The heavy rain in H-City was pouring down, and a fierce wind swept through. Myriad thunderclaps gathered in the sky. The meteorological station issued three red weather alerts in a row. The broadcasts and television screens in the streets and alleys kept repeating, “Citizens, please stay at home and do not go out. Avoid working in the air and in the open field. I repeat, citizens, please stay at home and do not go out…”
The people of H-City were in a state of panic. The municipal party committee secretariat made more than a dozen phone calls, almost kneeling down to beg Mayor Huang, who was holding the front line, to hurry back to the municipal party committee.
However, Mayor Huang angrily pushed away the secretary who wanted to put a raincoat on him and said, “I’m going down too!”
Chu He was grabbing the muddy edge of the pit and was about to step into the crevice. Hearing this, he rarely got angry. “What are you going down for? Do you know how dangerous it is down there?”
Just then, a deafening bolt of lightning descended from the sky, striking a tree in the wilderness dozens of meters away! In the huge boom, the tree was split into four or five pieces, and the flames were instantly extinguished by the violent rain, emitting thick smoke.
Everyone was silent. Several criminal police officers couldn’t hold on and started to retreat.
Mayor Huang roared, “This is my city! No matter how useless I am, I can still help down there!” He then turned back and shouted at Captain Wang of the municipal criminal police team, “Everyone, hold your ground! No retreating! If something comes up from below later, just shoot it dead! If the Japanese come up, detain them on the spot!” His chubby face was soaked in rain, and his voice was exceptionally stern and fierce. For a moment, everyone was so frightened they answered loudly.
Chu He was about to stop him but was stopped by Zhou Hui. “Let him come down. That guy surnamed Huang is a demon. It would be funny if he got struck by lightning. He might even be able to help a little if he comes down.”
Chu He gave him a blank look, brushed past him, and jumped into the crevice.
Zhou Hui smiled nonchalantly, waved his hand to refuse Captain Wang’s attempt to tie a safety rope around his waist, and jumped down after him. Li Hu followed, landing on a protruding rock five or six meters above the ground. As soon as he landed, he immediately transformed into his true form—a snow-white fox with nine fluffy tails.
“I didn’t realize you cared so much about your child,” the nine-tailed fox wagged its tail and said teasingly. “You even find time to improve your child’s diet, feeding him some snacks and what not…”
“The Japanese had ulterior motives to begin with. I just went with the flow.”
“Then how did it even attract heavenly thunder? Your Maha dares to eat anything. Besides last time, I’ve never seen such a big commotion.”
Zhou Hui glanced at him, a look that sent a sudden chill down the nine-tailed fox’s spine.
“It’s the Buddha bone,” he said. “The Buddha bone suddenly and inexplicably ran here, causing Maha to see blood before the Buddha, and the heavenly punishment will follow.”
He paused, looking down at the nine-tailed fox.
“Speaking of which, what was that crappy thing you said you did last time?”
“…” The nine-tailed fox secretly took half a step back.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Hui did nothing, not even stepping on it twice to vent his anger. He just looked up, then gave a strange smile, and turned to walk down.
…He let me go so easily? No way. The nine-tailed fox pondered nervously for a few seconds and subconsciously looked up too.
Then it knew why Zhou Hui had just left—
A fat man of more than three hundred pounds slipped his foot and fell from the sky, crushing the nine-tailed fox into a fox meat pie with a thunderous crash.
Forty meters underground, in the stone grotto.
Aida roared hoarsely, “Get out! It can’t leave this stone cave! Run out!”
The cold flames had long been extinguished, and the wolf-eye flashlights had been knocked over. A few had been hit by flying shell casings and went out. The only one or two remaining could only faintly illuminate a small space. In the chaos, it was impossible to see where the exit, which could only barely be squeezed through by one person bending over, was. One could only see that the ground was covered in blood, and severed limbs and minced meat covered the countless dense stone patterns.
The monster casually grabbed the blade that had been chopped at its neck, then grabbed the Japanese man, and its nails tore open his chest from top to bottom, his internal organs instantly spilling onto the ground. It didn’t seem to mind, picked him up, took a painful swig of blood, and said hoarsely, “Tastes really good…”
The remaining few Japanese were scared out of their wits. They ran trembling to the stone wall, desperately fumbling for the exit from memory. However, the exit was small to begin with, and the visibility was extremely low. How could they possibly find it in the chaos?
