Our Entire Family Has Secrets [Transmigrated] - Chapter 41
The crystal ball seemed to have completely turned into a useless decoration.
Its murky interior was filled with dust-like particles, and its once radiant surface no longer glowed.
After Yuan Bozhu left, Yuan Wanjiao went to her brother’s room, checking everything from pillows and blankets to the wardrobe and desk, but found no signs.
This was her fourth attempt today.
She saw nothing.
Sighing, she emerged from his room, feeling the emptiness of their house.
She coughed twice—blaming those simple-minded B-class mercenaries under Satan, who dared to use their powers against a fragile witch.
If she died, Satan’s smile would quickly turn to sorrow, for he wouldn’t find another witch with her abilities for three hundred years.
Returning to her vanity, she carelessly tossed the crystal ball aside—she had over twenty in her studio.
Supposedly a personal artifact, it was just a lie.
A powerful prophecy could be made with a mere stone; the crystal ball only offered clearer visions.
“Sigh…” she suddenly lamented.
Colorless, pitiful, and insignificant—this was the false reasoning she had crafted for Satan, fearing her brother might get involved, risking backlash.
In reality, she had divined nothing that day.
Her powers had only failed once, with her brother, which terrified her.
She could usually predict the smallest details about Yuan Bozhu’s life, but since he turned eighteen, her visions regarding him became unreliable.
Despite the uncertainty, she had to keep trying, as in the moment the Lich’s spirit was taken, she glimpsed Yuan Bozhu’s future through Satan—a clear vision of his corpse.
She couldn’t pinpoint when or where he would die, but she had to accept the fact that if the future arrived as expected, her brother wouldn’t escape death.
Yuan Wanjiao sat in her room, lost in thought for five hours.
Suddenly, a sharp pain throbbed in her chest, and Yuan Wanjiao raised her hand to cover the spot—where the energy gland was located.
She knew that Satan was using her Lich spirit, perhaps testing whether he could absorb the witch’s energy.
But this was pointless.
The biggest difference between the Lich spirit and an energy core was that the former was still under the control of the witch herself; it was a living soul.
It could only die, not be conquered. No one could absorb Yuan Wanjiao’s energy. The pain quickly subsided.
Satan should understand that his offerings could never truly detach from Yuan Wanjiao.
Taking the Lich spirit was primarily to bind her hands and feet, threatening her with death.
Yet, strangely, Yuan Wanjiao felt no fear.
She wasn’t afraid of her own death or of humanity’s extinction, but when it came to her family, she was filled with unease—now, she could only pray that Satan hadn’t discovered her secret.
That he hadn’t realized she had been completely tamed by human emotions.
“Daughter!”
The voice of Zhang Shu suddenly echoed from the living room, startling Yuan Wanjiao.
She quickly looked around to ensure she hadn’t left anything strange in the room.
Then the door was pushed open.
Yuan Wanjiao was speechless. “Mom, you should knock.”
Zhang Shu immediately stepped back to the door and knocked twice as a makeshift apology, exclaiming, “Sorry, sorry! Mom got so excited that I forgot you have privacy!”
Yuan Wanjiao felt a mix of anger and amusement and asked, “What’s the rush?”
Zhang Shu replied, “The beauty salon is having an anniversary sale today, 30% off! I took the day off to avoid the crowd. Come with me to take advantage of the discount!”
Yuan Wanjiao shook her head, feeling a bit regretful. “No thanks, Mom. I still have to go to the shop. Things have been really busy lately.”
But Zhang Shu pushed the door open and walked in, not giving her a chance to refuse. “Look at you, your complexion is terrible. Not getting enough blood circulation affects a lot of things. You’re not taking care of yourself.”
The sound of her stiletto heels clicking on the wooden floor drew Yuan Wanjiao’s attention; she noticed that Zhang Shu, who usually paid attention to details, had entered without taking off her shoes today.
Zhang Shu stopped beside Yuan Wanjiao, gave her a once-over, and her gaze suddenly fell on the scattered cosmetics nearby, then selected a bright red lip gloss.
“Come on, let me put some lipstick on you!” She lifted Yuan Wanjiao’s chin and carefully applied the vibrant color to her pale lips, saying, “You need to take a break.”
“I—”
“There’s nothing that can stop us women from living beautifully,” Zhang Shu suddenly interrupted, joking, “Not even the apocalypse.”
Yuan Wanjiao knew she was just saying it casually, but in that moment, she felt her tightly wound nerves relax.
“Mom, you sound like a philosopher.”
“Nonsense.” Zhang Shu set down the lip gloss, casually dismissing it. “Mom just sounds like Mom.”
Yuan Qifeng was sleeping soundly when a noise suddenly woke him up.
