Ch53 - Gunsho (1/2)
The jingubang trembled in Zhou Sheng’s grip, growing longer and extending to the other side of the cliff before expanding to form a cylindrical bridge for the two of them to walk over.
“Be careful.” Zhou Sheng said absentmindedly. He was thinking about how to obtain Chen Yekai’s permission to summon over the dragon and soldiers that were on standby outside the Golden Crow Wheel.
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Along the way, he tried all different manner of approaches, including but not limited to telling Chen Yekai that he has a dragon and asking him to imagine the dragon appearing in his dream. But ultimately, his efforts were in vain. There must be some other conditions that haven’t been met……Zhou Sheng thought.
“You and Yu Hao……have known each other for a long time?” Chen Yekai asked tentatively as he stepped onto the jingubang.
“No.” Zhou Sheng roughly explained how he had rescued Yu Hao.
Chen Yekai answered, “Just as I suspected then.”
Zhou Sheng thought that Chen Yekai must have made countless deductions before inquiring about the truth — and this would have included Yu Hao’s self-destructive tendencies in the past.
Chen Yekai came to an abrupt stop.
Standing in the middle of the jingubang bridge with nothing around to support them, Zhou Sheng keenly sensed that something was imminently rushing towards them from the bottomless abyss!
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“Run!” Zhou Sheng shouted decisively.
But just a short moment later, hundreds of shrieking eyes and mouths shot out from within the unfathomable abyss, and the mouths were even spitting out sharp knives. Chen Yekai and Zhou Sheng quickened their pace, but Zhou Sheng roared, “Dodge!”
Chen Yekai and Zhou Sheng staggered to the side, narrowly avoiding the crisscrossing bladestorm that grazed past them by hanging from the edge of the jingubang bridge.
An enormous black shadow emerged from the bottomless abyss and transformed into a humanoid form; its two eyes were as wide as basketballs, and it was yelling in English. It lunged towards them.
“What’s that?!” Zhou Sheng shouted.
Chen Yekai, “……”
Zhou Sheng, “Kaikai!”
While holding onto the jingubang bridge, Chen Yekai’s arm was cut by a sharp knife, and fresh blood immediately gushed from the wound; his grip loosened and he almost fell into the bottomless abyss before Zhou Sheng seized his shirt collar with his right hand. He arduously held on to the jingubang bridge using the crook of his left arm.
“That’s……” Chen Yekai stared, transfixed on the black shadow, “Solimai……it’s him, it was him who posted our video……”
Zhou Sheng shouted, “This is a dream! Don’t be afraid of him!”
Chen Yekai was shocked out of his stupor by Zhou Sheng’s shout and instantly sobered up. He drew a gun from behind his back and fired three shots at the black shadow. Within the blares of gunfire, the black figure wailed in anguish and collapsed; it disintegrated into a mass of black smoke only to once again converge on the other side. Immediately afterwards, even more floating mouths loomed. Sharp knives emerged from the gaping mouths and shot towards the two of them.
“Aim for the eyes!” Zhou Sheng was grabbing the jingubang bridge with one hand while he held Chen Yekai with the other. He exerted some strength and hoisted up Chen Yekai, who turned over and hung from the jingubang bridge as well.
Only eyes and mouths could be seen floating above the abyss, and all the mouths were incessantly chittering in English, Japanese, Spanish, Italian……
“What are they saying?!” Zhou Sheng said, “I don’t want to go through another English Listening test!”
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Chen Yekai suddenly became indignant and roared out a sentence in English.
Zhou Sheng, “???”
Zhou Sheng instantly realised what had emerged from this bottomless abyss — these were the slandering accusations incited by this man that Chen Yekai and Ryuusei had to suffer through. They had to constantly avoid the sharp daggers that relentlessly hurled past. Chen Yekai started shooting at them, and after a burst of gunfire, their surroundings gradually began to quieten.
Chen Yekai, “Where’s your shield?”
Zhou Sheng, “It’s the jingubang. It either becomes a shield or a weapon. I can’t use these two items at the same time unless I’m in Yu Hao’s dream.”
They were still in a state of panic as they gasped for breath. Within the darkness, it seemed as if there were more monsters that were scaling the cliff.
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“Let’s go!” Zhou Sheng urged.
Chen Yekai flipped over onto the jingubang, then pulled Zhou Sheng up with one hand. The mass of black smoke swarmed in front of a gate and transformed into another man.
