Chapter 53: Hypnosis “He will be sad, you cannot die”…
Lu Xunye thought left and right but truly found this man unfamiliar.
The System also said there was no such person, yet the man definitely knew his surname was Lu.
He frowned in confusion. “Have I offended you?”
The man pulled the trigger mechanism, aiming at Lu Xunye. “Offended wouldn’t be the word. I just find you quite unpleasant to look at.”
“Then, I’ll trouble Young Master Lu to scout the path to the Yellow Springs for Young Master Feng first.”
A light sentence fell, followed immediately by a violent explosion of sound echoing through the warehouse.
The sudden gunshot was unexpected by everyone.
The air stagnated for a few seconds. Young Master Pang, standing beside the shooter, was already uneasy from earlier events. Now, terrified, his legs went soft, and he slumped to the ground.
The System immediately activated the protection program: [Holy crap, holy crap! Don’t villains usually die from talking too much?!]
Feng Chengyu stiffly turned his neck toward Lu Xunye.
Cold sweat was already dripping down to Lu Xunye’s chin.
Holding his breath, he also turned his head to look at the bullet embedded in the wooden board.
Warm liquid flowed down his ear, soaking the clothes on his shoulder.
The man’s expression remained calm and waveless. He tilted his head slightly, tapping the gun in his hand lightly. “Do I need to do the other one too?”
Perhaps others didn’t understand what he meant, but Lu Xunye reacted.
He slowly raised his hand, took off the Bluetooth earphone hanging on his other ear, and tossed it to the man’s feet.
The earphone was crushed by a shoe sole and kicked aside.
Feng Chengyu had had enough. His nerves, stretched to the limit, finally snapped.
“I’m guessing you don’t genuinely want our lives. What exactly do you want? Money or something else? Instead of playing with us like this, just say it directly.”
“If you want to use me against Ji Yanchuan, I advise you to stop dreaming. You saw his attitude just now; he won’t risk himself for anyone.”
The man cast a faint smile toward the hysterical person. “Heh, how do you know I don’t want your lives?”
“Since you have the ability to capture us, you might as well have killed us when you caught us. There’s no need to expose your whereabouts just to scare us before killing us.”
Feng Chengyu’s cold gaze swept over the fatty on the ground. “And certainly no need to go through such trouble to fish him out of the police station.”
The man said nothing.
Footsteps drew closer.
A cold object pressed against his throat, bone-chilling. The man knelt on one knee, pressing the muzzle against Feng Chengyu’s neck.
“What if I just have a hobby of listening to dying people beg humbly? Helping him out of jail was just so I could kill you and frame him.”
He grinned, the muzzle sliding up and down along the Adam’s apple that bobbed from tension.
Finally, he lifted the other’s thin chin, forcing eye contact, his tone carrying a malicious undertone. “After all, the one with a grudge against you is him.”
Young Master Pang muttered in disbelief, “You must be lying to me, right?”
Unfortunately, no one heard his despair.
Feng Chengyu was furious. His glaring eyes suggested that if he were untied, he would swallow the man alive. “You!”
His hand suddenly touched something sharp. A sting on his fingertip—it was a glass shard. He froze, remembering Lu Xunye had stood by the window just now, where there seemed to be glass fragments from the fire explosion.
Maintaining his angry expression, he glanced quickly at Lu Xunye’s position out of the corner of his eye. Sure enough, no one was there.
“Tsk, still don’t understand the situation.” The man “advised” him calmly. “Putting on your airs as the Feng family’s Young Master is useless here.”
“You might as well think about how to say something nice to make me happy. Maybe I’ll let you go.”
“Or,” he said maliciously, his index finger touching the trigger, “do you want to try it too?”
With his life in the other’s hands, Feng Chengyu dared not gamble.
He even suspected the shot just now was a warning not to act rashly. The gun was real, and he would really shoot.
He could only try his best to calm his emotions while his hands behind his back cut the rope, blood dripping.
Suddenly seeing something, his pupils flickered slightly, and he closed his eyes. “What nice things do you want to hear?”
The man wasn’t surprised by his change. He raised an eyebrow and, without looking back, raised his hand and fired a shot randomly somewhere.
Bang—
The wooden stick in Lu Xunye’s hand broke in half.
