The King of Curses

Chapter 41 Tangled
"You, you are-!"

The mere presence of this man in front of him gave him an oppressive feeling that made it hard to breathe.

Faced with this suffocating fear, Du Changlong subconsciously took a step back. From the corner of his eye, he saw his female companion next to him sitting down on the ground in fright.

Just now he was arrogantly talking about how he was going to teach people a lesson, but now he looks so pitiful.

After all, this was not the first time he had felt this way. Du Changlong gritted his teeth, feeling that he could bear it, and thought of the conversation he had just had with Xiao Liting.

Yes, I should protect her——

There are three of us here, and Wang Wei is here too. It's not like we haven't fought before. We even fought with thugs from outside the school with machetes. Why should we be afraid of just one person!

When he thought of this, Du Changlong suddenly felt an inexplicable courage in his heart.

If it were any other day, he might not be so reckless, but it was precisely because the pressure from the other party was too strong that he was forced to act impulsively under extreme pressure.

The boy raised his fist, yelled as if to vent his anger, and rushed towards the other party.

Wang Wei on the side was a little slow to react, but he still rushed towards the young man without hesitation. The cooperation between the two was indeed tacit.

however……

"boom."

A crisp muffled sound.

It was a light, unobstructed movement.

Du Changlong was completely unaware that the man had already made a move. He only felt a flash before his eyes, like an illusion passing by, and then he lost control of his body, and gravity disappeared along with it...

He flew into the air involuntarily, drew a graceful arc in the air, and fell heavily to the ground.

The intense pain was felt a step slower, coming from the side of his cheek. Du Changlong's eyes were full of stars. He subconsciously held his cheek, stroking it with trembling fingers, wondering if half of his face had been sunken by the punch.

Tears and snot flowed uncontrollably and all that could come out of my throat were painful gasps of “Ahh…”

Wang Wei, who rushed after him, soon followed suit.

The athlete's swung fist was firmly grasped by a stronger hand.

The young man just smiled and pressed down with his wrist. Wang Wei, who was at a disadvantage, stretched out his hands to support himself with difficulty, his knees trembling and he almost knelt down.

He wanted to break free, but he felt like he was cast in cement. No matter how hard he struggled, the opponent's five fingers didn't move at all. He wanted to compete in strength, but he felt that the power transmitted by the opponent was like a tidal wave.

The fragile balance was shattered one-sidedly.

There was a crisp "crack" sound, and everyone present could hear it clearly.

Wang Wei covered his broken arm and knelt down in front of the young man with a painful look on his face.

Pure, overwhelming violence.

Cen Dongsheng glanced at his palm.

In fact, he didn't use any strength at all, and he was even trying to restrain his strength output, but even so, it was still unbearable for ordinary people.

After realizing this, the man changed the direction of his force at the critical moment. The man was actually thrown out by himself instead of being knocked away, otherwise he would have died.

Compared to ghosts that are very difficult to kill in one go, and that will not die even if their necks are broken or their heads and spines are pulled out, the human body... is too fragile.

"No way. As expected, only goblins are perfect punching bags."

He felt dull for a moment.

"Bullying a child is a bit boring."

Having said that, he walked towards his next target without hesitation.

……

Xiao Liting was already petrified.

This wasn't the fight she had imagined...

Even the world's top boxers can't punch someone several meters away, right? !
It's so exaggerated, just like the characters in a funny animation——

Before she could react, she felt a black screen in front of her eyes and a tall figure approached.

"wait wait wait……"

Xiao Liting forced a flattering smile.

"I'm sorry...Brother, we...we shouldn't have caused trouble...I apologize, I apologize!"

Her knees went weak and she fell to the ground.

"Please, please forgive me...I can do anything..."

Her shoulders couldn't stop shaking. She curled up and tried to put on a flattering and begging attitude, praying that this man would have some mercy on her.

The smile on the young man's face did not change at all.

"stand up."

He said, his tone was calm, not like a threat or an order, it could even be described as gentle.

"Okay, okay... I, I understand..."

Xiao Liting sniffed and quickly stood up obediently.

