A World Upside Down: Starting with a Letter from My Deceased Father

Chapter 10 One Punch

"I had a suggestion back then: if one of the lovers dies, there will be no more trivialities, arguments, and suspicions after marriage. In this way, the love will never change. How wonderful! I have created two people who will love each other forever!" The baby-faced man said with great interest, as if he were defending true love.

"I had just finished speaking when he jumped," the baby-faced man gestured in mid-air, looking regretful. "I was planning to let him land on you, so I would have created another pair of friends who would live and die together..."

Lu Yan pointed the gun at him with his left hand and repeated, "Why kill him?"

Seeing that the baby-faced man remained silent, Lu Yan muttered to himself, "You and Liu Tong are like rats in a gutter, always hiding and running. Once someone recognizes your whereabouts, they'll find you and kill you one by one, right?"

Currently, only internal personnel know the identity of Chen Jian's anonymous whistleblower. In other words, someone in the Security Bureau is tipping you off?

No wonder you dared to hide right under everyone's noses. You weren't gambling in the dark; you were relying on someone to cover for you, acting recklessly and fearlessly, treating human life like dirt!

The baby-faced man looked at Lu Yan with surprise, as if he were seeing him for the first time.

Just then, Lu Yan suddenly raised his left hand, pointing it at the sky ablaze with the colors of sunset. The next second, he pulled the trigger forcefully.

"boom!"

A low rumble echoed through the sky, especially from the top of the building, as if it were reverberating all around.

The boy was stunned for a moment, then demanded sharply, "Kid, are you cheating? Were you just stalling for time, waiting for your people to come and reinforce us?"

The fact that this kid dared to confirm his location to his teammates by firing a gun means they're nearby. I can't keep playing games; I have to finish this quickly, or I might end up in trouble!

With this thought in mind, the baby-faced man pushed off with his toes and rushed over. In less than a second, he was right in front of Lu Yan and reached out to grab him with his right hand.

Although Lu Yan did not seem to possess any internal energy cultivation, he had always given him a subtle sense of danger, which was why he had not acted rashly before.

This time, he showed no contempt whatsoever. Once he made his move, he went all out, even activating his precious supernatural power. Once Lu Yan was captured by him, the supernatural power seeped in and he immediately had no power to resist. He could only let Lu Yan be manipulated at his mercy!

"Click click click!"

Lu Yan put the last red corner piece back in place. In the blink of an eye, an incomparably powerful force flowed through Lu Yan's body. His entire body was filled with a strange energy, and all his abilities soared. He silently counted the numbers in his mind:

"one!"

The baby-faced hand tore through his suit and collided with the strange force flowing from the Rubik's Cube. The strange force on the hand and the strange force collided violently, like a basin of water falling into hot oil, producing a series of hissing sounds.

"two!"

The strange force burst through layer upon layer of peculiar power, tearing apart the skin and flesh on Lu Yan's chest layer by layer, revealing white muscles and blood vessels that were either dark red or crimson, with blood gushing out like shattered mercury columns.

"three!"

Lu Yan felt slightly dizzy, both from the excruciating pain that went deep into his bones and from the sudden surge in blood loss. The baby-faced man's fingers had severed two of his sternums, leaving them only a step away from his heart.

"Now!"

At this moment, Lu Yan had lost all perception of his surroundings, and all he could see was the baby-faced man. He gathered all his strength and unleashed his most powerful punch to date!

The biceps of his right arm transformed into a rocket engine filled with helium, propelling an ordinary fist with a force that defied the laws of physics, slamming it into the baby-faced man.

"Boom!"

The baby-faced man's eyes suddenly bulged outwards, as if a thunderbolt had exploded in his brain, almost causing him to lose consciousness. His body shrunk like a punctured sandbag, with blood and foam flying out from his seven orifices and even his pores.

With a single punch, the baby-faced man was instantly on the verge of death!

Lu Yan then raised his left hand, pressed the muzzle of the gun against the baby-faced man's forehead, and pulled the trigger forcefully.

"Bang!"

The 7.62mm bullet pierced the baby-faced man's skull, shattering his brain, passing through the back of his head, and leaving a light-colored crater on the floor.

"Hahaha...cough cough cough!"

Lu Yan collapsed to the ground with a thud, his chest heaving violently and his limbs trembling uncontrollably. At that moment, however, he couldn't help but burst into laughter.

