When system cheat becomes rampant!

"Where is your heart?"

Xiang Beifei hovered in mid-air, muttering to himself as he sized up the One-Armed Crab, then he kicked the crab's shell!

With a "crack," the originally hard shell of the crab was directly kicked open by him, flinging outward, tumbling through the air, and smashed to the side. The scene resembled him forcibly peeling open a giant crab shell, revealing the sticky crab meat.

Xiang Beifei waved his hand, and the breath soil quickly moved, rolling out a huge heart from that pile of sticky carcasses!

Xiang Beifei's fingers erupted with sharp spiritual power, splitting the heart open, then he frowned again.

"Four beast pills?"

The more Xiang Beifei thought about it, the stranger he found it. Among the four beast pills, two belonged to late-stage Qi-Controlling One-Armed Crab beast pills, while the other two were late-stage Meridian Opening, belonging to some unknown desolate beast.

At that moment, the pieces of crab flesh on the ground scattered into small crabs. They hopped around as if they had lost their pillar, and soon after, they lost the ability to move, quickly turning into heaps of dead crabs.

"The desolate beast in the sewer just now had two beast pills; this one has four. How did the One-Armed Crab come to possess two completely different kinds of beast pills?"

The One-Armed Crab gave Xiang Beifei the impression that someone had forcibly stuffed a beast pill that didn't belong to it into its body, causing it to mutate.

But the other beast pill was obviously much stronger!

So far, he had found a total of six beast pills—three of which belonged to late-stage Qi-Controlling One-Armed Crabs, and the other three to late-stage Meridian Opening.

If it was just a case of a One-Armed Crab accidentally swallowing someone else's late-stage Meridian Opening beast pill, it could still be explained. But with three of such beast pills appearing, something was amiss.

You must understand that late-stage Meridian Opening beast pills are extremely precious! Late-stage Meridian Opening desolate beasts are very powerful and adept at hiding. Even ordinary Meridian Opening pioneers venturing into the outer wilderness to hunt wouldn't dare say they could easily come by such a kill!

And here, three late-stage Meridian Opening beast pills had gathered all at once!

It was quite a coup!

Coincidence?

Or man-made?

…

Xiang Beifei didn't continue to ponder; there was a group of people that needed rescuing right now.

Whoosh!

He rushed quickly into the ruins, looking for the martial artists who had been knocked down by the One-Armed Crab, and soon found five other people at the Meridian Opening stage. All five were unconscious, severely injured, with broken bones all over, and one had a heart that seemed to have been pierced by a white spike, hanging by a thread.

Xiang Beifei hastily used his spiritual power to stabilize their injuries, keeping them hanging onto their last breath, but that was all he could manage. As long as they were still alive, it wouldn't be a big problem.

"Let's go."

Wrapping the five people with spiritual power, Xiang Beifei returned to where Lu Hong and the other two were. They hadn't come to their senses yet, but Xiang Beifei had already picked them up as well and swiftly flew out of the street.

From afar, he could see many medical personnel waiting on the main street a kilometer away; he descended towards them, riding on his sword.

"Quick! Save them!"

Xiang Beifei handed over the rescue to these people.

The doctors, who had awakened high-level medical systems, had arrived early during the first wave of the attack; when the One-Armed Crab launched its second attack, they were evacuated outside but had been waiting for the situation to unfold. Seeing the injured being brought out, they rushed to help with the treatment.

Kong Daming lay on a stretcher with a broken spine, essentially paralyzed, but fortunately, the medical skills in the system society were extremely sophisticated, and countless Divine Doctors with powerful awakenings abounded. As long as one wasn't dead, such an injury could be treated and wouldn't necessarily lead to actual paralysis.

Kong Daming was still looking at Xiang Beifei in confusion and fear: "Beifei... what exactly are you... how could you..."
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Lu Hong came to his senses and inquired, "How did you kill it?"

Chen Xiuqin's abdominal wound had stopped bleeding; she had many questions, but the other two had beat her to it.

All three were experienced martial artists, and Kong Daming and his wife even used to be pioneers. Yet, they combined couldn't defeat the desolate beast that Xiang Beifei had managed to dispatch, which left them utterly astonished.

"It had a weakness, and I just happened to know how to deal with it," Xiang Beifei said.

"Is the weakness its eyes?" Lu Hong asked.

"Close enough."

"But you didn't seem to injure its eyes?" Kong Daming hesitated.

"I just happened to be able to break its shell, so I killed it," Xiang Beifei stated.

Kong Daming and Lu Hong exchanged glances, seemingly understanding, and didn't ask any further.

However, Xiang Beifei had left all three of them increasingly astonished; in their eyes, today's achievement was all thanks to him.

"I always feel like you lad seem capable of anything," Lu Hong said with a bitter smile.

"Not always."

Xiang Beifei temporarily put aside the matter of the desolate beast's heart, did a quick check of their injuries, and preserved Lu Hong's severed hand with spiritual power, placing it beside Lu Hong, saying, "I'm sorry, I'm not skilled in healing; I hope this injury won't leave you with any sequelae."

