Chapter 659: Taking Charge (1/2)

GDK 659: Taking Charge

Han Shuo was caught off guard and in an instant, felt his lips fill with warmth and fragrance. Donna was incredibly fervent and had no resemblance to her usual solemn air.

Drawing connection with Donna shouting in desperation just a moment earlier, Han Shuo understood that Donna must have taken him as someone else in her hallucination, explaining her misbehavior.

Han Shuo did not indulge in being passionately canoodled by Donna as he clearly understood that her soul would grow increasingly unstable the longer she did so. If this trend were allowed to continue, Donna could end up in a disastrous state.

The detrimental effects of these hallucinations actually had no connection with a person’s strength. The hallucination merely reproduced the scene that had gnawed at the person’s mind - sore points that were buried deep within one’s heart but not overcome. It would make the victim fall deeper and deeper into the abyss of despondency before they finally completely lost their mind.

Given Donna’s performance, her mind was likely being perturbed by a past relationship that was deeply etched in her memory. She ought to be hallucinating about it and had mistaken Han Shuo as that person who she couldn’t part with - thus her rather ludicrous actions.

After being startled for a short moment, Han Shuo soon came to his senses. He maintained the same posture and did not resist Donna’s forceful, hot-blooded kissing. Han Shuo slowly raised his hand to the back of her head and suddenly gave it a pat, turning her unconscious.

Before her well-rounded body fell to the ground, Han Shuo held her by her soft waist. Without being distracted by any fanciful thoughts, Han Shuo identified the direction and whisked Donna away from the formation.

As soon as they escaped the formation, Han Shuo saw Li Wei, Bolten, and the others all looking at him with rather perplexed and bewildered eyes.

Although Han Shuo had knocked all of them out in order, as Han Shuo did not use his demonic yuan, and since these people were lowgods with extraordinary strengths, they managed to regain consciousness soon after they escaped from the influence of the formation. Having just woken up, these people were still somewhat at a loss. They couldn’t tell if they were still hallucinating momentarily.

But when they saw Han Shuo carrying Donna by her slender waist away from that terrifying formation, some clarity was restored to their perplexed eyes. After staring blankly for a moment, Li Wei suddenly asked, “Bryan, did you just save us again?”

“Yea. I found you all hallucinating and in dire circumstances, so I knocked you out and carried you away from that place one by one!” Han Shuo explained as he had no need to conceal that fact. Before he could lay Donna down, she began to burble something and he saw that she was sobering up.

Donna cried out in surprise when he saw Han Shuo was carrying her by her waist. She looked around frazzled and recognized the situation. She asked, “Bryan, you saved me?”

Seeing that Donna had awoken, Han Shuo put on a smile and placed her down before he apologetically explained, “You were hallucinating. As your mind was in a very unstable state, I had to knock you out.”

“It’s alright! Thank you!” Donna replied with a sweet smile. Then, suddenly, as though having recalled something, her tender and beautiful cheeks blushed and her watery eyes started glancing around Han Shuo’s lips.

“Ahem!” Han Shuo immediately realized something from the direction of Donna’s gazes and hastily wiped his lips with his sleeve. When he looked down, he noticed that there indeed were red marks on his sleeve. Some of the lipstick that Donna applied to her lips had come off onto Han Shuo’s lips.

“Oh… You… You two…” When Li Wei’s sharp eyes discovered the abnormal expressions on Han Shuo and Donna’s faces, she covered her mouth in shock and put on an expression of disbelief.

Having heard Li Wei’s light cry, the crowd turned their attention to the two and seemed to have made the connection. They all put on peculiar expressions. Among them, Bowen’s face turned rather gloomy and his eyes were again filled with traces of hostility.

“This… that… It’s not what you’re imagining!” Donna’s cheeks turned even redder as she hastily explained.

Han Shuo too was rather embarrassed. When everyone again had their gazes gathered on him, he lightly cleared his throat and explained, “Miss Donna was hallucinating and had mistaken me for someone else. I was in a rush to rescue her and did not anticipate that she would… “

“Stop talking!” Donna interrupted Han Shuo’s words, glanced at Bolten and the others and smilingly scolded, “You bunch of mischievous kids, how could your minds all be so dirty?”

“Oh? We didn’t say a thing, did we?” Li Wei replied with a mischievous smirk.

“Alright! Alright!” Donna shot a smiling glare at Li Wei and soon turned to Han Shuo and said somewhat apologetically, “In any case, thank you. I apologize for any transgression I may have made! Please don’t keep it in mind!”

“Don’t worry about it,” Han Shuo replied, though he thought to himself, What else can I do about it? Make redress by returning the kisses back to you?

“We all have Bryan to thank yet again. It seems that Bryan really is our lucky star!” Bolten started to express his gratitude passionately. His gazes towards Han Shuo blazed even brighter. If Han Shuo was not aware of his sexual orientation, he might have mistaken Bolten as a homosexual.

“Truly a mysterious fella. He’s saved us once again!” Li Wei muttered as she gleamed at Han Shuo.

The first time he helped them out of trouble could be discounted as mere luck, but not the second time.

Han Shuo was calm and unruffled. He did not behave conceitedly but merely smiled without saying a word. He knew that these people must have been very curious about him and how he could repeatedly rescue them from the dangers found in this mysterious place; it was puzzling, how a god as small as himself from a low-level material plane could perform such miraculous actions.

Donna looked at the path ahead and mumbled to herself, “How should we proceed next?”

There was no other demonic formation ahead of them other than the colossal Ninth Realm Mystical Yin Harvester surrounded by several mountains. Gazing at the majestic mountains up ahead and sensing the extremely intense mystical yin aura, Han Shuo felt as though he saw that ancient senior from the school of demonic arts with powers that could topple mountains and overturn the seas performing the magnificent feat of altering the laws of heaven at this place.

Han Shuo was absent-minded for a brief moment as he let his imagination run wild. His head was filled with absolute admiration for that existence.

“Bryan, do you think we should proceed further?” seeing that Han Shuo did not put forth any suggestion, Donna mentioned him by name and asked.

Han Shuo was dazed for a moment and looked at Donna with astonishment. He smiled awkwardly and said, “Why are you asking me? You are our leader. You should be the one calling the shots!”

Donna was actually rather stunned at herself after hearing those words. She thought, Yeah, why am I asking him? I should be the one making decisions! After thinking carefully about it, Donna suddenly discovered that with Han Shuo having rescued her twice, unwittingly, her impression of Han Shuo had changed. Although Han Shuo did not possess much strength, for some reason, she had taken Han Shuo as an expert of equal ranking who could truly assist her.

Li Wei, however, did not feel that anything was inappropriate. “You always astonish people with miraculous feats and have excellent observation power. It’s normal that big sister Donna would ask for your opinion!” Perhaps she herself had failed notice it but her attitude towards Han Shuo had also unwittingly flipped.