Lu Ding could have gone after Divine Sword Sect or Child Association.”

”After all, among the many forces this time, these two are the hardest to deal with. If Lu Ding could get intelligence on these two in advance, he would take the initiative and would definitely strike first to eliminate one of the major threats!”

”But now Divine Sword Sect and Child Association are safe and sound. This shows it’s highly likely the mole isn’t among them.”

These siblings’ minds weren’t lacking.

Working together, thinking about problems together, had an effect greater than one plus one.

Yu Luochen stroked his chin. ”Although these are all our speculations, from the final derived result, the possibility of the mole being a Wuwang member is the greatest!”

”Sis, regarding the information about the six annihilated sides, besides you, me, and those above, who else knew?”

Yu Liuli shook her head. ”I didn’t even tell Little Xian and the others.”

”But... Yuwen Longyuan might know. He has some connections above!”

When she said this, the siblings exchanged a look.

Although they came here this time with a mission, helping Yu Luochen seize the position of Western Commander was also one of Yu Liuli’s goals.

Since the suspicion now falls on Yuwen Longyuan’s head.

Then just right.

No evidence needed. Whether it’s you or not, as long as you’re a suspect, then it’s you!!!

The two turned and left.

At the same time.

On the other side.

In a certain manor, Yuwen Longyuan had been in the western region for so long, and he himself was ambitious. His information network, forget a small western region, he even had some channels throughout the entire new city.

If Yu Liuli and her brother, coming from outside, could receive the news.

How much more so for him.

When he saw this news.

He instantly exploded!!!

”It’s over, that bitch Yu Liuli is coming for me!!!”

What Yu Liuli and her brother figured out, Yuwen Longyuan figured out just as clearly.

Not only did he figure it out, he could even deduce that among Pu Guan and Lu Ding’s vest, one of them must be the mole!!!

Because he had only spoken about these several families with Lu Ding and Pu Guan.

And because of the previous incident where Western Wuwang surrounded Lu Ding and he alone survived, Yuwen Longyuan currently guessed that the possibility of Lu Ding’s vest being the mole was much greater than Pu Guan.

But even guessing this far, he restrained himself from thinking too deeply about it.

A person needs to be bold to reap benefits.

If before he had been traumatized by Lu Ding, causing him to fear facing Lu Ding directly, then now, as this suspicion arose, Yuwen Longyuan instead felt much more at ease.

If that person really was Lu Ding’s spy.

Then it meant he still had use.

So Lu Ding wouldn’t kill him, nor would he startle him.

Instead, he could cooperate with him, play a game of working with wolves, anyway it’s a gamble!!

Might as well play big.

Of course, this was just his speculation. But regardless of the outcome, even if it was true, even if discovered, he wouldn’t expose Lu Ding’s identity, because he had no one else to use now, he could only pretend not to know and continue cooperating with Lu Ding as before.

Everyone gets what they need, and this was also one of the reasons Lu Ding dared to act recklessly.

Thinking of this, Yuwen Longyuan stood up.

”That crazy woman Yu Liuli knows my true identity. We need to go out and hide, lest she turn the tables, using this matter to come cause trouble for me.”

The young woman followed Yuwen Longyuan’s movements. ”So we just keep hiding like this?”

”Of course not!”

”Since she’s playing dirty with me, then let her test whether Grand Duke Lu’s blade is sharp or not!!”

As he spoke.

Yuwen Longyuan, while taking his maidservants on the run, simultaneously sent a message through a secret method to Lu Ding’s vest.

[Urgent matter, wait for me in the Nowhere Room. Yu Liuli is coming at me hard. I’m running away to hide first.]

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Additional chapter for the Gift King reward sent earlier by senior Jun Shen Hongchen!