Chapter 357
Chapter 357
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 357
>Chapter Title: Man
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“Inside... it’s too tragic, really too tragic.” Hong Da continued with a sigh.
“In the karmic obstacles of the Heart Turbid, they can’t die even if they want to, can’t live either. They won’t starve to death or fall asleep from exhaustion, yet they have to endure the torment of hunger and drowsiness, suffering endlessly like this, suffering endlessly.”
“You know? When her dad saw me come in, he said he doesn’t resent his daughter at all. He feels that as long as she’s suffering inside, at least it proves his daughter is still alive.”
After saying all this, Hong Da let out a deeply melancholy sigh. It seemed what he had experienced inside had touched him greatly.
After hearing Hong Da’s words, Li Huowang’s heart could not calm down for a long time.
He lifted his arm and cradled the Heart Turbid from his back into his arms, examining her with a very complex expression.
“If her consciousness is still there, she probably wouldn’t want to torment her family and friends like this, right?” The most pitiful was the Heart Turbid herself. Her unconscious actions tormented everyone nearby who could see her.
Compared to her, his own confusion as a Heart Element seemed far better.
“Taoist priest, she’s just too miserable. Let’s release her.” The monk walked up beside him with a pained expression on his face.
Li Huowang let out a light sigh but shook his head.
“We can’t release her. Leaving aside how her existence relates to whether we can obtain intel on the Sitting Oblivion Dao, more importantly, releasing her will only cause more deaths. Do you really want to do that?”
Even without any intent to harm, merely her gaze injured others. If he hadn’t guessed wrong, this village had been full of people before. As for where they’d gone now, it went without saying.
Hearing this, conflict appeared on the monk’s face. He only wanted to do good deeds, but when two good deeds came into conflict, he truly didn’t know what to do.
Previously, Li Huowang had always wondered why the Surveillance Bureau dealt with Heart Elements so ruthlessly, so cruelly.
But after seeing the Heart Turbid’s behavior and abilities, Li Huowang finally understood why they did it.
Leaving other matters aside, on this matter alone, they were indeed protecting the people of the world.
Heart Turbids like her and Heart Elements like him were simply too dangerous. Without meaning to, they could cause colossal disasters.
“Ear-wise brother? Who are you talking to?” Tuoba Danqing stared at Li Huowang in astonishment.
Li Huowang blinked and patted his abdomen with his hand.
“I’m talking to the Infant Primordial Spirit.”
For the next stretch of time, no one spoke. Everyone put away their weapons, their expressions relaxing.
Shentu Gang even yawned and stretched lazily.
As Li Huowang walked toward the inside of the village stronghold, Tuoba Danqing—who was spinning two large walnuts in his hand—drew close to him. He deliberately pulled him back a ways, lowering his voice tensely.
“Ear-wise brother, your brother’s giving you the inside scoop. If there’s no news from the Record Minister after he returns to the capital in ten days or half a month, let’s head to Qingqiu together to lay low. Serving anywhere is serving.”
Li Huowang froze. Was the other telling him to run?
“Brother Tuoba, have you learned something?”
Hearing Li Huowang’s question, Tuoba Danqing let out a helpless light sigh, said nothing, pointed ahead, and strode after.
“With the Heart Turbid captured, the Record Minister shouldn’t run into trouble, right? But if he really does, what about the intel he promised me?”
Considering the Heart Turbid’s abilities, plus the Record Minister’s such panicked behavior, Li Huowang sensed that the Surveillance Bureau urgently wanted the Heart Turbid this time in order to use her abilities for some massive undertaking.
Yet as a newbie who had just joined the Surveillance Bureau, he hadn’t detected the slightest hint of what was happening at the top.
Still, he had no need to detect it. For now, in this period, it had nothing to do with him.
Glancing at the anxious Hong Da beside him, Li Huowang followed Tuoba Danqing’s steps into the village.
The group walked quickly. Before long, they had reached the village entrance. The white mist outside the village gradually dispersed, and the masked Liu Zongyuan drew near as well.
“Lord Record Minister, how did it go? Did you succeed?” Liu Zongyuan eagerly inspected his somewhat disheveled companions.
“Little Liu, go call the carriage over. This one wants to rest a bit.” A trace of weariness appeared on the Record Minister’s fat pale face, his speech sounding listless.
“Since you’re back, laozi’s not going back to Silver Mausoleum with you. Erniu, remember this: our favor’s settled. Even if you kneel and beg laozi in the future, laozi won’t lift a finger for you.” After saying this, Shentu Gang turned and prepared to leave.
Seeing this, Li Huowang hurried forward a few steps to block Shentu Gang.
“Brother Shentu, might I trouble you to answer a question?”
Shentu Gang’s thick brows furrowed slightly. At least this time, he didn’t let filthy words fly from his mouth as usual.
“Out with it quick. Laozu’s got urgent business.”
Li Huowang’s gaze shifted down to glance at the other’s leather drum.
“I’ve heard that those who perform the great god jump are always slaves to the immortals, never to be freed for life. But I see that Brother Shentu isn’t like that at all. Might you tell me why?”
From before, Li Huowang had noticed that the helper soldier incantation from this man’s mouth was clearly different from Bai Lingmiao’s. There was no respect whatsoever for the immortals in the lyrics. On the contrary, the lyrics even carried a veiled threat.
“Is this for the big little sis?” With arms crossed over his chest, Shentu Gang saw through Li Huowang’s intentions at a glance.
Li Huowang didn’t deny it and nodded lightly. If possible, he wanted to change Bai Lingmiao’s current situation.
Not to say fully escape the immortals’ control, but at least to take the initiative in the game with the immortals, like Shentu Gang.
Shentu Gang nodded and leaned in to whisper something in Li Huowang’s ear.
As he spoke, Li Huowang’s eyes grew wider and wider, as if he found the other’s words utterly shocking.
“Is it really like that?”
“See ya. If we meet again someday, dinner’s on me.” Shentu Gang slammed a hard fist into the wound on Li Huowang’s chest and turned to vanish from everyone’s sight.
At that moment, the carriage sped up. Li Huowang hurriedly schooled the shock from his face and boarded swiftly with the others.
As he mulled over the method the other had told him, Red’s words from beside him made him look up.
“Li Huowang, snap out of it quick. Stop thinking. How’d an extra person appear across from you?”
Li Huowang looked up to find a ragged, emaciated man there. He was nearly completely certain this person wasn’t with their group.
The instant he saw the man, Hong Da reacted the strongest, his eyes bulging wide with horror on his face.
“How did you get out!?”
The man first looked around at the others staring at him before speaking in a very wooden voice.
“I suddenly remembered—I think I’m a Heart Turbid too. I had this woman hide me away so I could go inside and check if my family was there. But then she forgot, and so did I.”
(End of chapter)