Yama Reborn-Chapter 441 - 438 【I Should Be Protected by Law!】

Chapter 438: I Should Be Protected By Law, Right!

Brother Lei and Zhang Linsheng had been tied up for who knows how long—unable to check the time, the room was dark and gloomy.

Finally, when a beam of light appeared from downstairs outside the window and swung back and forth on the staircase a few times, Li Yingwan, who had been sitting there silently circulating her energy, suddenly stood up and walked to the window.

After opening the window, she waved to someone outside.

A moment later, someone came upstairs and knocked on the door from the corridor.

After Li Yingwan opened the door, she looked at Niveer standing outside.

Hummingbird was already dressed in different gear, clearly police protective clothing, with a baton tucked at her waist.

The blonde girl had her hair tied up. After walking in, she glanced in surprise at Brother Lei and Zhang Linsheng, who were tied up on the floor.

"What’s this?"

Li Yingwan’s face was grim. "Let’s talk outside."

Niveer nodded and followed Li Yingwan out of the room. The two women began conversing in the corridor.

Inside the room, Zhang Linsheng, still on the floor, kicked Brother Lei.

"Hmm?" Brother Lei opened his eyes groggily—he was actually very sleepy.

More than thirty hours had passed since they were inexplicably brought to this space. Before that, they had been searching on foot, climbing up and down, so Brother Lei was indeed exhausted.

His self-healing ability enhanced his physical recovery, but his mental fatigue couldn’t be alleviated that quickly.

After being awake for more than thirty hours and then tied up here, Brother Lei had finally dozed off and even had a dream.

"Brother Lei, wake up!"

"...Ah." Brother Lei opened his eyes and looked around. Still in the same dark room, he couldn’t help but feel a bit bitter.

Damn it, in my dream, I had just seen Xiao Juan. I thought everything I experienced tonight was just a nightmare. I even dreamt I was toasting at our wedding banquet... 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

And then, damn it, I woke up.

Struggling to straighten his back, Brother Lei looked around the room and asked in a low voice, "Where’s that South Korean girl, surnamed Li?"

At this point, he didn’t bother calling her Li Yingwan. Zhang Linsheng had said she definitely wasn’t the Li Yingwan they knew, and whether Brother Lei believed it or not, the fact remained: this young woman had been very rude to him, so he couldn’t consider her one of them.

"She went out. Her companion arrived. It’s that foreign woman we saw when we ran into Chen Nuo that night—the one we also saw when Chen Nuo got into trouble before."

"Hmm, what was her name? Vee-something, was it?" Brother Lei tried to recall.

"It’s Niveer, I think that’s her name."

"Right, right, right," Zhang Linsheng nodded.

Brother Lei sighed. "What is all this? We were brought to this strange world out of nowhere. And Li Yingwan isn’t Li Yingwan. Hey, what about that foreign woman? She isn’t herself either, is she?"

Zhang Linsheng shook his head. "We haven’t spoken to her yet. We’ll see when she comes in."

Just as he said that, the room door was pushed open.

The first one to come in was surprisingly not Li Yingwan, but Niveer.

Li Yingwan followed behind, her expression cold.

Hummingbird was holding a police-issue flashlight. She swept the beam across Zhang Linsheng’s and Brother Lei’s faces before walking over and squatting down in front of them.

After carefully sizing them up, Niveer’s face softened into a kind smile.

She immediately pulled out a Swiss Army knife and quickly cut the ropes binding Brother Lei’s and Zhang Linsheng’s wrists.

"I’m really sorry. She..." Niveer casually pointed to Li Yingwan behind her. "She’s a bit emotionally volatile. She just received some news that made her very angry, so she might not have controlled her emotions well and took it out on you, which is why she kept you tied up. You are all Chen Nuo’s friends. On behalf of Li Yingwan, I apologize for her impolite behavior earlier!"

Zhang Linsheng and Brother Lei looked puzzled, but they were at least untied, which was a relief. However, they both instinctively got up, took two steps back, and watched the two women warily.

