Mutated Tao

Li Huowang carefully pulled open his curtain and checked for suspicious gazes.

He ensured everything was clear outside before nodding at Yang Na. “It’s safe now. Let’s go!”

“Mom, I’m going out to have a meal with Nana. You don’t have to cook for us,” Li Huowang shouted.

“You’re going out again?” Sun Xiaoqin was practicing a dance with her phone on a stand. She rolled her sleeves and looked out the hall to see Li Huowang and Yang Na leaving.

She sighed. “To think you would forget your mother after getting a wife.”

Still, she was secretly happy because her son was finally acting like someone his age. He was finally taking time to go out and play.

Both Li Huowang and Yang Na hopped on their rental bikes and departed for their destination.

They were still headed for Orange Isle, but they wouldn’t meet the others in the unfinished building this time. Instead, they were going to an underground room of an unfinished mansion.

They chose an underground room because they had managed to capture some of the assailants after winning last time.

Chen Hongyu was guarding the entrance when Li Huowang and Yang Na arrived. They spoke briefly before heading into the underground room.

As they entered, they saw Qing Wanglai talking to one of the prisoners.

“Osankodinakinatikokinaravu?”

“Eioiko?”

“Eseganiduanoau, nakaeakaseeibibieiokio…”

Yang Na whispered to Li Huowang as she recorded the conversation with her phone, “It’s not English. I don’t think it's an Indo-European language…”

Li Huowang approached Qing Wanglai as he glared at the bearded man tied to the chair. “How’s the interrogation going?”

“Not that well. They are very guarded against us. They wouldn’t open their hearts to accept us, much less talk to us.”

Wu Qi rummaged through the prisoner's belongings as she said, “These guys bought some passports from a poor island nation. Even their identities are fake. I don’t have any leads on them.”

“What about you? Is there anyone watching you at your home?” Qing Wanglai asked.

Li Huowang was visibly calmer and less anxious than before.

“None. No one came to stalk me after we destroyed their base last time, so I think they really were the ones who had been stalking me!”

Li Huowang looked at the guy tied to the chair with hatred. It was because of them that others wrongly believed Li Huowang had a relapse of his illness. He wasn’t sick at all!

“Where’s the woman with the umbrella, though? Everyone we saw was a man. We didn’t get to catch her.”

“It can’t be helped if someone did manage to escape. Don’t worry, since most of them are in our hands. They will become our bargaining chips,” Qing Wanglai said before continuing to talk to the prisoner.

Li Huowang approached the other prisoners and looked at their faces. He wanted to find the people that kidnapped him in the first place.

However, since it had been some time since that happened, Li Huowang had forgotten what his kidnappers looked like. It didn’t help that most of them were foreigners, making it harder for him to distinguish them.

The prisoners didn’t know what Li Huowang wanted to do, but they all shrank in fear when he approached them.

They were horrified by what Li Huowang had done last time.

“Hey, someone is here!” Chen Hongyu’s voice alerted everyone in the basement.

A familiar face soon appeared. It was Zhao Lei.

He averted his gaze a lot and seemed somewhat awkward. Despite this, he stood there without any intention of walking away.

“You’re back?”

Qing Wanglai approached Zhao Lei and patted his shoulder. He then turned around and announced, “Everyone, let’s give a round of applause for our old comrade joining us again. If not for him, we would never have been able to capture them!”

Amidst the sparse applause, Zhao Lei’s previous betrayal appeared to have been pardoned.

Li Huowang frowned. It was hard for him to think Zhao Lei would be loyal to them after betraying both sides.

Zhao Lei was visibly awkward since he was caught between two parties he had betrayed, but he ignored their gazes and stood in place.

“You worked with them before. How about you try talking to them?” Qing Wanglai pointed at the bearded man tied to the chair.

Zhao Lei nodded. He had barely said anything when the bearded man spat on him. The bearded man said something vehemently.

Li Huowang didn’t know what the man was talking about, although it was clear that he was saying some nasty things.

Zhao Lei retreated and Li Huowang approached him. “See? This is the result of betrayal.”

Zhao Lei disregarded Li Huowang’s words as he looked around anxiously. “Where is Qian Fu?”

“We tied him up. His other personality came back.”

Li Huowang thought Zhao Lei would talk more about Qian Fu, but then Zhao Lei whispered to him urgently, “Do you really think that’s true? Do you think that everything that had happened was real? This is too strange!”

Hm? Why is he acting crazy again?

Li Huowang distanced himself from Zhao Lei.

He had barely taken a single step when Zhao Lei grabbed his arms. “Think carefully! Do you really think everything is true? So many people died, and yet the police still haven’t come and found us yet. Why is no one noticing what we are doing? Think about the details! You need to consider the details where the bizarreness is less noticeable!”

“Zhao Lei!” Qing Wanglai spoke in a strangely stern tone when he called for Zhao Lei.

Zhao Lei let go of Li Huowang and retreated a bit. While his eyes were still darting around, he didn’t speak to Li Huowang again.

“We will take it from here. Li Huowang, why don’t you go back and rest? I will message you if we have any new details.” Qing Wanglai smiled lightly.

“Thank you, but I don’t need to rest now. I have some time to help you now.”

Li Huowang suddenly recalled something and started checking the hands of the prisoners one by one.

He remembered biting off two fingers from one of the individuals who had tried to kidnap him. He should be in this group of prisoners.

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