Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don t Call Me a Demon! - Chapter 52

Chapter 52: Chapter 50: Reaction

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Yang City.

Nine hundred kilometers south of Mande Region, within a manor in Chan Country’s capital, Yang City.

A group of men and women dressed in traditional Chan Country attire, with serious expressions, sat around a conference table, discussing the recent changes in the Mande Region.

They were members of the Wu Family and held key positions within it.

The Wu Family had migrated to Chan Country from a powerful nation in the north during the war years. They were descendants of a defeated army and had initially conquered a territory with formidable military force. Later, they settled, reproduced, and gradually infiltrated and merged into Chan society. Nowadays, the Wu Family controlled five warlord forces, and Lu Wenbo was just one of the smaller ones.

“According to intelligence from our informants, Wen Bo is dead, and his army has been annihilated. Now the Mande Region is controlled by a power called Jieke Company,” one reported.

Wu Qingjie, the head of the Wu Family, sat at the head of the table. He was about fifty years old, with a decent appearance, and looked like a kind and amiable old man.

“Jieke Company? What’s their background? They were actually able to defeat Wen Bo’s army.”

Someone asked incredulously. Wars were frequent in Chan Country, and the Wu Family had rivals. Mutual attacks were common, and there had been instances of family warlords being annihilated before.

“Their exact origin is unknown, but what is known is that the company is financially strong and has great mobilization capabilities; they easily armed nearly ten thousand warriors.”

Wu Qingjie passed the documents over, then relayed the most crucial piece of information, “Additionally, the owner of Jieke Company is ostensibly a woman named Liu Yingying.”

At these words, the meeting room fell silent, so quiet one could hear a pin drop.

After a long while, someone spoke up with a parched voice, “Chinese… Could it be that the great northern nation wants to make a move on us?”

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Many furrowed their brows, and some felt a nervous urge to urinate, their whole bodies uncomfortable.

Nobody feared retaliation from the great northern nation more than they did. They were deserters themselves, and although they had fled to a foreign land and bullied their way into power using military strength, they knew the power of the northern nation that had caused them to flee in the first place, and that was even more true today.

“You all take a look for yourselves, the way Jieke Company started up; they united the lower-class poor to rise up, enticing with profit and influencing with power. First stirring up public resentment in the Mande Region, then sweeping away the Mande United Army with a thunderous force, and executing Wen Bo publicly to win over the poor, winning the hearts of the Mande Region’s people. These methods, don’t they seem familiar?” Wu Qingjie said gravely as he displayed some documents on a projector.

Gulp!

Someone nervously swallowed their saliva. The more they considered these tactics, the more they resembled the shadow of that great nation.

“Moreover, it’s still unknown how exactly the Mande United Army was annihilated. Our local informants asked the civilians near the barracks. They heard dense gunfire and explosions from the mountains, which stopped after less than half an hour. All sounds disappeared.

We don’t know which military force annihilated the Mande United Army, but looking at the strength of our Chan Country’s warlord forces, even mobilizing an army of ten thousand for a battle that lasts days and nights wouldn’t be strange. Such a clean and decisive fight could only mean it was a one-sided crushing.”

With an expressionless face, Wu Qingjie pulled out a photo. It was the last photo of Liu Yingying giving a speech in Mande City Square.

“This person, there’s definitely a powerful armed force behind her. With her Chinese identity, do I need to say more?”

The meeting room fell into silence again, filled only with the sound of heavy breathing.

Someone bit their teeth in shock and fear, whispering, “How can this be, how can this be? After so many years, why would they still lay hands on us?”

“Have you really thought others were unaware of the business you’ve been doing lately? Aren’t the piglets that mainly come from the north, the ones used in your scam operations? Even I’ve heard about your infamous practice of harvesting kidneys countless times.”

Wu Qingjie slapped the conference table and huffed, “They’re probably warning us now, can’t you see? Stop the business in the scam parks for now.”

“Ah! Patriarch, the scam parks are our most profitable venture at the moment. If we don’t have those piglets, how are we going to maintain the army?”

“Fools, what’s more important, money or life? Let’s wait for this storm to pass. If there is no reaction from the north, we’ll resume work. We have the piglets in our possession, anyways; we can make money anytime.”

“You’re right, Patriarch. I’ll let them shift and avoid the limelight for now. As for the Mande Region…”

“Don’t bother, act as if you haven’t seen anything. As long as the other party makes no further moves, we must not provoke them.”

………..

The power shifts occurring in the Mande Region didn’t attract much attention.

In a country like Chan Country, teeming with warlords, it wasn’t unusual for powers to fight one another, with the newly risen being ousted in no time. The people had grown so accustomed to the changing flags that nobody took it seriously anymore.

With the complete annihilation of the Mande United Army, nothing further hindered the rapid growth of Jieke Company, which steered into the fast lane.

In the Mande Region, with its several hundred thousand inhabitants and over a hundred thousand households, the majority chose to enter into insect breeding agreements with Jieke Company.

Jieke Company supplied the insect species and feed, while the villagers bred Poison Insects, which Jieke Company would buy back upon maturity.

Such a commercial model blossomed everywhere in the Mande Region, simply because it was profitable.

In the past, farming barely earned a few hundred Hua Yuan a month, but after collaborating with Jieke Company, income easily broke through the thousand yuan mark monthly. That was the real reason why villagers eagerly sought partnership with Jieke Company.

Before long, the entire Mande Region was teeming with Insect Breeders.

The Poison Insects and snakes they bred would, in turn, become food for the Thousand-Hand Centipede.

Every day, Poison Insects and snakes were delivered continuously by the ton, to the extent that the Thousand-Hand Centipede, even after gorging until its belly rounded, could only gaze longingly at the mountainous pile of Poison Insects and snakes, unable to finish them, simply unable to consume them all.

Amidst this binge-eating spree, the growth of the Thousand-Hand Centipede was naturally swift.

Especially now that it consumed a variety of Poison Insects, it benefitted from a more balanced diet, allowing the strength of the Thousand-Hand Centipede to surge dramatically, once again entering a Spirit Refining state.

This was the Third Spirit Refining for the Thousand-Hand Centipede. Su Jie, worried about the disturbance it might cause, took the Thousand-Hand Centipede deep into the mountains, silently observing its transformation.

The Spirit Refining evolution took even longer this time. After about ten hours, Su Jie finally saw the solid Insect Cocoon showing signs of reaction.

The giant Insect Cocoon, several meters high and over ten meters long, lit up with a purple glow. Light burst through fissures, the vigorous Spiritual Power fluctuations also surged, sweeping in all directions, forcing Su Jie to retreat a few steps to avoid the intense storm of Spiritual Power.