Chapter 48: A Touch of White Light in the Dark Night

The more Skinny thought about it, the more frustrated and annoyed he became!

He thought Chen Fengshi was a weak idiot, but ended up getting beaten up badly into his current miserable state, and still had to lose money!

But talking about it now was useless. Chen Fengshi was clearly a wolf, and he had already fallen into the trap. What was the point of saying things that would only bring him more trouble?

“I’ll find someone to borrow money from.” Skinny had no choice. He had already suffered the loss. If those people from earlier were hired by Chen Fengshi to beat him up, he had no hope of revenge for now.

“Borrowing money, or looking for someone to help?” Chen Fengshi questioned him, then pointed to the other side of the street and said, “The ATM is over there. If you can’t walk, I can drag you there!”

“I don’t have that much money…” Skinny’s voice was low and weak. He felt it was too embarrassing to say this, because when they first met, he had used money to insult Chen Fengshi, but now he had to personally admit the fact that he was also a broke loser.

“Are you kidding me?” Chen Fengshi continued to poke the swollen parts of Skinny’s head and face with his phone, while saying, “Are you kidding me? Huh? Not kidding? Then think of a solution fast—once the problem is solved, I won’t waste my time with you here, right? Hurts? If it hurts, think of a solution fast!”

Chen Fengshi was not very surprised by Skinny’s answer. Among the hoodlums outside, how many actually saved money? They basically lived for the moment. The environment was like that too: today I treat a group of people, tomorrow you treat, the day after tomorrow he treats. After a round of treating, everyone becomes a broke loser.

But once they got money, they had to continue this cycle. Even many small gang leaders could not escape this trap. Those who could think long-term in this environment and actually save money were a minority.

Skinny could not stand the pain from being poked. Even the e-bike driver who was waiting for passengers felt the pain for him, but no one pitied him. Because doing business around here, they had seen this Skinny many times. His mouth was always annoying, acting arrogant all day as if he owned the place. Although they had never taken his ride, his friends had given Skinny a ride before. After it was done, Skinny found excuses to curse them out. Not only did he not pay, but he also threatened to hit them.

Skinny could not take being poked by Chen Fengshi anymore and shouted recklessly, “I’ll pay for your bike, pay for your bike, I’ll pay you with my bike! My bike pays you—”

Chen Fengshi then took out his phone and recorded a video. He filmed the man who was waiting for passengers, then the ruined Horizon motorcycle, and finally Skinny. He made Skinny explain the whole story himself. During this time, he also frequently filmed the surrounding situation to prove that his words were not said under coercion.

After that, he took the keys and got on the passenger e-bike.

Seeing them turn around to go back, Skinny thought of his own bike and felt heartbroken. He could not stop crying and shouted at Chen Fengshi, “How could it be like this! How can this world be so dark!”

Chen Fengshi laughed out of anger. He had never been polite to this kind of person, because being polite to them was useless. If you were polite, they would only think they could bully and scam you. On the other hand, when you fought back nicely, they would act like pure weaklings who had been greatly bullied.

So he had always known that among those who cried out to the heavens, there were indeed kind weaklings, but there were also villains who tried to bully others but ended up being bullied themselves! If you did not figure out the situation clearly, it was easy to be taken advantage of by their sympathy.

Chen Fengshi could not stand Skinny crying so innocently, so he reminded him, “I was just admiring your bike earlier. If you didn’t let me look, that would have been fine. But you came up and acted fiercely, sarcastically, and insultingly, looking like you wanted to hit someone. And then you provocatively said: ‘Are you unconvinced, and what are you going to do about it if you are?’ Those were your words—the current situation is my answer to you.”

After Chen Fengshi finished speaking, he did not stay any longer. He took the e-bike back to Donglu Residential Area. After getting off, he took out two hundred and gave it to the driver. The driver was not polite either, happily thanked him and accepted it. That was the fee for showing his face in the video.

Chen Fengshi rode Skinny’s Chunfeng 650 to Little An’s house garage, changed back into his own clothes, and directly transferred twelve thousand to her via WeChat. The message said: ‘Horizon is scrapped, paying you for the bike.’

After that, he rode the black-and-white Chunfeng 650 away from Donglu Residential Area. He really wanted to get some skewers before going back to the hotel to sleep. But he hadn’t had a peaceful night, with messy things happening one after another as if they were endless. He was tired from all the tossing and turning, so he decided to just go back to the hotel to sleep. If he was starving, he would just grit his teeth and solve it at the hotel!

Chen Fengshi drove very fast all the way, only wanting to get back to the hotel to sleep quickly. Seeing the distance getting closer, his nerves, which had been tense all night, could finally relax soon.

Suddenly—two figures ran onto the zebra crossing on the road ahead!

Chen Fengshi quickly braked and adjusted his direction. The tires rubbed against the ground, creating smoke with a burnt smell. He crossed the zebra crossing, but fortunately, he did not hit those two people.

Chen Fengshi was still in shock. Riding a fast bike, the most feared thing was encountering this kind of situation. Usually, people and vehicles would follow basic rules and stay out of trouble. But when someone suddenly dashed out, the speed was fast and the brakes could not stop in time, an accident would happen.

However, when he looked closely at those two people, he was surprised to find that the woman in front had a faint layer of orange-yellow mist on the surface of her skin!

