Stuck in a Chinese novel - Chapter 256

Chapter 256: An elaborate plan
Chapter 256

“What do we do now?” Yan Rong asked, her voice tense because of the way Xia Lu was acting. Wei Jun, however, remained calm. He could feel anger, and many more emotions, but outward, he was as still as a still ocean.

He pulled out his phone and contacted Mark Wilson, “Find that fat man.”

“Who?” Mark Wilson was confused at such an ambiguous command.

“Tao Min, the fat one.” Wei Jun replied.

“Ah, I see.” He said before he ended the call without even asking about why his boss sounded so serious. He always sounded serious but this time, there was hidden anger deep within. Mark Wilson didn’t want to do anything or be the reason to pull that anger to the surface.

As Wei Jun ended the call, he turned to Yan Rong and said, “Keep her here. No matter what, don’t let her go out. Break her hands and feet if you have to.”

A sentence that should have been metaphorical but Yan Rong felt like it wasn’t. Wei Jun was serious about breaking Xia Lu’s limbs to keep her there. She nodded because she was also too hesitant to make him angry.

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“I found him. Rerouting his phone’s signal to your helmet.” Li Wei said from the other side of Wei Jun’s comms. Wei Jun was in his biker outfit, hiding in an ally on his bike. With the scale of trouble he had caused, he knew the police would be on him as soon as he appeared in light.

But he had no choice but to be out in the open in the light of the day. There was something gnawing at the back of his head.

Kill Tao Min.

It wasn’t just the system quest that was telling him to do this. It was also the feeling from the partner system that compelled him to kill Tao Min. To do whatever he could to kill him. Even risk his own life.

In the morning, when the incident happened, it wasn’t that strong of a feeling. It was just slight anger at someone trying to harm Xia Lu but by noon, it turned into something Wei Jun had never felt before.

A barrage of intense emotions Wei Jun was never familiar with feeling. This life was one thing, but he hadn’t felt something this massive ever even in his precious life.

It was difficult for him to cope with such a thing.

He was not used to feeling so many emotions at once. So many at once that it was getting harder for him to control them. They were spiraling out of his control. That was also the reason why he was making an obvious decision that would get him in trouble.

Mark Wilson found Tao Min and Li Wei did her best to find his phone. Once she did, she linked the tracking signal to Wei Jun’s modified helmet.

Wei Jun looked at the location. It was a little far from his current position and no doubt, many would see him on his way there.

“Destroy the warehouse. Leave no trace behind.” Wei Jun said into the comms and started the bike. In full throttle, Wei Jun jumped out of the alley and onto the road. Immediately, everyone noticed him and some of them were also policemen.

“He’s been spotted in downtown again!” Zhang Fei yelled while Rin was trying to make sense of the situation. She turned to Zhang Fei and asked, “In the light of the day?”

“No idea.” Zhang Fei replied.

Rin thought for a moment before she said, “Make sure there are no surprises this time. The rest will follow me. And someone contact the commander. He needs to know of the situation here as well.”

With her instructions, the entire police force was out and about. Whereas the third party in all of this was enjoying cake while receiving the disgust of others around him.

‘Huhuhu. Condemn me all you want. I will soon have your women as well. Huhuhu.’ His inner monologue was as ugly as him.

Suddenly, when he was immersed in his twisted future plans, his watch suddenly lit up and a notification appeared on it.

[The invader is coming for you]

[The host must survive this battle]

[To support the host, a temporary buff will be provided]

[Good luck to the host]

As Tao Min read these notifications, immense power ran through him. So much so that he had never felt anything like this before.

[Strength 100]

[Stamina 100]

[Agility 100]

As a gust of power, power unlike anything Tao Min had ever felt before, passed through his body, Tao Min couldn’t help but feel threatened. His senses screamed at him that something was coming. Someone he wouldn’t be able to win against.

The watch had given him buffs before but never a buff as big as this one. This one felt like a threat he would never be able to contend against.

Boom!!!

The wall of the cake shop shattered and a bike entered from the shattered glass wall, a biker in red and black on it.

“Aahhh!!!” People screamed and ran out and the biker let them. His face was fixed on only one person in the café and that was Tao Min. Tao Min could feel it, the anger in the eyes of the biker even though they were covered.

A chill passed through his fat body as he hurriedly activated his skill…

[Danger zone]

[Effect: In a set radius around the host, no ethereal power would work]

[Time limit: 5 minutes]

The biker lowered his head and raised his hands to look at them. He could feel the power leaving his body.

Tao Min sighed. His power worked.

“Huhuhu…” Tao Min creepily laughed before he added, fear leaving his body and confidence replacing it, “You may be an invader or whatever. But in my great presence, you’re nothing but a weak, feeble humaa—-”

While Tao Min was in the middle of speaking, the base of a foot landed on the middle of his face at a speed he couldn’t react to.

He wasn’t even used to the buff he had gotten yet so getting used to the power of his opponent wasn’t easy as well.

‘Again…’ Once again on the same day, he was struck in the same place, slamming into the wall.

Step…

Step…

Calm but raging steps flowed into his ears as the biker slowly made his way to him. Once again, Tao Min was immensely confused. The cultivator was one thing because he didn’t have a buff then, but even though this biker was a cultivator, he still had a buff he never had before.

Did that mean the person who was called the invader was stronger than a normal human? Were his base stats higher than a hundred even when he was just a human?

That wasn’t possible.

Unless the invader, Tao Min’s assailant, the biker, was also someone like him. Someone who possessed a system.

[Unfortunately, that is your limit at the moment]

A voice flowed into Tao Min’s head along with the notification on his watch.

[But we at least now know that his power comes from something else]

[Not the laws]

Tao Min was immensely confused. The voice felt as if it was appearing in his mind, the words on the watch were imprinted on his very being.

He felt fear from that voice. Fear he hadn’t felt ever before even when his life was in danger. As if his life was owned. Someone owned his life and he had no power over it. Someone else decided his fate.

“Don’t make me laugh…” Tao Min said, realization dawning upon him that the power he had obtained wasn’t his. It belonged to someone else.

“Do you think I’m your pawn or something!!” Tao Min yelled, trying to stand up but as soon as he did, his heroic moment was interrupted as a punch landed on his face, slamming him into the floor.

The floor trembled and cracked. Tao Min felt as if his soul was about to leave his body. The biker wasn’t holding back. He wasn’t even enjoying this. He was simply trying to kill him.

Nothing more, nothing less.

‘Please…’ A power he was just rebelling against a few moments ago, he pleaded it to save him. After all, he couldn’t rebel if he wasn’t alive.

[Hahahaha]

A burst of amused laughter flowed into his mind, and his mind felt like tearing apart.

Whoever it was, they felt amusement at Tao Min’s desperation. The hero who was rising just a minute ago fell even harder and even that with just one punch.

Just one punch was enough to let the hero know of the cruel reality.

He wasn’t special.

The power he had could have been given to anyone. It could have been anyone’s.

He wasn’t special at all.

He was just a pawn

[At least now you know your place]

[And now that you do]

[We can’t just let you die]

[Not before you finish what you’re supposed to anyway]

[So we’ll save you this one time]

“Stop! Don’t move!” The biker was about to finish the job with one more punch, intending to drill through Tao Min’s head when he heard a feminine voice behind him.

He stopped because a number of notifications appeared in his view.

[Destiny has played an elaborate joke on you]

[Due to the third protagonist, you cannot use your power]

[However, the fourth protagonist isn’t affected by that power]

[A quest has arrived]

[Quest: Survival of the invader]

[Task: Survive]

[Reward: 20 APs]

[Failure: Death]