His charging footsteps braked, looking at the dark muzzle aimed at him again.
He swallowed, took a step back, and threw away the wooden stick like a hot potato.
The wooden stick landed squarely in the hands of the low-presence Young Master Pang in the corner.
Lu Xunye passed the buck: “He threatened me. He’s afraid you’ll kill us and frame him.”
He added, “You know, I was kicked in here. I didn’t know where there was a wooden stick.”
The man’s cold eyes swept over. Young Master Pang flopped to his knees, threw away the dirty object in his hand, his back soaked in cold sweat.
He explained in a panic, “Don’t listen to this kid’s nonsense! He’s just trying to sow discord between us—”
Taking advantage of his distraction, Feng Chengyu saw the opportunity, threw off the rope, and lunged. In the chaos, the pistol fell to the ground and slid far away.
Seeing this, Feng Chengyu breathed a sigh of relief, silently chanting in his heart: Lu Xunye, it’s up to you.
The man easily restrained Feng Chengyu, saying coldly, “Hurry up and grab it.”
Young Master Pang reacted a beat slow, running to pick it up.
Obese and clumsy, he naturally wasn’t as fast as Lu Xunye. Just as he bent down to reach out, a hand covered in scrapes and blood picked it up before him.
Lu Xunye frightened Young Master Pang a bit, and the man immediately retreated in fear, squatting down with his head in his hands.
He straightened his face, aiming at the man’s arm that was gripping Feng Chengyu’s wrist.
Moving upward, he aimed at the opponent’s shoulder.
The man’s voice was flat. “Do you dare to shoot?”
Lu Xunye’s movement paused, his wrist shaking uncontrollably.
The System stared at the positioning of the approaching police cars. The red dot stopped at one place, and it was anxious in the space.
[The Lu Xunye I know isn’t such a coward. Shoot! It’s self-defense, what are you afraid of?]
Feng Chengyu struggled against the man’s suppression. “Even if you kill him, neither the Lu family nor I will let anything happen to you.”
Lu Xunye took a deep breath, opened his eyes, his gaze firmer. He pulled the trigger. The expected bloody scene did not happen.
Hard to believe, and refusing to believe in heresy, he fired several shots in a row. Without exception, nothing happened.
The man suddenly laughed as if he had expected this.
Recalling that there were indeed only two clicks when the man fingered the magazine just now, his heart sank into an ice cave. He realized the other party was putting on a show with them, toying with them.
Like a cat teasing a mouse, lifting its paw to let the prey run, and just when the prey is immersed in the beautiful dream of escape, pinning it down again. The blow caused is devastating.
He forced himself to calm down. “So what if there are no bullets? Do you have another gun?”
Feng Chengyu quickly chimed in, “That’s right! He can fight ten of you alone! Let me go quickly!”
Lu Xunye didn’t know where Feng Chengyu got such confidence in him.
At this moment, the man had one leg pressed horizontally across Feng Chengyu’s thighs, and one hand pinned both his wrists above his head.
He restrained a normal adult male without using his full strength.
The man’s eyelids lowered halfway, his thin lips opening slightly. “Do it.”
Lu Xunye frowned. The next instant, he was held by the shoulders, tied up, and thrown back to his original position.
During this time, he felt nothing at all.
“…”
The System felt guilty. To prevent Lu Xunye from feeling pain, it had set the pain level to zero. Otherwise, the moment the hand was placed on Lu Xunye’s shoulder, he would definitely have noticed.
But it seemed… it should have left a little. Fortunately, the host didn’t know. It silently raised the pain value to 10%.
The two were tied together again. Three more people stood in the empty warehouse.
The man leisurely took a loaded gun from a bodyguard. With a sweep of his eyes, two people understood his meaning and stepped forward to take Young Master Pang out of the warehouse.
“Since you are so considerate of each other, why don’t you discuss who gets to live, and who… dies.”
“You?” The gun moved from one person’s direction to the other’s heart. “Or you?”
Lu Xunye thought briefly. Since he couldn’t die anyway, he faced it calmly. “Let him go.”
Hearing this, the man raised an eyebrow. “Seems you chose a good friend; you’re not too blind.”
