"Hairless monkeys with no traces of cultivation can actually achieve this level."
"The Human Ancestor Star actually has such a genius, with vital energy and blood unified, mind and body flawless, it's practically a living great medicine!
Eating him, my energy and blood would recover at least fifty percent, maybe even experience a bloodline transformation, that's more useful than eating a hundred, no, ten thousand hairless monkeys!
Unfortunately, to avoid the Star Sky Great Wall on the periphery of Blue Star, I've burned too much of my energy and blood. If I can't strike successfully in one blow, I'll easily expose myself, otherwise, I'd really want to eat them all, but... your taste... I've remembered it."
Its cheeks kept twitching, as if wanting to memorize the taste thoroughly in its mind.
"I must eat him before the relic is found, then I'll have a chance to get a share!"
As greed increased, mud oozed from its eyes. Amidst the mud, vaguely, twisted human faces were squeezed together, silently weeping, enduring unspeakable torment. Among them, one face was unmistakably the owner of the makeup bag...
Zhang Meng's driving skills were pretty good. In no time, the two returned to the entrance of the community.
"Speaking of which, I wanted to ask you just now, what's the story with the makeup bag in your hand?"
"Could it be...." Zhang Meng suddenly seemed to think of something, her expression becoming a bit playful.
"Little Su Tu, you wouldn't be.... huh~"
"No wonder you're so handsome and yet don't have a girlfriend, turns out it's because..."
Before Zhang Meng could finish her unreliable sentence, Su Tu covered her mouth with his hand.
"Don't overthink it, I just picked this up by the roadside, planning to hand it over to the Public Security Bureau.."
Halfway through Su Tu's sentence, the hand that was covering Zhang Meng's mouth sprang back like a spring.
"Zhang Jie!!!"
Zhang Meng glanced at Su Tu with a mischievous smirk.
This woman actually just tried to bite Su Tu.
But Su Tu was now extremely sensitive to physical perception and detected her motion as soon as it happened.
"What a pity, I was thinking that if you're my sister, I'd even help 'correct' you~" Zhang Meng said in an ambiguous tone.
But Su Tu didn't respond. He was long used to this kind of level of teasing. How to describe Su Tu's appearance in this life?
Delicate but not losing masculinity, could even be called the god of freeloading in Ancient Greece.
Su Tu opened the car door and waved his hand, heading towards the Public Security Bureau by the side of the community.
"I'm off, Zhang Jie, I'm going to deliver the bag to the Public Security Bureau, you should go back and rest, staying up late is bad for your health."
Zhang Meng smiled slightly, just about to say something more.
But the phone vibrated for a moment, she took out the phone, frowned slightly.
Her previously charming face suddenly turned cold as she picked up the call and said, "Boss, I really want to meet that big shot with you, but I'm not feeling well today, what a pity.
I know, the young master from 'New Star' has great influence, but I really am not feeling well today, it's a real shame...."
.....
After Su Tu delivered the makeup bag to the Public Security Bureau and made a record, he left his phone number and was told by the police that they'd contact him once they found the owner.
Afterwards, he returned home, his mind filled with the prompts popping out from the system.
"My intuition wasn't wrong, something is indeed hiding there."
"But exactly what is it? I clearly felt that punch hit nothing, it didn't land, and why didn't it attack me?"
"Could it be because of Zhang Jie's appearance?"
Su Tu sat on the sofa, pondering everything that just happened.
His body trembled slightly, not out of fear, but at this moment, Su Tu... felt a slight excitement.
It was an excitement towards the unknown, a strong inherent desire to explore. As a kid, he was crazy about stories of the extraordinary, mysterious, unknown, gods, immortals, but as time passed, Su Tu grew up and forgot that feeling.
However, today he encountered too much novelty, the mysterious painting drawing him into a mysterious space, the 'enemy' invisible to the naked eye, and Martial Arts Dao which is to be included in the exams during the Interstellar Era...
All of this made Su Tu immensely excited.
But he quickly calmed himself down.