After thinking for a moment, Niveer took a bottle of mineral water and a piece of bread from the bag she was carrying and handed them over.

She glanced at Zhang Linsheng again, noticing his tattered clothes and the abrasions and bruises on the back of his hand from his scuffle with Li Yingwan. After a moment’s thought, she also took out a bottle of medicinal ointment.

Zhang Linsheng hesitated for a moment, then took them. He watched Niveer spread her hands in a harmless gesture and slowly back away.

Zhang Linsheng finally nodded. He didn’t use the ointment but stuffed it into his pocket. He then shared the mineral water and bread with Brother Lei.

"Now, can we talk?" Niveer asked after they had eaten about half.

"We can," Brother Lei answered, looking at Niveer, "However, you have to answer our question first... Who the hell are you?!"

"We..."

"You are not Niveer! And she is not Li Yingwan!" Zhang Linsheng interrupted sharply, his gaze fierce. "The Li Yingwan we know definitely doesn’t have these skills! Besides, it’s obvious you don’t recognize us!"

"I am Li Yingwan!" Firefly muttered discontentedly from behind. "As for skills... Are your skills so great? If I weren’t holding back... I could take you down with one hand!"

Zhang Linsheng shook his head. "That’s because I thought you were Li Yingwan, so I held back. Otherwise..."

"Enough!" Niveer raised an eyebrow, then lowered her tone again. "There’s no point arguing about this—besides, we’re not enemies. Our origins are actually quite complicated, and we can’t explain them clearly right now. Even if we did, you might not understand or believe us. But one thing we can assure you is that we are definitely not your enemies! We are some of the people Chen Nuo trusts most, and we are extremely loyal to him! We are ready to die for him at any moment! So, in this situation, our goals and allegiances should be completely aligned. Can you believe that?"

Zhang Linsheng was still hesitating, but Brother Lei immediately nodded. "Okay... that, I believe."

"Brother Lei?!" Zhang Linsheng was now a bit confused.

Brother Lei let out a dry chuckle. "Bro... you missed a detail earlier when this Li Yingwan was talking about Boss Chen. This young woman was genuinely jealous. That look of insane jealousy and possessiveness wasn’t faked. You’re young; it’s not your fault you don’t understand. When you get to my age, you’ll get it. If a woman feels that way about a man, she’s highly unlikely to harm him."

Seeing Zhang Linsheng’s still somewhat blank expression, Brother Lei sighed inwardly.

Still so young...

The way this Li Yingwan reacted tonight when she heard about Chen Nuo, that crazed look, like she was about to pull a knife...

Hmm, I’m all too familiar with that!

It was just like that time at home when Zhu Xiaojuan was doing laundry and accidentally found a KTV hostess’s business card in my pocket. The way she exploded with anger was exactly the same.

Niveer breathed a sigh of relief. "Good. So, we’ve reached a preliminary understanding. Now, I want to ask a crucial question: How did you two end up here?"

「Elsewhere...」

"Memory erasure?" Xicheng Xun didn’t overreact by asking who did it. Instead, he first pondered for a moment, then shook his head. "To use this kind of mental blockade on you, the opponent’s power must be incredible!"

"Yes," Chen Nuo nodded. "So..."

"So, judging from the starting point of the memory erasure, you believe it happened during the 2007 expedition to Antarctica. Is that right, Boss?"

"Correct," Chen Nuo nodded. "That’s why we’re here now."

He paused, then stood up. "I think we can try to find the answers here."

Xicheng Xun also stood up. "So... we’re going to search this place?"

"Yes," Chen Nuo nodded. "I visited this place once in 2007 in my previous life. Then, in this life, I came again in 2001... I remember everything from my most recent visit, so I’m quite familiar with this place."

He was indeed very familiar. When he had searched this place with Nolan and Davarishi, they had investigated the entire base, and he had even seen its layout maps.

After thinking, Chen Nuo said, "Let’s... start with one particular place."

