Li Huowang chose the weapons he liked the best before leaving the RV.
Since they are our enemies, we should always be prepared for the worst-case scenario. We can’t even be sure that Qing Wanglai will successfully negotiate with them.
Qian Fu panicked when he saw Li Huowang leaving the RV. “Li Huowang! It’s fine if you don’t trust , but please go and ask the others! They all know what Qing Wanglai has done! They just didn’t tell you!”
Li Huowang turned around as he held the door knob. “Then answer one question. If they already know what Qing Wanglai did in the past, why are they still following him?”
Qian Fu remained silent.
Li Huowang continued, “I don’t care what Qing Wanglai did in the past. It’s not my job to bring him to justice, even if he killed soone. I don’t care what he did before.
“I can assure you that I do not think of them as a family. I am only working with them to take care of the external threats I’m facing. Do you understand? Do you really think I like mingling with ntally ill people like them?”
Li Huowang was about to leave the RV when Qian Fu shuddered and twitched.
“Hm?” Li Huowang stopped.
“Li Huowang? Where am I? Why am I tied up?” Qian Fu asked Li Huowang in confusion.
“Oh? You are back?” Li Huowang approached him to release the ropes.
“You have a really good ti here. We did all the dirty work while you were staying here.”
“Really? What did you do?” Qian Fu was surprised and asked Li Huowang for more details.
“We followed your instructions and destroyed the UFO of the aliens.”
“Really? Aliens? What happened?”
Li Huowang stopped suddenly. He took two steps back and examined Qian Fu again. He then realized sothing was off.
“No, you’re not the other Qian Fu. You’re pretending to be him. It’s a sha that you’re not convincing enough. Just stay here quietly.” Li Huowang left, ignoring Qian Fu’s angry shouts.
He returned to the underground basent to tell the others about Qian Fu so that they wouldn’t get tricked by him.
But then, he saw soone unfamiliar speaking with Qing Wanglai near the entrance to the basent.
The person was dressed strangely and had a buzz cut. His entire body, neck, and half of his face were tattooed with thorny vines. His ear lobes were pierced with a huge hole capable of fitting two fingers in. As he talked to Qing Wanglai, Li Huowang also saw a tongue piercing in his mouth.
Li Huowang observed Qing Wanglai’s expression and deduced that the strange newcor was soone they knew. His grip on the knife behind his back loosened slowly.
The man was very cautious, however. He shut up the mont he saw Li Huowang getting close to him.
“This is…?” Li Huowang wanted to ask who it was, but before he could, the man glared at Li Huowang warily and left.
Li Huowang looked at the man’s back and saw that the hair on his head was also a tattoo. The man was originally bald and had a buzzcut tattooed on his head!
“Who is he?” Li Huowang asked.
“Do you rember when I said that there were other people who realized that we are re projections? Other than us, there are others who couldn’t be reasoned with, and others who wouldn’t join us. He’s the latter.”
“Then why did he find you today? Does he want to work with us?”
“No. He was confident that he could deal with the problem alone. He just noticed we were taking action and ca here to confirm it with us.”
“That’s strange. I never imagined soone would refuse to join us after learning about what had happened.”
“Everyone has their own thoughts. He’s almost like a hermit. We can’t force him to join us.”
“What’s his na?”
“His surna is Ba. Ba Shengqing. He opened a tattoo shop and is quite skillful. You can find him if you need a tattoo.”
“Ba Shengqing? What a stupid na.”
“There are people with that surna, but it is very rare. I suspect he’s from an indigenous tribe and doesn’t want to tell us about it,” Wu Qi said.[1]
Li Huowang committed the na to mory and checked the ti. “I need to go back first. My family will be suspicious if I keep staying outside. Let know imdiately if you have any progress.”
Li Huowang took one last at the prisoners before he left.
“Hey, rember to bring so snacks for us next ti you co here. There’s nothing at this dump,” Chen Hongyu grumbled.
“I understand.” Li Huowang hopped on his bike before realizing he had heard sothing familiar a long ti ago.
Yang Na noticed Li Huowang’s confusion. “Huowang?”
Li Huowang shook his head and left.
He had just exited Orange Isle when his phone rang. He saw the na and was surprised because it was none other than Yi Donglai.
“Doctor Yi? Is sothing wrong?”
—I just called to make sure you are fine. How is everything recently? Are there any new hallucinations? Or maybe new symptoms?
“No, I’m fine right now. I’m completely cured. Thank you for your help, Doctor Yi! It seems that my mom sent the brocade to the right person.”
Just then, Li Huowang saw a motorbike parked just off the street. The person beside the motorbike was none other than Ba Shengqing.
They locked gazes, and Li Huowang noticed another interesting detail. It appeared that Ba Shengqing’s eyeballs had tattoos too.
It was the first ti Li Huowang had seen eye tattoos.
—Li Huowang? Can you hear ?”
“Oh, yes, I’m listening. Please continue.”
—I’m asking if you are still taking your dicine on ti.
“Yes, I’m still taking it on ti.” Li Huowang lied. He hadn't done so.
He stopped taking his dications after he captured the prisoners.
Now that it was certain that soone was stalking and trying to kidnap him, Li Huowang did not need to take his dicine. He thought that he was fine.
His dications had severe side effects. If he continued taking them, he could get a new disease soon.
—Then that’s good. Rember to take it on ti to avoid relapsing. More importantly, it will prevent you from hallucinating again.
Li Huowang saw Ba Shengqing approaching him and nodded. “Alright, I understand. Doctor Yi, I still have so things to do, so I need to hang up now.”
1. The surna Ba has four possible origins. One hypothesis suggests that the surna Ba ca from a place called Ba Shui, currently sowhere on the eastern side of Sichuan. Back then, there were five tribes, and the Ba tribe was one of them. ☜
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