C52 — Cai Sheng (XIV)
by UntamedSThe NPC dug the hole, although late, it finally arrived.
If the answer was yes, Kou Dong’s critter-like intuition told him that there would be no good behind it – maybe this person was planning to release everyone else, and just hold him back as a trickster. It wasn’t like he was being paranoid, he didn’t want to, but he was the kind of man who could drive NPCs crazy.
Making people want to get him by any means necessary, so to say, actually it easa little touching ……
How sinister ah!
But if the answer was no… Just relying on Kou Dong’s small and short stature to rescue everyone from there was basically equivalent to having a wild idea.
Kou Dong: Thinking made people bald.
Only children needed to make choices, adults could choose not to!
He lifted his head up and looked at the boy sincerely: “What are you talking about, sir?”
The teenager in the wooden wheelchair made a puzzled monotone, clearly not understanding the meaning of his words.
“Eh?”
Kou Dong quickly cleared the relationship: “I am not related to them, how can it be considered to be helping me – Sir, you saving those children is naturally because of your kind heart and high moral character!”
People present: “……”
System: “……”
The system trembled, it never thought that he could actually find another way, it silently withdrew his dialogue box.
Even the young man was slightly taken aback, then his expression changed from a smile to a non smile, only looking at him.
“High moral?”
It was the first time someone used such a word to describe him.
“Of course,” Kou Dong lied without blushing. In the face of such an evil spirit who took a wooden man to a child to whip and maybe even make a monster, in his heart, he wasn’t afraid at all and praised him, “Mister seems to be a man of love and righteousness.”
The young man let out a soft laugh, his fingers knocking on the wooden armrest, his eyes deep.
“Nui Nui said so; if I don’t help, wouldn’t I be heartless and unrighteous?”
Kou Dong persistently gave him a high hat: “How could it be—how could a man like you turn a blind eye? If he really turns a blind eye, then is he still a human being?”
Once this sentence came out, it was hard to say anything else. Song Hong lowered his head, and in his heart, he also secretly sighed at Kou Dong’s level of moral kid-napping.
A kid-napping, ah…
This statement was similar to the saying “If you don’t repost this, you’re not a Chinese.” If it was put outside of the game, he would definitely be an excellent keyboard warrior.
The only thing was that while other keyboard warriors tied up netizens who had no real influence on them, Kou Dong tied up a big boss who may directly decide their lives and deaths…….
It was all the same. Song Hong tried to think optimistically; it was all the same.
The NPC didn’t get angry, just smiled a little deeper and only said, “Nui Nui thinks too well of me.”
Kou Dong thought to himself, “You’re really overthinking this.”
He knew from the first day he entered this game that the NPCs here were all perverts.
There wasn’t a single normal one.
The teenager’s hand, which had little warmth, touched his cheek, and the touch caused the child in front of him to shiver involuntarily.
“It’s just that,” the teenager whispered, “Nui Nui forgot.”
His deep black eyes were fixed on Kou Dong, his gaze pure and focused with a darker side that could not be mistaken.
“I was never human in the first place-”
His fingers slowly covered the child’s eyes. The malevolent spirit tugged at the corners of his scarlet mouth, gazing at the swirls of hair atop the warm body’s head.
The beast no longer hid, completely flashing his sharp, snowy fangs.
“And how can I be expected, to do what a man should do?”
Kou Dong’s heart sank downward, and he reached out and tugged at his sleeve.
“And you’re going to do it to them?”
“Shhh,” the teenager gently pressed a finger to his lips, blocking what he was about to say next, “no need to worry.”
He gazed at Kou Dong with a smile and suddenly asked an irrelevant question.
“Like your house?”
Kou Dong was slightly startled, then realisation hit him hard.
“What house?”
Now that the restriction of the charm was gone, this deadbeat wouldn’t be trying to-
The teenager sealed his mouth once again.
“Brother built it especially for you ……”
He said slowly, one hand reaching down to help his beloved child fasten the buttons on his chest. The pale, slender hand pushed at the one tiny button, easily manoeuvring it through the hole.
