Chapter 1: To Die Yet Not Be Vanquished

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Chapter 1: To Die Yet Not Be Vanquished

Lin You had died.

And the way he died wasn’t too nice.

If we honored reality and got rid of any embellishment, he had died very tragically…

Five minutes ago his body had been smashed into and sent flying by a speeding Rolls-Royce Phantom . Originally, he probably could have died with his corpse intact. But that grand car just had to gun for him like it held a personal vendetta, driving over his body after sending him flying, then dragging him for more than ten meters before finally stopping.

Although Lin You died from the first impact and didn’t experience much pain, he still couldn’t help but curse the guy who drove over his body when he saw his own mangled corpse. But what disappointed him the most was that the high-end Rolls-Royce was really too sturdy. Even though it smashed through a glass wall, only the front of the car suffered damage, while the driver within also failed to die.

After that, Lin You watched with annoyance as the driver of the car staggered out with blood covering his face. The man was around one meter eighty-five tall, and his figure was pretty nice too. His rolled-up sleeves revealed powerful arms, and his slightly pale skin and tight muscles made Lin You resent him even more.

“Almost dead yet you’re not calling 120, just what are you thinking coming out looking for death?” Lin You’s soul floated above the man as he shook his head in mock pity while he mentally looked down on the man’s IQ.

But a few seconds later, that expensive as hell Rolls-Royce exploded for unknown reasons. Lin You, or rather Lin You’s now-wandering soul, was dumbstruck for a good while before discovering a whole new level of respect for the blood-spattered driver. His IQ was below Lin You’s by just a tiny bit!

The guy before his eyes was the main culprit of Lin You’s death. Even if Lin You wasn’t angry enough to want to kill the man’s entire family or even dig up his ancestral tomb… He should still be itching to beat up this guy and cuss eight generations of his ancestors. Yet Lin You’s mood was quite calm as he sighed over not dying with a whole corpse.

This was not because Lin You had a problem with his brain. Rather, it was because Lin You knew that he would definitely die today.

Ahem. Lin You wasn’t a mystic.

However, Lin You’s dad, mom, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather were all mystics.

When Lin You was born, his Little Uncle, who was known as a ‘genius unseen in a hundred years,’ divined his fortune and determined that Lin You would face a death tribulation at twenty-five.

Lin You was still a baby who only knew about drinking milk, so he could not express his lack of faith in such a divination. Yet his entire family believed it without any doubt. As such, since childhood, the one line Lin You heard the most was, “My unfortunate child! Why are you destined to die at twenty-five?”

Lin You was very vexed by this statement.

Although he had always held the belief that “my fate is mine to control, not the heavens,” watching all his relatives catch ghosts, practice feng shui, perform divinations, and tell fortunes every day of his life, he couldn’t help but believe the prediction too. However, even if he already understood it in his heart… on the outside, this young master insisted that “even if this lord can really see all sorts of things floating around and even understand feng shui and do a bit of divination using trigrams…” As long as this lord doesn’t admit it, none of these things exist!

Lin You’s philosophical idealism was always put to good use. So no matter how much his family tormented him, talking to him every day about learning metaphysics, he resisted all their enticements and lived a happy and healthy life until he was twenty-five. He even graduated from a science and technology college and researched how to use science to explain nonscientific phenomena. But today was April 1st, and no matter how calm and collected Lin You was, he was still a little nervous.

Today was his twenty-fifth birthday. If the divination from that genius Little Uncle of his was true, then today was the day he would die. As such, Lin You planned to be very cautious and careful about everything today, using all of his senses to react to any sudden occurrences.

He avoided the pots that fell from the sky, jumped over the pits that suddenly appeared in the ground, and even took down a bastard with a knife who tried to rob him. With great difficulty, he managed to survive until midnight. Just when he was about to heave a sigh of relief and mock his Little Uncle’s mystic abilities, a car that absolutely shouldn’t have appeared at that time of night came speeding toward him at over two hundred kilometers per hour and killed him.

After Lin You turned into a wandering soul, he was dumbstruck for a moment, then rubbed his face. “This lord really is sick of mystics!”

The after-death Lin You expressed that he was very calm. He avoided things as best he could, but still could not escape his fate. If he died, then he died. In his next life, he must be born into a family without mystics!

The only thing that Lin You wasn’t completely calm about was that it was almost half an hour since he’d died. Why hadn’t he seen a ghost emissary come to collect his soul? Furthermore, it should have been his misconception, but why did he feel like he was being dragged?!

Lin You quivered and controlled himself, moving forward, backward, left, and right. After doing that, he found that he could only move a certain distance and couldn’t go any farther…

Lin You looked around him, then finally set his gaze on the only living being on this road in the middle of the night.

Five minutes later, he watched himself being forced to move five meters, which was the same distance the man had managed to stagger away. He rolled his eyes.

Damn it, was it because this guy had killed him that he had to become an evil spirit tied to him and follow him?! Is the world even letting him live? This lord was already dead!

Lin You angrily floated in front of the man and pummeled him with punches and kicks. The man swayed, then fell to the ground with a thud and remained motionless.

“…Don’t think this lord doesn’t know that you’re just pretending to be unconscious!”

