Chapter 57: Relaxing the Nerves

Chen Fengshi’s relaxed good mood instantly lost more than half. Yes, the foundation of Queen Huang’s peace proposal was to first provide information on two Fungal Demon Main Bodies. Once provided, they certainly had to eliminate them! This was originally the very reason the Demon Extermination Association existed, and it was also a method Chen Fengshi approved of.

But, to make him work as a volunteer right now?

Unless everything was fully prepared, wouldn’t he have to do things like installing cameras and investigating the situation? What a joke. The others in the Demon Extermination Association all got paid, but he had to do everything as a volunteer? Did they think he was stupid!

So Chen Fengshi directly replied with a message: “Precisely because power is precious, it cannot be wasted. When it’s time to sweep them out, just tell me how to sweep and where to sweep. For the preparation work, don’t waste my power. After all, I’m a volunteer, don’t ask for too much.”

On the other end of the phone, Little An couldn’t even be bothered to reply to her. She practically had the urge to throw Chen Fengshi into the blacklist.

This free volunteer was useless, but with the Demon Extermination Association’s pitiful manpower, the difference of adding one more person was a twenty-five percent increase in the labor force…

“Just slowly wait for me to beg you to join the association!” Little An let out a long sigh. After adjusting her emotions, she let Heiyang, who was on the day shift, continue to dig out more details from Queen Huang.

“Empress, I can’t take it anymore. This Fungal Demon Main Body keeps seducing me, I’m about to lose control and make a mistake!” Heiyang’s reply made Little An’s face covered in black lines. “I don’t care if you did anything with her or not? I just want you to ask for more intelligence! More detailed intelligence!”

“…Empress, can I rest for an hour? The earphones I ordered have arrived. How about I go get them and then properly deal with this Fungal Demon Main Body?” Heiyang realized making excuses wouldn’t work, so he had to tell the truth.

“What do you think?”

“I think the Empress is kind-hearted and open-minded, and will definitely approve my small request. After all, I’m supporting the day shift alone for twelve hours. The Empress will absolutely understand this level of hardship!” The level of Heiyang’s shamelessness was truly rare.

“I enjoy that, love to hear it. Your request is approved—however, ninety percent of this month’s salary will be deducted.”

“…Why?”

“I can accept the idea of raising troops for a thousand days to use them for one moment, but when it’s time to work, you still don’t show the proper attitude. Paying you any salary at all is already too merciful!”

“Umm… Empress, I think things have different levels of urgency. Getting the earphones tonight is also fine. For the Empress’s understanding, I’ll risk my old life!” Heiyang’s slacking off and shamelessness meant he wouldn’t restrain himself at all unless hit with harsh measures.

However, right after his bold words, he asked Little An as if negotiating: “Empress, is there a way for me to accept her seduction without getting infected by the Fungal Demon? I’m not lusting after her beauty, it’s purely to develop a deeper relationship, closer communication, and extract more intelligence!”

“…You can even stomach a Fungal Demon?” In Little An’s eyes, Queen Huang was just a skin bag, and her true form was an aggregate of countless red fungal bodies.

However, in Heiyang’s eyes, it was not the case. He could only see Queen Huang’s attractive face and body, as well as those eyes that were so good at teasing. “For the sake of work, what does this level of sacrifice matter? If the Empress wants to give me a bonus, it doesn’t need to be much, just one year’s salary will be enough.”

“Her tastes are very heavy, you know. Could you even endure licking her feet?”

“…There are so many beauties who want to lick me, how could I possibly stoop to doing such a thing!” Heiyang’s tone was very firm. Little An was just about to praise him a couple of times. At least he still had some face. No matter what, the education and living standards he received since childhood were no worse than hers, almost equal treatment, so this should be the proper reaction.

But before Little An could say the words of praise, Heiyang added another sentence. “But, I don’t necessarily have to do that, do I? Rhythm and style of play are a kind of running-in and contest. As one of the Empress’s right-hand men, how could I let someone else lead the rhythm?”

“No way!” Little An didn’t want to talk about him anymore and directly gave him a dead end.

“The heavens are unfair! Why does such an outstanding and perfect man like me not have the Power of Life?” Heiyang was very sad. This feeling of seeing it, being able to eat it, yet not daring to eat it and not being able to eat it, couldn’t be more sorrowful…

Little An couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to him. For her right now, the most important thing was to start planning the elimination of the Fungal Demon Main Body. From the establishment of the Demon Extermination Association until now, they were still in the planning stage and had never truly started a battle. Her brave charge into Queen Huang’s Main Base with Chen Fengshi was actually the Demon Extermination Association’s first major operation.

Before this, the partners of the Demon Extermination Association, under her leadership, had once eliminated a Main Body during their time at the Mutual Aid Association. It was also that operation that brought Little Huo, Alcohol, and the late Little Family Beauty together with her.

The information on the first Fungal Demon Main Body provided by Queen Huang would definitely be the first major operation with full member participation since the establishment of the Demon Extermination Association. And the control range of this target Fungal Demon Main Body was much wider than Queen Huang’s, and the fortress where the Main Body was located was more heavily guarded. It would definitely be a tough battle.

However, in the planning stage, they couldn’t just blindly listen to the information provided by Queen Huang. What if she had a scheme? What if this was a trap? Therefore, they had to verify the key information as much as possible.

However, they had too few people.

Little An hadn’t contacted the Mutual Aid Association for a long time. At this moment, she couldn’t help but wonder if she should try to talk to the President of the Mutual Aid Association to see if they could cooperate on this matter. Even limited help would undoubtedly be very valuable assistance.

