402: Chapter 396: Speculation 402: Chapter 396: Speculation Chen Hai didn’t get a good rest all night.
If it weren’t for his powerful Divine Soul and more vigorous spirit than the average person, he might have had dark circles under his eyes by now.
Jiang Dalong, who was sitting next to him, quickly gobbling a bowl of rice noodles, formed a stark contrast with him.
“Cousin, that rat demon we burned last night with a fire, it was such a waste.
What a pity.”
“All I ate was a piece of meat the size of a thumb, and what happened?
I was incredibly potent—handled three girls all by myself!”
“In front of me, doing it seven times in one night is nothing!”
“One time for me lasts the whole night.
If it weren’t for there being only three girls in that hair salon place, even a few more couldn’t withstand me.
They’d all collapse effortlessly…”
Jiang Dalong was radiant, having already devoured a bowl of beef rice noodles, two baskets of buns, and three dough sticks for breakfast.
Despite such a feast, he still seemed only half full.
While talking, he waved at the breakfast shop owner to bring over a few hot steamed buns from the bamboo steamer.
“Just head back to the Liuyuan County and keep the fireworks show going.”
“You’re relaxed about it, I was in the hotel room next to you, worried the whole night…”
Chen Hai rolled his eyes and complained discontentedly.
Last night, while riding the motorcycle back to the county with Jiang Dalong from Conggui Mountain, he was genuinely anxious.
Who would have thought that eating rat demon meat would have such side effects in that area?
“Who told you to pretend to be so prim and proper?”
“When we took a few girls to the hotel, I told you one room was enough.
But you insisted on getting two and stayed on your own!”
“We cousins could have had fun together; you wouldn’t have had to suffer so much!”
“Be honest, since you stayed in the room next to mine, did you overhear anything through the walls?”
Jiang Dalong chuckled and made a crude joke towards Chen Hai.
“Do you think I’m like you?
Indiscriminate about women, as long as it’s a female, you don’t hesitate?”
Chen Hai glared at Jiang Dalong and responded irritably.
With his abilities, why would he need to eavesdrop?
If he really wanted to, he could just let his Divine Soul leave his body and stand next to Jiang Dalong to watch openly.
His cousin making such jokes was plain insulting.
“Be honest, after eating that essence of rat demon meat, besides increasing your appetite and that voracious sexual desire, were there any other effects?”
Seeing the breakfast shop owner just delivered big buns and Jiang Dalong devouring them in mere seconds,
Chen Hai furrowed his brows and asked.
That piece of rat demon meat, he brought back for Jiang Dalong.
If that meat caused any serious problems to Jiang Dalong’s body, he would be responsible, unable to clear his conscience.
If not for that reason, he wouldn’t have skipped going home and spent a ridiculous night in Liuyuan County with Jiang Dalong!
“Cousin, besides being able to eat and perform well, I now feel full of energy!”
“See that blond kid over there?
I think, of such punks, I can take on ten at once now.”
“Besides these, the rat demon meat hasn’t caused any other effects.”
“I just don’t know if this condition is permanent or temporary!”
After contemplating a bit, Jiang Dalong added with an odd expression, “Just a small piece of meat having such an effect, even if it’s not permanent, being able to maintain this state for three to five days would already be considered a treasure.”
“Too bad, you burned that rat demon completely…”
He said this with a regretful tone, clicking his tongue.
“One never knows about meat from demons without actually eating it.”
“After eating that small piece without issues, what more could you hope for?”
Hearing Jiang Dalong say this, Chen Hai also let out a sigh of relief.
To be honest, when he first started his Cultivation, the Snake Demon he accidentally killed was picked up and sold to a wealthy businessman driving a small car.
In terms of strength, that Snake Demon could not compare to the two rat demons he killed this time.
But whatever the case, that big snake still fell in the category of a demon.
Its meat, consumed by someone, might have had some effect!
However, it seemed that the person who ate the actual body of the Snake Demon didn’t encounter any problems.
Otherwise, Wuyang Town being such a small place, if there was anything strange happening, there should’ve been some rumors circulating!
“Fully fed and watered, I need to rush back to my hometown to meet up with my buddies to discuss the business!”
“And you?
Cousin, are you heading straight back?” Patted his stomach, Jiang Dalong belched several times.