Before Mu Yanxiao completely exhausted his strength and fell unconscious, besides darkly noting down the subordinate who had betrayed him, he also thought he saw someone in front of him waving their arms and legs around… Forget it, it must be his imagination.

Mu Yanxiao managed to gasp out a sentence. “Heh… pray that I die, cough… if I don’t die, I’ll make you guys wish for death!”

Lin You observed the man lying flat on his stomach like a rag doll and couldn’t help looking down on him. What use was it acting fierce now? This lord had acted fierce for over twenty years at home and in the end, still couldn’t beat destiny.

Ring, ring, ring…

Suddenly, a phone lying on the ground rang, causing Lin You to jump in surprise before looking at the phone in confusion. A couple of seconds later, Lin You decided not to pick up the phone and let it keep ringing. Perhaps if this guy died, then he would also be free to be reincarnated.

A dozen seconds later, the phone actually answered itself!

“Damn it! This lord can’t even ignore you! There are actually idiots who use the automatic answering function?!”

An anxious and somewhat old voice came through the phone, “Yanxiao? Yanxiao?! Where are you? Why aren’t you back yet? One, Two, Three, Four, and Five didn’t follow you? Are you okay? Yanxiao?!”

From the voice, it sounded like an elderly man. Lin You floated by the cell phone and thought to himself that this call came at a great time. If it had come any later, this guy called Yanxiao would probably have been completely dead.

“Yanxiao! Even if you can’t talk, don’t turn off the phone! I will immediately send out people to find you, no matter what, don’t move!”

After the elderly man finished speaking, there were no other words. Lin You could vaguely hear some noise and other words in the background as well as cries of alarm. It should have been the elderly man trying to find people to save his grandson. Or was it his son?

Lin You smiled a bit unkindly, but a few minutes later, he could no longer smile.

As he floated in the air, he could see five to six people wielding shiny machetes and what appeared to be sniper rifles from a distance. They cautiously walked over to where he lingered by the guy who’d run him over. Just from the looks of it, they were not here to save anyone. It appeared more like they were here to silence someone.

According to their speed, they would make their way to this unlucky Yanxiao in less than five minutes. Hm, should he watch him die, or should he watch him die?

……

Five minutes later…

Several people who looked like gangsters arrived at the scene, led by a thin, refined-looking man with a cold expression and an aura of murderous intent.

“Brother You! There aren’t any people around! How could that be?”

The man called Brother You frowned and coldly stated, “It’s impossible for him to run away. Once the sedative starts working, he has at most three minutes. That person watched him consume the drugged liquid. They cannot be wrong. Look for him carefully!”

As such, a couple of the gangsters hurriedly went out to search again. After a while, one of them came back holding a phone.

“Brother You! There was a phone on the ground!”

Ling You glanced at the cell phone that was still connected, and his eyes sharpened. He raised his hand and slammed it down. A look at the phone again showed that it was crushed into pieces. The gangster who had been holding it immediately fell on his butt in fright.

“Bro-bro-brother You!”

“Shut up. Look at what you’ve done.” Ling You’s refined and handsome face was dark with anger. This blockhead’s yelling had directly exposed them. The other side definitely knew who had done this. If they were a bit more unlucky, then even that person might be suspected!

“You fool! Withdraw!”

The sound of a car’s engine could be heard from afar. Ling You’s expression darkened as he glared at the still-smoking Rolls-Royce, which had been blown to pieces. He coldly snorted, then turned and left. The gangsters looked at each other, not understanding why their boss was willing to leave like this. However, a moment later, one car after another arrived at the scene. The Mu Family had come far faster than expected!

When Mu One rushed to the scene in a panic with more than twenty people in tow, all they saw were the remains of the car and chaotic bloodstains. They only needed a few minutes to find the phone that was broken into pieces. Mu One’s expression turned grim. If something happened to the Boss, he and the others would have to swallow their guns and kill themselves to apologize!

“Big Bro! I can’t find the Young Master! What do we do?!”

The Mu Family’s guards searched all over the place but couldn’t find their Young Master. Each one was so anxious that their eyes were turning red.

“Search around! Even if we have to blow up the area around here, we still have to find the Young Master!” Mu One said coldly. The guards of the Mu Family all trembled, then started to search even more seriously for their Young Master, making all sorts of prayers in their hearts.

Suddenly, a cold wind swept by, and the echoing clang of metal hitting the ground sounded through the night. Mu One immediately looked over and his expression became sluggish.

Their Boss, whom they had searched everywhere for but couldn’t find, was actually in a huge trash can?! Seeing his Boss lying there unconscious, Mu One hurried over to pull his Boss out, then had his subordinates quickly rush him to the Mu Family’s hospital.

It was just that even after he sent his Boss to the emergency room, Mu One still did not understand how his family’s Boss had ended up in the trash can. It wasn’t scientific at all… Even if he ended up dead, Boss would never have thought of using this method?!

And the one who had thought of this method and, after going to extraordinary lengths to carry it out, was currently floating angrily above Mu One’s head. He gave a vicious middle finger— Fuck you, did you have to make the car drive so fast? This lord was being flown through the air like a kite. Do you want to be cursed by an evil spirit?!

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