Zhang Fei was slowly walking in the moonlight of a full moon towards a warehouse a distance. “Coco, you said the law would interfere with the changes in the story, was the screw up in the mansion the change you were talking about?” Zhang Fei asked hoping that maybe this time Coco could give a useful answer.

[That’s right host it was the system trying to screw you over by keeping the story the same, but it isn’t omnipotent and things can still go the other way around. It depends on the law of the world, It can either spend a lot of its energy to make changes to the story or stop big changes from happening or let the changes go on, basically it varies from situation to situation and predicting what the law might decide is impossible.]

“I see, so does the law decide how the story ends?”

[Nope, it just offers perks and advantages to whoever it wants and maybe sometimes make changes to situations to guide the story in a certain direction but like a river it can’t stop the flow, it just guide it’s direction at only certain points, it isn’t responsible for where the river might end.]

“So who or what decides how the story ends?” Zhang Fei asked Coco in a casual manner.

[Don’t know, actually no one knows, even the realities of the stories you have written might not end in the same way you wrote it when it comes to the real world, so it’s also unpredictable]

“So anything can happen anytime anywhere?”

[Yep.] Coco nodded with a proud tone, thinking that he finally proved to Zhang fei that he was worthy of being a highly praised system by answering his questions correctly up until now.

Zhang Fei stopped, turned around and looked at Coco with a smile. “Like the everyday accidents that happen to me, right?”

[….] Suddenly Coco turned around and thought that the butterfly flying near the nearby flower was really interesting and gave 120% of his attention to it. That smile might be a simple for others but for Coco especially after what Zhang fei said, that smile came right from the depths of hell straight from Satan himself.

Zhang Fei just ignored Coco after proving his hypothesis, he thought that the everyday accidents happening to him might not be just bad luck in this world and might be the negative karma affecting his everyday life and not just the screw-ups in the story, this meant that even in the future in all of the worlds he will have to face shit terrible luck with constant accidents happening to him many of which might be life threatening, in short he was fucked. And all this was because the stupid cube currently hiding behind a bush didn’t tell him that he couldn’t even stop the negative karma from screwing his everyday life and not just his progress in a mission. So now not only the law but the negative karma as well would try to mess up his progress in the story’s mission and besides that the Karma would mess with his everyday life too.

Zhang Fei had already demolished Coco in a thousand ways after realizing the truth from Coco’s reaction but unfortunately for him and fortunately for Coco, they would have to wait until Zhang Fei could find a way to interact with Coco or else he would just run away every time. Zhang just chose to ignore the matter and deal with Coco later on for his screw up once he found a way to interact with him.

Zhang Fei reached the warehouse and opened the door and entered the dark dimly lit space. Mo Wenzi was there all bruised and beaten up with tattered clothes and was being held by chains wrapped around his arms. It seemed he was unresponsive as his head hung down and wasn’t showing any motion. Zhang Fei gave a simple command, “Wake him up.” A few people came out of the shadows and made a circle around Zhang Fei and Mo wenzi, 2 of them went forward and threw buckets of cold water at Mo wenzi to wake him up.

Mo wenzi Woke up with a start and looked around with his red bloodshot eyes, his eyes were hazy as he had just woke up and he seemed to be in a muddleheaded state from exhaustion. “It seems the prodigal son has returned, though the prodigal son seems more like a beggar than a prodigal son now.” Zhang Fei said with a hint of mirth. Mo wenzi’s muddleheaded state immediately went away as he heard his sworn enemy’s voice and made a jump towards him while bringing his arms forward in an attempt to strangle him to death, but the chains stopped his futile attempt. “So did you enjoy the ride I set for you?” Zhang Fei asked with a smile again, hinting at how he was the one responsible for his misery, rather he wanted him to know, what better way to make someone even more miserable than not being able to do anything against the one how made your life a hell hole.

Mo Wenzi became even more furious and pulled the chains with all his might, it almost seemed that the chains would break any moment as he said with clenched teeth, “ YOU! How dare you show your face to me again after what you did to me and my innocent father, you fucking coward. Loosen these chains so we settle this like real men.” Mo weniz asked in a berating way. He hoped that Zhang Fei would come forward to keep his honor around his men and fight him, and based from the past exchange of fists with Zhang fei he was sure he could beat him in an instant, he had worked hard and trained like a mad person in prison just so he could break all of Zhang Fei’s bones with his own hand.

But unfortunately this wasn’t your typical hero villain story where the villain would accept his proposal and with a last duel the hero would emerge victorious, especially when the so labelled villain doesn’t give a fuck about your proposal. Zhang Fei said with a smile, “Nope, or else all the effort my men put in getting you chained would be for nothing, I can’t waste their effort you know. And why wouldn’t I show my face, I am the winner and you are the loser, I won, so of course I am going to come to rub the fact in your face…” Zhang Fei said with the same smile on his face, which further made Mo wenzi even more furious, it seemed that Zhang Fei knew that even a simple smile would be able to light the flames of fury in Mo wenzi.[ Wow host, you definitely know how to piss someone off.] Coco said with a bit of praise, according to him even pissing off people with simple acts was an art, an art he himself was a master at, of which Coco was very proud of. But wait, is it a good thing or a bad thing?

