Chapter 769
Chapter 769
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 769
>Chapter Title: Ba Hui
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“Whose are they? Who the hell are they exactly? I’m a Si Ming, so what are they? Are they Si Mings too? Does White Jade Capital have this many Si Mings? What are they going to do to me!!”
The confusion over the truth of reality, combined with his instinctive wariness toward potential enemies, left Li Huowang’s mind in utter turmoil right now.
Just as Li Huowang instinctively reached for the military saber tucked behind his back in an attempt to defend himself, he suddenly felt a cold metal object press against his waist.
The next moment, accompanied by a sizzling sound, a intense numbing pain surged from the cold metal, sending Li Huowang’s entire body into violent tremors from the electric shock.
“Who is it! Who the hell is attacking me!!” Amid his trembling and burning rage, Li Huowang struggled to turn around.
What he saw next was Yang Na’s tear-filled face. Seeing Li Huowang looking at her, the sobbing Yang Na pulled another taser from her bag and shoved it inside his clothes, pressing down hard on the switch.
“It’s you!! Why!!!!”
Yang Na bit her lip hard. She had no choice—she had to do this. Li Huowang was having an episode. If she didn’t subdue him now, someone on the pedestrian street was definitely going to die!
Not only would he hurt innocents, but if something like before happened again, Li Huowang would end up locked in a mental hospital for the rest of his life.
Truth be told, she had secretly slipped a taser into her bag not for self-defense, but specifically to guard against Li Huowang having another breakdown.
The two locked eyes amid the taser’s sizzling crackle as Li Huowang’s trembling mouth opened. “Stop... stop!”
Yang Na’s heartbreak, along with the overwhelming numbing pain, gradually pulled Li Huowang back from his delusion about what was real and fake.
But the teary-eyed Yang Na shook her head forcefully, jamming both tasers hard against his flesh, determined not to stop until he passed out.
“I said... stop!” Li Huowang’s hand suddenly gripped the back of Yang Na’s hand before quickly releasing. As the current conducted through their flesh, the intense shock made the taser slip from Yang Na’s grasp and drop toward the ground.
Li Huowang snatched up the taser and hurriedly pulled the limp Yang Na into his arms, cradling her close. Whether comforting her or himself, he kept muttering, “It’s okay... I’m okay... I’m fine now.”
Seeing the two clinging tightly to each other with no further bizarre reactions, the onlookers around them looked disappointed as they pocketed their phones that had been recording.
“Miss, you okay? Is he threatening you? Do you know this scarred guy? Want us to call the cops for you?” A few eager young men crowded over, asking Yang Na with great concern.
The tearful Yang Na shook her head and buried her face in Li Huowang’s chest, choking out, “It’s fine... I’m his girlfriend. We just had a breakup fight.”
Once they heard it was just young lovers quarreling, the lingering spectators lost all interest and dispersed to continue shopping on the pedestrian street.
Li Huowang held Yang Na close as he staggered toward the stairs. Once back inside the tattoo shop, the two collapsed straight onto the sofa.
The Ba siblings watched their actions but didn’t chase them out. Instead, they simply shut the front door, suspending business for the time being.
Li Huowang’s body twitched involuntarily from time to time—the aftereffects of the recent shock.
But Li Huowang paid no attention to it at the moment. The external trouble was temporarily resolved, but the real problem lingered. His mind was completely lost in confusion.
“Is it all really fake? If you’re fake, then whose projection are you? If you’re fake, then why do you feel so real?”
Li Huowang gazed at Yang Na’s tear-streaked face as he questioned himself. The emotions in her eyes pained him deeply.
Without thinking, Li Huowang leaned in and kissed her. He desperately wanted to know what was real and what was fake.
He didn’t care if he was some projection. What mattered was whether the person in his arms was truly the same Yang Na who had once watched the stars with him on the rooftop.
At that moment, the sofa jolted violently from a kick. “Kissing pretty passionately, huh? Gonna strip down and put on a show for us? Got a condom? Need to borrow one?”
Li Huowang jolted upright and glared at Ba Nanxu in front of him. “Let’s lay our cards on the table!! Stop pretending! What the hell did you mean earlier?! Who stole my stuff?! And!! Is this world real or not?!”
“You want me to be your heart anchor? Fine! Just tell me! Explain what the hell is going on! And I’ll let you have the heart anchor!”
Li Huowang had always resisted accepting this reality. Because if it was all a projection, that meant no matter his parents or Yang Na—even everything since his discharge—was fake.
He really had crossed over. He could never go back! Everything from before was gone forever!
Hearing this, Ba Nanxu chuckled lightly. “Heh heh heh, you really don’t know a good thing when you see it. Sorry, my bad earlier—you actually came to the right place looking for Qingwang. You’re way crazier than him.”
A flash of white light, and two military sabers appeared in Li Huowang’s hands. His pupils trembled as his expression turned savage. “Spit out everything you know! Ba Hui! We still haven’t settled the score for how you tormented me back then!”
Ba Nanxu snorted coldly and let go of her fingers. The spent cigarette butt, trailing white smoke, fell to the ground. “Threatening me with a knife, huh? Don’t pull that shit on me. When I was killing and burying bodies, you were still a hairless kid!”
“Stop pretending! I’ve recognized you!! You’re Ba Hui! I can feel your familiar gaze!”
“Pretend your mom! I’ll say it one more time! Put. The. Fucking. Knife. Down! One, two, three!”
At that instant, a whooshing sound came from the side. Alarm bells rang in Li Huowang’s mind as he instinctively ducked. A massive glass display case swung over his head—if it had hit, he’d be dead or crippled.
And the one hefting the glass case was none other than the hulking Ba Shengqing.
Crouched low, Li Huowang spun around and swung his saber at his leg. At that moment, a sharp pain exploded from his lower back.
Even without looking, Li Huowang knew it was Ba Nanxu’s doing. But he didn’t dodge—his saber thrust straight ahead, trading wound for wound.
Just as blood was about to spill on both sides, a scream halted them. “Aaaahhh!! Stop it!! All of you!!”
Turning to look, they saw Yang Na sitting up, holding her phone high with its Hello Kitty case. “Qingwang’s come to find you! He has something to say to you! Let’s talk it out—don’t fight!”
Hearing this, both sides slowly backed off.
Li Huowang reached down and yanked a pointed stud earring from the flesh of his waist.
“Fuck! What a goddamn psycho!” Ba Nanxu walked over and took the phone. “Hey, Qingzi, you’ve got some balls. You’re actually taking this kind of trash? Did you predict I’d go after him, so you’re using him to screw with me, huh?”
(End of chapter)