After Clearing the Infinite Flow, I Tamed the Mad Dog Boss - Chapter 20

Chapter 20

Looking at the strange entity keeping more than two meters away from him, Qin Xian lifted his head and said lazily, “I’m really tired right now, so…”

As he spoke, he raised the steel rod and, with the posture of a trained athlete, hurled it like a javelin.

Aunt Zou’s eyes widened. Its body twisted aside with startling agility. With a sharp clang, the steel rod scraped a long mark across the stone floor before rolling several meters away.

Aunt Zou stared at the gouge on the ground. If that had hit it, it absolutely would have punched clean through. But before it could even catch its breath, Qin Xian suddenly flicked out a long black whip.

Aunt Zou’s scalp went numb. It hadn’t forgotten what the blue flames on that whip had burned it into.

It instinctively tried to run, but the whip flew over and wrapped around its leg. The strange entity that had been acting so invincible a moment ago crashed face-first into the ground, looking utterly pathetic.

Trembling with rage, it slammed both hands hard against the ground. More than a dozen metal spikes erupted from beneath its palms and shot toward Qin Xian.

Qin Xian simply snapped the whip upward, wrapped it around a pipe overhead, and easily used the momentum to swing away. The hem of his clothes brushed past the tips of the spikes shooting up beneath him.

He landed lightly on a rock five meters away.

“Damn it! Are you a monkey?!” Aunt Zou scrambled up and beckoned with one hand. A metal spike flew out from the wall at the side.

But Qin Xian still showed no panic. He even pointed behind Aunt Zou and said, “Aren’t you going to look behind you?”

Aunt Zou instinctively turned its head, only to see nothing there.

Realizing it had been tricked, Aunt Zou was just about to continue attacking Qin Xian when a deafening gunshot rang out. A bullet shot in from the upper right, passed straight through its temple, and brought out a mess of pulped brain tissue and metal shards.

Aunt Zou swayed in stunned disbelief, then collapsed face-first onto the ground.

Panting heavily, Huang Quxie slid down from above. The underground battle had been so intense that a huge hole had already opened overhead, and Huang Quxie had fired through it, landing a shot right in the strange entity’s head.

“Brother Qin, mission accomplished!” Huang Quxie wiped his sweat after landing and flashed Qin Xian a brilliant smile.

Qin Xian nodded. “You’re smart too. I only drew a power symbol when I patted your shoulder, and you immediately understood what I meant.”

Huang Quxie scratched his head and laughed. “Hey, we police officers run into situations where we have to communicate with hand signals all the time, so I’m a little more sensitive to that stuff.”

Qin Xian was about to say something else when his expression suddenly changed, and he looked toward the strange entity lying on the ground behind them.

Seeing this, Huang Quxie whipped around as well and aimed his gun at Aunt Zou. Aunt Zou did not get up. Instead, it let out a few low, deranged chuckles.

The underground space, which had only been quiet for a short while, suddenly began to quake. The massive strange body that had lost power and gone still abruptly started shaking. Cables and metal spikes came at them from every direction, overwhelming as a storm, while the entire underground space began to collapse with them inside it.

Huang Quxie shouted, “Didn’t it lose power?!”

Qin Xian looked at the strange entity’s true body, half-sprawled on the ground not far away. It was glaring at him with pure malice, a crazed smile leaking from the corners of its cracked mouth.

“Run. It’s planning to drag us down with it.”

With that, Qin Xian was the first to dodge the attacks and rush toward the exit.

Huang Quxie stared at the chaotic, deadly scene and wailed, “Aaaah!! How are we supposed to run?!”

The attacks came from all directions, leaving no room to breathe or think. They could only dodge as best they could on instinct. Huang Quxie had no idea how many hits he took. The flood of adrenaline had numbed him even to pain.

Only after he stumbled out from underground in a sorry state did he feel every inch of his body screaming in pain. His leg gave out, and he fell straight to the ground.

“Huff, huff, huff… Oh man, am I still alive? My heart almost jumped out of my throat…” Huang Quxie lay prone on the ground and struggled to check his injuries.

“Ha… You’re alive. I’m alive too. Good enough.”

Qin Xian’s voice came from nearby. Huang Quxie forced his head up, but it dropped weakly again. He rested his chin on the ground and strained his eyes toward the source of the voice.

Qin Xian was sitting against a wall, his clothes torn and ragged. Wounds on his arms and legs were still oozing blood. He did not look like he had gotten off easy either.

The little stones on the ground dug painfully into Huang Quxie’s chin, so he rolled over onto his back and faced the sky. Dawn was already beginning to color the horizon, though the crescent moon and stars were still clear.

“Hey, does it seem normal now? Before we fought the boss, it was so dark outside you couldn’t see anything,” Huang Quxie asked.

“Yeah. The Domain has been lifted. That thing is probably dead. Get up. You still have to take that little girl and her brother to the hospital.”

Huang Quxie froze. “I can’t get up! What about you? Wait… Don’t fall asleep! Those villagers might still attack us! Hey, hey, Brother Qin? You didn’t die, did you?!”

Qin Xian opened his eyes with a frown and cursed, “Who are you cursing? You’re a people’s police officer. Saving the wounded is your duty. Do your best.”

Huang Quxie struggled for a while like a fish flopping onto shore, but failed to get up. Gritting his teeth, he kept trying, but his hands were shaking so badly he couldn’t prop himself up at all.

