Starting as a dockworker

Chapter 16: The Invisibility Spell Leads to Heavy Casualties!

"What method can you come up with?"

Seeing that only a laborer had come out, most people were skeptical.

"Young man, tell me quickly."

Huang Shoucai showed no disgust and immediately came over, looking at Li Xiao with anticipation.

He's desperate now, so he's willing to try anything as long as it seems plausible.

Upon seeing the rice shop owner, Li Xiao was startled.

The other person had sunken eyes and a pale face. Even though he was wearing a padded jacket, you could still feel the chill emanating from his body. Li Xiao closed his eyes slightly and found that his life fire was turbid and would be extinguished by a gust of wind.

"Simple. If this rat demon is really inside and we can't find it, it must have used some kind of demonic magic to conceal itself, that is... invisibility. Just sprinkle some white powder in the house, and it will definitely appear!"

This is what Li Xiao discovered after pondering it.

The last memory of [The Ragged Shoes] is that Ah Qi silently disappeared into the darkness.

When the tide disappeared, the green flames flashed by in an instant and then vanished without a trace.

My spiritual power allows me to see the life force through walls.

This means that the rat demon has a way to conceal its form and even the existence of its life-giving fire.

Upon hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up.

Yes, it's such a simple method, yet no one could have thought of it!

Two hundred dollars just slipped through my fingers!

"Great idea!"

Huang Shoucai was overjoyed upon hearing this and immediately ordered his workers to fetch flour from the kitchen.

Strangely, the rice shop assistants did not move for a moment after hearing their master's order.

It wasn't until Manager Huang shouted, "Hurry up and go!" that several employees immediately ran off.

The Huang family employs over a hundred people, so naturally they have plenty of flour in the kitchen; they took more than a dozen bags of flour.

Under the lure of a hefty reward, several guards took flour and threw it on the ground.

Under the generous reward, several guards carried the flour into the house.

From the first floor to the second floor, every corner was carefully sprinkled with white flour.

Surprisingly, this method actually worked.

A short while later, noises could be heard inside.

"It's here!"

The person who made the sound was probably Zhao Liqun.

Soon, the sounds of fighting erupted from inside, with furniture clattering to the ground, maids screaming, and guards groaning all mixed together.

The whole house seemed to be shaking.

The sound lasted for about half a minute.

A loud cracking sound was heard!

A second-floor window was broken open, and something covered in flour and blood flew out.

Zhao Liqun's head popped out of the window, a trickle of blood at the corner of his mouth, clearly indicating he was injured. He shouted, "Grab it! It took a punch from me, it can't go far!"

Bang!

The thing crashed to the ground with a heavy thud, and only then could everyone see what it looked like.

The mixture of flour and blood outlined the shape of a half-grown rat, about half a meter tall. Under the moonlight, this eerie scene was truly chilling.

"Rat demon! Beat it up!"

At the command of the burly man with a thick beard, ten soldiers raised their guns and fired.

Bang bang bang bang bang! ! !

Gunshots rang out in the darkness, echoing through the night.

The big rat ran so fast that the bullets all landed behind its escape route.

"Huang Shoucai, this great immortal has helped your Huang family for so many years, and you want to wipe them out completely?!"

The rat actually spoke human language, its voice sounding like a baby crying.

Immediately, it rushed towards a sparsely populated area.

The remaining men and guards tried to encircle them with nets, but at that moment, a large swarm of black rats appeared out of nowhere and pounced on them from all directions, tearing at them.

There were so many rats, they were densely packed together. You have to understand, this is a rice store, storing a large amount of rice. Heaven knows how many rats were kept in the granary.

These rats usually hide from people and seem to obey the rat demon. Each rat is terribly fat, about four inches in size, and when they pounce on a person, they bite a bloody hole.

"Aaaaaah!!!"

Painful screams erupted from the crowd, and instantly many people were killed or injured, creating a chaotic scene.

No one cared about the rat demon anymore; everyone was busy chasing away the large rats on their bodies.

As for Li Xiao, he's long gone...

After he finished explaining his idea, he retreated to the back of the crowd.

