owlsbooks Chapter 52 Keep running, don't turn your head!
Chapter 52 Keep running, don't turn your head!
When Chen Dagou arrived at the courtyard, the gate was ajar.
He was about to push the door open.
The old woman was seen peering through the crack in the door.
One head peeked out.
On the verge of death.
"mother!"
The old woman seemed to sense her son's return.
A glimmer of light suddenly appeared in his previously dim eyes.
He reached out and grabbed Chen Dagou's trouser leg.
Looking at Chen Dagou's face, he moved his lips for a long time.
The result was that only a few broken syllables were squeezed out.
"Find...Ya Ya...take Ya Ya...run away..."
The sound grew fainter and fainter, and the hand gripping his trouser leg suddenly loosened.
Her eyes were still looking at him, but the last bit of light in her pupils gradually dimmed.
Like a candle flame blown out by the wind, it went completely out.
Chen Dagou gently opened the entire door.
Only then did he realize that his mother's body was lying across the threshold.
Half of his body was lying in a pool of blood.
The lower body was twisted to one side at an unnatural angle.
His body was cleanly severed at the waist, with only a few shredded pieces of clothing connecting the two halves.
She kept one hand in the position of crawling outwards, while the other hand remained in the position of gripping Chen Dagou's trouser leg.
His eyes were still open.
When Chen Dagou knelt down, his knees hit the bluestone slab at the door.
He reached out to close his mother's eyelids, but found that... he couldn't close those eyes no matter what he did.
Chen Dagou's hand froze in mid-air.
At that moment, muffled thuds of fists and feet colliding came from inside the wooden house.
He looked up abruptly, his eyes instantly becoming bloodshot.
Inside the house lay the corpses of four or five men lying haphazardly, blood flowing from beneath them and pooling together.
Chen Ergou stood still, fighting with the few survivors.
His left arm was hanging down and he couldn't lift it, and his right eye was so swollen that it was only a slit.
His bare upper body was covered with deep, bone-revealing knife wounds.
On his chest, a slanted knife wound stretched from his collarbone down to his waist.
Every time he threw a punch, blood began to gush from his wound.
But he was still standing... still throwing punches.
There are three left on the other side.
One late-stage coagulation stage, and two mid-stage coagulation stages.
Chen Dagou recognized the late-stage Blood Coagulation cultivator holding the knife... Blood Leopard, the vice leader of the Blood Wolf Gang.
Every fatal wound on his brother's body was inflicted by this man.
The blood leopard was also panting.
He brought eight men with him, thinking that dealing with the two traitors would be more than enough.
Unexpectedly, the force Chen Ergou unleashed in that desperate situation was far more troublesome than he had anticipated.
Five of the eight people were already lying down, and the two still standing were also in bad shape.
He stared at Chen Ergou's swollen face and forced a cold laugh through his teeth.
"Aren't you going to tell me now? Where did that traitor go?"
Chen Ergou spat a mouthful of blood at him.
The blood leopard turned its head to avoid the attack, and blood dripped onto the wall behind it.
He rubbed his cheek with the back of his hand and stopped talking.
Suddenly, the sound of the jar lid being lifted came from the inner room.
One of the Blood Wolf henchmen pulled Ya Ya out of a large water vat in the corner of the kitchen.
She was too small, and the man grabbed her by the back of her collar and lifted her into the air.
Her legs were kicking wildly in the air, and her little face was red from being unable to breathe.
"Second Uncle... Yaya is in so much pain... I can't breathe..."
She grabbed the rough, large hand at her collar, trying to pry it open... but no matter what she did, she couldn't budge it.
Blood Leopard glanced at the little girl suspended in mid-air, then at Chen Ergou.
A smile slowly crept onto his lips.
"This time, are you going to tell or not?"
He looked Ya Ya up and down, a wicked smile on his face.
"What a lovely little girl."
Chen Ergou was trembling all over.
He gritted his teeth.
Squeezing out each word one by one.
"If...something...comes...to...me!"
Just then, a burly figure rushed in from the courtyard gate.
Chen Dagou didn't utter a single unnecessary word.
He quickly mobilized his internal energy.
He pushed his movement technique to its limit.
He stormed into the house like a silent bull.
Before the two guards could react, they were struck by his fist.
One of them flew out with a dent in his chest, crashed into the wall, and died instantly with his head lolling to the side.
Another person was punched in the neck, knelt down and struggled for a couple of moments before collapsing to the ground.
