Moon Demon - Huang Yi

[Grundle]

Hold on to your hats boys an girls, here comes an exciting update, just in time for ThanksGiving

Also, thanks for all the encouragement. It makes me want to keep going

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Zhuo Chu Yuan picked up the telephone again, dialed Zhong's number, while she said, "Are you in the mood to take a trip to the airport?


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2:45pm

The autumn sun peeked into the terminal from the west.

A light breezed danced through the deep blue sky. It was a beautiful day.

Through the large glass window of the airport arrival gate, Ling Duyu watched an airplane gracefully descend to a runway that reflected blinding rays of the sun back to his eyes.

Ling Duyu hid the fact that he was attentively looking around, but the enemy was concealed very well. He couldn't spot anyone suspicious. He only noticed a few plainclothed detectives watching him from distant locations. This was Zhuo Chu Yuan's so called "protection", but they were also using him as bait to make the enemy reveal themselves. They also forced him to wear a wire-tap on his body so they could listen to anything he said. It goes without saying that he was extremely irritated.

Within the large concourse camera flashes mixed with joyous laughter. Moving around exitedly several Japanese tourist from a travel group were taking pictures of each other. If someone told him that the entire group were made up of Japanese Bunya Okono members he wouldn't be suprised. The Bunya Okono easily hast that kind of power.

It was near Zhuo Chu Yuan where he first noticed three people by the telephones. One had to be a governmental spy, one had to be a Bunya Okono family member, and the third certainly had to be "M".

Ling Duyu laughed to himself, who is going to guard him, they didn't assign enough people for that, it looks like Zhuo Chu Yuan is going to be defeated by him. At this moment she was waiting on the tarmac. As soon as the plane landed Director Zhuo arranged a special deboarding so they could retrieve Chen Wupeng who would be accompanied by several special police. An elaborate escape plan had already been set up. A bullet proof car used for dignitaries, followed by two police cars and an escort of six motorcycles. In addition the honor guard was commissioned to protect Chen Wupeng as he deboarded. Even heads of state didn't receive such a welcome.

Flight 708 drew a beautiful arc in the sky as it slowly approached the airport. It turned toward the runway and began its slow descent. It was like watching a slow motion sequence in a movie.

Ling Duyu still felt at ease when suddenly his facial color made a drastic change.

He suddenly felt a dangerous premonition. This was the second time in the day. The first happened at 2:00 am while he was meditating in his office, and the second had just occurred.

He felt that a major crisis was approaching, but he didn't know what it was.

The quiet runway under the gentle sun extended out, the airplane's landing gear was lowered, like a large bird extending its wings the airplane descended toward the tarmac.

All was normal.

But Ling Duyu's hands and feet were ice cold, a shiver ran up his spine.

He knew that a horrendously terrible event was about to happen.

By now Zhuo Chu Yuan and several heavily armed airport special security officers were standing to one side of the runway near the airport terminal, they were all staring at the other end watching the jumbo 747 make its descent. On that airplane was their distinguished guest, Chen Wupeng who they were waiting for respectfully, he was possibly the only clue left in the world for this investigation.

She was holding a radio tuned to the pilot and air traffic control's frequency.

The pilot said, "Everything is smooth, the landing gear is down, start decelerating and initiate the landing procedure, please report the runway conditions. Over."

"Runways is open, you are cleared for landing. Over"

Following the transmission there were 34 seconds of silence.

The airplane descended straight to the runway.

Zhuo Chu Yuan held her breath, the investigation was about to move on to a new stage.

So far everything had gone smoothly, but suddenly the nose of the airplane dropped from a 45 degree angle to a 75 degree angle, straight towards the runway.

Zhuo Chu Yuan's heart gave a jump as her face turned a grayish white. The people around her all began to rush to the other end of the runway.

The radio control tower shouted a trasmission, "708, what happened?!"

A sorrowful voice responded, it still sounded like the pilot but was strangely different, "Nobody can destroy me, when I have enough strength I will certainly be back." The transmission continued with wild laughter that covered up the shouting from the control tower. Then the sound of struggling mixed with a loud alarm could be heard from the airplane transmission.

The nearly vertical airplane hit the runway.

In the concourse of the airport, Ling Duyu could not believe what was happening before his eyes.