The target Chen Nuo chose was clear: the underground sealed fortress where everyone had hidden when they encountered those monsters at the Red Circle Base.

It was the safest and most secret place in the entire base.

If any secrets were to be hidden, this would be the most likely location.

「Back with Niveer, Brother Lei, and Zhang Linsheng...」

"So, you’re saying you were both sleeping soundly in your homes. When you woke up, the people around you were gone, and you found yourselves in this world... a world with no other people, no living creatures. And you don’t know why..." Niveer furrowed her brows.

"We don’t know." Brother Lei and Zhang Linsheng glanced at each other before Zhang Linsheng continued, "Brother Lei and I met on the road later by chance; it was lucky we found each other. Then we saw you and Chen Nuo together, being chased by a flying humanoid monster. Chen Nuo then suddenly disappeared with you, and the monster vanished shortly after."

Niveer frowned, thought for a while, and then suddenly asked, "So, is there anyone else?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, besides the two of you, have you seen anyone else?"

"No," Brother Lei shook his head decisively. Then he hesitated for a moment. "...But... I can’t be sure. Lin Sheng and I met on the road by chance. So, if you’re asking if other people also fell into this place, I really can’t be certain."

Zhang Linsheng’s expression changed. "The southern part of the city exploded! Half of Jiangning District’s urban area was destroyed! With that level of destruction, ordinary people wouldn’t have survived if they were there!"

Niveer sighed and turned to Li Yingwan. "What do you think?"

Li Yingwan, arms crossed and leaning against the doorframe, said coldly, "You know I’ve never liked thinking too hard about complicated problems."

Niveer rolled her eyes, not bothering to look at her unreliable companion any longer—she already knew what kind of temperament this Firefly had. Stubborn and extreme, she disliked anything complex; her methods were always simple and brutal.

Niveer took a map of Jinling City from her bag and spread it on the ground, holding the flashlight with one hand. "Now, I need you two to help me with something."

"What is it?"

"First, mark the location of the explosion and the destroyed area in Jiangning District that you mentioned on this map. Then, I need you to recall as many people as possible in Jinling City who are connected to Chen Nuo! Of these people, how many were within the blast zone, and how many were outside it? Especially those outside the blast zone—you must mark their locations for me!"

Zhang Linsheng’s heart skipped a beat. "You mean, you suspect other people in this city were also dragged in here?"

"Why not?" Niveer shrugged. "Just because we haven’t encountered them doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Since that *person* brought us to this place, why should we assume they *only* brought us? What do we all have in common? Our nationalities, ages, and genders are all different. Even our abilities vary. The only commonality is our connection to Chen Nuo. If the criterion is a connection to Chen Nuo, there must be more than just us in Jinling City, right? If so... my line of thinking might be correct."

Zhang Linsheng’s and Brother Lei’s expressions changed dramatically!

Zhang Linsheng immediately leaned over the map and began searching hurriedly. After a moment, he roughly marked out an area.

Zhang Linsheng had been near Daming Road at the time, which was relatively close to Jiangning District, so he had a rough idea of the explosion’s range.

But he could only judge the extent of the damage in the areas closest to his own location.

Then, Zhang Linsheng’s expression grew increasingly grim.

"The people closest to Chen Nuo are definitely his family! Aunt Ou, Xiao Yezi, and..."

"And his woman, and his daughter, right?" A spark flashed in Niveer’s eyes, but she continued nonchalantly, "It’s okay. Keep going."

"Yes, Chen Nuo’s family all live together. They would definitely be within the blast radius—if they were brought here, they couldn’t have survived such a massive explosion..."

"Anyone else?" Niveer continued to ask.

"There’s also..." Zhang Linsheng’s mind raced.

Old Jiang and his wife... Principal Sun and his wife... No, No. 8 Middle School is entirely within the blast radius.

So, outside the blast radius...

"Sun Keke!" Zhang Linsheng slapped the map. "It must be Sun Keke! Sun Keke lives in a dorm at her university, and the campus is in the urban area... so..."

