Chapter 388 Tell the truth, you might as well lie

Chapter 388 Tell the truth, you might as well lie

Fubo Tianwang stood up, feeling the flow of his qi and blood much smoother.

He thought to himself: Xiao Huitian Wan is truly a divine medicine! Not even two hours after taking it, and I can already feel its effects repairing my body.

Taking a deep breath, he picked up his longsword and stood at the door: "Who's there?"

"Friend."

"Your voice sounds weird. I don't know you, and my mom told me not to open the door for strangers."

Crack! The door shattered, and two Tianwang experts rushed in. With a single move, they subdued Fubo Tianwang, chopped him at the back of the neck, and knocked him out before taking him away.

Fubo Tianwang slowly woke up—it was already daylight.

The two Tianwang experts dragged him before Huo Wendong.

Huo Wendong was sitting on a wooden bed from the Qing Dynasty, dressed in luxurious silk robes of a wealthy Qing noble, enjoying himself thoroughly.

"I haven't had the pleasure of knowing your esteemed surname?" Huo Wendong smiled, but anyone could tell there was a hidden blade behind that smile.

"Fu… Fubo."

"That's quite a strange name." Huo Wendong chuckled. "What were you doing at Lu Chengwen's house? Why are you covered in injuries?"

"Lu Chengwen and his people beat me."

Huo Wendong was stunned. He glanced at the Tianwang experts and continued asking, "Why did they beat you?"

"Because… I… This is a complicated matter, it's hard to explain clearly."

Huo Wendong nodded in understanding. "Complicated, huh? Then I suppose it's not something that can be explained in just a sentence or two?"

"Yes, yes! Even I'm confused. I'm trying to figure out what's going on myself, but my brain just… hasn't caught up yet."

Huo Wendong said, "Did you guys hear that?"

The two Tianwang experts sealed his acupoints.

"Hey!? Hey!? What are you guys doing!? What are you doing!?"

Huo Wendong smiled. "Giving you a little motivation. That way, you'll be able to explain this 'complicated matter' to me more clearly!"

"Let go of me! Let me go! I've had enough of getting beaten up for no reason!"

From the ceiling, an iron chain dropped down. Damn, the Tianwang experts were professionals.

Seal the acupoints. Hang him up. Beat him!

They spun him around like a carousel!

Screams filled the room.

After a while, Huo Wendong took a puff of his cigar. Bang Daomang stood beside him, holding the ashtray for him.

"Brother, how are you feeling now?"

"Alright, alright, I can talk now."

Huo Wendong nodded, and the two Tianwang experts let him down.

Cheqi Tianwang felt bitter inside.

If he hadn't taken Xiao Huitian Wan yesterday, recovering so quickly, and applied medicine before getting captured, he'd probably be beaten to death by now.

"I… I'm from a major organization. I came here on a mission…"

"Hang him up, hang him up!"

"No, no, no need for that! No need for all the trouble! I know you're in a hurry, the two big brothers are tired, and you're also tired…"

"Then can we increase our conversation efficiency a little?"

"Yes."

Cheqi Tianwang sighed. "I was ordered to make Lu Chengwen cough up the hundred billion he embezzled from us and deal with a few traitors along the way."

"Hmm."

"But I planned to use the traitors first to take down Lu Chengwen. So, I brought them with me to find him. But who would've thought, when we rushed in and started beating the crap out of him… the guy was actually Long Aotian!"

Huo Wendong's eyes widened. "You mean, Long Aotian? What was he doing at Lu Chengwen's place?"

"I don't know the details."

"Hang him up, hang him up!"

"I really don't know!" Cheqi started crying. "How would I know that Xuecheng's people all have tricks up their sleeves?! They can even swap faces! I'd never seen Long Aotian before that. I thought he was Lu Chengwen, so I beat him up for a long time… even his crotch was bleeding…"

Huo Wendong laughed. From the looks of it, he wasn't lying. "Go on."

"Then… halfway through the fight, five more experts showed up and helped us beat up Lu Chengwen… which was actually Long Aotian in disguise. Halfway through, I took down five traitors, but then those five experts appeared again and started beating me up instead…"

Huo Wendong's brain was starting to hurt.

He rubbed his mouth, his patience wearing thin.

"After they finished beating me, they just let me go. When I went back, I ran into the crazy woman…"

"Who's the crazy woman?"

"Xiao Houzi."

"Wait, is it a woman or a monkey?"

"It's a monkey named 'Woman.'"

"You motherf—"

"No, no, no! It's a woman named 'Xiao Houzi'! She's a woman!"

"Then why call her a crazy woman?"

"She's insane!" Cheqi's eyes welled up with tears at the mention of her. "Completely nuts! No logic at all! Just… completely unhinged…"

Huo Wendong was getting irritated. "Keep talking! Fewer adjectives!"

"Yes, yes. She said she wanted Lu Chengwen dead and ordered me to kill him."

"Why?"

"No idea."

"And you just went along with it?"

"My little brother is in their hands! How could I refuse? Plus, she fed me poison, saying that if I didn't kill Lu Chengwen within three days, both my brother and I would die."

"And then?"

"I went to ask Long Aotian for help…"

"Did he help you?"

"I beat him up the day before, remember?"

"Oh right, because… what was it again? Ah, the face-swapping thing. Go on, go on."

"So he beat me up too. And before he left, he gave me another poison pill, saying I had two days to make Lu Chengwen cough up the hundred billion, or I'd die."

"Oh! Then what happened today?"

"I… I figured I'd take a traitor with me and have him…"

"Wait a minute, didn't you kill the traitor the day before yesterday?"

"This is another traitor."

