Bringing some shocking pranks to the Cultivation World
Chapter 74 - 74 67 Do plants keep fresh

74: Chapter 67: Do plants keep fresh?

74: Chapter 67: Do plants keep fresh?

Zhou Li’s senses were very sharp, and during his years at the Imperial Academy, he frequently encountered certain individuals, such as the young master he had roughed up with a sack over his head, or the rich young man he had coerced to the lavatory.

These were all the familiar strangers to him.

These people often did not know Zhou Li, as he was very covert in his actions and carried them out decisively without leaving any problems unsolved.

However, there were always a few clever individuals who, through special means, deduced Zhou Li’s identity.

Of course, it wasn’t ruled out that Zhou Li intentionally leaked his identity as bait.

Often, these people would find Zhou Li and pretend they didn’t know him, all the while waiting for an opportunity.

At such times, Zhou Li needed to use his wits to analyze whether or not the other party had actually seen him before.

Naturally, his methods included, but were not limited to, “a beating, a beating with a sack over their head, a beating by Tang Cen, a poisoning by Tang Cen followed by a joint beating.”

And, you know, this method was surprisingly effective.

Most people would confess everything once they were “beaten with a sack over their head.”

But, against this zombie, the tactic just wasn’t very effective.

“This zombie’s reaction clearly shows it has seen Lord Qianhu’s methods before,”

Zhou Li squinted his eyes looking down at the confused zombie corpse on the ground, pondering,

“Otherwise, it wouldn’t have committed suicide.

Even if it encountered something unbearable, it wouldn’t just abandon its body so easily.

It must have witnessed your methods and known that escape was impossible, leaving suicide as the only option.”

“I was thinking the same thing.”

Qianhu nodded thoughtfully, “When I first saw it, I felt something was off.

The way it looked at me was somewhat fearful and horrified.

I didn’t take it seriously at first.

After all…”

He tugged at his Brocade Robe and sighed regretfully, “People still hold some objections to us Jinyiwei.”

If you start rolling their heads around after killing their entire family, then they’ll stop having objections.

After quietly snarking to himself, Zhou Li kicked the body and said, “So it seems, the master of this thing is likely the same one who controlled the zombies that attacked us at the Imperial Academy.”

“Controlling zombies…”

Tang Wan was squatting next to the zombie as a disciple of the Tang Sect, she showed no aversion to this filthy creature, casually taking out a cheap piece of cloth to grab the tongue and pulling it outwards while she began her inspection.

“This person has been dead for no more than two shichen.”

Standing up and placing the cloth over the corpse’s face, Tang Wan said to the two behind her,

“There’s blood under the tongue, food debris, and traces of wild grasses from outside the city.

It’s very likely this person had a meal before planning to leave Beiliang, tried to sneak out through a side gate next to the city gate, and was caught and turned into a zombie.”

“Later, I’ll mention this to Director Li to have him check tonight’s government official duty roster.”

Zhou Li looked towards Qianhu, seeing the mournful expression on his face.

After a brief silence, he comforted him,

“Lord Qianhu, don’t be too sad.

By the time you saw him, there was nothing that could be done; he was already dead, so why bother?”

“Sigh.”

Qianhu merely shook his head with some regret, “If only I had patrolled the city walls earlier, discovering him before he was turned into a zombie, perhaps none of this would have happened.”

At this thought, Qianhu immediately perked up.

Rising to his feet, he clenched his fist and, under the numb gazes of Zhou Li and Tang Wan, he spiritedly declared,

“While this isn’t my fault, if I’m aware of it and do nothing, it will eventually become my fault!

Starting today, I’ll only leave two hours for sleep.

The rest of the time, I’ll patrol diligently to ensure this tragedy never happens again!”

“Zombies?

I’ll make sure they never return!”

Slowly descending the city wall, Zhou Li tossed the acrophobic Tang Wan to the ground and then raised his head to gaze at Qianhu, who was now energetically watching over the gate tower, unsure what to say.

“Why don’t you give him a kick in the head like Guo Lingyun?”

Tang Wan, gripping Zhou Li’s shoulder to steady herself, coughed twice before suggesting, “That way, you’ll snap him out of it, and he’ll revert to the remorseless Monster he was before.

Then you can kill this Monster Noble without feeling guilty.”

“Sigh, it has nothing to do with that.”

Zhou Li sighed, “Even if I killed him now, I wouldn’t feel guilty.”

“That’s just like you.”

“It’s just…”

Ignoring Tang Wan’s mischievous smile, Zhou Li looked at Qianhu’s retreating figure, a trace of worry flashing in his eyes, “Why do I feel like he’s starting to go in a weird direction?”

“Is that so?”

Tang Wan yawned widely, then puckered her lips and said with a lack of energy, “I think it’s fine, at least there’s no worry about the city defenses at all.”

“That’s true.”

Zhou Li nodded, brushing away the unfounded worries in his heart.

He then took a deep breath and said to Tang Wan beside him, “Well, since we’re up, no point in going back to sleep.”

“Let’s go to Dave’s Cottage.

It seems like he’s got it figured out.”

“Eh?”

Startled by Zhou Li’s words, Tang Wan then exclaimed in surprise,

“Your thing actually got figured out?!”

“Making such a fuss.”

Zhou Li scoffed disdainfully at Tang Wan’s reaction, “Back in the day, I was always the top of the Spirit Qi Studies at the Imperial Academy.

If others hadn’t caught on and started buying answers, I would have been the top every year.”

This time, Tang Wan didn’t contradict Zhou Li, nor did she mock him; instead, she genuinely admired the Spirit Qi genius.

After all, the answers Zhou Li sold back then weren’t stolen, he had worked them out himself.

A genius’s pride, it seems, didn’t allow Zhou Li to be mediocre.

To him, innovation must be a simple thing.

Ten minutes later, faced with the three pots of plants in front of Dave, Tang Wan fell silent.

Indeed, it was anything but mediocre, and certainly innovative.

Tang Wan pointed at the first plant and asked with a deadpan expression, “What is this?”

“The Man-Eating Flower of Great Mercy and Compassion.”

Looking at the indescribable plant with six mouths, four pairs of eyes, and its body covered in Buddhist text that twisted grotesquely due to its dark green flesh, Tang Wan stepped back, shivering.

“And this one?”

Struggling not to look at the twisted plant that resembled an ancient god, Tang Wan turned to another plant, her voice trembling as she asked, “What is this, then?”

“Garlic Exploding Spring Onion and Stinky Amaranth Stalk.”

Looking at the amaranth covered with various stinking and pungent substances, its eyes bloodshot, and with a sinister smile, Zhou Li tightened the glass lid and sighed,

“Actually, Dave first wanted to add a bit of flavor from hometown delicacies.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t buy surströmming in Beiliang, so he had to settle for sprinkling a bit of soybean juice as a touch.”

Tang Wan seriously doubted whether releasing this thing would kill zombies or not, but whether Beiliang would have any survivors left was the real question.

She swallowed, stepping back and turning to look at the last plant, fear creeping into her eyes.

“Beautiful miss, let me introduce this one to you.”

Speaking his half-familiar Mandarin, Dave couldn’t hold back his desire to share and came up to Tang Wan, proudly introducing the last plant.

“This, is the grand invention conceived by Zhou and me, my most proud plant in my career as a botanist.

It is also our trump card against zombies!”

“God’s Buddha Hand!”

Looking at the bizarre plant in front of her, with five outstretched fingers, Buddha head inscriptions etched on them, a large hole in the palm, and countless indescribable tentacles writhing within, Tang Wan had only one thought in her mind at that moment.

Innovated?

Innovated to death.