Peach-Orange! – Chapter 506 – Is She Going to Leave Me Again?

—Why be afraid?

—Why put the gun down?

—If you put the gun down, you will definitely face death, right? Didn’t you see what happened to that special forces soldier by the roadside when you came?

—If this ghost is really that powerful, why didn’t it just kill all of you instead of threatening you to put your guns down?

—So what if Ye Er dies? You’re an orphan with no family controlled by him. He pays you such a measly dead salary, why risk your life for him!

—Just shoot. If you shoot and kill either one of those two over there, they will panic. Then you can just run back, get in the car, and drive away, isn’t that simple?

—Laying down your weapons is always the stupidest move.

He wanted to lay down his weapon and surrender.

He was just a bodyguard, no need to risk his life facing this terrifying ghost.

He should be protecting his own young master instead.

In the shadows under an inconspicuous tree, a relatively thin-bodied bodyguard, his face shifting between gloom and uncertainty, wrestled with the thoughts in his head.

He had always been someone who went with the flow. He was lucky enough to be chosen by the Ye family to be a bodyguard, sometimes following orders to do some shady deeds.

He understood that someone like him might be sacrificed as cannon fodder someday.

But even so, he still wanted to save his own skin. A bad life is better than a good death.

Like now, everyone else had surrendered, so why shouldn’t he?

But if the young master is gone, everything he has now will be gone too!

His thinking was clear, yet, in the end, he was just a minor cannon fodder character.

Influencing Su Tao was difficult for the world’s will, but influencing a minor character like this was incredibly easy.

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The muzzle rose, his arm trembling uncontrollably.

Even the two bodyguards next to him who hadn’t yet lowered their guns stared dumbfounded as he defied orders.

Trembling all over, a thought finally solidified in his mind.

‘Yes, if just one of those two women dies, they’ll be thrown into chaos, and I can escape in the confusion, right?’

His hands holding the gun trembled violently. The thin bodyguard didn’t even have time to aim, nor did he need to.

He just numbly pulled the trigger.

“Bang—!”

A tongue of flame spat from the muzzle.

Almost at the same instant, three voices sounded together.

“Be careful!”

Xiao Hei turned her head and shouted loudly towards Chi Xiaocheng and Su Tao’s direction.

She could transform into star butterflies and teleport, but there was a brief wind-up moment. Compared to the speed of a bullet, it was still much slower.

The next two voices came from Su Tao and Chi Xiaocheng simultaneously.

“Xiaocheng, be careful!”

“Tao-Tao, be careful!”

Both had noticed this thin bodyguard about to fire. At the moment the gunshot rang out, they lunged towards each other.

Su Tao had the War God bloodline, but after going all out earlier to kill a captain, she was now exhausted. Her speed was simply not fast enough.

She could only stare blankly as the girl in front of her lunged towards her, and her speed was even faster than Su Tao’s.

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[Potential Burst: Passive skill. When the host strongly desires to perform a certain action, it instantly pushes their potential to the limit and erupts. In extreme states, speed can even surpass that of a bullet.]

This skill, which Chi Xiaocheng had drawn early on, was activated under her intense desire to protect Su Tao.

Su Tao felt as if everything before her eyes turned into slow motion.

Chi Xiaocheng’s small figure lunged towards her, her expression one of indescribable worry, anxiety, panic, and fear.

But Su Tao knew these emotions weren’t directed at Chi Xiaocheng herself.

These emotions were directed at her, Su Tao.

‘Xiaocheng is afraid I might get shot, afraid I might get hurt, even more afraid I might die.’

‘The action of lunging out in that instant was an instinctive bodily reaction.’

‘Her instinct wasn’t fear or self-preservation, but to rush over… to protect me?’

In her mind, a sentence from the argument at the banquet a few hours ago flashed by.

—Do I really have to die in front of you again for you to believe in my love for you!

It was originally an angry remark, and Su Tao didn’t take it seriously.

But now?

‘If Xiaocheng really didn’t like me, why would she lunge over to push me away?’

‘Can human acting skills really control even the body’s subconscious movements?’

Su Tao didn’t understand, but in this brief instant, the bullet’s trajectory was already set.

Deliberately guided by the world’s will, the bullet’s final point of impact was Su Tao’s heart.

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Wasn’t the world’s will afraid that Su Tao might die?

Of course It was afraid. If Su Tao died first and Chi Xiaocheng didn’t, this world, without its female lead, would quickly fall apart.

But It knew Su Tao wouldn’t die.

Someone would die in her place.

Chi Xiaocheng valued her lover’s life more than her own. She had regressed hundreds of times, died hundreds of times, all for the sake of one specific person. So, she would definitely block this bullet.

“Xiaocheng!!!”

A painful wail sounded out once more, the echo of the gunshot lingering along the path.

However, what was meant to happen could no longer be avoided.

On the young girl’s pure white suit, there was a lily symbolizing purity, originally just an imprint on the garment.

And now, these petals yet to be dyed turned a deep, intense red.

Xiao Hei stared blankly at this scene, unable to regain her composure for a long time.

Even the other bodyguards were gradually stunned at this moment.

There really was a brave soul who dared to defy orders and fire his gun.

Ye Er was the calmest. He didn’t focus on Chi Xiaocheng and Su Tao, only on the fruit knife at his neck.

Seeing Xiao Hei’s gaze frozen, Ye Er gritted his teeth, quickly reached out to push Xiao Hei’s arm away, ducked his head, and rolled to the side. “What are you all standing around for? Open fire!”

“This ghost is fake! Her left arm is bandaged; she can be injured too. Grab your guns and shoot!”

Xiao Hei was startled by his movement, immediately snapped back to reality, her expression turning fierce.

“Still trying to run? You must die!”

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However, faster than Xiao Hei were the bullets.

Several bodyguards who hadn’t discarded their guns quickly aimed and pulled their triggers.

Xiao Hei had no choice but to transform into star butterflies to temporarily evade the bullets.

She still wanted to fly to Ye Er’s side and instantly kill this man.

However, a sense of crisis came from further down the path.

The captain of the special forces team whom Su Tao had sent flying was still alive!

That high-tech equipment was, in a way, one of Xiao Hei’s nemeses.

If she flew to Ye Er’s side now, the other would definitely predict it and open fire!

Xiao Hei gritted her teeth and chose to fly to Su Tao and Chi Xiaocheng’s side first.

But at that moment, another round of gunfire sounded from the other end of the path.

Chi Song and Brother Long had arrived with their people!

The scene descended into chaos, but all of this was already unrelated to Su Tao and Chi Xiaocheng.

Su Tao just stared blankly, holding the bleeding girl in her arms.

Her pupils, arms, entire body trembled incessantly.

The vexing voice in her heart was gone.

The vague doubts about Chi Xiaocheng’s feelings vanished in an instant.

But the girl she cared about seemed… to be leaving her again.