LWDC Chapter 184

Chapter 184 – Not Letting Go

Chapter 184 – Not Letting Go

Chapter 184 – Not Letting Go

The day after Secretary Cui’s visit, late at night.

“…Who…?!”

The thumping and echoing roar in the house instantly jolted Ning Fei awake. As he opened his eyes in the darkness and turned over, he felt movement beside him.

“I’ll go see.” Duan Yunhong was already sitting up and throwing back the covers, his voice sounding alert, clearly having fully woken up from his dream. They were both people who could quickly become alert, a necessary survival skill in some war-torn worlds.

“I’ll go too.” Ning Fei also got out of bed, grabbed a robe in the dark, and quickly put it on. “Remember to take the gun.”

*Click.*

Duan Yunhong turned on the painted bedside lamp as he opened the bedside drawer, replying, “You too.”

“I know.” Ning Fei quickly fastened his bathrobe belt, took out a gun from the other bedside table drawer, and loaded it with bullets, his movements very practiced. “Tch, if you ask me, you shouldn’t bother with separating the gun and ammunition. What if someone bursts into the room directly? You’d have to waste time loading bullets one by one. Would you make it in time?”

“In this day and age, leaving a gun like that on the bedside, I’m afraid it’ll go off and hit my head.” Duan Yunhong was also quickly loading bullets as he walked to the door of the room. Once he got to this place, he stopped talking, simply placed a hand on the door lock latch, and gestured to Ning Fei with his eyes.

Ning Fei silently stood behind the wall next to the door, pointing the gun towards the direction the door would open, and nodded.

The next moment, Duan Yunhong quickly turned the door lock latch, twisted the doorknob, and abruptly opened the door!

It was pitch black outside.

Just then, the noises from downstairs became clearer. The sound of running feet thumping on the wooden floor, the shattering of porcelain hitting the ground, and angry shouts mixed together. Moreover, it seemed that footsteps were coming from the direction of the stairs.

Duan Yunhong and Ning Fei exchanged a look, tacitly stepping out of the door.

The lights in the hallway were all off, making it impossible to see clearly. Ning Fei stared intently at the end of the darkness, taking each step quietly. His ears were also carefully distinguishing sounds, hearing that someone had been injured at the stairs, that there were at least two pairs of feet in those hasty and panicked footsteps, hearing that the one in front had already reached the second floor, which meant they were within five meters –

“Who?!”

Ning Fei suddenly shouted sharply in the darkness. The footsteps seemed to freeze for a moment, but no one answered.

The next moment, Ning Fei decisively pulled the trigger!

*Bang!*

*Bang!!!*

Duan Yunhong followed closely behind and fired!

“Ugh…!” A pained groan came from the darkness not far away, followed by the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground with a *thud*. Apart from these noises, the gunshots seemed to silence the entire house, and all actions were momentarily suspended.

Ning Fei didn’t freeze, pulled the safety catch, and spoke again, “Answer! Who are you?!”

“Aaaah!!!” The only response he received was a rapidly approaching roar, the voice also unfamiliar. Ning Fei once again fired without hesitation, firing two more shots!

With a *thud*, another person fell.

No more footsteps dared to approach this place. Instead, a sound was moving further away, clearly running back to the first floor in a panic.

“Don’t run! Stop…!” Familiar voices of the gatekeeper and servants rang out again downstairs, clearly going to catch the fleeing person.

Ning Fei waited a while longer, until his eyesight had fully adapted to the darkness, and confirmed that there were only two “object figures” lying on the second-floor hallway before finally putting down the gun.

The two people were barely breathing in more than out, their moans very weak. But neither Ning Fei nor Duan Yunhong had any intention of saving them, or even approaching to check on them.

In the darkness, only Ning Fei’s disdainful sneer could be heard: “Tch, within seven steps, a gun is fast and accurate, and they still dared to charge?”

*

Soon, the entire mansion was brightly lit, and the servants were busy running up and down the stairs.

Ning Fei and Duan Yunhong returned to the bedroom, put the small guns away, covered themselves with a blanket, and waited for the results while napping on the sofa. Just as they were about to fall asleep again, they finally received a report from the servants.

Those who broke in were three petty thieves, or rather, local hoodlums from the nearby streets.

It was said that they saw that someone had suddenly moved into this house, and after inquiring, confirmed that it was a newcomer businessman from out of town. They assumed that the family’s defense capabilities wouldn’t be great, and that they could try to score something. They climbed over the wall in the middle of the night, and then climbed into the house through a window on the first floor that had been forgotten to be closed. However, they caused quite a stir in the darkness, waking up the gatekeeper. The gatekeeper then woke up several servants, and they chased and intercepted them everywhere.

Two of them ran to the second floor in a panic, each being “rewarded” with two shots by Ning Fei and Duan Yunhong, hitting them in the chest and abdomen. The latter also dropped a knife beside him, indicating that during Ning Fei’s second questioning, this person couldn’t withstand the pressure of his companion being shot and tried to fight with the knife. Until he also fell to the ground, the third person hurriedly turned back, fearing that the bullets upstairs would also hit him.

Anyway, by the time the servants went to check, the two people on the second floor couldn’t open their eyes in the pool of blood and couldn’t catch their breath even when they opened their mouths. Even a divine doctor would be powerless to save them. By the time they were carried downstairs, they had completely stopped breathing, dying in front of their companion.

