Chapter 658
Chapter 658
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 658
>Chapter Title: Answer
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Li Huowang sat numbly in place, pondering what he had just experienced.
It was clear that he had answered his mother’s call, and the other side knew his name. Yet once he got through, the phone was broken—not even powered on. So who exactly had he been talking to?
And if that was his hallucination, did that mean the earlier glimpse was a hallucination too?
Did he, Li Huowang, really have mental illness? Sick from beginning to end?
Li Huowang squeezed his eyes shut in agony, clutching his head with both hands and raking through his hair fiercely.
He didn’t want to admit it, but he had no choice—he couldn’t even trust himself anymore.
“I…” Li Huowang struggled for a moment before painfully pulling up Yi Donglai’s number from his contacts.
After a long string of beeps, Yi Donglai’s voice came through.
“Hey, Little Li? What’s up with the call?”
Li Huowang clenched his fist, his voice trembling slightly as he asked,
“Doctor Yi, do you think it’s possible I have persecutory delusions?”
“What do you mean ‘possible’? Little Li, have you had some new symptoms?”
“I don’t know if it’s that, but I keep feeling like someone’s sent people to watch me. They seem to have some scheme against me. This sensation has happened many times now.”
“Never during your hospitalization? Only after discharge?”
“Yeah, never inside the hospital. Look, that feeling’s back again.”
Li Huowang pulled out the mirror again and started reflecting.
But this time, what it reflected wasn’t Aunt Qi—it was a woman, one holding a parasol that hid her face.
It was still spring, after all. A woman like that standing in the neighborhood looked utterly bizarre.
“Is she my hallucination? A delusion I imagined? Or something else?” Li Huowang wondered to himself.
Yi Donglai’s voice kept going, but Li Huowang, his gaze firm once more, quietly tapped to end the call.
“If it really is a delusion, fine, I’ll accept it—whether that means going back to the hospital or whatever. But today, I have to figure this out. Is this my imagination or not!”
Li Huowang set down his phone, grabbed some things from the drawer and stuffed them in his pocket, then hurried down the stairs. When he emerged from the building, the woman was still standing there.
Li Huowang eyed her position and quietly circled around to her back via the left-side building, closing in fast.
The nearer he got, the more details he spotted. She wore high heels and clothes far too thin for the season—chilling mismatches.
The more of these horrifying little details he saw, the more terror filled Li Huowang’s eyes.
He drew closer, ever closer. When he was just a few steps away, the black car parked by the neighborhood suddenly flung open its doors, and two shadows lunged out.
One clamped a liquid-soaked cloth over Li Huowang’s face, while the other seized his arms from behind and dragged him toward the car.
Sensing the thick medicinal stench from the cloth, Li Huowang felt no panic—only wild joy. The weight in his heart finally dropped.
“I’m not crazy! This isn’t a hallucination!! Someone really wants to harm me!”
The thought had just flashed through Li Huowang’s mind when his consciousness began to blur. The cloth was drugged!
Li Huowang bared his upper and lower teeth, jammed his tongue against his back molars, and bit down hard.
Agonizing pain and crimson blood flooded his mouth, snapping his mind awake in an instant.
The next moment, Li Huowang gaped his jaws as wide as possible, engulfing the man’s cloth and fingers alike.
Then a bloodthirsty glint ignited in his eyes. His jaw quivered as he unleashed force, his teeth shearing straight through the man’s fingers.
“Hiss!” The man sucked in a sharp breath, pounding Li Huowang’s head with his free hand, trying to wrench his other out. But Li Huowang didn’t budge.
The three struggling figures piled into the car. The instant they did, Li Huowang released his bite, sending the man slamming into the window.
Li Huowang parted his gore-dripping jaws and fixed a sinister stare on these total strangers before him.
“Know why I got in your car? No matter who you are, once I’m inside, whether I kill you or maim you—it’s all self-defense!”
With one hand, Li Huowang whipped a utility knife from his sleeve and plunged it into the man’s thigh.
As the other recoiled in pain, the snarling Li Huowang gripped the knife tighter, lunged forward with jaws agape—
The black urban SUV began to rock. As the shaking grew violent, the door burst open, and the blood-soaked Li Huowang tumbled out.
He glared coldly at the fleeing car, tossed his bloodied utility knife to the ground, then fished his phone from his pocket and dialed.
“Hello, is this 110? I need to report—I’ve been kidnapped.”
“I killed one of the kidnappers, and the other’s probably done for too. They’re in a black car, heading off from Wuyi Road.”
Kidnapping was serious business—especially when the victim had killed a captor.
Soon, Li Huowang was at the station, sipping tea and fielding a very thorough interrogation.
While Li Huowang endured the questions, Sun Jianye stood outside, head throbbing as he eyed Li Huowang’s info on the police terminal—and beside him, the teary-eyed Sun Xiaoqin.
“Comrade, don’t worry. Your son’s fine. Have a seat here and wait. I’ll go in and get the situation.”
With that, he led his apprentice into the mediation room to listen in on his colleague’s questioning.
“Classmate Li, you’re saying they came to abduct you, right? Any idea why? Have you offended anyone lately?”
At those words, Li Huowang, clutching a disposable cup, sank into thought.
After a moment’s hesitation, he spoke up.
“I’ve killed a few people before. I think these guys were their accomplices, out for revenge. You could look into that angle.”
The mediation room fell deathly silent. No one else spoke.
As the atmosphere grew heavy, another uniformed officer entered.
“We pulled the neighborhood surveillance, but there’s no sign of any kidnappers on it.”
After Sun Jianye hurriedly reviewed the footage with his colleague, he turned a suspicious gaze on Li Huowang.
“No?! Impossible—I kept evidence.” Li Huowang reached into his pocket and slapped two severed fingers onto the table.
(End of chapter)