At that moment, Brother Lei also slapped his forehead. "There’s one more person! My brother-in-law!"

Zhang Linsheng also nodded. "Damn! I forgot about him!"

He immediately turned to Brother Lei. "Where did Dazhi go last night? After the wedding night teasing in the bridal chamber ended, he..."

"I have no idea either," Brother Lei shook his head. "But at the wedding last night, people from the wedding planning company were there the whole time. Afterward, Xiao Juan paid them the final installment. Oh, right, I think one of the people they sent was a young girl, the daughter of the wedding company’s owner. And you know, Dazhi has been getting pretty friendly with that girl recently..."

Zhang Linsheng immediately nodded. "Right, right, right, I heard Xia Xia talk about her. Xia Xia even told me the girl is quite pretty. However..."

Zhang Linsheng struggled to recall. "I don’t remember seeing any young girl like that at the wedding banquet tonight."

"She came after the banquet ended, supposedly to help collect the final payment, but she probably just came to hang out with Dazhi." Brother Lei shook his head. "I didn’t see her either, but my wife said she came. It seems Dazhi drank too much at the banquet last night, and I didn’t see him during the wedding night teasing. That girl might have taken him away."

The two men thought carefully for a while longer and gradually came up with a few more names, but their connections to Chen Nuo were more distant.

For instance, Zhang Linsheng’s girlfriend, Xia Xia, theoretically knew Chen Nuo but hadn’t been brought into this world.

"Okay, then we can proceed like this." Niveer thought for a moment. "First, we’ll look for the two people you mentioned: Sun Keke and Zhu Dazhi. If we can’t find them, we can temporarily assume that only we were pulled into this world. If we do find them... then we shouldn’t celebrate. It would mean it’s possible even more people were dragged in!"

"Wait, don’t rush. First, tell us, where is Chen Nuo?!" Zhang Linsheng hurriedly asked.

"Chen Nuo is fine. He has other things to do, and Xicheng Xun is with him right now... You definitely know Xicheng Xun, right? We’re just following his orders to hide in this city for now and wait for an opportunity."

After Niveer explained quickly, she announced her decision.

"With two targets, we can split into two groups. One group will look for Sun Keke, and the other will look for Zhu Dazhi—is that his name?"

Brother Lei nodded. "Yes."

"Let’s split up. I’ll go with you to look for Sun Keke." Niveer pointed at Zhang Linsheng. "The rest will go look for Zhu Dazhi."

Before anyone else could speak, Li Yingwan objected from behind, "No! Why should you go look for that Sun Keke? I’ll go find Sun Keke!"

Niveer turned her head and rolled her eyes.

"I will find Sun Keke!" Li Yingwan stated firmly.

Niveer scoffed. Turning to face Li Yingwan, likely considering Zhang Linsheng and Brother Lei’s presence, she switched to Goryeo language and said coldly to Li Yingwan, "I don’t trust you."

"Why don’t you trust me? What is there not to trust?"

"You’ve been too emotional today. And... that time the Boss ran into trouble, you almost broke down. You even wanted to assassinate the Star Sky Empress... Your current emotional state is very similar to back then. I’m worried that if I let you find that girl named Sun Keke, you might go crazy and kill her! After all, these two friends of the Boss said that Sun Keke is a woman the Boss is very fond of—his girlfriend. Li Yingwan, you couldn’t kill the Star Sky Empress, but I’m genuinely worried you might kill this Sun Keke."

Li Yingwan gritted her teeth. "...I wouldn’t!"

"I can’t trust you. Li Yingwan, on any other mission, I would trust you unconditionally. I’d even entrust my life to you during an operation. But this matter... I can’t trust your emotional control! It’s been proven many times: whenever it involves the Boss, you easily lose control!"

As Niveer’s tone grew more serious, Li Yingwan just gritted her teeth and said, "Anyway, I’m going to find Sun Keke! Whether you agree or not, I’m going!"