He opened his eyes to find himself in the living room.
His parents had bought a giant cake for his brother’s eighteenth birthday, topped with eighteen fruity candles.
Yuan Wanjiao looked at the crooked candles and said, “We should have gotten those number candles instead.”
Yuan Qifeng, unable to resist, retorted, “Only you would think of that. Why don’t you go buy them now? Too late to say it now!”
“Are you itching for a beating since I haven’t hit you in three days?”
“You hit me? You think you can actually catch me? Why am I so skeptical!”
The two of them suddenly started bickering, their voices louder than their parents’ birthday song.
Their youngest sibling, Yuan Bozhu, stared seriously at the candles, making sure they wouldn’t be extinguished by Yuan Qifeng and Yuan Wanjiao’s playful spittle before he could blow them out himself.
Despite the quarrel, it was evident that both were in good spirits.
Yuan Qifeng felt a sense of joy and relief bubbling in his heart—he had waited many years for this day.
As long as Yuan Bozhu made it through today safely, he would submit his task report and complete his obligations.
“Happy birthday, A-Zhu!!”
“Happy birthday, little brother!”
Hearing them, Yuan Qifeng smiled, opened his mouth to say “Happy coming of age, Yuan Bozhu,” but instead said, “Go die.”
The light suddenly dimmed.
Yuan Qifeng heard the howling wind.
His parents’ gasps, Yuan Wanjiao’s scream, and Yuan Bozhu’s desperate cries filled the air.
Yuan Qifeng seemed to have lost himself.
He stretched out his claws, first strangled Yuan Wanjiao’s neck, then cut Yuan Jilang’s carotid artery, and stabbed Zhang Shu’s stomach.
They died beside him, but Yuan Qifeng did not stop.
He walked in front of Yuan Bozhu, mercilessly broke his brother’s heart, and grabbed the vigorous energy gland.
Blood splashed, and the surroundings fell into endless darkness.
Yuan Qifeng suddenly realized what he had done.
He looked at his bloody hands in horror, mumbling incoherently: “No… I didn’t, I didn’t kill them… What’s going on?! I didn’t…”
The fear deeper than death is seeing the death of family members. The bodies he killed fell at his feet, and blood flowed like a river.
Yuan Qifeng felt pain, but he had no wounds on his body. It was his heart, and every time it beat, it was like being cut into pieces.
He howled in pain, and the deafening roar of the beast resounded throughout the dead room.
…
When he opened his eyes again, Yuan Qifeng was standing in a wasteland on the outskirts of Hubei City.
There were several corpses of orcs around.
And he was still holding their flesh and blood in his hands.
Yuan Qifeng was startled, suddenly took a few steps back, and sat on the ground with his buttocks-
He killed someone? !
“You can kill people in dreams, can’t you change your temper?” A male voice with a smile sounded in his ears.
Yuan Qifeng immediately recognized his voice.
“Wu Jian, you are looking for death!”
Wu Jian, one of the top S-level mercenaries on the Spider Domain Bloodline Strength Ranking. His powerful supernatural power can manipulate consciousness, invade dreams, and find the things that people fear most in their hearts.
When they are in a state of collapse and are most vulnerable, Wu Jian can crush their heads with a finger.
“I thought you would dream about me.” Wu Jian suddenly appeared and squatted in front of Yuan Qifeng.
When Yuan Qifeng slapped him with his claws, he disappeared again and said with a smile, “I dreamed that I pulled out your intestines and ate them.”
“Eat shit.” Yuan Qifeng stood up and looked around vigilantly.
His memory was confused for a moment because of Wujian’s invasion.
Yuan Qifeng remembered that he had recently come to Hubei City to arrest several rare species that had been committing crimes everywhere recently.
Today, he followed them to the outskirts of the city. Those orcs wanted to resist, but were easily subdued by Yuan Qifeng.
When he was about to handcuff them and call the people from the Administration to clean up the mess, he lost consciousness.
Everything in the dream was so real.
Yuan Qifeng was still sweating.
Wujian’s figure appeared on the right.
Yuan Qifeng kicked over, but missed.
“Everyone whose dream is invaded by me will see the scene they fear the most. Logically, isn’t it me that you fear the most?”
“I’m afraid of your mother!”
“My mother died a long time ago.”
“…Are you really idle in the Spider Domain recently? Do you have to be so cheap?”
Yuan Qifeng really hates these psychic abilities.
If they confront him head-on, they can’t escape his claws.
But these little bastards will always hide in the dark.
Wu Jian suddenly said: “Instead of wasting time arresting rare species everywhere, it is better to go directly to the Spider Domain nest. Don’t you know that Satan is about to revive the Red Earth. He is really an amazing person, and he is going crazy in a very new way.”
