Leaning against the wall, Li Changan panted heavily, his strength recovering rapidly, but his injuries healed extremely slowly. He even hazily saw a figure shrouded in a black robe standing to the side, still holding a large scythe.
"This is really bad," Li Changan said with a self-deprecating laugh. Standing up straight, he walked towards the upstairs, with only one left.
The final four people emitted the light of their lives coming to an end. Each person fought desperately to counterattack, but only the last Parahuman with the "Steel Transformation" ability caused serious injury to Li Changan.
His knife was ineffective against this person. In the end, after making contact with his gloves multiple times, parts of his body could no longer maintain the steel transformation, and a stab through the head finished him.
Li Changan also had three broken ribs torn out, taking a large piece of flesh with it.
Beside the stairs, the walls were covered in incomprehensible graffiti. It seemed to depict a devil with two horns on its head wreaking havoc on the human world. Li Changan leaned against the wall, walking upstairs step by step, and finally stood outside the only door on the third floor.
Standing outside the door, Li Changan shakily took out a syringe from his pocket and carefully inserted it under his ribs, injecting all of the pale blue liquid inside.
His whole body's fatigue was swept away in an instant, and all the pain disappeared as well. The "Stimulant" developed by the Empire was now a controlled substance, but one could still buy it on the black market if paying an exorbitant price.
It was useful even for S-Rank Parahumans, although the side effect was heart failure two hours later.
The vast majority of people died from the side effects. This was Li Changan's last resort, something he would never use unless absolutely necessary. For him, now was that desperate time.
Kicking the door open, Li Changan strode in.
The empty room contained a coffee table and a game table. In the center was a large bed with a blonde young man and several women lying on it, unclothed, with a peculiar smell lingering in the air.
But Li Changan's gaze fell only on the corner radiator, where a corpse was tied up.
It should be said it was a partial corpse. Judging from the remaining parts, it seemed to be a sturdy man whose skin had been flayed off, seemingly cut into pieces multiple times, with some skin remnants still on the flesh.
Everything below the waist had been severed, placed to the side like meat at a butcher stall. The corpse had no eyes, no nose, exuding the stench of urine. Only the two mechanical arms covered in blood remained relatively intact.
Li Changan's Adam's apple moved slightly, his legs shaking as he slowly walked towards the corpse. Every step he took was as exhausting as using up all his strength, even lifting his foot taking great effort.
After a seemingly endless, long journey, Li Changan finally stood by the corpse's side.
"I...I..." Crouching down, he didn't dare touch it. Li Changan knew just how fragile the muscles under the skin were, that even a light touch would bring unbearable agony.
"I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry..."
Unknowingly, Li Changan's face was covered in tears. He didn't know why he was crying, nor what the rising feelings in his heart were called, this guilt.
"Hey kid, who the hell are you?" The blonde young man on the bed sat up, putting on clothes from the side and picking up a revolver from under his pillow.
Li Changan slowly stood up, keeping his head lowered as he stepped towards the blonde young man.
The blonde let out a cold laugh, firing his gun. The bullet grazed past Li Changan's ear.
Three consecutive gunshots rang out, but each one only brushed past Li Changan's body without hitting its mark.
The blonde looked at his revolver in astonishment. He was confident in his marksmanship, not to mention the distance was less than five meters.
So this guy could dodge bullets?
"Haven't seen someone like you in a long time," the blonde said with a cold laugh, actually feeling more vigilant as he started backing away.
"To actually dare provoke my Tiger Gang."
Glancing at the corpse behind Li Changan, the blonde let out another cold chuckle. "You've come to avenge him? Then you're too late. I understand now, you're the one who wasted my underling."
"My subordinates suffered thanks to you, so of course I didn't neglect this old geezer." The blonde gestured with his hand, and a 50-inch television on the wall lit up.
Li Changan turned his head to look and could no longer draw his eyes away.
Displayed was video footage with the restaurant owner as the protagonist, but he had been tortured beyond recognition. The one wielding the knife was none other than the blonde before his eyes.