He saw the airplane hit the runway.

"BOOM", a ball of flame instantaneously spread out onto the runway, it looked like a series of continuous detonations.

Ling Duyu jumped up quickly, wildly shouting, "NO!"

The entire frame of the Jumbo 747 passenger jet disintegrated in the flames, dense clouds of smoke shot up miles into the sky. Debris was scattered all around the runway from the staggering impact.

There was another explosion and more fire.

In front of Ling Duyu the concourse windows all shattered. The force of the explosion was so strong that the glass couldn't withstand the shockwave.

The airport seemed to calm down before another explosion rocked the foundation of the building.

Following it was a deafening wave of sound. There were some people who fell down, some people were scrambling towards the exits, suddenly thousands of people were thrown into chaos.

Ling Duyu's eyes smoldered, he never thought this would be possible, but it really did happen.

What is this "Magic Stone"?

What power caused the destruction of the entire airplane?

[rati4u]

hmmmm...this story is nice ....but i would like to experience some wuxia elements...r they there?

[WesY2K]

I think there will be some WuXia soon. Maybe we just need to wait a bit more. My guess would be that this will turn into some kind of "Wisely" novel (though I only watched the movies, since non of the novels have been translated yet). Patience, Young Padawan...

[rati4u]

what is Padawan?

[CFT]

what is Padawan?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi

[Grundle]

Here's the end to Chapter 3
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The sound of fire engines surrounded the airport. Now what? Under these circumstances it would be a miracle if they could even find a complete corpse.

Murder! A despicable murder.

It took Ling Duyu a brief moment to calm down. His many years of meditation along with repeated life threatening situations allowed him to be able to quickly steel his nerves and, with an iron will, confront situations calmly. He had been the first person at Professor Xie's crime scene and now Chen Wupeng was dead, in the rush to find the 'magic stone' Ling Duyu was going to be the primary focus.

He had to go.

Out of the corner of his eyes he noticed that there were people close by all around him.

Ling Duyu shouted out loudly, borrowing some of the inner anger he had built up. He used this opportunity to melt in to the rushing human tide.

The chaos in the concourse was astonishing, ten seconds before the airplane exploded the world had never seen anything like this. Men, women, and children were all shouting frantically, it happened at the airport's busiest time, while thousands of people were crowded together. When the impact of the blast wave shattered the glass walls it caused an instant panic, fear rapidly spread to hearts of the people. There was an indiscriminate stampede as a result and a mad rush to reach the exits.

The sound of four fire engines approaching only increased the crowd's fear.

This gave Ling Duyu the perfect opportunity to escape.

Thousands of people continually rushed forward, the movement of the human tide made it even more difficult for enemies to reach him.

Ling Duyu's physical conditioning was much better than the average person, keeping his body low he drilled into the human tide and worked his way to a side door he spotted earlier.

Ten yards away from the side door an enemy appeared, a tall well built solid looking man. He was moving toward him against the rushing tide. Ling Duyu immediately noticed a glistening black pistol clutched in his hand.

Ling Duyu called out an apology while at the same time using his shoulder to hit a stranger in front of him. He knocked him forward causing him to stumble and fall towards the armed man.

The man lifted his hand up to shove the falling stranger out of his way while his other hand lifted up the pistol. He was just about to shoot, but how could have known that Ling Duyu didn't retreat. Instead he followed right behind the falling stranger.

The armed man's view was blocked, he didn't see Ling Duyu rushing forward until he finally shoved the falling man out of his way. Amazingly, Ling Duyu magically appeared and he was only three feet away.

He immediately lowered the raised pistol and took careful aim, but it was already too late.

Even though the armed foreigner was expertly trained in weapons and hand to hand combat, something already unexpected had happened. On top of that he was also dealing with Ling Duyu who was a world-class master.

He was just about to pull the trigger when Ling Duyu shot his hands out and clamped on to the right hand holding the gun. The man made a miserable sound as the pistol fell from his hand, his abdomen was immediately in severe pain because he received a simultaneous knee strike from Ling Duyu. His body bent over in pain and he was struck by a second blow to the side of his neck. Everything went black as he crumbled to the ground.

