For the next few days Zhang Fei started interacting with Nie chenyu more and more which led to more and more fights but Zhang Fei could already see that Nie chenyu was becoming more docile around him than before. Although both of them still fought but they were now on speaking terms even though they definitely weren’t friendly. Coco had been following the cultists to see where the site of the ritual was but it seemed they were just going to random places and never visited the same place twice. Coco given his intelligence didn’t understand what they were doing but Zhang Fei could guess the reason for their behavior.

The executive head that wanted to resurrect his wife had decided to carry out the ritual despite strong opposition and was in a difficult position. His rivals in the organization probably were trying to take advantage of this situation to makes things even more difficult for the executive head and to mess with the ritual, that’s why he and his men were being so cautious when moving around and hence coco not being able to find the site of the ritual, but even still Zhang Fei marked out an area on the map of the island based on the places the cultists visited where the ritual might be held. Although the area was quite large, it was still a clue.

After waiting for a few days the day of the sacrifice came. Zhang Fei was going along with his high school group to the place where the opening ceremony was going to be held. It wasn’t compulsory for people to join the ceremony but many still did because they heard there was going to be a celebration and feast after the ceremony. When his group reached the place they could already see a lot of people there, they were the tourists that had come from all over the world to be the first to experience the island. The venue was out in the open with a patch of the jungle cleared for it, there were refreshments and people were currently just standing there and chatting.

Since the number of tourists was a lot chairs weren’t provided to the crowds and they were standing but no one complained because of the endless delicious refreshments they were being provided with and the pleasant enviornment. A huge stage was raised above the ground level where the staff where seen busy working with the electrical equipments. The person who was the face of the organization to the outside world and as well as the person who would officially open the island was the executive head who had planned the separate ritual for his wife.

The executive head still hadn’t arrived so everyone was waiting for him and were enjoying the refreshments provided by the waiters and were chatting with each other. The high school students formed their own groups went on their separate ways. Currently Zhang Fei and Yun long were taking a walk and chatting about a specific author whose book they had started reading a few days ago. They walked for a while after which they bumped into the female leads group. Both groups stopped in front of each other, An zining smiled and and greeted Zhang Fei, “Hi there, so you are the guy that Nie chenyu has a crush on.” Zhang fei arched his brow at the remark.

“An zining what the hell?” Nie Chenyu who was besides An zining was acting casually when she saw Zhang Fei but immediately became flustered when An zining mentioned him being her crush.

“What, Nie Chenyu likes a guy, oh my hahah has the sun risen in the west or what haha – ow!” Chen Fei laughed at Nie Chenyu but was presented with a fist to head from Nie Chenyu. Yao Zhixing only gave Zhang Fei a cursory glance and didn’t say anything. To him people like Zhang Fei or more accurately Fang Ning were only trash and weren’t worth any attention. It was probably for the same reason that Yao Zhixing didn’t remember Zhang fei from the time he ordered his lackey’s to beat him up since he was only a worthless existence to him even then.

“hmph fang ning don’t get your hopes up, An zining is only joking, don’t ever think that I will be interested in a guy like you.” Nie chenyu said in a manner that suggested the she was at a much higher position than Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei rolled his, “Don’t worry, I will feel blessed if you don’t take an interest in me.”

“Ugh you idiot, learn how to talk like a gentleman.” Nie chenyu fumed in anger while Chen fei laughed, “oh man I already like this dude.” Chen Fei put forward his hand for a handshake, “ Hi my name is Chen Fei Nice to meet you.”

Zhang Fei shook his hand , “ Nice to meet you too, my name is Fang Ning and this guy here is Yun Long” Yun long gave a meek greeting seeing the stars of his high school in front of him.

Chen fei Smiled at Zhang Fei’s polite reply, “Right, let me introduce you to my gang, this right here is an zining aka the Beauty queen of our highschool as well as my future wife…” Chen Fei introduced an zining who didn’t need an introduction at all since everyone in the highschool knew her. An Zining gave a mysterious smile at her introduction while Yao Zhixing scoffed at it and showed an annoyed expression meanwhile Chen fei continued with his introduction.

