The Great Worm Lich

When the aborigine from the supernatural realm threatened Zhang Lisheng, it was already long noticed by the tall and strong young man dressed in cowboy style clothes beside him and an officer in charge of monitoring the gathering place that was strict inside but lenient outside.

However, the tall and strong young man felt that the scene of a midget with a height of only 120 to 130 centimeters threatening an Earthling who was three to four heads taller than him was ridiculous, on top of the fact that Zhang Lisheng was a stranger, he did not show any intention of helping at all.

The gathering place’s garrison officer, on the other hand, adhered to the neutral attitude that the highest commander had always practiced. He would not interfere unless irreversible major bloodshed took place, so he had no intention to help the young man as well.

At this time, when the monitoring officer saw the aborigine with the feather retreating with a look of fear, he unwittingly showed a look of contemplation.

The tall and strong young man, on the other hand, immediately chuckled as he pointed at the retreating aborigine with his bleeding finger while calling out to his girlfriend by his side. “Look, Christine! That midget bared his teeth in a ferocious manner but was actually a coward at heart. When he saw that he could not scare anybody, he retreated by himself instead! How funny this is!”

Upon seeing his ridiculing laughter, Zhang Lisheng, who quickly walked away to the distance, suddenly smiled for no reason and muttered to himself, “A funnier thing will happen later…”

Before the young man could finish his words, that aborigine who was originally retreating in fear howled tyrannically and charged barefooted on the sand towards the tall and strong young man who was pointing at him, slamming him onto the ground before swinging his fists violently.

In the face of the sudden attack of the indigenous midget, the tall and strong young man thought that the reason he was knocked down was that he was caught off guard. However, the instant his nose received the punch as he struggled to resist with his entire body while boiling in anger, he realized the midget pressing down on his chest was as heavy as a mountain. When he realized the midget’s skinny and small bird claw-like fingers were as strong as steel tongs, he immediately screamed in horror.

At the huge bunker at a side of the gathering place near the coast, the caramel-colored female officer, who had a set of delicate and beautiful facial features with thick lips wearing the second lieutenant military rank pad on her shoulder grumbled. She was monitoring Zhang Lisheng just now as she leaned on a comfortable black office chair.

She stared at the hundreds of surveillance images on a huge wall-like screen in front of her with an unchanged contemplating look. Exerting force on both of her legs, she rocked her body back and forth with the help of the four wheels on the office chair.

The first lieutenant officer who was pointing his finger on a tablet laptop behind her breathed a sigh of relief and snapped his fingers. Stretching his body out, he said excitedly, “Alison, I’ve finally finished drawing this damn underground plan! What do you want to eat? It’s my treat today…”

Without receiving the enthusiastic response he had been expecting, the young and handsome first lieutenant looked at the black female office in astonishment. “Alison, you…”

With just a glance, he immediately saw that one of the screens of the dense beehive-like surveillance images in front had already been mostly colored with bright red color.

“Oh my God! That man is dying! Alison, you should inform the guards to save him!” the first lieutenant shouted in bafflement.

“It’s alright, Reno. It seems to be a lot of blood because I’ve zoomed the surveillance camera in. That wannabe cowboy will not die. Something is strange about the incident just now. Originally, this One Star Midget was trying to extort a whistle from this Asian kid.” The beautiful caramel-colored second lieutenant pressed the remote control on the handle of the office chair to enlarge a surveillance image.

On the screen, Zhang Lisheng was holding a whistle and was talking to the group of aborigines with hand gestures as though nothing had happened. “In the end, this Asian kid grabbed a handful of sand to put into the One Star Midget’s hand and actually scared the midget so much he almost fled away. I first thought this One Star Midget is the only coward among the aborigines we found these few months and was planning to report to the superior to see whether we can come to a breakthrough, but who knows, the instant this wannabe cowboy pointed at him to mock him, he immediately…”

“It’s not the time for storytelling right now! I know that monitoring the situation of the gathering place and carrying out an emergency response is the job of a duty officer, but Alison, that man is really dying! The reason General Rowling told us to treat these civilians who come to the Shrimp World No. 2 as soldiers is because he wants them to beat a retreat in the face of difficulties but not to watch them die like that. If you don’t do anything about it, you’ll have to answer in the military court!” Upon seeing the female officer’s unhurried manner, the first lieutenant could not help but shout loudly.

“He won’t die! He’d only be disfigured at most! Perhaps he would even thank me for saving his life in the future!” The female second lieutenant mumbled and grabbed the walkie talkie. “A6! A6! An idiot is being beaten at your nine o’clock. A group of people is already gathered right there watching the show, so please go help settle the problem.”

“A6 received! A6 received! Alison, you really can keep your equanimity.” A hearty answer responded from the walkie talkie.

After that, from one of the screens of the surveillance cameras, two fully armed soldiers with sturdy bodies, who were about two meters tall, strode on the beach and came to the place where the conflict took place before howling at the bunch of onlookers, “Please make way, ladies and gentlemen. We’re the soldiers of the gathering place.”

