Hao Ren and Han Lingshi were thanking Rati for the chance she gave them but before the old lady could say anything. Xiao Mei said, "Boss, do you remember that I can now monitor every DEHB agent in the world?"
Hao Ren had a bad feeling and he raised his brow as he asked, "What are you getting at?"
Xiao Mei replied, "They have sent one guy to check the anomaly that just occurred here. If they find anything suspicious, it would not be easy for us to get away."
Han Lingshi and Hao Ren frowned, Rati narrowed her gaze and said, "I knew they will not leave us alone. For the past seventy years, those greedy men and women will come over to the village in the name of tour and population survey, but looking in their eyes, one could tell that they were looking for something.
Look at the sky, and you will know that the refinement of the flames have caused the atmosphere to change. They must have noticed this."
Xiao Mei would not have spoke to Hao Ren in the presence of a third party, but in her protocol DEHB movement was set as a top priority that could not be bypassed at all.
Hao Ren began thinking and asked, "Who is the person they have sent to investigate?"
Xiao Mei replied, "His name is Nate Yeet."
Han Lingshi asked, "Do we have to fight this person?"
Hao Ren shook his head and replied, "That would definitely place us on the radar of that bunch of Jackasses."
Han Lingshi asked, "What other choice do we have?"
Hao Ren thought for a bit and said, "Let me check with Harvey and see if he can suggest us any solution."
The lady nodded, and Hao Ren asked, "Xiao Mei, how long before that guy Nate arrives here?"
Xiao Mei replied, "Five Hours."
Hao Ren then called Harvey Skye.
...
Harvey had just gotten back home after a long day at work, and his phone rang. He sighed and mumbled, "I can't seem to catch a break today."
Then he checked the caller ID and he cursed, "Fuck, why is this guy calling me?"
He knew that Hao Ren held the secret of his daughter's life, so he could not afford to go against him and decided to take up the call. The young man on the other side did not even wait for him to greet, and said, "Mister Skye, I was beginning to think that you do not wish to talk to me anymore."
Harvey Skye put on a wry smile on his face and replied, "How could that me, Mister Hao? I have just come home and so was relaxing a bit. Please tell me what can I do for you?"
Hao Ren asked, "Can you tell me if you know anyone called Nate Yeet?"
Harvey Skye was so shocked that he stood up from the couch and asked, "How did you come across him?"
Hao Ren caught on to the surprise in his tone and asked, "Mister Skye, that man is being dispatched to check what is going on in the Sun God Village. That is where I am at the moment."
Harvey Skye asked curiously, "What happened there?"
Hao Ren replied, "Nothing apart from the fact that the sky looks much clearer tonight. I can see the big deeper, and I can also see the people from DEHB hunting your ass down for sharing a little secret with me. Now will you give me what I want?"
Harvey Skye instantly got back on track and sighed, he knew this was going to happen anyhow so he said, "Nate Yeet, former intelligence wing operative. He had a knack for martial arts and is currently at the black level. However, what makes him scary is the soul search spell. Over the past five years, he had single handedly found five treasure sites, and turned sixty people into living corpses.
He does not listen to any reason, he does not care about any law. He is the hound of the DEHB, they send him when they want definite results. You better get out of their. If you have found any big treasure, then leave that thing behind or remove all the traces that it ever existed. Because if he got a scent of you, it will be an endless chase."
Hao Ren thought for a bit and asked, "Can I kill him and get away with it?"
Harvey Skye was so shocked when he heard this and his hand shivered. Hao Ren said, "Well, I will cover all my tracks. How about it?"
...
After five minutes, he stood before two big clouds of flames that seemed to be battling against each other. Nate was shocked and then he began to laugh out loud, "Hahahaha, Hahahahaha!! Who knew that I would have such a haul?"
He took out his phone and was about to call the people above him before he noticed that he had no network. Hao Ren had commanded Xiao Mei to do this, and Nate had vanished from the face of the connected world.
After a few minutes of trying, he sighed and turned around to climb the steps. At this moment, a soft and ethereal voice echoed in his mind, "Why are you leaving?"
Nate was surprised and he roared, "Whose there?"
The voice turned into a chuckle, before a snort followed, 'Pathetic human weakling, how dare you raise your voice in the chamber of great nether dragon!'
Nate was still trying to figure things out when a cold burst of flames shot at him. He hurriedly dodged the fire ball by rolling to the side, and found that the ground was covered with frost. He was a black level cultivator but he could sense that if he tried to fight this power, it will only kill him even quicker.
The charming voice sounded again inside his mind, "Come closer, young man. You have a good composition and you can move away from my husband's attack. Let us see if you can withstand our power and refine us. We are tired of being sealed in this cage for so many years."
Nate was surprised that the flames were communicating with him and they even wanted to try and see if he was strong enough to absorb them. The thick voice sounded again, "Hmph, my dear, you are getting your hopes high in vain. This man is so undecisive, how can he withstand us? I dare him to come here and refine him. Hmph what a waste of balls."
The words insulted and provoked Nate, he was angry. The charming voice followed, "Why are you being mean to him? If he became our master, he will bully you back."
Nate raised his eyebrow and walked ahead. What he did not know was that the voices in his head belonged to Han Lingshi and Hao Ren. The latter was even using the soothsayer skill to lure Nate closer to the clouds of flames.
As he got closer, Han Lingshi who was hiding in the dark said, "Sit down, close your eyes, and focus your senses to cultivate according to your mantra. Refine us and you will become the strongest. You will rule this world of mortals and even the world of immortals in the future."
Nate did as he was told. The ambition in his heart was just a few moments away. So he sat down on the ground, closed his eyes, and began to follow the cultivation mantra.
The flame clouds began to enter his body slowly, just when he thought the cold and hot would regulate each other and make him supreme, the energies began to destroy him from the inside out. Nate tried to stop but he did not even had a chance to open his eyes. The flames were raging and turning him into ashes.
The process lasted just a few seconds before the flame clouds vanished and young couple came out of the dark, and Han Lingshi let out a sigh. She said, "That worked way better than I expected. But I don't see the accident."
Han Ren said, "Do you remember our experiment?"
Han Lingshi opened her eyes wide and the two of them rushed through the cave, leaving a few blobs of flames all over the place. The thing with these two flames was that they hated each other, however, they were perfectly balanced when controlled. Just like how they did when they controlled to kill Nate.
So, now, all they had to do was to make it so that these energies would get close to each other and condense into a seed. That seed would be unstable and it will go off. The impact will level the entire cave and all their traces with it.
...
After a couple of hours, the entire village shook and the people all woke up. The ground had minimal cracks, and so did the houses but thankfully, no one was injured. Everyone was panicked and they gathered in the village square.
It was only in the morning did they notice that the place behind the village, where the Village head lived, was now caved in. Instead of the plane ground, there was a crater, at least two kilometers in diameter.
Xiao Mei said, "Boss, the media is on the way. You have to make a statement."
Hao Ren looked at the sky and said, "I had good intentions, Xiao Mei."
Xiao Mei replied, "I know you did boss, but it is what it is. You have to live with the consequences."
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Dream's Note: So, I have been diagnosed with a slip disk, it is a back bone issue which prevents me from sitting for prolonged hours. However, the treatment has started and I will try to write using vocal keyboard, and other stuff like that. I know that last month many of you felt I had not been delivering enough. I accept it that I lagged, but I hope you give me one more chance.
I did not lag behind by choice.
Thank you for your constant support and love. @Dangerlives, that comment of yours expressing your disappointment really hit me hard. I apologize that you feel that way, but I swear, I didn't mean to slow down, just that sometimes things go haywire and we cannot control them. I apologize.