“Hmph, let me introduce myself, I’m from Adversity,”
The young man looked at Fang Ran and said. Looking at Fang Ran who had a black cloak floating behind him, the young man suppressed the shock he was feeling right now.
Then, he glanced at the five people on the ground. At this moment, their shadows had completely strangled them till they suffocated and passed out.
‘This is his ability?’
‘The mysterious side, summoning the outer form of beings?’
‘What a strange ability, the rarity level of this ability must be quite high.’
‘This is a little problematic…’
Fortunately, his personal ability does not seem to be that high.
A gleam of light shimmered in the young man’s eyes, but he still did not forget his purpose. Staring at Fang Ran, he slowly opened his mouth and said,
“So, I wonder if you can hand us the girl in your arms?”
Hearing this, Shui Lianxin could not help but be surprised
“Adversity?”
Fang Ran’s gaze locked in on the young man. Fang Ran, whose mind was a blur, felt as if he had heard the name somewhere previously.
‘It seems to be…’
“Looks like you’ve heard of us before. That’s great. Can you hand me that girl now?”
The young man smiled calmly, as if he had everything under control.
“Hand over to you?”
Fang Ran exhaled and asked in reply, in an ambiguous ascending tone.
“Yup, that’s right. Although I really want to explain to you the reason that I want to take her away, like those dumb antagonists in the movies…” Stuffing his right hand into his pocket, the young man stood casually, and threw his hand up with a hypocritical polite smile as he said,
“Unfortunately, I seriously think that those plots are extremely dumb. Besides, there really isn’t enough time. As you can tell, this place seems like it’s about to collapse soon.”
Fang Ran raised his head and glanced at the teetering restaurant roof. Taking another deep breath, Fang Ran stared at the young man without saying a word.
Shui Lianxin who was in his arms finally calmed down a little from the collapse just now. Letting go of the hand that had been grasping Fang Ran’s shirt collar in fear, she took a deep breath.
She knew that they were coming for her again.
Yet another person who wanted to use her as a bargaining chip.
Shui Lianxin suppressed her fear and raised her head with a little sob, “Let me go, they probably won’t hurt…”
However, before she could finish what she was saying, the arm that was originally wrapped around her shoulders overbearingly held her back into them when he noticed her letting go!
“Shut up!”
Fang Ran yelled impatiently and interrupted Shui Lianxin’s words, as if he was terrorising a kitten.
“It’s like how this guy thinks that the antagonists in movies who provide explanations for their actions are idiots…”
“I also think the women who keep crying, ‘Hurry up and leave, don’t bother about me!’ are just as mentally retarded!!”
Fang Ran roared out through gnashed teeth, as if the situation before him was making him a little vexed. Having this kind of melodramatic movie plot happening to him, was making him a little irritable, and that irritation forced him to blurt out what was on his mind.
“Since you’ve been rescued, just obediently wait for things to be okay!”
“Uttering that kind of mentally retarded words like “I’ll be fine”… Doesn’t that make the protagonists who risked their lives to save others, and me who risked my life to save you…”
“Look extremely stupid!”
Fang Ran was as irate as an infuriated beast. He pressed Shui Lianxin into his arms even more forcefully, holding onto the silver broken dragon teeth to block what was in front of him, with a ferocious contempt for the male youth in front of him!
“You want to achieve your aim?”
“In that case, come and kill me!!!”
‘Get rid of the telekinesis!’
Fang Ran shouted loudly in his mind at the same time. Ling, who had heard their talk from a short distance away, also clenched her teeth, before directly crushing the ball of air in her hands!
Boom!
The telekinesis crushed that thickest load-bearing column!
“What! How…”
The sudden and massive turn of the events took the young man completely by surprise!
The entire Western restaurant collapsed, like a toy castle which had a building block taken away from it!
All the boulders broke into pieces and came plummeting down!
The rocks collapsed and fell like rain!
An extremely violent tremor!
Line of sight kept getting buried!
Fang Ran thrust the Silver Split Dragontooth into the ground with all his strength!