“This is here is Yao Zhixing , the edgy teen boy with anger management issues and the ‘ I hate everything’ attitude…” An zining and Nie chenyu laughed while Yao Zhixing expression darkened to a frightening degree.

“And lastly this here is chenyu who also known as the most violent women in the history of the planet and quite unfortunately for you, she also has a crush on you-ow! Dammit, stop hitting me on the head” Chen Fei rubbed his head after getting another punch on the head.

“Then stop spouting nonsense.”

“geez I was only joking…” heh but atleast I was right about you being the most violent women on the planet.

“wait fang ning? So you are the guy who beat up one of my guys?” Yao Zhixing said with an imposing tone as soon as he remembered that his lackeys telling him about a person who beat them up single handedly and said had skills on par with him.

“Yeah I did, they wanted to beat me up so I did the same. Why, do you have a problem with that?” Zhang Fei said those words with a calm smile and the atmosphere turned tense. Both of them were staring at each other intensely. Right before everyone thought that a fight would occur Yao Zhixing smiled, “No of course not, they were just looking for trouble themselves and I don’t intend to avenge them but I would like to see the skills of the person they so boasted about.”

“Sure, any time you like.” Zhang Fei replied with a calm smile. If he wanted a fight, Zhang Fei would gladly give him the suffering he wanted.

Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.

“Great count me in too.” Chen fei said as he put his arm around both Zhang Fei and Yao Zhixing to which both simultaneously said “Screw off”.

“…” ouch my feelings.

Meanwhile in an expensive car a middle aged man was sitting on the back seat looking outside with a heavy expression. It seemed he had a lot of things on his mind. “Sir Sinclair we will be reaching the venue shortly.” The driver said as he drove on the well paved road of the island. Sinclair hummed in acknowledgement. Then once again he became immersed in his thoughts as he touched the ring on his finger remembering better times. He had sacrificed a lot of things to reach his position and blinded by his vision of glory he strode forward without ever stopping and finally achieved his position as an executive head, but it was all worthless. After reaching the end he realized he lost the most precious thing he had all along, the person who always stood by him, the love of his life. He realized too late that in his blind passion he lost her, and when he did lose her everything seemed dull and lifeless, his motivation to move forward was no more, he realized that she was the one that gave him the strength to move forward.

He was shook by her sudden death, and after searching for the truth for a long time he came to know that it was his competitors in the organization that killed her. He wanted revenge but no matter what how much he wanted one man couldn’t face the whole world, but he finally found hope, hope to bring her wife back to life. Since she was the reason he got where he was, and if needed be he intended to sacrifice everything he had, everything he had ever achieved, even if he could see her for just a small moment he would do it without blinking his eyes. Sinclaire closed his eyes and sank into his thoughts again as he waited to reach the place of the official ceremony.

Meanwhile Zhang Fei and the group spent the time chatting and eating and rinking the refreshments as they waited for the ceremony to start. Zhang Fei who was chatting with the female leads group turned to the stage as he noticed movement. It seemed the opening ceremony had begun. First professional dancers came and performed a breathtaking dance and then there were fireworks along with pleasant music being played as well as colorful banners being sprung up all around the stage as the executive head made his entry.

“It seems this cultist group is a bit too dramatic.”

[it’s called finesse host, a simple human like you wouldn’t understand.]

Zhang fei scoffed, “And you do?”

[Yes since I am more than a billion years old than you so I know a lot more]

“Really? I don’t see the usually accompanying wisdom”

[……….. uh that’s because human wisdom and cube wisdom are different, uh yes that’s it.]

“Yeah sure whatever.” Zhang Fei smirked at Cocos pathetic attempt at a cover up.

When all the ‘finesse’ ended, the executive head came on the stage. “Hello everyone, I am Sinclair the representative of the group that has built this glorious resort. This island was built to be the best of the best, so I hope you will enjoy your time on this island. From me and those from my organization, the completion of this island has been a dream for many years and we worked tirelessly for it for decades, but now that dream has come true. This a place of leisure and enjoyment so I would prefer for you to do exactly that. I Sinclair now announce that the island is officially open, this island…” Sinclaire continued his speech with a smile and the Crowd cheered with fervor without even having a clue that it would the last night being alive for most of them.

