Soul …
Looking at the guy's eyes that were as deep as an abyss, Gus shuddered.
"You … You really are a demon, aren't you?" the young man asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" Lu Qingchen looked at his lower body that was covered in smoke and held tightly by the steam ball. He opened his hands and said.
"What do you want my soul for?"
Gus asked warily. "I'm just an ordinary person. Even if I have a soul, I'm afraid it's very weak. It's impossible for me to help a powerful demon like you."
"You don't have to worry about that."
Lu Qingchen said with a smile, "Maybe there's a power in your body that you haven't discovered yet that is enough to help me overturn the whole world. Or maybe I'm just bored and want to play the role of a real demon. In short, you only need to trust me wholeheartedly, open your heart to me completely, and give me your soul completely. Then, I can answer all your questions and grant you the power to … fight against this world."
"The power to fight against this world …"
Gus felt a chill in his teeth. He took half a step back, swallowed, and said warily, "What if I don't want to? Can't you snatch my soul by force?"
"I can, but if I hack and read the core data by force, too many traces will be left behind, and the anti-virus program will be triggered easily. It's too risky."
Lu Qingchen smiled innocently, as if his proposal just now was just asking for an insignificant item on Gus' body instead of the precious and only soul. "We demons are most particular about fairness and voluntariness when doing business. If you don't want to give me your soul with both hands, I don't care. At worst, I'll just find a second fool. But then, you won't get my help anymore. Fair enough, right?"
Gus frowned.
Looking at his sister who was tossing and turning in the depths of the cave, the young man felt that it was very difficult to escape from the encirclement without the help of the demon in this dangerous escape.
They left the cave before dawn.
His sister hadn't recovered from her injuries yet. Her body was as light as a feather. There were several times when she almost fell into the rolling mud and couldn't get up anymore.
However, they had no choice but to leave. Because of the mountain torrent, the rainwater had already flooded the cave.
The torrential rain was like a waterfall. Both the fugitives and the pursuers found it extremely difficult to move. It was a battle of willpower.
It wasn't until noon that the rain finally stopped, and the killing in the human world became intense again.
They defeated three more waves of pursuers and killed four of them.
The price was a bloody hole in his sister's shoulder and a punch to her lower abdomen. Her entire abdomen was bruised, and he didn't know if there was any internal bleeding.
In addition, a slight crack had appeared on his sister's left knee. Although it did not affect her movement, it was a great hindrance to her strength during battle. One of her legs was almost crippled.
Being protected by his sister, Gus was not hurt too much. However, once his sister fell, even if all the thirty-six thousand hairs on his body were intact, it would be impossible for him to escape from the ferocious pursuers.
Sister should have fallen long ago.
With her injuries and illness, she should have been struggling on the ground half a day ago. She shouldn't have even crawled out of the cave.
But she seemed to be supported by a burning flame, some kind of belief or hatred, and she turned into a human-shaped machine made of iron. She glared, gritted her teeth, and moved forward step by step.
Gus roughly knew what his sister was waiting for.
She was not waiting to fight her way out of the encirclement.
Instead, she was waiting for "that person" to catch up to her and draw a desperate end to this futile escape.
In the afternoon, they were forced into a dead end by the pursuers.
There were cliffs on both sides, and in front of them was a cliff. Behind them, "that person" finally appeared.
"Gus, Grey, turn back. There's a cliff in front of us. If you take another step, you'll be crushed to pieces!"
Uncle Lei Lie appeared behind them with a profound gaze.
Grey grunted, as if a string in her body had snapped. With Gus' support, she collapsed on the edge of the cliff.
"Uncle …"
Gus did not dare to look at his uncle's disappointed eyes, but when he saw his sister's crying face, his heart trembled. He did not know where his courage came from, but he clenched his fists, raised his eyebrows, and asked loudly, "Tell us, how did Dad die?!"
Lei Lie's eyes flashed, and he sighed. "Oh, so that's why you ran away. No wonder. Since you've already guessed it, why are you still asking me?"
"It's really you!"
Grey shrieked in pain. "Dad was really killed by you! He's your brother-in-law! How could you do it?"
"Yes, how could I do it?"
Lei Lie wiped the raindrops on his face. His eyes were confused, and his expression was absent-minded. He mumbled, "Glenn was not just my brother-in-law. He was also my best friend since I was a kid. We met in the Iron Fist School when we were three years old. We were the best training partners and competitors. We were friends who could entrust our lives to each other.
"Even though his talent was outstanding at that time and he was better than me in most of the competitions, I did not hold any grudges against him at all. I still regarded him as a good teacher and a good friend that was worth imitating and even following. I even actively tried to matchmake him with my biological sister, just to make the relationship between the two families closer.
"Gus, Grey, please believe me that there is no personal grudge between your father and me. If I really hated him, I wouldn't have gambled the happiness of my beloved sister.
"However, after I discovered 'that thing', I did hate him deeply. I hated why he was so weak and easily tempted by the devil. I hated why he gave up the glory of being a fighter and his beautiful wife at home to conduct evil, filthy, and dangerous studies. I hated why he kept secrets from me. We risked our lives countless times, and we gave our lives to each other without batting an eyelash. We shed countless drops of blood for each other right here in the mountain below your feet. Did he think that I would betray him just because I was a priest of the Fist God Temple?"
"Yes, you hated him!"
Grey shrieked. "You hated that our father was demonized, so you killed him. You even killed your sister and our mother!"
"You were wrong, Grey. You couldn't have been more wrong!"
Lei Lie roared. "I did not kill him because of hatred. I killed him to save him. I killed him to save his reputation as the best boxer in the Red Gold Town. I killed him to save my sister and the two of you! Otherwise, if the fact that Glenn was an evil disciple was exposed, your mother and the two of you would be implicated. You would be despised and despised for the rest of your life. You would never be able to raise your head again! "
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