Aida finally found the edge of the sharp rubble. He reached out his hand and found it empty. He immediately shouted in ecstasy, “Here! Quickly move these stones away—”
Before he could finish, a cold hand hooked him from behind, and then the Earth-born Fetus’s demonic face appeared in front of him.
“Ahhh, get away! Get away!” Aida was terrified out of his wits. In his struggle, his hand caught a person on the side, who seemed to be his subordinate. He made up his mind, and with a sudden burst of strength, he pulled this subordinate over and pushed him in front of the Earth-born Fetus.
The Earth-born Fetus didn’t expect it. The food came rushing into its arms unexpectedly, so it didn’t hesitate to pick it up and tear off a bloody piece of flesh with one bite. It chewed and swallowed it with great enjoyment amidst the screams and wails, then opened its mouth and tore off another piece from the soft flesh of the abdomen. Aida took the opportunity to break free, scrambled to the edge of the cave, and, disregarding everything, gritted his teeth and started to move the sharp rubble blocking the entrance.
At that moment, a punch suddenly came from the side and knocked him over. Aida fell with a thud and got up roaring, “Yan Lanyu!”
The young Onmyoji was panting heavily, covered in blood—he had been caught by the Earth-born Fetus just now, but for some reason, not only was he not eaten, but he was immediately thrown out. This injury was from rolling on the ground full of broken bones and stones.
“Yan Lanyu! I knew you intentionally let us die down here!” Aida lunged forward to shoot him, but in the chaos, the bullet went astray, and with a bang, it grazed the young man’s cheek. Yan Lanyu didn’t even bat an eyelid, gritted his teeth, and pinned Aida tightly to the ground. He turned to Zhang Shun and shouted, “You go quickly!”
Zhang Shun roared, “Shut up! I’m not leaving you alone!” He frantically clawed at the rubble at the entrance of the cave. The stones were as sharp as knives. Zhang Shun’s ten fingers were not just dripping with blood, but he might have even broken several nails, but in his extreme tension, he didn’t feel it at all. He could even pick up huge stones that he normally couldn’t lift and throw them behind him.
On the other side, Aida’s ferocity also came out. He flipped over and pinned Yan Lanyu down, trying to snatch the pendant from his neck. He was extremely ruthless. Yan Lanyu was strangled until his face turned purple and he was almost suffocating, but he gritted his teeth and refused to let go. In the struggle, he actually managed to flip over Aida, who was much taller and stronger than him, grab his own pendant, and throw it to Zhang Shun. “Take it! Go quickly!”
Zhang Shun was almost hit in the head by the pendant and broke out in a bloody mess. He quickly caught it and, with all his strength, moved the last huge piece of rubble, finally clearing a hole that a person could squeeze through sideways. He immediately turned to help Yan Lanyu. Who knew that at this moment, the Earth-born Fetus, having eaten the subordinate whom Aida had used as a scapegoat until he was incomplete, casually threw the dead body at its feet and walked towards Aida and Yan Lanyu, who were rolling on the ground.
If it were normal, Second Young Master Zhang might have wet himself and would have immediately turned to crawl away. But at this moment, it was as if an endless, desperate force had erupted from within him. He even forgot to be afraid and roared, “I’ll fight you!” Then he rushed over and pushed the Earth-born Fetus hard!
Yan Lanyu shouted, “Why are you still here! Don’t mind me, run quickly!”
Zhang Shun said angrily, “Stop your f*cking nagging! I’m a man, can I let a child stand in front of me?! Damn it, if we’re going to die today, we’ll die together!”
He rushed over, knocked over Aida, grabbed Yan Lanyu, and ran towards the cleared hole—but that was the last struggle of a trapped beast. The Earth-born Fetus was too close to them, almost right behind them, and could have stopped both of them with one hand.
However, as they passed by the Earth-born Fetus, they were not blocked at all. Yan Lanyu looked back and saw the Earth-born Fetus staggering back, looking at the arm and shoulder that had just been pushed by Zhang Shun, with a slightly incredulous expression.
—It was actually injured there.
Those two parts seemed to have been burned by fire, the skin broken and flesh exposed, and silver-white blood flowed out.
“…Strange,” it said softly.
Yan Lanyu had no time to think and directly pushed Zhang Shun towards the hole—but the next second, an irresistible force came from the back of his neck, grabbing both of them and throwing them back.
