The Villain Is Outrageously Beautiful Chapter 14

This chapter has been edited by Fingerguns.

From this chapter onwards, i will be using s.h.i.+ Xiong (Senior Brother). s.h.i.+ Jie( Senior Sister). I will change the footnotes and edit C1-C13 when i have time. Thank you~

Chapter 14: To Rack One's Brain

The Animal Hide Man was already crippled. His state of mind was wavering and his spirit was unstable. Even more so, his insufficiency was forced out by Xu Xing Zhi's dagger. He had become a ruined dike stretching thousands of miles. In this crazy despair in the face of a blemish, his heart was only filled with wishes for a quick death, so that he could be freed.

He said, “I carry the fragment around with me. It's on me.”

After Xu Xing Zhi and Zhou w.a.n.g looked at each other, Xu Xing Zhi parted open the locks of oily hair of the Animal Hide Man. Zhou w.a.n.g raised her foot and tucked the dagger back to her boots.

Xu Xing Zhi unhurriedly asked, “Where did you hide the fragment?”

The Animal Hide Man answered, “Buried in my body, near the stomach and abdomen.”

Xu Xing Zhi's eyebrows wrinkled in a frown: “… You sure put quite a lot of hard work into this.”

It wasn't known if it was the tone of the sentence but the Animal Hide Man's smile seemed a little treacherous as he said: “In this wilderness if I don't put my everything in, I'm afraid I'll die so terribly that my bones wouldn't even be found. With this key fragment alone, I can solicit a group of sacrificial men who want to escape from the wilderness for my own use. How can I not hide it properly?"

Without waiting for the words of Xu Xing Zhi, Zhou w.a.n.g pulled out the cold iron dagger she had just put back.

Xu Xing Zhi reached out his hand to stop her, “What are you doing?”

“Digging the key out.” Zhou w.a.n.g went near the Animal Hide Man as she said, “My Uncle and G.o.dfather have been looking for it for thirteen years.”

Xu Xing Zhi said, “Didn't you hear him say he buried the key in his body? He is a man. You're a girl. You shouldn't see such dirty things.”

Zhou w.a.n.g was surprised: “My Uncle taught me from an early age…"

Xu Xing Zhi took the dagger from her hand: “Then your Uncle can't teach… Close your eyes and stand by the wall. Only turn back when I tell you to.”

Zhou w.a.n.g rolled her eyes slightly, but she still obediently paced over to the wall.

Xu Xing Zhi pulled up the Animal Hide Man's lapel. Sure enough, he saw rough skin that had been polished by sandstorms and scars on flesh that were twisted around like a snake. It was around 2 fingers long and it was exceedingly frightening.

Xu Xing Zhi had been selecting a spot in his body for a long time before he suddenly turned to Zhou w.a.n.g and asked her, “How long has Meng Zhong Guang been out?”

Looking at the wall, Zhou w.a.n.g answered, “About half an hour.”

Xu Xing Zhi: "Ah" and then said, “That means he should be coming back soon.”

Zhou w.a.n.g was very smart, and she soon realized. "Xu Shī Xiōng is unable to lay his hands on this man right now."

Xu Xing Zhi: “…”

To speak of the truth, Xu Xing Zhi had always acted unrestrainedly in the real world. His ideas of good and evil were not clear and he often acted out of line. If his life were to encounter trouble, he would certainly be as merciless as that time when he beheaded the razor monster. However, the Animal Hide Man was sprawled out on his back in front of him like he was a pig waiting to be slaughtered. Xu Xing Zhi unexpectedly was somewhat unable to swing the knife down. 

Zhou w.a.n.g started to turn around: “… Just let me do it.”

“Don't.” Xu Xingzhi immediately flashed over and blocked the bare body of the Animal Hide Man. “Don't look, turn around.”

He looked at the Animal Hide Man again and suddenly blurted out an idea, “Can you close your eyes and do it?”

Zhou w.a.n.g: “…”

Animal Hide Man: “…”

As soon as the words were delivered, Xu Xing Zhi himself knew how ridiculous his remark was. He took a long breath and exhaled lengthily. “Forget it, the key won't run away any time sooner. Let's wait for Meng Zhong Guang to come back before we decide."

As he was about to turn around, the Animal Hide Man called out, "I still know one more thing. Want to hear it?”

Xu Xing Zhi nodded: “Speak.”

The Animal Hide Man's smile was increasingly nefarious: “Come closer and hear my words.”

Xu Xing Zhi suddenly felt that something was amiss.

Zhou w.a.n.g no longer was able to contain her temper. She turned around and grabbed the dagger in Xu Xing Zhi's hand.

She could wield those two giant blades, naturally, she should not be underestimated. Xu Xing Zhi's hands were empty, and when he looked up again, he was shocked to find that Zhou w.a.n.g's face had already lost its plain indifference. She was just like a hungry wolf that had finally seen a living animal, wis.h.i.+ng to open up the Animal Hide Man's belly immediately.

