(Notice: The first part of the chapter may cause disturbance to certain readers, to skip it, Ctrl F Safe zone. Once again, this book is pure fiction.)
Few days later, in a single-storey house in the suburbs, Li Anping released his hand from a man’s neck, letting him fall to the ground. The man’s limbs had been twisted unnaturally, the veins on his face were bulging, evident that he had received inhumane torture when he was alive.
The interior walls of the room were painted with blood. Other than this man, there was also another man and woman, they were torn into pieces and thrown casually at one corner.
This was a child trafficking lair.
Li Anping had gotten information from a small hooligan and rushed here overnight. When he pushed open the door, he saw a middle-aged man p*netrating a little girl who was not even 10 years ago. She struggled desperately as she cried profusely but another man had stuffed her mouth with his socks.
Li Anping used the most-bloody method he could think of to murder the three traffickers on site.
Only until now, did the blood calm him down slightly.
The room opposite still held 5 children, including the girl he knocked out, a total of 6. According to the plans, they would have been moved out the next day, whether it was to be a child bride in the mountains, adopted by a farmer as children or even for extraction of organs to sell to the rich people.
Although the bloodshed had calmly Li Anping down, the killing intent in his heart was like a dark hole that could never be filled up.
(Safe zone)
“What is my stats now?”
“Hehe, Strength 2.3, Agility 2.2, Stamina stagnant at 3.4. As your body grows stronger, your growth rate will slow. After spending so many days killing and training, the effect was not as evident as your first few days of awakening. However, the energy that we accumulated is sufficient for you to revive 15 times, or for 15 temporary boosts.”
During this period, Li Anping had, at the same time as training, continue to roam the streets of Zhongdu City, moving about in the shadows, killing people everywhere. In this process, he had observed all sorts of crimes, theft, rape, killing, corruption, robbery…… After being consciously involved in the dark side of this world, he had seen more crime during this period than the last 20 years of his life.
“Nevermind, the one thing this world doesn’t lack is scumbags.” Li Anping said bitterly. He proceeded to pick up the phone on the ground and called the police.
Seeing the girl who had fainted on the bed, Li Anping frowned again: “The police will arrive shortly, they should be able to send these children back to their parents.”
Thinking of this, Li Anping decided to leave, and walked out through the door. With a bit of force from his legs, he leapt into the air and jumped over the wall.
In the darkness of the night, he was like an elegant night elf, jumping across the rooftops and buildings. His fluid movement was the result of his incessant training.
“At this rate, you are improving too slowly.” Black begrudged: “Good people, bad people, what’s the difference, they’re all food to you. You’re like a picky eater now, it’ll affect the speed of your growth.”
“Let go of your principles.” This was not the first time Black had tried to convince Li Anping: “Only by freeing your desires can you become much stronger, the morality that you hold tight is only restraining you as an obstacle in your evolution.
You’ve seen for yourself these few days, humanity’s evil is everywhere, you can’t take care of all of them. No, or should I say, humanity’s so-called kindness and evil, is just a benchmark that most people agree with. An agreement that imposes rules which are beneficial to the majority.
And your ‘Justice’? Hehe, it is just the action of your satisfying your goals. At least it could be said to be a dream.”
“Exactly because society’s laws have loopholes, that my power is needed. There is no way I can let those evildoers have their way. The few children earlier, if I had not saved them, their future would be ruined. Yesterday on that cruise ship, the group of young ladies were cheated into coming here from abroad, if I had not saved them, they would be living a life of miseries, a life worse than death.”
Li Anping stopped at a building nearby, looking at the vibrant lights in Zhongdu City, said: “Only absorbing evil people’s souls, that is my baseline. Killing without principles, that will only bring destruction to myself.”
Ignoring Black’s chattering, Li Anping gathered strength on his leg and with a jump, vanished from the rooftop. He had grown to enjoy jumping across buildings as a form of movement, this made him feel like the superheroes in movies.
18 hours later, Li Anping finished his training.
He got home, washed up, and changed his clothes to go eat dinner. Li Anping’s daily schedule now was to train, devour baddies, and find information on Huo Qing and Shang Zheng Bang in the process, after that was dinner and rest. Rinse and repeat.
Entering a buffet style barbeque store at random, Li Anping paid the money and ordered a bunch of lamb and beef, eating away rapidly.
After an 18-hour high intense training session, Li Anping’s stamina had been largely expended. Now he needed to replenish his energy, and these types of buffet where he could take as much food as he wanted for a fixed price, especially with lamb and beef which were full of protein, it was just nice for him.
In the blink of an eye, Li Anping wolfed down his food and had already consumed more than 30kg of meat, but showed no signs of stopped. This caused most of the waiters to stare in awe.
