Above the Galaxy
Chapter 359 - 231, Habitually Clinging to the Powerful!

Chapter 359: Chapter 231, Habitually Clinging to the Powerful!

Sunshine Orphanage.

Bai Wuxin walked to the entrance of the orphanage, and the children who were watching fireworks in the courtyard immediately flocked over, excitedly shouting,

"Brother Bai is back, Brother Bai is back...."

"Brother Wuxin, where have you been? You haven’t had New Year’s Eve dinner with us tonight."

"It’s not tonight, it’s last night; we’ve already rung in the New Year.... Brother Bai, have you eaten?"

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Bai Wuxin opened his mouth, wanting to speak, then darkness fell before his eyes.

Thump!

His body heavily fell onto the snowy ground.

Xiao Lang, who had just come out from inside, saw this scene and immediately rushed over, picking Bai Wuxin up from the ground and sprinting towards the back courtyard.

By the time Bai Wuxin opened his eyes again, he was already lying in the orphanage’s medicinal meal room.

His long hair lay disheveled, looking stunning yet tragic.

His upper body was bare, covered with layer upon layer of medicinal mud on his wounds.

His lower body was submerged in a large medicinal tub, underneath which there was no fire or any heating, yet the liquid in the tub bubbled and bubbled.

The old lady, with a large cigar clenched in her mouth, said hoarsely, "Eleven wounds all over the body, three of them fatal, and you’ve even been poisoned... Those people went to great lengths to take you down."

"I was ambushed," Bai Wuxin said with a grave voice. "They deployed a large number of skilled fighters, among them four Ruyi Realm masters, and countless other Cultivators... The Monitoring Bureau also mobilized a lot of special agents and spies..."

"Four from the Ruyi, equivalent to a junior Grandmaster." The old lady flicked the ash from her cigar with her withered fingers and continued, "Quite dangerous, you were lucky to have picked up a small life this time."

"Luckily, that kid dealt with it in time; the medicine he used was also good. Otherwise, you might have already become a dead man..."

"I owe him a life," Bai Wuxin said.

After thinking for a moment, he added, "Two lives."

Tang Fei had said that he owed Tang Fei four hundred star coins and a life, which roughly added up to two lives.

He didn’t have two lives, but he acknowledged the debt.

"I originally wanted to rush over and fish you out, but Lu Yu said to not act rashly and to let the young ones handle it. If he couldn’t handle even this little matter, then it would be better for us all to disband early... to avoid dying needlessly at the hands of that treacherous old Zhong Daolong."

"Besides, if we reacted, it would have raised too big of a commotion. At that time, not only would all of us have become exposed, but that kid’s identity would have been impossible to conceal as well. So, I thought of waiting...."

"I didn’t expect that kid would actually bring you out safely; it wasn’t in vain that we supported and trusted him... People that Lu Yu takes a liking to really aren’t bad."

"I’m sorry," Bai Wuxin apologized.

He knew that if he were captured, many things might be exposed.

At the very least, the children from Sunshine Orphanage would have been unlikely to survive.

Whether they were innocent or not, they would surely die under that cold blade.

Of course, before being captured, he would have tried to ’dissolve’ himself.

It was a physical dissolution; after swallowing that pill, his body would turn into a pool of blood and, once flushed down the drain, no trace of him would be found again.

When the Monitoring Bureau conducted their search, he genuinely considered this, until Tang Fei stopped him.

This greatly increased Bai Wuxin’s favorable impression of Tang Fei, seeing him as a man with a sense of responsibility.

If Tang Fei had been fearful of death and self-preserving, allowing him to die to save himself, then what would have been the meaning of all the things they had done over the years?

Would their family’s deaths not have been in vain?

"What’s the use of talking about this?" The old lady blew out a ring of smoke and said, "When you left, I should have stopped you, but I understood your concerns. Your heart was not at peace."

"You wanted to stir up trouble before the new year, to keep them from having a good celebration. Didn’t I have the same thoughts? So I harbored an optimistic mindset, thinking that even if you couldn’t succeed, you would be able to retreat safely..."

"While we’ve been planning against others, they’ve been plotting against us too..... They calculated that we would make a move before the new year, so they set up ambushes around a few key personnel..."

"Look, as soon as you showed up, they got you wrapped up like a dumpling. Thankfully, through the years you’ve been diligent, and your ’Broken Sword Style’ has significantly advanced; otherwise, those four Ruyi Realm masters would have taken your life..."

"Why could they guess who my targets were?" Bai Wuxin asked.

"When it comes to being human, one should never think they’re the only clever person in the world." The old lady looked at Bai Wuxin, her expression serious as she spoke, "Everyone calls Yan Wenli ’Mad Dog,’ but I think he’s more like a fox..."

"In the past two years, most of those we’ve killed have been the main generals involved in the destruction of the Tang case... and many of them are from the nine major families...."

"Yan Wenli naturally knew who our targets were. They deliberately transferred Qin Junfeng back from the frontier, as a means to lure the snake out of its hole."

"There you go, seeing that Executioner Qin Junfeng appear, didn’t we immediately lock our target on him? Didn’t we fall right into their trap?"

Bai Wuxin fell silent.

One day, he would kill them all.

"Don’t blame yourself, and don’t get discouraged," the old lady, who understood Bai Wuxin’s thoughts very well, said. Having seen him grow up since he was a child, she knew his character and thoughts well. "For someone your age, to have escaped from an ambush by four Ruyi Realm masters... just that alone is enough to make you stand proud among the masses."

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