vncnus Chapter 320 Chang Lei's Past
Chapter 320 Chang Lei's Past
Chapter 320 Chang Lei's Past
Chang Lei was very fast and didn't keep everyone waiting for long. In about ten minutes, he pushed the two people back to the Divine Meeting Hall.
Luan Luan was probably affected by the deception and fell into a deep sleep, while Chang Lei's mother was paralyzed in her wheelchair and showed no reaction.
Seeing this, Tang Zijun felt a little uncomfortable. Without hesitation, he quickly got up and went to meet Chang Lei, taking the wheelchair from Chang Lei's hands and helping him push it.
Chang Lei was incredibly excited. As soon as he entered, he craned his neck and looked around. "I'm here! I'm here! Trova, Tree God!"
"Tree God, could you please help me?"
He didn't suppress his voice, or rather, he was already excited to a certain extent.
However, upon seeing Luan Luan and Chang's mother enter, Queen Ruosi and Hyacinth exchanged a glance, both seeing a strange glint in each other's eyes.
Tang Zijun noticed the change in the expressions of the two flower fairies. He frowned slightly and cast a questioning look at them, while the latter looked at Luan Luan with a solemn expression.
"How is it, Tree God? Can we begin the treatment?" Chang Lei didn't know where Trova was, so he could only ask, looking up at her.
But the Tree of Life, which had been answering every question just moments before, was now completely silent, which made Chang Lei, who was already feeling anxious, even more uneasy.
After a moment of contemplation, the Tree of Life, Trova, slowly spoke.
"...The person in the mirror, I don't know what you did to them, nor do I know what they went through...but, this human child...should be dead already...."
"what?"
Chang Lei didn't react much to these words, but Tang Zijun's eyes widened in surprise.
Turning back to look at Queen Ruos and Hyacinth, the two flower fairies stood silently in place, neither of them speaking, only looking at Luan Luan's face with complicated expressions.
"Dead? What do you mean?" Tang Zijun frowned, turning her gaze to Luan Luan. "Luan Luan is breathing, her heart is beating, she...she's perfectly fine, isn't she?"
"My Lord, I don't know how you determine death, but our Flower Fairy clan, inheriting the power of the Tree God, can see the aura of death," Queen Ruos whispered. "This... Luan Luan... she should be... she's surrounded by an aura of death."
Upon hearing this, Tang Zijun turned around abruptly to look at Chang Lei.
Feeling the intense gazes around him, Chang Lei seemed to hesitate, or perhaps he was suppressing something.
After several seconds, he finally couldn't hold back any longer, and his breathing became rapid.
"That's right—"
"Luan Luan is dead!"
Chang Lei raised his head, his eyes turning somewhat bloodshot.
"But so what!?"
"I am the conman Hax! I can even fool death!"
A slightly hoarse voice, accompanied by a deep mental surge, swept out and gradually echoed.
The only sound inside the entire Divine Meeting Hall was Chang Lei's low shout, and then the atmosphere gradually fell into silence.
Having known Chang Lei for so long, this was the first time Tang Zijun had ever seen such emotions in him.
"Old Chang..."
After a pause, Tang Zijun broke the silence softly, "What exactly happened to Luan Luan?"
Upon hearing this, Chang Lei stiffened.
He took a deep breath, slowly lowered his body, and hunched over, lying beside Luan Luan's legs, his rough hands gripping the armrests of the wheelchair, his head bowed.
After a moment, his hoarse voice slowly broke through the silence. "That was a long time ago..."
None of Tang Zijun and the others spoke; they simply watched him quietly, waiting for him to begin.
"At that time, the greedy people were actively discussing how to deal with you. Your strength had increased too quickly, which made most of the senior cadres feel threatened. So they were preparing to hold a meeting to form an alliance and find a way to kill you."
"I should have attended that meeting too. There are only a handful of people among them who have beaten you, but I have defeated you before, so they were looking forward to me sharing my experience in dealing with you. But I didn't attend that meeting in the end."
"You should know that greed is born from human delusion. Everyone is born living in lies, whether well-intentioned or malicious, and no one can avoid it."
"And I am a creation of Chang Lei's negative energy."
Hearing Lao Chang's story, Tang Zijun's long-dormant memories began to stir. He looked at Lao Chang calmly and asked, "Did something happen to Chang Lei that prevented you from attending that meeting?"
Old Chang didn't answer directly. Instead, he remained silent for a moment before slowly saying, "I remember it was during a downpour. I heard a scream in the Reversed World, a sound that pierced my heart—it was Luan Luan."
