Volume 1 Hello, Lu Mingfei Chapter 12: Darkness of the Rainfall (XII)
Lu Mingfei handed the suitcase to the man, who weighed it and handed it to Chu Zihang.
"You didn't listen to me many times before." The man whispered in Chu Zihang's ear, "But you must listen to me this time. Remember not to leave me, and don't get too close. When I say run, you run to the car, take your girlfriend with you, and never look back!"
"She's really not my girlfriend." Chu Zihang hugged the suitcase tightly with trembling hands. With his personality, he certainly wouldn't do such a thing as running away and abandoning the girl beside him. He just felt that the man's wishful thinking should be corrected.
"Not now, but maybe in the future." The man smiled and touched his head. The moment he looked at Odin, his face returned to the hardness of steel. "I'm ready!"
"Then come to the audience, human!" Odin's voice was like thunder. Sleipnir pawed the ground with his hooves, unwilling to be lonely, and lightning flew out of his nostrils.
The shadows surrounded them, wrapping up the three men and moving forward. Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang grabbed the corners of the men's clothes from left to right. The shadows whispered to each other, not without any rules, but in some strange voices, sometimes like the chanting of ancient priests, and sometimes like the rustling of poisonous snakes ready to be released.
"I see humans again..."
"What a noble bloodline..."
"Mouth-watering fresh meat..."
To Chu Zihang it sounded only the intermittent sounds of the dead, but Lu Mingfei heard it much more clearly than he did, every syllable, every word. She even felt that if she wanted to, she could also speak with this strange pronunciation.
They stopped about 100 meters away from Odin, and 100 meters away from the Maybach behind them, right in the middle. The rain kept washing the Murasame in the man's hand, and trickles of water fell along the blade. Lu Mingfei was soaked, and her school uniform skirt with waterproof lining was also firmly stuck to her thighs. The lenses were full of water marks. She took off her glasses and put them in the pocket of her skirt. For the first time, her eyes, as bright as a spring, were exposed to her classmates without any cover. Chu Zihang discovered for the first time that she was not so old-fashioned when she didn't wear glasses.
Although she is very keen on playing games, she is not short-sighted. She claims that her eyesight is declining only to extort money from her aunt so that she can save it to buy things she wants. And if she wears glasses, she can see others through the lenses, so when she occasionally looks at someone, she doesn't have to worry about who will notice that this girl has a pair of amazing eyes.
"I feel like even if I give the things to you, you won't let us go." The man spread his legs, his wet trousers fluttering in the cold wind. None of the big brothers in Rulong were as cool as him.
But will it be useful to pretend to be a gangster in front of something like God?
"I will promise you life." Odin mentioned Gungnir, pointing the huge spear at the man, like a rocket aimed at an ant on the ground. "The gods never lie to mortals."
"Becoming like these Deadpools?" The man tilted his head and looked at the dark shadows around him.
"Your bloodline is far superior to theirs, and you will be more powerful."
"No room for negotiation? Sometimes people will be more willing to accept if you offer better conditions."
"Anyone who has been to the kingdom of the dead can return to it again, so everyone who comes here must be a servant of God."
"Son, they said you are the center in the school basketball team and are very good at breaking defense?" The man leaned close to Chu Zihang's ear.
Chu Zihang nodded nervously.
"I'm leaving my son in your care, Lu Mingfei!"
Lu Mingfei was shocked. Uncle, are you stupid? Between me and your son, who looks more like a vigorous and energetic man? I am a weak woman who can't even tie a chicken. Do you want me to carry my senior brother on my shoulders and run? She stepped back subconsciously. She was ready to rub the bottom of her feet. The man's intention was obvious.
"The negotiations broke down." The man held out his hand, "Give me the box."
He took the box and bent his knees slightly so that his eyes would be level with Chu Zihang. Chu Zihang was growing fast. In a year or two, he would be taller than his biological father. But that was only in the future. For now, he was still an ordinary boy who was ignorant and would rely on his father when danger came. Even though there was so much distrust in the past, on this rainy night, he held the man's hand, as if he had returned to the time when he was young and sat on his father's back and played games with him.
"Remember every word I told you." The man slapped Chu Zihang on the butt and yelled, "Run!"
Chu Zihang didn't even think about it, and ran towards the car like crazy. Before Lu Mingfei could let go of the corner of his clothes, Chu Zihang had already pulled her wrist away and pulled her to run. He was really running very fast, and Lu Mingfei couldn't keep up at all. Chu Zihang had no intention of stopping for a moment to wait for his junior sister. As long as Lu Mingfei ran a little slower, he would use his strength to pull Lu Mingfei to his side, and he would never allow her to fall behind.
The man threw the suitcase at Odin with all his might, and the deadpools stretched out their hands and looked up like hungry wolves, rushing towards the suitcase. Some deadpools were sent out to intercept the man and the fleeing children. These guys were extremely fast, and their slender bodies seemed to be stretched into a snake shadow under the street lights.
The man turned around and ran back with Chu Zihang. With his explosive power, it was easy for him to surpass the fifteen-year-old boy and girl. At first, his long legs were almost catching up with them in just a few steps, but he suddenly slowed down, watching the two people gradually distance themselves from him, and suddenly a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "Little bastard, you run really fast."
He turned his head suddenly, and saw Murasame spinning and cutting through the rain curtain, creating a dazzling arc of light. The rain was actually split in two by him, splashing water everywhere. At this moment, his eyes shone as brightly as gold.
The transparent field opened up in the rain, and the man stretched out his throat and let out a low roar. Lu Mingfei did not look back, but the shock in her heart was no less than when she first saw Odin. The man was chanting a certain language, a language that was exactly the same as those ghosts! No wonder he seemed to know everything clearly, because in essence, he and the ghosts were inextricably linked, and the ghosts were coming for him!
Where the domain covered, the flow of time slowed down, countless water droplets suspended in the air, allowing Murasame to cut them, everything was like a slow-motion movie. Only the man was still so fast, he turned over and swung his sword, stepped, rotated, moved forward and backward freely, and cut vertically and horizontally. Black blood splashed with the water curtain under his feet, and the dark red scars were like long ribbons. The extremely fast sword light was like a silver flying swallow.
