Book 1: Chapter 18: Listen to Thunder by the Evening Sea

Book 1: Chapter 18: Listen to Thunder by the Evening Sea

Fatty immediately became angry when he saw Liu Sang secretly taking pictures. He pointed at him and scolded, "Hand it over, hand it over!"

Liu Sang hid his phone in his arms and said coldly, "The person being photographed didn't object, so it's none of your business."

Fatty tried to reach for it, but Uncle Two looked at him and scolded, "Get out if youre going to make trouble again!"

Fatty shrank back and whispered in my ear, "This guy must be your Uncle Twos bastard son." Uncle Two glanced at Fatty in the rearview mirror and Fatty quickly turned his head away.

Liu Sang secretly glanced at Poker-Face again, but Poker-Face was looking out the window. Fatty grabbed Poker-Face's hood and put it on him, covering his face.

When Liu Sang narrowed his eyes and glared at Fatty, Fatty took off his shoes, propped his feet up on the back of Liu Sang's seat, and made a fuck you gesture. Liu Sang sneered and turned back around.Visit no(v)eLb(i)n.com for the best novel reading experience

The atmosphere in the car was very awkward and no one spoke the entire way. That idiot kept taking pictures, which I could put up with at first, but I slowly became irritated. Any time he took a picture, I kicked the back of his seat. Later, he became more well-behaved when we made him drive.

We drove for nearly seven hours to Pingtan County. This was our first stop, mainly because there was a local folk legend here that was very interesting. Uncle Two thought it might be related to the South Sea country we were looking for.

The legend was about a "mute emperor". It was said that Pingtan was called Haitan Island a long time ago. It was made up of 126 small islands and had a very developed fishing industry. They had a mute on the island, whom they called Mute Emperor. He usually liked to make paper men and horses to serve as his army.

The real emperor killed all of the Mute Emperors relatives at that time, so he hated the emperor with a passion. But there was nothing he could do about it.

Mute Emperor went out to sea to fish one day and almost died. While drifting there in the water, a strange man suddenly floated up from the sea and said that he was a celestial being from Penglai (1). Seeing that the Mute Emperor was in such a pitiable state, he gave him three pieces of paper and told him that he could cut out a house on the first piece, a granary on the second, and some clothes on the third. If he did that, he could speak, take shelter from the wind and the rain, and eat his fill. But he couldnt be seen performing these spells or they wouldnt work.

Liu Sang looked at his watch and said to Fatty, "Time is money. If you want to save Uncle Two some money, youll cause less trouble. Fireworks arent enough, youll have to use detonators. I heard Fat Master is pretty adept at playing with explosives. Do you know how to make mud explode?"

Fatty looked at Liu Sang and sneered, "This kid, looking down on people. Not only can I make mud explode, but I can earn a Grammy with the way I make shit explode."

Liu Sang walked to the car, popped the trunk, opened a box of detonators, and threw them to me and Fatty. He also wanted to throw them to Poker-Face, but once he thought about it, he didn't dare to. Fatty threw his detonators to Poker-Face and then caught the ones a blushing Liu Sang threw to him instead. The four of us stood there and looked at each other for a moment. Then, Liu Sang started to take off his clothes and the three of us immediately copied him.

"Ill stand in the middle and listen while you detonate at the three corners. If theres something below, Ill be able to find it in forty minutes." As Liu Sang put on special headphones, I noticed that he was very thin under his clothes and he had an incomplete Qilin tattooed on his body. It looked like an imitation of Poker-Faces, but it wasnt as elegant and didnt look finished yet.

Liu Sangs face was flushed. Fatty was just about to speak up, but Liu Sang quickly interrupted him, "Shut up and go! He then turned and headed towards the beach.

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TN Notes:

(1) Penglai is one of three fabled islands in the Eastern sea. Its the abode of immortals (kind of like fairyland)

(2) Fatty is basically hinting that the Mute Emperor and sister-in-law were having an affair. I believe hes calling Mute Emperor Ximen Qing from the novel Plum in the Golden Vase. Ximen Qing is portrayed as a lascivious and immoral man who starts a secret affair with a woman and helps her poison her husband, who makes a living by selling pancakes.

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First off, I love how Fatty switches between childish and mama bear in like 0.2 seconds (). Second off, I got to episode 34 of the Ultimate Note and I am not impressed with how the writers just tossed Vol 7 out the window and did whatever they wanted lol. And what's with putting Vol 8 stuff in there? There's an order to these things, dammit ( ) . I did love Lieutenant Zhang's cameos though lol.