Chapter 367 - We Found Feng'er

Minutes earlier…

The moment Qiao Dong told Hongfei that she must kill Li Feng, the young master knew that he would not survive the night. Hongfei then swung her clawed hand, and Li Feng was ready to bleed to death… or even die in one blow. However, her hand ultimately missed and only grazed across Li Feng's cheek. The slight pain forced the man to open his eyes, and he actually saw something strange in Hongfei's expression.

Moreover, she seemed to be resisting her own movements. As if she was trapped in plaster, Hongfei growled with an inhuman sound every time she jerked to move a limb. Soon, she let out a muffled scream before sending herself to Li Feng's c.h.e.s.t. The woman then looked up at him with a gentle gaze.

Then, it hit him when the woman spoke: "Feng'er, I'm sorry. I was careless. I should have asked Hongfei to be exorcised. Instead, I clung to her power. I didn't mean for you to get hurt like this." She held onto his face and pressed onto the small cut on his face to make it bleed.

"Shanshan! Hurry, untie me—!" Li Feng spoke aloud as soon as Qiao Shan removed his gag. However, instead of setting him free, she only kissed him as soon as she managed to reach his face with hers. It was even strange as she did so as if she was saying goodbye.

"Feng'er, take care of yourself, okay?" Qiao Shan stepped back after putting the gag back on Li Feng's mouth. He was even frozen solid by shock and denial. The woman then shrunk her body as if containing Hongfei's will. "Xiaodan! I know you can hear me now! I can't keep Hongfei at bay any longer! You need to help me destroy her binding seal, so she would be destroyed!"

She then smiled as she looked at Li Feng again, her smile so gentle as if she was reassuring him of something. However, her words to Liu Xiaodan were exactly the opposite: "My baby is tainted with your blood. Use it to destroy my heart and the baby whose body might be used by Hongfei… I beg you..."

Li Feng's eyes grew wider, and he instantly tried to struggle and break away. However, the frame was too secure, and his mental screams could not stop Liu Xiaodan or Hongfei. 'Xiaodan, please! Don't do it! Don't do it!'

Bang! Under his very gaze and pleading heart, Qiao Shan's body trembled as multiple blood spikes rose from inside her. It was as if a crystal just exploded from the navel, and the spikes reached all the way through the neck and legs. Qiao Shan continued to wear her smile to let Li Feng preserved that image of her.

The seal instantly broke as the spike pierced through her heart, making Hongfei scream as she was purged from Qiao Shan's body and vanquished into nothing. The black mist escaped from Qiao Shan's body first before she fell lifelessly on the ground.

'Shanshan...' Li Feng could only cry and call out her name in his mind. His breathing grew erratic that he couldn't even say anything. All of a sudden, he lost his energy and could only stare at the dead body of the love of his life. He couldn't even begin to imagine what it would feel… walking out of this place without her…

His body went limp, and he couldn't even look away from the gruesome scene in front of him. Li Feng could only close his eyes and wail in his mind. If he suffered a heart attack from the event, so be it. He didn't really want to live through another episode of not being able to mourn properly.

He didn't know how long had passed since he was only staring into space, the image of his dead girlfriend in front of him. The doorknob rattled before the panel was knocked down with force. Two figures in black and red walked in, and they somewhat paused after seeing the scene in the room.

"Feng'er!" Wang Yusheng slung his gun away and pulled down his black balaclava mask to reveal his face to him. He quickly checked the young man's pulse, relieved to know that the young man was alive. Even if his skin looked burned in a lot of places and that the metal straps held onto him tightly, he was nonetheless alive. "Don't worry, I'll find a way to release you."

"... is this Qiao Shan?" Upon seeing that Li Feng was staring in the direction of a woman on the floor, Li Heilong walked over to inspect the body. If Li Feng was not there, he would have picked her head up by the hair. Since the son was there, Li Heilong could only roll the body around to take a peek. 

His eyes narrowed as he saw the amount of blood coming from her. He also noted that her skin had a lot of holes… and that she was smiling. Coupled with the expression on Li Feng's face, that woman must have done something ruthless. He closed her eyes before leaving her on the floor. Just by then, he slung his gun to the back, so he could catch Li Feng whose body fell down as if he was also dead. "Feng… let's go home first."

As if the sound of his father's voice was key to snapping him back to reality, Li Feng started to cry again. "Xiaodan killed her, Daddy. Xiaodan killed her, too. Why do I always lose important people by his hands? I can't… I can't even hate him for so long..."

"...Feng, there are times that we have to make difficult decisions. Do you think Xiaodan would be willing to do this as well?" Li Heilong didn't know how to console his son; he couldn't even cajole Mian Bingbing properly. After all, this… this was probably something that both Liu Xiaodan and Qiao Shan tacitly agreed to. Else, she wouldn't be smiling at all. "Feng, pick yourself up. Qiao Shan wouldn't want to see you like this."

However, Li Feng chose to slide down and even crawled to pull Qiao Shan's body to his. He began to cry loudly this time as he hugged her lifeless body with all his remaining strength. He understood the situation, but he was still unable to accept that that was the only course of action they could have taken.

It's just that… for both Liu Xiaodan and Qiao Shan… it was either her or Li Feng. Guess which of the two choices they were willing to save.

"We found Feng'er," Wang Yusheng reported to the extraction team. He wanted to treat Li Feng's wounds, but he couldn't pull him away from the dead body. As a doctor, this scene was too familiar to him, and he wasn't that heartless to do so. Even the ruthless Li Heilong only watched his son cradle the dead girl.

Then, a report came from another team. Wang Yusheng turned to Li Heilong, "They're taking heavy fire at the south gate. Wu Zhen and Qiao Dong are escaping."

Li Feng's cries stopped.