349: Chapter 343: Creating Livestock 349: Chapter 343: Creating Livestock The Beast Creation Technique, mentioned in Pu Songling’s “Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio,” was once discussed.
This evil technique, even during the Qing Dynasty, was rarely seen north of the Yellow River, but there were often similar rumors to the south of the Yellow River.
In modern times, due to those with mana disdaining the cultivation of this technique, and those without mana being utterly unable to master it, this evil technique had not appeared in the world for many years.
In the “Scum Sect Secret Record,” there are several small techniques recorded that do not require mana to perform, such as the Flower Shooter, which people have occasionally been bewitched by.
“Beast Creation Technique?
Boy, you do have some insight!”
“Come, I’m right here, try to use the Beast Creation Technique if you can?”
“I don’t mean to belittle you, but even my late master never managed to master this secret technique.”
“Even if you found my copy of the ‘Scum Sect Secret Record’ and learned the cultivation method of the Beast Creation Technique, you dreaming of truly mastering it and using it on me is utterly delusional!”
With an air of confidence, Brother Biao said sarcastically.
A ship can still sink in a gutter; the more you walk at night, the more likely you’ll encounter ghosts.
Since he was engaged in the most despised profession, he had been ready to face death from the start.
In this life, he had drunk the strongest liquor and bedded beautiful young women…
So what if he died?
It was worth it.
Since he had already dismissed the fear of death, what more did he have to worry about!
“Hehe…” With a meaningful chuckle, Chen Hai did not respond to Brother Biao’s words but simply adjusted his clothes and stood up.
“How dare you speak to my boss like that?
You’re not afraid of dying, right?
Fine, I’ll make you beg for life but unable to die!”
From the side, Bai Xiaohang, cursing all the while, walked up to Brother Biao, raised the steel pipe in his hand, and fiercely smashed it down.
Of course, considering they needed him alive, the steel pipe predominantly targeted Brother Biao’s limbs.
“Falling into your hands, I accept my fate.”
“If my head rolls, it’s just a scar the size of a bowl; what can you do to me?
At most, I die!”
“Come on, smash it on my head!
Hitting my limbs with the steel pipe is neither painful nor itchy; it doesn’t satisfy me at all!”
Facing the steel pipe Bai Xiaohang smashed down, initially, Brother Biao rolled around on the ground a bit to dodge.
Later, he stopped dodging and let Bai Xiaohang hit his limbs.
He didn’t even grunt; the harder Bai Xiaohang hit, the louder he laughed.
Xiang Dong and Bai Baoshan, who had gone to a side room, finally came back out.
Of course, they hadn’t forgotten to pull the door closed behind them and lock it securely.
“Now, who among you can get me some dogs?” Chen Hai, scanning the room and addressing his subordinates impassively, inquired.
“Leave it to me, boss, I’ve got experience with this kind of thing.
Do you want them alive or dead?” Bai Baoshan was the first to stand out.
What had landed him in prison was stealing chickens and dogs.
Though he had not engaged in such activities for many years, he still had the experience and skills.
“I only need the dog skins, whether they’re strays or not, alive or dead, it doesn’t much matter.”
“Uncle Baoshan, the task is yours, try to make it quick!” Chen Hai nodded and instructed.
“Catching a few live dogs is a bit challenging, but if it doesn’t matter if they’re dead, just needing their skins, that makes things simple!”
With a sinister laugh, Bai Baoshan nodded, then turned and walked outside.
As for Xiang Dong, he immediately went outside the dilapidated building to keep watch.
Though the place was fairly remote and usually free from visitors,
it’s better to be safe than sorry.
The cries of pain from Brother Biao’s men had barely stopped at all.
Such loud noises could bring trouble if anyone happened to pass by and hear.
Xiang Dong running outside to stand guard was just to be on the safe side.
“Big shot, by the look of things, you guys are also from the underworld, right?”
“When you’re out in the underworld, it’s all for the sake of money!”
“That Huang Yong fellow is just a relative, not your own brother.
How much can such a family tie be worth?”
“Even if you kill us all, that boy surnamed Huang won’t grow back his legs or tongue.”
“Why should we cause both our groups to fight to the death over such a cripple?”
“The passbooks I left in the side room have already fallen into your hands.
You’ve probably seen how much is in them!”
“This isn’t just a few hundred or thousand, but several hundred thousand!”
“If you’re willing to let us go and turn the page on this matter, I can give you the account information and passwords.”
“Once the money is out and in your hands, you go your sunny path, I’ll cross my log bridge, and from then on, we go our separate ways, owing nothing to each other.”
