Chapter 50: Good Stuff

Today, Miss Li was not there, so the small building was exceptionally quiet, with only two people guarding the door.

“Is he really his biological son?” Bai Chen Zhu and Jiang Ye walked openly to the vicinity of the small building. The path was clear all the way, which made them feel even stranger. “His own home is guarded by a bunch of people, yet when his son is sick, he tosses him aside.”

“Maybe some people just like to put on a facade of fatherly love and filial piety?” Jiang Ye pulled him along to go in, but Bai Chen Zhu pressed down his hand.

“Wait.” Bai Chen Zhu said.

He carefully sensed the mental power around them.

As long as it was a living person, there would be mental power. The mental power of ability users, humans, and mutants was merely a difference in strength.

Bai Chen Zhu opened his eyes, a flash of surprise sliding through them. He looked at Jiang Ye. “It’s strange. There are fifteen ordinary people hiding around us, no ability users.”

Jiang Ye tilted his head and muttered thoughtfully, “Fifteen?”

“It might be for protecting Bai Li. Do we still go in?” Bai Chen Zhu glanced inside the small building. If they were not careful, they would likely be surrounded and attacked as people with ill intentions.

Although their original intent in scouting information seemed pretty shady too.

Jiang Ye was confident of victory. “Fifteen ordinary people—I can handle them.”

Bai Chen Zhu loved hearing him say that. “Then let’s go!”

Jiang Ye skillfully led him around the two people and entered through a second-floor window.

The room was a bit dark. There was no one on the second floor; it was mostly empty rooms. In the center of the first floor was a set of sofas, and faint chewing sounds came from nearby.

Bai Chen Zhu sensed carefully. No mental power similar to the fragment appeared in the house, but a faint trace of mental power belonging to him came from the kitchen.

It should be the one he had left on the person who ambushed him that day.

The two exchanged a glance and followed the chewing sounds.

Bai Li sat at the dining table with his back to them, slowly chewing on something.

When the two walked up to him and saw clearly what Bai Li was eating, they nearly vomited on the spot.

Bai Li was elegantly scooping out a brain with a spoon and eating it. The brain was very large, full of blood vessels—far from what an ordinary animal would have.

“Bai Li? What are you doing?” Bai Chen Zhu endured the nauseating bloody smell and walked forward, still somewhat in disbelief.

Bai Li turned his head with a crunch, staring fixedly at them while still chewing in his mouth. He did not speak and continued eating his food.

“Hey?” Jiang Ye called out.

Bai Li showed no reaction.

“I suspect he has no ability to communicate with people.” Jiang Ye said. “He’s half-zombified already. It’s normal that he can’t speak.”

Bai Li swallowed his food and spoke the first sentence since they met. “Dumb… ass.”

Jiang Ye: …

He rolled up his sleeves to go beat him up, but Bai Chen Zhu held him back.

Bai Chen Zhu’s gaze shifted from the brain on the table to Bai Li. “You can speak? Do you know what you’re eating?”

“Human.” Bai Li was quite willing to talk to the person in front of him. He twitched his nose, swallowed his saliva, and a greedy hunger slid through his eyes. “You… smell good. Better than it.”

Bai Chen Zhu took a deep breath and did not rashly approach. “Jiang Ye, go check him out.”

Jiang Ye went up and roughly yanked down Bai Li’s collar, revealing a bloody hole on his left shoulder.

“It’s really you!” Bai Chen Zhu’s pupils contracted sharply. He examined Bai Li, from the mental power to that gunshot wound. “That thing is with you?!”

Bai Li thought carefully about those words, struggling hard to understand the meaning. He was as sluggish as a rusty robot that had not been oiled for a long time; his thinking took quite a while—long enough that Bai Chen Zhu grew a bit impatient.

Bai Li suddenly realized and licked his lips. “Oh! That thing… it… indeed… is a good… stuff.”

“Do you know where it is?” Bai Chen Zhu saw that his attitude was somewhat cooperative—aside from wanting to eat him—so he tried to resolve it through talking.

“You have… other… ‘that stuff’?” Bai Li spoke very slowly, one word at a time. “Give it to me… won’t eat you.”

Bai Chen Zhu felt his scalp go numb from being stared at. That was an expression that should not appear on a human face—one that looked at fellow humans like food.

Bai Li finished the last bite of his food.

Then, he flew into a rage and smashed the plate on the ground, shards flying everywhere. “Useless!”

He shouted loudly: “Useless! Useless!”

Bai Chen Zhu took a step back. Bai Li stared deathly at him, but his line of sight was blocked by Jiang Ye stepping forward.

Bai Li enunciated each word. “Not… giving?”

