Chapter 1002: Chapter 613: Aloof
After entering this small motel, Liu Hun directly booked two rooms, then went back to the room and quickly wrote down a list to hand to Old Ghost, instructing, "Go and quickly get these herbs for me; I’ll need them later."
Old Ghost, though slightly puzzled by Liu Hun’s request, didn’t say much. He nodded and headed straight outside.
In the City of Death, Old Ghost was naturally much more familiar than Liu Hun, so the task of purchasing the herbs naturally fell to Old Ghost.
In about ten minutes, Old Ghost returned with the herbs. Subsequently, Liu Hun locked himself alone in the room and began to refine the herbs.
About half an hour later, Liu Hun called Old Ghost back to the room. As soon as he entered, Old Ghost caught a whiff of the pungent medicine smell and immediately frowned, covering his nose as he disgruntedly said to Liu Hun, "I thought you locked yourself in the room to call a girl for some fun, but instead, you’re fiddling with those herbs..."
"Stop talking nonsense. This stuff is carefully crafted by me. Later, you’ll pour this into the Qin Family’s water pipe. At midnight, we’ll set off." Liu Hun glared at Old Ghost, speaking grumpily.
"Boss, what... what are you planning to do, and what’s the effect of this medicine?" Old Ghost asked, looking at Liu Hun with astonishment.
"Once they consume this, they’ll be powerless, making our actions much simpler come nightfall." Liu Hun spoke with a calm demeanor.
Yet, Old Ghost could feel the killing intent contained within Liu Hun’s words.
Offending the Ghost Doctor Clan truly brings misfortune. At this moment, Old Ghost even felt a little sorry for the Qin Family. If they hadn’t previously threatened Liu Hun, he wouldn’t have acted this way.
Although he knew Liu Hun’s actions were certainly linked to the Ghost Doctor Clan, this was not important to him. After all, he also disliked the Qin Family, so he didn’t mind helping Liu Hun.
"Alright, I’ll make sure to handle it beautifully, Boss, you can rest assured." A smile appeared on Old Ghost’s face, and he swiftly took the medicine Liu Hun handed over and walked out of the motel.
Once Old Ghost left, Liu Hun took a bath and called Xue Lan, confirming both she and Zhang Fan were safe. Only then did he sit on the bed, planning to cultivate.
Just as he entered the cultivation state, Liu Hun’s senses and Divine Sense were exceptionally keen, with bursts of lascivious laughter continuously coming from the next door.
"Hehe, Mu Xiaoqian, you probably never expected to fall into our hands today, did you? But you can’t blame us; if you want to blame someone, blame those who want to bring down your Mu Family, making it easy for us brothers instead." Following this voice, waves of wanton laughter occasionally sounded.
"You know the consequences; if you touch me, you will all die here!" A crisp voice, tinged with coldness, responded to the previous words.
"Haha, Mu Xiaoqian, as for this point, you needn’t worry. Because after tonight, your Mu Family will surely find it hard to survive, let alone deal with us. At that time, even your father won’t have the capability and energy, so you better accept your fate now."
... Listening to these voices incessantly entering his ear, Liu Hun could not concentrate at all. He opened his eyes, gazing at the wall opposite, thinking that this poor soundproofing was partially to blame.
Liu Hun wasn’t familiar with the City of Death, so he didn’t want to stir up more trouble elsewhere. But since he encountered this situation, he couldn’t idly sit by.
With this in mind, Liu Hun hesitated for a moment before slowly getting up, walking out of the room, and knocking on the door next door.
A moment later, the door opened slightly, and a young man, roughly twenty-four or twenty-five, appeared, his bushy brows making him look particularly sleazy.
"What do you want?" The young man asked Liu Hun impatiently.
"I just want some peace and quiet," Liu Hun answered calmly.
"Hey, who do you think you are? Since I’ve booked this room, I can do whatever I want; it has nothing to do with you. If there’s nothing else, get lost. Maybe later, you can hear some melodious sounds." The young man said unsatisfied after hearing Liu Hun’s words.
If he hadn’t been in a hurry now, he would’ve kicked Liu Hun out already.
But thinking of the young lady in the room, he quickly dismissed the idea and busied himself sending Liu Hun away to prevent interruption.
"If both parties are willing, I wouldn’t mind. But if it’s coercion, that’s something I can’t ignore." Liu Hun’s eyes narrowed, his words just falling, as his palm quickly shot forward, grabbing the young man’s neck, then kicked the door open.
