"Does Fuli really have such skills...?"
Lin Qi, long accustomed to great storms, was taken aback by Li Wenkang's words and turned his gaze toward Miyel and Treasure Tree.
"Yes, I can testify, the king's love-filled sledgehammer hit me and reignited my passion which had grown cold from seeing the wickedness of human nature. I voluntarily gave my company to the king..."
Miyel looked at Lin Qi earnestly, adding to the feelings Li Wenkang hadn't experienced.
When Master Fuli pounded Miyel, Miyel could indeed feel it, and the look in Master Fuli's eyes seemed genuinely intent on hammering her to death...
Though she could feel it, when facing the onslaught, Miyel held onto a sliver of hope and refused to back down.
But when Master Fuli truly got angry and was about to reveal his true form, Miyel swiftly slid down on her knees, promptly placed herself in a bowl, and admitted her mistake.
Though she didn't know what the mistake was, it was clear that the specifics didn't matter; what mattered was showing the right attitude.
Facing Master Fuli head-on, apart from contending with his colossal power, like a towering mountain ready to crush them, there was an overwhelming pressure that shadowed her psyche.
It was a subtle feeling, as if daring a second defiance would surely result in instant death.
If Miyel could return to the past and choose again at the moment she saw Master Fuli.
She would order the servants to spread detergent on the palace floor to make it slippery, and when she saw the king, she'd sprint some distance and slide from the main hall to the entrance, holding up the king's form in a grand welcome.
"Wow... wow wow, wow."
Treasure Tree crossed his arms, looking at Li Wenkang, and nodded convincingly, exclaiming "woos" repeatedly.
The fox had pounded me like that before too, and I did a huge spin in the air. That hit had quite a punch.
However, when he kicked my tree roots later, it seemed he used even more force, but I didn't fly very high.
Fuli has both power and technique. Treasure Tree gave a certain confident evaluation.
"Otherwise... where do you think his Spirit Beast Gang and all those Spirit Beasts under him come from? His secretary uses the appearance of a human female Mosquito Queen."
Li Wenkang's words carried an indescribable animus as he dryly quipped.
If it weren't for Lin Qi's niece Lin Ying encountering Master Fuli first and filling his bank card, Fuli should be a high-level consultant in the Security Bureau now.
His characteristics of winning over people with virtue and intense hatred for evil perfectly suit the role in the Security Bureau.
Alas, there really is something like a wealthy pig that takes bank cards and fills them up like fuel cards.
...
The black bear encountered on the road was merely a sideshow on the way to the city. As night descended, the road brimmed with danger and hidden threat, with artificial spirit beasts popping up besides the spirit beasts.
Master Fuli caught one that resembled a fruit bat, but its wings were sharp as blades, with a layer of armor, and at the tail two tails of a long-tailed monkey. It would ambush forest creatures at night, its two tails strangling their necks, dragging them up and hanging them mid-air to death.
But it chose to hang Master Fuli.
Master Fuli grabbed it, straightened it, and used it as a boomerang to hit the spirit beasts encountered.
The boomerang struck the beast on the head, instantly knocking it into a deep sleep, and soared back into Master Fuli's hands as it fell.
Peace Island's nighttime was extremely perilous outside the city.
"Shall we just infiltrate the city without equal?"
After a half-hour journey, Master Fuli had already seen the town set beside the city with a safety dike. He tossed away the bat creature, bruised and battered, and asked Li Wenkang.
Peace Island is a typical sea island, maintaining high humidity across the whole island. Though Miyel's powers cannot be fully utilized, the effect shouldn't be bad.
If they were to attack the city now, Master Fuli felt he might be able to toss Miyel inside the city.
Once she electrifies the villagers, making them dampen their clothes and have them running amok, they should be able to electrify everyone in one go, all lined up against the wall as punishment.
"There's no need for that, let's head directly to the church and hijack the research lab's server and database. No matter how reluctant Vimal might be, he'd come back to negotiate."
