Vol. 1 - Ch. 177 - Memory(Final) pt1
Transmigrated as the fake young master, I'll beat up the scumbags and b*tchesThis chapter is broken. Please report this on discord.
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Blood dripped continuously from HuMing's face.
At this moment, HuMing was suspended in the pitch-black room, as if he had returned to that fateful time years ago.
ChaChai's men cursed incessantly, trying to extract some critical information from HuMing. But despite their efforts, HuMing remained silent.
Frustrated, one of them was about to intensify the torture when suddenly, ChaChai's voice echoed through the room.
ChaChai, hands clasped behind his back, approached HuMing and demanded, "Tell me, where is Zhou?!"
Slowly opening his eyes, HuMing stared at the burly man before him and calmly replied, "I don't know."
It was the first time he had spoken in days, yet his answer displeased ChaChai.
"You and he planned to steal the formula from me, and now you're telling me you don't know where he is?!" ChaChai grabbed a handful of salt and ruthlessly pressed it into HuMing's wounds.
Veins bulged on HuMing's neck, his expression contorted with pain, yet he glared at ChaChai as though he wanted to devour him whole.
"You'll regret this choice," ChaChai snarled. Seeing that HuMing was impenetrable, he turned to leave.
Suddenly, HuMing's weak voice rang out, "The couple's case… that was your doing, wasn’t it?"
Those few words froze ChaChai mid-step. He spun around, glaring at HuMing with eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.
Observing ChaChai's reaction, HuMing confirmed his suspicions. Over the past few days, he had pieced together fragments of information, arriving at this conclusion.
ChaChai motioned for his men to leave, leaving only the two of them in the room.
"Do you have proof? I was the judge in that case. Without me, those scum would’ve walked free!"
"The proof has always been right beside you, hasn’t it?" HuMing chuckled, his expression dripping with mockery.
"Seven years ago, after Ah Zhao stole the formula from you, you lost control over No Man’s Land. To regain your hold, you orchestrated the couple's case to secure public trust. You knew that if you won the people's hearts, you'd become the revered emperor of this place!"
"I told you, you have no proof! This is all your imagination!"
"Proof? Isn’t Ah Nuo the best evidence?" HuMing's words caused ChaChai’s pupils to contract sharply.
ChaChai stormed up to HuMing and grabbed his face tightly. "Ah Nuo is my son!"
"Ah Nuo is the child you cut from that woman’s womb! She was pregnant out of wedlock, and by the time she died, the child was far more than three months along!"
HuMing’s voice grew louder, and ChaChai, as if losing his mind, kicked a nearby chair and roared.
His eyes reddened, and he looked like a furious lion.
"That woman betrayed me! How could she marry another man and bear his child?!"
"I wanted to kill her. Killing her a hundred times wouldn’t quench my hatred!"
Watching ChaChai's fury, HuMing finally confirmed his suspicions.
ChaChai panted heavily, then fixed his gaze on HuMing, speaking coldly, "Outsider, I admit you're capable. But today, you must..."
Before he could finish, the sound of an explosion echoed from outside.
ChaChai paused, then, realizing something, hurriedly left the room.
At the same time, someone bumped into him at the door.
ChaChai ordered them to kill HuMing and eliminate any loose ends.
HuMing closed his eyes as the explosions outside continued.
It seemed a large-scale gunfight was taking place above. Was this Zhou's doing?
Memories of past missions flashed through HuMing's mind, but one figure quickly came to the forefront.
The figure had hands behind their back, a radiant smile gracing their face.
HuMing felt as if he were hallucinating. How could that person possibly be here?
"Well, well, isn’t this our handsome HuMing? How did you end up in such a sorry state today?"
The woman removed her disguise, revealing an astonishingly beautiful face.
HuMin raised an eyebrow, her smile tinged with mischief.
"Why are you here?"
Confirming it was her, his heart settled down. Strangely, her presence always had a calming effect on him.
Still, he was curious—what was she doing here?
Noticing his gaze, she twirled a dagger in her hand, then effortlessly freed him.
"Someone like you, traveling alone? Of course, I didn’t buy it. So, I followed you. And along the way, I found a rather unexpected individual."
"Unexpected?"
"Remember that traitor? He’s here too."
HuMing immediately thought of the man ChaChai had been talking to that night. So, it was him!
"But there's a fight breaking out outside. That guy named Zhou seems to have gathered a lot of people to besiege Chachai, and the government is involved too. It looks like they've truly made up their minds to eliminate Chachai this time."
HuMing sighed, clutching his wound as she helped him outside.
Suddenly, he thought of the child. As ChaChai's son, what fate awaited him if he were caught?
"Did you see ChaChai’s son?"
"Yeah, Zhou took him."
"Took him?"
HuMing’s expression turned grim. Zhou taking Ah Nuo should have been a good thing, yet he couldn’t shake the feeling that Zhou had no intention of sparing ChaChai.
"You’re here on a mission, aren’t you?" HuMing asked.
She shrugged. "Watching your back is my main job. The mission’s secondary. If you died here, I’d have a headache."
"Go after him. I'll handle ChaChai. The formula is in his hands!"
"Wait, can you even manage in this state?"
She shouted after him, but his figure grew smaller and smaller until it disappeared.
...
Lightning illuminated the dark sky, followed by deafening thunder. The wind howled, whipping up dust in its wake.
On the rooftop, Zhou and ChaChai stood off, guns aimed at each other.
"ChaChai, after all the people you’ve killed, today is where it ends for you!"
"Zhou, I should’ve killed you back then!" ChaChai snarled, his eyes locked onto Zhou.
Their fingers tightened on their triggers, poised to deliver a fatal blow.
Suddenly, a figure appeared at the door.
Ah Nuo stepped between them, raising his hands to stop their next move.
"Teacher, Dad, what are you doing?!"
The seven-year-old boy trembled in fear. Below, he could see a sea of corpses and countless injured people. And now, his teacher and his father had guns pointed at each other.
He couldn’t understand. In just one day, his entire world had collapsed.
"Ah Nuo, move! Your father is a demon who built his empire on countless deaths. Today, he must die!" Zhou shouted, his voice filled with anger.
Before Zhou could say more, a gunshot rang out.