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Chapter 130 : Chapter 130
Chapter 130: A Family Should Be Neat and Tidy Together
Li Xiaohao instinctively raised a hand to swat the little bird away.
But with a soft pop, the bird transformed into human form. It was Li Mu.
Still in midair, Li Mu pressed a hand onto Li Xiaohao’s throat and slammed him down.
Boom!!
A huge crater appeared in the ground.
Li Xiaohao’s entire upper body was embedded into it!
Everyone in the room was so frightened that they forgot even to scream.
Li Mu straightened up and swept a cold gaze across them.
“Anyone who moves dies.”
Terrifying killing intent spread through the room. Even Feng Lan, Li Xiaohao’s own mother, was so frightened that she did not dare make a sound.
Li Mu then pulled Li Xiaohao out of the crater
and planted a foot on his neck as he lay there, barely alive.
The system had already explained that to seize a Destiny Spirit Crystal, the target only needed to be near death. There was no need to kill him outright.
Li Xiaohao grabbed at Li Mu’s foot, trying to resist.
But Li Mu’s strike just now had already gravely wounded him. At this point, forget exerting strength—Li Xiaohao could not even circulate the True Qi inside his body.
The gap between him and Li Mu was far more than just the difference between Third Grade and Sixth Grade.
Feng Lan was trembling like a leaf, but she did not dare open her mouth.
If Li Mu dared kill Li Xiaohao, then he certainly dared kill all of them as well.
With his throat pinned beneath Li Mu’s foot, Li Xiaohao’s face rapidly turned bright red, then purple. His eyes bulged as though they were about to burst from their sockets.
At that moment, a crystal shining with starlight slowly emerged from the center of his brow.
Li Mu reached out and caught the crystal in his hand.
[Obtained S-Grade Destiny Spirit Crystal · Nine Heavens Thunderclap!]
He immediately lifted his foot from Li Xiaohao’s neck.
He had no intention of letting Li Xiaohao die just like that.
That would have been too much of a release for him.
Li Mu had prepared a far better destination for him.
Li Xiaohao suddenly regained his breath. He coughed violently more than ten times before beginning to gasp like a bellows.
Li Mu, meanwhile, let out a long breath.
Although he had never personally felt the pain of having his talent stolen, he had been the one forced to bear the consequences after it was taken.
And Li Mu had inherited all of the original owner’s memories.
Emotions came from memory.
Having his talent stolen had absolutely become an enormous heart demon.
Although this world valued breaking through by one’s own martial strength, so it was not certain that one would necessarily be obstructed by inner demons, at last!
At long last!!
Li Mu had taken back what he had lost.
At this moment, all the knots in his heart were completely undone. There would be no more inner barriers for him from now on.
Only then did Li Mu turn toward the Li Family women, who had all been frightened out of their wits.
He took a special device out of his pocket.
With a light press, a violent crackle of electricity rang out!
Every electrical appliance in the room, including every phone in their hands and in their pockets, gave off a sharp snapping sound, then began smoking.
The phone in front of Old Madam Ma even burst into flames with a pop.
Holding up the device, Li Mu smiled.
“Do you know what this is? It’s a military district-made electromagnetic disruption device.”
“From this moment on, there will not be a single recording or video device operating in this room.”
“Everything I do here—no one will testify for you.”
“Does this scene feel familiar?”
As he spoke, Li Mu slowly dragged a stool into the middle of the room.
The scraping sound of the stool against the floor, combined with Li Mu’s words, filled every member of the Li Family with overwhelming fear.
How could this scene possibly not feel familiar to them?
Back when Li Mu had been forcibly held down and made to sign that resource contract, when his talent had been stripped away—was this not exactly the same kind of scene?
There had not been a single person, nor a single piece of evidence, left to speak for him.
“Y-You... what did you just do?”
Feng Lan forced herself to ask.
“Me?”
“I merely took back what belonged to me.”
Li Mu cast her a slanted glance.
Feng Lan instantly felt as though her soul had been ripped away.
What belonged to him—was that not the S-Grade talent?
He had taken her son’s S-Grade talent back? How had he done it?
Could it be—Her eyes suddenly lit up.
“Y-You... did you and Xiaohao exchange talents again? You switched them back!?”
She even stood up in agitation.
If Li Mu really had a way to switch the talents back again...“Switch it back? Hahahahaha...”Li Mu laughed.
And that laughter made Feng Lan’s skin crawl.
At that moment, Old Madam Ma was unusually clear-headed. She had already seen through everything.
Li Mu had nearly killed Li Xiaohao. How could he possibly have given him even the slightest benefit?
Li Mu set the stool down in the center of the room.
