LWDC Chapter 43

Chapter 43 – Reunion

Chapter 43 – Reunion

Chapter 43 – Reunion

When Ning Fei woke up… he couldn’t see anything.

To be precise, he couldn’t open his eyes. Something like a strip of cloth was tied around his head, covering his eyes. He felt that he was lying somewhere. When he moved his head, he could hear the rustling of fabric, accompanied by a soft texture. His hands and feet were also restrained, his hands tied together above his head. His feet were fixed separately, but the range of motion was small, and a clanging sound of metal could be heard with the slightest movement. Obviously, his feet were chained with a relatively light iron chain.

Apart from the sounds caused by his own movements, Ning Fei didn’t hear any other sounds. However, he smelled a deep, faint fragrance. Ning Fei tried hard to turn his brain to identify it, and felt that it was the scent emanating from high-quality wood.

He didn’t waste any time and directly asked “Three-Day Guidance” in his mind: 【Does this identity I have now have any special experiences set?】

Three-Day Guidance: 【None. This identity is set as having lost parents early, relying on meager family property to live and study. Because of excellent grades, he was gradually recommended as a retainer of the Second Prince. This setting refers to the most common experience among all the Second Prince’s retainers, and does not set any objects with an overly high degree of relationship.】

Ning Fei: 【Then what’s going on with me now? What the hell kind of place have I been kidnapped to?】

Three-Day Guidance: 【No visual or auditory information received, unable to answer your question, please explore on your own.】

Ning Fei knew it wouldn’t give him an answer. Only after he heard and saw something, and then asked it, would it possibly give him an answer. The reason for saying “possibly” is because if Ning Fei’s identity “shouldn’t know the answer,” then the guidance would only say “Please explore on your own.” That’s why some debt collectors like to set the identity to a very high position, in order to easily obtain more information.

The two questions Ning Fei asked the guidance were more like complaining than questioning.

–Without a single clue, inexplicably kidnapped. Great, another incomprehensible thing in this world.

–If I can’t even play casually, I might as well leave here. There’s no need to waste time solving a case here…

Ning Fei was starting to consider whether to exit this world when he suddenly heard the sound of a door opening.

The distance wasn’t very close, indicating that the room wasn’t small. Ning Fei immediately moved his foot, letting the clanging of the iron chain echo in the room, and shouted loudly: “Who’s there? Is anyone there?!”

If it were Ning Fei’s own mission, he would never be so reckless. But at this moment, he wanted to leave, and just wanted to quickly figure out why he was kidnapped before leaving, so he was quite aggressive.

However, no one answered him, and he didn’t hear any other sounds for the time being. Ning Fei struggled again and shouted: “My hands are numb, untie me quickly!”

After a few seconds of silence again, the sound of the door closing came.

Ning Fei: ???

–Is this kidnapper sick?! No reaction at all?

He was starting to believe what Chonglin said, that some things in this world just couldn’t be figured out. Although there was definitely a deeper reason behind it, Ning Fei was too lazy to explore it.

This broken debt, bad debt it is! Anyway, the main deduction is Chonglin’s points. Ning Fei is just an assistant. He hasn’t been here for a few days, so he won’t be deducted much for admitting mission failure.

Thinking of this, Ning Fei was really ready to leave—mainly because his hands were really numb to the point of losing feeling, which was uncomfortable—and started calling the system’s settlement program.

Just at this moment, the sound of the door opening came again.

“Can’t you find someone who can talk? This damn place is full of mutes!” Ning Fei immediately cursed. He was usually vengeful, but now he couldn’t move, so he might as well just curse a few times before leaving. “What exactly did you kidnap me here for? I have no grudges with anyone, and I’m worthless to the prince. You’ve got the wrong person…”

He hadn’t finished speaking, but this time the person who came in was making sounds, and Ning Fei heard the sound disappear nearby—the other person had stopped beside him! Ning Fei subconsciously stopped his unfinished words.

Then, he felt someone leaning down close to him, and grabbing his hand.

This feeling was very subtle, because his hand only had a faint, almost imperceptible pressure, making it difficult to discern exactly what the other person was doing. If they were really untying him, this development would be too strange.

Ning Fei thought for a moment and said, “Really untying me? Then please, help me put my hands down, I can’t move much myself right now.”

This time the feeling was clearer. The other person really helped him put his hands on his lower abdomen, but the wrists of both hands were still tightly tied together.

At the same time, Ning Fei also noticed that the other person was getting closer. To be precise, a certain sense of oppression and aura had already been transmitted to him, and a strange thought suddenly sprang up from the bottom of his heart.

“You…?!”

As soon as he opened his mouth to say “You,” his mouth was blocked.

To be precise, he was kissed, very roughly kissed.

“Mmm…!” Ning Fei was shocked for a moment, and then struggled. Although he was quite flirtatious, he wasn’t casual, especially in this situation! He didn’t even know if this guy was a person or a ghost, and he was doing this to someone who was tied up, what was it if not rape?

–Tsk, could it be that Chonglin took the opportunity to find someone to do this to me? Just wants to humiliate me once in this world?

Ning Fei bent his knees, wanting to kick the other person, but the other person reacted quickly and was very strong. Obviously, the other person was also a strong man. He pressed down on Ning Fei’s knees and took the opportunity to pry them apart, so Ning Fei couldn’t close his legs!