Ling Duyu defeated the opponent, but he didn't dare to delay anymore. He quickly rushed through the side door. The river of people around him continued to move at a furious pace and he moved along with them towards concourse exit.

He squeezed himself to the right side of the passage. His goal was to quickly leave the airport, he originally wanted to take a car from the parking lot, but it was too dangerous.

The sirens from the fire trucks could be heard all around, it continually reminded the people of the terrible tragedy that just took place.

While Ling Duyu was walking he pulled off his yellow jacket, he reversed it and put it back on now a blue color. He then took out a fake beard with adhesive and put it on his face. He added a pair of thick glasses that made him look like he had a severe case myopia (near-sightedness). The new additions immediately changed him into a scholarly looking professor. The magnitude of this crucial situation forced him to use all the means at his disposal.

[efflix]

wow, this is pretty cool stuff. Ling Duyu is looking like a chinese james bond :P

[rati4u]

but but but...do you think in such a stampede,he will have the chance to change?

[Grundle]

but but but...do you think in such a stampede,he will have the chance to change?

You are underestimating Ling Duyu's preparedness. If you will remember earlier in the chapter it was his intention the whole time to escape from Zhuo Chu Yuan. This situation actually made it easier for him. The element that makes it possible to escape is the ability to disappear quickly!

How hard is it for an average person to turn a coat inside out and put it back on? I don't think a world class master like Ling Duyu would have many problems with it. The only difficult part might have been the beard, but I imagine all he had to do was fit it into place, and well glasses -- a trivial task.

[baldy]

Good work Grundle .. Any idea how many Ling DuYu stories are there in the series ?
PS Please check your PM

[Grundle]

Hey baldy! I think there are a total of 4 Ling Duyu books. I seem to remember that being the case when easysea.com was still around. I think they are also on qiqi.com, but I don't know the exact order. I might try to use the internet archive to figure it out again

[baldy]

I think there are more than 4 Ling Duyu books on qiqi

尔国临格 - er guo lin ge - Your country near standard (Babelfish) - 3 volumes
浮沉之主 - fu chen zhi zhu - Host of the vicissitude (Babelfish)
幽灵船 - you ling chuan - Spirit Ship (Babelfish) - Phantom Ship ??
圣女 - sheng nu - Saint female (Babelfish) - Holy Virgin ??
诸神之战 - zhu shen zhi zhan - War of the various gods (Babelfish) - long
上帝之谜 - shang di zhi mi - Riddle of the God (Babelfish)
光神 - guang shen - Light God (Babelfish)
迷失的永恒 - mi shi di yong heng - Loses eternal (Babelfish)
兽性回归 - shou xing hui qui - Beastly nature return (Babelfish)
易灵 - yi ling - Easy spirit (Babelfish)
月 魔 - yue mo = Month evil spirit (Babelfish) - Moon Demon

[rati4u]

You are underestimating Ling Duyu's preparedness. If you will remember earlier in the chapter it was his intention the whole time to escape from Zhuo Chu Yuan. This situation actually made it easier for him. The element that makes it possible to escape is the ability to disappear quickly!

How hard is it for an average person to turn a coat inside out and put it back on? I don't think a world class master like Ling Duyu would have many problems with it. The only difficult part might have been the beard, but I imagine all he had to do was fit it into place, and well glasses -- a trivial task.

Actually stampede means...a huge wave of human beings surging on us......it is considered to be lucky if you can manage to hold your ground...changing the appearance is really very hard....almost not possible

[Grundle]

I think there are more than 4 Ling Duyu books on qiqi

尔国临格 - er guo lin ge - Your country near standard (Babelfish) - 3 volumes
浮沉之主 - fu chen zhi zhu - Host of the vicissitude (Babelfish)
幽灵船 - you ling chuan - Spirit Ship (Babelfish) - Phantom Ship ??
圣女 - sheng nu - Saint female (Babelfish) - Holy Virgin ??
诸神之战 - zhu shen zhi zhan - War of the various gods (Babelfish) - long
上帝之谜 - shang di zhi mi - Riddle of the God (Babelfish)
光神 - guang shen - Light God (Babelfish)
迷失的永恒 - mi shi di yong heng - Loses eternal (Babelfish)
兽性回归 - shou xing hui qui - Beastly nature return (Babelfish)
易灵 - yi ling - Easy spirit (Babelfish)
月 魔 - yue mo = Month evil spirit (Babelfish) - Moon Demon

Whoah, sweet looks like I have more work than I thought...the tough question is, can we decipher the order they were written in?

