Dragon's Origin

Chapter 505: Baring Fangs (Part 1)

It wasn't just A-Qi who was curious; even Daoist Lingxu was, though he was more composed and didn't ask. Now that A-Qi had brought it up, the Daoist was happy to hitch a ride and listen in.

“It’s all thanks to the device, it has nothing to do with us.” Wang Sheng said with a smile. As for the specifics of the hang glider’s principle, Wang Sheng wasn’t an expert, and he probably couldn't explain it clearly.

Of course, even if Wang Sheng could clearly explain how the triangular wing shape allowed for different airflow speeds above and below, creating a pressure difference and generating lift, A-Qi and Daoist Lingxu probably wouldn’t understand. Without a foundation in modern science and basic physics, understanding it wouldn’t be easy.

A-Qi and the Daoist certainly understood that it was the device's doing, but Wang Sheng's answer was just too speechless.

“You wouldn’t understand even if I told you. The thing is right here; you can look at it yourselves.” Wang Sheng took out the hang glider components again, allowing them to observe.

Obviously, A-Qi and Daoist Lingxu looked for a long time but couldn't figure anything out, and could only dejectedly watch Wang Sheng put it away.

Being able to fly in the sky and go underwater, Wang Sheng’s trip with the two of them completely changed their perception of him once again.

Despite the Daoist’s heaven-defying cultivation, he still couldn’t achieve this kind of ability to go up to the sky and down to the sea with just his cultivation.

A-Qi might have thought of some unhappy things, and her face looked a little bad. She thought of the steel cylinder with a breathing apparatus that allowed her to breathe underwater, and thought of how her last companion seemed to have been drowned alive by Wang Sheng in the water. These memories made A-Qi’s gaze towards Wang Sheng a little strange.

“Don’t look at me like that!” Wang Sheng could certainly sense it, and knew what was causing that sudden look of hatred. He said very calmly, “You wanted to kill me; I can’t just let you kill me without resisting. As assassins, you have to have the awareness that you can only kill others, not be killed by others. There’s no such thing in this world.”

“But you obviously didn’t kill them with cultivation!” A-Qi suddenly lost control, tears welling up in her eyes, and shouted at Wang Sheng. If the later companions hadn’t worked with her for long and their relationship wasn’t deep, then the first two, Big Ears and Big Bear, were definitely A-Qi’s playmates from childhood. She had never forgotten that Wang Sheng killed them.

“Sorry, almost everyone I’ve killed wasn’t killed with cultivation.” Wang Sheng didn’t care at all about such accusations, and just said to A-Qi very calmly, “If I may be so bold, how many times have you killed your targets with cultivation before?”

A-Qi was immediately speechless. When she cooperated with Big Ears and Big Bear, she relied on her clever mind and Big Ears’ extraordinary hearing, always being able to set up ambushes in advance and kill targets in many incredible ways. If they really relied on cultivation, why use these methods? Wouldn’t it be enough to kill them head-on?

“You’re only allowed to kill people without cultivation, but others aren’t allowed to kill you without cultivation.” Wang Sheng shook his head and sighed at A-Qi, “Double standards aren’t played like this.”

“Sorry!” A-Qi quickly recovered from that state and apologized to Wang Sheng, “I just, I just suddenly remembered my former companions.”

“I understand!” Wang Sheng smiled at A-Qi, “I’m waiting for the day when you can completely let go of these things.”

A-Qi suddenly felt a warmth in her heart, and also felt a little guilty. In the end, Wang Sheng didn’t take the initiative to provoke them back then, but they took the initiative to find Wang Sheng. Being killed by Wang Sheng because of this, it was unreasonable to blame Wang Sheng.

If A-Qi was still an assassin, it would be understandable to think so. When have assassins ever been reasonable? Most of the time, they kill for money. But now A-Qi’s identity is different. She was a gift from the Xia family to Wang Sheng, originally at Wang Sheng’s disposal. Wang Sheng didn’t kill her, but instead gave her an identity to escape the Xia family’s death squad. This was a kindness, and A-Qi had to repay it.

This time, it was just A-Qi’s feelings. When she thought of Wang Sheng’s devices, she remembered those dead companions. But A-Qi also gradually discovered that she now rarely recalls her former companions. Is it because she lives under Wang Sheng’s protection and can sleep peacefully?

Daoist Lingxu had been listening quietly, without saying much. Seeing the two of them talking about this, he also felt a burst of rejoicing in his heart. Fortunately, he had never been close to women since he was a child, otherwise wouldn’t there be a lot of similar troubles?

“Have you rested enough? Let’s go!” Wang Sheng saw that the time was about right, stood up, and called the two of them to leave.

This time, no one was ambushing them. After walking more than ten miles, they had almost left the mountains of the Mountain Yue area and reached the plains.

Judging from the map, this should be the territory of the Feng Kingdom, but Wang Sheng wasn’t completely sure. After all, this world’s map couldn’t be compared to the precise military maps that Wang Sheng was used to. The horizontal and vertical scales were different, and Wang Sheng couldn’t be completely sure that he was in the Feng Kingdom. But even with the greatest error, it was in the Feng Kingdom or the Tang Kingdom area, and it was unlikely to be further away.

Just as Wang Sheng was leisurely searching for the official road with A-Qi and Daoist Lingxu, and then looking for the nearest city to rest, a crazy massacre was taking place in the Mountain Yue area.

Baoqing Yutang had already set up traps in the Mountain Yue area, just waiting for outsiders to walk into the net. It was no wonder Zhu Xingsheng. Who told Wang Sheng that as soon as he moved, all forces would try their best to track him? No one had invited them into the Mountain Yue area. If they went in and encountered any misfortune, they couldn’t blame others.

Barbarian experts were searching from the outside in, with a large number of people. However, each faction had very few large-scale teams. The opponent was prepared while they were not, and there were more people plotting against fewer people. Moreover, they were in an environment familiar to the barbarian experts, so they were accurate with every hit.

In just three days, the number of experts from all sides who died in the Mountain Yue area exceeded four or five hundred. Averaged across the large and small forces, each family had at least a dozen or twenty people.

However, this wasn’t considered the biggest loss. Just as Wang Sheng, A-Qi, and Daoist Lingxu found a not-small city and asked to find out that they were within the territory of the Tang Kingdom, the Xia Kingdom’s capital received a desperate message from a messenger bird.

It was a message sent by a Xia Kingdom expert who was ambushed, during the space when his companion blocked the barbarian expert's attack. The three hundred or so Xia Kingdom experts who had entered the Mountain Yue area this time were surrounded by suddenly appearing barbarian experts, suffering heavy casualties.

By the time the message was sent, there were only a dozen or so Xia Kingdom experts left, and barbarian experts were still rushing over in a continuous stream.