The Strongest Dandy in the City-Chapter 542: The Pain Hidden Deep in the Heart

A cool breeze swept through, causing the leaves on the mountain range to rustle. The clouds that had blocked the sun were scattered by the sudden gust of wind, and the warm sunlight poured onto the ground. The weather, which had once dimmed, was bright once more, as if the clouds had parted to reveal a clear blue sky.

The bright sunshine highlighted Angelina’s enchanting and seductive face. However, at this moment, her captivating eyes were filled with sheer shock and terror. Under the sun, the expressions on her face shifted continuously, and her once vivid lips paled with fear. The sight before her gave her an illusion of being on the brink of Hell.

The ground could be described as a river of blood. The once brown earth and green wild grass were all dyed red with blood. The sprawling corpses lay haphazardly on the ground, and the thick, pungent scent of blood was enough to make one feel the urge to bend over and vomit.

Ye Chenfeng and Hei Xin stood like two gods of slaughter. Ye Chenfeng paid no attention to the blood in the air and kept throwing his punches, capable of bursting his opponent’s head with each blow.

Hei Xin was like a wild beast gone mad. For him, the power in his body had nearly been spent. Many of his bones were broken by the opponent, but he still managed to muster the strength to knock down his adversary. This was entirely because his potential had been unleashed, or perhaps a strong will within him kept telling him that he could not fall yet.

From nearly three hundred robust men, after the frenzied slaughter by Ye Chenfeng and Hei Xin, only twenty remained. These twenty men, upon seeing the river of blood on the ground, finally felt fear. Their steps were no longer as resolute as before, and faced with the blood-soaked Ye Chenfeng and Hei Xin, they began to retreat.

Seeing that the tide had turned, Angelina felt extremely unwilling to accept defeat, but she knew that staying meant a certain death. She truly had not anticipated that three hundred strong men injected with the red liquid would still fail to handle Ye Chenfeng and Hei Xin. Biting her silver teeth secretly, she prepared to turn around and flee into the depths of the mountains.

Ye Chenfeng, who was twenty to thirty meters away from Angelina, saw her movements and called out from his throat, "Angelina, do you think you can leave here alive today?"

Angelina glanced at Ye Chenfeng not far away, confident that she could escape within this distance. Before leaving, she did not forget to throw down a harsh word, "Ye Chenfeng, Hei Xin, I’ll leave it here for today. Next time we meet, I’ll make you taste what it’s like to prefer death over life."

After she had spoken, Angelina turned and fled into the depths of the mountains. However, just then, Ye Chenfeng’s icy voice reached her ears again, "Do you think there will be a next time?"

As Angelina fled deeper into the mountains, she suddenly felt a dangerous presence approaching her from behind. Instinctively, she turned slightly, and then her pupils abruptly dilated. Under the sunlight, she saw only a streak of silver light shooting swiftly towards her neck. An icy sensation surged from the soles of her feet into her heart, causing her body to stiffen involuntarily for a second.

And it was this brief second that sealed her fate. By the time Angelina was able to move, it was already too late. The streak of silver light had accurately penetrated her throat, leaving a small bloody hole. Her enticing eyes revealed an extreme terror, and she knew that she was going to die, that her life was about to end.

Clinging to her neck with both hands, Angelina tried her last desperate struggle, but it was a futile effort. Feeling her life swiftly slipping away, her eyes showed signs of unwillingness. Gradually, the luster in her eyes dimmed, and she slowly fell to the ground.

The remaining twenty robust men, under the fierce fighting of Ye Chenfeng and Hei Xin, all inevitably met their fate with the King of Hell.

With a "bang!" Ye Chenfeng crushed the last man’s head, and the splattering mist of blood and white brain matter created a picture of eerie beauty under the bright sun.

Ye Chenfeng’s breathing was a bit ragged, and the Soul Force inside him had been significantly depleted. After killing everyone, Hei Xin simply sat down in the blood-soaked ground, huffing and puffing, gulping for air. He looked up with squinted eyes at Ye Chenfeng and said, "Ye Chenfeng, how about sitting down and having a chat with me?"

