Chapter 52 – Shattering Her Worldview

Su Lifeng was furious. He hadn’t expected Xie Yu to be so brazen, to actually dare chase them down and make a move right now.

It also proved Xie Yu had never taken him or Gouzi seriously at all. Judging by the way he looked at him, he had clearly already written Su Lifeng off as a dead man.

Still, it was just as well that he had come… Su Lifeng glanced into the car. He had originally planned to wait until they got home before letting Su Lian see the truth for herself, but it looked like there was no need now. He just wondered what kind of reaction she would have in a moment…

No matter what, she had to face it, Su Lifeng thought.

Su Lian hurriedly got out of the car as well, then stared at Xie Yu in shock.

“What are you trying to-“

Before Su Lian could finish, Su Lifeng reached out and blocked her behind him. “Stand behind me.”

At the same time, Gouzi also crawled out of the car. The moment he got out, he lunged at Xie Yu in a rage. “Fuck you, you stupid bastard-“

He might usually be timid and afraid of trouble, but that depended on the situation. This pretty boy had clearly been aiming right at the driver’s seat just now. If Gouzi hadn’t been a damn good driver, he would probably be meeting the King of Hell right about now.

“I followed Brother Su to avoid monsters, not to get run over by a psycho like you!” He had even forgotten about the blown tire.

“Don’t!”

Su Lifeng had only just shouted when Gouzi saw a flash of contempt and mockery in Xie Yu’s eyes. Immediately afterward, a Shadowy Figure shot straight toward his head.

Gouzi’s scalp went numb in an instant, and his mind went completely blank, leaving only a single thought behind: This is… a monster.

Bang!

The next second, he felt his body fly violently through the air before crashing hard onto the ground.

The sharp pain of landing face-first, along with the feeling of having been kicked in the butt, snapped him out of his daze. “I’m still alive?”

But a monster had just appeared!

“Ah!”

Gouzi scrambled madly to the base of a nearby wall. Only then did he turn back, his face filled with terror.

But the scene before him was different from what he had imagined. Xie Yu was still standing where he had been, his mouth full of blood, with a mangled, bloody length of something dangling from the corner of his lips. The other end of that thing was clenched in Su Lifeng’s hand. Clearly, Su Lifeng had grabbed the thing barehanded while kicking Gouzi out of the way, saving his life.

Gouzi had no idea where Su Lifeng had gotten that brute strength from, but he had actually torn the thing apart by force without so much as changing expression.

Behind Su Lifeng, Su Lian’s eyes were wide as she stared at the scene in disbelief.

Gouzi froze for two seconds, wiped away a handful of blood from his nose, then struggled to his feet and ran toward Su Lian. “M-Miss, we need to go. That pretty boy is a monster. Only Brother Su can deal with him!”

Su Lian looked as if her entire worldview had just suffered a devastating impact. She glanced at Su Lifeng’s grim profile, her mind a complete mess, yet she suddenly understood many things.

Monsters… This was what Su Lifeng had wanted to tell her. It was also why Su Lifeng had told her to come home, and why he had been so angry for the first time over her willful behavior.

But in truth, if she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes, she probably never would have believed it.

Now she understood. At the same time, she felt a chill crawl up her spine.

There were actually monsters in this world, and they were right beside her!

Yet while Su Lifeng had been anxiously waiting for her to come home, she, his ignorant little sister, had turned off her phone, hidden all traces of her whereabouts, and had even felt smug about it!

“I… I can’t leave.” Su Lian’s face was pale, but she instinctively shook her head. “Right… right, call the police… Where’s my phone? I can’t find it… Where’s your phone? Give it to me!”

“There’s no time to call the police, Young Miss. We have to go!” Gouzi said.

“How can I just leave my brother with that monster?!” Su Lian was on the verge of losing it.

“Brother Su isn’t an ordinary person!”

As soon as he said it, Gouzi froze too.

Right. If Xie Yu was a monster, then what did that make Su Lifeng, the one who could hold him off?

The more he thought about it, the more terrifying it became…

“No. That doesn’t matter. He just saved me.” Gouzi shook his head and told himself that.

He had seen plenty of people and things in his life. He had seen loyalty, and he had seen betrayal.

What Su Lifeng had done was far from some grand display of brotherhood, but it made Gouzi feel he was even more dependable.

He had helped Su Lifeng with something, so Su Lifeng would do everything in his power to keep him alive. Su Lifeng had never promised him that out loud, nor had he ever said anything emotional or melodramatic. He had simply done it without a word.

Just now, when Gouzi had been attacked, Su Lifeng could clearly have taken the opportunity to flee with Su Lian, or gone straight at Xie Yu instead…

“None of you should bother leaving. Even if you do, I’ll find you anyway. Except you, Su Lian.” A hint of shock showed on Xie Yu’s face, but he soon started laughing again. As he spoke in a muffled, indistinct voice, he sucked the remaining half of that thing back into his mouth. During that time, his wound seemed to have already healed; the blood had stopped flowing.

Then he looked at Su Lifeng. “You actually know what I am.”

Su Lifeng said nothing. Back when he had read the information describing the way Xie Yu’s uncle and his family had died, he had already begun to suspect Xie Yu’s identity. Combined with the fact that Xie Yu had wanted to bring so many people to the Xenospecies Spatial Gate, if Su Lifeng still couldn’t figure out that he wasn’t human, he would have been far too stupid.

Then, through his conversation with Xie Yu, Su Lifeng had become even more certain of his identity.

A Mutant.

Although Xenospecies weren’t unintelligent, they weren’t nearly this familiar with human matters. In such a short period of time, there was no way they could learn and imitate humanity to this extent.

Especially when it came to something like personality, which was even more complicated than biological structure.

When a Xenospecies absorbed a human body, it could absorb some of that person’s memories and knowledge. That much was clear from the fact that after entering a human body, a Xenospecies would still maintain the original host’s language habits and even their occupation on the surface. But personality was something they could not learn.

There was also the most crucial point: when a Xenospecies saw Su Lifeng, a Mutant, it would not have no reaction at all.

“So that means you’re not human either? Good. I really did misjudge you. Xenospecies? No, you must be a Mutant, right? Still, no matter what kind you are, now that you’ve crossed me, you’re dead for sure. Once you witness my power, you’ll be relieved that Su Lian can join us. I think very highly of Su Lian. She’s young, in good physical condition, smart, and very pretty…”

“Su Lian, wait for me. I’ll take care of your brother right now. Maybe once you see the gap in strength between us, you’ll choose me on your own.” Xie Yu laughed arrogantly. He had already realized that Su Lian had not yet had time to learn the truth. Although he did not know why Su Lifeng had also become a Mutant, Xie Yu firmly believed that the difference in strength between them had to be a despair-inducing chasm.

As for why he was saying so much before the fight, that was purely his personal amusement. Watching Su Lian collapse under the revelation that her brother was a monster, a “Mutant”-perhaps even crumpling to the ground in utter despair, or screaming as she ran away, would be such an interesting thing to see. Just like when he had pushed his tongue into each member of his uncle’s family and slowly tortured them to death from the inside.

“Hahaha! You can die now!”