The US citizens who were accustomed to making reports to the professionals to solve the conflicts they faced made their move. Instead of taking the risk to uphold justice by themselves, the onlookers paved the way for the officers the moment they heard that they had arrived.

After the savage aborigines who howled excitedly when they saw the bloody battle received a few hits from the officer’s gun butts, they also recalled the owner of this land and thus quietly dodged to the side.

The two soldiers walked up to the beaten young man with their boots creaking with noise, stepping on the sand and began to roar “dila didi manakeee…” in a simple manner.

The aborigine who had a feather stuck on his head stopped his movement, not daring to continue his fight anymore despite his string of cursing. Stroking the bright feather on his head, he stood up and stretched out his long tongue to lick the blood splattered on his face before strutting away in high air.

After they had chased the aborigines away, the soldiers began to call for medical support. “Somebody is injured at the beach port, at the beach port…”

“Why didn’t you guys come earlier? You already saw my boyfriend getting beaten by the aborigine just now, but why didn’t you come immediately to save him? Why? Tell me why? I’m going to report all of you! I’m going to report all of you!”

Now that the conflict had stopped, the girlfriend of the tall and strong yet dying young man lying on the sand-covered in fresh blood snapped back to reality from her panic and sorrow. She then yelled at the top of her lungs at the two guards.

“You better calm down, miss. An overly overwhelmed emotion in the gathering place can easily cause an accident. Before stepping into this island, I believe all of you have been solemnly warned that you should not show any contempt or hostility to the indigenous people on this land, otherwise, you’d be responsible for any of the accident that takes place. However, your boyfriend has obviously violated this strict rule.”

“B-But, you only needed to roar a few times the instant you appeared and that aborigine immediately stopped! W-Why would you two only showed up when he was about to be beaten to death?”

“It’s because of equilibrium, miss. You only saw us roaring a few times to scare the aborigine away, but you won’t be able to imagine what kind of price the US military needs to pay in order to do this. It’s because of this that such a right cannot be abused easily lest we’d suffer a big loss for a little gain under this coercion policy. The soldiers in the gathering place must always maintain a neutral attitude and even if I get into a conflict with those aborigines when I’m off duty, somebody would only intervene when a heavy casualty is about to appear. I know that perhaps you may not understand the meaning of these words, but I just want to tell you this.” The sturdy soldier roared with a stiff and cold face, “This is not a golden paradise nor a place of opportunity but a dangerous and troublesome place! If you’re smart, it’s better for you to go home immediately after you’ve finished your sightseeing.”

It was apparent that his words were not merely targeting the unfortunate tall and strong young man and his girlfriend. When the soldier was speaking, two officers with strong hands carried a stretcher as they ran to the beach.

“Oh, this young man is really unlucky! To think that he’s already beaten to such a stage before he even walked on the cement. Looks like the back of his head is going to become bald now.” Upon seeing the casualty’s miserable look, the soldiers put on the leather gloves they took out from their pocket before carefully lifting him onto the stretcher and hurriedly pushing him to the infirmary.

When the stretcher passed by Zhang Lisheng who had used several small items he had prepared beforehand to exchange for many supernatural realm’s insects, Maddie, who was beside him, exclaimed in surprise, “My goodness! T-That big fellow wearing the cowboy suit was beaten really bad! It looks like he won’t be able to m-make it out alive anymore!”

“Is that so? Well, he won’t die if it’s just some superficial wounds. The punches of these aborigines are much weaker compared to their teeth.” The young man, who was bartering using a spoon with a beautiful pattern while pointing his right finger at a large brown beetle an aborigine held whose face was covered in white powder with two bright feathers stuck on his head, casually chimed in.

“E-Enough…” The aborigine shook his head in dissatisfaction while pointing at his beetle before showing two fingers. “T-Two…”

“What’s going on with this world? Even the aborigines with a feather on their heads can even bargain in a New York-style English accent already! Okay! Okay! Two! Two!” Zhang Lisheng took out another spoon from his pocket. “It’s fortunate that I haven’t given this out yet.”

Then, he succeeded in trading for the brown beetle held by the aborigine.

“Lisheng, why do I feel as though these aborigines are treating you differently? Could it be that…” Upon seeing the young man trading with the indigenous midget once again in a harmonious and fair manner, Maddie could not help but ask in a whisper, “Could it be that they could sense that you possess an extraordinary powerful strength?”

“Maybe, Maddie. In fact, these indigenous midgets are like the coyotes in the wilderness of Africa. They are greedy and ferocious. Although they know about the horror of the hunters, they still dare to attack those gunless hunters for the sake of a meal. However, they are smart and sly at the same time as well. Even if they see a sleeping lion, they will only keep away and will never get close to it, let alone a Tyrannosaurus,” Zhang Lisheng smiled and had an indescribable expression on his face as he replied.