Chapter 94 – Death Goddess

Unfortunately, there were no results.

Aside from the Crow Deity sect’s nest, the incident location the night before last was just an ordinary house in the countryside around Jiaoyan.

A rural house catching fire naturally didn’t have much news value.

“Strange.”

Lu Yuan closed the web page, his brows furrowing with a deep sense of confusion.

Yellow Bear and Zhou Ling were killed in battle, and the Crow Deity sect’s Divine Servant was also dead.

Logically, Yellow Bear should have traced the incident back to him.

After all, he was a significant participant in this event.

He had even prepared himself for interrogation.

But unexpectedly, neither Yellow Bear nor the police made any move.

Such a major incident had no follow-up at all.

Is that possible?

Lu Yuan couldn’t understand and couldn’t figure out where the problem lay.

In the past few days, Lu Yuan had searched online for a lot of information about the Crow Deity sect.

After filtering, the most reliable and useful information he found was probably the introduction of a certain foreign Deity.

Lamashtu, the Death Goddess in Javier’s folk mythology.

Legend has it that she was born from a crow by the banks of the Underworld River, and her true form is also a crow.

She lingers by the river all day long, and when she transforms into a crow, she can speak human language, guiding those lost souls who are trapped in the river and unable to reincarnate out of their plight.

She often transforms into a beautiful woman, luring some conscious souls into eternal damnation.

She is a capricious Evil Deity.

Lamashtu has many titles. Besides the Death Goddess, she is also known as the Deity of the Malicious Crows and the Deity of the Underworld River.

She represents espionage and the omen of death.

This legendary Deity named “Lamashtu” has abilities and characteristics that are very similar to those of the Crow Deity sect.

Especially when Lu Yuan thought of the crow dream he had experienced, in which he clearly saw a large number of crows transforming into a woman.

“Could it be her?”

Lu Yuan muttered to himself, his face clouded with confusion.

According to the legend, the Death Goddess Lamashtu is at her most dangerous when she transforms into a woman.

Was she trying to lure him when she approached in her female form?

What would have happened if he hadn’t resisted and had gone towards her?

Would he have ended up in eternal damnation, unable to wake up, as the legend suggests?

Lu Yuan didn’t know. He shook his head, deciding not to dwell on such pointless questions.

He reached for his mobile phone, buried in a rice container beside him.

After a day and a night, the dry environment inside the rice container had absorbed the remaining moisture in the phone, and it surprisingly turned on smoothly.

The screen showed numerous unread messages.

Lu Yuan quickly glanced through them.

Ignoring the irrelevant and boring messages, he sent a message to Cheng Yue at the Library, asking her to help him borrow some books about the Death Goddess Lamashtu.

Cheng Yue replied almost immediately.

His message had barely been sent for a second when she responded with an “OK” emoji.

Lu Yuan couldn’t help but smile and chatted with her briefly.

Just as he put down his phone, he heard a clear “tap tap” sound.

Lu Yuan’s expression changed. He got up and quickly walked to the windowsill.

Pulling up the blinds and opening the window, he saw a crow obediently standing on the sill, looking at him.

Instead of opening the window, Lu Yuan activated his [Crow Language] skill, connecting with the crow’s consciousness.

His mind immediately received some fragmented pieces of information and images.

A moment later, Lu Yuan grabbed a handful of rice and scattered it on the windowsill, ordering the crow to “eat and then scout” before returning to his desk.

Yesterday’s setup had started to show some initial results.

The crow assistants he had sent out were beginning to gather information.

Although most of the messages weren’t what Lu Yuan was looking for and could be dismissed at a glance, at least things were progressing.

It was much better than just standing still and waiting.

“Tap… tap…”

Footsteps echoed through the dim and quiet hallway, drawing nearer step by step.

Lu Yuan stood at the corner of the staircase, calmly watching the direction from which the sound was coming.

“One… two… three.”

When he counted to “five,” his expression sharpened, and he leaped down in an instant.

At the very moment he moved, a blinding light erupted from below.

“Boom!”

The floor where Lu Yuan had stood a second ago shattered violently. A pale blue light ball burst through, piercing the floor and the concrete wall behind it, shooting into the deep night sky outside.

Meanwhile, Lu Yuan had already reached the lower part of the stairs.

With a heavy step against the wall behind him, he didn’t hesitate a bit and swiftly pounced towards a figure below, who was holding a gun, its barrel’s light rapidly dimming.

In mid-air, he took a deep breath and threw a punch.

His lean and well-proportioned body suddenly swelled, and the muscles on his right arm rippled like waves.

Layer upon layer.

Finally, all the force gathered at his fist.

“Boom!”

Without any fancy moves, his punch landed heavily on the figure’s head.

The figure didn’t even have time to utter a sound before their body was thrown backward, and their head exploded like a watermelon.

“Crack, crack…”

Lu Yuan stood up from the rubble of broken stones and concrete, exhaling lightly.

His swollen body quickly returned to its original size.

Looking down at No.13, whose face was mangled and who had completely lost the ability to fight, Lu Yuan showed a slight expression of satisfaction.

“15 constitution points, perfect control of twofold burst with [special exertion].

As long as I can dodge the Cyborg’s firepower, taking down an ordinary Yellow Bear member like No.13 with one hit is a given.”

“Even if I can’t dodge, I can at least ensure a one-for-one exchange!”

Lu Yuan instinctively glanced at his chest.

In previous consciousness battles, he had experienced being hit by No.13’s energy beam.

Taking a direct hit had left a gaping hole through his chest and back.

But with the superhuman vitality granted by 15 constitution points, he had managed to throw another punch, killing his opponent even in such a severely injured state.

“Facing ordinary Yellow Bear members is basically a one-hit kill; facing Zhou Ling is much more challenging.”

Lu Yuan had fought Zhou Ling as an imaginary enemy in four or five battles.

He hadn’t won a single one.

The only difference was how badly he lost.

“Zhou Ling’s strength is indeed terrifying. Almost all of his skin, muscles, and bones have been modified.

His martial arts techniques are advanced, and he has a variety of high-tech killing methods!”

In the five battles with Zhou Ling, Lu Yuan had only once managed to get close enough to graze him.

In the other four battles, he was blasted to bits by Zhou Ling’s energy beams before he could even get close.

Fighting this guy was particularly frustrating. Hand-to-hand against a gun was inherently unfair.

Moreover, Zhou Ling’s overall strength was much higher, leaving no room for play.