Chapter 387
Chapter 387
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 387
>Chapter Title: White Tower
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> With a great enemy right before him, Li Huowang ignored the pain and pulled out two glowing stones from his robes, hurling them straight toward the darkness in the water.
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> The glowing stones plummeted quickly, illuminating a corner of the "Grandpa Dragon King" in the darkness. A long, strip-like thing covered entirely in black hair appeared before him.
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> "What the hell is this!" Li Huowang gritted his teeth and gripped his sword in his right hand, slashing down at his own wrist.
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> Ferocious bone spikes burst from the severed arm, spinning rapidly as they lunged toward the thing.
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> Meanwhile, several black tentacles wriggled out from Li Huowang's severed arm, barely forming a hand.
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> As Li Huowang's left hand plunged in and out of that black mass, the seawater gradually turned black with blood. The thing, which should have been a solid clump, was forced to disperse.
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> One by one, faces like human visages emerged from the black hair, their dark green eyes brimming with hostility and murderous intent.
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> "These aren't human faces—they're monkey faces. There's no Dragon King at all, just a huddled mass of water monkeys." Li Huowang stared at the things before him, their limbs twisting like seaweed, thinking to himself.
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> "Water monkeys will do. At least they can understand human speech."
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> With a sharp clang, he drew the Violet-Tasseled Sword, his body enveloped in surging baleful aura. Li Huowang suddenly opened his mouth wide, and tumbling bubbles floated toward the surface. "Scram!"
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> The horde of water monkeys glared fixedly at Li Huowang, but soon their black-furred bodies began swaying with the water currents, gradually vanishing from sight. It seemed they had truly been scared off by him.
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> With the crisis averted, Li Huowang prepared to surface. But he didn't see the bald, bearded man from before. "Where is he? I didn't see him earlier either."
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> Li Huowang burst out of the water's surface, took several deep breaths, then dove back in to search for the missing bearded man.
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> After several dives, Li Huowang finally found the bald, bearded man at the seafloor.
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> Half his face was gone, his left eye gouged out by the water monkeys. The skin on his face had been scoured by the seawater until it was whiter than Bai Lingmiao's.
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> "You..." Li Huowang stared at the corpse, at a loss for words.
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> "Amitabha, Amitabha. You're bald, so you can still do good deeds. You must've been an incredible monk." The Monk began chanting sutras beside him.
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> Li Huowang sighed helplessly in his heart and grabbed the beard floating amid the bloodied water, swimming toward the surface.
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> "I should've tested his skills before letting him jump in."
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> As Li Huowang pondered this, a startled cry came from the Monk behind him. "Daoist, watch out!! Behind you—!"
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> Before the Monk could finish, Li Huowang whipped around. The last thing he saw was a ferocious maw larger than a house, covered in thick, dark, elongated tentacles.
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> "Hmm?" Li Huowang stared blankly at the dusty ceiling fan overhead.
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> A cluster of small white wildflowers filled his vision. "Brother, you're awake? Look, aren't these flowers pretty? I picked them from outside."
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> Li Huowang shifted his gaze, following the chubby hand holding the flowers upward to a simple, honest fat face.
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> He looked quite old—at least forty or fifty—but his mannerisms were childlike, his eyes gleaming with pure innocence.
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> Suddenly, Li Huowang's muscles tensed all over. "Something's wrong! I was just eaten by that thing in the water—how am I suddenly here?"
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> He struggled to sit up, only to find his limbs tightly bound by wide restraint straps.
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> "Brother, this is White Tower Hospital. Though some people call it White Tower Prison. I was digging through trash cans on the street when the guards brought me here."
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> "The guards said I'm not too dumb, so they let me change your bedpans and feed you, and they give me extra candy."
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> Staring at this unfamiliar scene, Li Huowang's mind raced. "No matter why Black Tai Sui's power failed, since I can appear in the hallucination, it means I'm not dead yet—I still have hope! No, this is inside that thing's stomach! I have to get out of here fast!"
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> Having sorted his thoughts, Li Huowang turned to the man beside him. "Can you do me a favor? Untie these restraint straps for me."
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> The man shook his head vigorously like a rattle. "No way! The guards said I can't untie them. If I do, they'll lock me in the black room."
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> The situation on the real side was critically urgent—he might be fully digested by whatever it was at any moment. Li Huowang had no time to waste here.
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> He took a deep breath and twisted sharply to the left. The entire metal bed flipped over with a deafening crash.
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> Li Huowang's action terrified the man, who started bawling and pounding on the iron door, crying loudly at the camera overhead. "Guards! Waaah, come quick! I'm scared!"
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> Li Huowang writhed, bouncing the iron bed high before slamming it down hard.
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> Using the momentum, he crushed the bones of his left hand into fragments. Gritting his teeth, he yanked it sharply.
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> His mangled left hand slithered out from the restraint strap like a noodle, freeing itself.
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> With his pinky—the only finger he could move—Li Huowang desperately hooked the strap's buckle. Soon, his right hand was free too.
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> By now, footsteps in leather shoes echoed from outside the ward. Li Huowang moved even faster.
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> The instant a guard rushed in, Li Huowang drove his right knee upward, snapping the man's three ribs.
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> As he subdued one, two stun batons jabbed into Li Huowang's body, sending him convulsing from the shocks.
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> Li Huowang clenched his teeth, yanked out the wires, and fixed the remaining guards with a man-eating glare.
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> The man shuddered at Li Huowang's appearance. Though he had other gear, his odds against this guy were slim—he knew exactly why Li Huowang was locked up here.
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> "Li Huowang? That's you, right? I know you're bipolar. You can hear me now, can't you?"
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> "Calm down, calm down. Your girlfriend just finished visiting and hasn't left yet. Want me to call her over so you can see her?"
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> Li Huowang ignored him, snatched the keycard and stun gun from the fallen guard, and bolted for the door.
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> "I don't care what you are—you think I'll just stay in your stomach and wait to die? Dream on!!"
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> As Li Huowang kept unlocking iron gates and taking down guards, alarms blared throughout White Tower Prison's psychiatric ward. Several teams rushed in through the exits.
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> Assessing the situation, Li Huowang rationally avoided the exits.
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> Glancing around, he charged into the guards' office and leaped from the fourth floor in a single bound before anyone could react.
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> "Cough cough~!" Li Huowang spat blood and shakily stood from the grass.
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> Ignoring the lunatics out for air who crowded around, he looked up at the massive gray prison building with a smug smile.
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> "I don't care what you are, but you think you can eat me? Keep dreaming!"
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> (End of chapter)