With a thud, both of them fell onto the sticky ground full of blood and flesh. Just as they were about to get up, they saw the Earth-born Fetus standing over them. It then raised a blood-stained hand to tuck its long hair behind its ear, stared at Zhang Shun, and the corner of its mouth actually curled up slightly. “So it’s you. I was wondering how you could cause me such damage… Besides my mother’s true fire of the Wisdom King, it really is only you.”
It squinted its eyes and smiled, and if one ignored the blood-stained teeth, it was a very pretty and cunning smile.
However, Zhang Shun only felt a chill run down his spine. He jumped up, grabbed Yan Lanyu, and ran straight out, almost slipping on the blood and flesh on the ground in his panic. Unexpectedly, the Earth-born Fetus didn’t stop them and just watched them run out with a fluid gaze—just then, Aida, panting heavily, rushed to the hole before them.
“Go to hell!” When Aida saw them, his eyes were almost on fire. He took a gun from his pocket and pulled the trigger at Zhang Shun!
However, the gun clicked twice. The bullets had run out at this moment.
Zhang Shun didn’t even have time to feel the relief of escaping death. He rushed forward to hit Aida—at this moment, he clearly misjudged his own fighting ability against a normal person. Even if his adrenaline had secreted a thousand times more, he was no match for a trained fighter like Aida. As soon as they came into contact, he was hit hard with the butt of Aida’s gun and retreated several steps with a bloody head.
Aida grabbed the stone wall, jumped up to reach the exit, but how could Yan Lanyu let him go? He directly grabbed his shoulder, flipped him backwards, grabbed Zhang Shun, and pushed him out. Although he was thin, he was obviously trained. The power that burst out in the extreme situation actually lifted an adult like Zhang Shun, pushing half of his body out of the hole.
“Go quickly, you can’t handle it! If you delay any longer, you won’t be able to run either!”
Zhang Shun quickly climbed out and reached back to pull him, but saw Yan Lanyu take half a step back and shake his head.
Zhang Shun was instantly furious. “You f*cker—”
“I betrayed the esoteric sect. Even if I escape, I won’t live long!” Yan Lanyu said sharply. Through a broken wolf-eye flashlight not far away, one could see his face was full of tears. “Run quickly! Don’t look back, run quickly!”
Zhang Shun cursed loudly and desperately tried to reach out from the hole to pull him. However, at this moment, Aida, who had fallen to the ground, burst up, looking completely crazy. He grabbed Yan Lanyu, pushed him down, and tightly strangled his neck.
Yan Lanyu must have been desperate too. He elbowed Aida in the nose, and with a crisp crack of bone, Aida cried out in pain and rolled on the ground, his nosebleed gushing down his neck like a spring.
The Earth-born Fetus walked over unhurriedly, but Yan Lanyu didn’t run. He just stood there, took a deep breath, and looked at Aida.
“The person I’m waiting for won’t come,” he panted, his voice calm with utter despair. “Today, you will accompany me to our deaths.”
Zhang Shun shouted “No!” and was about to climb back into the grotto to pull him. But Yan Lanyu turned back and smiled at him, then pulled out something like a pencil from the sheath of his dagger at his back, lit it with a lighter, and threw it at the entrance of the cave.
Zhang Shun’s pupils constricted.
—That was a stick of dynamite!
He was going to blow up the entrance of the cave!
Zhang Shun let out a hoarse roar. At that moment, all the blood in his body really rushed to his head, and his vision turned blood-red. Hot liquid burst from his eyes.
The young man said, “Farewell, stranger.”
—The next second, Zhang Shun felt a hand push him away irresistibly, and then a figure, like a ghost, drilled into the cave from the entrance, landed lightly, and stepped on the fuse.
When Zhang Shun saw the figure clearly, he was so shocked his mind went blank. “…Zhou Hui?!”
Zhou Hui placed a hand on Yan Lanyu’s shoulder and smiled. “Little beauty, life is precious. Don’t be in such a hurry to seek death… Deputy Director Yu has ordered that we must bring you back to Beijing.”
Yan Lanyu stared at Zhou Hui in a daze, unable to even speak.
If Zhou Hui had the leisure, he would definitely tease him a couple of times, but at this moment, he just patted his shoulder, pushed him back gently, and was caught by Chu He, who had just entered.
