Chapter 565: Chapter 406: Arrested
Watching as Demetrius single-handedly fought back and forth with several guards from the Fluttering Blossom Pavilion, Dong Tianyu’s face suddenly revealed an astonished expression. After all, although Demetrius was outnumbered, he was a Martial Artist in the Path Entry Realm.
However, in Dong Tianyu’s observation, the guards of the Fluttering Blossom Pavilion had at most the Cultivation Level of the Inner Breath Realm, and not even one was at the Energy Refining Realm.
Actually, this was normal, given that the camp didn’t have a large flow of people, and those who frequented it were survivors who contracted the land around for cultivation. These people didn’t have much ability themselves. Compared to the City Center of Kyoto, the spending level here was also not high. Besides, although this place was located in the suburbs of Kyoto, it was rarely attacked by monsters from the outskirts, which naturally meant that the guards deployed here were not of a high level.
The fact that Demetrius, a Martial Artist with the strength of the Path Entry Realm, was fighting equally with several guards from the Fluttering Blossom Pavilion who were only at the level of the Inner Breath Realm, indicated there must be a significant reason behind this, unless he was intentionally toying with them.
Dong Tianyu tentatively used his Divine Sense to scan Demetrius and discovered that his Divine Sense actually worked, allowing him to probe into Demetrius’s body.
Under normal circumstances, once a Martial Artist’s Cultivation Level reached the Path Entry Realm, Dong Tianyu’s Divine Sense couldn’t perform a full-body scan on them like it could with ordinary people. This was similar to Dong Tianyu’s inability to scan rare objects.
But now that Dong Tianyu’s Divine Sense could probe Demetrius’s body, it meant that Demetrius had lost the strength of the Path Entry Realm.
When Dong Tianyu’s Divine Sense swept over Demetrius’s spine, he unsurprisingly discovered the silhouette of a controller from the Bug Race attached to it.
Although Dong Tianyu was somewhat shocked that Demetrius was parasitized, given Demetrius’s earlier behavior, now knowing the truth actually didn’t surprise him too much.
Watching the Fluttering Blossom Pavilion’s guards struggling to subdue Demetrius, Dong Tianyu grew impatient and was about to secretly intervene when another guard came out from the pavilion holding a particular spherical object, which he threw at Demetrius during a moment when he couldn’t dodge.
The sound of the sphere tearing through the air alerted Demetrius, who, upon seeing a spherical object flying towards him, instinctively tried to deflect it with a punch. But as soon as Demetrius’s fist touched the sphere, it exploded instantly, and a massive net enveloped Demetrius layer by layer.
Demetrius began to struggle fiercely inside the net, but whatever material the net was made from, the more Demetrius struggled, the tighter it contracted around him.
The camp was not large, and since this was happening right outside the Fluttering Blossom Pavilion where the crowd was thickest, onlookers had already gathered to watch the fight as soon as it had started. When Demetrius was bound by the net, at least eighty percent of the idle people had come to watch.
With many people present, rumors that were neither here nor there naturally emerged, and no one knew who started it, but they began to spread quickly.
"What, Demetrius has no money and wanted to enjoy services for free, so he got caught and was beaten out with sticks."
"Or perhaps Demetrius’s childhood sweetheart, his fiancée, despised him for having no money and volunteered to work at the Fluttering Blossom Pavilion in order to support her own parents."
In any case, despite the small number of survivors in the camp, the types of rumors spread with fission-like speed.
The person in charge of the Fluttering Blossom Pavilion heard some of these freshly minted rumors. Although many people knew that those rumors were probably false, if they didn’t immediately clarify, the reputation they had maintained for so long could be destroyed in an instant.
With this thought, the person in charge of the Fluttering Blossom Pavilion shivered, then took out something resembling a flashlight, and shouted loudly to the crowd:
"Please calm your excitement slightly, ladies and gentlemen. The rumors about the Fluttering Blossom Pavilion’s guards beating up ordinary people are all false.
"Those who have visited our Fluttering Blossom Pavilion should be very clear about our level of service. Every customer who has come to our pavilion has no complaints about our services.
"Wasn’t there a saying before the disaster, ’Treat customers like gods’? Well, I don’t believe in that. But coming to the Fluttering Blossom Pavilion, you can experience what it feels like to be in heaven. Therefore, coming to our pavilion, you can also be said to have experienced a touch of ’Celestials’ realm.’
Dong Tianyu watched as that person in charge of the Fluttering Blossom Pavilion meticulously cleared the mud splashed on their establishment and simultaneously took the opportunity to advertise for their business.
Then, in full view of everyone, he took out the flashlight-like object he had prepared earlier and turned it on, directly shining the blue light onto Demetrius’s back.
Perhaps because the person in charge of the Fluttering Blossom Pavilion was standing closer to Demetrius, the latter’s back began to become transparent. Flesh and blood slowly vanished under the illumination of the blue light until, in front of all onlookers, everyone saw the bug perched on Demetrius’s spine.
Contrary to the bugs Dong Tianyu had seen before, this spy controller’s tail was not curled up but was instead inserted straight into the end of Demetrius’s coccyx.
Seeing the situation inside Demetrius’s body, Dong Tianyu felt nothing but shock and surprise.
Even now, with evidence clearly presented before the eyes of all, Dong Tianyu still couldn’t understand how Demetrius, a Martial Artist of the Path Entry Realm, had been parasitized by a controller of the Bug Race.
