Ch 362: My Life For Yours
Zhou Chenwu, facing the encirclement of the crowd, couldn’t help but feel a surge of powerlessness. He knew that if it was a simple fight, these ten people combined would absolutely not be his match.
However, reality made him feel quite helpless. Because the tied-up “Good Person” was actually able to use Cultivation Techniques, and his teammate Xu Chunhua was just an ordinary woman, completely unfamiliar with any Miraculous Power.
Worse still, because he was playing the role of the “Villain,” according to the Rules, he couldn’t use Miraculous Power at all.
At this critical moment, Zhou Chenwu took a few deep breaths, trying to calm himself down. Although he had been seriously injured by the bound man’s Cultivation Technique, he didn’t give up hope of survival.
Zhou Chenwu knew very well that the reason their team was still alive was largely because the other teams had targeted them. After all, in such a cruel Environment, survival of the fittest was the unchanging Law.
He turned his head and glanced at Xu Chunhua. Seeing her looking at him with a face full of terror, Zhou Chenwu’s heart softened, and he said, “Xu Chunhua!”
Hearing Zhou Chenwu call her, Xu Chunhua’s body trembled violently, her eyes filled with fear and despair.
Zhou Chenwu gritted his teeth and continued, “I’m a lone wolf, without any ties. But you’re different; you have a Child, a Husband, and Parents-in-law. You can’t die. I’ll use my life to save yours!”
Xu Chunhua’s eyes widened, looking at Zhou Chenwu in disbelief, as if she had heard the most absurd words in the world.
“What?” Her voice trembled, as if she couldn’t understand Zhou Chenwu’s decision at all.
Zhou Chenwu didn’t give Xu Chunhua time to react. His veins bulged, he roared, and like a crazed Beast, he charged straight towards the five men.
However, just as he was about to engage with the Enemies, the bound man unleashed his Power again!
Xu Chunhua could only watch helplessly as Zhou Chenwu was surrounded by the five men. He took another Blood Bone Curse to his back, and half of his Skin was an eerie bluish-black.
Zhou Chenwu caught sight of her miserable state from the corner of his eye, roared, and smashed through two men in front of him, but the Woman with Braids’ Soul-Returning Thread entangled his ankle.
The thread tightened, and the Bones in his entire leg creaked, as if they were about to fall apart at any moment.
The five men took the opportunity to close in, their fists and feet falling on him like raindrops. Zhou Chenwu hunched his back, his arms protecting his head tightly. Every blow felt like his internal organs were shifting, but his feet were rooted to the ground, and he didn’t retreat a single step—he had to protect Xu Chunhua.
“Fool! What good does protecting her do?” Scarface sneered, kicking at his knee. “She’s just a burden, she’ll die here sooner or later!”
Zhou Chenwu suddenly raised his head, bloodshot eyes bursting forth, he actually used his shoulder to bear the kick, and at the same time clenched his fist, using the opponent’s Force as leverage, he smashed it hard against Scarface’s ribs.
With a crisp crack, Scarface screamed and flew backward, crashing into a stone pillar.
But this move also exhausted his last bit of Strength. The Soul-Returning Thread suddenly tightened, Zhou Chenwu stumbled and knelt on the ground, his lower leg Bones completely shattered, the pain making his eyes go black.
The Woman with Braids seized the opportunity to control the thread upwards, and it was about to strangle his neck.
At this time, he smiled; he charged towards the Woman with Braids with incredible Speed. He suddenly reached out and grabbed her neck!
The others immediately rushed towards him, and the bound man immediately used his Cultivation Technique, but he continued to grip her neck tightly!
Zhou Chenwu’s fingers were like iron clamps, clamping down on the woman’s slender neck, his Knuckles turning white from the exertion, sinking deeply into the Flesh of her neck.
The Woman with Braids was caught off guard, a hoarse sound came from her Throat, and the madness in her eyes was instantly replaced by the terror of suffocation. The Force controlling the Soul-Returning Thread suddenly dissipated, and the thread wrapped around Zhou Chenwu softly drooped.
“You…”
Her face turned blue and purple, and she futilely scratched at his Arm, but her badly injured body couldn’t muster even a fraction of its Strength.
Attacks from all around came one after another—the Strong Man’s Blood Bone Curse spread from the ground to his waist and abdomen, the numbing pain in his Bones like a tide; the Elder’s spiked rope whipped across his back, bringing a string of blood beads; the other Villains also pounced on him, tearing at his Arms, trying to pull him away from the woman.
But Zhou Chenwu was like a rock nailed to the ground, allowing the fists and feet to fall on him, the grip on her neck only tightening.
He could clearly feel the slight tremor of the hyoid bone under his palm, feel the woman’s struggles becoming weaker and weaker, and finally, those white eyes stared fixedly at him, as if to engrave this bloody face into her soul.
“Crack.”
A soft sound, the feeling of the hyoid bone shattering came through his fingertips.
The Woman with Braids’ head tilted to one side, completely lifeless, the hand hanging by her side fell to the ground with a “thud,” the hemp rope on her wrist suddenly lost its luster, cracking into fine lines like a piece of dead wood.
Zhou Chenwu released his grip. The woman’s Corpse softly leaned against the stone pillar, the purplish-blue marks of his fingers around her neck were shocking.
“She’s dead…” someone cried out.
Zhou Chenwu slowly raised his head, covered in blood, his broken leg forced him to kneel on one knee, but the ferocity in his eyes was more intense than ever.
Looking at the crowd, momentarily stunned by the woman’s death, he suddenly let out a low laugh, his Laughter hoarse like a broken bellows: “I won!”
Before his words had fallen, he suddenly picked up a broken piece of stone from the ground and, using his last ounce of Strength, threw it at the nearest Villain.
The stone shard tore through the air, piercing the opponent’s shoulder fiercely. The man screamed and backed away, pushing his Companions behind him.
Taking advantage of this moment of chaos, Zhou Chenwu turned to look at Xu Chunhua, trapped in the Black Mist. His voice was weak from exhaustion, but exceptionally firm: “Her Rope… loose… remember… tell the Blood Dragon Army…”
Before he could finish, he couldn’t support himself and fell heavily to the ground.
Due to Zhou Chenwu’s decisive killing of That Woman, Xu Chunhua was finally spared, and the others were forbidden from attacking her again!
However, Zhou Chenwu’s own condition was extremely critical. His Life’s flame was about to extinguish; at this moment, he was at the end of his rope, with only a last breath left.
Time passed second by second, and finally, after a long wait, Zhou Chenwu’s eyes trembled slightly, slowly opening.
His gaze was somewhat hazy, but when he saw Xu Chunhua alive and well in front of him, a glimmer suddenly flashed in his originally dull eyes, and a smile involuntarily appeared on his lips.
He used all his remaining Strength, painfully raising his hand, and tightly grasped the hands of Liu Ke and Gu Yuan.
“In the first game of Truth and Lies… I lied…” Zhou Chenwu’s voice was extremely weak, like a flickering candle in the wind, “I am indeed a member of the Blood Dragon Army, but I am not the Central Army General, I am just a small Vanguard…”
Before he could finish, Zhou Chenwu’s hand suddenly loosened, his head hung down weakly, his eyes closed, and he left this World forever.
