Chapter 307
Chapter 307
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 307
>Chapter Title: Stomach Ruptured
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Looking at the indifference in their eyes, Li Huowang let out a light sigh. Whatever he said now probably wouldn't make any difference.
At this point, if he kept insisting, there really would be bloodshed. He didn't want to see blood with Bai Lingmiao's family.
Putting himself in her shoes, he understood what family meant to Bai Lingmiao.
With that in mind, Li Huowang turned around without another word and plunged into the dense reed marsh, retracing his steps.
"Later, I'll check if that masked kid is still there. If he is, I need to find a way to hold him off a bit. Buy some time for the Bai family to retreat."
But as he walked along, Li Huowang's expression grew increasingly unsettled.
Based on the time he'd taken before, he should have long since exited this dense reed marsh by now. Yet he hadn't even caught sight of the reeds' edge.
He immediately recalled what Bai Sai had said earlier—this reed marsh was extremely easy to get lost in.
"What's going on? Am I trapped in here?" Li Huowang stopped abruptly and slowly turned his body, scrutinizing the identical surroundings on all sides.
"Swish!" A flash of cold light shot out from the reeds. Li Huowang twisted his body to dodge it.
But the next moment, an excruciating pain erupted from his lower back.
As Li Huowang involuntarily opened his mouth from the pain, black wriggling tentacles extended from deep in his throat, trembling nonstop in agony.
Feeling the tentacles brush against his mouth, Li Huowang's heart sank. "Oh no! It hit my stomach!"
Before he could react, more cold lights shot from the reeds—one massive two-meter arrow after another instantly engulfing Li Huowang from all directions.
With all the arrows piled into a heap, Li Huowang clutched his bleeding abdomen and slowly walked out from the wooden pile.
As he looked toward the now-still reeds around him, not a trace of warmth remained in his eyes.
From the sheer number of arrows, it was clear the Bai family had hidden weapons here long ago. This place might even be their territory—Bai Sai hadn't been truthful with him before.
Li Huowang's body color slowly shifted as he stealthily submerged into the depths of the reed marsh.
In his invisible state, he made his way step by step toward the edge. "When I get back, I definitely need to ask Bai Lingmiao about this!"
Li Huowang walked slowly. The surroundings finally quieted down, with no new disturbances.
After walking for around two hours, the panting Li Huowang came to a stop. He released the hand clutching his abdomen and looked at the mangled flesh inside.
He thought with some worry: "Black Tai Sui isn't dead, just injured. It shouldn't affect its suppression of the hallucinations, right?"
Just as the thought crossed his mind, a faint wobble in the surroundings made Li Huowang's expression change instantly.
Seeing that nothing around him had actually changed, Li Huowang finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Please don't scare me. Getting trapped in hallucinations at a time like this would be no joke."
No sooner had Li Huowang spoken than a blurry shape suddenly burst from the ground, piercing straight through his abdomen.
In the next instant, Li Huowang felt as if his intestines were about to snap apart, pain covering his face in cold sweat.
Another blurry Wandering Lord emerged from underground, attempting the same trick. Li Huowang swiftly drew his sword and slashed down hard. The Wandering Lord dissipated gradually amid a faint breeze.
The remaining Wandering Lords didn't dare approach Li Huowang. They circled him like ghosts, seeking an opening.
"What's going on? I'm clearly invisible! How did they find me!"
As he looked down at the ground, his gaze froze. Blood—the blood dripping to the ground had given away his position!
In that instant, sensing the flaw, the surrounding Wandering Lords surged toward him all at once.
Li Huowang instantly sheathed his sword and drew his copper coin sword again. As he chanted the incantation fiercely, the copper coin sword exploded, its coins embedding into the Wandering Lords' bodies and making them dissipate into smoke one after another.
"What the hell do you want from me!! Don't forget I saved your lives before!!"
Li Huowang felt a twinge of grievance in his heart. He'd gone this far—why were they still treating him like this!
At that moment, a mound suddenly bulged from the ground beside Li Huowang. The next second, a man swung a knife at him with one hand.
Li Huowang's expression turned ferocious. He decided not to hold back any longer—even if it meant killing, it was better than dying himself.
But the hand Li Huowang had placed on his torture tool froze upon seeing the man's face. It was Bai Lingmiao's father.
"Don't!" Li Huowang instinctively raised his hand, but in the next moment, most of his palm was sliced off.
In the next instant, gleaming spears shot from the reeds, piercing through Li Huowang's abdomen like a ragged doll and nailing him to the ground.
With Li Huowang pinned to the ground, the outcome seemed sealed. "Puchi puchi" sounds rang out as his limbs were nailed down as well.
In excruciating pain all over, Li Huowang looked at the utterly cold faces surrounding him and asked with difficulty: "Is this necessary? What did I ever do to you?"
Hearing this, one of the Bai women spoke to Li Huowang with utter disgust: "You have no idea how deep our hatred for the imperial dogs runs! Since you're one of them, anything we do to you is justified!!"
Li Huowang painfully swallowed a mouthful of bloody saliva. His mind foggy now, a bitter smile appeared on his face.
"You've won now. Why don't you carry me back to Oxheart Village and ask Bai Lingmiao how to deal with me? After all, I'm her husband."
Hearing this, murmurs immediately arose all around.
At this time, Bai Lingmiao's mother rushed to the front. Her expression extremely stern, she said to Li Huowang: "Parental decree and matchmaker's word! We decide who she marries. We absolutely won't let our daughter marry an imperial dog!"
Bai Lingmiao's father glanced at the miserable Li Huowang. He flung the bloody knife in his hand, pulled his wife aside, and whispered something in her ear. He seemed to have other ideas about this.
He then walked over and looked down at Li Huowang.
Li Huowang stared at his face, increasingly convinced it resembled an orange. He couldn't help but laugh out loud despite the pain.
But with his voice, the man's head actually gradually turned into a moldy rotten orange, now in Li Huowang's hand.
"Orange?"
The next moment, a torrential downpour fell from the sky, stinging Li Huowang's face.
Drenched in the rain, Li Huowang squatted bewildered beside a garbage bin, shivering as he clutched the rotten orange in his hands.
Like he'd been electrocuted, Li Huowang jumped to his feet. The rotten orange fell into a nearby puddle, bobbing up and down in the rain.
In the next moment, he realized where he was. "Oh no! The Black Tai Sui in my stomach was attacked. Its ability to suppress hallucinations is gone!"
Another thought followed: "But why am I on the street? Wasn't I supposed to be locked up in the mental hospital? What happened during this time??"
Stunned, Li Huowang looked down at his clothes: a filthy oversized jacket on his upper body, waterlogged cotton pants below, his left foot in a shoe with toes poking out, his right foot in just a sock.
His entire homeless lunatic getup was soaked through by the pouring rain from above.
Before Li Huowang could figure it out, an intense hunger from his abdomen seized his consciousness.
He had never felt this hungry—as if he hadn't eaten for over ten days.
Li Huowang immediately squatted by the sewage puddle and picked up the moldy rotten orange, shoving it into his mouth peel and all.
At that moment, a car's tire splashed through the puddle, drenching him further, but he paid it no mind.
Shivering from the cold, Li Huowang curled up against the green sanitation garbage bin and gulped down the moldy orange in big bites.
(End of chapter)