Then I felt a large number of tiny flames densely approaching this direction.

When he saw that Zhao Liqun was injured, he realized that this rat demon was no ordinary creature.

Sensing something was wrong, Li Xiao immediately slipped away.

"I won't make this money, I'm leaving..."

At this moment, Li Xiao had almost reached the entrance of the rice shop and was about to leave the Huang family.

But at that moment, he felt a chill down his spine.

Turning my head, I saw it was that big rat from before... a rat demon!

Li Xiao was startled and pushed off with his feet, running even faster!

"Junior brother, don't run away!"

The rat demon made a sound from behind.

"Holy crap, is he talking to me?!"

Li Xiao felt a chill run down his spine. He exerted all his strength, and the tattered cloth shoes proved incredibly effective, greatly increasing his speed.

But suddenly, something pounced on Li Xiao's shoulder.

Turning his head, he saw it was the Rat Demon.

Its face was smeared with blood, making it look like a large rat.

This startled Li Xiao greatly, and he was about to forcefully shake him off.

"Stop running away, I have something to tell you!"

The rat demon said solemnly, "I've regained some of my senses and won't harm you! We're both disciples and grand-disciples of the Goddess of Fragrant Mountain; I'm your senior brother!"

Lady Xiangshan... Fate-telling Granny... Rat Demon...

Several words raced through Li Xiao's mind, and he quickly pieced together the logic.

The fortune teller lived in Xiangshan Village, and the woman she dreamed of must be the Xiangshan Goddess.

The magic of closing one's eyes to observe fire was bestowed by the goddess.

No wonder the fortune teller didn't get involved here; she was also connected to the rat demon.

Li Xiao's fear lessened somewhat, and he stopped in his tracks: "Senior brother, what do you want to say to me...?"

"Avenge me!"

The rat demon gritted its teeth and said, "I should have completely lost my humanity and fallen into darkness during my transformation into a demon... But just now, I exhausted three hundred years of cultivation to injure the three martial artists who captured me. Now I have regained my senses, but I will soon die. All of this is the work of Huang Shoucai. He caused me to fall into demonhood and even tried to kill me. What an ungrateful wretch!"

Li Xiao said, "Senior brother, I'll do my best! Is there anything else?"

"That's all. This is the only one. I didn't harm Miss San; I even saved her life back then..."

The rat demon, feeling guilty, said, "As for your companions, don't blame me, at that time I was barely conscious, only thinking about eating people and turning into a demon..."

As it spoke, it jumped off Li Xiao's shoulder and, right in front of Li Xiao, began to peel off its own rat skin, tearing it off bloodily.

The rat demon lost its invisibility after shedding its rat skin, revealing a large, blood-soaked rat standing about half a meter tall with round, black eyes.

It appeared extremely weak, unable to stand steadily, and knelt on the ground, weakly saying:

"Tonight I only intended to scare Huang Shoucai a little so he would obey me in the future, but who knew his men would be so powerful, and that one of them could even see through my invisibility technique..."

Hearing this, Li Xiao felt a little guilty.

It was he who saw through the rat demon's invisibility technique...

The rat demon took a breath and continued:

"Junior brother, I've lost three hundred years of cultivation and taken a punch from that powerful martial artist. I can't walk back to Fragrant Mountain alive. Besides seeking revenge, help me bring my body back to Fragrant Mountain for burial... This rat skin is a spiritual treasure that I spent three hundred years refining. I'm giving it to you as a reward..."

"Tell my mother that I have let her down..."

As soon as he finished speaking, it stopped breathing and lay motionless on the ground.

The rat demon was completely dead!

"This rat demon... is inherently good and understands human nature!"

Li Xiao was startled, and a sense of sorrow arose in his heart.

Even at the very end, the rat demon couldn't bear to kill the third young lady he had once protected.

Even if the third young lady's father was the culprit who killed him....

Li Xiao sighed deeply, his gaze falling on the rat skin.

The rat's skin had revealed its true form, with its black fur stained with flour and blood.

The mouse fur shimmered with a velvety green light...

This is a piece of painstaking effort!