“Stop!”
“I told you to stop!”
The arrogant youth glared and yelled, but his shouts held no deterrent force. At Chen Yu’s instruction, Er Gou’s large hand still landed on Kimura’s face.
Or rather, it landed on half of Kimura’s head.
*Bang!*
A loud thud.
The sound was like a watermelon being smashed, but Kimura’s head didn’t explode. One had to admit his head was quite hard. He took Er Gou’s slap and remained unharmed, except his left cheek instantly swelled up, looking like a roasted pig’s head.
At this moment, the youth also ran over, his eyes wide.
Seeing Kimura collapsed on the ground, his eyes seemed ready to spew fire.
“Who told you to hit him?”
“I don’t know, who are you?” Chen Yu asked the youth with a smile. “I don’t think I know you. Who gave you the right to order me around in my presence?”
“You?”
The youth, silenced by the retort, couldn’t speak for a long time. Chen Yu then glanced sideways at Er Gou.
“Didn’t I tell you to slap him twice? One more slap left.”
“Yes!”
Immediately, Er Gou, in front of the youth, grabbed Kimura by the collar as if he were a little chicken and pulled him up. With his left hand, he fiercely slapped Kimura’s right cheek.
This slap directly knocked out Kimura’s right teeth.
The crisp sound of the slap was clear to the ear, making the surrounding village chiefs’ hearts pound. It further stimulated the nerves of the youth who stepped forward to defend Kimura.
“You, how dare you…”
“What, is he your father? Can’t he be hit?” Chen Yu asked the youth with a smile. “Don’t bark at me, or you’ll get beaten too.”
“You’re seeking death!”
The youth’s anger intensified. He raised his hand to slap Chen Yu.
Unexpectedly, the moment the youth raised his hand, Er Gou’s large hand grabbed his arm. His two eyes, like copper bells, stared fixedly at him, and with a forceful push, he sent the youth tumbling to the ground.
“Who told you to push him?”
Chen Yu slowly looked up. Er Gou, standing beside him, looked confused.
“Camp Leader…”
“He was about to hit me just now, and you’re just going to let it go by pushing him?” Chen Yu’s expression was indifferent. Er Gou instantly understood. He clenched his fists, which were as big as sandbags, made a grimace, and swung a punch.
Suddenly, a biting wind arose.
Chen Yu clearly felt the surrounding temperature plummet. Fine ice crystals grazed his cheeks, finally condensing in front of the youth to form an ice shield.
Er Gou’s powerful punch landed heavily on the ice shield.
The ice shield cracked.
Finally, under the release of power, it turned into shattered ice fragments that scattered on the ground.
Seeing this, Chen Yu’s expression turned displeased as he looked behind the beast soldiers. He saw two middle-aged men in white robes. One of them was chanting an incantation, and his expression towards Chen Yu was quite unfriendly.
However—
The moment Chen Yu saw the man beside these two, he was instantly dumbfounded.
Isn’t that his brother-in-law?
The man who was following the white-robed figures, his brows furrowed, also showed a look of astonishment when he saw Chen Yu. Seeing that the envoy from the Mermaid Kingdom beside him was about to cast a spell again, he quickly grabbed his hand.
“No!”
“Mr. Roy, do you know this person?” the Mermaid Kingdom envoy whispered. They were all seasoned individuals, and they could guess something from the look in Roy’s eyes.
“Know him?”
Roy suppressed his laughter, coughed, and whispered.
“Not only do I know him, but you should know him too. In any case, don’t make any rash moves. This person in front of you is family with your Mermaid Kingdom.”
“Huh?!”
Instantly, the envoys from the Mermaid Kingdom were stunned.
No matter how they looked at it, they couldn’t see the foreigner in front of them as belonging to their Mermaid Kingdom. However, they knew Roy’s identity.
He was a classmate of the second princess during her time at the magic academy.
Their relationship was quite close.
If it weren’t for Roy’s sake, these two envoys from the Mermaid Kingdom wouldn’t have bothered to travel all the way to the outskirts of this underground realm.
Since Roy said so, they would naturally take it to heart.
After explaining, Roy couldn’t help but shake his head and smile bitterly as he looked at Chen Yu, who was staring intently at him. He never expected that the first mission he undertook would be to resolve his brother-in-law’s affairs.
Isn’t this a case of the Dragon King’s temple being flooded by the dragon king’s own ancestors?
On the other hand, his brother-in-law was doing quite well now. The last time they met, it was still a small camp. He never expected that they would now possess an entire city-state.
How much startup capital did his little sister give Chen Yu?
It had only been about half a year since they last met, but their development momentum was too fierce.
Look at how good his little sister was, and then look at Illyna. Not only did she not provide resources or support, but she also deliberately neglected him and even blocked his contact information.
They were sisters, yet the gap between them was so vast.
However, thinking about the special circumstances, Roy quickly sent Chen Yu a message on his wristband.
“Pretend you don’t know him.”
With the ding of the wristband, Chen Yu also received Roy’s message. Blinking his eyes, Chen Yu grasped the likely situation and swallowed back the words that were about to escape his lips. The look of shock on his face was replaced by arrogance.
“You have great skill, sir.”
Chen Yu narrowed his eyes and lightly snorted at the two Mermaid Kingdom envoys.
“What, are you all in this together?”
Chen Yu was a master of putting on an act.
In college, he either played games or watched dramas. Even if his acting couldn’t compare to professional actors who could shed tears on command, it was still easy to fool these denizens of the underground realm.
If Roy told him to pretend he didn’t know them, then he would definitely pretend.
If he couldn’t trust others, could he not trust his own brother-in-law?
Seeing Chen Yu instantly get into character, Roy was also somewhat surprised, and his heart was filled with laughter.
“My brother-in-law is quite the drama king,” Roy muttered to himself. Seeing that Chen Yu had already entered the mood, he certainly couldn’t slack off.
He took a few steps to the youth’s side, helped him up, and then looked up at Chen Yu.
“Is it not a bit too much for you to be so hot-tempered?”
“Hot-tempered? Are you talking about me?” Chen Yu’s expression remained unchanged. “You inexplicably came up and started trouble with me, and I’m not allowed to resist? Aren’t you being too overbearing?”
“Foreign barbarian, what right do you have!”
The arrogant youth spoke with gnashing teeth, his expression more ferocious than ever.
“Roy, this damned foreigner actually tried to hit me. Send a message to my uncle now and have him send troops to destroy this foreigner’s city!”
“Young Master, we are here on business.”
Roy’s expression was calm as he whispered, “Besides, the special envoys intervened immediately, and you weren’t injured, were you? Our main task now is to resolve the current situation. You don’t want to mess things up on your first assignment for your uncle, and have to rely on the City Lord’s mansion for assistance, do you?”
The youth pondered for a moment. Although he was unwilling, he felt that Roy’s words made sense.
“Understood.” Chen Yu also smiled at this moment. “It seems you are indeed in league with Kimura and the others. If that’s the case, then there’s nothing more to discuss.”
“What, are you still planning to fight us?”
Kimura, with his mouth slurring from Er Gou’s slaps, came forward with a pig-like face.
“You have immense courage. Do you know who is standing before you? These two are from the City Lord’s mansion, and these two are special envoys from the Northern Sea Mermaid Kingdom. And you still dare to act?”
“Mermaid Kingdom, Northern Sea?”
Chen Yu glanced at Roy with suspicion. Seeing Roy smile and nod, Chen Yu’s heart finally relaxed, and the smile on his face became even more radiant.
Well, so they were all their own people.
This time, it’s going to be fun!