Bonus Chapter 4/4. Thanks for the kofi, hope you enjoy this new arc of the story.
Chapter 19 – Landing in Xuancheng
Ye Zhan and Qi Yuan got off the spaceship hand in hand, and the members of Zhu Huang followed.
The landing area was an open space next to the garbage disposal plant, and as soon as they opened open the hatch, there was a foul smell protruding in the air. No people were waiting outside to welcome them, and the status of the third young master of the Qi family could be seen from this immediately.
“This is too much, isn’t it?!” Fan Xiao was the first to shout, “It’s okay to arrange for us to land next to a garbage dump but why is there not even a beautiful chick with a ribbon waiting for us?”
As he spoke, the ground suddenly trembled, and everyone looked ahead. They saw a behemoth faintly emerging at the end of the street in the distance. With each step forward, the ground hummed and trembled. This was followed by the sound of uniform footsteps, clattering, like the sound of multiple people tap-dancing.
Smoke and dust billowed on the asphalt road, and Ye Zhan gradually saw that the behemoth was an elephant, it was far larger than ordinary elephants, at least 5 meters tall, it was better to describe it as a moving small building. The elephant was clothed in gold and silver, and he was inlaid with ivory and gold, and around its neck was a jeweled chain, while its eyes were tied with silk cloth.
A drone with a lantern flies in front of an elephant, emitting a strange bright light, like a flying disco light ball. Although blindfolded, the elephant seemed to be able to see the drone’s lights and was following the lights diligently. Beside the elephant were two rows of uniformed soldiers, moving at a constant pace.
The elephant was one that awakened the Kuafu’s bloodline, the experienced bandits immediately recognized the strange monster but they only fell into a deeper confusion – the strange beasts they had seen were either killing or being killed, and rarely appeared in this circus-like fashion.
It was soon clear that the elephant was draped with an ornate woven carpet on its back, with a spacious seat for two people, a blackout canopy on top, and a long-haired man reclining on the throne, dressed in the uniform of the city council, with a wide open neckline and a bunch of strange pendants around his neck.
Ye Zhan recognized that this was Qi Yuan’s eldest brother, Kong Zhao, an Omega who was also 37 years old this year. In Ye Zhan’s impression, this person was born with a beautiful face that transcended gender, even after getting married, he did not stop messing around with flowers and grass, he remarried twice, had countless lovers, and was the number one male in most of the scandals in Longye and Red Coral District.
But now it seems that as he got older, he seemed to have restrained himself, his face is no longer as attractive as when he was young, he is more cold and thin, and there are some wrinkles at the corners of his mouth. The beautiful eyebrows and eyes inherited from his mother looked lifeless because of long-term exhaustion, and the two black jade-like eyes were entrenched above the eye sockets, always with a domineering taste.
As for why his surname is Kong, it is said that it is because Qi Zhen and his wife Kong Jia were too affectionate, and while the eldest daughter was named Qi Chaiyuan then the second child followed his mother’s surname and was named Kong Zhao. Kong Zhao obviously failed to feel the good intentions of his parents, and since he was a child, he felt a deep inferiority complex for not inheriting the family name, this inferiority complex became worse after he presented as an Omega in his adolescence before he finally transformed into a gloomy and ruthless madman who liked watching people in pain.
In Ye Zhan’s words, this is a “metamorphosis” that the Qi family members must experience once in their lives, just like how a caterpillar will become a fluttering moth sooner or later when it grows up, even a good baby like Qi Yuan is not immune to this “metamorphosis”.
Now lying on top of the giant beast, Kong Zhao, who was the greeter, looked down proudly, and a smile pursed into his thin lips, “Second brother, welcome back.”
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Somehow, the elephant suddenly became restless, its feet rising and falling, its stout legs shaking like chaff. Then it lowered its head, like an obedient sheep kneeling in front of Qi Yuan, its fangs slamming to the ground, its head bowed.
“Chariot!” Kong Zhao angrily rebuked the name of the mount, and the leather whip in his hand struck it mercilessly, only to elicit a displeased roar from the giant beast.