He shouted at the top of his lungs,
“Defence! Activate!!!”
Boom!
The restaurant completely collapsed. On the street, those who had been rescued shuddered as they watched this scene.
Right now, the young man’s face was twisted in anger. ‘Damn it, I’ve been fooled!’ After that, he did not dare to stay on any longer. Gathering all his strength, he dashed out.
At the end, he turned around to take a look. Looking at the two people who were still standing there, fury erupted in his chest.
‘Damn it!’
‘The Shui family will have arrived by the time they’re buried!’
‘Damn it!’
Thinking about this, he could not help but say coldly,
“I will keep watch nearby. I won’t be able to catch the girl from the Shui family, but you… are dead meat!”
…
…
After tens of seconds, or perhaps a few minutes,
Shui Lianxin recovered from the dizziness she felt.
The inability to stretch in the narrow space made her feel a little uncomfortable.
Her vision was pitch black, there was no difference between opening and closing her eyes.
However, she sensed that there seemed to be the sound of breathing coming from somewhere near her.
“You’re conscious?! Are you okay?! Are you injured?!”
Frightened and panic-stricken, she grabbed onto the corner of Fang Ran’s clothes, and asked him anxiously and worriedly through sobs.
“I… I’m fine.”
Shui Lianxin was quiet for a while, before exclaiming,
“That’s great!”
Shui Lianxin instantly relaxed, feeling as if she had lost all her strength at once.
In the darkness, a few huge boulders cleverly formed a triangular formation, barely making some space for the two of them to fit in right in the middle.
Fang Ran could not see anything. Being alone in the dark with a super beautiful girl did not make him excited. Instead, it suddenly made him slightly more sober.
‘Hah, seriously… What was I doing when blood rushed to my head just now?’
Feeling dizzy and light-headed from the fall, Fang Ran felt like whatever he did just now seemed a little blurry to him.
Fang Ran laughed wryly, ‘Seriously… Risking my life to save someone, and then confronting someone face to face, and even taunting him before leaving… My head hurts so much and I can’t see anything. Might as well close my eyes.’
‘Oh my God! What have I done!’
Although no one could see it in the darkness, Fang Ran still quietly buried his face in his hands.
‘Although my head was a bit fuzzy just now, but this is just too crazy…’
‘Hah, got into trouble again.’
“Oh! Our big hero has calmed down? Hmph, although you said that you won’t bother about her, but in the end, when you saw that she was in danger, didn’t you still diligently rush to save her?”
Fang Ran felt that there was something in his hood pressing hard against him as Ling sneered in his mind. Embarrassed, Fang Ran turned his head away and muttered in a small voice in his mind,
“Isn’t it because a human life was at stake?”
“Oh, a human life was at stake? I think you just think that she’s pretty. It’s the vanity of men at work!”
Ling scoffed. In the data space, she floated in the air with her arms crossed and sneered.
“Do you feel good working so hard as if your life depended on it? In the end, didn’t you end up using the same typical scenarios as those protagonists you hate the most?”
“No…”
Fang Ran sighed exasperatedly. ‘Making up cock and bull stories and even slandering me. I’m clearly so upright.’ Hearing Ling’s words, Fang Ran felt his heart shattering completely. It was not because of Ling’s accusation, but because…
Fang Ran suddenly remembered…
‘I have not eaten that steak that costs more than 500 Yuan! Argh!’
‘What a waste.’
“Fang Ran, let me ask you.”
In the data space, Ling looked at Fang Ran who was enveloped by darkness right now.
The wound on his head seemed to have split open, and blood started to flow down again. His right eye was still red, and he seemed pathetic and pitiful. However, he appeared to have finally relaxed. Cautiously, he curled up in one corner of the tiny space, trying his best not to touch Shui Lianxin.
Ling suddenly had a feeling that she could not explain. She was puzzled as to why this coward, who did not even know that he had a concussion just now, would risk his life to save someone.
‘This guy always seems to exhibit strange behavior like heroism in baffling times.’