[baldy]

Whoah, sweet looks like I have more work than I thought...the tough question is, can we decipher the order they were written in?

Aah .. .. I have no idea at all which is first (google/baidu is your friend is u know chinese and I don't) ...

[Grundle]

It's been quiet around here lately so....Here's something to liven it up

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Chapter 4: The Magic Stone's Demonic Power

He purposely chose to move where there were many people. The situation had become very chaotic until he left the airport and entered the crowded street, fortunately he did not meet any more intercepting enemies.

He retrieved a concealed car and drove half an hour back into the heart of the city to a large building.

This was the city's commercial district, the streets were stuffed with pedestrians, busy going on with their own business. The terrible disaster that happened only moments ago, now seemed to have taken place on an entirely different world. It seemed to have no relation with this place at all.

Ling Duyu opened the building gate, but looked like he didn't know where to go. He thought about the expensive management fee he payed each month and couldn't figure out what it was for.

The apartment was located on the 18th floor, which was the top floor. He entered the elevator and pressed the button marked "18". The door slid shut and the elevator began to rise slowly. His mind was filled with troubled thoughts. In order to make any progress with this mystery he needed to use a computer, and re-examine Professor Xie's diary from front to back. It was currently the only clue he had.

The elevator rose to the 18 floor, stopped, and the door opened.

Ling Duyu remained motionless

There were at least three guns pointed at him.

The guns had silencers on them.

Judging by their stable hands and calm expressions, they were all skilled experts.

It wasn't the right time to take a risk.

The man on the left said in English, "Hello, Mr. Ling."

As soon as he spoke, Ling Duyu knew that he was Japanese. The three men were wearing dark, mirrored sunglasses which made it very difficult to distinguish their nationality.

Ling Duyu smiled faintly and said, "I don't think there is any good place for me."

They man that spoke had no expression on his face. Apparently he did not appreciate Ling Duyu's sense of humor. Sticking to his broken English he said, "Don't move hands, walk out slowly." He slowly moved back as the other two men moved with him making a space. They stood in a clever position, even with Ling Duyu's amazing agility he couldn't attack all three at once.

The situation was stronger than the person, Ling Duyu shrugged and walked naturally out of the elevator. His brain was turning over rapidly trying to find a few techniques to deal with this situation. The enemy did not move to walk or grab him which made him want to see what they were going to do even more.

The big man raised the barrel of his gun and pointed to the apartment, "Go in!"

Ling Duyu walked to the door while watching for a sneak attack from behind. It would be the perfect moment to counter-attack.

They remained unmoving.

The door opened automatically, as if responding to Ling Duyu's presence.

Inside there were four men.

These four people had a powerful appearance, as if they were four valiant leopards.

They weren't carrying any guns, but Ling Duyu knew there had been an unusual change, as if his body wouldl be turned into a honeycomb, filled with holes.

They were dispersed throughout the room to form an encircling pattern.

Ling Duyu's desire to jump from the top story of the building would be suicidal, not to mention the windows are already covered with security bars.

One of the people had a large box-like apparatus in their hand. He moved it up and down in front of him and said in Japanese, "No guns, only a tracking device."

Ling Duyu was proficient in many languages, and Japanese was certainly not difficult for him. He had no difficulty understanding what they were talking about.

The short refined guard standing at the door to his study said perfectly in Chinese, "Mr Ling, please enter." Using very polite language.

In his heart Ling Duyu was shocked. His distressing revelation was that "he" has come. It was the only reasonable explanation. He took a step into the study where a mountainous man wearing a well trimmed Western style suit stood staring out the window.

The man slowly turned around.

He appeared to be between 40 and 45 years old. He had a stern and powerful appearance, slender dignified eyes that seemed to carry an electricity like lightning, and a profound depth. He was an extremely smart and dangerous figure, the bridge of his nose was straight and stiff making him look angry. He stood there looking like a mountain that could never be toppled. In fact he controlled the world's most powerful economy. It was said that if it did not meet his approval then nobody could be the prime minister.