Zhang Fei looked at the man named sinclaire and at the fake smile on his face, “The eyes of that man are dead and empty but I can still see a spark that is making him still continue living.”

Nie Chenyu scoffed, “What, are you a mind reader now.”

“No I am not, I can tell by observing him, it’s something ‘humans’ do”

Nie chenyu gave Zhang Fei a glare, “and what are you implying by that.”

Zhang Fei gave Nie chenyu a charming smile, “I think you know exactly what I mean.” Nie chenyu understood That Zhang was indirectly calling her a gorilla again. She lifted her foot and stomped it down on Zhang Fei’s foot, Zhang Fei just moved his foot away and didn’t pay her any more attention.

“Nice observation. Most people wouldn’t notice that.” An zining said with a smile as she looked at Zhang Fei.

“I am not most people.” Zhang Fei replied with a smile. Coco rolled his non existent eyes. Show off.

“He is a fighter too, you can see it from the way he moves his body.” Yao zhixing pointed out from observing the executive heads lithe movement.

“Great, I hope I can have a few spars with him.” Chen Fei said with a determined expression.

“You don’t have to fight every person you meet you brute.” Yao Zhixing replied back.

“Hey watch your language, how dare you call Nie chenyu a brute.” Chen fei said with a wronged expression.

Chen fei got another hit on the head by Nie chenyu, “He meant you dumbass.”

Chen Fei rubbed his head, “ oh sorry my bad my bad, you know it’s just because I heard the word brute and I immediately thought he was talking about you.”

“Hey guys, the speech is coming to an end.” An zining pointed out to stop her friends from bickering. Sinclair ended his speech and bid farewell to the crowd. The crowd was then split up and brought to different building that were created in circular shape and were coloured differently on the outside for the feast. Everyone were enjoying the exotic foods as they socialized.

“Coco when will the ritual start?”

[it will start exactly at 12 according to the original plotline] Zhang fei thought that the best plan for him to survive till dawn would be to keep the group together and then carry on from there. Staying at one spot would be dangerous since Coco had said that monsters and demons with all kinds of abilities would be gracing everyone with their presence so it would be best to keep moving around rather than sit at one place and becoming trapped with no way out.

Meanwhile at a dark basement two men were sitting on chairs and were bonded strongly to it by ropes. Their bodies were bloodied and they had injuries of varying degree. One of the man had pieces of his skin missing and had a bloodied face. It was apparent that the blood was coming from his face as a result of his teeth being forcefully torn out. He was also missing his eye and was barely breathing.

The other guy had 3 of his finger missing and had a bruised face apparently from being hit by a blunt object. This person seemed to be dead since he wasn’t breathing at all. A man with a completely shaved head and a full beard came out from the shadows of the room and stood in front of the man while throwing away a bloodied pair of gloves and wearing new ones.

He went near barely alive man and patted his face to get his attention “ You know torturing is an art, like every art you have to be meticulous in it, or else the art piece ends up being nothing more than trash. I am an artist as well, and you are my art piece, see I have to make sure to torture with great care so that you can feel as much pain as possible without you dying or else it’s all pointless. That makes sense no?” the man went forward and gave the man who was still alive a slap on the head to make him come back to his senses.

“I don’t have an enmity with you, but you were trying to mess with my boss, and I as a loyal subordinate take that as an insult to my job and myself as well so you are here right now suffering. You might want the sweet release of death but I am sorry to say, you don’t have the luxury to die.”

The man continued with his torture for an hour before he stopped when a man came downstairs, “ Zor Sir sinclair had said for everyone to take their positions, the sacrifice is going to start soon.”

The man named Zor clicked his tongue at the interruption and then slit the throat of the person who he was torturing with a scalpel who seemed to have a smile on his face as he died. Zor threw away the scapel as he turned around and gave a frightening smile, “ Great, I was getting bored here in this basement anyways.”