Chapter 7: Retreating Again and Again

This kick indeed hit its target. Skinny did not dodge at all. He took the kick directly, thrust his lower belly forward violently, and instantly pushed Chen Fengshi flying. Chen Fengshi’s back hit the railing of the pavilion once again.

So, the group of people burst into laughter again.

Skinny pretended to be disdainful and patted the dust off his clothes, then curled his fingers at Chen Fengshi: “Use some force! Use force—is this little strength your way of being funny on purpose?”

Chen Fengshi did not care about these taunts. He just felt that the situation was beyond his expectations. His arm had taken a stick hit earlier. There was a certain impact and shock at that time, but that was all. He did not feel pain. Moreover, when he was hit, he did not feel the short stick was hard at all. It felt like being playfully slapped with a book.

He had tried blocking a stick with his arm in the past, and it was not even a solid short stick like the one this person was using, yet he was injured for days back then. Clearly, his body’s resistance to strikes was very abnormal right now, so he did not feel much even after hitting his back twice.

But the Skinny in front of him also exceeded his estimates. Although the kick just now was not as forceful as when he kicked the crash barrier last night, he felt it was definitely at a quarter of that strength, or even close to a third, yet Skinny did not care at all.

This could only mean that after being possessed by the red mist, Skinny’s resistance to strikes should have also surpassed the ordinary.

“Softy, come on—now that we’re letting you hit us, you don’t even dare to?” The bystanders watching the fun heckled and shouted. It looked like some of them were especially excited.

Chen Fengshi did not say much. He directly raised his strength to about half of last night’s and kicked over again!

This time it hit the mark again! Skinny did not care at all and was fully prepared to thrust forward to meet this kick. However, when he was kicked, he could not withstand the force and staggered back step by step, bumping into the shoulders of three men and women behind him. Finally, he fell to his knees on the ground, supported himself with his hands, and vomited a mouthful of shocking blood!

‘Are his internal organs injured? Please don’t let anything major happen!’ Chen Fengshi was secretly alarmed. If he kicked someone to death, or caused a severe injury or something, he was already an adult, so he would have to bear legal responsibility!

A man to the side swung his short stick and struck right at Chen Fengshi’s head! They outnumbered him, and he had been on guard. He hurriedly raised his arm to block it, and smoothly kicked out again at the same time.

The stick hitting Chen Fengshi’s arm still made him feel nothing. Such strike resistance greatly boosted Chen Fengshi’s confidence. This way, even with many enemies, as long as he protected his weak spots well, he could handle them easily. He just had to be careful not to break people.

The strength of the counter-kick was slightly retracted compared to just now, but when it kicked that man, the man still leaned back from the impact and directly hit the ground headfirst in a lying-down posture!

Chen Fengshi did not have time to look closely at that man’s condition. Using his arms as shields, he constantly adjusted his position to block the sticks swinging from all around, while his legs kicked out continuously. Every opponent’s attack was equivalent to being successfully countered while he defended. Relying on his unusually strong lethality, he knocked down one with each kick.

The people holding knives suddenly stepped forward and stabbed over together, aiming at Chen Fengshi’s body. Looking at their ruthlessness, they actually disregarded the consequences!

Chen Fengshi was not afraid of stick strikes, but facing sharp daggers, he could not help but pay full attention to deal with them. In an instant, Chen Fengshi shifted sideways while kicking one person down, and grabbed another person’s wrist, using his force to throw them toward the two women on the left.

After all, he only had two hands and two feet, and he did not have a striking speed fast enough to catch bullets. While focusing on dealing with the siege of several daggers, he could only let three sticks smash onto his back and waist. He ignored the people with sticks and, without giving the two women who still had the ability to counterattack the chance to continue swinging their knives, he directly threw two consecutive punches and knocked them unconscious.

Right at this moment, a fist suddenly popped out from the side. It caught the very instant when Chen Fengshi’s punch was out and his body shape could not be changed. He could not defend against it at all, and it nailed right into his chest.

This was a woman’s fist, but there was a sharp blade on the fist! A moment ago, the person Chen Fengshi worried about the least was her—she looked pretty cool, but lacked a thuggish vibe, like the type who just followed rebellious friends to play outside and hadn’t been corrupted yet.

The kind of knuckle duster she wore was obviously impractical, usually only serving an intimidating purpose. But now, this fist solidly hit Chen Fengshi’s chest. So he could not care whether the other party was a beauty or not. He struck back with a palm to her face, and smoothly pushed her over to the ground.

Chen Fengshi then kicked several more people over in succession. Finally, only Sister Yao was still standing. Only then did he lower his head to check the injury on his chest, and he saw a few red spots that had been cut open, but it was only to the degree of broken skin. ‘A one-centimeter blade length hit solidly, yet the wound is so shallow. Is my current muscle tissue close to being invulnerable to blades and bullets?’

Chen Fengshi saw Sister Yao light a cigarette and smoke silently, not making a sound for a long while. He did not want to say much either. Just as he was about to take Shen Ai away, he saw the pale Skinny man who had been kicked to his knees and vomited a few mouthfuls of blood earlier now crawling to the side of a tree. When both his hands pressed against the tree trunk, a large amount of red mist continuously poured out from his body and quickly covered the trunk and the leaves.

