Ch. 16 - This Is a Threat

Xiao Huoyan's words made the man speechless. He did not believe that the little boy in front of him would be able to kill him.

"You do not seem to believe me."

Xiao Huoyan did not ask. He just said it as if he already knew.

"N-No that is not it--"

"--I have never liked people that lie. You do not believe me and that is fine."

The man could not believe his ears. The little boy in front of him sounded more mature than most adults. 'He has the airs of a great ruler', the man thought.

"Do you know how I and my father first met?"

"No. You never told me."

"That is because you never asked."

"True… Please, continue."

"He showed up at my house in a terrible state. He was almost dead."

"Who saved him?"

"I did."

"You?!"

"Yes. He was poisoned and badly injured. I saved him just like I saved you, Ji Feng."

"Y-You… How?!"

"Do you mean 'how' as in 'how did you save us' or as in 'how did you know my name'?"

"Uhm… B-both."

"Then I am sorry. I can not tell you."

"Why?"

"That is not important. What is truly important is not how I saved you nor how I knew your name. What is truly important is that I did. My father, Jin Long, did not take me in out of simple generosity at first. I am stronger than he was!"

"You have got to be kidding me. How could you possibly be stronger than The Golden Dragon, Jin Long?"

"Do you know how the forest disappeared?"

"You mean the forest that was turned to ashes after a giant explosion?"

"Yes. Do you know how it exploded?"

"No, but everyone thinks that it has something to do with the hidden expert that was rumoured to have lived in the forest. Some people think that it was an accident, while others think that someone must have angered him."

"Both are wrong."

"How would you know?"

"Because I was there. I am the little boy who was found lying in the ashes. I am the one that made the orb that my father used to blow up the forest. I am the so called hidden expert that everyone has been talking about."

"You are joking, right?"

"No, I am not."

"If what you are saying really is the truth, then why do you tell me all of this?"

"Because I want you to trust me and tell me everything you know about what just happened outside."

"What do you want to know?"

"Everything."

"More specifically?"

"Where is my uncle?"

"Jin Niao?"

"Yes."

"He should have already arrived at Rosewood City."

"Should have?!"

"W-Well, I mean… that was the plan!"

"Plan?"

"We knew that they would attack sooner or later so everyone was already somewhat prepared. When they attacked, Jin Niao fled towards Rosewood City, while the guards fought back to buy him time. I am surprised he did not take you with him."

"He left me here because whoever attacked you, does not know about my existence. If he would have taken me with him right away, it would have been much more dangerous. He left me her to protect me."

"Maybe you are right…"

"When do we set off?"

"'Set off'?"

"Yes. You expect me to find uncle Niao on my own? I do not know how to get to Rosewood. I do not even know where I am right now."

"You must have lived under a rock…"

"I lived in a forest and rarely met any 'visitors'! I never left the forest before, so how do you expect me to know where anything is?!"

"S-Sorry, I--"

"No, I am sorry. I forgot again."

"What?"

"I must not get angry. The consequences can go from 'me killing one person' to 'me wiping out an entire continent', according to the father that my father had left me."

"Hahahaha! Sorry, but you have not actually killed someone, right?"

"Only a few times."

"You have?!"

"Yes, I have."

"So--"

"I do not wish to talk about it. It is not like I wanted to kill those people. I am not going to lie. I did wish for some of them to just drop dead, but I never wanted to personally kill anyone of them. It was not on purpose."

"You can not just kill someone and then say that 'it was not on purpose'. Why did not anyone come to you for revenge?"

"Oh, I am sure there were people who did. My house was placed in the middle of a giant array. Those who took a step inside of the array would not be able to find their way out.

There were some lucky people who got to my house, but none of them ever left. The only people who have ever left the array is my biological father, Jin Long and I."

"Was there not a man who brought back some kind of miraculous medicine from the forest."

"Oh, long story short, he never stepped into the array, I am the hidden expert who lived inside the forest, the medicine was mine and he stole it when I dropped it, oh and the medicine is not actually medicine."

"Then did you use the same kind of medicine to cure me and Jin Long?!"

"Yes, but I told you that it is not a so called medicine."

"What did you mean with 'and the medicine is not actually medicine', then?! If it is not medicine, then what the hell did you make me drink?!"

"You do not have to know what it was, you just have to know that it saved your life."

"… Fine."

"Back to what we were talking about before. When do we set of?"

"When does it work for you, Young Lord?"

"Geez! No need to start thinking about courtesy now! Whenever is fine, but rather sooner than later, if you know what I mean."

"Then… How about right now?"

"That is fine."

Seeing as Xiao Huoyan just stood there, Ji Feng was a little confused.

"Are you not going back to your room to pack your stuff?"

"Oh, right now? So that you get a chance to get out of here? I could catch you and kill you know. Running away from me would only give you 2 minutes at most, before I catch up and kill you."

"Did you not say that you did not want to kill?"

"I never said that I did not want to kill. I prefer to solve things in a more civilised way, but I could make an exception. Do not ever take me for a fool. That will only give you a free ticket straight to hell, and yes. This is a threat."

Ji Feng was shocked beyond belief! To hear a child threaten him like that with a straight face, was something he had never experienced before.

Xiao Huoyan had already told Ji Feng that he was not Jin Long's biological son, so now the biggest question inside Ji Feng's head was: 'Who the hell is he?!'