“My Nui Nui, just stay well ……”
“The debt from back then, brother will naturally recover it in one go.”
At the same time, he pushed Kou Dong with force. The members of the circus hooted and hollered as they surged forward, and Kou Dong only had time to catch a glimpse of a few familiar faces – instantly, they clustered around Kou Dong, twisting his arms and legs to keep him from struggling. Kou Dong fell into their hands, without the strength to resist, and was pushed into the last room.
Song Hong and the others were also pushed and shoved in, only their movements were much more rough and casual. Before the three of them could say a word, they heard the sound of heavy iron objects knocking against the door outside.
When they looked out of the window, they only saw a head twice the size of an ordinary person.
With a stern face, the big-headed doll twisted his arms, which were as thin as hemp rods, and locked the door with an expressionless face. Immediately, he turned his back and stood outside the door, just firmly guarding the door of this room.
There were many people standing outside the door. Human bears, human dogs, flower vase beauties, human sheep, mouse beauties… There were also those with missing arms and broken legs, peculiar body shapes, those with one eye to the side, those with chicken breasts and hunchbacks, those with human facial tumors, and those with heads as big as a bucket. All kinds of strange shapes and appearances were like exhibits exhibited in a special encyclopedia, and even painters couldn’t depict the various human phenomena. Now they were all gathered here, gazing respectfully at the boy in the wooden wheelchair, with an indescribable joy on their faces.
The boy swung the wooden wheelchair and slowly passed through them. The abductor who lived in the circus heard the unusual movement and finally came out from the house, looking at them impatiently.
“What now?” He yelled, “Still want to die don’t you?”
He didn’t have too many scruples. Although the teenager had real power in this circus, and all these people were at his beck and call, it was just that with the skeletons of these monsters in his hands, no one dared to really hurt him, and this was the card left for them by the troupe owner who established the circus back then.
The man in the wheelchair jerked round and looked at him.
The abductor, knowing they couldn’t hurt him, grew bolder with it, almost ignoring the mental shadow the man in front of him had left him with.
“Be honest,” he said, “you useless ……”
He didn’t get to finish his words before they were interrupted by a sharp, unfamiliar pain.
Not even a cry of pain escaped him.
The pain came so suddenly that when he lowered his head, of caught a glimpse of an arm. The arm went through his entire abdomen, pinning him completely through the wall like a nail, churning the internal organs inside – and when it was withdrawn, the pale skin was splattered with starbursts of bloo-d.
The teenager let out a soft sigh. He pulled a plain square towel from his breast pocket and wiped away the bloo-d a little.
“Dirty.”
The abductor went limp, a da-da-da sound escaping his throat as he stared dead in the eyes.
“You ……”
He wanted to ask, How could you touch me?
But the words didn’t come out in time to be asked. He was immediately followed by the gazes of those in front of him, gazes that wanted to tear him apart and rip him apart.
“……”
The few abductors who had sought out the sound were stunned in place, and when they reacted, they violently let out a sound, screaming and fleeing backward in a hasty manner. The vase beauty let out a series of laughs as the bottles leapt across the floor and moved up to give chase.
“It’s time,” a member murmured, “it’s time ……”
An unknown amount of time had passed since their return to the mortal world. He gazed at his arm and saw a chain that was invisible to the onlooker.
That chain had locked him firmly in place.
Only by taking back his flesh and bloo-d could he truly transcend life and return to the six paths of reincarnation.
Back then, they couldn’t even touch the coffins, even after death, they couldn’t rest in peace, they were still driven by the evil people, and became the tools for others to make money; now, by chance, the gentleman had unlocked the talisman, and could freely touch things.
He had to exert some effort to suppress his over-excited gasps.
Take them back!
Take back their flesh and bloo-d!
A crutch dodged and was caught. The vase beauty yanked him firmly and let out a chilling laugh.
“I’m going to break all their bones,” he said grimly, “and I’m going to stuff them all into pretty vases ……”
The evil spirits clapped their hands and laughed, full of pleasure at the fact that their great revenge was about to be avenged. Only the beauty snake frowned and hesitated for a long time, but finally flicked his long and thin tail and came forward, “Sir, the young master’s matter ……”
He turned his gaze to the big headed doll. The other party was still rigidly guarding the door of this room, with no intention of letting anyone out.
