Dawn of a New Era - Chapter 43

Chapter 43: Killing Incident

Translator: Lordbluefire  Editor: Lordbluefire

When Chen Shouyi returned, the military and police were already patrolling the streets.

He even saw many people who took the opportunity of the chaos to vandalize, rob, and plunder. But they were now being pressed down by the police cleanly onto the ground. They were helpless to resist and were easily cuffed.

As establishments of security in the country, the police and military would always recruit new blood into their departments every now and then. Their basic requirement was that the candidate had to be a martial apprentice at the very least.

If a martial apprentice went to join the army, they would instantly be able to gain preferential treatment the moment they joined.

For many businesses and even state enterprises, they would give extremely good conditions to attract these people.

Even if you were just a martial apprentice, your strength wouldn’t be inferior to a killing machine from the perspective of ordinary people. Once you turned to evil, you would cause great damage and destruction to the stability of society. For beings of such power, the country naturally wouldn’t allow them to do whatever they wanted.

In truth, no matter where you went, once you successfully registered yourself as a martial apprentice, you would automatically become a militia in the location you were in.

For example, Chen Xingyue was now a militia from the armed department that had the duty of protecting the street his house was located in.

Of course, the identity of militia depended on the situation.

In usual times, they didn’t need to take on any mission and could do what they wanted. But once an intense commotion occurred, or barbarians had appeared, they had to assist in maintaining the law and order or even head into the battlefield.

Naturally, if that situation truly occurred, things would already be in an extremely dangerous state.

…

There were many people walking on the streets, their hearts were filled with alarm and anxiety.

The cars completely blocked the streets. It was impossible to drive at all. Many drivers decided to leave their vehicles at their original locations and head home via walking.

When he returned to the motel, Chen Shouyi discovered that the corridor outside his room was still filled with people. At this time, to the majority of people, it clearly still wasn’t the time to sleep yet.

“I went to take a look, it is truly too tragic. His entire body was stabbed over ten times by someone, and his blood pooled on the ground.”

“Now that there’s a power failure, the surveillance camera had no way to work. I wonder if the police would be able to catch the murderer.”

“There’s actually someone who died here. I feel that the situation here is extremely strange. If it wasn’t for the fact that there’s a power failure and it isn’t easy to find another motel, I would have gone to another place to stay.”

“Me too. I’m afraid I will have a nightmare tonight.”

Walking through the corridor, Chen Shouyi had a look of shock on his face while listening to a group of people.

No wonder he could smell a faint smell of blood when he walked over.

“Brother, what are you all talking about?” When Chen Shouyi walked to his room, he couldn’t help but feel curious and asked another young man.

“You didn’t go and take a look?”

“I just came back from the outside.”

Listening to the other guests describing the scene, Chen Shouyi learned that when he was out, someone actually died in this motel.

The victim was a guest on this level, and his room wasn’t far from Chen Shouyi’s.

After the power failure, the victim stayed in the corridor to chat. Somehow, a conflict arose between him and a man, to the point where they started to fight. Then, the man took out a knife and ended up killing him. When the murderer realized what he had done, he hurriedly fled the scene.

The police rushed over. But when they arrived, the corpse had already turned cold.

In the darkness, the evil in man’s heart would manifest with ease.

It would cause one to become extremely emboldened. This was what it meant when someone said that their minds heated up and they felt feverish.

Other than lamenting for the dead person for dying worthlessly, Chen Shouyi wasn’t too bothered.

He wasn’t connected to the dead person. He wasn’t even acquainted with him.

As for the fact that there was someone who died in this motel, to Chen Shouyi who just killed over ten barbarians today, he didn’t mind it at all.

He then walked into his room and closed his door.

After that, he released the shell girl, placing her next to his pillow.

This time, she seemed to be truly angered. She turned her head, didn’t bother about Chen Shouyi at all.

If it was normal times, Chen Shouyi would have turned on the television long ago or used glass marbles to placate her.

But today, he actually didn’t have the mood to do any of those.

He turned on his phone for illumination and lay on his back, not wishing to move an inch.

Too many things had happened today, causing him to feel mentally and physically exhausted.

