Chapter 30 Not Human?
After coaxing Yao‘er to sleep, Xu Mo went up to the rooftop. At this moment, Old Mister Batu with his huge figure was carefully watering the plants. Xu Mo watched quietly, not disturbing him.
“It isn’t easy to keep flowers alive in the Subterranean World. It takes a lot of time and effort. If one isn’t careful, it’ll wilt very easily,” Old Mister Batu said softly, as if he was talking to himself.
However, Xu Mo felt that he was making an analogy with the flowers.
This was what flowers needed, and it was also the same for the people in the Subterranean World. If it wasn’t for Old Mister Batu’s protection, how could Miss Mia be so kindhearted? It was very hard to survive in this world.
“Old Mister Batu, I just met the murderers downstairs,” Xu Mo spoke up.
Old Mister Batu seemed to already know of this. He continued to water the plants quietly until the watering can was out of water. After that, he put it aside and moved his fat body to the side to get some rest on a chair.
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As he was too fat, the chair wasn’t enough for him.
“What are you thinking about?” Batu raised his head and looked at Xu Mo, asking.
“Did Old Mister Batu save Yao’er?” Xu Mo asked.
“No one would be bothered about a child. I gave them some money and settled it.” Batu didn’t deny it. He could tell that Xu Mo had changed a lot from how he had been in the past. Since the day his parents died, he had gradually become mature.
“Do you hate me?” Old Mister Batu asked when he saw Xu Mo being silent.
Xu Mo shook his head. Most of his feelings toward his ‘parents’ came from the memories that belonged to the original host of this body. As a result, he could see the situation from a rational standpoint.
He was just an employee at Old Mister Batu’s shop, and Old Mister Batu had done a lot to be willing to save Yao’er. Did he have to save the family of four and get into trouble himself?
The Subterranean World wasn’t a benevolent world, and it wasn’t easy just to keep oneself alive here. Moreover, Old Mister Batu had someone he had to protect. Even if he wasn’t weak, he couldn’t watch over Mia at all times.
“Since they’ve accepted Old Mister Batu’s money, I don’t think that they’ll dare to report this to Cobra,” Xu Mo thought to himself. Otherwise, given Cobra’s bad reputation, he probably wouldn’t let those two subordinates off.
“Take care of your matters by yourself. I can’t help you. You can bring Yao’er with you and leave. But if you want to stay behind, then go face them yourself. It has nothing to do with me regardless if you live or die. If you die, I’ll try my best to help bring Yao’er up.” Old Mister Batu seemed to know what Xu Mo was thinking and said this to him.
“Alright.” Xu Mo nodded and said, “Thank you, Old Mister Batu.”
“It’s one more person’s worth of food. You make the decision yourself,” said Old Mister Batu nonchalantly. He was also a little curious about how Xu Mo would choose.
Was he going to bring Yao`er and leave or face the situation himself?
Regardless of which route Xu Mo chose, it wouldn’t be easy. However, his precious daughter was going to be very sad. Anyway, it was probably time for her to understand a little about the brutality of the Subterranean World.
Old Mister Batu suddenly shook his head in self-mockery.
He had gotten old in age. He had seen a lot and become numb to a lot of things.
Let’s leave things to fate.
Night in the Subterranean World came. Around this time, ordinary citizens returned to their homes and closed the doors and windows, not daring to head out for no reason.
However, there were still people along the streets, and they were all outlaws. In a chaotic world, many people lived in dark corners, doing bad things.
After sending Bai Wei back, Xu Mo returned to his room, leaving Yao’er to Mia.
In his room, he took out two poker cards. They were silver-colored poker cards that he had intercepted when he killed the guy with the gold-wire glasses.
After taking a careful look at the poker card’s edges, he saw that they were very thin, light, and easy to carry around. They were more suitable as hidden weapons compared to the meteor darts, and they weren’t too conspicuous either.
Xu Mo stared at the poker cards and both of them instantly floated in front of his eyes. Xu Mo controlled them with psychokinesis and then started spinning them in opposite directions. They moved one round around his body before landing on his palms.
It was a little hard to control two poker cards at the same time as it caused him to deplete more mental energy. After all, the duration he had cultivated his breathing art for was too short.
Xu Mo then closed his eyes and started cultivating the breathing art. Everything in the outside world entered his mind, and his brain moved like a machine. This wasn’t the first time he was feeling this.
Time passed by slowly. Both Mia and Yao’er had fallen asleep. However, Old Mister Batu wasn’t sleeping but was meditating and cultivating
Outside the general store, on the streets in the distance, a few figures walked over. There were a total of three people. Other than the two brothers who had appeared during the day, Xu Mo saw another skinny and tall guy, who was carrying a weapon that was like a long ax on his shoulder. The ax had a long handle, and it gleamed with a silvery metal glow.
All three of them walked in the direction of Old Mister Batu’s general store.
They were clearly here to kill.
The orders they had received back then were to kill three older ones. Although they could abduct Yao’er to the black market, the money wouldn’t land in their hands, so they didn’t do so. To make things worse, since what the Old Mister Batu had given them already entered their pockets, it was considered embezzlement. And now, one of the targets was left alive.
If Brother Snake were to find out about all of these, they’d be skinned alive even if they didn’t die.
Therefore, Xu Mo must die.
When they walked to the street’s intersection, Xu Mo had gotten up and pushed open his room door. He then walked downstairs quietly, opening the general store’s door and heading out. After that, he walked into the darkness.
Both sides encountered each other. When the trio saw Xu Mo, they were stunned for a moment. The two brothers then broke into a savage smile. This was such a coincidence, and it spared them the need to go ‘knock on the door’.
