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Chapter 79: Chapter 73: The Inconceivable Lightning Punishment!_2
"Hiss——!!"
The human traffickers gasped, feeling a chill run down their spines, their faces twisting in fear as they instinctively turned their heads away, not daring to look any longer.
By now, they were sure of it.
The corpse on the ground...
It was Zhong Bai!
Sun Chao stood on the outermost edge, not daring to get too close, scared that something unexpected might happen and he wouldn’t be able to run in time.
Looking at Zhong Bai’s corpse on the ground, it seemed as if Zhong Bai’s last cry of anguish still echoed in his ears.
It was as if he was seeing himself in the near future.
At this moment, the emotions suppressed and accumulated from the journey up till now – sadness, fear, regret... through Zhong Bai’s death, they fully transformed into anger and burst out.
"I told you long ago, Lin Beichen is really strange; he can summon thunder. You guys just wouldn’t listen. If you had listened to me and gave up, this wouldn’t have happened..."
"Shut up!!"
Li Wangxin roughly interrupted the furious Sun Chao.
Having just barely escaped being struck by thunder and witnessing Zhong Bai’s gruesome death, the unease in his heart made him particularly angry and irritable.
With a shove, he pushed aside the people blocking his way and stepped up to Sun Chao in a few strides, grabbing him by the collar, and yelled: "What the hell are you talking about? Are you even making sense? That kid summons thunder... where is he now? He’s not even here. How the hell could he summon thunder? Besides, the kid has never seen us. How could he know who we are to summon thunder to strike us? If he really could summon thunder, why hasn’t he hit us again now? Are you delusional or just a damn fool?"
As he spoke, he gave a hard push, sending Sun Chao sprawling to the ground, and angrily kicked him, cursing: "Are you delusional or just a damn fool?"
Sun Chao curled up in pain like a shrimp, but he didn’t care about the pain, incessantly pondering over Li Wangxin’s words in his mind.
What he said made a lot of sense.
But...
Sun Chao thought back to the scene he had witnessed before with Lin Beichen and could only shake his head internally. Lin Beichen was such an enigmatic person, how could this be explained with logic?
At this moment, Zou Huaide, restraining Li Wangxin who was about to continue his assault, pulled Sun Chao up, patted the dirt off him, and said coldly: "Chao, I know you’re very sad about Xiao Bai’s death. We are all deeply saddened and reluctant to lose Xiao Bai, but I have checked the surroundings, and there were footprints left by that kid when he left. Judging by how the footprints were washed by the rain, he left quite a while ago. You need to accept the fact that Xiao Bai’s death was just an accident. I don’t want to hear any more nonsense about Lin Beichen being some master who can summon thunder and all that. Do you understand?"
Sun Chao felt the murderous intent from Zou Huaide and shuddered inside.
At this moment, despite the myriad thoughts in his mind, he didn’t dare say anything more, quickly nodding: "Yes, I understand, Brother Zou."
Zou Huaide let go of Sun Chao, turning to the others, his voice strong and resolute: "All of this is because of that kid. He cannot be spared."
In his mind, even though Lin Beichen wasn’t directly responsible for the deaths of the two people from their side, he wanted to pin it all on him.
If it wasn’t for him sabotaging Li Youquan’s operation, none of this would have happened.
Li Youquan wouldn’t have fled in panic and been struck by thunder, and he wouldn’t have decided to kill him in passing, leading to Zhong Bai also being struck by thunder.
If he had reacted a bit slower earlier...
Zou Huaide looked at Zhong Bai’s corpse on the ground with a shiver of fear, anger surging within.
To him, the enmity with Lin Beichen had gone beyond just being a public matter; it was personal.
Public and private grudges combined...
He didn’t want Lin Beichen to live a second longer!
Zou Huaide continued: "Even though that kid left a while ago, he’s just a college student, how fast could he get? Following the traces he left behind, we should be able to catch up soon. He must die today!"
"Yes!"
The other human traffickers shared the same thought, especially thinking of the danger they had just unexpectedly encountered. Their hatred for Lin Beichen was at its peak.
No one raised any objections.
Just as they were about to chase after Lin Beichen.
Someone suddenly asked: "Boss, what about Xiao Bai’s body..."
"Leave it here." Zou Huaide didn’t even turn his head, responding: "He’s dead, what do we need the body for? If you don’t mind the trouble, you can dig a hole and bury him here."
At this moment, the utter coldness of the human traffickers’ group was fully revealed.
Zhong Bai, who was once the beloved pet of the group while alive, and his body was just discarded on the ground. No one cared about it, and they didn’t even bother to cover it before leaving, letting the heavy rain wash over it.
The human traffickers followed the traces left by Lin Beichen, chasing with all their might, quickly disappearing into the torrential rain.
Meanwhile, in the sky above this area.
The swirling clouds had completely dissipated.
The clouds, like the rest of the sky, were thick and dark. Though lightning still flashed and thunder rumbled, the static arcs flickering within the clouds gave a sense of calmness, unable to stir up any more waves.
At a distance not exactly close to this place.
A few policemen were looking up at the sky in this area. They were the ones who split off from the team searching for Lin Beichen on the mountain, the Wuling Mountain police station officers looking for him in the abnormal thunderstorm area.
"It’s still there." The leading officer Sun Dewang pointed to the high ground: "That area has been struck by thunder since we were at the foot of the mountain, and we saw thunder continuously falling as we walked up here. It had just quieted down for a while, and now there’s another strike."