“Nui Nui is a good child.” The teenager faintly said, also looking at this door, “Only, his heart is a bit too kind.”
Because of his good heart, he even wanted to bring out all the children in those four rooms.
“People.”
The young man laughed softly, it wasn’t known whether it was a snort, or what emotion was in it, “Under the skin of people, who said that they are all people?”
The outside of the vermilion door was locked for the first time. The big-headed doll and people in the circus stayed behind, while the rest of the members followed the teenager and walked out the door together.
Kou Dong’s further attempt to pout this time was met with an unhesitating refusal from the Big Headed Doll, “Thou shalt not go out.”
Kou Dong frowned and asked, “Why?”
The key was hanging on the big-headed doll’s thin and unusual neck. He shook his huge head, but he refused to give in no matter what, blocking the doorway and said gruffly, “Go back.”
Kou Dong didn’t go, only glaring at him.
“Go back!” The big-headed doll said, “Mister is right, this is for your own good-”
Kou Dong had no choice but to turn back. In the middle of the day, he persevered and tried to make conversation again, “Then can you give me the coffin in the yard?”
This wasn’t considered a violation of the teenager’s request, so the big-headed doll slung it over his shoulder and put into the house.
Song Hong was saved by the NPCs once, and now he has a good fantasy about their character: “Is he really going to save people?”
“…… “Kou Dong stared at him with eyes that looked at a retard, “What are you thinking?”
Song Hong was also stunned.
“Not saving?”
“Not saving.” Kou Dong shook his head in apparent disbelief, “It’s good enough not to harm them – how could you have such unrealistic expectations of them?”
Song Hong was actually left speechless by the question, and couldn’t help but get stuck, then Kou Dong turned his gaze to him in a sly manner.
Wasn’t it obvious why he would expect this?
Wasn’t it because the NPC behaved too unusually in front of him?
He really thought it was the NPCs of this copy that had a conscience…
As it turned out, the NPCs didn’t have a conscience—perhaps they had been gnawed by Kou Dong.
Ye Yanzhi suddenly said, “What is he holding in his hand?”
Kou Dong lowered his head and saw the corpse’s tightly clenched fist. He squatted down and tried his best to break it with his hand, but failed to break it.
When his hand was all over the pale hand, then he saw a finger tremble gently, and then it opened slightly, revealing a red thread.
The two people around him came over.
“This is…”
Kou Dong yanked out what was inside and found that it was a red rope that had already faded. It wasn’t something valuable, the kind that was sold wholesale for 20 cents a piece on the street, with a tiny knot tied at the top, adorned with a small thin slice of copper. Because it wasn’t valuable, even the abductor didn’t take it away, letting it be held firmly in the hands of this calamity.
He turned the piece of copper over and found that it was engraved with very small words that took some effort to discern.
The little girl also leaned her head over and was the first to see it.
“Xiao Shuanzi.”
Kou Dong suddenly froze.
“What?”
“It says Xiao Shuanzhi,” the little girl pointed at the copper piece and showed them, “This is something that belongs to the NPC we’re looking for.”
On the surface, this didn’t seem to have any problems. They were already basically certain that the teenager was Xiao Shuanzi, and naturally wielded Xiao Shuanzi’s mark on his body.
But-
Kou Dong’s voice suddenly rose. He said, “No!”
What kind of person was the young man?
What kind of things would he bring with him?
Was it just a bracelet given to him by his parents and family?
Kou Dong didn’t think he cared about himself, if he really had to say, the only thing that could be clutched tightly in his hand and refused to let go was-
His heart slowly surged with a side conjecture, and he blurted out, “It’s me!”
Between the flashes of lightning and fire, he finally understood exactly where the biggest pit of this copy was.
“…… It’s me.”
There was no one else at all.
He, himself, was Xiao Shuanzi who needed to escape from the NPC.
‘O’
So it was him the whole time. I’m cheering for the ghosts to take revenge on the kidnapers. Thank you for the chapter!