Jiang Ye pressed: “Where is that thing?”

Bai Li’s face was expressionless. Suddenly, he flipped the table over and pulled out a gun from under the wheelchair. It looked like he had prepared it in advance.

Bai Chen Zhu’s expression changed. Before he could speak, Jiang Ye rushed forward and kicked over the wheelchair. Bai Li fell to the ground, along with the rifle tumbling to the side. He shouted mechanically: “Men! Men!”

The door opened, but the ones rushing in were not the two guards at the door. Instead, it was a large group of fully equipped bodyguards, weapons aimed at them.

“Sitting ducks in a trap.” Bai Chen Zhu’s beautiful eyes scanned the surroundings as he said in a low voice. “We’ve been set up.”

“I can see that.” Jiang Ye swept his gaze over the crowd surging in.

Bai Chen Zhu sighed helplessly. “Don’t worry, these are all of them. Go ahead and cut loose.” He slowly retreated step by step to the corner.

Only now did Bai Chen Zhu understand everything. Ever since arriving in Luozhou City, after mentioning the zombie king and the fragment’s connection, the black shadow had suspected they carried the fragment for some reason and came to steal it twice.

Now, they had waited for them to come, to take them down in one fell swoop.

In other words, these fifteen people were not there to protect Bai Li; they had planned to capture them from the start.

Bai Chen Zhu used his toe to flick up the silver dining knife that Bai Li had dropped on the ground—it still had red and white stains on it. He twisted Bai Li’s arms behind his back, roughly grabbing him and pressing the knife to his neck as he said coldly: “All of you, drop your weapons! Or I’ll kill your young master.”

Those people only paused for a beat before their attacks grew even denser. Jiang Ye sped up, his figure weaving between the bullets. In no time, the fifteen people did not even get a chance to fire before they lay neatly on the ground.

Jiang Ye picked up the scattered guns on the floor and happily confiscated them.

Bai Chen Zhu also picked up a few guns and counted the people on the ground. “I remember fifteen plus two equals seventeen, right?”

What about those two outside the door? They couldn’t have run, could they?

They were just about to take Bai Li away when the door was kicked open and more bodyguards surged in.

Walking at the back was Bai Guang Zheng, stern-faced and dressed neatly as if heading to a meeting, along with Li Zhen Zhen, full of anxiety. Like every doting mother, she cried out: “Bai Li!” and rushed forward, but Bai Guang Zheng grabbed her arm with one hand, and she could not break free no matter what.

Li Zhen Zhen tried to shake off his hand, furious. “Bai Guang Zheng! If anything happens to Bai Li, I’m not done with you!”

Bai Guang Zheng ignored her and said righteously: “You two, we treated you with courtesy, but we never expected your wolfish ambitions. To think you’d lay hands on my son in broad daylight—utterly vicious!”

Li Zhen Zhen was extremely worried, sparing no cost: “Let him go! Release him! You can have whatever you want!”

Bai Chen Zhu sized up the two and slowly lowered the knife in his hand, though he still restrained Bai Li. “Mr. Bai might have some misunderstanding. Your son is infected with the virus. We only temporarily restrained him out of self-defense and goodwill.”

“Slandering the innocent!” Bai Guang Zheng grabbed Li Zhen Zhen with one hand and pointed at them with the other, cursing angrily. “Where is my son mutated? You lot—I see you’re just a bunch of money-grubbing thugs. Men!”

Bai Chen Zhu’s eyes sharpened, and he exchanged a glance with Jiang Ye. How could they not realize they had been calculated now?

At this moment, Bai Li just looked like a weak young man. How were they supposed to prove he was infected with the virus? And even if they did, would Bai Guang Zheng believe it?

The people Bai Guang Zheng brought were not just ordinary folk; there were ability users too—roughly thirty in total by a rough count.

They closed in. Bai Chen Zhu shoved aside the obstructive Bai Li in his grip, preparing for a fight.

“Dad! What are you doing!” Unexpectedly, Bai Tao rushed over and grabbed Bai Guang Zheng’s hand, pleading. Bai Guang Zheng had one hand grabbing Li Zhen Zhen and the other tugged by Bai Tao; annoyed beyond measure, he directly flung her off.

Bai Tao cried out in surprise and ‘weakly’ fell to the ground.

She drew a breath. She had not expected Bai Guang Zheng’s midway return was to screw over the two of them. She looked toward Bai Chen Zhu.

Bai Chen Zhu frowned at her and suddenly coughed twice. His eyesight was very good; he could see Bai Tao clenching her fists tightly. He just did not know if she got the hint.

At that moment, Bai Guang Zheng waved his hand. “Take them down!”

The crowd rushed forward, raising their tools.

