On the other hand, Lian Yu’s task was to keep Man Yun and the majority of the pirates in the room and let the colorless and odorless poison gas kill them silently. It must be said that this was very simple. After all, as long as he didn’t leave, this group would have no intention of leaving.
However, Man Yun was an exception. This damn pirate is too focused on Cen Zhen. Even after he sent his third-hand man to chase him, he was still worried. He persistently wanted to get rid of Lian Yu and catch Cen Zhen himself.
How could Lian Yu not know his thoughts? Even if more minions step up to block him and clear the way for their boss, Lian Yu could still entangle Man Yun tightly and make it difficult for him to move.
“Annoying.” Man Yun cursed. His high-magnification gun had run out of life, and only one bullet hit. This bullet hit Lian Yu’s left shoulder. The bullet penetrated the flesh at high speed, and the sound of stirring the muscles and bones was audible. Yet, the scary thing was that although the Sentinel was so seriously injured, he didn’t make a sound. Only his lip trembled slightly, he didn’t even try to open his mouth.
This situation was somewhat unreasonable, but Man Yun only deduced the abnormality using reverse psychology after being tricked. After he found out, it’s no wonder although Lian Yu was injured, he refused to cry out in pain, entangled with them to let Cen Zhen escape better, and didn’t say a word during the entire fight. These behaviors all seemed normal during the fight, and he couldn’t guard against them at all.
At this time, Man Yun didn’t notice anything unusual. He had only one thought in his mind: to eliminate this hateful Sentinel in front of him and to occupy the Guide who could control the behavior of others.
The one gunshot on Lian Yu’s left shoulder caused him having to fight with only one hand. Although it was inconvenient, his speed did not slow down a bit. He even became more and more courageous. Even though he was used to playing with tricks and codes, always hiding in the dark, and using wisdom to play with others without brute force, he is a Sentinel after all. The blood and violent fights excited him greatly.
Gradually, fewer and fewer pirates remained standing. When Man Yun realized that something was wrong, he was the only one left standing abruptly among the bodies lying on the ground.
Only a small part of the fallen people were stained with blood, and most of them had purple-red faces, with painful and hideous expressions.
“You!” Man Yun didn’t dare to finish his words. He quickly covered his mouth and nose, finally realized Lian Yu had not said a word since Cen Zhen left.
Lian Yu knew that Man Yun had discovered the existence of poison gas because of his action. The smile on his lips was so arrogant that it was annoying. He even hooked his right index finger at Man Yun provocatively, which made the star pirate leader so angry that his lungs almost exploded.
Lian Yu’s left arm drooped weakly, and his clothes were covered with blood, but he still smiled arrogantly, as if his injury was a part of his calculation and pitied Man Yun’s dying struggle.
Flexibility and adaptability are two important criteria for measuring the presence of one’s IQ. Man Yun is a local emperor after all. He would not be so mindless as to fight with an unknown enemy when he knew there was a fraud.
He jumped up suddenly and was about to leave from the hole above his head. Lian Yu immediately jumped up to chase him but saw that the other party’s left hand had taken out a high-magnification gun from his ankle. Lian Yu did not expect that this man actually had a stockpile. He hurriedly changed his posture mid-air and evaded the bullet aimed at his forehead with a sideways twist that disobeys physics and would make Newton explode in anger.
The high-speed rotating bullet grazed Lian Yu’s cheek, leaving a bloody and burnt bullet mark. In the indescribable pain, Lian Yu covered his face and felt the warm blood in his palm. His first reaction was: it’s over, my face is disfigured, will Cen Zhen, a face lover, be unhappy?
Cen Zhen, who got labeled as a face lover without his knowledge, was surprised at Sister Hong’s rebellion at this moment. Although he didn’t know why this woman who always wore fiery red lipstick would suddenly turn against her people, her shot undoubtedly gave him a temporary respite. The Chameleon Man slowly revealed his figure outlined by blood, but the blood stopped soon. The Chameleon Man wiped it roughly with clothes, and the cleaned parts merged with the surroundings again.
The third-hand man with kidney deficiency snorted. Compared with Cen Zhen, his hatred towards the traitor who stabbed him in the back was greater. As someone in the third-hand position, he surely won’t be at a disadvantage due to a woman who had to sell her body to survive. In less than two sentences, he countered Sister Hong. The situation suddenly reversed and the man with kidney deficiency pointed a gun at Sister Hong’s head.
He didn’t intend to waste time. The moment the gun was pointed at Sister Hong, he was about to pull the trigger. However, at this moment, another woman screamed and suddenly flew from behind him, hitting the gun in the hand of the man with kidney deficiency, causing the bullet to shoot into the sky, leaving only a deafening sound in Sister Hong’s ears.
In the tinnitus, Sister Hong looked at Xiao-Yu’s anxious face in a trance, and her mouth movement looked like she was calling her name. Since seeking shelter from the Falling Cloud Star Pirates, they have been pretending to be at odds to reduce Man Yun’s vigilance against them.
