Chapter 71: A Day in the Life of the Transcendent (Middle)
"Scram."
Standing atop the high wall, the guard holding a sharp knife had a cold look in his eyes, "We don't welcome you here."
"Alright, alright." Chen Yu tucked his tail between his legs and, with a sheepish smile, ran far away.
Circling around the villa.
Hiding again in the bushes, Chen Yu scratched his head and ears.
"This is tough."
"There's a watchdog..."
"..."
After a long thought, he suddenly slapped his thigh, "Got it!"
Fifteen minutes later.
A shovel appeared in Chen Yu's hands, and he started using "Defying Fate Skill," frantically digging.
"Swoosh——"
"Swoosh Swoosh——"
"Swoosh Swoosh Swoosh——"
His strength and stamina far surpassed that of an ordinary person, making his "work efficiency" extremely fast.
In just half an hour.
He had dug from the bushes to the inner courtyard of the villa.
"This should be it."
Curled up inside the tunnel, Chen Yu set down the now bent shovel, looked up and squinted for a long while, then suddenly punched!
"Thump——"
The soil layer above was smashed open, revealing the starry sky outside of the tunnel.
And the guard's expressionless face.
Chen Yu: "..."
Guard: "..."
After a moment of staring at each other, the guard lifted his hand, grabbed a pile of dung, and started pouring it into the "hole" where Chen Yu was.
"No!"
Chen Yu was horrified, frantically running away...
"Son of a bitch!"
"Ugh——"
"Ugh ooh!"
"...Ugh——"
Climbing out of the tunnel drenched in sweat, Chen Yu kept retching, wishing he could vomit out his throat.
"Next time!" the guard shouted from atop the high wall, "No mercy!"
Stripping off his dirt-stained clothes, Chen Yu stood up and urinated in the direction of the villa.
Was he, Chen Yu, the type to retreat when faced with resistance?
Another thirty minutes passed.
Chen Yu returned.
This time, he brought a pair of large speakers.
Estimating the distance between himself and the small villa, he connected the speakers to a battery and his phone to the speakers. He decisively played the most famous opening track of "Love Action Movie."
"Dang dang dang dang dang♪~"
"Dang dang dang dang dang♪~"
"Dang dang dang dang dang dang dang dang dang dang dang dang♪~"
The villa's guard immediately appeared, standing on the wall top, shockingly staring at Chen Yu. An incredulous expression on his face.
"I'm eight hundred meters away from you! You can't control me now, can you?!" Chen Yu shouted.
"...You really aren't afraid of death, are you!" Listening to that "filthy" music, the guard's eyes nearly popped out of his sockets, he drew his long knife and was ready to charge out.
But at that moment, another "head" popped out.
It was the Li Family's heiress—Li Yao.
She leaped onto the wall, gazed at Chen Yu for a while, then stopped the guard and spoke a few words to him.
Due to the loud music, Chen Yu couldn't hear what they were saying.
All he saw was the guard glaring at him hatefully before leaving...
"Nice!"
Chen Yu excitedly waved his hand, immediately turned off the speaker, and ran as fast as Arale toward the girl.
But as the distance between them closed, Chen Yu's running speed gradually decreased.
Until he completely stopped, incredulously staring at the girl.
The title above this big heiress's head...
Had unexpectedly become [Addicted to Erotic Innocents]...
Chen Yu: "Damn it!"
"...What?" The girl on the wall top tilted her head in confusion.
"You've fallen so fast?!" Chen Yu roared.
He could clearly see that there were no longer any skill bars floating around the girl.
Because the change in her "title" this time wasn't the transformation from "The Pure Virgin."
For Chen Yu, it was naturally useless...
Instead, it had overridden the skills he had previously "farmed"...
"Fuck!"
"Damn it!"
"Whose daughter is this?" Chen Yu raged, "What the hell kind of upbringing is this?!"
The girl quietly looked at Chen Yu for a while, her delicate eyebrows slightly furrowed, "You lured me out here, so what do you want?"
"...Nothing anymore. Just go."
Chen Yu, like a corpse drained of life, collapsed to the ground, "Don't let me see you again..."
"...so weird." Even more puzzled, the girl gave Chen Yu a few more glances, but she didn't say much else, turned around, and disappeared on top of the wall.
Leaving behind only one sentence, "That USB drive, lend it to me for a few more days."
Chen Yu: "..."
The vast night, now restored to tranquility.
Chen Yu looked up at the sky, deeply struck.
He knew, given the current situation and the Li Family's attitude toward him, he no longer had any chance of "farming" skills from Li Yao...
Without a doubt.
This was the first time he had failed since he awakened the "Golden Finger."
He had been defeated by "human nature"...
...
Who knows how much time had passed.
Chen Yu left.
He left with his soul shattered.
Standing in the shadow of the villa, the Family Head of the Li Family watched Chen Yu's vanishing silhouette, a cold smile playing on his lips.
"My Lord." Beside him, the guard respectfully asked, "Are we just letting him go like this?"
"I only said to let him leave, not to let him off."
The Family Head of the Li Family contained his cold smile and crossed his arms behind his back, "The doorstep of the Li Family should not bear corpses."
"...Yes."
"Let's go, we have official business to attend to."
The Family Head of the Li Family leapt off the rooftop and stepped into the villa.
The guard hurriedly followed.
"Father, you've arrived." The girl who was drinking tea in the living room stood up, bowing slightly.
"Hmm."
The father of the girl — the Family Head of the Li Family nodded, then suddenly raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
"Snap!"
The crisp sound, like a switch, made the girl stiffen on the spot. Her eyes soon became vacant, and she slowly collapsed backward.
The guard reacted quickly, rushing forward to catch the girl and lay her down.
"Draw all the curtains."
"Yes!" The guard nodded.
Watching the guard busy himself, the Family Head of the Li Family slowly approached, sat beside the girl, and with endless affection, gently stroked her long hair.
The girl's pupils dilated, her gaze vacant, seemingly in a comatose state.
She showed no response to her father's touch.
Three minutes later.
After the guard had drawn all the curtains and closed the door.
The Family Head of the Li Family took action.
He placed his large hand over the girl's forehead.
Supernatural abilities activated...
The girl's head instantly lit up with a white glow.
"My Lord." The guard quietly watched for a while, hesitating, "The timing for memory sealing this time, isn't it too rushed?"
"It's just half a year early, no big problem." The Family Head of the Li Family expressed emotionlessly.
"...My Lord, haven't you found a secret technique for harmlessly sealing memories yet?"
"Not yet." The Family Head of the Li Family shook his head, "Perhaps... such techniques have long been lost."
"But continuing like this isn't a solution either." The guard, looking at the girl's listless state, couldn't bear to turn his head, "The mental trauma, subconscious increasingly difficult to control. Miss will find it easier to tread a wrong path."
"Then we'll 'seal' once a year," the Family Head of the Li Family's expression chilled, "or even every six months."
"... But Miss's memory capabilities will completely collapse."
"No matter."
The Family Head of the Li Family slowly revealed a sickly smile, his gaze tender and cheeks flushed as he watched the girl, "My daughter... just needs to remember me, that's all..."
Soon.
The girl's title above her head had once again changed back to "The Pure Virgin"...
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