Bai Tao grabbed his pant leg and squeezed out tears with effort, letting out a shrill wailing cry. “Daddy! Don’t hurt them! Please!”

Her cry was shrill and mournful, piercing straight into the soul in an instant. Everyone felt their souls being ‘flicked’ out, floating lightly out of their bodies to the quiet, boundless blue sky.

After a while, their souls were pulled back into their bodies. The sounds of the world reappeared in their ears, accompanied by a sharp pain in their brains.

It was like waking from a dream; when they opened their eyes again, they saw the ceiling. Only then did the crowd realize they were curled up on the ground, crying out in pain.

Others cried with tears streaming like pear blossoms in rain; Bai Tao cried like a carnivorous plant devouring its meal.

Don’t cry anymore, please don’t cry—it’s so painful. Everyone prayed silently in unison.

In the next moment, they saw Young Master Bai erupting violently.

They witnessed a human tearing off his ‘skin,’ bit by bit transforming into an ugly monster.

Stimulated by the mental power, Bai Li’s eyes bulged with red veins, blue veins throbbing. He opened his bloody mouth and roared, the corners of his lips splitting all the way to his cheeks.

In the next second, he pounced on an ordinary person and opened his mouth to bite, but Bai Chen Zhu swept him away with a long leg, sending him flipping to the ground.

“Zombie! It’s a zombie!” Everyone present hurriedly raised their weapons at Bai Li. Remembering he was Bai Guang Zheng’s son, they did not dare act, merely staying on guard while secretly watching Bai Guang Zheng’s reaction.

Bai Guang Zheng’s blue veins throbbed; now Bai Li had undoubtedly slapped him in the face. He was put on the spot.

Li Zhen Zhen’s eyes were full of red veins as she gnashed her teeth in threat. “Guang Zheng, save my son.”

Bai Chen Zhu withdrew his leg and brushed off his pant leg. “Mr. Bai, come back to your senses. Does this count as evidence? Young Master Bai is indeed infected.”

Bai Li struggled to crawl up, trying to bite someone.

Bai Guang Zheng stood stunned, his whole body losing strength. Li Zhen Zhen shook him off and rushed over to hug Bai Li. “Don’t be afraid, Mommy’s here. Don’t be afraid…”

Bai Li opened his mouth to bite a chunk out of Li Zhen Zhen, but Bai Chen Zhu knocked him out with a hand chop.

Bai Tao was still sobbing. Bai Guang Zheng’s expression was complicated, while Young Master Bai lay fainted in Miss Li’s arms.

The people who came along only now felt fear in hindsight. Some even started recalling if they had interacted with Bai Li or touched him…

Bai Chen Zhu raised an eyebrow, still thinking about another matter: The group Bai Guang Zheng brought surprisingly did not all blindly follow him. Otherwise, they could have pulled off “calling a deer a horse” right now.

—

The scene was extremely chaotic and unsightly. If word got out, it would undoubtedly be a scandal.

Bai Guang Zheng’s face was ashen. His gloved hands trembled as he covered his face and broke down. “I never expected… never expected it to be like this…”

He smiled bitterly, full of righteous indignation. “It’s my failure in family education. To cause such a big incident today—everyone, rest assured, even if it’s my son, I will treat him without bias.”

Bai Chen Zhu looked at Bai Tao, who still had tear stains on her face, then at Bai Guang Zheng, who looked distressed and sad.

Bai Chen Zhu: …

Bai Guang Zheng had already called people to lock Bai Li up. He then apologized nicely to Bai Chen Zhu and Jiang Ye, gave quite a bit of compensation, and personally arranged for them to be escorted back to their residence.

As for Bai Tao, she had long wiped her tears herself. After pretending not to know what happened, she was thrilled that she had awakened an incredible superpower and clamored to hold a party to celebrate.

When they returned to their residence, however, they did not see Zhou Zhuo Hua or Tang Zhao. They exchanged a glance, both harboring ominous guesses.

At that moment, the sound of an engine came from outside the building.

Bai Chen Zhu went to the window and looked out. Zhou Zhuo Hua got out from the driver’s seat, looked up and saw him, and waved with a smile.

They had driven the car back.

Once the two came up, Zhou Zhuo Hua’s smile disappeared. She darkened her face and said: “After we left, we noticed Bai Guang Zheng’s car come back. We guessed something was off.”

Tang Zhao looked left and right, confirming that the two were fine, then exhaled a turbid breath from his chest and relaxed. “So we quickly drove the car over here to pick you up. We also ran into Bai Tao; she had been sent away by Bai Guang Zheng, so I told her to hurry over. It’s really great that you’re okay! What exactly happened?”