The Unruly Immortals

"This is an illusion, this is an illusion!!"

In the gloomy bridge tunnel, Li Huowang with a bloodied head knelt on the ground, trembling as he repeated over and over again, as if trying to solidify his own beliefs.

The scene terrified Huanhuan who dropped her xiaolongbao on the ground and turned to run outside the tunnel, crying bitterly.

Li Huowang knelt there for a long long time, the environment around him alternating between dim and bright.

After shifting between the bridge tunnel and the woods three times, he went to the riverbank, cleaned the dried blood off his face, then turned to walk out of the tunnel, a cold glint peeking between the fingers of Huowang's hand.

On the ground where he had been, only the name Sun Xiaoqin remained; another name was completely covered by the blood.

Li Huowang remembered where Yang Na's school was. She had once described it to him excitedly, mentioning the snack street nearby and the tasty things there. She had even made a plan with him to go there and have a good time once they were both feeling better.

Whenever it came to matters involving Yang Na, Li Huowang always remembered them very clearly, even if she only mentioned them once.

The sharp blade skimmed Li Huowang's head, shaving off the matted hair to reveal a scalp no longer bleeding.

Stripping off his filthy old clothes, Huowang put on some clean clothes that had been hung outside to dry by someone else.

In such a guise, Li Huowang looked so normal that as he walked among the crowd, no one pointed or stared at him anymore.

Taking advantage of the darkness, he climbed into the train station, then disguised as a relative sending off luggage, he mixed in with the passengers and boarded the train.

When a dazed Li Huowang regained consciousness, he found that he had already arrived in the city where Yang Na was.

After glancing at the sign on the bus stop, Huowang moved with heavy steps, struggling toward the direction of the university town.

He walked very slowly, as if wishing this long road would never end. However, no matter how slow one walks, the day of arrival eventually comes.

Li Huowang sat on a plastic stool in a barbecue restaurant, staring blankly at the distant gates of the campus, his odd behavior drawing some puzzled glances.

"What are you waiting for! This is an illusion, Yang Na is fake! Get up and do it! I cannot give up on reality just because of an illusion! Do you really want Miaomiao to end up in that inhuman, ghostly state?"

"I've traveled through, I've already gone through!! Yang Na won't be harmed, she will live well in that world! There won't be a lunatic to pester her, to obstruct her happiness!"

"What are you waiting for! Go! Go! You caused Miaomiao to become this ghostly figure, don't you want to save her?!"

Li Huowang struggled painfully in his heart, how he wished for something to help him shed this hesitation at this moment, to allow him to stand up resolutely.

At this moment, the chubby-faced proprietress came over, "Ahem, this student, are you okay? You look a bit pale."

Li Huowang remained indifferent, completely absorbed in his own world.

The proprietress wiped the table in front of Huowang with a cloth, then turned to tend to her own business.

Suddenly, a scream came from inside the campus, instantly capturing the proprietress's attention. In no time, she saw men and women running out of the campus in a panic, "Eh? What happened, what's this?"

Just as others were passing by the small stall, the female owner reached out and grabbed a male student who often ate at her place. "Hey, Fatty, Fatty, what's happening at the school?"

"Sister Liu, call the police quickly! Those bank robbers have come to us! They've already stormed into the girls' dormitory! One of them even has a gun in his hand!"

Hearing this, Li Huowang slowly turned around to look at the male student who was speaking, and he suddenly laughed.

"Could it get any faker? To encounter such a low-probability crappy incident, it must be an illusion for sure." At this moment, Li Huowang, having let go of all his concerns, finally stood up and made his way towards the school gates, intent on defiance.

Li Huowang walked along the main road of the university, continuously watching the fleeing female students around him, trying to spot a familiar face.

The deeper he walked into the campus, the more his body trembled.

To alleviate the trembling that wouldn't stop no matter what, Li Huowang instructed the magnolia tree full of blossoms on his left as he continued looking for someone, "Miaomiao, after I have obtained the pain in my heart, if I'm in so much pain that I can't move my hands, please help me achieve the ultimate physical agony."

"Remember how that person on Reed Island dug out his throat? Just do it like he did."

Anxious, Li Huowang then addressed the bicycle lying on its side, "Li Sui, if Miaomiao really does this, don't you dare stop her, got it? She's not hurting me, this is about whether we can get out of this damn place."

"Whatever happens later, make sure to stick close to me. Those from the Astrological Bureau, I'll save them if I can, and if I can't, so be it."

The campus was vast, and Li Huowang had searched for quite a while but still hadn't seen Yang Na. When he arrived at the female dormitory, the sound of police sirens was already coming from outside the campus.

Looking up at the high-rise before him, Li Huowang heard angry shouts coming from within, and it seemed that over a hundred female students upstairs were all blocked.

"This is all an illusion, it's all an illusion!" Li Huowang muttered to himself as he stepped over the iron gate and went inside.

The first and second floors were empty, everyone had run out. As Li Huowang continued up the stairs, he came face to face with two men dragging a girl downstairs.

Li Huowang nodded at them, slightly made way for the people to pass, and was about to continue upstairs.

"Stop!! I told you to halt! Don't come any closer!! Don't think I don't know what tricks you're up to! You're an undercover cop, I saw through you long ago!"

A bald man pressed the blade he held directly against the neck of the girl in his embrace. He looked very nervous; his breathing was even erratic.

"We want three SUVs! Full of gas! And five million! No! Ten million! Then get all your people out! You have one hour to prepare! Make it quick!! Every thirty minutes past, we'll kill one more person!"

Li Huowang ignored him and asked the girl in his arms, "Classmate, do you know Yang Na? What room does she live in?"

The girl was clearly terrified by the situation unfolding before her, and other than whimpering, she couldn't respond in any other way.

Li Huowang didn't care either and prepared to continue upstairs.

"You motherfucker, stay put there!!" An old handgun emerged from around the corner of the stairway above his head, pointing at Li Huowang.

Along with footsteps, a tall man with a sullen expression came down from upstairs holding the pistol.

"See what I've got in my hand here? This is a gun!"