The Great Worm Lich

Due to Sheila’s previous words and Zhang Lisheng’s silence, the atmosphere on the table became very weird and heavy.

Amidst the silence, Tina habitually moved her plate near her boyfriend. Trish hesitated for a moment and then put her remaining fried meat and boiled eggs into the plate in front of Zhang Lisheng. Sheila, on the other hand, contributed half of a steamed fish.

“I’ve eaten some grilled meat so I’m not so hungry anymore,” Looking at the chowder in front of him, Zhang Lisheng muttered but his hand still continued to pick up the fork and forked three to four pieces of fried meat at one time and put it in his mouth.

When he was staying on Shrimp B1 Island, he would usually be less polite than when he was in New York, being more straightforward instead.

Looking at the young man’s table manners that could be basically said as rude, the few unfamiliar diners on the same table exchanged looks at each other. The young girl, who had a distinctly squared-face but with the facial features of a typical Western beauty, asked in a peculiar tone, “Mr. Zhang Lisheng, I heard from Tina that you’re the temporary host of Stanford University’s biological laboratory on Shrimp B1 Island?”

“Yes.”

“How long have you not eaten?”

“Well, I’ve eaten enough but it’s just that it’s always barbecue only in the jungle and the taste is strange. It kind of makes me lose my appetite,” Zhang Lisheng shrugged and said.

“Then you have been staying in the jungle for more than one month already? Is that true?”

“Yes, it’s actually not that difficult if you’re experienced.”

“We also have plans to go to the jungle for exploration, but those guides are only willing to take us for a walk in the jungle around us that is no more than 20 kilometers from the gathering place. This won’t even take up two days at all! It’s hard for me to imagine that you can actually still return safely after staying for so long in the jungle!”

“My luck has always been good,” Zhang Lisheng said casually.

“Or you’re bragging.” The young woman suddenly laughed. At once, the few friends, who were familiar with her, suddenly became stunned and burst out laughing as well. Of course, the person who laughed the loudest was none other than that Mr. Robin.

Zhang Lisheng, who was suddenly mocked, was also inexplicably stunned as well. Frowning, he suddenly asked with a smile, “Sheila, do these people who are having dinner with us have any other companions on the island?”

“Avril, you better shut up and apologize to Lisheng!” Tina could hear the chilliness in her boyfriend’s tone. She first snapped at the girl angrily and then proceeded to grip Zhang Lisheng’s hand tightly. “Baby, she’s still a kid! She may be younger than you so she doesn’t know what she’s talking about…”

“Yeah, I’m just 19 years old and I don’t know what I said. I don’t even know how to apologize!” The young girl, who did not realize how dangerous the situation was, responded with a wink. Actually, she just wanted to take revenge on the impertinent remarks made by Sheila about her friends just now.

Sensing that Tina’s hand was shaking slightly, Zhang Lisheng’s smiling face slowly turned expressionless. However, the chilliness in his tone disappeared without a trace. “Avril, you know, there are only two women on this world who can stop my anger. You’re very lucky that right now, one of them is pleading for you. How about this? I’ll show you a little magic and you’ll know why I can live in the jungle on Shrimp B1 Island for so long. And then, you can decide whether you want to apologize to me later or not.”

Then, with his thought, he commanded Ghostface to crawl up to his finger from his shorts’ pocket and leap up onto the table.

The spider that was the size of a baby’s fist with four heads behind it was already horrifying enough. The moment the wizard gu appeared, it stopped the laughter on the table right away.

Then, Avril and her few friends, with great bafflement, watched Ghostface crawl across the table and suddenly jump up towards the hall of the Hilton Hotel lobby. Slowly, it crawled on the wall as easy as it was walking on the ground to a dark place where the grape light could not reach, exposing only an extremely blurred outline.

“Do you see that aborigine on the street?” Avril, who was already so scared by the big spider that she could no longer speak, suddenly saw the pale young Asian man in front casually turn around to point at an aborigine walking alone on the street in the distance and asked, “Do you believe me, Miss Avril, that I can make him disappear just like that?”

Upon hearing this sentence, the girl seemed to understand something. A great uneasiness crept upon her face. As she was just about to say something, she suddenly realized that the aborigine, who had just been pointed at by Zhang Lisheng, had disappeared without a trace.

In the human gathering place on Shrimp B1 Island, it was not a surprise to see an aborigine walking around the streets at night. In the absence of special attention, it was indeed hardly noticeable when a midget, with a height of less than 120 centimeters, walking alone, suddenly vanished.

Other than the woman wearing revealing clothes, who just so happened to have brushed across the aborigine just now, who had been stunned for a moment as she looked around while rubbing her eyes, with a baffled expression on her face, it did not attract anyone else’s attention.

However, Avril, who was especially reminded by Zhang Lisheng, was very clear where the aborigine went. Staring at the faintly visible head wrapped tightly by the spider’s silk, twisting and shouting with a contorted face as it was slowly being swallowed, she wanted to scream but her mouth was so dry that she could barely open it at all. Her heart almost leapt out of her chest as well.