Niveer thought for a moment and then nodded. "Okay... then the two of us will go look for Sun Keke together."

Saying so, she turned back and announced the decision to Brother Lei and Zhang Linsheng in Huaxia language.

"Huh?" Brother Lei was a bit confused. "The two of you... go find Sun Keke? It’s not impossible... but do you even know Sun Keke? You don’t even seem to recognize us..."

Niveer gave a faint smile. "Does it matter if we know her or not? In this world, is there anyone else besides us? We just need to find the school and search that area. Any young, beautiful woman we find there must be Sun Keke. It can’t be anyone else, can it?"

"Uh... I guess... that makes sense," Brother Lei nodded.

「Meanwhile, with Zhu Dazhi...」

"Damn it... There’s nothing!"

In the kitchen, a stocky, sturdy figure was rummaging through the cabinets, occasionally tossing items aside.

Eventually, he found a tin can. After prying it open with effort, he found it was a large can... full of bright red goji berries!

"Damn it, Zhang Linsheng, you claim you’re not ’deficient’! And yet you stash this stuff at home!"

Annoyed, Zhu Dazhi put the can back and walked into the living room.

After a moment’s thought, he took the last piece of bread from his bag and handed it to the figure sitting on the sofa. "Here! You eat!"

"...What about you?"

Zhu Dazhi thumped his chest. "Me? I’ve got plenty of strength! I’m not hungry at all! Xiao Yu, you eat first!"

On the sofa, the young woman named Xiao Yu looked at Zhu Dazhi’s determined expression in the darkness. She hesitated for a moment, then got up, walked over, and hugged Zhu Dazhi’s shoulders tightly.

"The bandage on your arm has come off. Let me rewrap it for you."

Zhu Dazhi shook his head. "Really, it’s nothing... Just a scratch. I usually just put some spit on it, and it’s fine... DAMN! OUCH!!!!!"

Before he could finish speaking, Xiao Yu had already removed the bandage from his arm. Zhu Dazhi immediately sucked in a sharp breath.

The wound was a gash, several centimeters long and not shallow, the flesh split open.

Xiao Yu gritted her teeth, took a clean bandage and scissors from her bag, and began to dress Zhu Dazhi’s wound in the dark. Her movements were clumsy, and the bandage ended up crooked.

Zhu Dazhi, however, had a strange expression on his face. Before Xiao Yu could finish, he took half a step back, his face flushed and his head lowered. "Uh... I’ll go look around the rooms again, see if there’s anything useful. My senior martial brother, that guy, must have left some medicine here. Master always had us prepare some for emergencies; he must have hidden it in some corner."

Quickly entering the bedroom, Zhu Dazhi immediately leaned against the wall, both hands clutching his chest over his heart.

Damn...

Damn it... what do I do now?

My heart is pounding so fast...

Zhu Dazhi had already cursed up a storm, and he was thoroughly annoyed.

Tonight...

Or, to be precise, about twenty to thirty hours ago, Zhu Dazhi had already unleashed every swear word he knew a hundred times over!

Considering what he’d been through tonight, Zhu Dazhi felt he had every right to curse!

Even if God Himself stood before him, he felt he had every right to stand tall and let loose a torrent of abuse!!

Why?

Because no man could tolerate this!!!

「Earlier that night...」

After the wedding reception earlier that night, Zhu Dazhi had gotten drunk. Then, Xiao Yu, the girlfriend he’d been seeing for some time, came looking for him.

Dazhi was drunk, so Xiao Yu helped him leave the venue.

It was true that Dazhi could be a blockhead.

It was true that he had a silver tongue.

But Zhu Dazhi wasn’t an idiot.

When a man needed to be a little "bad," he knew all the tricks!

Xiao Yu helped him out of the wedding hotel. As they waited by the roadside, Zhu Dazhi began his performance.

Who says blockheads can’t act?

How to act?

Pretend to be really drunk.