Maha tilted his head and looked at Zhou Hui, then at Chu He. When his gaze touched the former, his expression didn’t change, but when he saw the latter, his eyes moved very slightly. Then he turned his head and showed a mouthful of sharp, blood-stained teeth and smiled. “Yo, everyone’s here today.”
Zhou Hui said kindly, “Son, be a good boy and listen to Daddy. Go back and hang yourself up and don’t come down. In ten or eight years, when Daddy remembers, I’ll send some people down for you to eat, okay?”
Mayor Huang, panting, was dragged through the hole by the nine-tailed fox. Just as he jumped down, he heard this sentence and almost lost his footing. He quickly grabbed Chu He and asked in a low voice, “Is this demon really surnamed Zhou’s son?”
Chu He: “…”
“I knew that guy surnamed Zhou wasn’t normal. The son he gave birth to is also a pervert. Look at all this raw meat being eaten… Fck! This, this, this is really human flesh!” Mayor Huang was instantly scared out of his wits. “It, it, it, it eats people! This thing eats people! Fck, what kind of monster is this!”
“Father,” Maha said with a hoarse laugh, “did you bring Mother along as a human shield because you knew you couldn’t stop me on your own?”
Mayor Huang blinked his small eyes and followed “that monster’s” gaze to his side—it was clear that he hoped Maha was looking at the nine-tailed fox when he said “mother,” but after repeating it three times, he still despaired to find that the other party was looking at Chu He.
Father…
Mother…
This man-eating monster’s… mother…
Mayor Huang’s fat legs went weak. He was propped up by the staggering nine-tailed fox who jumped up behind him and said fiercely, “Don’t fall again, fatty! If you fall again, I’ll break your teeth, you hear me!”
Chu He closed his eyes, seeming unwilling to look at the bloody mess of severed limbs and flesh on the ground. But even if he didn’t look or even think about it, the strong, nauseating smell was a constant reminder of what had happened here.
He waved his hand, signaling them not to involve him in the negotiations.
But Maha still stared firmly at his mother, his expression full of provocation. He was about to say something when he was suddenly interrupted by Zhou Hui. “Wait—where did you say you were going just now, son?”
Maha said coldly, “You sealed me here for so many years. I’m already tired of the human realm. Do you think I should go and see the Sea of Blood?”
The Sea of Blood was in the Hell Realm, also known as the Eight Thousand Zhang Blood Lotus Pond. It was filled with low-level, extremely evil demonic creatures. Legend has it that people who had committed great evil would fall into the Sea of Blood after death. During the day, they would be torn to pieces by the demonic creatures, but at night, their severed limbs and internal organs would reassemble into a person, and they would suffer the pain of being torn to pieces by the demonic creatures again the next day, in a cycle that never ended.
When Zhou Hui heard this, he laughed and said sincerely, “Son, if you want to go to the Sea of Blood to eat, you’re wrong. Believe me, it’s full of spoiled meat, not even as good as the soy sauce fried vegetables your dad makes… Let’s make a deal? How about you go back and hang yourself up today? In consideration of your obedience, Daddy won’t beat you up in front of your mother, okay?”
Maha’s long, narrow eyes suddenly stared at Zhou Hui.
—His original attitude was to provoke Chu He, and he was not very willing to face his father. But after hearing this, his expression slowly changed. If he had been playing and casual when he was eating people before, now he truly showed a cold and fierce expression.
“…Father,” he said, “if I must walk over you to get out of here today, you can’t stop me.”
Before he could finish, his blood-stained figure suddenly disappeared from where he stood and appeared directly behind Zhou Hui the next second, striking down with his palm!
In a flash of lightning, Zhou Hui turned around, raised his arms, and two gleaming short knives shot out from his two cuffs, meeting his son’s hand—if Maha didn’t retreat, this move would be enough to cut off his entire hand. But the next second, Maha suddenly retracted his move, formed a hand seal in mid-air, and spat a stream of golden flame at Zhou Hui’s face!
“Peacock golden fire…” the nine-tailed fox frowned. “Feng Si, your eldest son is very determined to commit patricide.”
Chu He closed his eyes and didn’t answer.
As expected, Zhou Hui didn’t resist head-on. The moment the golden fire shot out, he retreated violently. Maha chased after him like an arrow, the flames from his mouth almost forming a spectacular fire dragon, burning the entire grotto with a crackling sound. Many stone pillars broke and fell to the ground with a huge crash.