In an instant, one of the two mid-stage Blood Coagulation Realm cultivators died and the other was injured.
This is Chen Dagou's true strength!
But Blood Leopard had already lifted Ya Ya in front of him and gripped the back of her neck with one hand.
"You're here."
Blood Leopard nodded, as if greeting a latecomer.
"The gang has treated you brothers very well. They provide you with food and drink, and medicine for cultivation, allowing you to live a decent life in Qingzhou City."
"Why?...Why betray them?...Why let Lu Yuan off the hook?"
"Don't tell me... with your strength, you can't beat Lu Yuan!"
Chen Dagou clenched his fists so tightly that his knuckles turned white.
"We brothers will take responsibility for our mistakes. Do with us as you see fit! ... But the child is still young, this has nothing to do with him, so please let her go."
"bear?"
"Let them go?"
Blood Leopard slowly turned his gaze to Ya Ya's face. There was no anger in the curve of his mouth, only a genuine confusion.
"You're so naive!"
"Do you know what the gang will lose because of your leniency?... Can the two of you bear the responsibility?"
His hands began to slowly tighten.
Ya Ya's cries were squeezed out from deep in her throat, and her two little legs kicked wildly under her skirt.
One shoe was kicked off and fell into a pool of crimson blood.
Just then, Chen Ergou suddenly sprang up from the pool of blood.
He somehow managed to get behind Blood Leopard.
His left arm was useless, and he was blind in his right eye.
But his right fist was still clenched tightly.
One punch!
It hit the back of the blood leopard's head.
The force wasn't great, but it still made the Blood Leopard stagger half a step.
The hand that was gripping the back of Ya Ya's neck unconsciously loosened its grip.
Ya Ya fell from his arms.
Chen Dagou seized the opportunity, leaped over the pool of blood, and caught Ya Ya in mid-air.
Blood Leopard suddenly turned around and struck Chen Ergou's shoulder and neck with a palm strike; the sound of bones cracking could be clearly heard.
He lunged forward again, trying to grab Ya Ya once more.
But Chen Ergou's arms were already tightly gripping his waist from behind.
Blood Leopard wanted to break free from Chen Ergou, this madman.
But Chen Ergou's two arms were like two iron hoops at this moment.
They held him tightly.
"You bastard! Let go of me!"
In desperation, Blood Leopard's fists rained down on Chen Ergou.
One punch,
Two fists,
Three punches.
...
With each punch, the sound of bones cracking could be heard, but his arms never loosened.
"Walk......!"
Chen Ergou forced out a final roar from deep in his throat.
Without hesitation, Chen Dagou grabbed Ya Ya and rushed out of the wooden house.
He rushed through the courtyard gate, through the pine forest, and moved quickly forward.
He didn't turn back, because he knew that if he looked back even once, he wouldn't be able to leave.
After running a long distance, a very short scream could be faintly heard from the direction of the wooden house, followed by a long silence.
He stopped.
A look of hesitation appeared on his face.
Place Ya Ya at the entrance of a secluded forest path that no one knows about.
Squat down.
At this moment, Ya Ya's face was covered in tears, her skirt was askew, and she was trembling all over, but she bit her lip tightly and refused to make a sound.
Chen Dagou looked at her lovingly and gently wiped her face clean with the unstained half of his sleeve.
"Yaya, will you listen to me?" His tone seemed to indicate that he had made up his mind.
Ya Ya looked at him and nodded vigorously.
"it is good."
Chen Dagou gathered her loose braids and gently stroked the tips of her ears.
Pointing in the direction of the path.
"Keep running in this direction until you reach the outside of the mountains. There's a place called the Iron Bone Sect there; go find your brother Lu Yuan."
Keep running, don't look back.
"Where is Father?"
Ya Ya asked.
She held onto his sleeve tightly and refused to let go.
"Father will come to find you then. You wait for Father over there."
Chen Dagou gently pried her hand open, warmed it in his palm, and then pointed to the path.
"Remember...keep running, don't look back. Keep going."
Ya Ya is gone.
The small figure limped away among the shadows of the trees, sometimes swallowed by the morning mist, sometimes emerging from it again.
Chen Dagou didn't stand up until that figure was no longer visible.
"Sorry, Ya Ya..."
He turned around and went back towards the wooden house.
"I really want to stand on the yellow-listed arena and have a good, satisfying fight..."