Seeing Chen Shouyi ignoring her despite her being angry for so long, she finally couldn’t control it anymore.

She stood up and surveyed Chen Shouyi who was lying down. Then, she proceeded to grab the corner of her shirt and do a flip, landing on his chest.

She intentionally jumped about on his chest and shouted, “#@% giant. Beiqi, I want Beiqi!”

As for the descriptive words before the word ‘giant’, it definitely wasn’t anything good. It might mean something sinister, vile, or repulsive.

Chen Shouyi cast a glance at the shell girl who was growing increasingly gutsier. He lazily spoke, “There’s no Beiqi today!”

“Why is there no Beiqi?” The shell girl still didn’t want to give up.

“Beiqi also needs to rest. It is tired!” Chen Shouyi casually found an excuse.

The shell girl had a look of suspicion on her face.

“How long does it need to rest? How many sunrises and sunsets?”

“I also have no idea.”

As he spoke until here, Chen Shouyi couldn’t help but feel somewhat heavy in his heart.

He could only hope that the situation would be better tomorrow.

At this moment, the shell girl seemed to be influenced by the atmosphere and gradually quietened down. She stared at Chen Shouyi and asked in puzzlement, “Giant, are you unhappy?”

Chen Shouyi nodded lightly. He didn’t really feel like talking much.

“Let me dance for you then!”

After that, she began to dance.

Chen Shouyi was amused very quickly. Her dance didn’t really contain beauty, as it just consisted of her waving her hands and legs around randomly. Rather than calling it a dance, it was more like a kind of ceremony.

Who knew where she learned this from?

Speaking of which, this was his second time watching her dance.

When he first caught her, she also started to dance for some inexplicable reason.

But at that time, the dots of light flying around her had completely scared him.

The shell girl danced with more vigor upon seeing Chen Shouyi smiling.

At the start, Chen Shouyi didn’t mind and he had a relaxed look on his face as he watched this sentimental dance. But as he watched on, his expression grew increasingly solemn.

When she danced, there seemed to be a mysterious mood starting to descend.

Without a second thought, he turned off the light of his phone.

After a while, he could see dots of starlight flickering in the shell girl’s surroundings.

They would light up and vanish from time to time, brimming with a magical aura.

However, compared to the first time he saw her dance, the dots of light now were so weak to the point where they were barely perceptible.

Even in this completely dark room, he could hardly see them.

But then again, this place was Earth.

Even if the mysterious forcefield of the Otherworld had gradually invaded Earth, its concentration was pathetically weak.

But even in such an environment, she could still use some supernatural ability although it was weakened to the point where there was almost nothing.

“Where did you learn this?” Chen Shouyi involuntarily asked.

“I knew this innately the moment I was born!” The shell girl stopped and spoke with a look of satisfaction on her face.

Chen Shouyi was skeptical.

But when he thought about it carefully, this shell girl was truly mysterious.

Now, he wasn’t the same youth who had just entered the little island in the Otherworld, having the childish thoughts that lifeforms possessing supernatural powers would be found everywhere.

In truth, supernatural powers were not really common among lifeforms of the Otherworld.

At the very least, the barbarians he had met didn’t have any supernatural powers or they had died before they could display any.

So far, the only one that had supernatural powers was the shell girl.

For example, she was capable of flight although her flying speed wasn’t fast and she was even slower than a fly.

She could also easily find the grains of gold buried in the sand. It was like she already knew their locations from the start.

Moreover, her vision was quite shocking. In the midst of the heavy rain, she could easily see something several hundred to thousands of meters away.

If it wasn’t for her body size being too small, most probably, the one being kidnapped would be Chen Shouyi instead.

Upon thinking of this, Chen Shouyi involuntarily felt his anticipation rising. He hurriedly asked.

“Does this dance have any effects?”

“Don’t you feel it’s nice to see?” The shell girl had a dumb and adorable look on her face as she spoke.

(“Can ‘nice to see’ be treated as a meal to eat?”)

“I’m going to sleep!” Chen Shouyi stared at the shell girl and spoke in a not too happy tone.