Netherworld Retrograde

Chapter 340: Chapter 161 B-class Throwing Spear_2

Not only that, countless invisible arms emerged from all around, grabbing hold of his limbs and pulling hard at his body.

”Wait...den....” Lu Shou screamed in terror, his choked throat emitting a strained voice.

He felt unjustly treated; he truly wanted to fulfill the contract.

When the sound of gunfire erupted, he was even more terrified than the Returning Soul.

He feared someone would meddle and disrupt the contract and was also worried about his actions being discovered.

However, the Returning Soul at this moment didn’t care whether Lu Shou was wronged.

Even in death, he intended to take this traitor who broke the contract with him!

Thus, the next second, Lu Shou’s neck was snapped, his head twisted a full three hundred sixty degrees.

Then, his body was literally torn apart by the invisible arms, his scattered innards staining the exquisite garden red...

Inside the villa room, Lu Shou’s cherished son was also directly torn apart.

The beautiful woman by his side let out a scream of terror and madness.

Dealing with Returning Soul is like dealing with a tiger, one must be prepared to lose everything.

Clearly, Lu Shou and his son were not prepared, but it didn’t matter anymore...

...

As the Returning Soul died, the Ghost turned to dust in an instant.

The scene before their eyes remained unchanged, but the chilly aura had significantly lessened.

Seeing the signal restored on the Communicator, Li Yelai and others knew that the Returning Soul event had ended.

Meanwhile, the official logistics team had been on standby outside, and when they saw Li Yelai and the others appear out of thin air, they began to take over the scene.

They cleaned up the remnants of the battle, comforted the civilians pulled into the Ghost, and checked for any oversights, striving to minimize the impact of the incident.

This is the power of the officials; even within Giant City, Returning Souls can’t flaunt their power.

And the Spiritual Ability Users who had joined forces to attack the Returning Soul

were all smiles: ”Indeed, cooperating with the Night General always pays off.”

”I told you, with the Night General in action, something was bound to emerge. These are all mobile Merit Points!”

”Night General, don’t be shy next time. Just call me!”

”Exactly, following the Night General means there’s meat to eat!”

”Night·Monster Cage·Will, truly lives up to his name!”

They naturally were happy; the Returning Soul’s status seemed very noble, referred to as a ”Marquis” by those Ghost creatures.

Due to his noble status, he had many valuable items, which allowed him to last so long in the fight but now have become the spoils of the Processors.

Originally, due to the presence of Ghost, the Spiritual Ability Users found it difficult to capture such creatures and didn’t even know of the Returning Souls’ existence before.

But Li Yelai’s Calamity had made them all profit handsomely. They all suggested that Li Yelai take on more private jobs in the future, while colleagues who couldn’t enter the Ghost lamented with envy and jealousy.

Li Yelai could only smile: ”Actually, it still depends on the Detective. Every time he acts, something always happens.”

His gains were also considerable; the number of Shadow Army increased, and their strength grew stronger, along with some nice spoils of war. Although he didn’t capture any Ghost Horses, it was not a big problem. It was still a win!

Whether selling to officials or trading in the ark, it was an improvement for him.

As for the voice Li Yelai had heard at that time, he promptly informed his teammates and the department.

Then, he boarded the logistics department’s vehicle with his spoils of war.

And Jing Lin, who had been drafted to lend strength, also drove away after greeting them.

Now, he urgently needed to clarify why Jing Jing was targeting Li Yelai.

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The next day, Li Yelai learned from the official internal information about the situation of Lu Shou’s family.

Lu Shou was nominally the stepfather of Heavy Knight and was the main culprit in the Returning Soul incident.

When the Returning Soul died, it also killed Lu Shou and his son.

It seemed they were humans who had dealt with Returning Souls.

The mother of Heavy Knight, having witnessed the scene, became insane and was sent to a psychiatric hospital for treatment.

Regarding this, Li Yelai expressed that they got what they deserved without a trace of pity.

They could have contacted the officials directly but chose to shift the risk.

They involved the innocent Heavy Knight.