"Electronic interference has already been turned on, and nothing that happens in the island will be broadcast outside."
Li Wenkang smiled towards Master Fuli.
With the Earl's intel support, the city's defenses and facility positions were wholly under their control, from the moment they set foot on the island, the electronic suppression was already initiated.
Pulling the lab's power switch, the whole of Peace Island would become an isolated island.
The villagers are living a medieval lifestyle, normally unable to access electronic devices, so the power cut wouldn't affect them in pounding away at their wives in bed.
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Listening to Li Wenkang, Master Fuli showed a slight astonishment on his cheek, couldn't help but quip: "The most plain and unadorned business war is hiring the cleaning lady on the opponent's side to cut the power switch every day when she goes to work, right?"
"Or perhaps, when bored, to just pull out the network cable in the equipment room, is this some magic duel?"
"We aren't as law-abiding." Li Wenkang chuckled, not minding Master Fuli's quips.
"You're a fox; I'm a non-existing person, and the other two aren't even counted as humans. What's there to hide? We're going in to eat, drink, and then pull their family's power switch when done, binding them all for a beatdown."
Li Wenkang, though youthful in appearance, had a photo on his ID that was of a seventy-year-old man.
Master Fuli, a wild creature.
Miyel and Lin Qi are pure-blood foreigners, and Treasure Tree, the only one resembling a person, was still a child.
They came together, but digging into their pockets, no one among them could piece together a complete ID.
"Rebels! Come out and welcome the nobles!" Li Wenkang mimicked the actions of other "nobles" returning to the city, shouting towards the inside.
With Li Wenkang's loud shouts, the mercenaries on the city gate were stunned, faces full of confusion, having no recollection of receiving any notice regarding noble guests coming to the island.
The mercenary team was about to check when Miyel's severed hand had already slipped into the house and exploded with a bang, plastering white fungus all over everyone's faces, and on their heads sprouted large white mushrooms.
"Snap snap snap—"
Under Miyel's control, the mercenaries lowered the city gate established within the dike, forming a bridge to allow the guests outside the gate to enter.
Meanwhile, on the streets inside the city, the villagers who had finished dining and were leisurely strolling in the streets saw the drawbridge fall and immediately understood that the "noble" lords had returned.
Suddenly, the position at the city gate erupted in cheer as if a mountain was crashing into the ocean, welcoming the noble lords back to the city.
"Lord! Lord!"
"Lord, look at me please!"
Guards from the monitoring room inside the city walls came out, creating a human barricade separating the villagers and the noble lords, alongside driving out a carriage parked inside the city.
"Sir, please get in the carriage..."
A mercenary with a mushroom atop his head came over respectfully before everyone, opening the gilded carriage door.
Inside the carriage, there was an unpretentious white leather seat, with USB charging ports on all armrests, a small table with magnetic cup holders holding champagne glasses and square pink boxes containing elves.
"Quite modernized..."
Looking at the carriage compartment's setup, Master Fuli showed a strange expression on his cheek and glanced at the window outside, where strong men in rough burlap and women in skirts with corsets at their waists presented an indescribable discord.
"Look at me! Lord Joon! Take me into the palace; I already meet the standards for entering the court!"
"Lord, take me into the palace!"
As the carriage headed towards the castle, along the way, villagers caught sight of the carriage passing by and exuded unusual fervor.
But the bizarre occurrences began as well; a woman wearing a corset climbed onto a streetlamp and suddenly removed her worn-out vest, thrusting out her chest.
In a flash, two snow-white LED lights brightly lit up the night skies above the city, far surpassing the dim oil lamps suspended on the streetlamp.
The dazzling white light illuminated half of the street.
The lady's chest and buttocks were glowing, their brightness likely comparable to a 140-watt LED.
"???"
Sitting inside the carriage compartment, Master Fuli raised his hand to gently block the blinding glow and rigidly turned his neck to the side to ask the others:
"Who among you brought sunglasses?"
"If this brightness weren't witnessed firsthand, I might have gotten up to plow two acres myself."