Chapter 22: Trust

“…”

Everyone looked at the direction of the voice. He Lina turned pale, her two assistants remained expressionless. Zhang Man pulled Xia Nuo back and took a step towards the direction of the stairs.

When Kan Chen saw this, his eyes increasingly became deep. “What? No one’s going to answer my question?”

What question? Boyfriend?

Everyone was stunned for a moment. They couldn’t help but turn their head to look at Xia Nuo standing beside Zhang Man.

The young man was hanging his head down, his body trembling, as if he feared the sudden change in the situation. He looked very pitiful. He Lina hated him and yet she felt a brief impulse to come forward to comfort him.

When she regained her senses, she cursed herself for actually sympathizing with this black lotus. She quietly made a gesture, then her two assistants immediately pounced on Kan Chen. She shouted, “Escape separately!”

“Ah—!”

The following parts of the text will be scrambled to prevent theft from aggregators and unauthorized epub making. Please support our translators by reading on secondlifetranslations (dot) com. If you are currently on the site and and you are seeing this, please clear your cache.

Fbl ayd qypv vsoyaep vbl olpv pkel sq vbl pvykap. Hbydt Yyd’p alynvksd oyp yzps pokqv. Tl rwzzle Dky Lws vsoyaep vbl lypv pkel sq vbl pvykap.

“Eykv, esd’v awd ulv. R byhl psxlvbkdt vs pyu…”

“Zyyy—!”

Dky Lws’p olyj rasvlpv oyp shlapbyesole cu vbl ayhld’p zswe, ydtau nau. Ohlausdl’p cseu pvsrrle kdpvydvzu yp vblu nshlale vblka lyap. Mblu lmrlakldnle hyaukdt eltallp sq elyqdlpp yqvla clkdt polrv cu vbl pswde oyhlp.

Tl Nkdy jlrv yd lul sd vbl pkvwyvksd clbkde bla yp pbl ayd. Fbl jdlo olzz vbyv Iyd Ubld oswze elqkdkvlzu awd yqvla sdnl bl tsv ake sq bla vos yppkpvydvp.

Rv nyd’v cl blzrle. Ebs oswze byhl vbswtbv vbyv vbl vlldytla pbl jkzzle ulyap yts oswze ynvwyzzu vyjl sd vbl qsax sq yd lhkz prkakv vs pllj alhldtl sd bla?

Jwv kq pbl oyp tkhld vbl nbydnl vs es kv ytykd, pbl oswze pvkzz es kv. Fbl oswzed’v zlv ydusdl alhlyz bla plnalv yde awkd bla zkql.

Fbl yzps osdelale. Tso oyp Iyd Ubld yczl vs tlv ake sq vbl xkaytl pvsdl ps iwknjzu?

The man who sold her those mirage stones swore that it could at least trap an evil spirit for a whole day. If not, she wouldn’t take the risk of stepping in the evil spirits’ territory.

He Lina could only be thankful that she hired two puppet bodyguards. At least for now, she could buy herself time to escape.

However, she didn’t hear any sound of the ravens flapping their wings. When she looked back, her two bodyguards had fallen to the floor into pieces. Kan Chen had long disappeared.

What’s going on?

Zhang Man was also thinking about this question.

Since the moment the man slammed the door and appeared in front of them, the warning radar inside of him that foresees danger had been ringing like crazy.

He peered at the man’s aura. It was more than a thousand times stronger than an ordinary small boss. He didn’t need to verify to check if this was the final big boss.

At such a time, aside from mourning about their bad luck, they had no choice but to run for their lives. If they put on effort, they might just be able to escape this.

Zhang Man dared not to fight him head on. The difference in their strength was too great. He was still quite self-aware.

He made up his mind, picked up the young man beside him and began to run away. He just attributed the young man’s abnormal action just now to a newbie’s lack of knowledge and poor mental capacity because of his fear of the final boss.

No one knew how he would react if he found out that the newbie he considered clueless had been with the final boss, holding the big boss’ hand and kissing him.

The puppet bodyguards downstairs blocked the man for a moment and was soon torn to pieces, their limbs scattering all over the ground. Zhang Man could not help but think, this boss’ methods are way too cruel, huh?

The eyes of the two men unexpectedly met for a moment. Zhang Man was shaken. He saw an undisguised murderous intention in the eyes of the other man. It was like a sword that stabbed him.

What’s going on? Is it possible that the hate value of the final boss is indiscriminate?

Zhang Man was initially 80 percent sure that the final big boss was intent on chasing He Lina, and yet now, he wasn’t so sure anymore.

He didn’t notice that the gaze of the man subtly moved and landed on his hand that was pulling Xia Nuo.

The next second, the man’s body scattered apart, and black ravens pounced on them.