After grabbing a napkin from the table and wiping his mouth, he looked at Chen Hai and asked.
“Yes!
I definitely need to go home!”
Chen Hai nodded, “I said I was accompanying you for a chat, but I ended up not going back home all night.
My mom is probably going to nag me about it!”
Standing up, just as he was about to leave for home, he turned back again.
Looking at his cousin Jiang Dalong, who had also stood up, he cautioned, “If you feel anything odd with your body, call me immediately!”
“Don’t worry, cousin.
My body can handle eating a whole cow.
What could possibly go wrong?”
“If there really is anything strange, I’ll surely come to bother you!”
Smiling and nodding, with that, Jiang Dalong had already left the breakfast shop and climbed onto his 250 motorbike.
Waving to Chen Hai, he started the motorcycle whose engine roared, and sped off into the distance.
Returning to Wenchang Pavilion Community, Chen Hai lingered at the little grocery store at the community entrance.
Of course, as he had not returned home the entire night, it was inevitable that he got a lecture from his mother.
Now that he had grown in stature at home, his parents, despite their dissatisfaction, only muttered a few words.
Had it been during his junior or senior high school days, it wouldn’t have been just muttering; there was a chance his parents might have disciplined him with a stick!
After all, “A stick produces filial sons” was a favorite proverb of his father, Chen Zhonghua.
Faced with his mother Jiang Meixian’s complaints, Chen Hai naturally didn’t get angry; at most, he just chuckled dryly.
In the grocery store, there wasn’t much to do.
Jiang Meixian ran the shop merely as something to pass the time.
With their family’s current financial situation, whether the shop made money was irrelevant.
In Jiang Meixian’s shop, Chen Hai stayed for less than half an hour before he went back to his own home in Wenchang Pavilion.
It was only a little past eight in the morning, and his father, Chen Zhonghua, had likely gone to play chess at the chess stand.
The house was empty except for Chen Hai himself.
He washed his face and then went straight to his room.
Despite not having slept all night, he still didn’t feel sleepy at all.
Going into his room, he definitely wasn’t thinking of resting, but rather felt that it was quiet here without any disturbances.
He closed the door and sat down on the chair in front of his desk, he directly took out the strange beast skin that he had been carrying in his pocket.
He neither knew where this object came from nor its purpose.
Yet his intuition told him that this item could possibly be the greatest gain from his trip to Conggui Mountain!
The entire piece of beast skin, interspersed with blackish-brown colors, was irregularly shaped and smaller than half of Chen Hai’s palm.
Using his naked eye, Chen Hai intently scrutinized the item for a long time.
Unfortunately, no matter how much he examined it, it remained utterly ordinary and mundane.
“If I could find this piece of beast skin in the remains of Rat Demon Brother Shan, then the words spoken by Xiunu the Demon Soul when I restrained her were not entirely false.”
“If it is true, as it had said, that they, originally ordinary rats, embarked on the path of cultivation after obtaining this scrap of beast skin, I should be able to discern something mystical on the skin with my naked eyes, right?”
“But now, after looking again and again, I simply cannot detect any anomalies in this piece of beast skin.
Could it be that most of Xiunu the Rat Demon’s words were false, with only a small portion being true?”
Frowning and pondering for a moment, Chen Hai muttered to himself.
After dwelling on this question for a good while, he still couldn’t sort it out.
Shortly dazed, a row of fierce compound eyes emerged from above his forehead.
After failing to see any anomalies with his naked eyes, other than using his Divine Soul Eye, he just couldn’t find any other method!
Under the gaze of his Divine Soul Eye, the appearance of the unidentified blackish-brown beast skin remained unchanged.
However, there emanated from it a bizarre aura as if from ancient times, carrying an endless vicissitude that overwhelmingly swept towards him, causing his Divine Soul to involuntarily experience an indescribable sensation of alarm.
Several attempts led to the same outcome.
Aside from that inexplicable, strange air that impacted Chen Hai somewhat, he could no longer feel any anomalies on the piece of beast skin.
Holding the piece of beast skin in his hand, he mulled over it alone for several hours, from morning straight through to the afternoon.
Unable to glean any useful information from this piece of beast skin, his brows furrowed even tighter, almost forming a straight line.
After considering for a while, he stood up and walked over to the side of his bed, where his suitcase was located.