However, he laughed too hard and too fast, and his injuries were severe. Blood and foam welled up from his throat and reached his mouth, disrupting his breathing, and he couldn't help but cough repeatedly.

Chen Jian's lover was squatting at Lu Yan's feet when she suddenly appeared. She tore her skirt open with her teeth and pieced it together to make simple bandages, carefully bandaging Lu Yan's wounds.

Lu Yan hissed and gasped for breath as he asked haltingly, "You...you know about nursing?"

The woman said, "I taught myself. Chen Jian has a heart condition, and sometimes he faints suddenly after working for too long. I was afraid something would happen to him, so I taught myself some things."

A thought flashed through Lu Yan's mind, and he blurted out, "Did you install the camera in the tattoo shop's restroom?"

The woman nodded, busily bandaging Lu Yan's wounds before letting out a sigh of relief and saying, "He fainted in the bathroom earlier. After installing the camera, I ran a cable into the house so I can keep an eye on him at any time."

"He didn't discover Liu Tong; you recognized him first?"

The woman nodded and said, "He doesn't want me to get involved in this, saying he's afraid someone will come looking for revenge."

"Isn't he afraid?"

"He was afraid too."

The woman clapped her hands, stood up, and said softly, "My name is Li Xiaohe, and his name is Chen Jian. We weren't important people to begin with. We just saved up money to buy a house, got married, had children, and lived a happy and fulfilling life."

Officer Lu, could you help us collect the body later? We can't just leave one of us here and the other there, what will we do then?

He's meek and weak, too easy to bully. If I don't go with him, how will he survive on his own? What do you think?

As soon as she finished speaking, she walked step by step to the edge of the rooftop. Lu Yan stretched out his arm with difficulty, but he didn't know how to persuade her.

He has never experienced love.

Before Lu Yan could call her back, Li Xiaohe turned around and said, "Thank you for your help," then leaped up lightly like a bird against the wind and disappeared from Lu Yan's sight.

Lu Yan stood there, stunned, his eyes red and sore.

Two people on the path to happiness and fulfillment were torn apart in just one afternoon, and then they watched helplessly as their relationship vanished before their very eyes.

It was like a dream.

After a long silence, he gave a bitter laugh and shouted as if no one else was around, "Liu Tong, you're a fucking coward."

A man emerged from behind the stairs; it was Liu Tong. He stopped to the side of Lu Yan, showing no intention of approaching.

Lu Yan coughed twice and said, "You killed Cheng Qiang?"

"no."

"Phew, that's good, otherwise I'd have to figure out how to get revenge on you."

"At the tattoo shop, did you do it on purpose? I don't believe someone like you wouldn't notice such a large security camera."

Liu Tong remained silent.

Lu Yan muttered to himself, "Looks like you're really not cut out to be a ruthless bandit. Who's this guy on the ground?" He pointed to the baby face that looked like a blood-soaked gourd, "Chen Jian and Li Xiaohe would have been dead a few days ago."

Liu Tong reminded him, "His name is Wan Jing."

Lu Yan smiled and said, "That's right, Wan Jing, aren't you going to avenge him? In my current state, you could take me down without lifting a finger."

As soon as Lu Yan finished speaking, Liu Tong leaned away from him.

Liu Tong pondered for a moment and then said, "I want to make a deal with you. I'll spare Cheng Qiang's life, and you have to give me Wan Jing's body in return."

Lu Yan tilted his head and looked at him: "Although you are suspected of cheating, I will do this deal." After saying that, he casually kicked Wan Jing's corpse. The rooftop was covered with fine sand and was very slippery. The corpse spurted three or four meters away in one go.

Liu Tong picked up Wan Jing's body, vanished from the spot in a flash, and disappeared in the next instant.

Lu Yan breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to himself how close he had come to disaster. He judged that this floor was where Liu Tong and Wan Jing were meeting, otherwise it would be hard to explain why Wan Jing had been so fearless before.

Besides, this was the only lone building around, making it the perfect meeting point. As expected, his feigned surprise elicited Liu Tong's appearance, however...

"Do these two have a grudge against each other? Otherwise, why would he watch Wan Jing get beaten to a pulp by me?"

Or... was he scared by me? Lu Yan clenched his fist lightly, completely puzzled.