Stuck in a Chinese novel

The smoke and embers of the fire were finally under control. The fire department spent an entire night trying to control the fire that was spreading through the woods at a very fast pace.

By the time they were done, it was high noon and the entire area was burnt down like charcoal. The only silver lining in all of that was that no one died. Not one person died in such a tremendous explosion and even more horrifying fire that threatened to engulf the entire forest if it wasn't isolated thanks to a certain cultivator.

"We cannot thank you enough for your assistance. Without you, it would have been impossible to take the fire down." A female firefighter thanked the blue-eyed girl again for the tenth time. It was all thanks to her cold Qi that the fire was contained otherwise, the damage would have been a lot worse.

"Did you find anything? A body, perhaps?" Zhao Hui asked.

"They won't, Uncle Hui. He never intended to die in that explosion." The blue-eyed girl said.

"Are you sure, little Rong?" Zhao Hui asked.

"I'm certain." The blue-eyed girl replied. However, her head wasn't there. She was more focused on something else. She remembered the cold dark eye she saw last night.

Although the man's face was only a quarter uncovered, she felt like she had seen him somewhere. She wasn't sure so she wasn't going to point any fingers.

However, one thing was for sure, "That was certainly a cultivator, Uncle Hui. I think it would be better to involve the cultivator forces."

Zhao Hui nodded in assent and said, "I will contact your father. Let's see what he says."

The girl nodded. She looked to her left where the salvaged bike parts were. It was completely gone. The bike had lost a lot of its fragments after dividing into millions due to the explosion.

The bike was a bust. It would be impossible to find out where it came from. And given a person who was so cautious about all of that, she doubted it was traceable in the first place.

Left with no option, she simply decided to wait for further orders. She was bound to get them sooner or later.

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Wei Jun entered his office, a little frown on his face.

[That was something]

'Yeah, me blowing in several pieces was interesting.' Wei Jun said.

[Yes, it was]

[You blew up into so many pieces yet you still didn't die]

[I never knew it was a function of the death Qi]

[Well, I don't know much about the death Qi in the first place]

Wei Jun was lucky enough that he had enough death Qi to activate Qi armament. But even that could save him from the effects of the explosion.

Wei Jun's was divided into eight pieces at least even at his full speed while running away.

The only thing that was amazing was that the remaining death Qi formed strands on his body parts and reconnected them in an instant. But that didn't mean he didn't feel pain from that.

He felt pain. A lot of pain from that. so much so that he was very disoriented when his body parts were repaired.

But, he made it out of it alive. That was all that mattered to him at the moment.

'I need to look into death Qi properly.' He decided because death Qi didn't work like he predicted it to. It would help him absorb herbs even without him wanting to but when it came to elixirs, it wouldn't.

Just when he thought he had a pattern down, he would have to rethink that because the death Qi wouldn't work as he had predicted.

One thing was for sure, death Qi was powerful. Powerful than any other Qi and it had more mysteries than he could think.

The only way to find out about them was to use it but so far, he didn't know how to. Death Qi wasn't like yang Qi that would be restored upon the consumption of a Qi replenishing pill.

It would replenish on its own. It took almost an hour to just fully replenish and it ran down way faster than yang Qi because of its low amount.

As much as Wei Jun wanted to experiment with it, it was too limited to conduct long-term research.

'The only way to increase it was also peculiar,' Wei Jun thought.

Wei Jun only got death Qi so far from the system update. It wasn't actually the system update but more like the world tearing apart that increased his Qi. It got him thinking him something but he couldn't really understand much about it.

Deciding that overthinking wasn't the solution, he decided to let it go.

Just as he was about to sit down and go on with his day because there was nothing he could do about the rest, Lao Chen entered, a troubled expression on his face as he informed Wei Jun of a guest.

"Young master, a woman is here to see you. She claims to be from the cultivator's special forces but she doesn't have an ID to prove it." Lao Chen informed. Impersonating a cultivator from the cultivator forces wasn't a good idea. The penalty was very harsh even for those in power so no one in their right mind would claim to do so.

But, if she indeed was from the cultivator's special forces, then the consequences would equally be harsh, leading to all sorts of trouble. That was the last thing Lao Chen needed for himself and his master.

"Let her in," Knowing exactly why Lao Chen was troubled, Wei Jun allowed the woman to enter. Lao Chen left with a bow and after a few minutes, a woman more enchanting than ever entered the room.

She was similar to Wei Jun in height in her heels, her face was flawless, her nose and chin well defined. Her hair was black and the most enchanting thing about her was her sky-blue piercing eyes with black lines originating from the base of the pupil, giving her a look that was enough to turn the heart of a monk upside down.

Unfortunately, Wei Jun was more stoic than a monk, making her charm useless against him. Even Lao Chen, who followed her in, couldn't stop stealing glances at her.

"You can leave now, thanks," It wasn't Wei Jun who said that to Lao Chen but the girl herself. Wei Jun chuckled but didn't disagree with her. Lao Chen left, a little embarrassed.

The girl turned to Wei Jun and extended her hand saying, "Hello, Mister Ruan, or should I call you Wei Jun?"

Wei Jun didn't mind her forwardness and said, "A little too soon to be on the first name basis, aren't we? You should at least ask me out to dinner."

The girl chuckled as Wei Jun took her hand, slightly shook it, and let it go. She looked at her hand and then said, "I am Yan Rong, a lieutenant in the cultivator's special forces."

She then took the seat without Wei Jun's permission and continued, "We are investigating a rogue cultivator who almost assassinated one of the higher-ranked officials of the cultivator's special forces."

"And what do I have to do with it?" Wei Jun asked while taking his own seat.

Yan Rong didn't reply. She instead pulled out a picture from her pocket and passed it to Wei Jun while asking, "Any idea who this individual is?"
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Wei Jun looked at the photograph to see a very familiar face. It was none other than Run Long who Wei Jun had killed.

Wei Jun looked at Yan Rong and chuckled, before he handed her the photograph and said, "If you're trying to trick me, it wouldn't work."

Yan Rong smiled and said, "Uncle Hui told me you would be difficult to trick."

"I assume your Uncle Hui also told you about his encounters with me?" Wei Jun asked.

"He did." Yan Rong replied before she asked, "What enmity did you have with this person?" She raised Run Long's picture.

Wei Jun's expression also became serious as he replied, "I took his girl."

"I doubt that. He and Xia Lu had no connection whatsoever. And the one girl he did have a connection with, I just saw her downstairs kissing another guy." Yan Rong said.

"I never said I took her for myself." Wei Jun said.

"So you took her but you were never interested in her. Then why go after her at all?" Yan Rong asked.

"Maybe I just didn't like seeing two people destined to live together forever. For some reason, I just wanted to tear them apart." Wei Jun replied.

"You're an amazing liar, Wei Jun." Yan Rong said as she stood up and approached Wei Jun with slow steps. Wei Jun didn't bother putting up his guard because she wasn't going to harm him.

She came behind him and whispered in his ear something he didn't expect, "I like honest men."

Wei Jun narrowed his eyes and turned to her, only to be surprised as a pair of lips pressed into his own, making his eyes wide.