Chapter 206
Chapter 206
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 206
>Chapter Title: Beat
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Wang Wei spoke his words section by section, his tone gradually growing heavier.
“Of course, besides your mother, there’s also your girlfriend! They’ll end up despising you in the end, because no one wants to stay by a madman’s side.”
Seeing Li Huowang lying on the bed and glaring at him, Wang Wei continued, “Do you know how long she has to take the train every time she comes here? How many transfers she needs? How many excuses she’s made up to dodge her parents? No, you don’t know. All you care about is yourself.”
“That girl named Yang Na has been giving everything for you, but what about you?”
“You just keep up this passive treatment, hiding in your comfort zone, unwilling to take a single step for her. Li Huowang! What kind of man are you!?”
Veins bulged on Li Huowang’s forehead.
“Li Huowang, you don’t deserve her! Yang Na should’ve dumped you long ago to find someone better! In the end, she’ll be having kids with someone else, and you’ll be lying in your hospital bed, imagining what they’re doing in theirs!”
“Shut your mouth!!”
“Creak~” With that sound, the cloth strips binding Li Huowang’s body swayed as they snapped taut. He fixed Wang Wei with a murderous glare.
Wang Wei saw the hostility in his eyes but showed no fear at all. Instead, he walked right up to the bed and undid all the restraints on his body.
With a “whoosh,” Li Huowang lunged forward, grabbing Wang Wei’s nurse uniform with one hand and smashing a fist into his face.
“What do you know!? You’re just a hallucination! Do you have any idea what I’ve been through!? You don’t know a damn thing!!”
Wang Wei fought back, landing a punch on Li Huowang’s face that sent blood streaming from his nose.
At that moment, his expression turned as manic as Li Huowang’s, glaring at him with gritted teeth.
“I’m telling you, Li Huowang! I do know! You think you’re the only one in the world trapped in hallucinations!? Wrong! I was too, but I broke out! And now I’m even a qualified doctor! So I’m better than you! You coward!”
As the two fought more and more fiercely, a syringe stabbed into Li Huowang’s arm from the side.
Right away, Li Huowang felt like his brain had rusted over—everything he did was agonizingly slow, and he couldn’t muster any strength in his body.
Wang Wei, with his students’ help, propped Li Huowang up and rebound him to the bed.
Panting heavily with his clothes disheveled, Wang Wei stuck a finger in his mouth and rubbed at a loose tooth.
“This kid hasn’t exercised his muscles in so long, but he still packs a punch.”
“Teacher, this...” Doctor Hou standing nearby looked troubled. He’d heard the man had an unconventional style, but starting off by brawling with a patient was a bit too outrageous.
Wang Wei stood by the bed, looking down at Li Huowang’s youthful face scarred by the bullet graze.
Li Huowang stared sluggishly at the man before him, not even knowing what was going through his own mind.
Gradually, the two people in front of him changed, growing taller and larger. Their voices echoed hugely, hazy and distant, like they were accompanied by the beat of drums.
“His condition is quite unique, and his psychological defenses are extremely high—his emotions are almost completely shut off. So our first step is to increase his interaction with the real world. Let him interfere with it through his own senses.”
“But that’s not how it’s written in the books.”
“Not in the books? You think there’s a case like this in the books? Don’t be so rigid—learn to adapt. Double the dose of the sedative.”
Li Huowang had no idea what happened after that. He just remembered everything being a chaotic mess. When he woke again, he found the world in front of him upside down, with a huge full moon hanging below him.
It took a while to figure it out—the moon hadn’t fallen; he was the one upside down.
In his unconscious state, he’d apparently used his new ability.
Once he slowly righted his body, he began following the messy tracks on the ground, walking step by step back the way he’d come.
It wasn’t long before Li Huowang spotted Gouwa peeking out from behind a rock.
“Didn’t I tell you to bury me? How’d I end up running off?”
At those words, Gouwa looked utterly innocent. “Brother Li, we did bury you, but the problem was you walked right out of the dirt.”
“Walked out? What do you mean?”
“Just like that time when we were crying at your grave, and you crawled out of it.”
Gouwa’s words made Li Huowang’s expression darken. He really hadn’t considered that before.
Having gained that new ability had definitely made him much stronger, which might be a good thing for others.
But for him? Not necessarily. Because Li Huowang knew he was insane.
If there was anything more dangerous than a madman, it was a madman with a blade in his hand.
The greater the power, the greater the responsibility—that was for others. For him, greater power just meant greater harm.
“No, from now on, no matter what happens in the hallucination, I have to stay as calm as possible.”
Li Huowang mulled this over as he quietly headed back.
Along the way, he saw the others holding torches, all searching for him. He’d gone quite far.
He saw the fear of him on their faces. He said nothing and kept walking.
When he returned to the original spot, he found everyone else already gathered.
Li Huowang spoke to Bai Lingmiao’s back. “I’m back.”
Bai Lingmiao shuddered and slowly turned around, revealing her right cheek, bruised black and blue, to Li Huowang.
The sight filled Li Huowang with intense self-loathing that crushed the breath from his lungs. Clearly, he’d done that.
Tears in her eyes, Bai Lingmiao rushed over and hugged Li Huowang tightly. “Thank goodness, Brother Li! I really thought I’d never see you again!”
Li Huowang’s trembling arms wrapped around her, squeezing as if to pull her into his own body.
The guilt eased a little, only for a wave of intense fear to surge up. This time it had only been a punch, but what if next time he had a knife?
Despairing images flashed through Li Huowang’s mind, making his pupils quiver slightly.
Though Li Huowang said nothing, Bai Lingmiao could clearly sense what he was thinking. Her fair, jade-like hand gently stroked his back.
“Brother Li, it’s okay. I know you didn’t mean it. It’s just a swelling—it’ll go down in a few days.”
Her words didn’t improve his mood much. He leaned close to her ear and whispered, “Promise me, if it happens again... stay as far away from me as you can.”
“Okay.” Bai Lingmiao nodded obediently, though only she knew what she truly thought.
Li Huowang’s gaze moved slowly past her shoulder, the emotion in his eyes growing ever more resolute.
Finally, it settled on a line of words he’d carved into the ground with his knife.
One of Sitting Oblivion Dao’s higher-ups, also a Heart Elemental. He lived to 190 and completely escaped the hallucinations. (?)
(End of chapter)