Damn it!

Ning Fei couldn’t help but curse in his heart. If his mouth wasn’t still occupied, he would definitely burst into abuse. With his legs pressed down and the strength in his hands not fully recovered, he could only push weakly. Ning Fei was in an absolutely weak position. He was so annoyed by this situation that he even gave up waiting to have the strength to pull down the cloth strip on his eyes and see what the other person looked like. He calmed down, gave up struggling, and started calling the task settlement program again.

The other person quickly noticed Ning Fei’s strangeness.

He ended the kiss, retreated a little, but his face was still very close to Ning Fei’s face, and his slightly rapid breath was spraying on Ning Fei’s face. He opened his mouth, his voice low, magnetic, and with a strong displeasure: “Want to run again?”

Ning Fei: …!!!

This voice sounded very familiar!

“You… Duan Yunhong?!” Ning Fei blurted out this name.

At the same time, he suddenly realized that his hands could barely move, so he tried his best to raise his hands, and laboriously tore off the cloth strip on his face. Light assaulted him, and Ning Fei frowned tightly, squinting his eyes, finally seeing the… person in front of him.

–It really was Duan Yunhong!

Although he had long hair and wore brocade robes instead of the usual suit, this face, this voice, was Duan Yunhong! The question he asked proved that he was the Duan Yunhong Ning Fei knew!

Ning Fei’s eyes really widened this time.

“How…” He didn’t even think clearly about what to ask for a moment, and only uttered a general sentence, “What exactly are you?!”

Three-Day Guidance actually sounded at this time: 【He is theGeneral of Agile Cavalry, Duan Yunhong.】

Ning Fei: “…” That’s not what I asked about his setting in this world.

Seriously, hearing this answer at this time was a bit of dark humor. But it also calmed Ning Fei’s shocked emotions a little, and provided Ning Fei with some inspiration for speculation.

“What am I?” Duan Yunhong sneered, “What do you say I am?”

“You’re not my colleague, and you don’t look like someone from the Bureau.” Ning Fei stared into his eyes, and although he was in a subordinate position, he didn’t show any timidity, “You’ve been going against me all along, actually wanting to completely destroy Su Cenxi’s goal… You’re a Qi Luck Bandit!”

Duan Yunhong met his gaze: “I prefer to be called a ‘Space-Time Walker’.”

Ning Fei: “A Walker who robs people of their Qi Luck?”

Duan Yunhong: “I’m just helping the transmigrators do what they want to do more.”

Ning Fei: “And then, after this Qi Luck becomes a bad debt, you wait for the opportunity to plunder the Qi Luck that the transmigrator got for nothing?”

Duan Yunhong: “That’s just the reward they deserve, just like what you get.”

“Don’t lump me in with you guys!” Ning Fei sneered, “The original owner gave up all their Qi Luck in order to achieve their wish. The transmigrator originally agreed, but later changed their mind and claimed ‘this is better,’ wanting the original owner to agree to this change. Some original owners didn’t agree, so they commissioned us to help. We’re here to fulfill the agreement that both parties originally agreed to, and you people are here to destroy it!”

“Us ‘people’..?” Duan Yunhong narrowed his eyes, “How many ‘Walkers’ have you seen? Don’t lump me in with others, we’re not a whole.”

“Not a whole? Then are you waiting for this Qi Luck to completely escape the Bureau’s control after it becomes a bad debt, and then devour it wantonly? Are other bandits also doing this?” Ning Fei sneered, “And you were a director before, and now you’re a Great General. Without swallowing the massive Qi Luck you obtained, how could you exchange with the world for such a high position?”

Duan Yunhong said, “I believe that transmigrators also have the right to freely choose their lives.”

“To hell with ‘freedom,’ don’t pretend in front of me!” Ning Fei mocked, “You just said it was for a reward, and a reward that was much more than the Time-Space Bureau’s cut, wasn’t it? Director Duan, oh no, General Duan, even deceiving me, that’s not interesting, right?”

“Who deceived who first?!” As soon as this topic was brought up, Duan Yunhong gnashed his teeth, “You said we’d talk again the next day, but you ran away the next day, who deceived who?”

“Huh? When did I say ‘talk again the next day’?” Ning Fei found it absurd that he was actually discussing this point, “I definitely didn’t say that!”

Duan Yunhong sneered, “You didn’t say it, because you guessed what I was going to say, and you were already prepared to run! You planned to let me lose my memory after you had your fun, so you could leave without a care!”

“We were just fuck buddies back then, what else did you want me to do?” Ning Fei frowned, “And don’t you think it’s ridiculous yourself? You didn’t know I was a debt collector at that time, right? You wanted to play a love game with an ordinary person, and then you’d stay young forever while the other person grew old day by day. Didn’t you also make it clear that you were just planning to play around, and leave when you got bored? What’s the difference between you and me?”

“If we really dated, and later felt it wasn’t right and broke up, I’d have nothing to say.” Duan Yunhong stared at him with sharp eyes, “But what makes you think I’d definitely leave after playing around?”

“Otherwise, what else could happen?”

“If we kept dating, I’d be willing to stay with you until you died before leaving that world, wouldn’t that work!”

Ning Fei was stunned.

“…Huh?”

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Hehe, Director Duan has spoken.