Just now, when she saw that young man with the ferocious expression on his face as he tightly guarded the girl in his arms, she thought she was seeing things.
‘Sometimes, he’s so cowardly. Sometimes, he’ll risk his life for some odd reason. This guy who has only lived for twenty years, is persistently holding on to a certain belief in his heart.’
‘Is this what he meant by the mentality of ordinary people?’
Ling did not quite understand.
Thus, out of the blue, she tried her best to conceal her intentions by using a mocking tone as she asked him,
“Do you think that you are the protagonist in a movie? That you’re very cool for saving the beauty? If she had been a forty-year-old aunty, would you still risk your life to save her?”
“Pfft…”
Fang Ran was instantly rendered speechless. He felt that if he was drinking water now, he would definitely spit it out. He grumbled incessantly in his mind,
‘I think that you shouldn’t be asking me this question. You should be asking the screenwriters of American blockbuster films and see if they don’t roll their eyes at you in reply.’
But at the same time, Fang Ran gave it some serious thought. Staring into the darkness in front of him, at the girl whom he could not see right now, he asked himself this question.
However, it did not take him long to scratch his head and smile, as he said in mild embarrassment,
“Well, although I think that there will probably be a forty-year-old uncle to save a forty-year-old aunt, I am just an ordinary person. If I can lend a hand, I will definitely help.”
Through the data space, Ling kept observing him, staring at his every expression and action at the moment, as if verifying the sincerity of this young man who had been ordinary up until a few days ago.
‘If you can lend a hand, you would definitely help?’
‘Even though you yourself was in serious trouble and powerless to defend yourself.’
‘Do you know that the guy outside, he…’
“Tsk!”
Alas, in the data space, Ling still chose to turn her head away and let out a ‘tsk’ in the end. Then, she slowly used her telekinesis to stabilise Fang Ran’s concussion.
That’s right, this is the reason why Fang Ran suddenly felt that he was more clear-headed.
“By the way, Your Royal Highness, was it you who created this place?”
Fang Ran shrank back. Although he could not see, knowing that he was sitting across an extremely beautiful girl, it was better to stay further away. Then, he suddenly remembered.
‘How did this place come about?’
“You don’t say! If it was not because I did the calculations to use telekinesis to create this space, do you really think that you would be able to fend off boulders that weigh several tons with that bit of defence of yours?”
Fang Ran let out a little awkward laugh before scratching his head and saying embarrassedly,
“Thank you.”
Ling froze for a moment, and then turned her head away. After Fang Ran answered her just now, she suddenly did not know how to talk to this coward.
“Hmph, at least you have a conscience.”
In the darkness opposite of him, after Shui Lianxin heard Fang Ran’s answer and relaxed, she tried her best to open her eyes wide to adjust to the darkness, as she wanted to see Fang Ran.
She reached out her hand and groped around. When she touched Fang Ran’s chest, she slowly grabbed onto his shirt collar and felt relieved.
‘That’s great, he’s okay.’
On the other hand, Fang Ran was taken aback, but kept mum the next moment.
‘She must be frightened in this kind of dark environment.’
Fang Ran opened his mouth, but did not know what to say to comfort her and make her feel more at ease.
His barren experience of getting along with girls made him completely clueless about what to say.
However, after a moment of silence, Fang Ran still quietly stretched out his hand silently and followed the direction of her hand to pat her shoulder.
“It’s okay, I’m… still here. I will… protect you.”
Fang Ran tried his best to complete his sentence. All of a sudden, he felt dizzy. He was slightly baffled. ‘Is my head still not okay?’
Then, he heard the person opposite him spoke,
“Uh, younger brother, although it is nice of you to have this thought, I still think it’s a bit disgusting for a man to say that to me. Also, can you take your hand away first?”
When a familiar voice rang out, Fang Ran’s eyes flew open in astonishment. Impetuous’ face, which he had not seen in a few days, was twitching as he stared at Fang Ran. Furthermore, Fang Ran’s hands were on his bare, shirtless shoulders.
‘What the f*ck!’