CHAPTER 633: SOME REALLY SH***Y LUCK

Nan Zhi soon found Ye Jinglan. The mer, just as she had expected, was sitting with a few of his friends with whom he liked to gossip and drink. She glanced at the fried chicken and the beer bottles that were littered all over the floor under the small roof of the outdoor shed, with no walls but only pillars. The more Nan Zhi looked at it, the angrier she became. This mer was worried about them? If he was worried about them, then the world was about to come to an end!

Nan Zhi walked over and picked up a small pebble from the street before walking over to the dilapidated house.

"I am telling you, those people have so much money, and yet they refuse to give me any. They even asked me to pay back the money that they had handed out." Ye Jinglan burped and patted his chest before continuing to speak, "I mean, how could they just leave me alone like this and even take away the children from me? How am I supposed to face my late wife? If something happens to the children, then I am afraid that I will never be able to raise my head in society ever again."

Before he could say anything further, something flew over and hit him on the back of his head.

"Damnit! Who dared to mess with loazi?" Ye Jinglan yelped in pain and surprise. He jumped to his feet and turned to look behind him, and when he saw Nan Zhi standing behind, he instinctively gulped because at that moment, the girl was looking at him as if she wanted to skin him alive. That gaze of hers resembled a wolf cub that was burning with blood thirst.

"You—brat, what do you think you are doing?" Though he was scared, Ye Jinglan still couldn’t bear to lower his stance in front of the child whom he had bullied left and right. He glared at Nan Zhi and threw the pebble down on the ground. "How dare you hurt me like this? Here, I am worried about you, and you are trying to kill me. Do you have even a single grateful bone in your body?"

"You are worried about me?" Nan Zhi spoke in a voice which was colder than ice, but because Ye Jinglan was drunk out of his mind, he didn’t sense anything amiss. He simply stared at the little brat who had dared to run away from him. It was because of these two kids who chose to go with Luo Huian that he lost the money that he could have gotten from Luo Huian with ease.

If they had stayed put in the hospital without making a fuss, would he have lost the chance to rip Luo Huian off?

With that thought in his head, he raised his hand and slapped Nan Zhi hard. Because he was angry, he didn’t even think of holding back his strength, which caused the little girl to drop to the floor. The slap was particularly loud, which caused the other mers to turn and look at Nan Zhi, and when they saw the blood trickling down from the corner of her mouth, they all gasped.

Unlike Ye Jinglan, who was used to taking advantage of the situation and wouldn’t think twice before eating and drinking when someone else was paying, these mers had held their desires in their heart and didn’t drink too much. Thus, they still had some rationality left within them. When they saw that Ye Jinglan had beaten Nan Zhi so brutally, they couldn’t help but turn to look at the mer and say to him,

"Jinglan, you need to restrain that temper of yours. What if you hurt her?"

"She is just a kid, Jinglan. You cannot do such a thing. What if she gets hurt?"

"That’s right, that hit was way too heavy. What if you had damaged her brain?"

"Even if you are angry, try to rein that temper in or else you will seriously hurt someone."

The four mers were worried about Nan Zhi more than Ye Jinglan, who had just finished swearing that he truly cared for Nan Zhi and her brother.

Ye Jinglan, on the other hand, simply waved his hand. He said to the other mers, "She will be fine. She has a tough and wretched life; a simple slap will not take her down. You see?"

When the mers heard his response, they all turned to look at one another; suddenly, they felt a bit awkward. Was this something that they could listen to?

What did Ye Jinglan mean by that Nan Zhi had a wretched life? Was he not the one to claim that he was treating Nan Zhi better than her biological father would have? Then was this how he was taking care of her?

"Wretched life?" Nan Zhi raised her head and glared at the mer with a look of sheer hatred in her eyes. "At least now you are speaking the truth! How dare you say that Aunt Luo was taking advantage of you when it was you who was trying to take advantage of her? All these days, you took more than six million yuan from her, and yet you dared to say that you did nothing wrong? How can you be so shameless? You don’t give my brother and me any food to eat. You lock us up in the shed in the small apartment, and our clothes are older than the rags in our house!"

"Yet you dare to say that you treat us better than our biological father? If you were our biological father, would you have treated us so cruelly? How dare you make such claims! If I were you, my tongue would have fallen out of my mouth for making such claims."

Nan Zhi wished she could grow up at that moment. She didn’t realise it before, but being this small and weak was really useless; she couldn’t even beat Ye Jinglan, who was a lying, thieving, scummy mer. If she were tall and strong, then she could have taken Ye Jinglan down with ease. At that moment, a rage like no other surged through her veins. The desire to grow stronger and ruin everything pulsated in her heart and soul.

"You – who are you looking at like that for?" Ye Jinglan’s heart clenched with worry and fear when he saw Nan Zhi looking at him as if she were wishing that he were dead. He glared at the little girl and said to her, "You dare say such lies? A bad girl like you deserves to be beaten and scolded!"

With those words, he raised his hand and was about to strike the little girl again. But before he could do that, the ground underneath his feet started to shake. Cracks started to form all over the ground, and he couldn’t stabilise himself properly.

The rest of the mers also stumbled and fell backwards. They all looked at the ground that was cracking and splintering, and all of a sudden, fear took over them. They raised their heads and followed the cracks that were slowly stretching past their feet and then reaching—

Nan Zhi’s feet.

Their eyes widened in shock when they saw the child’s eyes turning darker and darker like the sky above their heads. Thunder-like patterns started to appear on her skin, and soon her limbs started to stretch even further. Soon, the little girl who stood in front of them started to tower over them, then the small shed and very soon —

"Run!"

"It’s a hollow!"

No one knew who screamed, but they didn’t need anyone to tell them to run. Turning around on their feet, they then rushed after one another without looking back. Ye Jinglan turned to look at the traitors who had run away without taking him away and cursed. He looked up at the growing hollow, and then he, too, scampered on his feet before running out of the house that was already falling apart.

He was worried that if he was a step too slow, he would be trapped under the rubble and falling boulders that were crashing down from above. If he got caught, then he would die without getting a grave for himself!

That thing was big enough to squash him to death.

ROAR!!

The Hollow that had been trapped inside of Nan Zhi stretched his arms and let out a rumbling growl that shook the entire surroundings. As soon as the roar of the Hollow echoed through the city, screams of fear and terror burst all over the place. People started to run left and right; they didn’t even see where they were going; they just wanted to run to a safe place where they wouldn’t be squashed to death by the giant Hollow!

Bai Shiliu had just stepped out of the apartment building where Nan Zhi lived with Ye Jinglan when she heard the roars of a rather angry Hollow. She raised her head and cupped her eyes with the help of her hands. Her gaze met with the giant figure of the Hollow that was razing the city, and she clicked her tongue. "Damn, I knew we were unlucky but this is some real shit luck."