“Good.” Qi Yuan touched the elephant’s blindfold and stretched out his hand to Kong Zhao with a smile, “Big brother, do you want me to invite you down?”
Kong Zhao glanced at him cowardly, rolled up his whip, stepped on the shoulders of the guards, and got off the mount- the people around him immediately raised umbrellas for him, so as not to burn the skin of their master with the scorching sun.
Kong Zhao didn’t care about Qi Yuan, and when he saw Ye Zhan, he couldn’t hide the shock and disgust in his expression, “You actually brought this traitor back!”
“Hello, big brother, good to see you.” Ye Zhan smiled sweetly.
He’s been smiling so much lately that he’s feeling like he’s about to turn into a pickled sweet-pickled plum.
Kong Zhao snorted, ignored him, and instructed lightly, “In just a week, it will be our father’s eightieth birthday, and I will be fully responsible for the birthday banquet as well as the city committee. Your room in the old house has been cleaned, and you will still live in that room. Remember to visit your mother.”
The rest of the members of Zhu Huang were arranged to stay in a high-end hotel in the southwest corner of the city, which was far away from the Qi family’s old house, and if something happened, they were afraid that they would not be able to respond in time. Some people wanted to protest, but Qi Yuan stopped them with his eyes.
“Let’s go.” After explaining this, Kong Zhao rode the elephant again and returned home.
After reciting a basket of polite words for a long time, Ye Zhan still felt a little regretful, and said, “Your eldest brother is still like that… Fresh and refined.”
Qi Yuan nodded approvingly, “It’s the feeling of going home.”
“Damn it, this bastard is too fucked up!” Fan Xiao had a domineering spirit, anyone who dared to look down on him so much outside would have been beaten to death with his punches!
“Fan’er, don’t swear.” Qi Yuan said, “Didn’t I teach you to be a civilized person?”
The elephant hadn’t taken a few steps when suddenly the rope of the blindfold on its head loosened, and the whole blindfold slipped down. Seeing the light again, the giant beast roared at the sun with its head thrown up and threw down its hooves so vigorously that it completely forgot about the drone’s lights and ran wildly towards the sun.
“Chariot! Chariot! Stop!” Kong Zhao on the back of the elephant shouted and cursed regardless of his image, he whipped at the beast a few times angrily but was thrown off the ground by the giant beast. If it hadn’t been for his men who sacrificed their lives to save him, he would have been crushed under the elephant’s feet.
Fan Xiao looked at this scene dumbfounded, and nodded blankly, “The boss is right, we have to be a civilized person…”
Ye Zhan, who witnessed the whole process of Qi Yuan pulling the strings, couldn’t help but smile, this guy obviously had bad intentions and he could still carry out his own plan in such a way, but at this time, he could still maintain a serious appearance, as he stopped in his tracks and watched idly.
Ye Zhan still remembered that Kong Zhao liked to scold Qi Yuan as a “bitch-raised bastard” since he was a child, and Qi Yuan would not scold him back, but every time he was scolded, he made a note of it in his heart, and he remembered when it had totaled up to a hundred times. Then he took Ye Zhan to the grove with him and picked up 100 caterpillars day and night, and hid them in his brother’s clothes pockets, bags, lunch boxes, and shoes… Finally, one early morning, after accidentally putting a toothbrush and rubbing it with a big green worm in his mouth, Kong Zhao, who was in his twenties, was made to cry by this little rabbit-like cub, although his hatred was increasing day by day, he no longer dared to scold him using those words.
His father taught Qi Yuan that “To be a civilized person, you can’t swear”, and also taught him to “Repay grievances directly, and repay debts if you have them.”
The loss of control of the mutant beast is a big problem, but fortunately, Kong Zhao’s mount has long been castrated and they have pulled out its fangs so it was weak. After the initial panic, the soldiers quickly trapped the elephant with ropes and put a new blindfold on him, which did not cause much trouble.
However, this is Xuancheng, as they all know, the sun in Xuancheng is brighter than the outside, the moon is rounder than the outside, even a grain of soil on the ground is more expensive than the gold outside, and the drama went on naturally a little longer than the outside.