’I can’t go on, I’m too dizzy, I can’t walk straight...’

’Or... how about we find a place to rest for a bit?’

Then, Xiao Yu remained silent beside him. Just when Zhu Dazhi thought he was about to be rejected...

Xiao Yu softly murmured, "Mm."

And then...

Suddenly, Zhu Dazhi’s legs weren’t weak anymore, and his head wasn’t dizzy either.

The rest... every man understands.

Find a hotel!

Hmm...

But where to find a hotel?

There were two places Zhu Dazhi knew best in Jinling City.

One was the auto shop on Tangzi Street, where Dazhi worked and usually lived.

The other was an auto shop on Daming Road.

There were hotels near Tangzi Street.

But Zhu Dazhi, being a virgin after all, had some strange reservations.

He always felt that taking his girlfriend to a hotel room late at night was like doing something illicit!

And if you were doing something illicit, you wouldn’t want to do it right on your own doorstep.

So...

He went to Daming Road.

About seven or eight hundred meters from the auto shop, he’d seen a hotel by the roadside several times when passing by.

So, they went there!

Two young people, both virgins, sneaking off to a hotel to get a room in the middle of the night... The front desk clerk wasn’t stupid and couldn’t be bothered to ask too many questions. They just processed the check-in and tossed him a room card.

Then, after getting into the room, Zhu Dazhi was actually stumped.

No experience!!

First timer!!

Tonight, it was liquid courage giving this coward balls!!

He and Xiao Yu first pretended to chat, sitting on the living room sofa with the TV on, and talked for a long time.

In the end, they talked so much that Xiao Yu became drowsy and started yawning repeatedly!

Zhu Dazhi saw this and thought, This won’t do!!

I’m the man! I have to take the initiative!

Finally, after who knows how many hours of chatting, Zhu Dazhi, clenching his jaw and steeling himself, uttered what he considered the most shameless, brazen words of his entire life!

"How about... you go take a shower first?"

"...Mm."

When Xiao Yu hummed that "Mm," Zhu Dazhi felt like his soul was about to leave his body!

Watching his girlfriend shyly enter the bathroom, Zhu Dazhi quickly poured himself a glass of water, downed it in one gulp, and then hastily circulated his Inner Breath.

Then, Xiao Yu came out of the bathroom, turned off the room lights, and dove under the covers.

Zhu Dazhi was still tensed up, pretending to be calm as he headed to the bathroom for his own shower, though his legs were actually wobbling as he walked.

He finished his shower in less than three minutes!

Then, fumbling in the dark, he got into bed and slid under the covers next to his girlfriend.

After mentally preparing himself, Zhu Dazhi, with a trembling heart and trembling hands, reached out...

Tonight’s the night!

Tonight’s the night!!

Tonight is THE night!!!

And then...

Suddenly, Zhu Dazhi was flung into the air by some force. Mid-air, he saw Xiao Yu’s terrified face.

Even more terrifying, Zhu Dazhi saw his girlfriend’s body starting to disappear, bit by bit!

In panic, Zhu Dazhi quickly reached out...

And grabbed Xiao Yu.

Next, they floated up together...

And then...

In the blink of an eye, they both fell back onto the bed.

Now, they were piled up like a human pyramid, with Zhu Dazhi lying right on top of Xiao Yu.

Before he even had a chance to register what was happening, let alone savor the feeling...

BOOM! A loud explosion thundered outside!

A blaze lit up the sky in the distance!

The shockwave instantly shattered the windows!

Zhu Dazhi barely had time to pull Xiao Yu into his arms and roll towards the edge of the bed...

When he got up, his arm had been slashed by flying glass, and blood was streaming down!

Zhu Dazhi really felt like crying, you know?!

My pants were already off! And this happens?!

I’m a virgin! A virgin, you hear?!

Virgins should be protected by law!!

And another thing!

Aren’t women supposed to be the ones who bleed on the first night?

So why am I the one bleeding?!!

Oh God, what the FUCK!!