Suddenly, he heard Qin Xian walk over. Then… Qin Xian grabbed him by the collar and yanked him up hard.

“Ow, for crying out loud! Are you trying to strangle me?!”

But thanks to Qin Xian’s yank, he successfully managed to get up from the ground.
Qin Xian gripped the steel rod in his hand, planting it against the ground for leverage as he hurried toward the little girl’s hiding place. Huang Quxie quickly picked up a stick from the side of the road and used it as a cane to keep up.

They had not gone far before they realized that every villager in the village who was still alive seemed to have passed out, sprawled across the ground in all directions. Besides them, there were also many severely decomposed corpses lying around-probably the camera monsters, flashlight monsters, and the like from before. They had been transformed from the humans who had died here, and now their bodies were all torn and ruined.

Qin Xian swept his gaze over them as if he had seen it all before, then kept walking. Behind him, Huang Quxie’s trembling voice sounded from time to time.

“So many people died… I thought… we thought this place wasn’t one of the serious ones…”

Qin Xian looked calmly ahead and asked, “So what’s going on with your police station? Why are you the only one here?”

Huang Quxie was silent for a while before saying, “Sorry, that’s part of our work. It’s not convenient to disclose. But if you’re willing to come by our station, I can tell you about it.”

Qin Xian gave an “oh” and said, “Forget it, then. I don’t feel like being invited in for tea.”

Huang Quxie asked, “I’m starting to wonder if you’re a fugitive or something. Otherwise, why are you so opposed to entering a police station?”

“I hate trouble. All right, I see the little girl.” Qin Xian stopped. Not far away, the little girl peeking out from behind a house saw the two of them and immediately came jogging over with her brother on her back, her eyes brimming with tears.

“Sorry,” Qin Xian said, lowering his head to her. “The two of us probably don’t have the strength to carry your brother right now.”

The little girl shook her head hard. With movements that were already a little practiced, she hoisted her unconscious brother higher on her back and asked, “Can we leave now? I don’t know how much longer my brother can hold on! Oh, right, I found your bags and put them over there!”

“Hm? That’s amazing. How did you know they were our bags?”

“I… I saw you come in from outside the village.”

Huang Quxie stepped forward and gave the little girl a firm rub on the head, praising her, “Smart girl. I’m going to use my phone to notify the station right away and have them send people over. For now, we’ll head out of the village first. I’ll walk in front, and you stay in the middle.”

The three of them took some water and supplies from the bags, quickly replenishing their strength as they walked and hurrying out of the village as fast as they could. By the time they reached the edge of the village, a black sedan happened to arrive. A young man ran out of it and took Lou Xingye from the little girl’s back.

The young man asked, “My God, what did you run into?! How did you end up like this?”

Huang Quxie asked, “The station still can’t spare anyone? The problem in this village is very serious. People have to be sent over to handle it immediately. I’ll explain the situation to the chief in a moment.”

The young man shook his head. “Sigh, everyone’s swamped. Problems are breaking out in a lot of places.”

As he spoke, he glanced at Qin Xian and swallowed whatever else he had been about to say.

“Anyway, hurry up and get in. I’ll take you to the hospital.”

Huang Quxie opened the car door and was just about to get in when he saw Qin Xian turn around and sit down at the bus stop.

“Ride with us!”

Qin Xian waved a hand.

He could take care of these injuries himself when he got back. Going to the hospital would cost him hundreds, maybe thousands, and Huang Quxie might find out who he was… though that was only a matter of time.

Huang Quxie called out to him twice more, but Qin Xian still did not move. With someone beside him still in mortal danger, Huang Quxie could only give up.

“I’ll definitely find a way to track you down later anyway. See you.” With that, he got into the car, and the black sedan quickly drove away.

Qin Xian watched the car vanish from sight, then stood and looked in the direction of Fangu Village. A flicker of golden light flashed in his eyes.

After confirming there was no strange aura over there, he went to the nearby public restroom and roughly cleaned the blood off himself, then took a fresh set of clothes from his backpack and changed. Once he was done, Qin Xian returned to the bus stop and leisurely waited for the first bus of the morning.

After another half-asleep, half-awake ride that lasted most of the day, he finally returned home, exhausted, a little after three in the afternoon.

The moment he opened the door, a not-very-familiar dog smell drifted to his nose. Qin Xian froze for a second before remembering that he now had an animal at home.

“Whuff!”

A black dog suddenly lunged to his feet, sniffing him from the tips of his shoes all the way up to his calves.

“Mm…”

Tangyuan made a low sound in its throat. Qin Xian could not tell whether it was trying to act cute or complaining that he had disappeared for two days… Or perhaps it had smelled the blood on him.

Qin Xian lowered his head and checked the dog’s belly and the wounds on its legs. There did not seem to be any problems, and it had been eating.

Then he would leave it alone. Rest came first.

Qin Xian stepped around Tangyuan, walked to the sofa, and flopped backward, sinking heavily into it.

But that was clearly the wrong move. Every bruise and wound on his body was jarred at once, hurting so badly that he sucked in a sharp breath. Stars burst before his eyes for a while before he finally recovered.

The moment he came back to himself, he saw Tangyuan standing beside the sofa, staring at him. Its muzzle was only a centimeter away from his body, and its eyes were fixed on the reopened wound on his hand.

Then it stretched its tongue toward the bead of blood seeping out.

Qin Xian struck out instantly and clamped the dog’s mouth shut.