Chapter 233: 203 High Intensity Battlefield Condition Chapter 233: 203 High Intensity Battlefield Condition Shenhou City’s old industrial zone, Sorcerer (Witch) Slaughterhouse, internal eting room of the Antler Witch-Hunting Knight Order.
Zhuang was in a very strange state at the mont.
He had actually been brought back to life by Lin An.
But his state after being revived was extrely peculiar, and at this mont he was sobbing incessantly, crying non-stop.
It wasn’t just crying. Sotis he would laugh, and at other tis he would start slapping his own face violently as if struck by a spasm.
It was the kind of slap that did not hold back any strength, as if he was greeting his enemy, his muscular hand landing on his own face again and again, making Lin An numb with shock.
But compared to Lin An’s look of horror,
other Witch-hunting Knights of the Antler looked at Zhuang with expressions of envy.
“You know…” the plump guy crouched on the ground, munching on an apple, looked up at Zhuang, who had started crying again, and said to the old man in a lab coat, “Maybe I should break my Antler as well, and let An give a ‘Second Furnace’?”
The old man in the lab coat, holding a cigar, evaluated Zhuang, smacking his lips, “You know, you’re not wrong, I’m indeed tempted.”
What was Zhuang’s current state?
The Antler were all very experienced, so how could they not understand? Zhuang now clearly regained the normal human abilities to feel happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy.
It was simply enviable!
“Wait, you think he’s acting like a normal person with that crazy deanor?” the little boss whispered to Lin An on the side.
The plump guy turned his head to glower at him, “You know nothing.”
“Decades of pent-up emotion returning in a single night, how could he look normal?”
“Oh~~” With that explanation, the little boss understood, but he still disagreed, “But he’s still not acting normal.”
The plump guy looked disdainfully at the little boss and snorted coldly, too lazy to explain further.
He walked over to Lin An, “Hey, tell , what kind of ‘Second Furnace’ did you set up for Zhuang?”
“That’s called ‘Wizard’s Will,’ also known as ‘Furnace Will.'” A group of people walked in wearily, Doctor Zhang said cheerfully to the plump guy, “Don’t think An has only set up the so-called ‘Second Furnace’ for you. The key to saving Zhuang this ti was ‘Will of the Furnace’ that I researched!”
The plump guy thoughtfully gazed at Zhuang, frowning in contemplation, “Will… with willpower… wouldn’t that allow us to resist the Antler?”
Doctor Zhang snapped his fingers, “Exactly, that was my initial hypothesis in researching this topic.”
With that said, mbers of the Witch Hunter Knights took their seats.
The old man in the lab coat, cigar in mouth, looked around the room, “Did anyone manage to retrieve Zhuang’s Antler?”
No one spoke…
He asked again, “Did anyone catch Kapok?”
Once again, no one spoke.
He couldn’t help but sigh, “Damn it, it’s pathetic. After all these years, not only have we failed to deal with Kapok and Ghostface, but we can only watch helplessly as they grow stronger.”
Professor Cao didn’t speak, but Doctor Zhang let out a cold laugh, “When you say that, it makes feel like you’re making snide remarks.”
The old man in the lab coat suddenly rounded his eyes and stared fiercely at him, “Mr. Zhang, what do you an by that?”
Doctor Zhang pursed his lips, “Yan Zidu, you protect Kapok in secret, don’t think the rest of us aren’t aware. And you, Chen Fugui, you damn well secretly trade with Ghostface too, don’t think we don’t know.”
The plump guy was taken aback, but the old man in the lab coat angrily slapped the table, “You need evidence for such claims, anyone can spout nonsense. I might as well say you are Kapok!”
Doctor Zhang giggled, shrugged, “Of course, there’s no evidence, so everyone just agreed not to let you two participate in the hunt, but we didn’t take any action against you.”
“Enough.” Professor Cao waved his hand, not bothering with these matters.
This ti, the Antler split into two groups. Six Witch-hunting Knights, along with Lin An, Lu Dexian, and Zhuang, didn’t join the search for Kapok and Ghostface.
Actually, it was because these six were suspected of having so connection with those two wizards.
And even among those who did join the hunt, how many were truly without contacts within the wizard community?
Doctor Zhang was one of the most deeply involved.
Mr. Cao couldn’t be bothered to ntion it.
Sotis it’s difficult to say anything. In the past, although the Antler could be considered enlightened, they had never cooperated with the wizard community as deeply as they do now.
All of this traced back to Mr. Lu’s ‘Leek Garden’ proposal, which the previous generation of Antler had highly approved of—aning the mixing of Antlers and wizards started with the past generation of Antler.
The past generation, their generation, and the next generation, including Lu Dexian and Lin An.
