I, holding a long sword in my hand, only know one move

Ailian's eyes were covered with anger and turned bright red. She kicked Cheng Rang hard and kept retreating until her back hit the wall. After she could no longer retreat, he controlled her hands.

The girl who was screaming hysterically in front of him was just a victim, a human girl with no fighting ability. Cheng Rang could not use any violent means to stop her actions.

The muscles in her thin arms were spasming due to the effect of the medicine, and she wanted to break away from Cheng Rang's control. In order to prevent her from hurting herself, Cheng Rang could only hold Ailian firmly and try to tear and scratch her neck. wrist.

The stalemate lasted for a long time, and it seemed that Ailian had exhausted all her strength. She finally slumped against the wall.

"One by one, they say they are beautiful. They are all outsiders... Then why don't you turn into a jellyfish instead of my dad?"

"...Obviously, I don't even know what happened to us..."

"...encountered...what..."

The red light in Elian's eyes gradually extinguished, her pupils became dilated, and tears kept pouring from her eyes, blurring away the thick and inferior makeup on her face.

She silently let her tears fall and choked:

"I...if only I hadn't been born."

Cheng Rang's eyes were complicated. There was sympathy or pity in them, but he couldn't understand the girl's heart.

I have never had an experience like her, so I can't understand it.

Even her own sympathy may be a kind of harm to her who wants to be strong.

The exhausted girl had been tortured by the drug and had passed out. She was so thin that she curled up on the ground, as if she was lighter than a feather.

It feels like when the wind blows in this city, she will sway in the air with the wind and dust.

Vulcan's horniness, the drug dealer escaped in front of his eyes, but Cheng Rang could not leave the girl in front of him to pursue alone, and could only temporarily place his hope on Jet and Zabu's clues.

At least get her home first.

...

Sergey, who opened the door, saw his daughter who was sent back unconscious in Cheng Rang's arms. His feet weakened and he almost fell down.

Sergey stroked Elaine's peaceful sleeping face with a painful expression, knelt down by the bed, and held her hand tightly.

"Ellen...my child! What happened to her?"

Cheng Rang opened his mouth to explain, but the grieving Sergey seemed unable to listen at all. He could only give up, close his mouth, and leave a quiet space.

Leave Sergey and his daughter alone for a while.

[Dispersion (Elementary) - This target cannot be specified for use: Elen (Human - Neutral) This unit is not a friendly unit. 】

[Dispersion (Elementary) - This target cannot be specified for use: Sergei (Human - Neutral) This unit is not a friendly unit. 】

The system skill he tried again did not take effect, and Cheng Rang could only sigh silently.

If you can't rely on system skills to heal two people, you can only ask the professionals...

"I'm going out to make a phone call..." Cheng Rang whispered hello to Sergey and walked out of the room.

Although Leticia's Time Spell could perfectly heal these two people, it was impossible for her to take action. The huge cost of spending her life force on two unknown human beings was simply not acceptable to that guy.

In the final analysis, this is just a transaction for Leticia. Although she could be arrogant towards her own people, there was no doubt that Sergei and Elaine were strangers to her.

Then the only option is to call Elaine. Even if the boss, as the sponsor, gives the order, this is the only way to do it. I hope she has enough black technology over there.

Here, before Cheng Rang pressed the dial button and put the phone to his ear, a sudden change occurred in the room.

Elaine seemed to wake up, and the sound of her struggling on the bed was suddenly heard in the room, accompanied by painful screams.

"Ellen! Elen!"

"What's wrong?!" Cheng Rang didn't bother to answer the phone and immediately knocked on the door and entered.

Ailian, who had fainted on the bed, woke up again, her body twisted as if she had suffered tremendous pain, and she screamed.

There was even bright flames gushing out of her mouth that opened wide as she screamed.

——————

“This is the newest drug [Vulcan’s Horny] on the black market.”

"As the name suggests, it is said to give people an intense pleasure as if every cell is burning. However, there is a certain probability that the whole body will actually catch fire after taking it."

"That's why it looks like this. It's not that I suffered severe pain before dying, but..."

"Suffering indescribable pleasure and then burning up."

.....

Damn it! !

"Mr. Sergey, get away from Elian quickly!" Cheng Rang shouted and grabbed Sergey. At the same time, Elian's body, struggling on the bed, suddenly burst into flames with an astonishing temperature.

"Ahhhhh!!! Daddy...Daddy!!"

The daughter whose body was burning with flames screamed, but Sergei, who had been pulled away from her by Cheng Rang, suddenly broke free from the restraints.

Yes, break free.

Sergey burst out with strength beyond Cheng Rang's expectation at that moment, and suddenly broke away from his arms.

"Ellen!"

Then he gritted his teeth without saying a word and threw his body towards the burning Elen.

"Huh-uh!!!"

The man's jellyfish-like body boiled in an instant as if it was being fried, and the high-temperature flames roasted him mercilessly, making a crackling sound that made his skin and flesh split open and make his scalp numb.

But he didn't let go of the arms that hugged his daughter at all, and he was determined to put out the flames with his body, which looked ugly to outsiders, like a monster but full of water.

Elaine is Sergei's only light in this world.

Even if he would be burned to death, he resolutely chose to face the light and protect his daughter with his body.

At this moment, he was not thinking at all.

