Chapter 319: [253] The Miraculous Effects of the Bloodthirsty Bead! (Seeking Monthly Tickets, Recommendations, and Support)_1
However, he was kicked out by Xu Jing.
“Xiao Wu has mentioned you quite a few times over the phone. It’s rare for him to talk about a peer that much… Pei Jinye, I’ve heard about you. Even the heir of the Gongsun Family met his end at your hands. It’s truly a waste of your Talent not to join the special operations team.”
Xu Jing spoke bluntly, not at all mistaken like the outside world, which assumed that Gongsun Qianfeng had been killed by Lin Xiawei.
Pei Jinye wasn’t surprised, but he politely declined the idea of joining the special operations team… “Originally, I got in through a school recommendation quota, and I’m going to college next year, so I’m afraid I won’t have the time… To be honest, the seniors in the special operations team are all very strong. I’ve collaborated with them a few times, and I’ve learned a lot. I consider myself to have stronger individual fighting abilities, but when it comes to teamwork, I’m far behind.”
His words were a mix of truth and lies.
Pei Jinye himself didn’t want to give up the stable rhythm of life he had settled into.
Xu Jing fell silent for a while, and seeing his determination, she seemed to abandon the idea.
She pulled out a thumb-sized small mark.
“I don’t have anything valuable to give you; this is my own unique mark. When you are out in the jianghu of Central State and you face difficulties, most people will give me some face… If they really don’t show any respect, you still have the support of the secretary-general.”
Surprised by these words, Pei Jinye looked over.
He hadn’t expected Ms. Xu Jing to know even this much.
Xu Jing chuckled softly: “That person went directly to the Gongsun Family, pressing them to guarantee several times that they won’t make a move against you…”
As she spoke, she suddenly noticed the change in Pei Jinye’s expression and couldn’t help but say doubtfully, “You don’t know?”
Pei Jinye shook his head blankly.
He truly didn’t know.
Xu Jing looked at him in amazement, “I even thought for a moment that you were a junior member of that person’s family. To go to such lengths, he really has a lot of affection for you.”
Pei Jinye slowly came back to his senses.
Xu Jing whispered, “One Gongsun Family is nothing. In the future… You will see the real powerhouses, one after another, unmatched in this world. Perhaps there will also be a day when your name is known throughout the land.”
“You flatter me too much, Jing sister,” Pei Jinye responded “modestly.”
Xu Jing looked at his eagerness and couldn’t help but smile and shake her head: “I’m usually not in the group, so no matter how big of a mess you and Xiao Wu create, I will not intervene… Before the results occur, I think you two already understand what this means… Since you’ve done it, you must learn to bear the consequences.”
“Understood.”
…
After leaving the office.
The sunlight outside the window was particularly dazzling, and he squinted slightly.
Warning information had appeared about his parents… Someone had set their sights on them.
It was the Gongsun Family’s people before, and he killed the people from the Gongsun Family.
Now, unexpectedly… Someone else had come looking.
“What are you thinking about?” Gu Wutong came over with a huge sword, walking from the corridor.
“The sunlight is too glaring,” Pei Jinye said nonchalantly as he lifted his hand to shield himself from the light, the coldness in his eyes already hidden away, “I didn’t expect you to come from such a significant background.”
Gu Wutong yawned indifferently: “I didn’t meet my mom often, and I just found out today that she’s the deputy leader of this base.”
Pei Jinye: “…”
“Shall we go practice?” Gu Wutong invited.
“There’s something in the team, maybe next time,” Pei Jinye directly declined.
Seeing this, Gu Wutong had no choice but to give up.
After greeting Brother Bi, Pei Jinye quickly left the base in a low-key manner.
What he didn’t expect was that his elderly folks weren’t targeted maliciously; they were inadvertently marked by a Variant Blood Individual.
…
“Bang!”
In the alleyway.
Sun Xin’s head slammed hard against the wall.
Blood flowed into his mouth, as if evoking his primal beastly instincts, and his face suddenly morphed into a green, fanged visage.
But before he could lunge for a bite.
Pei Jinye’s fingers curled into a fist, like a punch forged in a steel furnace, and hit the other’s face hard.
Teeth shattered and blood sprayed wildly in a moment.
A single punch turned the other back into human form.
“Hiss ah!”
Pei Jinye, expressionless, grabbed Sun Xin’s hair, pulling him up from the ground. The scalp tearing pain made him sharply inhale, and he regained his senses as well.
“Bro, I was wrong… I was really wrong, bro… I won’t eat people anymore,” he said.
Pei Jinye watched him with interest.
Digesting directly could grant a piece of Transcendence.
But…
He took out the Bloodthirsty Bead.
If the other party was already a Variant Blood Individual… would there be other effects?
A crimson light burst forth from the Bloodthirsty Bead all at once.
Pei Jinye didn’t want to draw other people’s attention, so he sealed off this section of the alley.
Naturally, Sun Xin’s screams didn’t carry beyond it.
And then…
He turned into nothing but a skeleton, just like the young swordsman from last night… Unfortunately, the body seemed to have had a rejection reaction; suddenly, the skeleton shattered into dust.
