Chapter 318 - I can't be Friends with You

Mian Tianyu closed his eyes and felt it hard to breathe at this point. Liu Xiaodan was right; he couldn't justify letting these people live after they committed a massacre of an entire family. Moreover, he had to convince the only remaining son that the people, who killed his parents, must not be fed to the ghosts like pigs.

Even Li Feng was helpless. If someone did that to him, he didn't know why he wouldn't beg Liu Xiaodan to eat everyone up just like earlier.

However, Ren Shanyue had a solution. She suddenly pulled out a gun strapped on her right outer t.h.i.g.h. It was even a magnum that she brought for self-protection tonight. She handed it to Tang Ernian. "That's only because entities like what Liu Xiaodan has aren't allowed to do so. Here. Do it yourself then."

"Shanyue!" Li Feng was shocked, but he couldn't say more as Tang Ernian actually grabbed it with both hands and aimed at the nearest Qiao shaman. The son glared at the people right in front of him and aimed properly. These people were the ones who summoned those monsters who killed his brother, his father, and his mother. If Liu Xiaodan couldn't do it, then, he… then, he...

However, his hand only shook as his eyes welled in tears. 

It was easy to do for fun, but if it was for revenge... there was simply no joy in it. It's not like hurting these people would buy back a minute to reverse time. Killing them could never end with Tang Ernian only pouting because his mother was lecturing him again.

Nothing would end this way ever again.

"Ernian, killing them won't bring back your parents. Neither will you be able to exact real vengeance on the person responsible for this. Even if you kill them, their master will only send more to kill you and others more." Ren Shanyue's eyes glittered in pity as she lowered the gun and listened to the man's wail. "Rest up for now. Don't worry, I'll help you get justice."

"Mom… Dad..." Tang Ernian crashed to the ground and held onto his head as he cried on his knees. "I'm sorry, I can't do it. I can't pull the trigger; I'm sorry. I failed you..." 

Li Feng kneeled down again and tried to console him. "They wouldn't like that either..."

Ren Shanyue holstered the gun and hid it under her dress. She then took a look at Mian Tianyu as if affirming that the imbeciles could be taken away by now. Even if this was a scary method, he believed that he had no idea how to control these willful big families. It would be good if someone, who did know, dealt with them instead.

Liu Xiaodan and Qiao Shan only stood there as if they were not involved. However, the woman felt strangely guilty as she was actually part of this family that would kill without mercy. She then turned in the direction of the burning house. "Xiaodan..."

"What is it?" The man followed her gaze and stared at the wavering flames of the house.

"...what's stopping you from destroying the Qiao family?" Qiao Shan asked as if she had never been part of this family. She didn't want the Qiao family to go as well, but the current head was so merciless and arrogant that he thought that the association would protect them forever. However, she didn't really know if they wouldn't. 

Since he took a while to answer, she turned to find his eyes. What answered her was a bitter thinking face. There was a trace of resentment and annoyance in the gleam of his eyes, but it was as if he couldn't do anything more than verbally rant about it.

"The Qiao family holds a position that is deemed irreplaceable by this Shaman Association. It would take a while before I can convince Master Mian to let me deal with them. It's annoying, but it will be troublesome to do it without a care for everyone else." Liu Xiaodan sighed. "Having a judiciary is only helpful for most. As for those who are like Tang Ernian, we can only find a loophole..."

He then smiled at her. "I'm not fast enough in eating as well, I suppose."

…

In the end, Ren Shanyue thought that it was part of the plan that the Qiao family had been long devising since the discovery of a fully functional Project Hades. They were going to eradicate the big families one by one, through methods that could not be explained by the police. That was the plan, but they didn't really think that Project Hades and Project Red Justice would intervene.

Right now, there would be warnings issued to the big families. It was up to them if they would believe it or not. Moreover, the people they caught would be vital to the investigation of the Shaman Association about the absurd operation of the Qiao family. That was the best that the Mian family could do.

The three survivors of the Tang family incident were hosted in the Mian Residence. None of them actually sustained injuries, but they were all lost and scared. Tang Ernian, especially, couldn't even sleep.

"Hello." Liu Xiaodan walked up to the man sitting on the ledge where the Zen garden could be seen. Tang Ernian was even unsure how to communicate with this man. Wasn't he the one who killed Ren Ditian and had caused Jiang Hou and Huang Kun to be killed by ghosts? Moreover, Liu Xiaodan was one of Ruan Jin's brothers. How could Tang Ernian be friends with him?

"This isn't going to be fruitful. I can't be friends with you." Tang Ernian almost spat, but Liu Xiaodan actually offered a beer can so he accepted it. "Besides, why do you have beer with you? Did you smuggle this inside a shaman family house? Aren't they supposed to be abstinent of these things?"

The man actually sat on the side and didn't bother with Tang Ernian anymore. "Don't mind me. I'm not the one who wanted to talk to you. I just have to make sure I'm around when he's outside so he wouldn't be harmed by the Mian family's spirit counters."

To Tang Ernian's ears, all he heard was blah-blah-blah since he didn't understand what Liu Xiaodan actually meant. However, a cold hand pinched Tang Ernian's cheek. When he turned to swat it, he was greeted by the naturally coquettish smiling face of someone he recognized.

"...Ming?" Tang Ernian murmured a name. He had remembered Tang Mingming to be around earlier, but he didn't think it was real. He had even forgotten about it before he saw Tang Mingming again. There was no mistaking it; there could only be one person who would be so dazzling in such purple eyes… that had that kind of mellow voice with a coquettish yet insulting tone.

Moreover, no one from the Tang family actually paid attention to Tang Ernian, the designated loser brother between the two, but that degenerate young master who even chose to have an unmasked relationship with a college boy at seventeen, Tang Mingming.

"Hey, little idiot, don't look at me like you're seeing a ghost." Tang Mingming flashed a bigger smile, but the aura around him was different. Of course, it was; he was indeed a ghost.