Chapter 725
Chapter 725
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 725
>Chapter Title: Fifth Sister
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>Inside the sideways sports car, Li Huowang was still trapped and unable to move.
Watching the people in the distance walking toward him, Li Huowang grew frantic with anxiety. He had to get out right now—right now, he was completely at their mercy.
“Break for me!”
After hammering several times in a row, Li Huowang, with his skull exposed, smashed his head viciously against the glass once more. His entire bloodied, mangled head wrapped in shattered glass burst out through the car window, glaring ferociously at the two men holding tools.
The two men shuddered at the sight of Li Huowang like this and hurriedly backed away.
“Mommy! It’s a sports car!! Run! We couldn’t afford to pay for this even if we hauled freight our whole lives!”
“I told you, don’t take this road, don’t take this road! To save a few bucks on tolls, you just had to go this way!”
“Shut up and get in the truck! There’s no surveillance here! They won’t find us!”
While they were fleeing, Li Huowang had already crawled out of the car. Gritting his teeth, he charged straight toward the truck.
They had smashed him up this badly and thought they could just run? Not so easy!
As the truck engine roared to life, he whipped out the dagger from his coat pocket and rushed to the front of the vehicle.
Li Huowang climbed up the headlight ladder and grabbed the rearview mirror, slashing his dagger down onto the window and leaving a shallow scratch. “Get out of the truck!”
When they saw Li Huowang’s blood-drenched, gourd-like head poking up from below the window, the two men in the cab let out a shriek of terror and slammed on the accelerator.
Under the tremendous force, the rearview mirror Li Huowang was gripping was yanked clean off. With no purchase, he tumbled toward the wheels below.
The instant he hit the ground, his body tensed as he rolled swiftly to dodge the massive tire. In the next moment, summoning every ounce of strength, he slashed down at the tire.
With a “clang,” the tremendous impact snapped the dagger tip, twisted Li Huowang’s hand, but also tore a long gash in the tire.
By the time Li Huowang panted his way back to his feet, the truck’s blurry red taillights were already vanishing into the distance.
“It was just kidnappings and surveillance before, with Wang Wei at most using ropes! Now they’re ramming us with a truck!”
As the taillights disappeared from view, Li Huowang’s expression grew darker and darker.
If his senses hadn’t been so sharp, that hit just now would’ve sent all three of them straight to the afterlife! Their moves were getting bolder; he had to strike back soon—no more delays.
“It’s fine, I recorded it all. Hit-and-run, their fault entirely.” Qing Wanglai paused the video on his phone.
“How did you get out?” Li Huowang asked.
Qing Wanglai held up the safety hammer in his hand.
“Turning off the phone didn’t work. They still found our location through other means, so they sent people to ambush us!”
“Forget that for now—your head wound is more urgent.” Qing Wanglai took off his jacket and pressed it against the gash on Li Huowang’s head. In moments, the white shirt was soaked red with Li Huowang’s blood.
“It’s nothing, just a scratch. Let’s go—rendezvous with the others first! I’m worried about the rest!”
“A scratch? You joking? Don’t move—I’ll call someone.” Qing Wanglai pulled out his phone and quickly dialed a number.
“You okay? Nana?” With a free moment, Li Huowang looked down at Yang Na and saw her eyes brimming with tears, gazing at him in heartbroken distress.
Qing Wanglai’s friend arrived even faster than Li Huowang expected. A beat-up RV pulled up from ahead.
A cheerful woman with a blue headscarf, dreadlocks, and an eyebrow piercing stuck her head out the window. “Little Bro! What happened? Car crash?”
“What did I say before? This car’s only good for speed—otherwise, it’s not even as tough as my third-hand RV.”
“Fifth Sis, cut the chit-chat—can’t you see we’ve got wounded?”
Qing Wanglai and Yang Na supported the heavily bleeding Li Huowang as they headed toward the RV. It looked small on the outside, messy inside, but cozily arranged.
This woman called Fifth Sister swiftly pulled out a medical kit. With deft hands, she cleaned Li Huowang’s wounds, stitched them, applied medicine, and splinted his broken hand with a board.
After a smooth flurry of procedures, she even pulled out a syringe and gave Li Huowang two injections.
“Young folks recover fast—plenty of vitality. Looks like no transfusion needed; think of it as early blood donation.” She patted Li Huowang’s shoulder with her right hand, nails painted in a riot of colors.
“Thanks, Fifth Sister.” Li Huowang stood up immediately, ready to get out of the RV.
“Where you going?” Qing Wanglai asked from his seat nearby.
“Wound’s patched, so obviously rendezvous with the others.” Li Huowang answered matter-of-factly.
Qing Wanglai pointed at Fifth Sister, who was tilting her head back to drink water. “She’s one of the eight. We ride with her.”
“You’re Li Huowang? Name’s Wu Qi—pleased to meet ya.” Wu Qi shook Li Huowang’s good hand, then pulled aside the curtain to the driver’s seat.
“She’s one of them?” Li Huowang stared in surprise at her broad shoulders. This woman in her twenties didn’t look the least bit deranged.
“Fifth Sis, thanks so much for the help just now—you stopped Huowang’s bleeding so quick. You’re amazing.” Yang Na walked over and thanked her as she worked the clutch.
“This? Piece of cake. Back in emergency services, I dragged folks back from death’s door who were way worse off than this.”
Yang Na glanced at Li Huowang, then asked, “Fifth Sis, did you used to work in a hospital?”
At the mention of that topic, Wu Qi immediately perked up. “Yep. There’s an old saying: ‘Persuade someone to study medicine, and heaven will strike you with lightning.’ Exactly right.”
“Not just endless shifts between life and death, low pay, barely any rest. No clue why I ever chose this. On bad days, you’d watch a bunch of people die right in front of you. The negative vibes were off the charts.”
Li Huowang’s gaze drifted to the RV’s decor. On the left-side fridge, magnets held a few travel photos, the most prominent one her selfie with the Leshan Giant Buddha. A long string of shimmering prayer beads hung on the wall beside it.
As Li Huowang took in the RV’s layout, the conversation up front continued.
“Then one day, I realized I was so slammed my period was almost gone. Got me thinking: what’s the point of life, really?”
“We get what, a few decades? Just to slave away in this world for some red bills?”
“Then it hit me—I had an epiphany, y’know? From then on, I live for me. Whatever makes me happy. Houses, cars, status, cash? All bullshit!”
“After that, I finally got what ‘empty mind, vast heavens’ means. No more rules holding me back—I’m way freer now.”
“Little sis, you should try it sometime. That’s really living.”
(End of chapter)