pjbooks Chapter 189 Li Yue, the Second Young Master of the Li Family
Chapter 189 Li Yue, the Second Young Master of the Li Family
Dragon City.
The Li family ancestral home, a huge quiet room covering more than 300 square meters.
The air was filled with the delicate smoke of the finest "Mind-Concentrating Incense," each wisp of which was worth a fortune.
A young man with a face that bore a seven-tenths resemblance to Li Yang, but with a more effeminate and handsome appearance, was sitting cross-legged on a futon carved from a single piece of "cold jade" while shirtless.
His name is Li Yue, Li Yang's younger brother.
In stark contrast to Li Yang's scorching and violent aura as the "Arbiter of Flames," Li Yue was surrounded by a layer of extremely faint white cold air that was almost imperceptible to the naked eye.
Wherever the cold air reached, even space seemed to freeze, presenting a subtle sense of stagnation.
suddenly.
The heavy alloy door of the quiet room slid open silently.
An elderly man dressed in a black butler's uniform walked in hurriedly, his face filled with barely suppressed panic.
He dared not approach, but knelt down on one knee ten meters away, burying his head deep in the ground.
"Second Young Master... Eldest Young Master, he..."
Li Yue didn't open her eyes, but her eyebrows, which were even more delicate than a woman's, furrowed slightly.
"explain."
A single word, devoid of any emotion, caused the temperature in the quiet room to drop even further.
The butler shuddered violently and said in a trembling voice, "Young Master... has perished in the C-13 mining area of the South City."
"oh."
Li Yue's reaction was summed up in one word.
He slowly opened his eyes. They were long, narrow phoenix eyes, devoid of anger or sorrow, only a bottomless indifference, like ancient ice.
He seemed completely unsurprised by the news.
"The master has given an order." The steward took out a token engraved with the character "Li" from his pocket, held it high above his head, and said, "You are hereby ordered to set off immediately for the Southern City."
"First, clean house and execute all of the young master's disgraceful lackeys."
"Second, uncover the truth and bring to justice the culprit who killed the young master and tarnished the reputation of the Li family..."
"Crush, bone, scatter, ash".
With each word the butler spoke, his head drooped lower, until finally his forehead was almost touching the cold ground.
Li Yue finally stood up.
He walked barefoot on the cold jade ground without making a sound.
He walked up to the butler and took the token from the man's trembling hand.
"That idiot finally got himself killed?"
His voice was soft, with a hint of amusement, as if he were talking about something trivial that he had expected long ago.
"Alright."
He flicked his finger, and the hard token instantly turned into a cloud of icy blue powder at his fingertip, falling down in a flurry.
"So that he won't continue to embarrass the Li family outside."
……
Half a day later.
South City, outside that now-empty basin.
A private hovercraft, entirely black and shaped like a drawn blade, hovered silently in mid-air.
The hatch slid open.
Li Yue took the lead and stepped off the hovercraft.
He changed into a well-tailored white casual suit, which, combined with his delicate and handsome face, made him look less like a professional seeking revenge and more like a young nobleman on an outing.
Behind him followed two solemn-looking, aura-concentrated guards in black.
At this moment, on the outskirts of the basin, several of Li Yang's followers were anxiously waiting like headless flies.
When they saw Li Yue, they were stunned at first, then rushed over as if they had seen a savior.
The one in the lead was the same young man who had previously swaggered around Li Yang and Chen Yifan and the others.
"Second...Second Young Master! You've finally arrived!"
"Brother Yang... Brother Yang died such a tragic death! He was killed by that 'Gun God' Liu Cang in front of tens of thousands of people..."
"Snapped!"
A crisp slap.
Before the young man could finish speaking, he was thrown away by an invisible force and spun around in the air seven or eight times.
He crashed heavily onto the gravel ground more than ten meters away, spitting out a mouthful of blood mixed with several teeth.
Li Yue didn't even glance at him. She simply took out a clean white handkerchief and wiped her fingers with disgust, as if she had just touched something dirty.
"My brother is dead."
His narrow, phoenix-shaped eyes swept indifferently over the remaining followers who were terrified and kneeling on the ground.
"Why are you still alive?"
The henchmen trembled violently, unable to utter a single complete sentence.
"Second Young Master...we...we want to avenge Brother Yang, but we can't win..."
"Yes, Second Young Master! That country bumpkin named Chen Yifan is too cunning! He deliberately provoked Brother Yang to use someone else to do his dirty work..."
"Using someone else to do the dirty work?"
Li Yue smiled, a smile that was captivating, yet it made his followers feel as if their blood was about to freeze.
"A fool who can't even understand the rules of a grandmaster, who gets provoked to his death by a few words, does he deserve my revenge?"
His gaze fell on the young man who had rushed up to complain first.
The young man struggled to his feet, clutching his swollen face, his eyes filled with resentment and incomprehension.
"waste."
Li Yue softly uttered two words.
The next moment.
puff.
A slender, almost invisible icicle appeared out of thin air and instantly pierced the young man's forehead.
There was no blood, no screams.
Before the young man's resentful expression could even change, his entire body, starting from his wound, was rapidly covered by a layer of icy blue frost, transforming him into a crystal-clear ice sculpture in a mere second.
Snapped.
Li Yue snapped his fingers.
The ice sculpture shattered with a crash, turning into ice crystal dust that filled the sky.
Not even a trace was left.
The remaining henchmen, witnessing this scene, couldn't even utter a scream of terror; a foul-smelling liquid quickly seeped into their crotches.
"It's so noisy."
Li Yue frowned.
One of his black-clad guards understood immediately, and with a flash, appeared behind his henchmen like a ghost.
Several flashes of cold light appeared.
Thump, thump.
Several large, healthy human heads rolled to the ground, and the headless corpses gushed hot blood, staining the dust red.
From beginning to end, Li Yue didn't look at it again.
He acted as if he had merely stepped on a few ants that were in his way.
The guard who had attacked him stepped back behind him and asked respectfully:
"Second Young Master, those men have already entered the mine. Shall we go in now?"
Everyone thought that Li Yue would rush into the mine without hesitation and tear that kid named Chen Yifan to pieces.
however.
Li Yue stretched, looked up at the dim sun in the sky, and a contented smile appeared on his face.
"Go in? Why do we need to go in?"
"What's fun about that dark, smelly place full of monsters?"
He turned around and walked toward the hovercraft, his tone as relaxed as if he were discussing where to have afternoon tea.
"It's not easy to get out of here."
"Let's go book the tickets."
"The sunny beaches of the Southern Seven Islands must be very pleasant this season."