Chapter 730
Chapter 730
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 730
>Chapter Title: Zhao Lei
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“Ahhh!!”
With Zhao Lei’s scream, he clutched his stabbed eye and dropped into a half-crouch.
In the chaotic basement, Li Huowang stared at him coldly, without the slightest trace of pity. He picked up the kitchen cleaver from the ground and positioned himself to block the doorway.
Just moments ago, while he had been questioning Wang Gang about who had defected to them, Zhao Lei had suddenly launched a sneak attack from behind.
There was no need for Wang Gang to say anything more—facts had already proven that Zhao Lei was the traitor.
When they gathered at Juzizhou earlier, Zhao Lei had been one of the people who received the message. He must have known the meeting location in advance.
The fact that a truck had been sent to ram him halfway there made it obvious that Zhao Lei had leaked the information.
And the absence of the other two? That might have had something to do with him as well. Compared to enemies, Li Huowang hated traitors even more.
“Zhao Lei, Zhao Lei… I never thought it’d be you. What did they offer you? You think being their dog will end well for you? Didn’t they still take your special ability away?” Chen Hongyu walked over, grief-stricken, blocking Zhao Lei’s escape like a wall.
Seeing the others closing in, Zhao Lei’s expression shifted unpredictably as he covered his eye. “Blame me? Why blame me? You were the one who wronged me first! I was just protecting myself!!”
“I wronged you?” Li Huowang laughed. “I only saw you today for the first time. Tell me—how exactly did I wrong you??”
“Fake! It’s all fake!” Zhao Lei trembled as he lowered his blood-soaked hand, staring at his palm before quickly covering his eye again.
“What fake? Don’t pretend to be crazy to dodge responsibility! Real insanity or fake—I can tell at a glance!” Li Huowang pointed the cleaver at his face.
“You don’t understand! We’ve met before! You stole my things first! If you’re unjust, don’t blame me for being unrighteous!” Zhao Lei roared hysterically.
“Let’s talk this out. Why make it so ugly? We’ve known each other a long time,” Wu Qi stepped forward, trying to smooth things over.
“Don’t give me that act!! Who are you all pretending for?!” Zhao Lei suddenly shouted louder.
“If not for a common enemy, would you all have set aside your grudges and gathered together? Your dirty pasts—I don’t even bother exposing them! You really think you’re one happy family?”
“No one’s going to say it? Don’t want your secrets laid bare? Fine, I will! Qian Fu! Do you dare admit who made you end up this crazy?”
“Wu Qi! Why do you only dare wander outside and never go home?”
“And you, Qing Wanglai—always playing the good guy while others take the blame! Think you’re the clever one and everyone else is too stupid to notice?”
Zhao Lei’s words silenced the room. Li Huowang glanced at the others’ faces, their expressions varied and complicated. He understood something then.
There were probably truths in what Zhao Lei said. On the surface they seemed harmonious, but clearly there were past conflicts Li Huowang didn’t know about.
“When I was in trouble, you all just stood there watching! And now you blame me for selling you out? Hah! If they’d offered you a deal in secret, who among you can swear you wouldn’t waver?”
Li Huowang had heard enough. He stepped forward. “I don’t know what delusions you’re spouting. But no matter how crazy you are, you should understand their target is us. Do you really think surrendering to them will end well?”
Zhao Lei lowered his trembling hand, his bloodshot, ruptured eye staring fixedly at Li Huowang. “I could only gamble. They’re not trustworthy—but are you? At least they look more likely to win.”
Li Huowang set down the cleaver, grabbed a roll of yellow tape, and tightly bound Zhao Lei’s hands and feet.
“Enough. I don’t want to hear your rambling. Let’s talk about them. Since they bought you, you must know something. Who are they?”
Zhao Lei laughed softly. “Fake. It’s all fake. You really don’t know who they are? You wouldn’t know?”
“Listen!” Li Huowang grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up, staring at his pale face. “You’d better cooperate. I don’t want to use force. But if you refuse to talk, I have plenty of ways to make you.”
“Heh…” Zhao Lei chuckled lowly. “Want to know who they are? No need to interrogate me. Soon enough, they’ll know who you are.”
Just as confusion rose in everyone’s minds, three long knocks and two short ones sounded at the door.
Hearing that signal, Zhao Lei’s tone turned smug. “You really think I’m useless? I lied to you. Why do you think I brought you to this remote basement?”
Bang!
The door was smashed open. Three smoking iron spheres rolled in.
They burst apart, releasing choking white smoke that instantly filled the room. Visibility dropped to nothing; coughing erupted everywhere.
“Nana!” Li Huowang rushed toward Yang Nana. Feeling her soft body and touching the jade at her ear, he pulled her down and guided her toward the corner.
“Cough—give me the stun gun! Stay in the corner! Don’t stick your head out!”
“Okay.”
With a cleaver in one hand and a stun gun in the other, Li Huowang waited patiently, covering his nose.
As the smoke thinned slightly, he gritted his teeth and charged toward the shadow entering from the doorway.
Bzzzt—
The stun gun crackled. The man in front of him convulsed violently and collapsed.
As more shapes appeared through the thinning smoke, Li Huowang pounced again and again. He didn’t know how many enemies there were. One down was better than none.
When he pressed the stun gun against another man’s neck, there was no reaction.
Out of power.
Snap!
The man spun around, raising a black crossbow toward Li Huowang’s leg.
Li Huowang didn’t dodge. He intended to trade injury for a kill, raising the cleaver toward the man’s neck.
“Huowang! Behind you!” Yang Nana shouted.
He turned just in time to see another masked man two meters away, aiming a black crossbow—this time at his head.
As the trigger was about to be pulled, a sharp gunshot rang out from the left.
Bang!
With a scream, the attacker’s wrist exploded open, the crossbow shattering.
Li Huowang turned toward the gunshot and saw Qing Wanglai, covering his nose, standing sideways and calmly firing his pistol.
Bang! Bang bang bang!!