165: Chapter 164: There’s Something Wrong with This Woman!
165: Chapter 164: There’s Something Wrong with This Woman!
At 8 p.m., the city lights were just coming on!
Li Chen, holding Ye Chuxue’s little hand, walked on the bustling streets, glittering with neon lights.
Today, Ye Chuxue had purposely changed into a snow-white dress, her beautiful shoulders slightly exposed, and she wore light makeup, stunningly beautiful.
Having been childhood sweethearts for five years, she knew very well that this was Li Chen’s favorite look on her.
Li Chen looked at Ye Chuxue with deep affection and said, “Xue’er, you look so beautiful today!”
Hearing Li Chen’s praise, Ye Chuxue was very happy and said with a pouted mouth, smugly, “Hehe, I was born beautiful, of course I’m gorgeous!”
Li Chen couldn’t help but curl his lips, cleared his throat, and said, “Ahem, I was just saying it casually, why are you taking it seriously?”
“Ahhh, stinky Li Chen, bad Li Chen, you’re asking for it, aren’t you?”
Ye Chuxue waved her small fists and started pounding on Li Chen’s chest.
Suddenly, she noticed that Li Chen’s gaze was not on her but following it, she saw it rest on a tall woman.
Ye Chuxue bit her lip tightly, turned Li Chen’s head back towards her and said with a pouting mouth and in a coquettish tone, “Don’t look at her, look at me, I’m prettier than she is!”
Li Chen realized he had been distracted, offending the young miss.
He hurriedly nodded like a pecking chicken.
However, from the corner of his eye, he couldn’t help but glance at that tall woman from time to time.
There was something wrong with this woman!
But he couldn’t quite put his finger on what was wrong.
Today was Friday, and the cinema was filled with young couples.
A scalper, seeing Li Chen and Ye Chuxue, hurried over.
“Bro, taking your girlfriend to see a movie?
I’ve got two tickets that are perfect for couples, interested?”
Li Chen glanced at the ticket window, which had a long queue, nodded, and said, “What movie?”
The scalper smiled mysteriously and said, “Of course, it’s a movie suited for couples, it’s absolutely thrilling!”
Li Chen said, “Alright, two tickets then!”
He paid the money and took a look at the tickets.
Oh my, they truly were perfect for couples.
As they passed the window, Ye Chuxue clamored for popcorn, and Li Chen had no choice but to go and buy a bucket.
Ten minutes later, the chandelier lights of the cinema went out, and the whole cinema was plunged into darkness.
Then, the screen slowly lit up, and a creepy background music started to play, displaying an ancient well.
A pale hand smeared in blood suddenly extended out and grabbed the edge of the well.
Next, four blood-red characters appeared on the screen: Zhenzi Returns!
Seeing that she’d been fooled, Ye Chuxue waved her powdered fists, grinding her teeth, and said, “We agreed on a pure romance movie, why did it turn into a horror movie?”
Li Chen grabbed Ye Chuxue’s small fist, grinned cheekily, and said, “It’s all the same, all the same, don’t sweat the small stuff!”
“Hmph, liar, I’m ignoring you!”
Ye Chuxue snorted coquettishly and started munching happily on her popcorn.
However, Li Chen soon realized that watching a horror movie with Ye Chuxue was a terribly wrong decision.
Whenever a scary scene occurred, other girls would throw themselves into their boyfriends’ arms for a bit of romance.
Ye Chuxue, however, grabbed popcorn with her left hand and pinched Li Chen’s thigh with her right.
The scarier the scene, the harder she pinched.
Just when Zhenzi extended a bloody hand, trying to crawl out from the screen, the cinema suddenly went “zzzt” and the power cut out.
With the dim light of mobile phone screens, someone was surprised to see that Zhenzi was still stuck on the movie screen.
They naturally assumed it was a new viewing mode set up by the cinema and were quite excited about it.
“Wow, look, it’s so lifelike, this must be the legendary 3D version, right?”
“It really is, just like the real thing!”
“Haha, I’m dying of laughter, Zhenzi really got stuck on the TV!”
During the commotion where couples were surrounding and watching Zhenzi, Li Chen’s expression suddenly turned grave.
This is not Zhenzi, but…
The woman’s gaze was cold and piercing, locked onto Li Chen as she gave him a bizarre smile.
Then, she charged toward him with bared teeth and brandished claws.
Seeing this scene, the couples in the movie theater finally realized that Zhenzi had truly come out.
They screamed in horror, with some of the more cowardly ones so scared they wet themselves.
Many irresponsible boys simply abandoned their girlfriends and fled in a rolling, scrambling panic.
In an instant, the entire movie theater was thrown into chaos.
Li Chen remained quietly seated, snorting disdainfully.
“Hmph, a mere buffoon, adept only at these indecent tricks!”
As he spoke, he grabbed a handful of popcorn and flung it at “Zhenzi.”
The popcorn smashed onto “Zhenzi’s” face, leaving more than a dozen pits, completely disfiguring her.
However, considering her appearance, disfiguration seemed more like cosmetic surgery.
Zhenzi, seeing her attack fail, turned and lunged at a little girl selling roses.
The basket of roses fell to the ground, and the little girl burst into tears, crying “waah.”
Ye Chuxue, with a kind heart, couldn’t bear to see the little girl harmed and quickly urged Li Chen to go rescue her.
“Li Chen, that little girl is being taken by Zhenzi, go save her quickly!”
Li Chen looked at Ye Chuxue and asked, “Chuxue, are you wearing the jade pendant I gave you?”
Ye Chuxue took out the jade pendant from around her neck, nodded, and said, “It’s here!”
“Good, stay here and don’t go anywhere!”
After speaking, Li Chen performed a hawk flip and chased after “Zhenzi.”
Seeing Li Chen in pursuit, “Zhenzi” casually threw the little girl at him.
Li Chen smoothly caught the little girl in his arms.
“Little miss, are you alright?”
Instead of replying, the little girl gave him a bizarre smile.
Immediately, she threw a handful of pollen from her clenched hand.
“Not good, the pollen is poisonous!”
Li Chen was greatly alarmed and immediately tossed the little girl away.
At that moment, a dozen or more dark shadows leaped out from all directions, forming a net-like enclosure around him.
Li Chen steadied his mind and took a quick look.
What a bunch—they had not one but two Half-step Innate Masters!
The remaining dozen or so were all Martial Artists at the Inner Strength Peak.
Even in the provincial city, they could walk unhindered with such an imposing lineup.
Moreover, Li Chen keenly realized that these assassins’ aura was very similar to that of Ogami Jyukuro.
“Are you people from Heavenly Net?”
Zhenzi gave a bizarre smile and said, “Heavenly Net is vast and misses nothing!”
Li Chen sneered, “Heh, I was actually planning to come looking for you.
How convenient that you’ve delivered yourselves to me!”
Zhenzi glared icily and waved her hand to the left and right, commanding, “He’s been poisoned by the Mandala pollen and can’t last long, kill him!”
Following her order, the dozens of black-clad assassins, like venomous snakes lying in wait, flickered their crimson tongues and swept toward Li Chen.
“Hmph, a bunch of chickens and mongrels, daring to run wild in front of me?”
Li Chen snorted in contempt, a miniature whirlpool formed in the palm of his hand, creating a Gang wind, and with a sweeping momentum, he slashed it toward them.
Though these assassins were all peak Inner Strength Martial Artists, top-notch experts, they were still no match in Li Chen’s eyes.
With a casual palm strike, he took out the five or six black-clad assassins at the forefront, all dispatched in an instant.
Zhenzi was shocked, crying out in alarm, “You, you, you’re not poisoned?”