NOVEL NEXT Chapter 21: Jumping the guns
Trigger warning : Suicide ideation, readers discretion is advised. The author doesn't support any of the extreme incidents in the book.
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Luo Huian kicked open the door. The wooden door was already old and weary after years of lack of care. Its white paint was peeling and the names on the nameplate had long turned blurry. With Luo Huian's kick, the door burst open in an instant.
The second, the door was kicked open, a putrid smell of gas came flooding. Luo Huian scrunched up her nose as she covered her nose and looked at the inside of the small apartment. The gas was transparent but even so, with Luo Huian's sharp gaze, it was easy for her to detect the light-coloured waves.
"Why does it smell so bad?" Pan Delan felt her heart lurch to her throat. She studied in a prestigious school and thus, knew that this smell meant danger as her teacher had taught this to her when she was in third grade.
"Keep your eyes closed," Luo Huian was not certain about what was the condition inside the apartment. She did not want the girl to see something, she shouldn't see and cause trouble for her. She glanced at Pan Delan and noticed that she was about to drop her hands and stated, "If you drop your hands, I will leave your daddy and won't care about you either."
Pan Delan immediately covered her eyes. She was really scared and did not want Luo Huian to leave her as at that moment, only Luo Huian was a trustworthy adult near her.
When Luo Huian saw that Pan Delan was covering her eyes again. She nodded. "Stay like this and I will bring your daddy to you," she ordered the little girl.
"I...I will stay like this," Pan Delan agreed. More than her curiosity, the life of her daddy mattered to her more.
Only then did Luo Huian walk inside the apartment. As soon as she stepped out, Luo Huian felt her eyes and nose clog. The tear buds in her eyes started to tear up on their own. If not for the fact that some of Luo Huian's cultivation was still with her, her vision would have been hindered.
"What a mess! Why are humans so troublesome?" Luo Huian cursed as she wiped her eyes and used some of her spiritual energy to suppress the human mechanism and reactions of her body. "Not only are they weak, they are so bothersome."
Xiao Hei rolled his eyes. He said, "It's not that they are weak, it's you who is too strong."
Luo Huian ignored his comment and walked inside the apartment. She did not have the spiritual energy to waste and needed to look for Daddy Pan as soon as possible.
Fortunately, the apartment was rather small. After Luo Huian opened the bathroom and storage, only one room was left and that was the bedroom.
"Quickly, I feel the death aura turning intense," Xiao Bai said to Luo Huian who walked over to the bedroom door which was locked as well.
Her eyes twitched with annoyance.
"Damn you f*cker. If you are dying then die straightaway, why are you locking yourself away like a damsel in distress who was thrown in prison by her stepmother or father?" Luo Huian snarled as she kicked the door open. She was not going to bother with the key and lock.
Why should she bother looking for the key when she had legs strong enough to kick sense in even a dumb wall?
Inside the room, the smell of gas was even stronger. Luo Huian looked at the pale-faced mer who was lying on the floor and walked over to him.
Her eyes fell on her Gloom Index and noticed that it was quite high.
[ Gloom Index: 562]
"Tsk," she clicked her tongue in annoyance. From the looks of it, the mer had a decent family background as he was dressed in fine clothing and his looks were gentle and refined as well. However, he just had to take things hard. "What a mess, they really do not understand how to appreciate the good fortune handed to them. This is why I hate humans."
Luo Huian hated how humans blamed the heavens for being unjust when their destiny was in their hands. The path that they chose, paved their way.
Was it the unfairness of the heavens or the comeuppance of their actions?
"This is no time to condemn the choice of humans," Xiao Bai said gently. "This mer is going to die if you don't take him away."
Luo Huian would have ignored this mer if not for the fact that he was the key to her return to her world. He was the one who wanted to kick the bucket, so why was she wiping the water spilt by him? What kind of justice was this?
She crouched down and then picked the mer up in her arms and walked out of the room. At the same time, Luo Huian summoned a small breeze and cleaned the gas inside the room as she was afraid that someone else would end up dying because of the mistake of this mer.
The gentle breeze slowly cleaned the gas inside the apartment while Luo Huian moved out of the apartment.
Once she stepped out, Pan Delan who was waiting impatiently, opened her eyes swiftly.
"DADDY!" She exclaimed when she saw the mer in Luo Huian's arms.
Her eyes fell on Xu Suisui's pale complexion and she turned worried, "What happened to my daddy?" Pan Delan asked.
"He is fine. He is just suffering from an illness that every human suffers from," stated Luo Huian as she moved away from the apartment.
"What illness?"Pan Delan grew even more concerned. Her daddy was sick? Why did she not know anything about it? Why did her daddy not tell her that he was sick? If he had done that then she would have contacted the most experienced and skilled Doctors!
Luo Huian rolled her eyes as she replied, "The illness of jumping the guns due to his own foolishness."