“You also know that he is going crazy.”
Yuan Qifeng couldn’t catch him, so he simply gave up, sat down on the spot, and wiped the blood on his hands into the soil.
It is difficult to really arrest these S-levels in the Spider Domain.
But they don’t blindly obey Satan.
In this regard, at least it is better than other rare species.
“But I think the plan to rule over humans is pretty good, and I’m ready to join.”
What a bullshit!
Yuan Qifeng jumped up from the ground. If he turned back to his original form, he would be furious.
“How can he revive Chidi? Just based on a prophecy? Those who believe in his plan are idiots! There is no resurrection bloodline in this world.”
“You can’t just say there is no bloodline if you can’t find it, right?” Wujian seemed to deliberately anger him and said, “Maybe he will suddenly wake up tomorrow?”
Yuan Qifeng raised his middle finger in a certain direction: “Then I will kill him before the sun rises.”
“Hahaha!” Wujian finally got tired of hiding and landed right in front of Yuan Qifeng’s middle finger. He calmly accepted Yuan Qifeng’s insult and said, “Think about it first. How are you going to explain to the Administration after killing so many people?”
The next moment, a strong wind blew up, rolling up the yellow sand.
Yuan Qifeng was blinded. When he looked up, Wujian had disappeared.
He was too lazy to chase him.
To be rated S-level in the Spider Domain, Wujian’s ability was not something he could deal with.
But Yuan Qifeng was not afraid of Wujian.
His willpower was much stronger than that of ordinary people. Even if his dream was invaded, he could wake up before his mental breakdown.
What was more troublesome at the moment was the corpses under his feet.
He had definitely killed again.
Yuan Qifeng scratched his hair irritably.
He looked at the horizon. In his chaotic thoughts, there was a deepest worry.
Is the prophecy true?
… Impossible, Yuan Qifeng has a keener sense of smell than anyone else, he didn’t smell any resurrection blood.
It must be fake.
A black SUV came from a distance, and the tires rolled up a cloud of dust.
Before Yuan Qifeng could identify the license plate, the front of the car had already circled around him, the brakes screeched, and the car stopped beside him.
The anti-peep window couldn’t see the people inside.
But soon, the window dropped, and a thin white arm stretched out from the driver’s seat.
Holding a red and blue flashing light for police cars, it was placed on the roof.
At the same time, the Bluetooth speaker in the car made a siren sound.
Yuan Qifeng yelled “Fuck” and cursed: “Do you have to be so ceremonial?”
The car door opened, and the woman in a cheongsam jumped down barefoot. She stepped on a pile of mud and realized that she was not wearing shoes.
She jumped on one foot, turned around and found a pair of slippers in the car, and put them on in a hurry.
Then she turned back gracefully and chose the most suitable identity from the various ID documents in her bag.
Then she showed her badge of the captain of the security patrol team of the management bureau to Yuan Qifeng.
Yuan Qifeng was speechless.
She added: “Blood wolf orc Zhuo Ling, number 02779, citizen identity unemployed vagrant, citizen name Yuan Qifeng. As the captain of the security patrol team of the Special Blood Management Bureau of Hubei City, I warn you that you are breaking the law.”
“Qian Siqiong, are you sick? I reported to you when I went on a mission today!”
“I didn’t say you were going to kill people when I reported it.” Qian Siqiong pointed at the horrible broken limbs on the ground, showing a regretful expression, “The means are extremely cruel, the impact is extremely bad, you are finished.”
The sirens are still ringing.
Yuan Qifeng said, “Turn off your thing first.”
Qian Siqiong took out his phone and paused it, saying, “Turn yourself in. The guy you killed is not innocent. I can apply for a sentence reduction for you. But you are affiliated with the Qiancheng Branch, and it is a bit troublesome to judge this case. Since we were both freshmen at the same time, I will help you write a confession letter.”
Yuan Qifeng sighed and looked at her for a long time.
Qian Siqiong looked righteous, and shivered when the wind blew over. But he still stared at Yuan Qifeng closely, fearing that he would flee for fear of crime.
“I ran into Wujian.”
Yuan Qifeng’s voice sank, and he said tiredly, “I killed someone by mistake. I’m too lazy to explain this matter. You can figure it out yourself.”
Qian Siqiong’s expression did not change.
But she put away the police badge, turned around and removed the red and blue flashing lights.
She glanced at the body on the ground without saying a word, bent down and grabbed a handful of soil, waved her hand, and the soil seemed to be infinitely copied from her hand, and spread on the body.
In a short while, the blood was completely buried.
“Help me destroy the body?” Yuan Qifeng raised his eyebrows.
