I Have Infinite Skill Points-Chapter 461: Captured a Living Demon Clan Member

Chapter 461: Chapter 461: Captured a Living Demon Clan Member

"Hmm?" Wang Lan’s eyes suddenly sharpened. He turned to his aunt and Song Jia, motioning for silence.

"Wang Lan, have unauthorized persons infiltrated the building? Shall we activate the defense mode?" Xiao Ai’s voice suddenly rang out.

"Auntie, you and Jiajia stay in the room. I’ll be right back." No sooner had Wang Lan spoken than he vanished into the floor and out of sight.

"Leader, I have arrived at the Xinyu Building. Don’t worry, we won’t miss any corner. Yes, I assure you, the mission will be accomplished."

Hidden beneath the corridor floor, Wang Lan listened to the approaching footsteps. Accompanying the footsteps, it seemed someone was making a call.

"Simu, isn’t our entering so boldly a bit too conspicuous?"

"Conspicuous? I don’t think so. And why are you hiding behind me? You weren’t this timid before."

"Is this me being timid? This is Wang Lan’s home we’re talking about!" The name ’Wang Lan’ was spoken with a slight tremble, the tone filled with fear.

"Afraid of what? Wang Lan isn’t home right now."

"Even though I know he’s not home, just thinking about his time in Suzhou City and how many of our brothers fell at his hands makes me feel unnerved. I don’t know how that bastard managed it. Despite us hiding so well, he still found and killed us one by one. After spending over a hundred years in the Human World, I really miss home."

"Are you the only one who misses home? I do too. Stop complaining. As long as we destroy the Awakening Potion’s data, we’ll have made a great achievement. A minor leadership position is practically guaranteed. When the armies of our mother planet arrive, we’ll be able to return."

"Even Wang Qi’s home doesn’t have the Awakening Potion, so Wang Lan’s probably doesn’t either, right?"

"Who knows? But to be safe... The Awakening Potion could awaken all humans. That poses too great a threat to our clan and must be completely eradicated. Those fools in Qin’an City, not warning us about such a significant matter... If we had helped them, their forces wouldn’t have been wiped out so easily."

"Stop grumbling. We operate in parallel structures without crossing paths. It’s the rule."

So these are Demon Clan spies, and that’s their objective. Hearing this, Wang Lan confirmed the identities and purposes of these two Demon Clan spies. In a flash, like a ghost rising from the ground, he appeared silently behind the two.

His palm landed noiselessly on their shoulders.

"Why are you touching my shoulder?"

"What? Do you think I have nothing better to do than touch your shoulder?"

Instantly, both men’s bodies shuddered, and they struggled to twist their necks. The Demon Clan’s necks were truly bizarre, able to rotate a full one hundred and eighty degrees. The moment they saw Wang Lan’s sneering face, their originally pale complexions turned green.

"CRACKLE!"

Electric arcs sparked in Wang Lan’s palm, instantly becoming currents that flowed through the Demon Clan members’ bodies. As they trembled, the demons gradually shed their disguises, revealing their true Demon Clan forms.

Lower-ranking demons looked particularly disgusting, some with octopus heads atop humanoid bodies, others with crocodile heads atop duck-like bodies.

Suddenly, Wang Lan felt the Star Power of the two demons surge violently, rushing towards their heads.

"Thinking of self-destructing?" Wang Lan cried out coldly, electricity arcing from his hands and converging into a net.

"Seal them!"

Compared to the Demon Clan, the Paradise Bird’s methods were even more ruthless. Each Paradise Bird’s mind was imprinted with a Skill Form that would instantly detonate their brain if someone intruded or attempted to extract secrets. While the Demon Clan didn’t engrave Skill Forms in their own people’s heads, they were fiercely resolute.

In the seventy years since the war, the Tianjian Bureau had captured over eight hundred, if not a thousand, demons, but never a single living one. Once a demon determined there was no hope of escape, they immediately chose to self-destruct.

This was also related to the Demon Clan’s societal structure, which resembled that of bees: they were born with a clear identity and purpose, fixed from the moment of birth, not determined by lineage. Even low-ranking demons could give birth to offspring destined for high ranks.

If it weren’t for Wang Lan’s strength, allowing him to apply a sealing Skill Form the instant the two demons showed no sign of resistance, even a second’s delay could have allowed them to complete their self-destruction.

He released his grip, and the two demons dropped to the ground like lifeless fish. Just then, the sound of hurried braking echoed from the entrance of the Xinyu Building.

Wang Lan carried the two demons home and threw them directly into the living room.

Peering through a crack in the door, his aunt and Song Jia slowly pushed it open. At their first glimpse of the two demons, they both flinched, uttering sharp cries of alarm.

"These are the legendary Demon Clan, right?" After the initial shock, Song Jia curiously approached the demons and poked one, which stared blankly with fish-like eyes.

"How can such creatures exist? They don’t comply with the laws of biological evolution at all..."

"The very existence of the Demon Clan defies scientific laws, so their appearance isn’t important. These two thought my aunt had been killed and came here to find and destroy the Awakening Potion’s research data. They didn’t even consider that even if research data was left behind, it would have already been sent to the national database. How could it possibly remain at home?"

"Wang Lan, Colonel Wang Qianfeng is here."

As the elevator doors opened, Wang Qianfeng was taken aback to see two members of the Demon Clan lying on the living room floor. "What’s... what’s going on here?"

He then looked with concern at Wang Qi and Song Jia seated on the sofa, and his racing heart finally settled.