Besides that, what Little An considered was cooperating in action with those who held radical views, mainly from Yangcheng.

Little An felt that being the President of this association was really hard. She spent money and effort, only had responsibilities and obligations but no benefits… And then, the most hateful thing was that there was an annoying guy like Chen Fengshi who fought against her so stubbornly!

Chen Fengshi was not unhappy; he was very happy, because Skinny and the Big Guy couple had both arrived early at the agreed Xuanxuan Hotel.

Although he was very anxious to quickly get the debt owed by Young Master Wang from Sister Yao, the messages from Sister Yao gave him a headache just looking at them, so he didn’t want to see her so soon.

Sister Yao went to the hospital, however, the result was nothing. Her Illusory Memory said she had three abortions, but the examination result showed none. This should have been able to prove something, right?

But Sister Yao very bluntly said in the message: “This doesn’t prove anything! I asked the doctor, and I also searched online. I took medicine, and if I recovered well, it can’t be detected at all!”

So, Chen Fengshi decided to put off meeting Sister Yao for later. He would first happily eat and drink to his heart’s content with the Big Guy couple and Skinny before thinking about anything else.

Chen Fengshi ordered a lot of food, so much that Skinny and the Big Guy felt bad for his money.

The Big Guy’s girlfriend, Xiao Fei, couldn’t help but ask: “Old Chen, did you strike it rich? It couldn’t really be like what others say, that you sold yourself to Sister Yao, could it?”

The Big Guy couldn’t help but sigh and say: “What kind of talk is that? Sister Yao is so pretty. There’s nothing wrong with Old Chen choosing her.”

“You just wish you had a rich and pretty girl like that, right? You don’t even mind if she’s a public bus, do all you men think like that?” Xiao Fei’s gun muzzle instantly aimed at the Big Guy. Skinny couldn’t stand it and chimed in: “Xiao Fei, what you said is too hurtful to the Big Guy. The Big Guy just thinks the word ‘selling’ sounds awful! Does this respect Old Chen’s current intentions? By the way, Old Chen, if you really got rich, are we drinking Maotai tonight?”

“No problem.” Chen Fengshi’s generosity made the three of them feel it was unbelievable. Skinny couldn’t help but say: “Exactly how much money did Sister Yao give you? Oh wait, did she give you a credit card to swipe freely?”

“…Stop talking nonsense, am I that kind of person? It’s just that last night, a friend of Sister Yao wanted to watch my performance. In the end, she was convinced by my skills and willingly gave a generous meeting gift. I immediately thought of you guys, this is friendship!” Chen Fengshi glossed over it simply, but Skinny and Xiao Fei wouldn’t let it go. They were excitedly wanting to know how the ghost-catching performance went, and also wanting to know how much money the rich person gave as a meeting gift.

“I won’t go into the details. These mysterious things, it’s not good for you to know too much, it’ll make it easier for unclean things to get close to you. As for the money, anyway, it’s quite a lot… no need to gesture, six figures, otherwise would I be willing to drink Maotai?” After Chen Fengshi finished speaking, he very seriously instructed: “Also, I wanted to tell you guys something. I’ll have a lot of things to do in the future. Just tell the school that I’ve started my internship, and I probably won’t have many chances to go back to campus.”

When Skinny heard this, he was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: “After all this, you quit even earlier than me? Alright, since it’s like this, who knows when the next time we can fleece you will be after today. Tonight we won’t go home until we’re drunk, we only drink Maotai, and we must drink the expensive ones!”

This was something everyone had to face anyway, so naturally they wouldn’t be too overly sentimental. If they really wanted to feel sad, they should save it for the farewell dinner when Skinny went back to his hometown.

Xiao Fei asked very curiously: “Old Chen, Old Chen, you’re not planning to make catching ghosts and exorcising evil your main job, are you?”

“The money comes fast, and besides, I can help people in need, I think it’s doable. Furthermore, you guys also know, at the martial arts gym where I practice martial arts, the Master is still okay, but the Master’s wife has always treated us as free labor, using us like cows, no, even worse than cows. All the senior brothers and sisters above me ended up not daring to go to the martial arts gym because of this. I was actually also scared in my heart, but I originally couldn’t refuse out of respect for the Master. Now that this matter is so meaningful, I have a good explanation for the Master too.”

The Big Guy, Skinny, and Xiao Fei, all three of them couldn’t hold back their laughter. Of course, they had long heard Chen Fengshi talk about his terrifying Master’s wife.

Chen Fengshi didn’t know what the situation was in other martial arts gyms. Anyway, the one he trained at since childhood was traditional martial arts, so the rules and such were also very traditional. A master’s order cannot be defied, a master is like a father, and the rules of seniority and respect between senior brothers, senior sisters, junior brothers, and junior sisters all existed.

Actually, many of the senior brothers, senior sisters, junior brothers, and junior sisters who had studied in the martial arts gym didn’t really like that kind of thing. What they accepted more was an equal relationship with each other. They had basic respect for the Master and senior brothers, but they all resisted a commanding, superior-subordinate relationship.

Originally, these things were nothing, they could make do by enduring it. But their Master’s wife… whoever she was close to, she would order them around. Inside and outside the house, carrying things when going out shopping, moving and lifting things, these were all commonplace. Even the close and distant relatives of the Master and his wife needed various labor, they would call them too.

Imagine: in the scorching summer, tossed around the entire Saturday and Sunday, the unavoidable lunch was one bowl of instant noodles per person. Other than that, there was only a cup or two of boiled water. When they were dying of thirst, they still had to pay out of their own pockets to buy water.

What kind of experience was that?