My thoughts had originally been so whimsical because I had never thought that things would be so tragic. There were so many people in this business who were lost and corrupt, and many of them did inhumane things. But even demons would be moved if they saw such a sight. The death of so many people was a manifestation of the objectification of people.
These people treated human life like it was some kind of object.
If I had known this was the case, I wouldn’t have led such a team to their deaths. Bai Haotian was still a little girl. Even if there were so many old enemies in my story, I shouldn’t have brought trouble to her.
At that moment, countless possibilities flashed through my mind. What should I do? My face was covered in blood and shouldn’t be visible for the time being. The person chasing after us was obviously surprised that I was here. I instinctively muffled my voice and said, “What are you doing? I chased them all the way here and now you showed up? They got away.” As soon as I finished speaking, I started coughing violently. I had been inhaling the smoke for too long and now my lungs were finally starting to hurt.
The person pulled his knife out and pointed the long blade at me. I knew this maneuver. I would have to go up and step on the knife to deal with him, but there were more people coming from behind. Even if I stepped on the knife, there was no way I could deal with those people. But even if the other person didn’t have a knife, it was impossible for me to win with my current physical condition.
He looked at me. “It was too smoky just now. I thought you were one of those who broke in.”
I felt my heart move. He didn’t doubt it one bit. It seemed that my craftsmanship had really improved. He looked behind me and asked, “Where are they?”
“They ran in,” I said, pointing to the explosives in the gap in the stone. “They wanted to blow this passage up. I chased them away before they could ignite it.”
The man in black looked at the explosives. “I just saw you insert it yourself and you have a lighter in your hand. It seems that you’re the one who wants to blow this passage up.”
I looked at the lighter in my hand and blew out the flame. “I didn’t know it was you. I thought you were all killed. I thought it was their comrades coming in, so I was prepared to scare them.”
He seemed a little suspicious and looked behind me. “Maybe they’ll lay some mines down further inside,” I said.
“Don’t worry about them. They can’t make it more than five hundred meters.” The man in black put his knife away. “Did you see who it was?” He kept his hand on the knife.
“It’s Wu Xie,” I said with a hoarse voice. The man in black frowned and motioned for me to follow him out. When he turned around, I grabbed the two explosives and stuffed them into my underwear. I felt uneasy as I crawled after him. Fuck, he can’t even tell that I’m wearing a human skin mask. Is it because it’s too dark here? If I go to a place with more light, will I be killed right away?
My mask was already full of sweat, so would it start to expand since it was made of flour?
I thought of the ground covered in blood and rubbed some of it onto me. A lot of the blood had dried and the rotting corpses were starting to stink, but I couldn’t worry about it now. I crawled out of the calling spring and saw several men in black outside. I looked around and saw that there were five of them. The smoke outside was still heavy and I kept coughing. The man from just now said to me, “What the hell is going on? If Wu Xie appeared here, you have to explain it to Boss Jiao.”
I prayed in my heart that Fatty had heard those sentences: Don’t worry about them. They can’t make it more than five hundred meters.
There had to be an unknown danger in the calling spring. They were fine letting people go in, which indicated that this danger was very hidden. But I had to focus on getting Bai Haotian out first.
The man in black who talked to me asked the others to stay and keep watch while he took me up. As I followed him all the way back to my room, I noticed that his hand remained glued to his knife. I was covered in a cold sweat. He didn’t think that I was an imposter, but he obviously thought that something was wrong with me and wanted to keep an eye on me.
Once we were back in the room, the man in black stood there and looked at me. I knew what he wanted to ask, so I immediately explained to him, “They broke in here and entered the secret passage. When I came back, I found that the wall had been pried open, so I followed after them.”
“Why didn’t you give us a warning?” The man in black looked at me, but before he could finish speaking, we heard someone kick the door outside. He went and opened it, only to be confronted by the woman who looked like A Ning and a group of people. She said to a slender middle-aged man behind her, “Master Jiao, this bastard lied to me to get me to sleep with him. Help me castrate him.”
Someone instantly came up, grabbed me, and lowered my pants. The thin middle-aged man slapped the woman in the face, “You’re not without fault either.” Then he looked at me and said, “You think you can sleep with my woman? Do it.”
My heart froze as another person approached me with a knife. It’s over, I thought to myself.
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Chapter-wise, we’re 2/3 of the way through Part 1 (so about 230 pages to go). We’re getting there peeps!
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