“Son, you haven’t slacked off in your kung fu after being hung up for so many years!” Zhou Hui shouted loudly while running. “Back then, when you didn’t study hard and got beaten by your dad, your mom always stopped me. Now you know the benefits of being spurred on, right?”
Maha didn’t answer. His figure suddenly grew, and he rushed into the golden fire. When he emerged from the fire, a long knife appeared in his hand, and he brought it down on Zhou Hui with overwhelming force!
The speed was too fast. All the people present, even if tied together, probably couldn’t keep up. Zhou Hui immediately blocked with his hand, and a bloody gash so deep the bone was visible immediately appeared from his side palm to his arm.
Zhou Hui was both surprised and appreciative. “Yo!”
Maha’s stunningly beautiful face was full of cold evil. With the speed of lightning, another large mouthful of golden fire burst out. Then his entire body disappeared and reappeared on the path Zhou Hui had to take to avoid the flames, and he slashed down at his head with his knife!
—In a thousandth of a second, Chu He’s figure appeared behind him and grabbed the blade.
Maha turned his head and saw it was Chu He. He subconsciously tried to pull the knife back, but it was too late. Chu He’s palm firmly held the blade, and blood quickly overflowed from his palm. The blood was then evaporated by the golden fire, strangely turning into a blood mist.
Wherever the blood mist went, the blade melted, and in an instant, molten iron dripped down.
Maha’s expression changed slightly. “Are you going to block me too, Mother?”
“You can’t go out,” Chu He stared at him, his expression unmoved. “Zhou Hui sealed you here for a reason. As soon as you go out, you will trigger heavenly thunder. Even if you are lucky enough to survive, wherever you go will be turned into a scorched wasteland for thousands of miles. Besides…”
Maha interrupted angrily, “Do you know what it’s like to be trapped here?! Do you know how much I want to get out?!”
Chu He was silent for a moment, then suddenly reached out and stroked his eldest son’s cheek. “You can’t go out,” he said. “I have my reasons.”
Maha let out a sharp and piercing roar. The next second, he brushed past Chu He and struck him on the back of the neck with his palm—Chu He was prepared, but after all, he was in a human body. When it came down to it, he couldn’t dodge at all. He gritted his teeth and took the blow, and was immediately sent flying by the force!
At the same time, Maha rushed towards the entrance of the cave, but then a white light flashed in front of him—it was the nine-tailed fox. The moment Maha attacked Chu He, it had leaped into the air and blocked Maha at the last moment.
The next second, the nine-tailed fox transformed into a human form, and the silver-white nine-pronged barbed fox-tail whip came down on Maha’s head without a hint of hesitation, forcing him back several steps!
Maha tilted his head back to avoid the tip of the whip, then lowered his head and spewed out a magnificent golden fire dragon, directly engulfing the nine-tailed fox—if this had hit squarely, Hu Qing, even with three thousand more years of cultivation, would have been turned to ashes. Fortunately, in a flash of lightning, Mayor Huang actually let out a “wail” and transformed into his original form, a round weasel, jumped up and bit the back of the nine-tailed fox’s neck, and with his solid weight, fell to the ground with a thud, just barely missing the golden flame.
This moment was extremely thrilling. If there were an audience, they might have even cheered. However, the weasel was not satisfied with this. This guy was either silent or astonishing. After landing on all fours, he shot out like an arrow, rushed to Maha, and let out a pfft.
Maha: “…”
That fart came out with a suspicious yellowish-green gas, and the stench was unbearable. Maha subconsciously retreated more than ten meters, and by the time he reacted, he was very far from the entrance of the cave again.
Maha was blocked one after another, and he was blocked by a low-level demon like a weasel. He couldn’t help but narrow his eyes in annoyance. His dense, long eyelashes were almost like crow’s wings, leaving two fan-shaped shadows on the side of his nose.
His face was extremely pale, and his long black hair was stained with blood. Against the dense, bloody prohibition curses on his robe, it gave a stunning feeling of a mixture of beauty and evil.
He raised his chin to observe the distance to the entrance of the cave, then raised his hand and grabbed another long knife out of thin air, which was exactly the same as the one that had melted—only it was on his left side instead of his right. He held it horizontally at the wrist, and it reflected a cold light with a clang.