"Right, wasn't he there yesterday?"

"He was, but he was fighting Hua Xue Ning at a distance—ah! Dang Kou! I forgot to meet up with him!"

"You motherf—! Hang him up! Keep beating him!"

"No, no, no! I'll talk, I'll tell you everything, just don't hang me up!"

"Then make it quick! Don't make me ask one thing at a time!"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Dang Kou Tian Wang glanced up at a forty-five-degree angle, sorting out the sequence of events. After thinking for a few seconds, he nodded, seemingly figuring it out.

Huo Wen Dong's patience was still burning.

"Dang Kou followed us from the first day, but he was only responsible for Hua Xue Ning. Beating up Long Ao Tian wasn't his job. So he was still alive on the second day, and I brought him along again to distract Hua Xue Ning while I went to capture Lu Cheng Wen alive."

"You killed five traitors yesterday, and Dang Kou Tian Wang was still with you?"

"He had no choice. I had leverage on him, and I tricked him into thinking he could redeem himself."

"And he actually believed that?"

"A desperate man, given a sliver of hope, will convince himself to believe it."

"Oh. Go on."

"Dang Kou lured Hua Xue Ning away, and I went in. But as soon as I stepped inside…"

Che Qi Tian Wang's expression collapsed.

This time, he really burst into tears, his voice trembling, snot flowing freely: "Ten Shang Si Men! A full ten Shang Si Men were waiting for me! They beat me to hell, grabbed me by the hair, and dragged me onto the lawn to kick me around…"

Huo Wen Dong's facial features scrunched together: "Lu Cheng Wen has ten Shang Si Men under him!?"

"Eleven. Hua Xue Ning was lured away."

Huo Wen Dong looked at the Tian Wang experts. Even though they were wearing masks, he could tell they were just as shocked.

"Are you sure there were eleven?"

"Yes! The five guys who beat me yesterday, plus the five traitors who went in with me."

"God damn!" Huo Wen Dong clutched his temples. "Why is this such a mess!? Weren't those five traitors already dead? What the hell are you talking about!?"

He turned to the two Tian Wang experts: "Are you sure this bastard is mentally stable?"

The Tian Wang expert threatened: "Tell the truth, or we'll kill you!"

Dang Kou cried, "They were seriously injured by me! Normally, they should've been dead, but… maybe Lu Cheng Wen gave them some kind of life-saving pill. He even gave me a Xiao Hui Tian Wan today. Lu Cheng Wen doesn't seem to care about those pills—he hands them out to everyone."

"He… arranged for ten people to beat you up!?"

"Yes."

"Beat you half to death, then gave you a Xiao Hui Tian Wan to heal up."

"Right."

"Then politely sent you on your way?"

"That's exactly what happened."

"So… between you, me, and Lu Cheng Wen, one of us definitely has a massive hole in their brain. A crater!"

Even Che Qi himself felt like this story was too ridiculous.

But how else could he explain it? He didn't even know how to explain it himself!

The truth is the truth—without a couple of people with major brain damage, this whole situation just wouldn't make sense.

But it did happen! What was he supposed to do!?

Huo Wen Dong roared, "My friend saw with his own eyes that Lu Cheng Wen personally escorted you out, treated you politely, and had a whole group of people send you off! What the hell is going on!? Lu Cheng Wen has ten—eleven Shang Si Men! Keeping you alive—does he have a hole in his brain!?"

"He was trying to act like a good guy."

"Him? Lu Cheng Wen? Acting like a good guy? For who!?"

"Xiao Hou Zi."

"Who the hell is Xiao Hou Zi!? My god, my brain is about to explode! I'm warning you, don't push me—I'm about to snap!"

Huo Wen Dong's patience was burning like crazy! It was about to reach its limit!

"Xiao Hou Zi is that crazy woman! The one who told me to kill Lu Cheng Wen! Lu Cheng Wen didn't kill me because he didn't want the kid to see something too bloody. He seems to really dote on that kid. So… to protect the child's pure little heart, he pretended to be nice to me, even gave me a Xiao Hui Tian Wan, and then let me go."

Huo Wen Dong lost his mind.

He clenched his fists, held them to his chest, tilted his head up, twisted his face in frustration, then slowly exhaled:

Calmly, he said, "Hang him up. Keep beating. Stuff his mouth."

Che Qi Tian Wang was both scared and wronged, heartbroken and desperate: "I'm not lying! It's all true! Please believe me, believe me!"

Huo Wen Dong walked up to him, placed a serious and sincere hand over his heart, and said:

"Brother! It's not that I don't believe you. But with this kind of logic, anyone who hears it will beat you up! Maybe, in your heart, you think I'm an idiot. But unfortunately, I've taken an IQ test, and I'm very smart. But you, my friend!"

Huo Wen Dong jabbed a finger into his chest. "You're insulting my intelligence, challenging my authority, mocking my competence, and worst of all, you've completely exhausted my patience!"

Huo Wen Dong turned and walked out.

Che Qi Tian Wang shouted, "I have no grudge against you!"

Huo Wen Dong reached the door, turned back, and angrily pointed at him: "Now you do! In a moment, I expect you to give me a story that actually makes sense, and tell me exactly what Lu Cheng Wen meant by 'treasure'! If you can't explain it properly, I swear to god, I'll skin you alive!"

Seeing himself getting hung up again, Che Qi Tian Wang panicked: "The 'treasure' he was talking about is Xiao Hou Zi! That crazy woman!"

Huo Wen Dong looked at him and shook his head: "The way you're living… it's just sad."

Che Qi Tian Wang tried to speak again, but his mouth was already stuffed.

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