Crushing Wretched Relatives & Crueler Truth

"Aaaah! Lu Haixuan, you scum!"

"Goddammit! Let go! He's your uncle!"

"Let go of him! Are you trying to cripple him?"

"Xuan…"

Lu Haixuan was enraged after hearing that Yun Yao was molested. As he kept intensifying his grip, the man's fist was about to crumble. His scream never stopped. Lu Family members came at Lu Haixuan one after another. Some roared wrathfully, some tried to break them off. A couple of teenagers cried his name in tears.

"Lu Haixuan, ignore them. Your uncle, huh? Your shitty uncle pushed your mom, so she got a hole in her head. If you pardon him, I'll despise you for the rest of my life."

As if the trouble wasn't big enough, Heiyu shouted out loud on Yun Che's shoulder. His tiny body made a powerful voice as he snarled at Lu folks. In Space, he was the domineering god beast who would awe the fiercer animals. And he'd been having his way out here. Today, he felt like a sucker, which made him really glum. He wouldn't put up with these insects if he wasn't in recovery.

Crack!

"Aaaaah!"

Upon hearing that, the raging son put all his strength on his left hand. With a cracking sound, the man shrilled. Lu Haixuan shook him away. The man couldn't even lift his floppy arm.

"Lu Yang! Are you OK, Lu Yang?"

"Little brother."

"Uncle."

The Lu folks gathered around him, worrying about him. They looked like a solidary family, but they treated Lu Haixuan's mother and grandpa like shit! Lu Haixuan looked at them with even colder eyes. "Your broken hand is just the interest of the debt you have to pay. Do you think you can get away with harming my mother, insulting my sister and setting me against my real family?"

Before those people stood up against him, Lu Haixuan closed in step by step. Menace crawled upon his wild but handsome face. A Peak member, he wasn't the best on every aspect. He was unruly but wasn't as bossy as Yun Che and Leng Yehan were, wasn't as slippery as Zhou Zeyu was, wasn't as tough as Jiang Shang was. But at the end of the day, he was still one of Peak and everybody knew that Peak was arrogant and proud. He was a restrained fellow in normal times but it didn't mean that he wasn't characterized with Peak trademarks. So what if he and these people had the same blood running in their veins? They were nothing as long as Lu Haixuan was in denial.

"What-What else are you gonna do? Lu Haixuan, we're your relatives!"

These people actually got scared but they kept claiming that they were Lu Haixuan's real family. Plus, since most of them were older than Lu Haixuan, they were still putting on airs.

"My relatives?" Scoffed Lu Haixuan.

Showered in their hypocritical eyes, Lu conjured a large golden blade. He was determined to cut the family bonds since they insisted that they were his relatives.

"How dare you!"

Lu Haixuan's second uncle suddenly put his daughter down and stood in front of everybody. Wooden stakes cropped up in his hands. "You little bastard, I'll discipline you on behalf of my brother!"

Then the wooden stakes flew out of the man's hands, aiming at Lu Haixuan's chest. Although they claimed to be Lu Haixuan's relatives, when they wanted him dead, they were merciless.

"You?"

Clang! Clang!

With a scoff and a flash of golden light, the two aggressive wooden stakes were chopped into half. The man got worked up. "Come on, guys, let's get him together. I don't believe this little shit can fight against all of us." Roared the man.

Lu folks conjured superfunction after looking at each other. It turned out they were all superfunction possessors. No wonder they were so insolent.

"Do you think Lu Haixuan hasn't got backup? We're superfunction possessors, too!"

When Lu Haixuan was surrounded by the gang that attempted to attack him, there came Zhou Zeyu's flippant tone of voice.

Thud!

"Aaaah!"

The next second, everybody was dazed. All they could hear was a mixed sound of something heavy hitting the ground and someone's scream. Zhou Zeyu grabbed one person that joined the besiegement by the back of his collar and threw him away. He then walked over to Lu Haixuan with a smile along with Jiang Shang who didn't say anything but had his golden ribbons in both hands.

"Come on then. Attack us. It's getting late, we don't want to miss our dinner."

Zhou Zeyu never thought about being less provocative. But to everyone's surprise, even Jiang Shang, the man didn't talk much, nodded and added, "Right. We're in a hurry!"

It was obvious that he was also very much pissed. But unlike the other guys who were pissed by the fact that the house was broken into and that Yun Yao was molested, Jiang Shang was upset because Ye Xingchen was upset, and the reason Ye was upset was that these people vandalized their house, bullied Yun Yao and scared Chenchen. So Jiang decided they must die!

"Y-You lot…"

Lu people were fuming. All of a sudden, Yun Che cut in, "Don't stain my house. Cripple them and kill them outside the base."

"Sure thing."

Scarcely had Zhou Zeyu finished speaking, numerous crescent-shaped Blades of Wind flew at those people.

"Hey! Strike back!"

"Aaaaaah!"

"Lu Haixuan, are you really gonna be so cruel? We're a family!"

Wind was free and sharp. Wind was everywhere and capable of anything. Lu people all threw their superfunction out with a horrified look on their faces but the Blades of Wind still cut their skin open. Before the superfunction power that they threw out reached Lu Haixuan, Zhou Zeyu and Jiang Shang, it was neutralized by two rays of golden light as if it was never there.

"Make it quick. We're in a hurry."