“What do you think of my proposal?”
Bai Xiaohang and Tian Mingjian had already stopped, no longer wielding the steel pipes to beat Brother Biao and his group to death.
Lying on the ground, having rested for a while and catching his breath, Brother Biao, with a quick roll of his eyes, tentatively spoke up and made such a suggestion to Chen Hai.
Regrettably, Chen Hai, who had pulled up a chair and was smoking a dull cigarette near the door, didn’t even glance in his direction more than necessary, let alone respond!
“So, it looks like you really aren’t willing to leave us any way out?”
“Thinking about the money I’ve earned through most of my life ending up with the banks, my heart just can’t accept it!”
Brother Biao shook his head in lamentation.
He seemed to be sighing continuously, but in reality, he kept observing Chen Hai with the corner of his eye, examining his expression.
Before Chen Hai had any reaction, the sound of footsteps from outside the room, moving from far to near, reached his ears first.
“Boss, people in this area don’t seem to like keeping dogs.”
“I drove the van around nearby a few times and only managed to get two dogs!”
Bai Baoshan, cursing under his breath and carrying a dead dog on his shoulder, walked in.
Seeing Chen Hai, he grinned and tossed the two dead dogs in front of Chen Hai, then said.
“Tough job, Uncle Baoshan!”
“Two dogs will have to do, we can barely make use of them!” Chen Hai, who had been smoking silently, had by then stood up.
Nodding to Bai Baoshan, he squatted down in front of the dead dogs.
Then, while muttering under his breath, he extended a finger, pointing here and touching there on one of the dead dogs!
In just three to five minutes, he stretched out his hand, grabbed the dog’s head, and lifted it,
A complete piece of dog skin had been completely stripped from the dead dog’s body, appearing in Chen Hai’s hands.
“This, truly is the Beast Creation Technique…” Brother Biao, who had not taken his eyes off Chen Hai for an instant, was trembling.
Already resigned to his fate, at this moment, his face twisted in extreme fear.
His exposed skin was covered in goosebumps, and his whole body shook uncontrollably.
“Brother Biao, one dog skin for you, one for Liu!”
“I know you don’t regard yourselves as human.
To fulfill your wishes, to let your long-cherished wishes come true, I’ve delayed quite a bit of time!”
“Improvising at the last minute, this Beast Creation Technique I’ve just learned is still a bit raw.”
“Let’s experiment on that Liu first.
Don’t rush, and don’t get too excited; I definitely won’t forget your share!”
At that moment, Chen Hai looked somewhat sinister.
After dropping a few words to Brother Biao, he walked over to Liu, who was still lying on the ground, wailing.
Among this group of people, only Brother Biao was a genuine heir of the Scum Sect.
The other few, though equally ruthless, were just following Brother Biao for a living.
It was Liu who pressed the young boy’s arm firmly under his foot while Brother Biao was sawing it off.
Chen Hai and the others had burst in just in time to see this scene.
Since there were only two pieces of dog skin, one was reserved for Brother Biao, and the other naturally had to be used on Liu.
Liu had no knowledge of the Beast Creation Technique.
But even so, when Bai Xiaohang and Bai Baoshan pressed him down and stripped off his clothes, he was still panicking, beginning to beg bitterly, hoping that Chen Hai and the others would spare him.
“One drink and one peck, one cause and one effect.
When others begged Liu for mercy, did you ever show any?”
“Not willing to be human but wanting to be an animal, isn’t my action exactly what you wished for?”
Expressionless, Chen Hai snorted.
After these words, he began chanting again, fitting the dog’s head onto Liu’s head bit by bit.
Next, he took the dagger handed over by Bai Baoshan and on Liu’s bare body, carved a bizarre pattern one cut at a time.
The pattern drawn on the broken skin continuously bled.
At this moment, Chen Hai smoothly attached the dog skin, split at the chest and abdomen, onto Liu’s body.
Blood seeping through the pattern did, in a manner utterly inexplicable by chemistry or physics, perfectly bond the dog skin to Liu’s body.
As the dog skin absorbed Liu’s blood, it stretched out across his body like a living thing.
Liu’s body began to shrink in a conceivable manner swiftly.
One minute, two minutes…
As time passed bit by bit, Liu sometimes wailed in pain, sometimes begged, but eventually, the sounds coming from his mouth turned into barks.
When about ten minutes had passed, the entire person of Liu had completely disappeared.
In his place, was a yellow-haired lame old dog.