"Uncle Wang, it was a master! The plane was hit by a Star Martial Skill, and it was definitely a super S-rank Star Martial Skill. Luckily, I had set a spatial coordinate at home. Otherwise, even I wouldn’t have been able to save myself, let alone my aunt."

"In your estimation, the person who attacked was..."

"Far beyond me. Their strength is on the same level as the Qing Emperor’s. I managed to escape in the last half-second, but so many of my brothers on the plane..."

Recalling the dozen or so bright faces from the plane, Wang Lan felt a heavy weight in his chest, as if a stone were lodged there.

"I’ve just received intelligence. The one who slaughtered the Zhenjiang King Mansion should be the Paradise Bird’s number one wanted criminal, Sonic Sony. He’s a figure who gives even the International Security Council headaches. Over a decade ago, he came to Jade Country. At that time, the Qing Emperor and your mother joined forces and pursued him for over a month, yet he still managed to escape."

"Sony?"

"Yes. He’s known as the world’s fastest man, with an Innate Ability to control air. He can move at ten times the speed of sound and create a vacuum within a one-kilometer radius in an instant. He’s a terrifying figure. Twenty years ago, he single-handedly destroyed a city with a population of three million."

"He destroyed an entire city?" Wang Qi exclaimed in shock upon hearing Colonel Wang Qianfeng’s words.

"He only destroyed the city; the actual number of people he killed wasn’t three million. But the death toll was at least over five hundred thousand. He’s a true demon. The higher-ups want to know if, while ensuring Wang Qi’s safety, we can see about eliminating him?"

Wang Lan looked at Wang Qianfeng in disbelief. Did my words just fall on deaf ears? The culprit’s strength is no less than that of the Five Emperors, and you’re asking if we can eliminate him? Are you sure this isn’t a suicide mission?

Reading Wang Lan’s expression, Wang Qianfeng looked a bit embarrassed. "Well, I’m just asking, okay? Besides, the Qing Emperor has already arrived in Modu City. If possible, he will assist. Of course, even if we can’t kill him, driving him out of Jade Country would be good enough."

Looking at the two Demon Clan spies on the floor, who resembled dead fish, he then asked, "You just had a narrow escape, and you already have a haul?"

"These two Demon Clan spies thought my aunt and I were dead, so they blatantly came searching for the Awakening Potion. They delivered themselves right to my doorstep; it would be a waste not to take them."

"Alive?" Instantly, Wang Qianfeng’s expression changed.

Capturing live Demon Clan spies was rare. As far as he knew, it had only happened three times in the last seventy years. Each time, the information extracted from the spies’ minds had shocked the entire nation. It was like pulling up a radish and the mud still attached—an entire city’s Demon Clan spy network could usually be unraveled.

"Have you performed the Spirit Engraving yet?"

"Not yet. I’m about to begin."

As he spoke, Wang Lan reached out his palm, and one of the Demon Clan spies was drawn into his hand. His palm gripped the spy’s head tightly. Waves of Star Power surged, and a green aura of Star Energy Fluctuation rippled out.

After a while, Wang Lan released the Demon Clan spy, now completely catatonic, and placed his palm on the head of the other spy.

About ten minutes later, Wang Lan opened his eyes.

It had taken so long mainly because the Demon Clan spies had vast experiences. They were chosen to stay behind when the Demon Clan retreated years ago. Though they currently possessed only the meager strength of the Star Cloud Stage, under the laws of the Demon Clan, their true power was equivalent to peak Star Sea Stage experts.

From the minds of the two Demon Clan spies, Wang Lan not only obtained the locations of the remaining spy networks in Suzhou City but also secrets he had never dared to guess before.

These were not secrets to the Demon Clan, but for the human race... at least, I didn’t know them. They must have been deliberately concealed by the United Nations.

Why was the Demon Clan’s presence in the Human World suppressed by laws? These laws were not natural but man-made. About ten thousand years ago, the Human World had both the Divine Clan and the Heavenly Court.

The Demon Clan, too, had its Demon Gods. The low-ranking demons before him certainly didn’t know the details of the ancient battle, but Wang Lan did glean some knowledge of the outcome. The Demon Gods were exiled by the Divine Clan into the chaotic currents of time and space, possibly to the very edge of the universe.

The Divine Clan also suffered devastating casualties, with only a few Ancient Gods remaining. The law’s suppression was the handiwork of these few Ancient Gods—the West’s God of the Earth, Gaia, and the East’s Lady Hou Tu sacrificed themselves, merging with the Will of the Earth.

This was their final measure to protect humankind. After their fusion with the Will of the Earth, the solar system became hidden within the celestial star formations, undetectable by any life form or civilization approaching Sky Blue Star from outer space.

Furthermore, on Sky Blue Star, the strength of any non-human life form would be suppressed, with the suppression growing more severe the stronger they were. This was also why, despite the gradual decline of human cultivation civilization over countless years, humankind still seemed able to resist the powerful Demon Clan to some extent.

Another mystery was also solved: why the Demon Clan had repeatedly invaded the Human World but always seemed to hold back at critical moments, giving the impression of periodically harvesting humans like crops.

It was because of the existence of these two gods from the Divine Clan. The two Ancient Gods, having merged with the planet’s will, would not intervene unless humanity faced imminent extinction. With the Demon Gods banished and yet to return from the chaotic void, the Demon Clan knew that even if they aimed to annihilate humanity, they would ultimately be slaughtered by the will of these two great gods.

So, they resorted to a strategy of attrition, gradually eroding human civilization and its heritage, biding their time until the Demon Gods returned to sweep humanity away once and for all.