The weasel, panting, hid behind a rock and asked the nine-tailed fox in a low voice, “How is this demon so powerful? Why can’t we kill it?!”
A twisted smile appeared on the nine-tailed fox’s face. “Have you heard of the Great Peacock Wisdom King?”
Mayor Huang: “…What?!”
“The peacock is the young of the phoenix. When it is born, it is honored as a Wisdom King. That’s a true god’s Dharma form. Normally, you should kneel and bow when you see it… Fck, fck, f*ck, he ate half of the person and just threw him here!” The nine-tailed fox suddenly let out a sharp scream, and with its tail on fire, it leaped several meters away before covering its nose in disgust. “That idiot Boss Zhou actually left his main body in the capital and thought he could handle his son with just a clone? Just wait, we’re done for this time!”
The weasel’s voice was almost crying. “Then, then, then… what will happen if it runs out?”
“Myriad heavenly thunders will be unleashed, chasing him all the way down, until he is either struck to death or escapes.”
“Then what about H-City?!” Mayor Huang asked in despair.
The nine-tailed fox patted its shoulder sympathetically and said, “Find another city to be the mayor of…”
On the other side, Maha didn’t bother to find trouble with the weasel—his figure rushed towards the exit like a ghost, but the next second, he felt a coolness on his back. He looked down and saw a knife tip piercing through his chest.
Maha was extremely tough. He broke free and turned around in the gushing blood mist, his five fingers erupting with a stream of white-gold fire that was scorching to the extreme. He roared, “Zhou Hui—Zhou Hui!”
Zhou Hui was extremely gloomy. “At least call me ‘Dad’, okay?!” With that, he no longer held back with this little bastard. He summoned his Heavenly Dao Dharma form in the air, crossed his short knives to block the fire dragon, and rushed up, kicking his son in the chest with a boom!
Maha fell to the ground with a thud. Before he could get up, Zhou Hui brought his knife down on him. He immediately rolled over and barely dodged. But Zhou Hui’s experience in both solo infiltration and leading troops in battle was much richer than his descendant’s. He held his knife horizontally, swept it across the ground, and with lightning speed, stabbed it into Maha’s side back, and with a fierce upwards flick.
If Maha hadn’t dodged quickly, he would have been split in half by now. He rolled on the ground and got up, about to counterattack, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of Zhou Hui’s Dharma form emitting a black mist, which quickly spread before his eyes.
Maha frowned—he knew how powerful this mist was, and he also knew that his old man’s Heavenly Dao Dharma form was very difficult to resist. He immediately flew back!
With this retreat, he left his back wide open to Chu He.
—If Chu He were really pushed, he would also have the strength to crush him, but he knew that the Phoenix would never be so heavy-handed with his own young.
In an instant, Zhou Hui also saw through his plan. Anger rose from his heart and evil grew from his guts. He pointed at his son’s nose and said angrily, “You know how the Phoenix treats you, and how do you repay him, hmm?!”
Maha’s retreat faltered slightly.
—It was a pause of a thousandth of a second, invisible to the naked eye, and it might not even be possible to analyze it frame by frame with a camera. However, Zhou Hui killed him in that millisecond, grabbed his son’s collar, and the knife tip, emitting an endless black mist, silently rested in front of Maha’s heart!
“Every time I wanted to kill you, Feng Si would stop me, saying he wanted to reason with you…”
In the swirling air, Zhou Hui’s face was incomparably cold, looking surprisingly similar to Maha’s expression.
—Indeed, half of the demon race’s bloodline, along with the traits of madness and cruelty, had been completely passed down from him to Maha.
“If I had acted earlier, it wouldn’t have come to this today,” Zhou Hui said coldly. “I hope it’s not too late to kill you now.”
He pushed the tip of his knife in. Maha gasped and suddenly grabbed the blade. He looked down and saw a large gush of blood coming from the left side of his chest, where his heart was!
“…You’ve wanted to kill me for a long time, haven’t you,” he was still smiling, but that smile was full of evil. “Ever since you knew that I was born to replace you…”
Zhou Hui looked down at him, about to say something, but before the words could come out, his whole body suddenly stiffened.
—His hand loosened, and the short knife fell to the ground with a clang. He then tightly pressed his temples.
The next second, he cursed painfully, “Situ Yingzhi, you son of a b*tch!” Then he spat out a large mouthful of blood.