In the next second, everyone only heard a terrifying roar, followed by an even more terrifying explosion, “Boom-“, a cannonball flew from a few blocks away, directly blasting the head of the giant beast, and the flesh and blood burst like a heavenly maiden scattering flowers.
“This is- this is an anti-tank missile!” Fan Xiao was not stupid, he had never seen anyone in the city who dared to shoot anti-tank missiles, this was a little crooked as a building would be gone with just a hit!
The mount worth thousands of gold was killed on the spot, and its flesh and blood were blown all over the street, and naturally, Kong Zhao was splashed with blood all over his body, his hands trembled and his lips turned white with anger, “Who did it, who did it?!”
“It’s me.” A metallic, hoarse voice sounded.
A speeding motorcycle came to a halt on the side of the street, its tires grinding against the ground and making a piercing screech. A woman in a leather coat braced her long legs on the ground and took off her helmet. The barrel on her shoulder was also emitting billowing smoke.
She had a sharp appearance, prominent cheekbones, a pair of lion-like eyes that shone fiercely in her sunken eye sockets, and her short silver hair neatly combed back her head. At first glance, Ye Zhan remembered the statues of the gods in the cave in the wilderness that were eroded by the wind and sand, solemn, strange, and vicious.
Qi Chaiyuan.
Ye Zhan’s head immediately remembered her name, and there was only this one woman who dared to drag herself around like this in Xuancheng. She is Qi Zhen’s eldest daughter, 45 years old, Alpha, tyrannical and murderous, cruel by nature, and extremely talented in command, a fanatical war machine.
It was this woman who had locked him up and tortured him. Seeing her now, Ye Zhan still instinctively shuddered.
Qi Yuan suddenly grabbed his hand—first groping for his knuckles, and then the warm palm of his hand came up, wrapping his hand tightly in his palm.
The two got closer, and Qi Yuan looked straight ahead with a calm expression as if everything had nothing to do with him. Ye Zhan thought slowly that they were now playing a couple and should be so intimate.
“Who allowed you to shoot my chariot?!” Seeing Qi Chaiyuan, Kong Zhao’s fierceness was even stronger.
“Out-of-control beasts must be dealt with immediately, and if necessary, owners who have failed in their duties can also be shot at,” Qi Chaiyuan got off the patrol’s motorcycle, helmet between her arms, “You have violated the rules, write a copy of the report to the city guards.”
This is a rule written in black and white, and the beast is indeed out of control, Kong Zhao is at a loss, so he can only barely hold back his resentment as he sarcastically said, “I will deal with these little things, why would I bother the eldest sister to do it herself?”
“Deal with it?” Qi chased over in great strides, she was 1.8 meters tall, and immediately pressed onto Kong Zhao’s head, “I only saw a group of stupid pigs spinning around.”
“Oh?” Kong Zhao smiled coldly, “I don’t know whose team neglected their duties three days ago and let the infected people run around the streets. Eldest sister, if you have time to bully these poor house pets, why don’t you have time to train your army well?”
“You don’t have to worry about this,” Qi Chaiyuan nodded indifferently, and poked Kong Zhao’s pain point with just one sentence, “This is an Alpha’s business.”
Ye Zhan looked at them funnily, when he left five years ago, although the relationship between this pair of sisters and brothers was not harmonious, it did not reach such a tit-for-tat point. Old Man Qi’s coma tore apart the surface of the family, and as the two heirs who were most likely to inherit the family business, the struggle between them had reached the point where they didn’t bother to hide their enmity at all.
For example, Kong Zhao, as the vice chairman of the city committee, needs to greet Qi Yuan in person, but he wants to put on a pomp and show off his martial arts to spread his virtues.
Another example is Qi Chaiyuan, a general, has a group of subordinates who are ready to charge into battle with her words, however, after hearing that Kong Zhao’s mount was out of control, she immediately went on the battle in person. The rocket artillery rested on her shoulders as she rushed over for eight hundred miles just to shoot Kong Zhao’s mount in its head.
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