Pei Jinye hurried forward, wanting to devour his life force at the last moment.
But as soon as his hand touched it… the skeleton had already turned to dust and dissipated.
“Mad!”
Pei Jinye cursed under his breath.
He had missed a Variant Blood Individual.
But why have there been suddenly so many Variant Blood Individuals appearing in Da Peng City recently?
He suspiciously withdrew his gaze.
Just as Pei Jinye was about to put away the Bloodthirsty Bead, he was surprised to find… the bloodline inside the bead had risen by one fifth.
“So this guy’s blood energy was devoured and stored?”
His disappointment was slightly alleviated.
Picking up the Bloodthirsty Bead, a warm flow entered him.
Because of his Transcendent Talent from the Crimson Series, he didn’t have to worry too much now.
He felt it for a moment.
Pei Jinye had an estimate in his heart.
“Currently, nearly 20 Vitality Points are stored…”
“No… that brat was just a piece of trash, his spiritual power was only about 10 points, could his Vitality Value be 20 Vitality Points?”
As he thought about it, Pei Jinye realized he still lacked understanding of the Bloodthirsty Bead.
He immediately employed his ability of Heavenly Calculation and began to search online for theories related to the body’s Vitality.
For an ordinary person, this might require reading several hours or even dozens of hours of literature, but for Pei Jinye… it only took a few seconds, and he had already browsed through all the relevant literature.
“So it seems… even though my attribute panel is showing over sixty Vitality Points, this doesn’t represent all the Vitality in my body… The body is like a sieve, and Vitality is constantly being consumed… The blood in the entire body has not been fully refined, so… the Vitality devoured, transformed, and stored by the Bloodthirsty Bead is the entirety of the other person’s body! This belongs to… the Human Body Leak-Funnel System!”
“That said, I hit the jackpot!”
Pei Jinye’s eyes lit up slightly.
“Being able to devour, transform, and store all of the peak Vitality from the human body’s current state… This also ensures that I don’t have to bear the part that the other person consumed. If the other person’s Vitality Value was fifty Vitality Points, then the actual Vitality Points to be transformed would only be more!”
His gaze fell…
He looked at the author of the “Human Body Leak-Funnel System.”
“Professor Li Zezhen… Does he also live in Da Peng City?”
Pei Jinye thought for a moment and decided to contact him.
The introduction of the Leak-Funnel System didn’t seem to be widely popularized on the internet, but Pei Jinye felt that this system… seemed to have a significant connection with martial arts.
He glanced at the time.
11:17 AM.
…
…
11:50 AM.
The class bell rang at Da Peng City University of Technology and Science.
“Professor Li.”
Professor Li Zezhen, who had just announced the end of the class and was getting ready to leave, suddenly saw a strange young man at the door, wearing black-framed glasses… This made Li Zezhen involuntarily think of himself when he went north to study and waited for his mentor outside the classroom door.
He nodded in acknowledgement and hesitantly said, “Hello…”
The young scholar held a book in his hand, “Professor Li, I accidentally came across your book and have some questions I’d like to ask you.”
Li Zezhen took the book and saw his own work from five years ago, “Human Body Leak-Funnel System,” and was momentarily lost in thought.
When he wrote this book five years ago, he thought he would leave a significant mark in the world of scientific research, but it was quickly met with a lot of criticism from experts and scholars.
He felt a pang of nostalgia.
“This book shouldn’t be on the market anymore, right?”
“That’s right,” the young scholar acknowledged, “My sister was also your student back then, this book was hers, and now she has given it to me.”
“Who is your sister?” Li Zezhen opened the book cover and saw a name called Xue Yuting, he vaguely remembered, but the memory was somewhat fuzzy, “Sorry, I’ve taught too many students, I can’t quite remember your sister.”
“It’s okay… Professor, are you free at noon? I would like to invite you for a meal and talk about the contents of the book… I know some things about you, but I think time will give a fair answer.” The young scholar seemed genuinely interested in discussing.
Li Zezhen hesitated for a moment, but since students were looking on behind him, he closed the book and spoke softly, “Follow me.”
…
In a casual dining restaurant off campus.
The young scholar’s offer to pay only made Li Zezhen chuckle softly, “I’ll treat you, it’s rare to find someone with such interest. How old are you?”
“I’m 21 this year… Where is your sister working now?”
“After graduation, she went to the Southern Continent to continue her studies and further education.” The young scholar answered all questions, then took out the book again, “Professor, you mentioned… that the body is like a leak-funnel, and when I read that, I had some thoughts.”
“What are you thinking? You can share, and we can discuss it.”
“Medical proof has shown that as people reach middle and old age, Vitality declines… The period of youth is the peak of Vitality… According to your theory, even at its peak, does the body of a young adult continuously lose Vitality?”
“Exactly,” Li Zezhen clearly became more talkative than before, “Because of the existence of Extraordinary-Human Genes, the mysteries of the human body have not yet been thoroughly researched, even to this day… In terms of Vitality, the body is like a leak-funnel. Strictly speaking, Vitality is always escaping every moment.
But don’t worry, even though it’s escaping, as long as we eat healthily and exercise more, the rate of loss will slow down…”
Just then.
There was a knock on the door…