Avenger

"Bzzzt~~"

At Hangcheng Central Hospital, amid the chaos on the first floor of the inpatient department, a beam of white light suddenly descended into one of the wards.

"Whoosh~~"

Gu Sheng, still dressed in hospital clothes, pulled open the curtains. His scanning gaze suddenly narrowed when it shifted to the battered ward door. "I really did sense it correctly! That guy in the baseball cap clearly wasn’t targeting me, so why did he inexplicably want me to intervene?"

"Tick~tock~tick~"

All around him was chaos, yet a clock in the ward caught Gu Sheng’s attention. He suddenly took out his phone from beneath his hospital clothes. After connecting to the hospital’s wireless network, the time on the phone refreshed.

"December 25th, 8:13:46 a.m.!"

Looking at those words on the phone screen, Gu Sheng’s expression changed slightly. "There are less than fifteen minutes before entering the Lord God Space. Although the flow of time is different, it hasn’t stopped completely. What does that mean?"

Gu Sheng sank into thought, but before he could ponder for long, another heart-wrenching cry of "Help!" rang out.

"Somewhere upstairs, I don’t know how many floors up! Did that guy in the baseball cap put this much effort into playing cat and mouse? Why hasn’t he killed that person yet?"

A trace of confusion flashed through Gu Sheng’s eyes. Having returned to the real world with all his cultivation intact, he recalled the baseball-cap man’s cultivation and skills from a high vantage point and felt that something was seriously wrong. That man’s skills were firmly at the Third-Rate level, making him an expert even in The Nine Cauldrons World.

Aside from being caught off guard and shoved away by the bodyguard at the beginning, the subsequent pursuit had been rather strange. With his skills, that fleeing young man shouldn’t have been able to escape for more than a few steps. Yet now… Was he really playing cat and mouse?

"I’ll go up and take a look!"

With a thought from Gu Sheng, his body shot out. He followed the increasingly desperate cries for help up the building.

The inpatient department of Hangzhou Central Hospital had undergone several expansions, but some old buildings had been preserved, such as this hospital building where the baseball-cap youth and the young man being pursued were now. It was only ten stories tall.

"Help! Help! Help!"

The baby-faced young man fled to the top floor, only to find himself trapped. The moment the door opened, he found the rooftop before him. The ten-story building was at least twenty or thirty meters high, and looking down filled him with terror.

"Keep running! Why did you stop?"

The man in the baseball cap blocked the last escape route. Looking at the young man near the edge of the rooftop, his voice carried a hint of vengeful pleasure. Everything that had happened was part of his plan. He had deliberately forced the young man to the top floor of this hospital building.

"Yao Xingxing, you never thought you’d end up like this, did you?"

The baseball-cap youth threw off the hat covering half his face, revealing an equally young but ferocious countenance. His face, which should have been sunny and cheerful, was marred by a long centipede-like scar. There were several more scars on his scalp as well.

Yao Xingxing reacted violently when he saw him. "Tang Lie, it’s you! Didn’t you already agree to mediation? How can you repay kindness with hatred like this? You stabbed my father and sent him to the hospital. My father already said he wouldn’t press charges and even agreed to pay compensation. What more do you want?"

"Ptui!"

Tang Lie spat at Yao Xingxing’s feet. "Don’t make it sound so nice. You say I’m repaying kindness with hatred, but don’t you know what your Yao Family did?

"You bastard killed Xiaoyun. To clean up after you, that old Yao ordered people to ram our car. Xiaoyun’s parents died on the spot, and I ended up like this!

"If I hadn’t found a good opportunity to stab Old Yao during a major public event and force the truth into the open, your Yao father and son might really have suppressed the whole matter!"

Yao Xingxing shouted wildly, "But you already took the money and agreed not to appeal!"

Tang Lie sneered. "If I hadn’t agreed, I probably wouldn’t have made it out of the detention center alive! Xiaoyun’s and Uncle and Auntie’s funerals were still waiting for me, so I chose to live at the time.

"But did you think I never encountered the assassin you sent to kill me? That guy named Spotted Tiger was probably the one who handled dirty work for your Yao Family, right? I can endure quite a lot. It was only after I’d twisted all four of his limbs and kept going that he finally begged for mercy."

"Tiger!"

Yao Xingxing completely panicked. Now that Tang Lie knew about this, it seemed he wouldn’t be able to escape today.

"Do you know how Old Yao died? I cornered him in the bathroom, tied up his hands and feet, and made him watch the movie personally starring your mother. He was literally angered to death!"

"You’re not human! You’re not human! Are you still human after doing something like that?"

Yao Xingxing broke down and shouted hoarsely, "Why are you doing this? Li Xiaoyun’s death had nothing to do with me. She jumped from the building herself. It had nothing to do with me!

"Why do you insist on chasing me? My parents were innocent! Why did you kill them?"

"Innocent? Heh heh heh~~"

Tang Lie let out a cold, mocking laugh. "Your Yao Family committed countless evils to build the group you have today, and you’re telling me they’re innocent.

"They were innocent, but Xiaoyun and Uncle and Auntie weren’t? Xiaoyun and I were already discussing marriage. She went to your group as an intern assistant, not to submit to some so-called unspoken rules.

"You bastard, you tried to rape her in broad daylight inside your own family company. If not for you, would she have tried to climb out the bathroom window on the sixteenth floor to escape?

"After she slipped and fell, you bastard were still afraid she hadn’t died, so you had someone stage a traffic accident and destroy her remains.

"When we went to identify her body, she had been such a perfectly good young girl, but she had already…"

Tang Lie choked up as he spoke. "We felt something was wrong and demanded a second autopsy. Afraid the truth would be exposed, you sent a vehicle to ram us on our way back to the hotel. Two heavy trucks crushed our taxi between them. The driver and Uncle and Auntie were killed by you too.

"I was lucky enough to survive, but look at this face of mine. I’m practically a stitched-up monster now!

"Yao Xingxing, you nearly destroyed everything I had. I want your family destroyed too. That’s fair, isn’t it?"

"Y-you—you should just obediently go die! Why are you still alive?"

Yao Xingxing completely broke down, and the thoughts he had suppressed in his heart burst out all at once. "That Li Xiaoyun was just some rural girl pretending to be pure. It’s not like I hadn’t slept with rural girls before. Even if she was a virgin, it’s not like I wouldn’t have paid her. Why did she have to make me bear a life? She deserved to die!

"And you and those two country bumpkins—wouldn’t it have been fine to take the money and leave? Why did you insist on a second appraisal? You all deserve to die!"