Xu Xing Zhi had to press his shoulder against her. “Don't go forward anymore. There is something wrong with this ma…”

Zhou w.a.n.g, however, allowed no more explanation and pushed Xu Xing Zhi away with her arm.

Zhou w.a.n.g was small, she didn't even reach Xu Xing Zhi's shoulders in height. While Xu Xing Zhi expected her strength to not be weak, he never thought she would be so strong.

When Xu Xing Zhi was thrown aside and tumbled down, Zhou w.a.n.g lifted up the dagger. In the blink of an eye, the dagger sunk into the belly of the Animal Hide Man.

The iron pierced the abdomen of the Animal Hide Man, but there was no pain on the face of this man. His weird smile enlarged to the most exaggerated level, almost splitting his mouth into two.

Zhou w.a.n.g hadn't responded yet, Xu Xing Zhi had already rushed forward and pushed Zhou w.a.n.g back.

Near the wound of the Animal Hide Man was a light ma.s.s buried in the flesh of the Animal Hide Man's broken abdomen. Xu Xing Zhi saw it flashed suddenly. The white light dazzled his eyes to the point where he felt a burning pain in them.

—— When the Animal Hide Man buried the key in his body, he also stored a pinch of spiritual power in his belly. If someone wanted to open his abdomen to get the key, he would rather stimulate the spiritual power and blow up the key fragment. He refused to let go of the key at any cost, even if he was destroyed together with it!

Seeing that avoidance was inevitable, Xu Xing Zhi was already ready to suffer the moment he lifted up his hand to block.

But a warm embrace came pressing before the pain could hit him, locking Xu Xing Zhi firmly in his shadow.

That pair of arms dared not exert strength, but they merely loosely enclosed Xu Xing Zhi's shoulders. So cautious as if they were protecting a dream that would shatter when touched.

A heady plant fragrance emanated from this person and Xu Xing Zhi almost instantaneously identified this person.

He opened his eyes and met Meng Zhong Guang's gaze.

Xu Xing Zhi had never seen such an expression akin to the sea in his lifetime. Abstruse, gentle, never reaching the bottom. But beneath this still sea, there seemed to be a whirlpool hidden at all times, ready to swallow the person before his eyes. To desperately entangle and be released only by death.

Xu Xing Zhi felt like he was getting weak and numbed at his spine from his stare. For a moment, he felt an indescribable dry heat come over him such that he had forgotten to speak.

Meng Zhong Guang embraced him. He looked like he had suffered grievance from the way he spoke so softly, and he very much resembled a puppy.: “Shī Xiōng, you are running around again. Why didn't you wait for me to go back to the room?”

His graceful lips with a beautiful lip line were just right at the nose wing area of Xu Xing Zhi's face. The hot breath from his mouth immediately steamed Xu Xing Zhi's face red.

The inadvertent touch of their lips last night, the “Rabbit Master” mentioned by the Animal Hide Man, and Xu Xing Zhi's ear which was being tickled by his breath at the moment, threw Xu Xing Zhi's mind into a chaotic state. He barely muttered this one word of “You”, before his throat burst into tightness.

Meng Zhong Guang smiled.

If his smile was put on the face of any mediocre-looking person, it would inevitably be suspected of being fake, but when it was on his face, it was just charming and stunning: “… Shī Xiōng is so cute."

Just as the mood between the two men was slowly heating up, Zhou w.a.n.g, who had just recovered from the shock hurried up, “Xu Shī Xiōng, are you all right?”

Xu Xing Zhi was somewhat guilty and he pushed Meng Zhong Guang aside.

Meng Zhong Guang was caught off guard. He fell two back steps and instantly showed a hurt face.

When Zhou w.a.n.g saw that Xu Xing Zhi was in good condition, such that even his hair crown was not disordered, she felt relieved. Then she remembered the key fragments and pointed to the Animal Hide Man and shouted, “The key!”

Xu Xing Zhi was then reminded of it and pulled himself out of Meng Zhong Guang's arms to see how the situation of the Animal Hide Man.

Meng Zhong Guang, who was abandoned by his Shī Xiōng so resolutely, turned green and stamped his feet twice in anger when n.o.body noticed him.

Xu Xing Zhi almost vomited from taking a look.

The arrogant appearance of the Animal Hide Man's face had been acutely distorted by the intense pain that it no longer resembled a human face. A wound half an inch deep was created from the explosion of his spiritual power, but the spiritual power did not spread, instead, it was wrapped in a more powerful vermillion spiritual light. The exploded flesh was condensed into a lump and therein boiling vigorously.

As far as this boiling power was concerned, if Meng Zhong Guang hadn't stepped in, this chamber would have been razed to the ground.

In the depths of the b.l.o.o.d.y wound, one could see something similar to a piece of broken jade, which was s.h.i.+ning.

Despite the dirt, Zhou w.a.n.g immediately picked up the broken jade in her hand.