The debt he owed to his daughter, the guilt he felt towards her, the apology he had not had time to say, and the deepest love all turned into boiling steam and a groan of suppressed pain burst out of Sergey's body.

Cheng Rang, who witnessed all this, was even stunned——

He is just an ordinary person, how dare he...! ?

Isn't he... afraid of death?

boom! ! !

This idea was interrupted by a violent fireball explosion mixed with thick smoke that instantly broke through the windows and eaves. Then the water flow, which was more spectacular than the fireball, washed away the entire building. When it came into contact with the flames, it turned into white steam rising in the foggy night sky. .

Like a moth rushing to the fire, how can you be stingy about burning your body?

——In the face of what Sergey did, Cheng Rang didn't need to know the answer at all.

Chapter 31 The long, cold night

The siren of the ambulance tore through the silence of 59th Street in Bill Dartney. As Sergey was carried on a stretcher, Esteves, who came after hearing the news, could not say anything about the scene in front of him for a long time. talk.

"Cheng...this is-"

"Sorry....I was distracted."

The water that washed away the building was generated by Cheng Rang using Nyarlathotep's ceremonial attire to construct the "Sapling of the Water Tree", but he was obviously a little late and failed to control the flow rate due to the emergency, destroying Sergei's only residence. .

"In short, you have done a good job. At least the disaster has not expanded..." Esteves looked at the FDHL fire truck aside, "More than half of the fire hydrants here in the old Xilin District are not even connected to water, and the roads are in disrepair. There are weeds and garbage everywhere, and if the fire spreads, the consequences will be disastrous."

"..."

"Leave it to me next." Esteves boarded the ambulance along with other medical staff.

When the dying Sergei saw Dr. Esteves in a white coat, the first words squeezed out of his throat were still: "Please...save my daughter."

Looking at Sergei in front of him, who had at least half of his body severely burned, Esteves replied: "Don't worry, she will recover thanks to the [water] in your body."

"....She will definitely recover!"

The doctor is kind, Esteves sniffed hard and repeated it again.

Sergey's eyes, which seemed to be shining with the last light, finally calmed down after hearing these words, were covered by mist. The middle-aged man suddenly burst into tears on the stretcher.

His cracked lips trembled and rose.

"It's okay...it's okay...it's okay...it's okay..."

boom.

As the ambulance door slammed shut, the flashing police lights and sharp sirens gradually faded into the night. Only Cheng Rang was left in front of the ruins.

The cell phone in Cheng Rang's hand still showed that the call was in progress. After it became completely quiet on this side, Elaine's confused voice floated out.

"Hello? Boss, what's going on over there? Hello...?"

Cheng Rang put the phone to his ear.

"Elaine."

"Ah, boss, you finally spoke... What's the matter so late?"

"I have something to ask you..." Cheng Rang paused, then changed his words.

"No, this is an order, please listen to me."

...

In the research institute, Elaine listened to the serious tone on the other side of the phone, slowly lowered her crossed legs, and after quietly listening to Cheng Rang's story, she nodded in agreement without hesitation.

"Yes! Promise to complete the mission."

The second call was from Zabu——

"Hey, Cheng! The fish is hooked, come here quickly. The transaction is about to begin, and the goods are already in our hands."

"Understood, location?"

"Dog eats dog. The drug dealers pretended to be ordinary people and contacted us half an hour ago. They are now in the VIP room on the second floor. We are about to become [friends] with them and prepare to [draw the net]."

"I know, I'll be there soon."

Cheng Rang's unusually calm tone seemed to contain a chill that made his whole body shiver. The moment he hung up the phone, his figure disappeared.

five minutes later.

In the VIP room, Zabu, Jeter and Chengrang pushed the door open and entered.

Sitting on the sofa in the room was a gray-haired man who had just put on a suit and tie, and two bodyguards wearing masks also sat beside him.

Judging by their stature, one of them may not even be human.

The conversation went smoothly, and because of Zabu's true character, the other party didn't notice anything wrong at all.

Rather...there is actually nothing wrong with it.

"I heard that you are from the entertainment industry? Can you introduce some artists to me next time?"

"Hey~Put it on me!" Zabu smiled and made gestures on his chest with his hand, "When I find a few girls as old as Naiko to accompany you in this way~ coupled with this medicine, it will definitely be wonderful——"

As he spoke, Zabu took the medicine he bought out of the plastic bag and put it into his mouth. It looks like an old medicine jar.

The other party immediately stopped him and said, "Ah, no, no, it can't be used here."

"It's okay, I know how to use it~" Zabu waved his hand with an indifferent tone.

"No, it's just in case."

The gray-haired man said: "There are also cases where it suddenly spontaneously combusts at inexplicable timing, so you must be careful."

Zabu gritted his teeth and almost wanted to burn the pills in his hand to ashes on the spot, but in the end his rationality told him that he could not do so for the time being.

"If you know this, why do you still want to sell it?"

The gray-haired man kept a nonchalant tone from beginning to end. He said calmly: "If you ask me, I can't explain..."

Zabu's tone changed: "It's really incomprehensible. The so-called drug (harmony) is to make those addicts hover on the edge of life and death, so that they can drain all their oil and water!"

"A product like this that accidentally kills customers is very inefficient in making money. Is the creator out of his mind..."

Zabu suddenly emphasized his tone: "You're so stupid!"

After hearing this, the gray-haired man just smiled and said, "But what if the purpose is not money?"