Chapter 1173: The Actor Covers the Rear

Brother Pao just let the girl hammer him, smiling blankly.

He seemed to remember something and looked up at the haggard-looking middle-aged woman behind the wheelchair. It was the girl’s mother, who was also covered in tears, her gaze toward the group of boys incredibly complex...

"Auntie..."

"Take her out for a walk... and come home for a meal together in the evening." The girl’s mother said, choking up.

"Don't worry, Auntie, I'll definitely take good care of Xiaoyu!"

After saying this, Brother Pao took over the wheelchair and pushed the girl toward the outside of the hospital.

Seeing this, the boys gathered around the car cheered, even more excited than Brother Pao himself. They immediately lit new firecrackers and, accompanied by the lively sound, rushed out to clear the way outside the hospital!

At the same time, cheers and applause erupted from behind many of the hospital windows. Countless pairs of envious and admiring eyes looked at the boys leaving the hospital, as if they were reminiscing about their own pasts...

Sun Bumian, wearing the lion dance head, let out a long sigh and was about to turn to follow when a blurry shadow suddenly entered his field of vision.

On the other side of the hospital intersection, behind the busy pedestrians, a figure in white, like a phantom, was floating silently in the void... His eyes were closed, like a blind man, and a bright, eye-catching cinnabar mark on his forehead seemed to capture souls.

He stood there quietly, but the pedestrians around him couldn't see his existence at all. At this moment, those tightly closed eyes were watching the direction Brother Pao and the others were leaving in.

The moment he saw that figure, Sun Bumian’s pupils contracted sharply!

Kongwang?!!

How could an envoy of the Ghost Path Ancient Treasury appear here?

Wait, this is...

Sun Bumian suddenly realized something and looked down at the earth beneath his feet.

"Where are we going now?" The girl in the wheelchair looked up at Brother Pao, who was pushing her wheelchair earnestly, the corners of her eyes curved like a crescent moon.

"I don't know..." Brother Pao scratched his head, a bit embarrassed. "I was only thinking about finding you before I came, I didn't save money for the return ticket... Otherwise, I would have taken you back to school to see. There are many shops open at the school gate now, you haven't eaten at them yet."

"The school is too far... I can't go back." The girl’s pale fingers touched the back of Brother Pao’s hand. "And did you forget? My mom just said to go back to my house for dinner tonight."

"Then we'll just walk around Wushan?"

"Okay, I'll take you around!"

"Let me help you into the car, don't catch a cold."

"Where did you get a car? And an Audi, at that."

"Big Brother got it for me. I'll introduce you to him later..."

Several boys immediately helped open the car door, and Brother Pao carefully carried the girl from the wheelchair and walked toward the car step by step.

However, no one saw that the white-clad phantom, Kongwang, had already appeared silently in front of the car door, his long fingers entwined with thin chains, gently pointing toward the girl’s forehead...

As Kongwang’s finger approached, the last bit of vitality in the girl’s body, like a candle about to burn out, gradually dimmed.

"I'm a little sleepy..." The girl leaned on Brother Pao’s shoulder, her eyelids slowly closing, her voice as light as a mosquito’s.

Brother Pao was startled and answered subconsciously, "Then sleep for a while after you get in the car, don't be too tired."

Neither Brother Pao nor the other boys who were cheering noticed anything wrong, and they couldn't see Kongwang’s figure... The Grim Reaper’s scythe spread under the heavy clouds, approaching the girl’s forehead bit by bit.

Just then,

A phantom of a lion dance, burning with seven-colored flames, rose from the ground behind the boy and girl!

The sound of gongs and drums roared in an instant, the white smoke from the firecracker explosions surged like auspicious clouds, and the lion dance phantom, which was a dozen stories high, suddenly opened its giant mouth and roared at the white phantom!!

ROAR—!!!

Ordinary people couldn't hear this lion dance roar, but Kongwang, who was blocking the boy and girl, changed his expression instantly. The visible sound waves shook the ghost-path death energy swirling around him, and his outstretched palm was forced back.

Auspiciousness clears the way; even death must retreat three steps!

"Annoying smoke and fire... It's you again, Sun Bumian." Kongwang spoke in a deep voice. "This girl’s lifespan is already at its end. Even if you are the incarnation of auspiciousness, you cannot interfere with the fate of life and death."

The lion dance didn't speak, just glared at Kongwang. Its eyes, nested with seven-colored flames, were like a brutal beast, wanting to tear Kongwang limb from limb... Its massive body moved nimbly around the boy and girl. As the haze of death was dispelled bit by bit, the girl’s life force, which should have burned out, actually stabilized and brightened again!

And in the eyes of Brother Pao and the other ordinary people, Sun Bumian, wearing the lion dance head, suddenly jumped out from the firecrackers, shaking his head and dancing around the two of them, waking the girl who was about to fall asleep:

"Wow, is this the lion dance you were talking about?"

"Yes! This is my big brother!" Brother Pao smiled and waved enthusiastically at Sun Bumian.

The golden light of auspiciousness became even richer. Kongwang felt uncomfortable all over, so he retreated, his brows furrowed tightly...

"Sun Bumian, you can protect them for a moment, but can you protect them for a lifetime?" Kongwang sneered. "You can't save anyone... just like you couldn't save your master back then."

Hearing the last sentence, Sun Bumian’s pupils erupted with unprecedented murderous intent. His angry eyes stared fixedly at Kongwang, while the latter’s figure kept retreating, as if about to hide in the crowd...

"Big Brother, this way!"

Brother Pao, who had carried the girl into the car, saw Sun Bumian lingering on the other side of the car and couldn't help but shout.

The Audi with its hazard lights flashing moved forward amidst the sound of firecrackers. The procession that had just picked up the bride was getting closer and closer to the direction of "home." This wedding procession wasn't completely over... But Sun Bumian knew very well that in a place invisible to ordinary people, Kongwang was still watching them, and he could strike to take their souls at any time.

Sun Bumian had promised Brother Pao to protect them until they grew old together. No matter what, he couldn't let Xiaoyu die on the way to the wedding.

But he was truly stretched too thin.

Just as Sun Bumian was anxious, a figure in a bright red opera robe walked out calmly from behind him.

"I see him."

The red earrings swayed lightly in the air, and Chen Ling’s pupils glowed with an eerie red light.

He patted Sun Bumian on the shoulder and said faintly,

"You go clear the way, I'll cover the rear."

The red-clad actor brushed past the seven-colored lion dance.

In Sun Bumian’s stunned gaze, Chen Ling’s figure walked into the rolling white smoke raised by the firecrackers... When he walked out again, the bright red opera robe had turned into a complex and mysterious red and black, and a ferocious Nuo mask was fitted onto his face!