One by one.
Black Cat?
Professor Cao let out a slight smile. He didn’t feel any anger from being deceived; instead, he seed quite satisfied.
This is just what the Antler People are like.
That’s exactly what a disciple of mine, Lin An, should be. If he were a useless wretch who shrank away from challenges like Lu Dexian, that’s when I’d be worried.
But though that’s how he thought, it wouldn’t do to show it on the surface. Discipline where necessary must still be enforced.
This is about killing a chicken to warn the monkeys, letting these monkeys of the Antler People know not to overdo it. Otherwise, the greater environnt within our country might really not tolerate such brazen actions from Lu Jiao.
Alas, if it really becos intolerable, then the trouble begins all over, and punching through it once more would be exhausting.
All that’s left of Mr. Cao is breath; he truly doesn’t have the energy to spend all his days fighting and killing.
“Lin An!”
Professor Cao called out sharply, looking at his apprentice. “Are you the Black Cat Wizard?”
Lin An slowly rose to his feet, nodding solemnly. Truth be told, the only thing he felt sorry about was deceiving the two ntors, Professor Cao and Doctor Zhang. As for the rest, he didn’t think he was wrong.
Kidding ? Everyone is struggling to survive in this hopeless world. Do I really have to just lie down and wait for death?
No, he did not want that.
“Yes,” Lin An let out a deep breath.
“Good, you’ve got so backbone and didn’t shuffle out any excuses!” Professor Cao snorted and looked around. “Now, considering the influence of the Black Cat Wizard on our Lu Jiao, let’s raise hands to vote on whether we should deal with him!”
No one raised a hand.
The plump fellow whispered under his breath, “If I raise my hand, you’ll surely beat up. Don’t think I don’t know you, we all grew up together, I know what you’re like. And you’re talking about voting…”
He hadn’t finished speaking, when Mr. Cao’s fierce gaze had already converged on him, causing him to shudder and hastily shut his mouth. Soft laughter spread around, but when Mr. Cao looked again, everyone instantly sat up straight and serious.
Mr. Cao humd coldly, “Don’t act like you let my disciple off the hook just for my sake. Who doesn’t know what you really think?”
“Today we punish An, fine, but what about in the future when the sa thing happens? Does the sa punishnt apply?”
“Once this precedent is set, none of you are clean, and when the ti cos, all of you will be punished too!”
Suddenly, the Witch Hunter Knights started clamoring.
“Crap, Mr. Cao, how can you slander us like this!”
“Exactly, you’re the dirty one, Mr. Cao. You’re the most inhumane person in this conference room.”
“Hey, Mr. Cao, I’m different from them. I didn’t vote to punish An because he saved Zhuang. You can’t misunderstand!”
“…”
“Silence!” Doctor Zhang, who was responsible for maintaining order in the eting, roared. His terrifying voice reverberated through the conference room, shaking the building itself.
When everyone quieted down, he gestured for Mr. Cao to continue.
Professor Cao’s gaze was more serious than ever, “I no longer have the strength to adjust the ways of Lu Jiao. The ‘Leek Garden’, you say, go ahead with your operations and experints. But…”
“I don’t care what research you’re doing or what connections you have with other wizards, there is one thing you must rember!”
He slowly stood up, looked around, and spoke deliberately, each word carrying weight, “This is not an excuse for wizards to step on the heads of Witch Hunter Knights!”
“The taking of Zhuang’s antler is the alarm bell rung for us!”
“The old lax ways must be changed, the previous chaos must be disciplined, and all experints must be registered!”
His gaze was icy, exuding irrefutable severity, “Shenhou City has officially entered a high-intensity battlefield status, and all the wizards you plan to protect must wear your identification plaques. You have three days to make this happen.”
“Any wizards not registered, any wizards not displaying identification plaques, will be completely exterminated after one week!”
Clearly, Mr. Cao, now formally the Antler Leader, had finally found a proper opportunity to start consolidating the rights of a leader.
Registering wizards and cleansing represented the constraining of all the factions within Lu Jiao.
Many things would now be brought into the open.
But at the mont, no one raised an objection. Ghost Face and Kapok conspiring to take Zhuang’s antler had clearly touched the core interests of the Witch Hunter Knights.
They needed to kill these two wizards and retrieve the antler to prove the control of the Antler Witch Hunter Knights over their territory, and to show they hadn’t lost their way.
“Kapok, Ghost Face, these two wizards must die!”
This sentence had been said before, but at that ti there was another na included—Black Cat Wizard.
With his relief, Lin An could feel that the atmosphere was gradually becoming different from the last eting. Evidently, the ‘high-intensity battlefield status’ ntioned by Professor Cao was not rely talk.
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