Although her knees were still weak, she thought that since the other party had not attacked her, it meant that the other party was still——

Before she had time to think, her brain suddenly went blank, as if the thread was disconnected.

The young man's fist silently struck her abdomen.

Xiao Liting fell down again, curling up like a cooked shrimp, her stomach churning and vomiting acid.

……

Cen Dongsheng looked at the two men and one woman lying on the ground, then turned to look at the long-haired girl who had been standing next to him and remained silent since just now.

"Did that guy kick you just now?"

"Ah."

She nodded slightly.

"Anyone else? What about the others? Have they bullied you before?"

She shook her head slightly.

Cen Dongsheng nodded slightly, and then spoke to the group of teenagers who were lying on the ground and babbling.

"When you wake up, get out of here."

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Cen Dongsheng watched the three men leave in a panic, then turned his gaze back to the long-haired girl. He saw her squatting there silently filling the soil to bury the cat's body, as if everything that had just happened had no effect on her at all.

The girl had hair long enough to cover her face, and she seemed to deliberately not want others to see her appearance, giving people the feeling of a ghost or a witch.

She is indeed a strange girl.

Cen Dongsheng thought that since he had nothing to do, he might as well find someone to chat with, so he squatted down shoulder to shoulder with the girl and watched her movements.
Be it weirdos or lunatics, he was already used to it. The most common thing among the curse masters was all kinds of weirdos and freaks, and he could handle them calmly.

The girl noticed him squatting next to her and seemed a little surprised.

She had never met anyone like Cen Dongsheng, who not only stood by her side and helped her without hesitation, but also approached her without caring about her appearance.

She hesitated for a moment and handed the iron cattail over.

"Do you...want to try it?"

"Try what? Bury a body? Then I might prefer to bury a bigger one."

Cen Dongsheng told a joke that might not sound funny to ordinary people.

By the way, this little girl has a pretty nice voice, he thought.

"..."

Seeing no reaction from the other party, he shrugged, took the iron shovel, and began to help fill the soil.

He asked casually as he filled it out.

"Are you often bullied?" "No." The girl shook her head, "They...just ignore me and won't come near me."

"Oh."

"This time... maybe they just happened to see me and they didn't understand what I did, so..."

“Do you think ordinary people can understand what you do?”

Cen Dongsheng filled the space with the last bit of soil.

If you think about it, burying a dead cat in a place like this is a bit strange. In big cities, there are special stations for handling pet corpses.

However, looking at the child's appearance, it is clear that she has no one else to turn to, and she cannot just leave the cat's body alone, so she can only deal with it according to her own ideas.

At least it's not a residential area or near a water source.

"You killed this cat, didn't you? You just admitted it yourself."

Cen Dongsheng doesn't think his moral bottom line is high. He never thinks that "people who abuse cats will become perverted murderers when they grow up" is necessarily correct.

Just like he never intended to use high-sounding words like "killing is definitely wrong" to accuse others - if you think someone should be killed, then he should be killed.

It seems that people who kill small animals may not be that extreme...

But then again, if someone is really a cat abuser, he will indeed look down on them from the bottom of his heart. Venting violent emotions on the weak who cannot resist is really not decent.

Although the lives of animals and humans are not the same after all, this still shows the dark side of the hearts of people living in peaceful cities; as for this guy being exposed and bullied, whether the bully is guilty or not, that seems to be another matter...

Things in the world are always so complicated.

Fortunately, Cen Dongsheng is the one with power. If he feels unhappy, he might choose to fight both sides at the same time.

"I didn't...torture the cat."

Although the girl did not explain in front of her peers, she became talkative when facing the benefactor who saved her.

"Yeah. So, what's going on?"

"These cats are all stray cats, attracted here by the students."

The black-haired girl lowered her head and looked quietly at the little lives she had buried in the soil.

"It started with just one cat. Some girls saw it and thought it was cute, so they bought food to feed it and called their friends over. Then there was the second one, the third one... stray cats in the neighborhood started to appear in groups near the school."

"I see. This kind of situation is also common in universities."

“…And then something unfair happened.”