Time seemed to have passed for a long time, but it also seemed to have only passed for just two to three minutes. The girl, who felt that perhaps she was merely having a terrible nightmare, was suddenly awakened by a calm voice. “Now, do you plan to apologize, Miss Avril? Or perhaps you’d like to have a walk on the street and suddenly disappear as well?”

At that instant, Zhang Lisheng’s demon-like performance had completely shattered Avril’s mental being. Slumping down on the wooden chair, her entire body trembled as tears continued to gush out silently from both of her eyes. With a hoarse voice, she begged, “I’m sorry! I’m sorry, sir! I’m truly sorry! Please forgive me! Please! Please forgive…”

“Alright, given that you’ve already understood how lucky you and your ‘little companions’ are, you may leave now!” Zhang Lisheng commanded Ghostface that had already swallowed the aborigine to shrink again and appear from the air by hanging from its silk thread. Then, it slid down onto his collar before slowly crawling into his shorts’ pocket.

The group of strangers on the same table no longer dared to talk nonsense. Staggeringly, they ran out of the open-air restaurant and even pushed the hotel waiters away, who had walked up to them, in a lack of composure.

When Trish saw the way they tumbled and staggered as they ran away, she sighed with an awkward expression on her face. “Lisheng, it’s only a small matter. Why did you need to do such a horrifying thing? It’s said that every corner of this island is under surveillance and aren’t you afraid of this matter blowing up?”

“The surveillance cameras on the streets are actually very obvious and can’t escape my eyes. On top of that, there may not be any surveillance cameras at all here in the Hilton Hotel given that they’ve just been recently remodeled.”

“It’s enough Trish. He has only killed one aborigine anyway. We’ve personally witnessed Lisheng killed several thousands of them when we were on Elizabeth Holiday last time. Let’s talk about ‘forever young’, shall we? Recently, I’ve started to have faint wrinkles at the corner of my eyes and this is just too terrifying! We Caucasians age faster and God is really unfair…”

“Sorry, Sheila, if you already have wrinkles now, I’m afraid ‘forever young’ will not be able to save you too…” As Zhang Lisheng was speaking, several waiters came over and cleaned the table before serving the few main dishes that he ordered.

The young man closed his mouth and waited for the waiter to leave as the waiter said, “Sir, please enjoy your meal.”

Then, he continued to go on as he chowed down on the food, “After transplanting the Gold Core fragment, the age would be fixed at about two to three years older than your age right now. If you already have wrinkles now, it won’t make much difference anymore.”

“How can it not make much difference? Having one wrinkle and having 100 wrinkles are completely different! Older than my age by two to three years should be around 25 years old then. That is the most fascinating golden age of a woman! Oh Lisheng, you’re basically a living angel.”

“Thank you for your praise, Sheila. But so far, there are only two humans who had tested the human transplantation for the Gold Core before. Not only that, but they’re also a pair of brother and sister with very high genetic matching scores. Even though they’ve succeeded…”

“Lisheng, are you talking about Professor Steven and Professor Effiny?” Tina asked in surprise.

“That’s right, Tina! My crazy supervisor and his sister,” the young man replied before going silent for a while. Then, he continued to add, “In fact, the most critical part for the Gold Core fragment transplantation and the success in formulating the stabilizer is entirely the result of his desperation, fervor, and hard work that had been trying to squeeze out all of his potential. It’s completely a miracle that he could succeed in this research at all. What I’ve been doing is that I’ve been optimizing the ‘stabilizer’ in Tudenan for more than two months now. I’ve been perfecting its improvement law and also let it become more in line with the genetic characteristics of the organisms on the foreign world in passing. So far, it has achieved good results but the success rate is only about 20% when I carried out the experiments on the aborigines.”

“Oh, in that case, it’s better for me to wait patiently for a few more years then. Please let me know when the success rate reaches 100 percent, dear Lisheng!” Sheila, who was by the side, was baffled for a moment before saying disappointedly.

“Sheila, we’re talking about the transmutation of life! It’s basically impossible for me to reach a success rate of 100% ever! However, I’ll definitely find a way to help you succeed but of course, all of this needs time!” Zhang Lisheng replied with a smile.

“I’ll thank you in advance then, baby! If you need, tonight, Tina and I can help you ‘relax’,” Sheila smiled sweetly.

“There’s no need for that, Sheila, I can deal with it myself.” When Tina heard her best friend start to tease her boyfriend half truthfully, she grinned and said annoyingly.

At this moment, the smartest thing that a man could do was just to remain silent, the same went to a lucky wizard as well.

Zhang Lisheng pretended to have heard nothing and just finished the food on the table. After downing a large cup of cold Coke, he sighed comfortably and suddenly heard Tina, who had finished bickering with Sheila, asking him, “Baby, we still have less than ten days before our semester starts. Will you take us to the jungle tomorrow?”