‘Power of Life?’ Chen Fengshi was secretly startled. Then he saw the chasing woman holding a thick short blade in her hand. At this moment, she had just caught up with the woman wearing a large white bath towel in front, and pushed her hard, making her fly and fall to the ground. The bath towel wrapped around her body also came loose.

When Chen Fengshi walked over quickly, the woman who fell spat out blood from her mouth. Seeing him, she still hurriedly shouted, “Run! You run! This woman is a monster—”

Chen Fengshi originally did not want to pretend he didn’t see it and just walk away. The woman being chased was still worried about him, a passerby. With such a noble character, what else could he say? Towards bad people, one should try not to let their mercy act up; towards good people, one should try not to treat them with malice. That’s right, this was the code of conduct Chen Fengshi believed in.

So—Chen Fengshi stepped forward, pointing at the chaser with the knife, and said, “Hey! What are you doing? Don’t do anything crazy! I’m calling the police! Killing is illegal!”

“Get lost!” The woman snapped her head around and scolded fiercely. Ignoring Chen Fengshi, she directly thrust the knife toward the woman who had fallen and was getting up!

At this very moment, Chen Fengshi suddenly accelerated forward and poked a finger right onto the Dazhui Acupoint on the back of the neck of the person holding the knife. That woman instantly fainted to the ground.

The woman who got up hurriedly wrapped the large bath towel tightly around her body and urged, “You need to leave quickly! She is a monster, this will get you involved!”

Chen Fengshi did not speak. He looked around and saw no one, so he activated the vitality of the Power of Life. The instantly expanding golden mist enveloped the body of the knife-wielding woman.

Thus, the woman who had just wrapped her towel tightly saw this and could not help but freeze. “You… you are a companion!”

When Chen Fengshi started to expel it, the red mist inside the knife-wielding woman’s body seemed to sense danger and surged out one after another. Some even tried to escape from the top of her head by turning into a red mist thread. However, under the cover of the golden mist, they were all absorbed and swallowed, with absolutely no chance of escaping.

After Chen Fengshi completed the expulsion, he placed the woman in the middle of the sidewalk, then signaled the woman wrapped in the bath towel to get on the bike.

The woman was wrapped in a bath towel with nothing underneath. She felt very embarrassed as she sat sideways on the back. Hugging Chen Fengshi’s shoulders was also very awkward for her. But once the bike started moving, even though Chen Fengshi was not riding very fast, she couldn’t help but hold him tighter out of fear, not caring about anything else.

After driving for a distance, Chen Fengshi stopped the bike in the middle of the auxiliary road under the overpass. In this position, the road above was for cars, and the situations on both sides and inside the overpass tunnel could be seen completely. There was not much traffic during the day, and it was extremely rare to see anyone in the early hours of the morning.

Leaving the scene of the incident, Chen Fengshi finally had time to ask about the situation. If there were other Fungal Demon Parasites at that place just now, it would have been asking for trouble.

“Thank you for saving me! My name is… Juzi.” Juzi reached out her hand naturally, while her other hand, still shadowed by what just happened, covered herself as if afraid the bathrobe would open again.

When she introduced herself, she clearly paused out of hesitation. After a mental struggle, she finally chose to follow the rules.

“Golden Blood.” Chen Fengshi did not want to add to her pressure. Then, feeling curious about Juzi’s sorry state just now, he asked, “Why were you being chased like that?”

“I heard that a technician at a newly opened small sauna was very skilled, and it was her—” Juzi still felt a lingering fear when talking about it. Thinking about it, a sauna massage was supposed to be for relaxation, but she ended up running into this kind of thing.

Chen Fengshi listened to her brief explanation, but still felt confused. She was an owner of the Power of Life, after all. The Fungal Demon Parasite that chased her just now was probably just an ordinary Parasite, and its combat power had not been strengthened much. “The Parasite chasing you didn’t seem very strong.”

“Orange-yellow Power of Life doesn’t have much combat ability. Why is your golden one so powerful?” As Juzi spoke, her almond-shaped eyes flashed with envy and curiosity.

“It’s just the combat type.” But Chen Fengshi did not go into detail, because Juzi had also just briefly mentioned the characteristics of her Power of Life. He started the motorcycle and signaled her, “I’ll take you back to change clothes and get your things.”

Juzi thought about how she had sat close behind Chen Fengshi and hugged him so tightly just now. At that time, she was just nervous and scared because she had never been on a two-wheeled motorcycle before. Thinking back on it now, she felt very embarrassed. Getting on again would mean being embarrassed all over again.

But looking like this, she couldn’t just wait bitterly on a road with little traffic at this hour for a taxi that might never show up, right? Moreover, wouldn’t she still be embarrassed in the taxi? Why go through the embarrassment in front of one more person?

“Thank you.” Juzi sat in the back just like before, grabbing Chen Fengshi’s clothes, and softly pleaded, “Please drive slowly. Turn around after the overpass tunnel, then turn right for a short distance and you’ll see it.”

The distance was very close, which was expected. But when Chen Fengshi dropped her off, he was still surprised that she had run over a thousand meters just now but didn’t seem to have broken much of a sweat. It seemed that the so-called lack of combat power was still beyond normal standards, and the Fungal Demon Parasite that attacked her must have been beyond normal standards too.

After getting off the bike, Juzi pleaded with great embarrassment, “Can you wait here for me for a while? I’m afraid there might still be… um, bad people inside.”