From the tone of her words just now, Cen Dongsheng heard her emotional ups and downs for the first time.
"This cat was the first to enter the school, and later became the leader of the stray cats. Because food is limited, humans' impulsive feeding cannot last long, so the cats began to fight among themselves... It was the most ferocious among them, biting, scratching, and even killing its own kind. Normally, cats would just drive the other cat away when fighting for territory, but I don't know if it was because it had been hungry for a long time, so its sense of territory was particularly strong."

Cen Dongsheng suddenly realized.

"Oh, so the bodies of the other cats buried here are victims of the fight between stray cats."

She nodded slightly.

"So, you want to be the judge of the stray cats?"

She shook her head slightly.

"I'm a human being, I shouldn't get involved in cat affairs... I just think that even cats are the same. As long as there are more than one of their kind, they will become like human society, with inequality, competition and harm. This is an unchangeable law."

Although the cat drove away its own kind, it did not end up well.

In the last fight with the stray cats, it was seriously injured. When she found it, its fur was all bitten off and its body was covered with bloody wounds. It was lying there dying, gasping weakly, and living in pain.

Cen Dongsheng listened to her story quietly.

The girl's voice was as clear as spring water, flowing in the summer breeze.

There was a hint of sadness in that tone, yet it was so real, without any falsehood.

"Then, I felt I couldn't bear it, so I ended its life."

she says.

"As expected... Death is the only thing that is equal to life, and this inevitable ending is the only thing that is equal to life."

When Cen Dongsheng heard this, he suddenly became dazed.

The tipsy summer breeze blew on his face, reminding him of the past.

"Everyone is equal" - this slogan was put forward out of true love and respect for life. In modern society, it has long been regarded as one of the most widely recognized values.

Having said that, no matter how hard politicians, thinkers and rulers of various countries try, they can only create organizations, systems and countries that are close to this concept, but will never achieve true "equality."

It's like a perfect circle, a concept that doesn't exist in reality.

That’s why some people say that in a person’s life, there are only two things that are truly equal: “birth” and “death”.

However, this kind of thing is just something that most people say. We are all ordinary people, and we never believe that there will ever be a day when "absolute equality" will come.

Then, the time came when the curse masters ruled the world.

It was an era where power was supreme, and even the "equality" cloak of modern civilization was torn to pieces and trampled on the ground.

It was during that era that there lived a terrifying spell-binding master who had this crazy idea.

The worst part is that this person has the terrifying ability to turn his thoughts into reality.

Because in the new world, corresponding to the principle of "power first", the more powerful a person is, the more persistent he is.

This curse master once stood at the same level as Sister Zhizhen, and existed as a representative of the world's top power.

Just as An Zhizhen was called the "Philosopher King", that person was later called the "Equality King" -

What a ridiculous and ironic name.

"……Ugh."

Cen Dongsheng sighed.

To be honest, he felt a sense of sympathy just thinking about that person.

Even among the top curse masters who are full of lunatics and maniacs, that person is the most extreme and insane one. It's really fucking scary to think about it.

"?"

As if she noticed his sigh, the girl glanced at him from under his hair with a mixture of concern and confusion.

"How old are you, kid? You don't study hard, and spend all day thinking about weird questions like this. No wonder your classmates treat you like a weirdo."

Cen Dongsheng suddenly felt a little annoyed, and suddenly reached out and ruffled her hair, even though it was already very messy.

"Well……"

The girl hugged her head and looked at him with a bit of dissatisfaction.

Cen Dongsheng watched with satisfaction as her hair turned from seaweed to a tangled mess.

It's your fault that you, this child, repay evil with kindness. It actually reminded me of that person and I can't sleep well at night.

"Okay, you stay alone. I'm leaving now."

Cen Dongsheng gathered his thoughts, stood up, stretched himself, and prepared to leave.

He still had things to do, so he had to go check on Master Liu.

……

Before Cen Dongsheng took a few steps, he turned his head and found that the child was standing behind him.

The ghost-like girl followed him closely. When she saw him stop, she stopped too.

She raised her head and looked at Cen Dongsheng quietly, as if curious about why he stopped.

"I'm talking about you..."

Seeing this scene, the young man's eyelids twitched slightly, and he suddenly had a subtle premonition.

Could it be that I am... being entangled?
(End of this chapter)