If not for the fact that Heavy Knight was a Spiritual Ability User herself and had invited Li Yelai and others to investigate,

what would her fate have been?

To know, those taken away by the Returning Soul had truly disappeared.

If it was an ordinary girl, she wouldn’t even have had a chance to resist!

Lu Shou might have thought that by relying on some little clever tricks or his affluent family background, he could escape the price he had to pay, even dodge the suspicion concerning the disappearance of innocent girls. But in the end, he lost everything. It can be said that he got his just desserts, and he didn’t deserve any sympathy.

Later, Li Yelai received two messages.

The first message was an official reward notification.

Fifty Merit Points and twenty thousand Giant City Coins.

The reward was very generous since Li Yelai alone had eliminated a team of Yin Soldiers, greatly relieving the pressure on his official colleagues.

Thus, even though many people were involved, Li Yelai had earned quite a few Merit Points.

However, since he originally had an even two hundred points, now with the reward of fifty,

he reached two hundred fifty, which is not a lucky number.

Li Yelai grumbled as he opened the next message.

It was last night’s assessment of the spoils sent to the Equipment Department.

Both the battle ax and the dual hammers were C-grade Spiritual Ability Equipment, priced respectively at,

Battle ax: 50 Merit Points. Dual Hammers: 60 Merit Points.

The craftsmanship of these two pieces of Spiritual Ability Equipment was quite average, likely obtained through trade between the Returning Soul and some Spiritual Ability Users.

But the throwing spear was priced higher, being B-grade equipment with very high craftsmanship!

To know, normally a piece of Spiritual Ability Equipment contains one Mysterious Material.

And through certain techniques, the officials can divide one piece of Mysterious Material into several parts, embed them into different weapons.

Only when the Processor uses these weapons simultaneously, can the full potential of the Mysterious Material’s abilities be unleashed.

For example, the previous dual hammers, only when a Spiritual Ability User uses both hammers simultaneously can they perfectly utilize its abilities.

If only one hammer is held, the ability’s effect is less than a quarter of the original.

And this particular set of throwing spears contained the same type of Mysterious Material!

This represents that the craftsman’s level was extremely high, having divided one type of Mysterious Material into seven parts!

If it were just this, it would only prove that the craftsmanship is not inferior to the official’s.

But what’s truly precious is that the throwing spear’s effect was the True Martial Path’s Fourth Sense ability, continuous heavy strikes!

Once a thrown spear hits the same target, the next throwing spears will increasingly strengthen!

Each increase in power is roughly 1.5 times that of the previous spear.

For example, if the first throwing spear deals 100 points of damage, the second will deal 150 points, the third 225... until the seventh, dealing over a thousand points of damage!

The only problem is the accuracy rate.

One must ensure that the target is consistently hit, otherwise the ability amounts to nothing but decoration...

However, this also means that the potential of this piece of equipment is extremely high.

Especially the last few spears, if used by a Four Sense Spiritual Ability User and all hit the target, even a Five Senses Spiritual Ability User would have to die, right?

A divine tool for cross-level battles!

Officials believed that this might be the very weapon bestowed to the Ghost Soldier Commander by the owner of that voice Li Yelai had heard.

Otherwise, such a high-level ghost creature couldn’t possibly possess such a fine item. He doesn’t deserve it!

Therefore, the Equipment Department priced it at 500 Merit Points!

Heh, Li Yelai didn’t buy that; the Equipment Department is just a bunch of profiteers, this kind of equipment should sell for at least seven hundred Merit Points.

However, Li Yelai indeed didn’t plan to sell it, as he was going to hunt a traitor in a month.

He had to strengthen himself, and these spears suited him well!

If used in conjunction with the Dharma Image... it might even produce miraculous effects!

As for the other spoils of war, they could be sold depending on the circumstances.

While Li Yelai was pondering, he suddenly felt the call of a ship ticket.

Was it... the ark summoning? Were the Ark Chosen Ones trying to contact him through the ark?

Li Yelai was startled, then a joyful expression spread across his face.

This timing... if all goes well, it must be Chu He’s contact!

He had already hunted down the Heavenly Meteor Qilin!

”My Old Horse Number Two!”