With the door kicked open by Liu Hun, he saw inside the room a young girl in a white dress bound to a chair, her face pale.
Looking at the girl, Liu Hun could tell at a glance that she had already been drugged by these people.
"Damn it, who the hell are you?" Several young men in the room cursed angrily upon seeing Liu Hun appear.
Moreover, they all got up and surrounded Liu Hun in the middle. Feeling their power was at the seventh or eighth level of the Innate Realm, Liu Hun wasn’t the least bit worried.
With such strength, they really weren’t a concern before him now.
"You guys, grown men, forcing a weak girl, what kind of skill is that? Besides, under this sky, what matters is the law, and doing this is going to land you in jail!" Liu Hun said to the group with a bit of indignation.
At his words, the men paused, exchanged glances, then burst into loud laughter, looking at Liu Hun and shouting, "Damn, you’re really killing us with laughter here. So, you’re a person from the secular world, right? Using your words, that means you’re not local, correct?"
"How do you know that?" Liu Hun asked in shock.
"Looking at how idiotic you are, we knew right away. But let me tell you, in the City of Death, there is no law. If you’re strong enough, that is the law, and there are no prisons or anything. If you’re not their match, even if you die, no one cares. So, kid, I advise you to hurry up and get lost. Don’t spoil our fun, and we’ll act like nothing happened." One of the young men looked at Liu Hun and laughed.
At this moment, they focused almost all their attention on Liu Hun’s origins and completely overlooked Liu Hun, who had knocked one of their companions unconscious when he entered the room.
"No way, I’ve been taught to be brave since childhood, and I can’t watch you hurt this girl." Liu Hun gritted his teeth and said, but his face was full of dread.
"Fuck, you won’t listen when we offer a toast, so you’ll have a drink of forfeit. Third Brother, take care of him, and we’ll quickly get down to business!" One of the young men, after laughing, impatiently instructed a person next to him.
"Alright, but Boss, can I have a sip later? After all, Miss Mu, I could only watch from afar before, and I never thought I’d have such a chance now." The young man pleaded sleazily to the boss beside him.
"Fine, I’ll let you have a sip later, hurry up, don’t waste time." The man who spoke earlier said impatiently.
With his words finished, the young man began to step towards Liu Hun.
Seeing this, Liu Hun’s face showed fear, and he kept saying, "You... you don’t mess around, I... I’ve trained before..."
"Kid, we told you not to meddle, and now you can’t blame us." The young man shook his head regretfully at Liu Hun, then reached out to grab him.
Just when the young man thought he could easily grab Liu Hun, Liu Hun suddenly dodged and whispered, "1, 2, 3..."
"Oh, kid, I didn’t expect you to have some skill, but now it’s no use even if you count to a thousand, ten thousand." The young man glanced in surprise at Liu Hun when he dodged, then said disdainfully.
As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Hun said again, "Fall for me!"
This time, the moment Liu Hun finished speaking, the young man who had just walked in front of him turned pale, then fell heavily to the ground, his eyes full of terror.
"Third Brother, what’s going on?" The others also noticed this scene, and couldn’t help but ask in surprise, looking at the fallen Third Brother.
But as soon as they spoke, their faces also turned pale and they fell to the ground together, staring widely at Liu Hun, though they couldn’t utter any sound.
Mu Xiaoqian hadn’t paid attention to Liu Hun’s arrival at first, thinking Liu Hun was just a common secular person, and her life and death didn’t matter to him. If Liu Hun could buy her some time, maybe she could dispel the drug’s effects.
But at this moment, Mu Xiaoqian realized that the more she operated her Cultivation Technique, the faster the drug effects spread. Now she felt her entire body burning, wishing to strip off all her clothes.
"Are you okay?" Liu Hun didn’t know Mu Xiaoqian’s thoughts at that moment; otherwise, he wouldn’t have spoken to her so nicely.
"I... I’m fine..." Mu Xiaoqian struggled to reply.
"You’ve been affected by Hehuan Powder and still holding on, you have some determination, but it’s a shame. If I’d come a bit earlier, with acupuncture perhaps I could have relieved the effects, but now I’m afraid I’m helpless." Liu Hun looked at the Heavenly Immortal-like Mu Xiaoqian, whose face was pale yet with a certain aloofness, and sighed.