They saw a hint of panic in Xu Mo’s gaze, and at the next instant, the latter turned around and ran.
The two brothers broke into a shadow of a smile. Thinking of running?
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The two of them started to chase Xu Mo, and the skinny, tall guy did the same while carrying his ax. He had long strides and ran very fast.
At this moment, Old Mister Batu stood at the window upstairs and saw these few people running in the darkness. He didn’t expect Xu Mo to have such a resolution at his age. He had underestimated Xu Mo.
But why did this kid coincidentally come across them when he had just stepped out?
Xu Mo ran crazily along the streets and the three people behind him kept on giving chase. People on the streets were used to seeing such scenes, so all of them moved aside quietly. Such occurrences were commonly seen at night, and the cleaners who had to wake up early would occasionally come across corpses.
“Why is this kid so good at running?” The three men realized that they didn’t manage to close the distance between them despite chasing him for so long. Moreover, he kept on darting into alleys, seeming to be extremely familiar with the area. It made them so tired that they were starting to pant a little.
After passing through numerous alleys, there were fewer and fewer people, and Xu Mo finally came to a stop.
The three pursuers also stopped, bending over and panting. They found it tiring to even breathe. This b*stard was too good at running.
At this moment, a disgusting rotting stench flowed out, and the three panting men felt a little nauseous. They then looked at the damp alley that was filled with trash. They had no idea why Xu Mo had brought them here.
Was he unable to run anymore?
“Little b*stard, why don’t you continue to run?” One of them stared at Xu Mo and said, “I initially planned on letting that girl go, but it seems that we should go take care of her as well when we’re free. I like it when she’s crying.”
“You won’t have any chance to do that anymore. “Xu Mo’s voice wasn’t panting at all, and it also had a hint of a cold aura, causing the other party to be stunned for a
moment.
What the hell? Why did his voice sound a little different? It gave him a bit of a chill.
“This place is suitable for burying corpses. I don’t think Brother Snake will find out.”
Another person said this and then walked over to Xu Mo with a blade, his gaze revealing a cruel gleam.
Seeing that Xu Mo continued to stand there without moving, he hastened his footsteps and moved forward, planning on ending Xu Mo with one slash.
At this moment, a card appeared in Xu Mo’s hand, and his body suddenly charged forward. As a result, the other party was stunned and raised his arm, wanting to pierce it toward Xu Mo.
After that, a card came flying over. In such close proximity, the card was like a sharp blade, slitting across his throat with a perfect arch. Although he continued to assume his forward charging stance, blood kept on gushing out of his throat. Hence, he raised his left hand to hold onto his throat, his body trembling as he looked down. Right now, horror was written all over his face.
At the next moment, his body fell forward.
“What happened?” It was too dark in the alley, and the other two men didn’t see clearly what had taken place before their comrade fell. Hence, their gazes changed and they stared at Xu Mo. He was walking over to them.
What was the matter with this kid? Did he lure them over intentionally?
“What’s with you?” said the ax-wielding skinny and tall guy to the young man beside him. Didn’t they say that they just needed his help to kill a kid? Why did one of them die instead?
“This has nothing to do with me. I’ll be leaving first,” said the skinny and tall guy to Xu Mo. He then kept on backing off, wanting to leave. He was only here to help.
Now, the other card in Xu Mo’s hand flew out. Upon seeing this, the countenance of the ax-wielding guy changed and his head moved to the side. However, it was as if the card had eyes growing on it. It drew an arch next to him, sliding past his throat. As a result, blood splattered out and the guy’s eyes opened wide. He turned to look at the young man with both despair and rage in his gaze.
He had been dragged down by them.
Bang!
His body fell, and the remaining young man could only stare at the scene before him. He was the guy who had squatted down to scare Yao`er during the day. When he looked toward Xu Mo again, he saw an extremely eerie scene. That card had flown back to Xu Mo, floating in front of him and spinning in the air. “This…” His body was trembling slightly, his legs numb.
He thought of what had happened that day. Xu Mo had clearly stopped breathing, so how could he still be alive?
“You’re not human, you’re not human…”
The young thug turned and ran. However, his legs felt weak and he didn’t have any courage left in him. He almost fell to the ground.
Seeing this, Xu Mo turned and charged forward, grabbing his collar while placing the poker card in his right hand, in front of the guy’s throat.
“Do you know how to cry?” Xu Mo whispered next to his ear. There was liquid trickling down onto the ground.
After that, the poker card in Xu Mo’s hand slit past slowly. The young man’s body trembled intensely, and he sank into endless horror.
As blood gushed out from his throat, his eyes were wide open, staring to the front until he stopped moving completely.
After wiping off the blood on the cards, Xu Mo tossed the man’s body onto the floor. He then pulled up his clothes’ hood and walked out of the alley.
At the general store, Batu stood outside the door and took a look. No one came back.
“He probably won’t come back anymore, right?” Old Mister Batu thought in his heart.
After waiting for a little longer, a miracle still didn’t happen. He then let out a sigh and his fat body slowly turned to walk into the store. He planned on locking the door.
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Just as he was going to close the door, a figure that wasn’t too big or tall appeared on the street not far away. It was heading in this direction. Batu was stunned for a moment and then he saw Xu Mo’s figure arriving at the door.
“Old Mister Batu,” Xu Mo called out.
Batu was stunned for a moment and forgot to open the door.
“Old Mister Batu, things have been taken care of. I’ll be going to get some rest.” Xu Mo pushed open the door himself and entered the store. After that, he headed upstairs.
Batu took a look outside. The Subterranean World’s night had a hint of ‘coldness’. However, at this moment, Batu had the feeling that he seemed to not really understand the ‘night’ anymore!