The Animal Hide Man exhausted all means only to receive a single strike of nothingness. He begged for mercy, it was unachievable; he asked for death, it was not doable. He could not even flip himself over because his body was crippled.

He shouted shrillingly, “Let me die! Just let me die! Kill me!”

In between his screech, Meng Zhong Guang pushed Xu Xing Zhi and Zhou w.a.n.g away from the horrible screams of the Animal Hide Man: “Shī Xiōng, Zhou w.a.n.g, both of you get out. Be careful, because he might go rampant and hurt everyone again…” His eyes could not be any more sincere. "…I'll take care of everything."

Zhou w.a.n.g finally got the treasure she had been thinking of, so she was not willing to spend more time with this Animal Hide Man. As the smell of blood here was terrible, Xu Xing Zhi also did not want to stay here any longer.

After waiting for the two to go out, Meng Zhong Guang's smiling eyes completely vanished. There was a sharp glint in his gaze. He leisurely cut off every limb of the Animal Hide Man's body.

Soon after, he squatted down and activated his spiritual power. He helped the Animal Hide Man unblock his meridians.

“Don't worry, I'll save your life.” Meng Zhong Guang had already dropped the childlike manner he had just now. His tone was extremely light. “You'll regret not blowing yourself up to death this time.”

The Animal Hide Man gave him an indignant stare and his throat was gulping, but not even the slightest scream sounded out.

When she stepped out of the room, Zhou w.a.n.g's b.l.o.o.d.y palm was clutching a piece of broken jade. She could not help wiping it on her clothes, looking like a child who had gotten candies and a rare expression of joy flashed across her face.

After going out, she saw a person in front of her and took the initiative to welcome them. She shouted, “G.o.dmother, where is G.o.dfather? We have obtained a good thing!”

When Xu Xing Zhi first heard Zhou w.a.n.g called for “G.o.dmother”, he who came out of the door of the chamber, thought that there were actually other women living in the tower, he just had not seen them yet.

But when he looked closely, he did not know to laugh or cry.

The person that Zhou w.a.n.g called her "G.o.dmother" was a man. He was wearing the clothes worn by the disciples of Danyang Peak according to Xu Xing Zhi's memory. He looked so weak that it didn't seem like he could bear the weight of his clothes. His complexion was pale like he had just recovered from a serious illness, but even so, there were still some color to his face.

He and Meng Zhong Guang were of different aesthetics. If he were to compare them, the temperament of the person in front of him was more similar to that of the female role on the stage of the Chinese opera.

… He really deserved the word “Mother” in G.o.dmother.

The man's voice was very soft and delicate, and it was difficult for one to distinguish if the owner of the voice was a man or a woman: “What is it?”

Zhou w.a.n.g was about to tell us what happened in the room. The man said, “Let's talk about it at Liu Yu Jiu's room. He got an arrow on his shoulder and is badly injured. Yuan Shī Jiě is treating him right now."

Hearing the name Lu Yu Jiu, the image of the ghost cultivation teenager with a baby face immediately appeared in front of Xu Xing Zhi.

He fell into a trance for a moment.

At that time, in order to save other disciples who were not even familiar with one another, he was willing to go back to the rear and almost became the dish of Fei Wei.

Why did such a person commit the crime of stealing the magical artifacts and get banished into the wilderness?

After years of living together in the wilderness, they could understand each other's thoughts clearly. When she heard that Lu Yu Jiu was injured, how could Zhou w.a.n.g sit still? She clasped the fragment and hurried to the room.

The beautiful man saw Xu Xing Zhi who was behind Zhou w.a.n.g, and he did not avoid him. Instead, he took the initiative to welcome him: “I heard from Qu Shī Xiōng that Xu Shī Xiōng is back. But ever since I came back from the Southern Mountain in search of spirit stones, I've been sick. I couldn't get off the ground, and I couldn't see you either. Does Xu Shī Xiōng remember me?”

Xu Xing Zhi: “…”

While Xu Xing Zhi was searching for traces of the person in front of him in the original owner's memory, the person smiled, “It's normal for Xu Shī Xiōng not to remember. The last time I saw Xu Shī Xiōng, I was a little boy who likes to weep.”

Xu Xing Zhi frowned slightly: “… Are you Tao Xian?

When Xu Xing Zhi talked to Qu Chi, he'd heard Qu Chi mentioning a person called Tao Xian.

At that time, his face did not show anything, but his heart was already been concerned.

… This “Tao Xian” was very strange.

Of course, his speech and behavior were not very unusual, but Tao Xian's own existence was a special case.

—— He did not exist in the memory of the original owner, nor did he appear in the words written by Xu Xing Zhi himself.

He appeared out of thin air, but he was accepted as a trusted man by Meng Zhong Guang and was taken in by this seven-member team.

Was there anything special about this sissy voice?

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Note that the book's clear CP is only Shī Xiōng and Little Sister Meng Guang.~