In the car that Ye Chenfeng had driven here, there was conveniently a case of red wine. Hei Xin watched as Ye Chenfeng walked towards the car, thinking that Ye Chenfeng didn’t want to waste more words with him, betraying a moment of disappointment. However, just as he was about to stand up and leave, he heard Ye Chenfeng’s voice, "Fancy a drink?"

Ye Chenfeng tossed a bottle of red wine to Hei Xin and sat down beside him without care for the blood on the ground. He opened a bottle of red wine and gulped down about half the bottle, then asked, "So, what do you want to talk about? Considering that we cooperated today, I’ll be patient and keep you company for a while."

Hei Xin’s eyes hesitated for a moment under his gray mask, then he spoke, "Ye Chenfeng, the heights your future could reach are definitely boundless. Are you interested in joining me to destroy the Devouring Empire?"

Hmm?

Ye Chenfeng eyed Hei Xin beside him with confusion. Wasn’t Hei Xin the person in charge of the Devouring Empire in Huaxia Country? How could he say such an inexplicable thing?

Taking a deep breath, Hei Xin inhaled the lingering scent of blood in the air into his lungs and slowly began, "Ye Chenfeng, seven years ago my father was a southern Huaxia Country’s renowned hero, controlling almost all of the underworld forces in the south. That year, the Devouring Empire was also rising around the globe, and it was then that my father offended someone from the Devouring Empire."

"People from the Devouring Empire launched an encirclement and suppression campaign against my father’s forces. In just one month, the empire my father had fought so hard to build for most of his life was nearly destroyed. My father knew that resisting the Devouring Empire was like throwing eggs at rocks, so he planned to take our family, along with the brothers who had fought by his side to conquer territories, and leave."

"We could have escaped completely, but in the end, one of my father’s most trusted brothers betrayed him. We didn’t manage to flee in time. My father was shot in his limbs and chest, my mother was killed by a gunshot, and I was knocked out. Eventually, they set our house on fire, perhaps thinking it would be more amusing to let me burn to death."

"When the blaze was fully raging, I woke from my unconsciousness. My father, barely clinging to life, told me there was an underground storage room in our home, and if I made it inside, I would survive. I remember the last words my father said to me before he died: ’Son, even if he is your most trusted brother, never turn your back on him. Even the most trusted can stab you in the back—I am the best example.’"

"I moved the bodies of my mother and father into that storage room, but fate has its own plans; the fire eventually spread into the storage room. At that moment, I truly despaired, for I hadn’t avenged my parents yet—how could I just die like this?"

"Perhaps heaven pitied me! In the end, I barely survived. After that, I made every effort to join the Devouring Empire."

Hei Xin removed the gray mask from his face; all that was visible were burns, with not a single patch of unscarred skin, the uneven lumps of scar tissue that might make anyone’s stomach turn. Yet Ye Chenfeng felt an unaccountable sense of sympathy for Hei Xin.

Hei Xin picked up a bottle of red wine, tilted it to his lips, and drunk the entire bottle in one go. The corners of his mouth revealed a smile that couldn’t possibly be described as lovely.

This was the first time in many years that Hei Xin had revealed the pain hidden deep in his heart to someone else, the first time he was willing to turn his back on someone.

Suddenly, Ye Chenfeng felt he had something in common with Hei Xin—they both sought revenge for their parents. The difference was Hei Xin knew who had killed his parents, whereas Ye Chenfeng still didn’t know who was responsible for the car accident that took his parents’ lives.

Under the sunlight.

Two blood-covered men sat amidst pools of blood, surrounded by repulsive, lifeless bodies.

They sat in silence for a long time.

Ye Chenfeng turned to look at Hei Xin and said, "That’s a good proposal. How confident are you in wiping out the Devouring Empire?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)