Tagi Masamune

Ling Duyu said, "Please take a seat!" Reminding the other man who the host was.

Tagi Masamune's face held no expression as he said, "Mr. Ling's Japanese is very good, please forgive my rudeness." Turning to the guide, "You go outside, I have a few things I would like to discuss alone with Mr. Ling." Obeying the order he closed the door behind him.

Tagi Masamune said, "Regarding your close friend and the other victims I am equally indignant."

"Who did it?"

Tagi Masamune composed his face, "We can speak of this matter later, but first Mr. Ling should give up the 'magic stone', because on all accounts I am most deserving of it."

Ling Duyu replied, "I don't even know if the 'magic stone' exists. I don't know whether to believe Mr. Masamune or not."

There was a glint in Tagi Masamune's eye as he said decidedly, "I believe it!" He turned his back and raised his head to look out the window at the deep blue sky. In the sky there were white clouds slowly dancing on the breeze. Tagi Masamune said, "There are few people who are worthy enough to be held in high esteem by my Tagi Masamune sect, Mr. Ling is one of them. You unselfishly handle matters in a way that I myself admire." His expression was uncommonly proud, and suited his personal style and identity.

Ling Duyu did not try to conceal anything from Tagi Masamune as he calmly said, "I took Professor Xie's journal from him, but it was burned in a fire last night."

He turned around and suddenly said, "You didn't read the contents?"

Ling Duyu said, "I only read about 20 pages". Tagi Masamune cut him off as he stood up.

Tagi Masamune had an unreadable expression on his face, with his type of character he rarely revealed his innermost feelings. It was very difficult to know if he was disappointed. On the other hand the suspicion in Ling Duyu's heart continued to grow. Tagi Masamune could say that he wanted wind and would get wind, or that he wanted rain and he would get rain. Even if the biggest diamond in the world were given to him it might not be enough to bring a smile to his face. Although the 'magic stone' was precious and ancient, the cultural value far surpassed any monetary value. Why would this object make him move?

Ling Duyu said, "Mr. Masamune, all I know is that it is Egypt's national treasure. Why is it that you deserve it?"

Tagi Masamune proudly responded, "The 'magic stone' is a treasure of all humanity. The Egyptian government vainly places it in a museum where it becomes useless. It should be possessed by someone of high moral virtue."

Ling Duyu smiled, "And you happen to be that moral person?" He was born with an extremely proud nature and refused to accept Tagi Masamune's tyranny.

Tagi Masamune's serious face suddenly allowed a smile to leak through as he indifferently said, "Good! You have both courage and wisdom. Nobody has dared to speak to me in this manner before. At 17 years old I became the king of the streets because I took it by force. At 24 the Tiger became the leading group until it reached the status that it enjoys today. The principle by which I have lived my life is "might is justice". In this world who doesn't take what they want by force and deceit? The might makes it right, is the conqueror considered a thief?" After speaking his eyes darted toward and fixed fiercely on Ling Duyu, "I came here, so how about we make a deal?"

"What deal?"

"You get me the 'magic stone' back and I will get you an assortment of the most advanced arms with a total value that is no less than 200 million US dollars."

Ling Duyu originally wanted to flatly refuse, but Tagi Masamune's reward was an extremely strategically sound offering. Considering one shipment of such a huge amount of munitions, it could have a huge impact on overthrowing tyranny. He also wanted to know why Tagi Masamune wanted to acquire the 'magic stone' so bad. Why was the 'magic stone' so attractive?

"Why me?" Indeed if the Tagi Masamune clan took a step, the Earth would feel the vibration. It contained an innumerable number of capable people. Although Ling Duyu was no doubt an extremely talented person, if the Tagi Masamune clan could not complete this task, was it possible for him to?

[efflix]

yay!!! this "modern" story certainly spices things up - great variety of reading here =)

[overjoy71]

Thanks Grundle. Oh I hope this story continues.. hahaaa

[akolaw]

Would love to see Huang Yi's best novel, your new translation Da Tong Shuang Long Juan here as well.

[Grundle]

One thing at a time :P

I have been a little busy, so I didn't want to get too many hopes up with multiple translations.

When thing settle down (probably next month) I will have more time again.