“I’m afraid it will scare the humans passing by.”
Qian Siqiong sent a location back to the bureau, asked someone to come and clean it up, and then opened the car door, “It’s not a violation of the ban just because you didn’t kill someone consciously. Get in the car, I have something else to tell you.”
The Special Blood Species Management Bureau has very different laws from ordinary humans in terms of public security management of rare species.
Because the identity of the deceased was not innocent and had committed many crimes, and Yuan Qifeng was under special control of consciousness, Qian Siqiong made a comprehensive judgment and directly implemented the exemption clause for Yuan Qifeng.
They drove, not to the management bureau.
But to the airport.
Yuan Qifeng saw something wrong and was about to ask, but Qian Siqiong spoke directly.
“Zhuo Ling, your mission is over. You can leave the Yuan family now.”
Yuan Qifeng almost bit his tongue and swallowed unconsciously:
“Is this… so sudden?”
“It’s not sudden. The task research report you submitted last month was reviewed by the General Administration at a meeting. We all agree with your conclusion. The Yuan family is just an ordinary human family. Now you have a new mission.”
Yuan Qifeng’s mind was still on her last sentence, and he didn’t care about what she was going to say at all.
Qian Siqiong glanced at him, raised his voice, and said: “The Spider Territory seems to have found the Divine Bird Clan.”
“What the hell?” Yuan Qifeng’s attention was successfully called back, “Didn’t they say they disappeared for hundreds of years? They said they found them just like that? You’re kidding.”
“I’m not sure, but we can’t take it lightly. The Divine Bird bloodline is the group that inherits the most energy cores from the Red Earth. If the Spider Territory really finds them first, then we’re done for.”
Qian Siqiong said solemnly, “I chose to cooperate with humans because I thought the world would be peaceful for hundreds of years. Now my youth is gone. You are young and should enjoy your life. It is better to let the doomsday war die in the cradle. ”
Yuan Qifeng didn’t understand why he had just finished a task and immediately followed by a new task: “Why do you want me to do this? There is no one in the management bureau?”
“Because the task point is in Qiancheng.” Qian Siqiong took a file bag from his feet with one hand while steering with one hand, handed it to Yuan Qifeng, and said, “Your hometown in a sense.”
Yuan Qifeng twisted the file bag with two fingers in disdain and threw it aside without looking at it.
Qian Siqiong glanced at him and continued, “The people from the Spider Realm have been staying near a middle school recently, and thousands of students here are in danger. Not to mention the Spider Realm, the power of the divine bird bloodline alone is extremely dangerous. If the newly awakened people don’t know how to control the power, the consequences will be disastrous.”
“We orcs are not good at disguise. Do you want me to squat at the door every day?”
“The General Administration has arranged for people to enter the school as teachers and keep an eye on the dynamics inside. Your task is simple, be on standby in Qiancheng at any time.”
Yuan Qifeng sneered: “What’s the use of me being on standby? I still have a ban on killing people. I can’t kill anyone. I can only stand there and give my head away.”
Qian Siqiong said: “Your ban has been lifted.”
Yuan Qifeng Looking at her in shock: “Fuck? What does that mean?”
“It means that if you find any rare species that intend to harm humans in or around the school, it is not considered a violation if you kill them for the purpose of protecting the children. This is a joint decision of the General Administration and the human government.”
Qian Siqiong recited the speech of the leader at the conference:
“We still hope to maintain a healthy and balanced relationship between human society and special bloodline groups, but now we are facing a common enemy. For this, we have to sacrifice a short period of peace. We don’t provoke war, but we are not afraid of fighting. For peace, we will always be preparing for war-”
“Okay, don’t recite it, it’s stupid.” Yuan Qifeng interrupted her, with bloodthirsty excitement in his eyes.
He awakened at the age of sixteen and was the first child among all werewolves to learn to hunt.
His best skill is biting.
Now, he can regain his animal nature, and a feeling of blood rushing in his heart!
Yuan Qifeng couldn’t wait to pick up the folder and pulled out the file in high spirits.
Qian Siqiong reminded him: “The energy of the divine bird bloodline should not be underestimated. I guess Wujian’s appearance may also be for this matter. Don’t underestimate the difficulty of the task.”
“I know, I know. You didn’t just send me, did you? Remember to let those guys with mental control attributes in your bureau go with you. You can’t let me fight every time, right?”
“I won’t let you fall into the passive situation of fighting alone again, don’t worry.”
Yuan Qifeng nodded with satisfaction, opened the file excitedly, and said in his mouth: “Let me see, which school’s little guys I’m going to protect-”
Then, the smile on his face suddenly froze, and his hands trembled.
“Qian…Qiancheng No. 1 Middle School?!”