“Damn it!” Zhang Man let out a curse for his bad luck as he pulled Xia Nuo and ran. He also didn’t forget to throw out something to block the way of the final big boss. The sharp sound of a mirror image shattering was heard. Zhang Man revealed an expression of regret on his face.

That was something that he spent a lot of points on to exchange. He had never bothered to use it before, but now it came handy.

After that, he found that the young man was struggling to shake off his hand, his lips opening then closing, as if he wanted to say something.

Zhang Man couldn’t hear what he was saying. He tried to understand his words and realized only now what he meant, “Wait! Kan Chen’s looking for me—!”

???

Zhang Man wanted to say: Chang An, what’s wrong with you?

Then he thought, why did the young man know the name of the final boss? Why was he sure that he was here to look for him?

He touched his ears and found that they were no longer bleeding. They could now hear the sounds around. He looked at the anxious young man in front of him, ready to hear what he wanted to say.

Xia Nuo was very anxious. Right from when Kan Chen appeared, he had undeniably felt surprised. But soon, his surprise dissipated because of the man’s indifferent voice.

He heard the man ask them in an icy voice that he had never heard before, “What boyfriend?”

His steps came to a standstill, until he was dragged away by Zhang Man.

When he came back to his senses, he struggled to pull his hand. He wanted to go to Kan Chen. He had a lot to say to him. He wanted to ask how he really thought of him…

But because Zhang Man’s ears were hurt, he didn’t hear his pleas. It was not until now that he finally noticed his movements.

“Do you know him?” Zhang Man raised his eyebrows in disbelief.

“En.” Xia Nuo nodded. “He helped me in the banquet hall. He took good care of me…”

He looked at Zhang Man as if he was a fool, and his voice gradually softened. He didn’t know what came to his mind, as his voice became firm again. “If I guessed correctly, he should be here to find me. I told him that I would wait for him to return.”

“Don’t be silly, Chang An.” Zhang Man answered kindly. He thought that the newbie must have been out of his mind, otherwise why would say such words? It was the same as volunteering to die.

“You can’t see it, but I can. The way he looked, he wanted to catch up to us rather than to take revenge. How do you know he won’t hurt you? Isn’t this just all in your head?”

He earnestly persuaded the newbie who went astray in his eyes. “You know, the position of the players and the bosses had always been on opposite sides. It wouldn’t be good to face them, but once you did, you’d be bound to fight to death. How do you know that he’s not deceiving you?”

The boy looked down and became silent, as if persuaded by his words. Zhang Man nodded in satisfaction. Just as he was about to say that they should leave this place, the young man looked up with burning light in his dark eyes.

“You may be right that my eyes can’t see. I can’t see a lot of things as well as you do. But this one here—”

He pointed to his chest as his pounding heart responded to his firm words, “—sees the truth.”

Perhaps he had doubts but from that moment on, they had dissipated without a trace.

He continued, “My heart tells me to believe in him. I believe that he took care of me sincerely. His actions were real. Maybe he did lie to me, but he won’t really hurt me. Even if I’m wrong and I get hurt, I will never regret it, because this is my choice.”

“So, I’m sorry. I’m going to go look for him.” He bowed at the stupefied Zhang Man, and turned around to walk in the direction they had come from.

“…wait!”

Only when the young man walked away did Zhang Man realize what happened. He tried to call him back.

He didn’t expect the young man to say such things. It was really out of his expectations.

It was like seeing a beautiful but fragile crystal suddenly turn into a transparent diamond. The young man took off his delicate appearance and revealed his gloriously radiant hard core.

“If you’re trying to change my mind, there’s no need for that.” Xia Nuo didn’t even look back.

He carried the light behind his back, his shadow stretching infinitely, revealing a sense of courage to move forward.

“I’m not trying to change your mind.” Zhang Man’s expression was a bit complicated. “Even if I do, you probably won’t listen, so why bother?”

“I wanted to say, even if you go look for him now, you won’t be able to find him.” Zhang Man sighed.

“Why?” Xia Nuo finally turned around with a puzzled look on his face.

“Don’t you find something wrong? Think about it, shouldn’t he have reached us by now?”

They were in a corridor not far from the stairs, but there really was no sign of the man.

Zhang Man shrugged helplessly and explained, “What I threw just now was an A-class item called ‘mirror space’.”

“It will create a space on its own and perfectly replicate the current scene. He can only come out once he finds the exit. As for how long it could trap the boss… I mean Kan Chen, I don’t know.”

Zhang Man stole a glance at the young man’s face and changed his tone.

“And don’t ask me where the exit is, I don’t know either.” He raised both his hands, his expression helpless.

“I don’t want to know where the exit is.” Xia Nuo shook his head and gave an answer that surprised Zhang Man. “But tell me where the entrance is.”

---

Ooooooh~

Please read this only here on Second Life Translations!