Even the boss lady who was at the reception counter took a look at him multiple times while watching TV.
Li Anping could not care less. He felt that his stomach was a bottomless hole, after swallowing a huge plate of beef, it was instantly digested. The protein was absorbed by his stomach and continued to supplement the areas in his body which he trained today. Muscles, tendons, they all became tougher and firm.
Black said: “Your body after the modification, has also become better at digestion. After every training, you need to absorb large amounts of nutrients, if you consume just meat products, it is not a balanced diet, and you waste a lot of time eating it. Are there higher-grade food to eat?”
Hearing Black’s words, Li Anping thought of a few types of food, but all those cost money. Thinking of this, Li Anping ordered 10 more chicken drumsticks. Chicken meat was the most highly acclaimed source of protein. His action caused the lady boss’ eye to twitch.
She absent mindedly pressed the remote controller and changed the channels.
“Zhongdu City’s Top 10 Outstanding Youths will receive their awards on the 30th of this month, at Zhongdu TV Station. Awardees include the courageous youth who fought a criminal, the Youth Entrepreneur Shang Zheng Bang…”
Lady boss saw this and said: “What great husband material, rich, handsome, and such a strong sense of justice. A righteous, handsome rich youth, if I was 20 years younger I would go for him.”
Before she had finished her words, Li Anping slammed the table and stood up. When everyone looked at him, he snorted and walked out with a displeased expression.
Only the lady boss was left mumbling: “Poor fuck hating the rich…”
Li Anping walked out of the barbeque store, walking alone of the streets, inside his emotions were running wild.
“Don’t come to this store anymore, change to another one next time, we do not want unnecessary attention.” Black reminded: “Don’t think about revenge now, be patient. Once you’re sufficiently strong, a small fry like Shang Zheng Bang is just an ant to you. Don’t ruin your future just for a moment of pleasure.”
“I know.” Li Anping clenched his fists tight as he murmured: “I’m just indignant, the evildoer was him but in the end, after the newspaper and media reports, the masses’ cognition had been completely reversed……”
Hearing the lady boss’ words, Li Anping wanted to punch her to death, but she was not an evil person, just misguided by the media. This situation where he could easily kill a person, but could not think of a reason to do it, caused him to be extremely gloomy.
At the same time, a ruffian with rainbow coloured hair bumped into Li Anping’s shoulders and fell to the ground.
“Fucker, can’t you look where you’re going?” The ruffian instantly got up and pointed at Li Anping’s chest while scolding.
Around him were several similarly dyed hair gangsters with non-mainstream clothing as they surrounded Li Anping and taunted.
“Are you courting death? Finding trouble with us Rainbow Gang.”
“Apologise, fuck, my clothes are torn.”
Li Anping eyes shone with rage as he said coldly: “Sorry, can I leave now?”
Li Anping had a large build, and in the eyes of these amateur gangsters he had an aura of deterrence, but after he apologised, they got bolder and continued their taunting.
“Compensate us, fuck this shirt cost me 5000 dollars, you think you can get away with an apology?”
“He’s right, if you don’t compensate us, don’t think about leaving.”
The passerbys seeing Li Anping surrounded by hooligans, instantly walked away, only a few left to observe the scene from far away.
Li Anping laughed coldly in his heart, unsure if he was laughing at the people’s indifference, or laughing at the ignorance of the people in front of him.
He nodded obediently, and said softly to the hooligans: “I didn’t bring so much money with me, why don’t you go with me to retrieve it?”
The few of them got more energetic, not expecting the man in front of them to be so cowardly, really going to compensate them 5000 dollars, and immediately went with Li Anping to withdraw the cash.
“Should’ve admitted your mistake from the start.”
“Nevermind, we’ll let you go this time, go retrieve the money.”
After a few minutes, the few people started to find something weird going on. They found that Li Anping was moving about in the small alley, the surrounding becoming more and more desolate. Making eye contact with each other, the hooligan who was knocked down by Li Anping earlier asked: “Where are you going? I’ll tell you, don’t think of escaping.”
Saying so, he grabbed at Li Anping’s shoulders.
Seeing nobody around the vicinity, Li Anping turned around and looked them coldly in the eye. His hand waved and with a few ‘piak piak piak’ sound, the few of them had already fallen on the ground with a tight slap across their faces.
Li Anping grabbed the guy he had knocked down and pinned him on the wall.
“Huo Qing’s men, where do they gather?”
The hooligan was still a student, he had only watched too many TV series and movies, and learnt how to act like a hooligan, there was no way he could endure Li Anping’s interrogation. Feeling his throat tightly held, becoming tighter like he was going to suffocate.
Hearing Li Anping’s question, he quickly replied with a choking voice: “Volcano, Volcano Bar, most of the city’s major hooligans hang out around there to drink!!”
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