LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 75: White Toad
When Lee Mei looked up and saw Sun Hai with his bald head and Lin Fan, a teenager, she wailed louder.
What was Qing Feng sect thinking?
Sending these two to help investigate.
"My wife's traumatized, hope you don't mind," Low Fang Bai said and gave an awkward laugh.
"Why don't we settle in for dinner and discuss the details of the case?"
Constable Leong interjected to try and make things less awkward.
"Yes, dinner. How rude of me. I'll get the servants to serve dinner now," Low Fang Bai clapped his hands and the servants standing by the side got to work.
Low Fang Bai weirdly didn't seem anxious about his son, Lin Fan thought.
"Can I have a look at your son's footwear?" Lin Fan asked.
"You can start after dinner..."
"Let me fetch my son's footwear for you," Lee Mei ignored her husband and went to the back.
When she came out, she had a pair of kids' shoes, for around the age of five.
"Here, he only wore them once during New Year last year. Oh, my poor son..." Lee Mei passed the shoes over to Lin Fan and started to cry again.
Lin Fan held the shoes in his hands, and unknown to everyone else, he activated his Hunter Instinct ability.
He could then see illuminated footsteps on the ground.
Footsteps belonging to adults and those of a five-year-old kid.
The surprising thing was that the kid had not left the house recently.
At least for the past eight hours, that's the maximum his Hunter Instinct ability could track.
"Can't figure out much from this. We will keep a lookout for your son."
Lin Fan said and kept his findings to himself.
He passed the shoes back to Lee Mei, who looked at him with a disappointed look.
What was she thinking, putting all her hopes on a teenager?
"Let's eat first," Constable Leong invited them to eat when the first dish was out.
He then briefed them on the details.
For the past month, kids had suddenly started to disappear, often near the woods.
Some of the villagers thought it must have been the Mountain God being displeased with their offerings.
They'd even set up a huge praying ceremony to the Mountain God, offering lambs and oxen in return for not grabbing their kids.
But it had no effect; the kids still went missing.
That's when the villagers put up a bounty for Qing Feng sect to come and help.
"We will go into the woods tonight. See if we can find anything," Lin Fan proposed his plan.
"At night?" Constable Leong asked.
"If the kids went missing in broad daylight, whatever was kidnapping them isn't nocturnal. We can surprise it if we go at night."
Lin Fan gave his rationale and those at the dinner table started to change their impression of him.
The reasoning was sound, and Sun Hai agreed with Lin Fan.
...
Nightfall.
After a sumptuous meal, Sun Hai and Lin Fan made their way into the woods.
Constable Leong stayed behind as backup, just in case.
"I think that there's something going on with the village head," Lin Fan said as they ventured into the thick foliage.
"You think so?" Sun Hai was perturbed by Lin Fan's finding.
"He isn't too anxious about his kid missing, something fishy about him."
"Come to think of it..." Sun Hai recalled how Low Fang Bai behaved earlier and said, "You're right."
"Let's focus on this first. We'll get to him later," Sun Hai added.
They wandered into the woods for an hour until they reached somewhere different.
The bushes were flattened, the water in the pond beside it was dark red.
Blood and bones were strewn all over the area.
From the size of the bones, it was obvious they were bones of children.
"Bastard!" Sun Hai cried out in anger when he saw the scene.
"Watch out!" Lin Fan pushed Sun Hai aside when his Rabbit's Hearing detected something coming out of the water.
Thump!
A big white-colored toad landed where Sun Hai was standing.
A familiar sound erupted in Lin Fan's mind.
[Ding!]
[Detected soul with malevolent intent incoming!]
[Terminate White Toad with malevolent intent for 100 vengeance points.]
Lin Fan took out his hammers and smashed at the toad.
The toad turned and with its hind legs kicked at Lin Fan instead.
Clang!
Lin Fan blocked at the last minute and his body slid backward for a few meters.
The toad then squirted out some sticky liquid at Lin Fan.
Using his Magnificent Leap, Lin Fan leaped to the side, dodging all the liquid.
When the liquid landed on the bushes and ground, white steam came out and the bushes burned.
The liquid was corrosive and flammable.
"Disgusting animal!" Sun Hai roared as he lunged at the white toad.
Thud.
His punch met with the white toad's back and the toad only startled.
Sun Hai pulled another punch, and it was the same.
The back of the white toad was too hard even for Sun Hai.
Sun Hai went for the soft belly next.
With a side kick, he aimed for the white toad's belly, but the toad turned and gave him a kick with its hind legs.
"Let me deal with it!" Lin Fan cried out, and with his hammers he came down hard onto the toad.
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
He rained down the Yang smash one after another on the white toad's back.
Even though its back was hard, it couldn't deflect all the kinetic force that Lin Fan was raining down with his hammers.
All the Yang Qi that had gone into the white toad's body created havoc within.
It tried to jump back into the water but couldn't as Lin Fan, with the Yang Qi on one hand and Yin Qi on the other, performed the Yin Yang Cross Smash on the white toad.
With the Yang Qi and Yin Qi meeting within, they stirred, and a violent reaction ensued.
Boom!
The white toad exploded like a balloon.
Innards and flesh splattered all over the place.
Lin Fan blocked with his hammers but some of it still got to him.
Tainting his new robes.
A familiar sound then erupted in Lin Fan's mind.
[Ding! Congratulations on terminating malevolent intent.]
[Vengeance points + 100.]
[Current Vengeance Points: 330]
330 vengeance points, still a long way to go for the next upgrade, Lin Fan thought as he saw the information panel.
"This white toad must be the culprit," Sun Hai said, as he inspected something on the ground under the moonlight.
Lin Fan went over and took a look.
It was a kid's finger.