“Tch, what’s going on over there?
So lively?” Li Chengyu closed his car door, noticing the commotion as well, and stood on tiptoe to peer curiously.
Chen Yexun knitted his brows tight.
The sheer violence and malice in those curses made his stomach churn instinctively.
He pushed closer.
Through a gap in the crowd, he saw a burly man, red-faced and vein-popping, pointing and hurling foul abuse at another man.
A plainly dressed woman was anxiously pulling on the yelling man’s arm, desperately trying to calm him down.
“Sounds like a fight…” Chen Yexun listened intently for a moment.
“…Something about the guy bumping into his wife without apologizing and talking back?
But this man’s language is way too foul.
It’s such a trivial thing, yet he acts like he wants to dig up the guy’s ancestral grave.” Li Chengyu squeezed over as well and clicked his tongue.
“Damn, did his mouth just crawl out of a cesspool?
Should we intervene?
If he keeps cursing like that, they’re definitely gonna throw hands.” Zhang Yang, who had just walked over, curled his lip immediately.
“Intervene my ass, do you have water in your brain?
Haven’t you heard that nobility is the epitaph of the noble, and peacemakers are the first to die?
Just watch the show, don’t look for trouble.” Chen Yexun didn’t reply.
His eyes were locked tightly on the screaming man.
The unhinged, violent aura radiating from the man over such a trivial matter bore an uncanny resemblance to the suffocating omen his father exhibited before handling “trouble.” An intense wave of unease rose unexpectedly in his chest.
Right as Zhang Yang finished speaking, the conflict escalated violently!
The man, repeatedly pulled and pleaded with by his wife, seemed to snap completely.
He turned his rage squarely onto her: “You traitorous bitch!
Whose fucking wife are you anyway?
Taking an outsider’s side?
I’ll beat you to death, you foul whore!” Trembling with rage, the wife suddenly raised her hand and delivered a crisp *SLAP!* across his face.
Time seemed to freeze for a second.
The next instant, the man’s expression twisted into a grotesque, inhuman grin.
His eyes instantly turned bloodshot, blue veins bulging across his forehead!
With a beastly roar, he unleashed two heavy fists full-force into his wife’s face!
Without even making a sound, the woman crumpled onto the ground.
Half her face swelled up at a visible rate, blood and several white fragments slipping from the corner of her mouth.
But he wasn’t done!
The man spun around violently, looking to attack his original opponent, but that person had already recoiled back into the terrified crowd.
The man’s manic laughter didn’t stop.
His bloodshot eyes scanned his surroundings before settling on a stunned boy nearby—the very same child Chen Yexun had encountered in the car!
The boy had somehow wriggled his way to the front of the crowd.
“Little bastard!
I’ll gouge out your eyes and shove them down your throat!
Hahaha!!” Laughing maniacally, the man lunged at the frozen boy, his hands clawing savagely at his face!
The boy let out a heart-wrenching scream as blood splashed instantly across his face.
“Aaagh—!!!” The crowd exploded in panic!
Screams, wild laughter, shouts of “Murder!”, “Call the police!
Hurry!”, and “Security!
Where’s security?!” collided in chaos.
Worse yet, some people actually raised their phones, excitedly recording the gruesome scene.
Chen Yexun’s body reacted faster than his mind.
Almost the exact second the boy let out that agonizing scream, Chen Yexun charged!
The shadows of his childhood and his past as an accomplice transformed into a deadly, efficient instinct for violence.
He slammed a heavy hook directly into the attacker’s jaw!
The man stumbled back from the blow.
Without a beat of hesitation, Chen Yexun whipped out a selfie stick from his backpack’s side pocket—one he’d bought earlier for taking photos at the fair—wrapped his arms around, and choked the man tightly with the pole!
The asphyxiation turned the man’s wild laughter into grotesque rasps as his face rapidly turned from deep red to purple.
Chen Yexun’s eyes were bloodshot, his arms trembling from exertion.
If it weren’t for the crowd and phone lenses everywhere, he would have strangled the bastard to death right then and there, and then used his familiar “family craft” on him…
“Lunatic!” Chen Yexun spat through gritted teeth right onto the twisted face.
*Just like my damn parents.* The nearby security guards finally squeezed through the crowd, panting heavily.
Four or five of them rushed forward, managing with great effort to pry the thrashing man out from Chen Yexun’s selfie stick and pin him to the ground.
Just then, a man and woman rushed out of the crowd screaming—the boy’s parents.
They had clearly been separated by the chaos and only now managed to break through.
Seeing the assailant pinned down by security, still laughing and struggling wildly, and then seeing Chen Yexun standing beside them, the father pieced together what had happened.
Shock and overwhelming gratitude filled his face as he thanked Chen Yexun incoherently: “Thank you!
Thank you, young man!
Thank God for you!…” As he spoke, he fumbled frantically to pull out his phone.
“Police…
I’ll call the police right now!
Call an ambulance!” Meanwhile, the mother threw herself beside her son, her voice heart-wrenching: “Baby!
My baby!
How are you?
Let Mama see!
Let Mama see!” Her hands trembled, but she didn’t dare touch the child’s mangled face, especially those tightly closed eyes that leaked continuous blood…
It was unbearable to look at.