"There really is a monster in the shadows, so the hostility and malicious intent I felt is real, just unknown if its malice is targeted at me or at all humans."
"If Zhang Jie hadn't appeared, that thing would definitely have attacked me, whether I'd escape from its hands is uncertain, let alone an ordinary person facing it."
"If it already acted before..."
Su Tu quickly went to the computer, opened the news network, and began searching for any recent missing persons reports.
He indeed found something upon checking.
Throughout North Sea, there have been thirteen cases of disappearances in half a month, with victims ranging from initially children, to the elderly, and finally to women living alone.
The missing persons left no traces, as if vanishing into thin air.
Looking at the news information, Su Tu instinctively felt these cases were related to the monster under the shadow.
"It's evolving..." Su Tu's eyes turned cold as he looked at the missing persons' photos in the news.
Children, elderly, women, its hunting targets are growing stronger.
An indistinct sense of crisis loomed in Su Tu's heart like a shadow slowly pressing down.
If not for Zhang Meng's sudden appearance, he might have already become one of these missing persons.
This sense of 'luck' was very displeasing to Su Tu.
Monster under the unknown shadow, constantly hunting people, he seemed like the only 'prey' in a horror movie who knew the truth.
Watching helplessly as the monster hunted, then powerless to struggle, waiting for death....
In this situation, calling the police was useless. Without the system prompt, he wouldn't have known something existed under the shadow. With over a dozen disappearances, he didn't believe the police had not suspected any connection between the cases. Thus, Su Tu deduced that the police might not even be able to see that monster.
Rushing to the police station to report would do him no good but drag him into the vortex.
He had another option.
"I'll go find Feiyang Ge tomorrow and ask, he's not ordinary."
Su Tu thought about Lin Feiyang's performance, the person definitely was not ordinary, might know some secrets, might be able to help him.
And for now, the most important thing... was to wash up and sleep.
Going to sleep at twelve sharp was Su Tu's unchanging habit over the past eighteen years; Chen Xi said he seemed like an antique about health care.
"Just don't know if health care counts as a skill..."
The next morning, Su Tu, wearing his school uniform, was running on the streets.
He wanted to get stronger in the shortest time, the route from school to home could be used to grind 'Body Strengthening' proficiency.
In about ten minutes, Su Tu arrived at the school gate, looked at the distance.
Running five kilometers from home to school, yet Su Tu didn't even break a sweat.
[You've finished a short run, Body Strengthening Proficiency +3]
[Body Strengthening (Initial Tier): 233/300]
"As expected, the proficiency gained decreased, estimated by the time it reaches Middle Tier, it'll be like Spiritual Wisdom, increasing proficiency by one point at a time."
Previously, running from home to school could gain him 10 proficiency points, but now it was only 3 points.
Standing at the school gate, Su Tu's 1.81-meter height was quite eye-catching at this age, with sword-like eyebrows, starry eyes, and a high nose bridge; the sunlight shining on him made him look like he walked out of a movie.
Many young girls had their eyes faintly sweeping over Su Tu.
Though he kept a low profile at school, his grades and looks were too outstanding to go unnoticed. From first year to second year, nearly every day someone confessed or showed affection to him, but Su Tu always turned them down gently.
The most exaggerated time was when snacks secretly stuffed into his desk could feed a class of 'pigs'.
Reached the second semester of third year, everyone was busy studying, and things finally quieted down a bit.
In the grocery shop at the gate, two girls were quietly observing him.
One of the girls wore a white dress, with big watery eyes that seemed to talk, her slightly chubby baby face was very cute. She held a piece of paper filled with words, looking at the not-far-away Su Tu, with little stars seemingly twinkling in her eyes.
"Ah, hurry up, if you don't try now, we'll graduate soon. With your idol's grades, he might go to New Star for university." Her best friend encouraged her softly.
"But, I'm afraid he'll reject me.." the girl's voice was soft and gentle.
"Afraid of nothing, if you can't win, then drug him, if you can't be the bride, be the mother of his child!!" the girl's friend said with boldness.