Zhang San, please behave yourself!
Chapter 450 - 424 - I’m in Charge of Killing, You’re in Charge of Eating!

Chapter 450: Chapter 424 - I’m in Charge of Killing, You’re in Charge of Eating!

As Zhang San noticed some movement around him, a figure emerged from nearby.

Zhang San couldn’t help but startle, because the person approaching was none other than Chu Can.

"How is it you!?"

Chu Can took out a document from his bosom, handed it to Zhang San, and said with a smile, "Got it."

Zhang San immediately opened the document and found that it was indeed a task assigned to Chu Can by the Town Demon Office, instructing Chu Can to find a way to follow Zhang San north and look for an opportunity to assassinate him or find a way to infiltrate the Town Martial Office.

Zhang San then knew that his plan would definitely succeed.

Back when he was at Stone Buddha Temple, Chu Can had come to him expressing a wish to leave the Town Demon Office and join the Town Martial Office.

So later, Zhang San thought of letting Chu Can find an excuse to deal with him as a reason to leave the Town Demon Office, and he had Baili Chengfeng secretly send the message to Chu Can.

This was how Chu Can had managed to leave the Capital today.

After all, on one hand, the Town Martial Office was indeed much stronger than the Town Demon Office, and on the other hand, there was also infighting within the Town Demon Office.

In such a place, Chu Can knew he was currently just a pawn, but there was no telling when he might become cannon fodder.

Especially after he had accidentally seen a document that once mentioned that during the great battle at Fengli Mountain, in order to win, the higher-ups had intentionally sent the local prefecture soldiers and a frequently heroic but underrated unit from the Town Demon Office to their deaths, letting the enemy think no reinforcements were coming and that the large forces had already withdrawn.

Only when the enemy had nearly wiped out the prefecture soldiers and martial artists of the Town Demon Office in the area of Fengli Mountain and had started celebrating did they take the opportunity to encircle them.

In fact, even with a frontal attack, with the strong local prefecture soldiers and the brave martial artists from the Town Demon Office, they could have won decisively.

But the outcome had been set up to use two key units as bait.

When reporting, however, it was claimed that these two units were completely wiped out by the enemy, rather than being used as bait.

Staying any longer in such a place was unnecessarily dangerous.

The sooner he left, the better.

"Chu Can, I’m still being pursued, and this pursuit will continue on the road ahead. So if you come with me, it’s not only dangerous but might also expose us prematurely," Zhang San said.

Chu Can asked, "Then what should we do? Shall I disguise myself as a killer and join them in pursuing you?"

"No need, their threat to me isn’t significant, just troublesome. The real danger might be to the north. So, on the road ahead, maintain a distance from me, keeping the appearance of secretly following me. Once we reach the north, find a place to settle, and then I’ll come find you when I’m free."

Chu Can nodded, then glanced at a corpse on the ground, asking, "These...do you want them?"

Zhang San shook his head in fear.

"No, no."

"If you don’t want them, then I won’t be polite!"

As he spoke, Chu Can crouched on the ground and began to do indescribable things to the six corpses of the Spiritual Platform Realm.

Zhang San watched, grinning awkwardly at his side.

"Are you sure you don’t want them? The Cultivation Technique from Gluttonous Mountain allows you to refine everything you eat into qi, which then aids your cultivation. It’s very resource-efficient."

Zhang San admitted that he indeed needed cultivation resources very much.

But seeing this way of advancement, he felt he might not be in such a shortage after all.

Even at this moment, Zhang San was somewhat worried that what he saw tonight might disturb the old man.

"If I learned such a ruthless Cultivation Technique, should I use it or not?"

Sigh——

However, during this short three-day journey, Zhang San discovered that Chu Can’s Cultivation Technique was indeed sinister.

Because after consuming the bodies of twelve cultivators in the Spiritual Platform Realm, she actually broke through to the Spiritual Platform Realm herself.

That night, under the protection of Zhang San, Chu Can completed her breakthrough, and her True Core entered the Red Gold Wheel Sea, officially becoming a cultivator of the Spiritual Platform Realm.

After Chu Can’s breakthrough, Zhang San curiously asked, "Chu Can, congratulations on your breakthrough into a cultivator. But I’m curious, don’t you have any psychological barriers from eating bodies like that? I’m not saying there’s something wrong with your mind, it’s just that ordinary people can’t do this, how do you manage it?"

Chu Can picked up the meat that Zhang San had just grilled, tore a bite off, and while chewing, said, "Isn’t this what people do?"

"What!?"

Chu Can’s comment left Zhang San bewildered.

"People... who does that?"

Chu Can countered, "Do you know how to become a superior person?"

Zhang San thought for a moment and murmured softly, "Hard work? No, that’s definitely the least effective. Relying on background and status, but that’s not right either, after all, there are still some who become superior people through their own efforts."

Zhang San suddenly realized that ever since he had been transported to this world, he had been troubled by his own identity, always worried about his insufficient strength, wanting to become stronger, but his goal to become stronger seemed somewhat vague.

It was always because he encountered certain situations that he felt stronger would be better.

This feeling was like a common person who had not seen much of the world, always thinking that having money would be better. Wealth could let him accomplish anything.

But in reality, did he have any true pursuit?

No.

Even more, he was unclear about what he should most pursue in this world.

"I don’t know how to become a superior person. Chu Can, do you know?"

Only after swallowing the meat did he speak: "Have you heard the saying, ’you are what you eat’?"

Zhang San nodded slightly.

"I’ve heard of it. So I often eat kidneys... I eat expensive things because you are what you eat."

Chu Can replied, "My sister and I are orphans; we depended on each other for survival. We lived a tough life, but the County Magistrate’s family lived richly, even his daughter would throw fatty meat out of the restaurant window to feed to street dogs during her meals."

"And my sister and I, back then, would fight with the vicious street dogs for that piece of meat, even biting them, just to eat the meat that the young lady threw away to feed the dogs."

"To become a superior person is to live like a human."

He couldn’t help but murmur to himself.

"I flipped through history books, and these books had no dates on them, every page slanted with the words ’benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom’. Couldn’t sleep anyway, I painstakingly read through half the night, and from the creases of the pages, these words emerged,"

but in such a world where the strong prey on the weak...

Wait a minute!

Why can’t I be a kind-hearted villain?