Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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A year later, Teng Xuan left the juvenile detention center in a wheelchair.
Teng Wei came to pick him up wearing a faded tracksuit. He hadn’t shaved, his shoes weren’t polished, he looked much thinner, and his eyes were covered with crow’s feet. In just twelve months, he seemed to have aged many years.
Teng Xuan stared blankly at his father, who was in utter destitution.
“Let’s go.” Teng Wei didn’t say a word of concern, shoved the person into a dilapidated second-hand car, and drove towards the low-rent housing outside the city.
“Dad, my ALS was caused by poisoning! Someone poisoned me!” Teng Xuan said urgently. “Dad, take me to the hospital. Didn’t Zhuang Li invent a gene repair drug? That drug can cure me!”
“I know who poisoned you. When you were seven, you went to celebrate Xiu Yue’s birthday. What did you say to him?” Teng Wei asked with utmost calmness.
In fact, after the bankruptcy, he went to the Si family to cause trouble. The old man played several recordings for him, and he was filled with despair. He couldn’t believe that his son would harm others when he was so young, but when he thought of Zhuang Li, who was almost tricked into committing suicide, he felt that this seemed to be his son’s true nature.
It was his neglect of his son’s moral education that led to this tragedy. He was the one who made the biggest mistake, and he had no one else to blame but himself.
Teng Xuan paused for a second before shaking his head and saying, “Who remembers what happened when I was seven? Dad, why are you asking this?”
“Was Madam Si’s death related to you? Was Si Ming’s paralysis also your fault? Because of you, I’ve already been bankrupted by Old Master Si. And because of you, Zhuang Li has completely left the Teng family. You still want to buy his medicine to cure your illness? You’d better dream on!”
Teng Wei took a deep breath and continued, “Do you know how much that drug costs? Twenty million US dollars per injection, and I can’t even come up with two hundred dollars right now.”
“I was thinking that now that you’re out, I’d take you to kneel and kowtow to Zhuang Li, hoping he’d give you an injection out of consideration for the years I raised him. Unfortunately, I don’t even know where he lives.”
“Zhuang Xin is his biological mother. She’s searched everywhere but can’t even see him. How could I possibly do that? You may have forgotten the things you did to him back then, but he definitely hasn’t. He’s more vengeful than anyone else. So just give up and live your life like this.” Teng Wei pulled the car over to the side of the road and buried his face in the steering wheel, sobbing uncontrollably.
How could he not be heartbroken that his son was paralyzed? But what good was his grief? He didn’t even know who to turn to for justice for his son. He finally believed in the saying that every evil has a cause.
Teng Xuan stared blankly at the back of his father’s head, his eyes widening as if he had seen something terrifying.
Fragments of the past flashed before his eyes, then were sucked into a black hole by a vortex, swallowing everything around him. Was this his future? Hopeless and helpless, forever plunged into the abyss?
No, no, no, there is still hope, there is definitely still hope!
“Where is Xiu Yue? Does he know I came out today?” Teng Xuan asked in a trembling voice.
“Xiu Yue?” Teng Wei wiped the mess off his face and sneered, “He’s paralyzed as well, his mother ran away with all the money, and his father is doing odd jobs everywhere. He doesn’t even have money to buy him medicine. It doesn’t matter if you don’t admit it, Xiu Yue has admitted it all.”
“He confessed everything shortly after he became paralyzed, saying that it was your idea to kill Madam Si. Teng Xuan, you were only seven years old and you already knew how to kill. Are you my son? Or are you a reincarnation of a demon?” At this point, Teng Wei suddenly became afraid and turned to look at his son, the pity in his eyes slowly fading.
As Teng Xuan watched those eyes gradually lose their warmth, he vaguely saw that black hole once again. It had expanded!
Three years later, due to lack of money to treat their deteriorating health, Xiu Yue and Teng Xuan died of respiratory failure one after the other.
One night, Zhuang Li heard 7480’s reminder: “Master, a cheat device has fallen nearby. Please retrieve it quickly.”
Following the location signal, Zhuang Li arrived at a dilapidated residential building and saw Teng Wei guarding the corpse. He was so thin that he was unrecognizable, with the bones in his cheeks protruding high and his face deeply sunken, like a walking corpse.
Seeing the handsome young man who had grown up considerably, Teng Wei was stunned. After a long while, he shakily got up, bowed at a ninety-degree angle, and sincerely said, “It seems that I still owe you an apology for back then.”
The last time he saw Zhuang Li, he said all sorts of nice things, but he didn’t say the three words “I’m sorry”.
Zhuang Li waved his hand without speaking, walked past the aged Teng Wei, and went to the stained wire bed, brushing his hand across Teng Xuan’s face from a distance.
Teng Xuan immediately closed his wide-open eyes.
Teng Wei thought Zhuang Li had come to see his son off, and he was so moved that he burst into tears.
Zhuang Li took out a bank card and placed it next to Teng Wei. Then he slowly walked out without turning his head and said, “This is the tuition fee that the Teng family paid for me back then. I’m returning it to you. The password is six zeros. Actually, I should have given it to you back then, but I was busy with experiments and forgot.”
As he reached the door, he waved and said, “Goodbye.”
Teng Wei clutched the bank card tightly, his sobs growing louder. To him now, this card was undoubtedly the most precious gift, a lifeline for someone about to drown.
He staggered to his feet and chased after the young man, but he had already disappeared.
At the same time, 7480 was detecting the cheat device while reporting the situation to the host: “It’s a D-level cheat device, the Eye of Causality.”
Sitting in the back seat of the car, Zhuang Li closed his eyes and muttered to himself, “The Eye of Causality? Can one see cause and effect with just a pair of eyes? Seeing the Cycad Fruit, he could see Madam Si’s death and Si Ming’s paralysis; and seeing the online diary, he could see the original owner’s suicide by cutting his wrists?”
“Probably. Let me take a look at the script.”
7480 flipped through the script with a rustling sound, exclaiming, “Master, there’s a passage in the script like this. Xiu Yue couldn’t handle a big deal, so he asked Teng Xuan to step in. Teng Xuan carefully examined the big client and then told him that he absolutely couldn’t take a certain road the next day. The client listened to Teng Xuan’s advice, avoided a car accident, and the big deal was closed. Teng Xuan’s eyes really can see cause and effect.”
“He must have used those eyes to get rid of a lot of people, right? What a sin!” Zhuang Li casually said as he put the golden finger into the energy bar, “Burn it.”
Just as he was about to persuade him to leave the Eye of Causality behind: “…” The Great Demon King must be the most domineering host in history, without exception!
“Actually, the Eye of Causality is quite useful because we might have to travel to a supernatural world. Supernatural worlds are different from the real world, and many of the difficulties there are beyond the reach of science and technology. Master, next time you encounter such a cheat ability, you must handle it with caution,” 7480 offered a sincere suggestion.
“I believe science can solve everything, so why don’t we give it a try?” Zhuang Li smiled with interest: “The supernatural world? That must be really fun.”
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