Xiang Beifei was powerless against these injuries; he was not a specialist medical system type Awakener. He only learned basic treatment courses in school for wilderness self-rescue, but those healing abilities were negligible and could not cope with such severe injuries.

However, if he were at the stage of late-stage Meridian Opening now, he would be able to precisely control "Return to the Original State" and revert their bodily injuries to before they were hurt. He could still help with the treatment then.

So "Return to the Original State" can be considered a very special healing ability!

"You can't heal wounds?"

——There's finally something he can't do!

This odd thought suddenly emerged in Lu Hong's mind.

Beifei's abilities were simply too astonishing. He had previously helped Lu crack many cases and capture quite a few criminals. His sharp crime-solving ability had misled Lu into thinking that Beifei's Awakening was related to detective work. But soon after, it became apparent that Beifei was also a cultivation genius. Even the System believed Beifei was more suited to cultivating Rapid Flame than he was. Later on, during the Qi-Controlling stage, he easily defeated the Highway Killer, who was in the earlier stages of Meridian Opening. Just a few days ago, he heard his daughter go on and on about how Beifei had been outstanding in the newcomer's contest, how he had trampled SSR underfoot...

Now he had effortlessly killed a desolate beast with a defense strong enough to match those in the later stages of Meridian Opening!

In Lu Hong's view, this kid Xiang Beifei was simply invincible!

Therefore, when Xiang Beifei said, "I can't heal wounds," Lu Hong was actually quite surprised!

He actually has something he can't do!

"It's alright, specialization is key in any profession; you're already amazing."

Lu Hong thought that heaven was still fair after all, granting the boy immense combat talent but not healing abilities, which somewhat balanced things in his mind.

If Beifei even had the ability to heal injuries, then there would truly be no justice in this world!

"Yes, it's good enough that we got our lives back."

Kong Daming and his wife were also full of sighs.

"Dad!"

At this moment, Lu Zhiwei and Kong Xiuwen ran over from a distance, joined by Xiang Qingde. On Kong Daming's instructions, Xiuwen had taken Qingde and withdrawn with the crowd when the incident occurred, while Lu Zhiwei had been helping law enforcement maintain order outside, unaware of the battle situation.

Upon seeing the tragic state of their family, both of their faces turned pale instantly!

"Dad, mom, how could this happen?" Xiuwen asked anxiously.

"It's okay, just a broken spine. Thankfully, Xiaofei brought us out." Kong Daming said.

"Yes, without him, we would probably have been in serious trouble today," Lu Hong reassured.

Xiuwen looked at Beifei with gratitude and said, "Thank you."

Xiang Beifei shook his head slightly: "No need."

"Dad, your arm—" Lu Zhiwei said urgently.

"It can be reattached. The Alliance isn't short of high-level medical System Awakeners. How are the others doing? What's the casualty situation?" Since this area was under his jurisdiction, Lu Hong's primary concern was the safety of the civilians caught in the incident.

"They are okay. A few people are quite seriously injured, but thanks to the timely evacuation, their lives were saved," Lu Zhiwei said through clenched teeth. "It's my fault. I should have followed you to deal with the desolate beast instead of evacuating."

"You can't say that! As protectors of the city, the safety of the citizens is most important. If you are to walk this path in the future, you must understand that at any time, you need to ensure everyone's safety! As long as you do what's right, there's no should or shouldn't! You took care of rescuing people, I took care of fighting; we were both fulfilling our responsibilities, and when it comes to responsibility, there's no distinction!" Lu Hong lectured.

Lu Zhiwei bowed her head, still feeling very upset.

"Luckily we're all alive."

Xiang Qingde also looked quite frightened.

"Indeed, old master, we owe a lot to Xiaofei today. He just fought with the desolate beast and single-handedly defeated it!" Kong Daming said.

"That's true, old master, you've raised a great grandson. His way of dealing with the desolate beast, he's as outstanding as your son," Lu Hong also admired.

Upon hearing this, Xiang Qingde hastily grabbed Beifei and asked, "You fought with the desolate beast? Are you hurt?"

Such experienced people like Lu Hong and Kong Daming were injured like this, and his grandson had only stepped into the Meridian Opening stage not long ago!

Beifei, who was still contemplating the desolate beast's heart, saw his grandfather so worried and casually said, "Oh! I'm fine! Grandpa, don't worry, it wasn't that powerful, it didn't hurt me."

Lu Hong: "..."

Kong Daming: "..."

Chen Xiuqin: "..."

The expressions on their faces froze!

It wasn't that powerful!

Not that powerful!

Not powerful!

The three exchanged glances, considering their own disheveled appearances and the startling injuries of others—those with severed arms, those paralyzed—suddenly, they felt choked with words caught in their throats, unable to speak!

It was like a direct hit to the heart!

This kid, he was… he was…

He didn't mean to say it like that, did he?

Fortunately, they all knew Beifei and were aware that he was a straightforward person. He had said it only to comfort his grandfather, without any other implications. Otherwise, they might have been choked enough by that statement to spit blood!