GBT Chapter 74

Chapter 64 (2)

My female classmate sent a shocked, vomiting blood emoji: !!! My bestie said Shen Er An went to West City!

Jiao Bai:?

Female classmate: They just chatted, I thought… oh well, never mind.

Female classmate: Shen Er An left directly from the exam venue, so rushed, don’t know what he’s doing in West City, but he definitely did well on the exam, top in the grade. So envious of the classmates sitting around him, they’re lucky babies whose ancestors must have burned a lot of incense.

Jiao Bai quickly exited WeChat and called Shen Er An in the car: “You came to West City?”

Shen Er An wasn’t surprised that Jiao Bai found out so quickly, he “mm”ed.

Jiao Bai raised his voice: “Taking the train or something? Alone?”

Shen Er An looked at the receding street scenes of South City outside the car window, eagerly hoping they would recede faster, preferably so fast that he could reach West City’s ancient buildings in the blink of an eye.

“Me, and the person seeing me off, a friend,” Shen Er An said.

Jiao Bai’s tense back muscles relaxed slightly. At least the means of transportation was safe, and Li Jue didn’t have a chance to get involved.

The moment he thought this, Jiao Bai’s heartbeat jumped again. He was still uneasy.

The protagonist halo was too strong.

So, on the day after the college entrance exam, Jiao Bai didn’t have dinner with his classmates from First High School, nor did he wait for Qi Yi Liao to get off work at the Qi Corporation. He stayed at Lan Mo Mansion, holding his phone and texting Shen Er An.

From dusk until night.

Late at night, Jiao Bai listened to the sound of Qi Yi Liao’s car engine returning from a social engagement and thought, Shen Er An should have arrived in West City by now. He sent a message, asking where the other party was.

No response.

The unease in Jiao Bai’s heart instantly leaped out, thumping against his throat. He called, but the phone was off.

Damn it.

Jiao Bai ran out in a panic.

Qi Yi Liao walked into the front yard and was met by a gust of summer wind filled with the scent of medicine. He grabbed Jiao Bai: “What are you running for?”

Jiao Bai was stunned. Right, what was he running for?

Even if the major turning point of “Broken Wings” happened, he didn’t know where to find the two protagonists.

Even if he knew where they were, he couldn’t interfere.

Jiao Bai gasped erratically.

Qi Yi Liao frowned: “You’re not even wearing slippers.”

Soon after, Aunt Liu brought out Jiao Bai’s shoes. Qi Yi Liao had him put them on.

Jiao Bai was pulled towards Lan Mo Mansion by Qi Yi Liao. The phone in his hand suddenly vibrated violently, and he immediately answered: “Shen Er An, where are you…”

The voice stopped abruptly.

Wrong.

The breathing on the other end contained a collapsing sob. It wasn’t Shen Er An, it was Li Jue.

“Jiao Bai…Brother…You’re not dead…You’re at the Qi family in West City, right…Then why did you lie to me and say you died…”

Li Jue cried out, his voice very hoarse, filled with pure resentment, “If Shen Er An hadn’t been constantly calling your name, and I hadn’t used his hand to unlock his phone and find your number to call, I wouldn’t have known. You lied to me. How sad I’ve been for you these past six months, why did you…”

Li Jue’s questioning stopped. In that instant, Jiao Bai heard an extremely painful roar.

A newly adult beast was enduring the first wound in its life, its skin and flesh torn apart, deeply penetrating its bones, forcibly severing its life with a single blow, never to be healed.

“What to do…Jiao Bai…What to do, Shen Er An keeps calling your name, he’s bleeding so much, so much blood, he won’t let me get close, please come quickly, save him…” Li Jue’s collapsing and helpless voice suddenly froze.

Clearly, he was overwhelmed by the situation he was facing, his mind was confused, so he made this call. Now he had sobered up.

Jiao Bai, on the other hand, calmed down at this moment. Because the protagonist shou had asked him for help, he was passively involved.

“Third Brother,” Jiao Bai grabbed Qi Yi Liao, who was standing still, not leaving, “Can you help me track the location of this phone call on my phone?”

Qi Yi Liao touched the sleeve of his T-shirt, ruffled by the wind, and brushed it: “Very worried?”

“One of my few friends.” Jiao Bai’s expression was very grave.

Qi Yi Liao put one hand on his head, ruffled his hair, and with the other hand took out his phone and made a call.

Jiao Bai thought he would have to wait at least half an hour, but he didn’t expect to get a result in just a few minutes. He called over a few of Qi family’s thugs and the driver, and was about to get in the car in a hurry.

Qi Yi Liao pinched the back of his neck: “Remember to come back, don’t be too late.”

After that, Qi Yi Liao let go and, after the young man got into the car, he closed the door for him and watched him leave.

Jiao Bai rushed to the small hotel and had one of the thugs kick open the door. He instructed: “You guys wait outside, don’t come in.”

As soon as he went inside, Jiao Bai smelled a bloody scent. He wiped the cold sweat from his face and emphasized as he turned his head: “Don’t come in!”

Jiao Bai walked inside, his chest, rising and falling erratically from running, was covered in sweat.

Li Jue was sitting blankly by the bed, wearing only a T-shirt, his legs were bloody, and so were his hands and body.

As for Shen Er An,

He was locked to the head of the bed, his chin and neck were a bloody mess. His tongue had been bitten through.

His limbs were also covered in blood, with minced flesh sticking to the metal.

Even though he used the intense pain to keep himself from losing control, from going crazy, from being enslaved by instinct, he still…

Jiao Bai grabbed the blanket that had fallen on the ground and covered Shen Er An, whose pupils were dilated.

The next moment, Jiao Bai picked up the motionless Li Jue, looked at this cheap shou protagonist of the manhua, the cub he used to follow in the manhua, and slapped him twice.