Zhou Sheng caught up with quick steps. The man’s gaze suddenly flooded with terror, and he retreated. Chen Yekai slammed his face in with a punch; the man immediately raised both his hands and slowly knelt down on the ground.
Chen Yekai couldn’t stop trembling. He turned sideways, drew his gun and pressed it against the figure’s forehead.
Zhou Sheng withdrew his jingubang and watched Chen Yekai carefully from the platform. Chen Yekai arduously gasped for breath as he began to gently pull back the trigger with a finger.
Zhou Sheng waited for the sound of a gunshot, but Chen Yekai never pulled the trigger.
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But similar to the idea of how ‘you can’t play into the enemy’s hands’, Zhou Sheng realised that perhaps at this moment, Chen Yekai shouldn’t pull the trigger. What changes would take place if he shot this perpetrator in his dream?
One second, two seconds, three seconds……
Chen Yekai regained his composure.
“Get lost.” Chen Yekai said in a deep voice, “Never appear in front of me again.”
Solimai instantly wailed, and the black smoke dispersed. Huge rocks rose from the bottomless abyss and rapidly covered the darkness below the cliff. The surrounding area transformed into a spacious passageway, and in front of them was the gate to the core area of Chichén Itzá.
“Nicky, you trash——” Ryuusei’s voice let out a shrill outcry within the void.
“Yes.” Chen Yekai said, “Ryuusei, if doing so could make you feel a little better, then I’m willing to pay the price of being imprisoned for 20 years, or even my whole life.”
He retrieved his gun, “But I clearly remember the day you said you didn’t want me to kill, because you couldn’t bear that price, and that all of this would gradually become a part of the past. You said that being together was more important than anything else.”
“I didn’t mean it——!” Ryuusei’s roar was almost hysterical.
“Come back ba.” Chen Yekai said, “Ryuusei, which one is the real you?”
Zhou Sheng, “……”
The huge gate before them slowly opened to reveal a dazzling beam of light.
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“Is anybody here?” Yu Hao shouted, “Nakagawa Ryuusei! Where are you? Show yourself!”
“Is anybody here is anybody here……” Echoes could be heard from the well.
Yu Hao suddenly heard it — the echoes didn’t seem to be his own.
“Is anybody here?” A weak voice said.
Yu Hao, “!!!”
Yu Hao turned his head abruptly; that voice came from the well! What’s going on? Aside from him and Ryuusei, there was another person here?!
“Who are you?!” Yu Hao asked.
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“Who are you?” The voice in the well answered.
Yu Hao could discern a figure as he looked into the well. He looked everywhere to search for a rope, but found none.
“Give me a moment!” Yu Hao said, “I’ll pull you up right now!”
Yu Hao dismantled his long staff into daggers, cut the vines that surrounded the cenote, tied them together, then lowered it down. When he felt someone grasp the rope from below, he quickly pulled it up.
Not a moment later, a young man looked up from within the well and stared blankly at Yu Hao.
Yu Hao, “!!!”
Yu Hao was completely dumbfounded. A fair face, frail and thin body, bare upper body, black hair and black eyes —— another Nakagawa Ryuusei! Compared to the dark Ryuusei Yu Hao saw before, this young man’s expression was filled with more melancholy and nervous unease.
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“Ryuusei?” Yu Hao asked.
“Ryuusei?” Ryuusei repeated Yu Hao’s words, then looked at him uneasily.
Yu Hao asked again, “Who……who are you? Don’t let go! Come up!”
The Ryuusei in the well seemed a little afraid of Yu Hao and wanted to release his grip, but no matter what Yu Hao said, this Ryuusei would only repeat his words. Yu Hao was a bit flabbergasted. This is……the other Nakagawa Ryuusei in Chen Yekai’s dreamscape? Is he the original, kind Ryuusei? Where did Dark Ryuusei go?
“You still want to struggle?” A cold voice called out from behind him, followed by a kick that pushed Yu Hao into the well. Yu Hao immediately cried out and fell in, but before he realised what he was doing, he forcefully grabbed the wrist of the well Ryuusei. When he looked up again, he saw the other cold, sorrowful Ryuusei outside the well!
Yu Hao tenaciously grabbed onto the vines, while his other arm wrapped around Ryuusei’s waist. He shouted, “Ryuusei! Don’t let go!” Although he didn’t know what was in the well, his instincts told him that he definitely couldn’t fall in!