The companion was scared half to death, begging for mercy desperately. The servant came to Duan Yunhong to ask how to deal with this live person and the two dead people.

“Follow your local rules, how other families deal with burglars who break into their homes, that’s how you deal with him.” Duan Yunhong slowly wiped the muzzle of the gun with a handkerchief. “As for the two who were shot dead, do you even need to ask? Just throw them into the mass grave outside Pingdu. Does anyone need to mourn for them?”

“…Yes.” The servant’s face didn’t show any surprise, indicating that such things were not uncommon in Pingdu. As he was leaving, Duan Yunhong gave him ten dollars and asked him to divide it among the people who caught the thief tonight.

Naturally, the servant’s mood changed, and he happily went out.

Duan Yunhong also went to the door and locked it again. Turning around, Ning Fei had already climbed into bed and burrowed into the covers, looking like he was about to fall asleep immediately.

“Moving so fast?” Duan Yunhong put the gun away and returned to the bed. “Do you have to race against the clock to get back into the blanket?”

Ning Fei turned his back to him without turning his head. “What else is there to do but sleep at night? You don’t feel cold, but I do.”

“Then, how about this?” Duan Yunhong turned off the light and hugged him from behind. “I thought you’d want to talk to me about those three thieves.”

Ning Fei didn’t like this kind of restraint when he slept, but Duan Yunhong was indeed warm, instantly chasing away all the cold of the night. So Ning Fei didn’t move, lazily replying, “Just thieves, are there few of those these days? What’s there to talk about?”

“I don’t think they necessarily wanted to come on their own.” Duan Yunhong’s voice sounded in his ear, magnetic, deep, hypnotic. “Do you remember in your world, when the church sent thugs to break into your house at night to teach you a lesson?”

“…Are you saying that those three petty thieves were also sent by someone to teach you a lesson?” Ning Fei had already closed his eyes but was still replying. “Who, that guy surnamed Cui?”

“Who else but him? The only one in Pingdu who has a bit of a feud with us is him.” Duan Yunhong analyzed, “It’s not necessarily to make us really suffer. Maybe it’s just to warn us that Pingdu isn’t safe, and only by pleasing them can we be guaranteed safety.”

“Crazy.” Ning Fei moved a little, but didn’t struggle out of the man’s embrace, simply adjusting to a more comfortable position, his hand also resting on the other’s arm. “I don’t want to make things more complicated. If you don’t have any other plans, leave earlier. I don’t want to stay until the new year. When the temperature drops below zero, I really don’t want to move at all.”

“Don’t want to see the red walls and white snow?”

“I was just lying to the dancing girl, you believe that?”

“Then… I’ll leave in a few days.” Duan Yunhong nuzzled the back of his neck, where there was a faint fragrance, the lotion Ning Fei used to moisturize and prevent dryness. Ning Fei’s taste and preferences had always been fixed, and the fragrance of the items he used was also of the same type. Duan Yunhong had gotten used to smelling it and always felt much more at peace when he smelled it.

“In a few days…?” Ning Fei thought of something, vaguely saying, “You’re not planning on giving me a surprise, are you? Isn’t your intention a little too obvious?”

“Don’t guess yet, I’m afraid you’re too smart and will guess it, then it won’t be fun.” Duan Yunhong chuckled. “As for my intention, isn’t it always very obvious? It’s you who’s burying your head in the sand, turning a blind eye.”

“I’m so sleepy, don’t use fancy words.” Ning Fei pinched the skin on the back of the man’s hand. “I’m warning you, don’t do anything that will make me feel embarrassed or awkward.”

“Like?”

“Do you really want me to give an example?” Ning Fei said, “I’m saying the ugly things first, I have stupidiophobia. If you can’t even guess that, please leave from behind me right now.”

“Ha, you only mention stupidiophobia to me, why are you so caring to the mentally challenged time-travelers?” Duan Yunhong not only didn’t leave but instead pressed even closer. “I’ll just ask you, if I manage to make you even a little bit satisfied, would you dare to be honest about your satisfaction? Would you dare to have a little more courage to listen to my honest words?”

“‘A little bit satisfied’ is your goal? Am I that cheap, willing to bite with just a little satisfaction?” Ning Fei sneered. “I’m not that cheap yet.”

Duan Yunhong said, “Your ‘a little bit’ is equal to a thousand or ten thousand points for others. There’s no one more difficult to deal with than you.”

Ning Fei pulled his hand away, coldly saying, “Compared to whom? Tell me.”

“No one, just teasing you.” Duan Yunhong resolutely didn’t let go, holding him tightly. “You’ve compared me so many times in bed, what did I say? Didn’t I still let you compare one item at a time?”

“Fuck, haven’t you compared me in your heart?” Ning Fei pulled his hand even harder. “Who has less experience? If you want to bring up old scores, do it early… Hey!”

Ning Fei covered the back of his neck, which had been kissed, and finally turned over to push the person away. “What exactly do you want to do? If you don’t want to sleep, let go, get out…”

“Mm, I have compared in my heart.”

Duan Yunhong suddenly blurted out this sentence, causing Ning Fei to pause for a moment. But the next moment, Duan Yunhong directly pulled the person into his arms with force, also using his weight to half suppress Ning Fei, causing Ning Fei to lose the means of counterattack.

“I just compared it, that’s why I’m very, extremely, ten thousand times certain that I can’t let go.”