Feng Chengyu was so surprised he almost cried. “Brother Lu, you’re a true brother! But he definitely won’t let me go, so don’t you die either.”
He snorted coldly, looking up with disdain.
“Do you think the Lu family are all fools? Can you trick one here with just a voice changer?”
“My Brother Lu definitely had people following him before he came. Dare to touch us and try.”
Lu Xunye, who really was that foolish, coughed lightly and followed up with a ruthless remark, lacking confidence. “Just you wait.”
“Looking for people?” The corners of the man’s lips curled up slightly. “Police?”
Lu Xunye’s heart skipped a beat, having a bad premonition.
“The cross-river bridge collapsed. They won’t be able to come for a while. As for those bodyguards of yours, guess where they are?”
Feng Chengyu bit the flesh of his cheek to stay awake; soon, blood seeped from the corner of his lips.
“Aren’t you angry that Ji Yanchuan is heartless and unjust to you?”
The man’s fingers gently stroked the red marks on the young man’s side face, his thumb wiping away the blood at the corner of his mouth. “Want revenge? I’ll help you.”
Feng Chengyu bit down, clamping his teeth firmly on the knuckle between his upper and lower teeth.
Lu Xunye felt his mouth twitch in sympathy pain for the man, but the other party remained expressionless, not even frowning.
He couldn’t help wondering: [Did you turn on the Pain Shield for the wrong person?]
The System was also full of question marks and specifically checked: [No.]
Lu Xunye sighed: [Fearless in the face of danger, truly the Protagonist Shou.]
[Exactly.] The System was silent for two seconds. [Huh?]
Seeing no reaction from the man, Feng Chengyu felt his self-esteem wounded and spat. “I don’t need your help. This young master just misjudged a person. I haven’t lost my mind enough to trade with someone who abuses me.”
The man chuckled lightly. “Think carefully. Did I hit you?”
Feng Chengyu froze.
Lu Xunye thought: Really, why does it feel more like flirting than abuse!
System: Same feeling.
“I told you to listen to advice.” A layer of darkness covered the bottom of the man’s eyes. “Do you know why Si Jinyan hated Shen Yunqian so much later?”
Hearing the name “Shen Yunqian,” Lu Xunye’s heart skipped a beat. He immediately pricked up his ears to listen intently.
“Someone used hypnosis to transform all his complex emotions for the Shen family into hatred, reinforcing it periodically. The psychological counseling he thought he was getting was all a trap set by someone else.”
The man didn’t seem to think his words were horrifying at all.
“Hypnosis isn’t always successful. Of course, there must be a seed of hatred in the heart. Hatred needs a foundation; so-called hypnosis just amplifies it.”
“It just so happened that I found this doctor.”
The man smiled.
He pulled out the blood-stained glass shard from Feng Chengyu’s hand, stopping his action of cutting the rope.
“If used on you, guess if it would succeed?”
Feng Chengyu didn’t believe it at all. “Bullshit!”
“From ignorant youth until now being discarded like worn-out shoes, do you really not hate him at all?”
Bang—
The warehouse door was pushed open by bodyguards.
Several people, faces covered in ash and looking panicked, said, “Bad news, Boss. There’s a fire outside. Gasoline was poured all around, and the fire is out of control.”
With the open door, thick smoke poured in like a flood. Flames crawled along the ground, burning toward them with lightning speed.
Only then did the man realize gasoline had been poured on the floor inside as well.
Choked by the thick smoke, the men coughed incessantly. The man panicked. “Untie him quickly.”
Then, he picked up the fainting Feng Chengyu.
The others covered their mouths and noses, hesitating. “Boss, what about this person?”
“He knows things he shouldn’t. Leave him.”
The warehouse door was closed, and the light vanished from his eyes little by little.
No wonder the man spoke without avoiding Lu Xunye; he never intended to let him live from the start.
The fierce flames burned the dry wooden boards nearby, and the remaining glass on the windows exploded completely.
Lu Xunye was tied extremely tight. Gradually, he lost his strength. The scorching temperature roasted him, and the System’s voice in his head became smaller and smaller.
Before his consciousness dissipated, the warehouse door was opened. Someone cut the rope on his body and helped him run out.
“…Who are you?”
The only response was: “He will be sad, you cannot die.”
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