"He was stubborn. No matter how I tormented him, he refused to reveal your whereabouts, never saying anything even when dying. I truly admire that kind of person." The blonde gave a faint smile before abruptly thrusting out his hand, a shallow red ray of light shooting from his fingertips towards Li Changan.
The ray of light pierced through Li Changan's shoulder, but that was just the beginning. The blonde fired continuously, beams of light shooting out from his fingers.
Yet not a single one managed to hit its mark.
"My name is Li Changan," Li Changan said, twisting his body to dodge the beams. Compared to Charles, this kind of attack was far too weak.
"Oh, are you introducing yourself?" The blonde gave a cold laugh, actually feeling more vigilant as he started backing away.
Ignoring the mocking, Li Changan continued, "There were some things I originally wanted to tell him, but now he can't hear them anymore. So I can only tell you, please pass along the message."
Li Changan, who had been dodging unsteadily, suddenly charged forward like a hunting leopard, crossing the distance of several meters in an instant to appear before the blonde youth.
The blonde had just raised his hand when he saw a flash of the knife. Four of his fingers fell to the ground, unable even to cry out before seeing the blade stabbed into his mouth, stirred lightly, and half of his tongue along with shattered teeth dropped down.
"I'm actually just a useless person."
Li Changan swung down, severing half of the blonde's palm.
"I don't even have a Parahuman ability."
The knife entered the knee, effortlessly separating the lower leg from the blonde's body.
"I fear people having expectations of me, fear being unable to meet those expectations."
Speaking between strikes, Li Changan once again severed one of the blonde's arms.
"But I really am happy that someone was still encouraging me."
The blonde's eyes emitted a red glow, but Li Changan moved faster, stabbing two fingers into the eye sockets and crushing the eyeballs.
"Thank you for letting me know that even people like me can do something."
The blonde couldn't even scream. The final strike severed his head.
"You added too much oil when cooking the stir fry, but it really was very filling."
"I came back alive. You won't be lonely anymore either."
Li Changan raised his knife, hacking down repeatedly on the blonde's already lifeless body. Flesh and blood spattered onto his face like elegant makeup.
Setting down the knife, Li Changan picked up the revolver from the bed. The few women who had already awakened were huddled trembling in the corner. With each gunshot, one would fall.
"I'll send some more people down to accompany you." Li Changan stood before that ghastly corpse, pouring down the high proof vodka.
"Before I can face you again, I won't die. I will live well to prove that even people like us can make them fearful!"
The flames rose up, instantly engulfing the entire floor before spreading downstairs. Li Changan walked step by step towards the exit. The grim reaper holding the scythe was no longer before his eyes, but from now on, he had taken up the scythe.
Sensing the black smoke rising from the roof, the gang members still outside rushed anxiously into the building, only to be met by a blood-drenched youth.
"You wha..." The leader had just opened his mouth when he felt the world spin. His final sight was his own beheaded body.
"Just perfect. I won't need to start a second fire," Li Changan murmured, walking forward.
Despite taking many detours, Lin Yubai finally found the person she had been longing for, only to see him walk into the Tiger Gang's territory. Lin Yubai froze.
Could he have some connection with the Tiger Gang? This thought had just arisen when it was immediately and ruthlessly strangled by Lin Yubai. She couldn't believe Li Changan would be that kind of person. She could only wait outside, wanting to ask clearly in person.
This wait lasted three hours until black smoke billowed from the roof and the gang members outside surged towards the building. Then came the screams, one after another.
Ultimately, Lin Yubai could not restrain her curiosity and raced towards the small building. Just as she reached the entrance, her eyes met an icy, sharp gaze. It was like her entire body's blood froze, icy fingers caressing her neck.
Was this the person who liked me? The ghost-like figure made Lin Yubai doubt herself.
"It's you, huh," said Li Changan as the killing intent dissipated. He smiled faintly and tilted his head and fainted.
"Hey!" exclaimed Lin Yubai instinctively as he stepped forward to prop him up, at the same time looking toward the room.
If not for the sweetheart in his arms, this scene would have become Lin Yubai's nightmare for life.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