Just as Chen Fengshi was wondering what this was for, he saw the leaves on that tree withering rapidly, while the limited flesh on the pale Skinny man’s face also quickly shriveled. However, the muscle tissue on his exposed arms suddenly multiplied at a high speed. At the same time, the T-shirt on his body was gradually stretched round!

This Skinny man’s muscle tissue was actually growing rapidly in a short period of time. His body had become several sizes bulkier, and it was still continuing to get stronger?

Facing this bizarre scene, Chen Fengshi, aside from his shock, directly rushed over with quick steps!

Ever since he was a child watching TV and movies, the plot he could tolerate the least was when the good guys always waited until the villains had fully gathered their ultimate moves or finished transforming before taking action. So even though he did not understand what was going on right now, he could see the obvious fact that if this pale Skinny guy continued, he would recover his combat power, and would be even more formidable.

Could he still stand there foolishly with his mouth open, exclaiming and sighing in amazement?

Chen Fengshi swept the pale Skinny man down to the ground with one kick. Seeing the pale Skinny man struggling and still able to get up, he followed up with another kick to the back of his head. Seeing him still trying to get up, without a second word, he delivered another kick!

This time, the pale Skinny man completely passed out, and the red mist on his body also ended its previous state of crazy pouring out.

Two more people struggled out from among the knocked-down people in the pavilion, but before they could reach the tree, Chen Fengshi caught up to them and struck the backs of their heads with a hand chop. Just like that, they were all knocked unconscious one after another.

Chen Fengshi saw that no one else was getting up. Sister Yao stood there smoking silently, so without saying much, he stepped forward and knocked her out with a hand chop as well.

Chen Fengshi held Shen Ai’s hand. The two of them walked quickly, one in front of the other. Feeling the softness and warmth of this palm, Chen Fengshi’s heartbeat could not help but speed up, and his face felt waves of burning heat. Holding Shen Ai’s hand was something he had fantasized about many times, but he never thought it would be realized today, under these circumstances.

Gusts of mountain wind blew head-on. He did not feel cold; it only slightly reduced the burning sensation on his face, but the flame in his heart burned even hotter.

He looked at Shen Ai being dragged along and walking quickly at his side. He saw the elegant fluttering of her long hair, and he saw the gradually added confusion in the eyes on her exquisite, flawless face.

Yes, the red mist on Shen Ai’s body had disappeared, and the red mist in her body seemed to have been dispersed as well.

“Chen Fengshi?” Shen Ai had a bewildered look on her face. She did not know why she was here, and she did not know what had happened. She could not find any memory segments that could connect to her current surroundings. “We, what are we doing?”

Chen Fengshi had long imagined the scenario after helping Shen Ai expel the red mist. Just as he was about to say the words he had prepared, he suddenly saw more and more heads popping up on the mountain path ahead where they came from.

He and Shen Ai could not help but slow down their pace. As the distance got closer, every face could be seen clearly. There was a dense crowd of them. They were all people they had seen at the noodle shop, and there were also those they hadn’t seen at the noodle shop but were definitely familiar faces from their school, including Shen Ai’s dorm mates.

A dense crowd of more than thirty people.

Shen Ai happily called out: “Why is everyone here?” As she spoke, she happily walked over quickly.

Chen Fengshi could not be happy, because in his eyes, all these people were possessed by the red mist.

Chen Fengshi had now clearly realized a reality. Helping Shen Ai was not that easy, and helping these familiar faces possessed by the red mist was not that easy either.

The reality was that it was useless for him to disperse the red mist on Shen Ai. He had no way to make Shen Ai leave the school and stop interacting with her classmates, friends, and sisters at school. Therefore, if Shen Ai’s red mist was dispersed, she would inevitably be infected again.

But—should he just give up like this?

Chen Fengshi watched the red mist on the crowd continuously surging toward Shen Ai, and he could not help but secretly gnash his teeth!

Originally, he wanted to pretend to know nothing about the red mist, so as to avoid arousing the vigilance of the mysterious thing controlling the red mist behind the scenes. But judging from Sister Yao’s incident and the situation before him, this kind of caution no longer had much meaning!

The red mist manipulated so many classmates to ambush them on the mountain path, clearly wanting to continue keeping Shen Ai under control. Didn’t that mean there would be another ambush next time?

His caution was originally meant to exchange for Shen Ai staying away from the red mist, but the red mist was unwilling to grant that. Since this was the case, he could only use a forceful counterattack to make the red mist understand—the party that had to pay the price for rejecting peace would definitely not be one-sided!

Chen Fengshi charged toward the crowd enveloped by the red mist!

Compared to the group of people including Sister Yao, Chen Fengshi’s schoolmates’ combat power was much weaker, and they had absolutely no practical combat experience. It did not take long before they were all knocked unconscious by Chen Fengshi. He was also hit by his schoolmates’ fists, but aside from footprints and dust on his clothes, there were no injuries.

Chen Fengshi swept his gaze over the schoolmates lying all over the ground, and took a look at Shen Ai, who was possessed by the red mist again but had no abnormal movements. Unless it was necessary, he really did not want to knock Shen Ai out. What if he struck too hard by mistake and caused a problem with her head? So, Chen Fengshi was very glad that Shen Ai could just stand there quietly.