Then he took a black cloth bundle out of his Storage Ring and placed it on the stool.
Everyone stared at that cloth bundle, guessing what was inside.
“This is my gift to all of you.”
As he spoke, Li Mu looked around and sighed.
“Sigh. This used to be a family with at least some modest wealth. You were used to living in luxury and ease.”
“Seeing all of you living in a place like this really makes me uncomfortable.”
“What’s inside this bundle is enough to let every one of you change your surroundings and your state of mind.”
After saying that, Li Mu could not be bothered with them any longer.
He walked straight to the window, leaped out, transformed into a bird, and vanished once more into the night sky.
He did not even leave behind a goodbye.
No one in the room had recovered their senses.
Some of them even pinched themselves hard, trying to determine whether this was all a dream.
But Li Xiaohao was still lying there, half-dead. The huge crater in the floor and the black cloth bundle on the stool proved that everything that had just happened was real.
Everyone looked again toward the black cloth bundle.
Li Mu’s eldest aunt by marriage moved the fastest. She lunged forward and snatched the bundle into her arms.
After all, Li Mu had just said it himself.
This was something that could let them change their circumstances.
It was most likely money, or some valuable object—at the very least enough to buy a huge villa.
After all, Li Mu had already taken his talent back, so things between him and the Li Family were settled.
“Stop that! Who said you could take it!?”
Li Juan naturally refused to back down. A moment slower, she lunged over as well and grabbed the bundle too.
“Li Mu gave this to us. Whoever gets it first should own it!”
The eldest aunt by marriage spat viciously at Li Juan.
Li Juan spat right back.
As they fought over it, the black cloth bundle tore open.
The moment the contents were revealed, everyone froze on the spot.
Inside the black cloth bundle was actually a bag of unknown black crystals.
“What is this? Crystal??”
Li Juan instinctively reached out and touched it.
Suddenly—Bang!
The courtyard gate shook with a tremendous crash, followed at once by shouts and the pounding of footsteps rushing over.
Crash!!
The door was kicked straight off its hinges.
A fully armed law enforcement squad stormed in.
They rushed forward and pinned everyone to the ground at once.
Even Li Xiaohao, who had already been lying on the floor in the first place, did not escape. Someone planted a boot on his head, twisted his hands behind his back, and bound him up.
The squad leader picked up the crystal wrapped in the black cloth bundle
and pressed his radio.
“The stolen goods have been found. All criminals have been apprehended on the spot!”
Li Juan and the others immediately began shrieking hysterically.
The room descended into utter chaos.
But the law enforcement officers only dragged them outside without pause.
Only Old Madam Ma seemed to have understood everything completely by then. Instead, she let out a crazed peal of laughter.
“Hahahaha... hahahahahaha~”
It had all come back!
Everything they had done to Li Mu had now been returned to them one by one!!
They had forced Li Mu and Li Xiaohao to exchange talents.
Li Mu had personally taken Li Xiaohao’s talent away.
They had beaten Li Mu half to death and driven him and his mother out of the family.
Li Mu had beaten Li Xiaohao half to death and completely destroyed the Li Family.
They had framed Li Mu’s family for buying and selling stolen goods and had them arrested.
Li Mu had framed them for possessing stolen goods and had every one of them arrested.
They had taken Li Mu’s talent and then twisted the story into one where Li Mu had done it willingly, using their power to crush him until he had nowhere to seek justice!
Now Li Mu, relying on his own strength, had barged straight into their home, destroyed every trace of evidence, and openly planted stolen goods on them.
Leaving them powerless to defend themselves.
With the power Li Mu possessed now, he had countless ways to destroy them through perfectly legitimate channels.
And yet Li Mu had deliberately chosen the filthy, shameful way!
He wanted them to experience it for themselves—that feeling of knowing perfectly well that Li Mu was in the wrong, yet being utterly unable to resist.
One only had to look at Li Juan and the eldest aunt by marriage screaming themselves hoarse.
They were roaring wildly that Li Mu had framed them, that Li Mu had intentionally planted the goods there.
That was their only hope of survival.
And it was also the truth.
But it could only remain their desperate screaming, unheard and uncared for.
Li Mu was clearly telling them:
I, Li Mu, am going to use power to crush your entire Li Family to death!
Just as you once used power to crush me until I was that helpless.
Laughing madly, Old Madam Ma began to cry.
She remembered the absolute resolve and casual indifference with which Li Mu had left just now.
Li Mu had used thunderous methods to take everything back, yet he had not said an extra word to her.
He had not listened to a single explanation from her, nor could he even be bothered to utter a few harsh words.
That meant Li Mu truly no longer cared about people like them from the bottom of his heart...