In fact, Hong couldn’t tell whether everything was just a “pretend” in the end. All this time from the very beginning, the gap between them always existed – Yu could do anything to survive and could pay any price. She could smile flatteringly and say those disgusting words, but Hong couldn’t. If it wasn’t for Yu, she would rather die in the universe and become a space junk than step into the Falling Cloud.
It’s hard to say who is right or wrong between them two, let alone who is noble or lowly. It’s just that their ideas are different and their concepts are incompatible. Hong chose to compromise under Yu’s tears.
If Cen Zhen and Lian Yu hadn’t shown up in comparison, she might have continued to endure such pain and depression. However, these two people appeared, quietly and abruptly, leaving Hong unprepared, furthermore… envious.
Intensely, but also are just absolutely pure envy. Because Hong knew she couldn’t follow suit, she could become a slave and die for love, but Yu didn’t want to. In Yu’s mind, the importance of life was far greater than illusory love. She couldn’t impose her will on Yu. After seeing everything happening in the Slave Arena on the virtual screen, Hong realized that Cen Zhen and Lian Yu can be so fearless for love because of their overpowering abilities. If she could still boast that she had the same beliefs as them, when it comes to force, they are completely unattainable to her.
So she could only envy.
“Don’t die. Hong, you promised me that we would live together!” Yu cried, she held Hong tightly in her arms, and when she found that the kidney deficiency man angrily picked up the gun again and pointed it at them, she hurriedly begged Cen Zhen: “Please save us!”
To survive, Yu always did whatever it took, including asking for help from Cen Zhen, who was her enemy a second ago.
“Hong just saved you.” Yu saw Cen Zhen standing there without moving, and shouted anxiously: “We were forced to do it before, it was not our intention to hurt you!”
Cen Zhen had read the novel, but he read the original work, not the plot that had been modified. The simple summary is that the four enemies suddenly had an internal conflict without any signs. A attacked B, C wanted to attack A, but C was attacked by D. At this time, D, who wanted to kill him before, is begging him for help with tears in her eyes.
Hong always looked at him with an unspeakable look before. At this moment, Cen Zhen could finally vaguely perceive the pain and entanglement in Hong’s heart. She stood up this time to seek death. It is better to say she is giving her original self a redemption rather than saving Cen Zhen.
Even if she is allowed to choose again, she will still embark on this extremely painful road for Yu. This is her reality. Cen Zhen and Lian Yu had the kind of rapport she longs for, the kind of match she craves, the kind of freedom and power she seeks but cannot obtain, the kind of ifs and what-ifs she dreamt…
These delicate thoughts can only be vaguely perceived by Cen Zhen, who is a Guide and has just learned to grasp the thoughts of other races. Should he help? Can he save her? He took a half step forward and was about to move, but suddenly felt a shadow pressing on him.
Before he looked up, the shadow quickly passed him and hit the man with kidney deficiency.
ShouHe first stepped on “the ball of heat” with ill intentions standing behind Cen Zhen, then punched the man with kidney deficiency away, and then ignored the crying girl on the ground and looked back at Cen Zhen.
“Why are you here alone?”
Cen Zhen did not answer immediately. He silently looked at the Chameleon Man behind him who had lost consciousness and revealed his figure. He truly believed that the Zhongyang people were irregular deviants. After seeing ShouHe’s appearance, the feathered man who was burned like a roasted chicken screamed: “You! Aren’t you the awesome man who smashed the sky!”
“What?” ShouHe hadn’t realized that he had become a legend in the Slave Arena. Cen Zhen interrupted: “Why are you back?”
“Oh, I handcuffed the masked man who looked like a purple potato, called my colleagues, and then I was afraid that you couldn’t handle it, so I came back to pick you up.” ShouHe suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction where Cen Zhen came from, “I think I made the right choice.”
Cen Zhen followed ShouHe’s gaze and saw two figures approaching rapidly in the distance. The two saw them at the same time. The former wanted to join his other unit, but he didn’t expect his third-hand man to be so useless. He immediately changed direction, jumped to the left, and disappeared into the bushes. ShouHe caught up in an instant and disappeared without a trace.
The latter suddenly slowed down, even walking briskly one second, and staggering the next, covering his face in agony and half-kneeling on the ground, his body trembling.
“A-na…” Lian Yu called weakly, he slowly leaned forward and fell into a steady embrace as he wished. Cen Zhen saw the blood on his left shoulder and the unnaturalness of his left arm, and suddenly a surge of anger rolled up in his heart, “Man Yun did it?”
“He also,” Lian Yu choked, “He also…”
“What else did he do?” Cen Zhen noticed that Lian Yu had been covering half of his face, and a bad guess emerged in his mind, “Could it be that your eyes——!”
“That’s not the case.” Lian Yu put down his hand and said aggrievedly: “He ruined my face.”
Cen Zhen immediately lifted his chin and carefully observed the scars on Lian Yu’s cheek. After a while, he breathed a sigh of relief, “It’s okay, you didn’t look that good before anyway.”
Lian Yu: “……”
Original Author’s Note:
The fight is over, the fight is over, they will return to the White Tower in the next chapter…
Translator’s Note:
No excuse. I admit all fault, please expect 4 updates this week. I’ll do everything I can to guarantee it. ><
