“Master still remembers, when you first came, you were dark and thin, like a little monkey.”
Zan Popo looked at her kindly, “Every day, as soon as you opened your eyes, you’d follow this old woman everywhere and keep calling ‘Mama.’ No matter how I taught you to call me ‘Master,’ you wouldn’t. Haha, it made everyone laugh.”
Feifei kept her head down, eating, while tears continuously dropped into her bowl, which she mixed with her rice and vegetables and swallowed in large mouthfuls.
“Feifei—”
Zan Popo looked at her with eyes full of tenderness, “Promise Master, promise Mama—live well, live well.”
“Mama!!”
Feifei threw down her rice bowl and cried out, reaching to hug Zan Popo, but she embraced only air.
At the same time, the brightly lit side room instantly darkened, becoming pitch black.
Feifei knelt on the ground alone, staring blankly at Zan Popo’s headless corpse not far away, and at Zan Popo’s head on the door panel.
“Master—Mama—”
She trembled, crawling on her knees to the door panel, prying out Zan Popo’s head and clutching it tightly in her arms, crying out like a lost young beast, bewildered and helpless:
“Mama, Mama, don’t die—Feifei won’t make you angry anymore, Mama—Feifei will listen to everything you say—”
Outside the side room, Li Hai stood there silently, watching Feifei inside without a word.
Just now, in his field of vision, in Feifei’s personal interface skill bar, a new entry for a Rank appeared out of nowhere, reaching the 3rd Rank of Bloodline Divine Power—'Illusory Perception'.
The effect of this Divine Ability was to forcibly interfere with others’ five senses and create realistic illusions.
As for why this Divine Ability appeared, Li Hai guessed it might be because Feifei, after witnessing the tragic scene inside the room, was greatly stimulated.
It was also the appearance of this Divine Ability that caused Feifei, who witnessed Zan Popo’s tragic death, to almost instinctively distort her own five senses, creating a scene she subconsciously wished to see.
But illusions are always illusions; the sorrow in her heart, like a rope, pulled Feifei out of the illusion. She ultimately had to face reality.
The reality was that Zan Popo had been murdered, and her death was extremely tragic.
And after witnessing Zan Popo’s tragic death and noticing the twenty gold bars on the side room table had quietly disappeared, a deep sense of guilt also surged in Li Hai’s heart:
“It must be that gold that caused the trouble, murder for money—it cost Zan Popo her life.”
But immediately, this guilt burned into a full-blown rage and murderous intent, scorching Li Hai’s eyes crimson, making him want to fly out of Li Wang Temple to find the murderer.
Amidst his anger, a hint of doubt also arose in Li Hai’s mind:
“Strange, strange, why didn’t I see Zan Popo’s soul? Logically, her soul should exist in this place of death, right? She hasn’t been dead for long.”
But just as Li Hai wanted to think deeper, Feifei suddenly turned to him, weeping and crying, “Big Brother Li, help me—please—please help me—help me get revenge!”
Li Hai paused, then walked to Feifei’s side, patted her shoulder, and slowly said:
“Don’t worry, even if the Heavenly King killed Zan Popo, I will make him kneel before you and apologize!
I will do what I say.”
After speaking, he turned and walked out of the room.
“Big Brother Li, you—” Feifei asked blankly, “Where are you going?”
“To find Wang Widow.” Li Hai’s footsteps didn’t stop, “My intuition tells me she’s the biggest suspect.”
With that, Li Hai, who had already stepped out of the room, soared into the sky and left Li Wang Temple.
At this moment, Wang Widow’s mansion was brightly lit, and a group of people were clinking cups, laughing drunkenly, eating and drinking, having a grand time:
“Come on, drink up!”
“Full, full, can’t drink anymore!”
“What are you pretending for? Drink two more for me!”
“Where’s Old Liu? Where did Old Liu go? Oh, he’s lying under the table, hahahaha!”
And the fat-as-a-pig Wang Widow, like a bandit king, sat at the head of the long dining table, eating and drinking heartily amidst everyone’s flattery and the service of two handsome men.
But just then, the gate of Wang Mansion was suddenly kicked open with a loud bang, spinning into the sky and disappearing in an instant, leaving everyone drinking inside dumbfounded.
What made them even more dumbfounded was Li Hai, who stepped through the gate.
His peerless appearance directly sobered these people up.
But just as everyone was shocked, the drunken Wang Widow, sitting at the head of the table, loudly and groggily said:
“What’s wrong with you all? Why are you all silent?!”
As she spoke, she opened her tiny, drunken, green-bean-like eyes and looked forward, then happened to see Li Hai himself.
Wang Widow immediately froze, then Silly smile chuckled foolishly, “Hehehe, who do I have here? It’s you, beautiful, delivering yourself to my door.”
Saying that, she propped herself up on the table and staggered towards Li Hai, her pig-chrysanthemum-like fat lips pouting loudly as she mumbled:
“Come, come, let this old woman have a taste.”
“Taste your mother!” Li Hai snorted coldly, and with a slap from a distance, he sent Wang Widow sprawling to the ground. Then he walked over in a few steps, grabbed her ear, and forcibly lifted her two hundred and thirty-some jin of fat body.
“Ah ah ah, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts!!”
Accompanied by pig-like screams, Wang Widow immediately sobered up from the pain, her fat face crumpled into a ball as she wailed miserably, “Help! Help! Help! I’m going to die! I’m going to die! Ah ah ah!!”
The people at the table finally reacted, standing up one after another and rushing to surround Li Hai with shouts and yells:
“Hey, hey, hey, who are you?!”
“Damn it, quickly put down Big Sister Wang!”
“Where did this brat come from to be so arrogant here?!”
“Are you asking to die, you bastard?!”
“Damn it, let go!”
But before these people could surround him, hundreds of hazy vacuum Qi blades suddenly appeared in the surrounding air, shooting back and forth, instantly beheading and dismembering everyone who had just uttered foul language, scattering their remains on the ground.
Thus, nine out of ten living people in the entire Wang Mansion courtyard were gone, leaving only a mere three or five.
These three or five people were now as silent as cicadas in winter, not daring to speak a word, not even daring to raise their heads, fearing they too would become scattered remains all around them.
Wang Widow, whose ear was almost torn off, was also scared silly.
But what truly filled her with fear was not the scattered corpses in the mansion, but Li Hai’s ability.
With a single thought, he could control countless Qi blades, wantonly killing and dismembering people.
What, what kind of martial art was this? Wang Widow had never even heard of it!
“This, this pretty boy isn’t an ordinary person, then, then my plan isn’t—”
Just as Wang Widow was stunned with fright, Li Hai suddenly exerted force and tore off her ear.
“Ah ah ah ah!!”
Wang Widow, who had fallen heavily to the ground, immediately screamed repeatedly and cried out to the heavens, “My lord, my lord, you can rob me of wealth or beauty, whatever you wish, as long as you—as long as you don’t kill me!”