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Zhang Fei continued on with his victory speech which was more of a salt rubbing in your enemy’s wound session than a victory speech, “This wasn’t personal you know, it’s just that we came on opposing sides, but even if we weren’t I wouldn’t be able to stand an idiot like you and would have send you on your way likewise, and as for you ‘innocent’ father, there are very few people whom I consider truly corrupt and your father was one of them, I know even you knew about it, but just chose to ignore it. As far as I know he was a scum, and you are as well.”

“Well if I am a scum, then what are you?” Mo Wenzi immediately asked with eyes filled with fury. Zhang Fei stopped smiling all of a sudden as he remained silent and then smiled again as he said, “Me? Well I am just a sadist.” Zhang fei said this as he stood up, showing how everything he did was just because he was a sadist. “I swear on my life that I will get free from these chains and when I do I.WILL.END.YOU!” Mo wenzi said with a loud shout seeing that how Zhang Fei was about to leave and made an even fiercer attempt to break the chains which were making really alarming noises. Coco thought that if Zhang Fei didn’t do anything about him soon, the law of the world would probably give a boost to Mo Wenzi and he would really be able to break off from the chains and that would be another problem, but it seemed that his worry was for naught as Zhang Fei had already thought of that possibility.

“Wow you sure can shout, but I think a shout that comes from pain is much louder than one that comes from fury. You know what, break his left leg.” Mo Wenzi’s expression of fury froze as he processed Zhang fei’s words. By the time he understood what Zhang Fei meant, the man besides Mo wenzi had already swung a heavy wrench and hit his kneecap with the aim to bust it. Mo wenzi made a loud scream as the pain registered into his brain and tried to get away as the man continued hitting his knee cap until it was fully ruined. After that the man stopped but Mo Wenzi screams didn’t as he kept on screaming from the pain.

Zhang Fei shook his head and said with a hint of disappointment “No it still isn’t loud enough. Break his other leg as well.” Mo wenzi looked fearfully at Zhang Fei and there was also a hint of pleading in his eyes but Zhang fei didn’t give the command to stop. Again a series of screams echoed in the warehouse as Mo Wenzi’s other cap was also ruined, now he wouldn’t be able to walk all his life. Tears were now streaming from Mo Wenzi’s face as he was wailing in a weak voice, he was in a really pathetic condition.

“Why does it seem his voice his coming lower and lower, maybe the person isn’t doing his job right, well there is always another try. Break both of his arms as well.” Mo wenzi heard this and this time he again made an attempt to jump towards Zhang Fei, which wasn’t very successful, but this time it was to hold his legs and plead rather than strangle him in fury. It seemed whatever pride he had as a 2nd generation noveau rich was gone, now all he wanted was to get away from this pain, this tormenting pain. “Please stop, Zhang Fei stop, I know I was wrong no no, I am wrong whatever I did I have done wrong, but please let me Go don’t make me a complete cripple, please let me go. I swear I will forget all this and never pursue it again, just please let me go.” Mo Wenzi asked with tears streaming down his fearful expression on his face.

Zhang Fei said a simple sentence which led to a total silence in the warehouse. “I remember someone else asking you the same thing once.” Zhang Fei said in a calm voice and with a slight smile as he looked down on the kneeling Mo wenzi with clear eyes, Mo wenzi’s facial expression returned to normal as he instead looked at Zhang fei in horror, as he was made to realize the one horrible act he had once committed, the one thing he wished to forgot, the one thing that he thought only he knew. At this time only Zhang fei and Mo wenzi knew what he done, not even Coco knew it as he was only given details about the story not about the character’s whole life, just some part of it necessary to understand the story to explain it to a host.

The man again swung the wrenches as even more weakened screams were heard in the warehouse. Finally Mo wenzi fainted as he was fully crippled with all his limbs no longer working.

“looks like I was wrong, it seems the scream of pain isn’t louder than one from fury, well, everyone makes mistakes, nothing that can be done now.” Zhang Fei said as he shrugged his shoulders. At this Coco just turned over his non existant eyes at Zhang fei. (-_-) at least make an attempt at looking guilty.

Zhang fei turned around and started to leave the warehouse. Just as he left the warehouse, Coco couldn’t contain his curiosity any longer and asked with a highly curious tone [Host, what did he do?] Coco wanted to know what the bad deed Mo wenzi committed was, was it so serious that once he was reminded of it he even forgot his tormenting pain and felt horror at knowing that someone else knew about it as well. It seemed Zhang fei hadn’t informed about the digging he did about the leads’ life history.

“Coco” Zhang fei said in a calm manner.

[uh ,What is it host?] …….. maybe I shouldn’t have asked.

“Some things are better left unsaid. Let’s just say that someone once asked the same thing from him but he didn’t give a fuck about them at that time, I didn’t give a fuck about him as well, well…I am not supposed to give a fuck about him. Not that I would have anyways”

[I see so karma bested him.]

Zhang Fei stopped in the darkness of the night as he looked at the sky.

“No, fuck karma, I was the one who bested him” It seemed Zhang Fei had a grudge with karma, and if karma was a person he would have been shivering in fear from Zhang Fei’s wrath. Zhang fei went forward towards a large container, to make one last dialogue with the heroin of the story.