“Ah!!
His eyes!
His eyes!!” The woman let out an agonizing wail, completely breaking down.
She jerked her head up, crying out to her husband: “Honey!
Quick!
We have to go to the hospital!
Hurry!!!” The father, who was dialing, turned around at her scream.
Seeing his son’s horrifying state, his face turned paper-white.
He abandoned the call entirely, consumed by overwhelming panic and desperation.
He lunged forward, snatching the boy up into his arms, and roared, “The car!
Our car!
Move!
Get out of the way!!!” Holding his son, he rammed his shoulders violently through the panicked crowd, pushing frantically toward their car in the parking lot.
The woman scrambled up onto her feet, sobbing as she ran after him.
Duan Xuan watched the scene with a complex expression of lingering shock and newfound awe, giving a thumbs up.
“Badass, Brother Chen.
I had no idea you were this hardcore.” Li Chengyu slapped his back hard, offering comforting words: “It’s alright, it’s alright.
You did the right thing.
But there’s no way we’re enjoying the temple fair now.
Let’s just head back.” “No.” Chen Yexun snapped his head up, his tone unnaturally resolute.
“Up the mountain…
I don’t want to go home right now.” He couldn’t stomach the thought of returning to that house reeking of preservatives and lies right now.
Li Chengyu froze for a beat.
Seeing his cousin’s unusually pale face and fiercely stubborn eyes, he ultimately nodded, calling out to Zhang Yang who seemed ready to slip away: “Dorm Leader!
Get back here!
We’re going up!” Just then, the security guards holding down the violent man ran into trouble.
Even pinned to the ground, the man possessed terrifying strength, kicking wildly while spewing relentless obscenities: “I’ll kill you all!
I’ll eat you!
I’ll slice you all into sashimi!
Hahaha!!” With a violent thrash, his nails gouged deep into a guard’s forearm, tearing away a chunk of flesh.
He whipped his head around and clamped his teeth onto another guard’s hand, eliciting a painful grunt.
Urgent calls crackled through the walkie-talkie: “Violent incident at the eastern section of the food street!
Requesting backup!
Repeat, requesting backup!” The lead security guard’s face was grim.
Four of them were barely holding down one man.
He gritted his teeth.
“Xiao Zhang, come with me to the eastern section!
You three keep him down until the cops get here!” The scene grew even more chaotic.
Chen Yexun knitted his brows, instinctively stepping forward to help again.
Just at that moment— *BOOM!!!* A deafening impact like thunder tore through the air from the direction of the highway down the mountain!
Everyone froze in shock at the roar, instinctively turning to look.
Down on the jammed highway, the scene was pure hell!
Countless drivers were abandoning their vehicles and fleeing for their lives, terror written across their faces.
But in the gaps between cars, even more people were wrestling, mauling, and biting each other!
Chen Yexun’s pupils shrank.
He saw with terrifying clarity that every single attacker carried the exact same unhinged, twisted smile as the man who had just attacked his wife!
“Did…
did you see that?” Li Chengyu’s voice trembled with utter disbelief.
“In the back…
those people fighting…
they’re all smiling?!” Chen Yexun gave a stiff nod, a cold chill shooting straight up his spine to the crown of his head!
Before they could process this horrific sight, a massive, terrifying shadow commanded everyone’s attention!
It was a heavy-duty semi-truck!
Completely ignoring the bumper-to-bumper traffic ahead, its engine roared like a ravenous beast.
It wasn’t slowing down—it was accelerating!
Savage, ruthless, and unstoppable, it barreled straight toward them!
*CRASH!!!* The sickening screech of twisting metal, the explosive shattering of glass, and brief, agonizing human screams drowned beneath the noise collided into a wave of pure destruction, roaring right toward them!
“RUN!!” Li Chengyu’s voice cracked into a high pitch from absolute terror.
He grabbed Chen Yexun’s arm in a desperate grip.
“The truck is plowing through!!
Run!!” “Aaagh—!!” A fresh wave of screams exploded behind them, much closer this time!
The crowd scattered like ants poured over with boiling water, completely losing their minds as they fled in screaming hysteria!
Dragged along by Li Chengyu, Chen Yexun stumbled forward, but in his panic, he couldn’t help stealing a glance backward.
That single glance plunged him into an abyss of ice!
The security guards who had just been struggling to hold down the insane man were now laughing maniacally as well!
The guard who had a chunk of flesh torn from his arm was laughing hysterically, tackling a fleeing tourist to the ground and ripping into the person’s cheeks and neck like a beast, chewing with sickening relish!
The guard whose hand had been bitten was choking someone’s throat with his bloody hands, a look of wild ecstasy on his face as he slammed the victim to the ground.
His free hand clawed relentlessly at the person’s face with stomach-turning squelches and tears.
*BOOM!!!* The runaway truck smashed violently onto the edge of the temple fair plaza.
The colossal impact obliterated food stalls and awnings, launching and crushing countless helpless people in a single heartbeat!
Screams, manic laughter, tearing metal, explosions…
Before Chen Yexun’s very eyes, the world shattered into a hell on Earth, consumed by madness and blood!