"Luan Luan?" Tang Zijun frowned as she looked at Luan Luan, who was sleeping.
The events Lao Chang was referring to must have occurred in the later stages of his war with the greedy. At that time, he was extremely busy, with countless enemies preparing to fight him to the death, so he had no time to pay attention to Lao Chang.
Because of this, Tang Zijun still knows nothing about what Lao Chang went through during that period.
"Chang Lei was just an ordinary truck driver. He had no money, no power, only an unaffordable mortgage and car loan, and exorbitant medical expenses for his mother. I was born from his desires under these circumstances."
"He gave me all his desires: freedom, handsomeness, elegance—all those beautiful words that had never been associated with him in his life appeared on me at the moment of my birth."
"I got everything from him, everything he dreamed of pursuing, his fantasies and desires, his childhood buried deep in his heart, and all those memories."
"I should have helped him, Wolf Rider, I should have helped him..."
Chang Lei slowly raised his head, a crimson light swirling in his pupils.
"His entire burden comes from his family, his seriously ill mother, and his young daughter. He can find happiness as long as I, like other greedy people, 'help' him kill his family."
As Chang Lei said this, the killing intent in his eyes was almost tangible, and the thick aura of desire rising from him made Queen Ruosi and Hyacinth frown frequently.
Tang Zijun had never seen Chang Lei so murderous. Even when the two sides fought to the death back then, Old Chang still maintained his elegance, but now he was like a ferocious beast.
"But you didn't do anything, right?" Tang Zijun said softly.
"Yes..." Chang Lei slowly closed his eyes, gritting his teeth as he said, "Just like I said, I inherited everything from him, and similarly, I inherited his love for his family..."
"I can't understand it. Since all his pressure and negative energy come from his family, why does he still have such deep love for his family? He wouldn't have so much pressure if he didn't have his family."
"So I ran away. I abandoned the usual code of conduct of the greedy. I didn't care about my counterpart, nor did I harm his family. I left their side, wanting to be as far away from them as possible."
"I tried to live the life that Chang Lei wanted to experience as a child. I traveled all over the world, explored the Bermuda Triangle, and climbed Mount Everest. I did everything he dreamed of. But, for some reason, the more I experienced, the emptier I felt inside."
"I've learned that the power of a Greedy One primarily comes from their physical body, which is why all Greedy Ones target their physical body first," Tang Zijun said, staring at Chang Lei. "If you don't kill Chang Lei and obtain his negative energy, you won't live much longer either."
“That’s right…” Chang Lei grinned and sighed. “But I didn’t want to see him. His cowardly appearance and his love for his family disgusted me… So, I made up a lie.”
"That was the most brilliant and beautiful lie I ever told..."
"Every greedy person has a source, but I don't. I wasn't born from Chang Lei's evil thoughts. I came from human lies—I am the lie itself."
"What a beautiful lie, it even fooled myself..."
Tang Zijun gently placed her hand on Chang Lei's shoulder. "But lies will eventually be exposed, won't they?"
"Yeah." Chang Lei forced a smile, it was hard to tell if it was a sigh or self-mockery. "After I heard Luan Luan scream, all my lies were exposed. No matter what I did, I couldn't refute it. I just didn't want to admit it..."
"It was a typhoon day. Chang Lei was making his last delivery. He could have not gone, he shouldn't have gone, but... he needed to finish this job to pay for his mother's medical treatment."
"As the typhoon passed, the entire world was shrouded in darkness. Highways were shut down, and everything was temporarily halted in preparation for disaster relief."
Chang Lei, however, listened to the slander of outsiders and secretly drove down a side road...
"The final result is self-evident. In the strong winds, his truck was overturned while he was driving on a mountain road, and he and the truck plunged off a cliff. On that day, Luan Luan was also in the truck."
As he spoke, Chang Lei slightly raised his head to look at Tang Zijun. "When I arrived, they were already lying in pools of blood. The entire truck was badly deformed, and the front of the truck was even shattered like a crumpled piece of paper."
"I know he doesn't deserve pity. No reason can excuse his actions. It's his sin, and he should pay the price for his behavior. But... but..."
Chang Lei slowly turned his head and looked at Luan Luan's face.
Luan Luan, fast asleep, was unaware of her surroundings. She was like a porcelain doll, or like Sleeping Beauty. Her calm breathing was unaffected, and the smile on her lips seemed to indicate that she was having a beautiful dream.
But looking at her, Chang Lei's face turned somewhat pained.