Sick of wasting time talking to them, Zhou Zeyu kept casting Blades of Wind. The silver light was dazzling. Jiang Shang's ribbons had come to life as well. The golden, shining ribbons looked intimidating. Lu Haixuan mercilessly slashed at those people with his gold superfunction blade.

"Aaah! My arm!"

"No. Stop, please!"

"You win! You win!"

"Our bad! Aaah!"

So what if they were all superfunction possessors? Seeing that Lu, Zhou and Jiang obviously out-leveled them, those people were routed at once. They squirted blood, screamed and shouted. In split seconds, they collapsed on to the floor, begging for mercy.

"Job's done."

Dusting off their hands, Zhou Zeyu and his fellows ceased their superfunction. Lu Haixuan turned around and stood right in front of Yun Che. "Sorry. I caused all this."

He didn't see those people as his relatives before the doomsday and neither would he after the doomsday. But the fact was, the whole mess was caused because of him. Che kindly tried to arrange a family reunion for him but these wretched relatives came along. Lu Haixuan would also be unhappy if he was Che even though he knew that Che was a fair person, that he wouldn't impute their fault to him. It was just… That was the very reason why he blamed himself more. Lu Haixuan clenched the fists on both sides of his body with a heavy heart.

"Don't you wanna know how your dad and sister died?"

After giving him an insouciant glance, Yun Che walked past him to those people. Xing Feng followed. What Yun Che said petrified Lu Haixuan who was shrouded in anger, self-blame and all the other negative feelings. It didn't even occur to him that those people said his mom and grandpa killed his dad and sister until Yun Che reminded him. Despite disbelieving those people's words, he still didn't want to know the truth.

"How did Haixuan's dad and sister die?"

Crouching before those people, Yun Che clamped one person's cheeks, forcing him to raise his head. He wouldn't let this thing get in between Haixuan and his mom and grandpa no matter what. His gut told him that these people would give him a different answer.

"I-It's that bit… No, Haixuan's mom and the old man killed them."

The man under coercion gasped in pain but he dared not to keep silent.

"Your gaze lost focus and you stammered. Classic features of a liar."

Before Yun Che said anything, Gu Mingxuan remarked from behind.

"No. Haixuan's mother killed them."

The man talked back with agitation but what he didn't know was, although his eyes weren't shifting now, Yun Che still caught the hesitation in his eyes. Che threw him away, got up and stood aside. "It's your turn, Xing."

Looking back and forth between Gu Mingxuan and Xing Feng, Yun Che chose Xing Feng in the end. He knew that both of them had the superfunction to dig out the truth but he just wanted to hear them say it.

Xing Feng as Che's guardian beast wouldn't say no. In fact, he was aware that they were partially responsible for the mess. Without saying anything, Xing Feng's piercing eyes scanned these whining people one by one. In the end, he picked Lu Haixuan's second aunt, the most flagrant among them. She must be the ringleader who knew more than anyone.

"You…"

The woman with one broken arm became humble now. She looked at Xing Feng with her terrorized eyes. Xing Feng didn't even want to beat around the bush, he clamped her cheeks, forcing her to look him in the eyes. The fear in the woman's eyes was replaced by emptiness. There was nothing in her eyes but void.

"How did Haixuan's dad die?"

The sexy, beautiful, low voice sounded like an imperative order to the woman. The hypnotized woman couldn't feel any pain anymore. She just started to narrate like a robot, "When the doomsday came, the urban area became the most stricken area so our brother and sister-in-law who was living in the countryside immediately came into our mind. Rural folks habitually store food so we went to our big brother's home. At the time, he and his father-in-law already had superfunction. They took us in. But even the countryside started to have more and more zombies. Our big brother learned that the military built Northeast Base in Ha City from the radio and reckoned that that might be our chance to survive the disaster, so he led us to Ha City. By the way, at the time, we'd successively got superfunction, too. My son, unfortunately, turned into a zombie after being scratched by one. Our big brother killed him regardless of our begging. We wanted to avenge our son but also needed our brother to fight for us, so not until we were about to arrive at Ha City did we knock out and hid our sister-in-law, then we lied to our brother, saying that his wife was trapped in the zombie crowd. To save his wife, our brother plunged himself into the zombie village and then got eaten."

"You beasts! I'll kill you! Che, free me. I'll kill them!"

As the story came to this point, Lu Haixuan freaked out. His eyes turned bloody red. He intended to cut all of them into pieces with his conjured blade. Yun Che stepped in his way to hold him back. "Calm down. There's more."

"I…"

Lu Haixuan's eyes became red and rage flickered in those eyes but Yun Che's words forced him to gather his wits. Lu Haixuan closed his eyes in agony with the flashbacks of his parents' happy faces. They wouldn't kiss and hug a lot like those young couples because they'd been married for many years but everybody knew them knew that they loved each other. The idea of moving to the city didn't even occur to Lu's dad because he just wanted to be with his wife even though his parents and brothers had brought houses in town. These relatives looked down upon Lu's parents since they became city people. Haixuan's mom was a soft woman but she was most gentle to her husband. She repaid his affection with her gentleness and love but…

They were forever separated by these heartless animals. Tears trickled down Lu Haixuan's cheeks. His tall, big body started to shake intensely. Lu Haixuan swore that he'd slaughter each and every one of them.