Chapter 92: Wish

Chapter 92: Wish

Mad Red pulled his hand out of Gao Yang’s lungs. He had lost his human soul completely, and he kept repeating the word ‘human’, an evidence of his craving for human blood and hearts.

Just when he was going to reach into Gao Yang’s chest again, Gao Yang said through his clenched, bleeding teeth, “De...tonate...”

Boom!

Mad Red’s right arm exploded. This chapter's initial release occurred on the N0v3l--Biin site.

The fingers around Gao Yang’s neck loosened, and he fell to the ground.

Mad Red’s right arm was barely attached and bleeding profusely, yet he didn’t seem in pain at all.

Gao Yang had replicated Detonation during the fraction of second he grabbed Mad Red’s right hand. However, he hadn’t had the time to use it, so he opted for the more effective tactic of quick melee attacks.

Mad Red’s Detonation operated under a specific mechanism. There were two steps to it: touch, and detonate. The first step, touch, was the passive part of the Talent. No activation was required to mark one’s targets.

While Gao Yang overwhelmed Mad Red with a flurry of punches and kicks, every single hit left a mark on the man, amounting to a few dozens by the end of it.

Gao Yang had planned to activate Detonation once Mad Red spoke his last words, leaving only ashes behind, but that plan was disrupted when Mad Red injected himself with a strange solution and transformed into a ‘monster’.

Gao Yang wasn’t going to let that happen again. All monsters were gifted with impressive ability to regenerate, let alone a terrifying being so dangerous that he was granted a 5000 times bonus.

“Detonate!” Gao Yang exclaimed.

Mad Red’s abdomen exploded.

“Detonate!”

Followed by his calves.

“Detonate!”

Then his chest.

“Detonate, detonate, detonate, detonate!”

“Open your mouth.” She was holding a small red pill. “Take this.”

Gao Yang opened his mouth to swallow the pill. Warmth returned to his body, as well as his strength.

Then he belatedly realized that there was a weight on his abdomen. He shifted his gaze and spotted Lovely Lamb. She was sitting on the ground with her head resting on his belly, sound asleep.

Gao Yang lifted his right hand. It was as good as new, if a little numb when he moved his fingers.

“You should be grateful to Lovely Lamb. She looked for your fingers one by one on the running track and did her best to reattach them.” White Rabbit sounded tired, complaining out of concern like a parent would.

Gao Yang slowly sat up and pulled Lovely Lamb into his arms. Behind his back was the ginkgo tree he was all too familiar with.

“How did you get here?” Gao Yang asked.

“I tapped your phone,” White Rabbit said like it was obvious. “I heard it when the man called Mad Red called you. It didn’t sound good, so I grabbed Lovely Lamb and rushed here. You know how fast I run. When I got here, you had just finished Mad Red.”

After a brief moment of silence, Gao Yang asked, “Wan Sisi?”

“Don’t worry. I’ve cleaned everything up.” White Rabbit sighed softly. “I was going to take you back, but Lovely Lamb fell asleep after treating you. I thought it would be better to let you two rest here. I didn’t expect you to sleep the entire night. My legs are numb.”

She had kept watch on them throughout the night. Gao Yang was touched.

It was already six o’clock in the morning, and sunlight had broken through the sky in the distance. The thriving weed that had once overtaken the running track at the foot of the hill had all been burned, leaving the area a charred wasteland. Under the warm light of the dawning sun, the contrast was striking.

“Is this...yours?” White Rabbit was holding a wrapper.

Gao Yang took it. A chunk was missing because it’d been burned, and the rest of the wrapper had been dyed red by blood. It took careful inspection to make out the word yingxiong—hero.

“It’s mine. Thanks.”

Gao Yang lifted the still sleeping Lovely Lamb and handed her to White Rabbit.

Then he stood up and found the tin box near the ginkgo tree, putting the wrapper back into the box before burying it near the roots with great care.

“What are you doing when you haven’t even recovered?” White Rabbit looked baffled.

Gao Yang sat back down and looked up at the breaking dawn, his eyes slightly narrowed.

After a moment, he slowly opened his mouth.

“I made a wish.”