Chapter 94: Zhang Yi's Past 4
"When he passed me, he turned around and smiled at me.
That was the only time he smiled in all the days I knew him.
That smile was so complex that I couldn't see it clearly, but I only remember that it was stunning, as if he was heading to a wedding instead of an execution ground.
"Then I saw them shut the heavy steel door tightly, and the iron door inside the duel hall opened the moment the door closed.
My eyes widened in shock.
Because I saw three adult wild wolves slowly walking out from three iron doors.
There was a bloodthirsty glint in their eyes, and they were fixed on Cheng Yi.
I have seen that cold light before. The mastiffs raised in the Sui family's arena were kept hungry for a long time in order to maintain their fighting capacity.
The eyes of those three wolves were more ferocious than any mastiff I had ever seen.
I was so scared that my legs went weak for a moment."
"Then Lupinos's men gave orders, which I did not quite understand.
But they pressed a button, and a light puff of smoke filled the duel hall.
As the smoke gradually sinks, it dissipates into the air.
I saw that the beasts were even more frantic, saliva constantly dripping from their mouths, and their eyes were red with bloodthirstiness.
"I jumped up in shock, raised my hand and knocked on the glass window in front of me, shouting Cheng Yi's name.
All I could think about was: He's going to die.
But he couldn’t hear me, and no one around me paid any attention to me.”
“Then I froze.
I saw Cheng Yi's eyes from the side.
The entire eye, including the whites, turned a rich golden brown.
He took action.
It was so fast that I couldn't see clearly.
The boy's slender figure shuttled between the wolf's claws and fangs.
His wrist was so thin that it felt like it would break if he exerted too much force.
He jumped onto the wolf's back, strangled the wolf's neck with his bare hands, showed his fangs that were no less powerful than those of a wild beast, and bit the back of the wolf's neck viciously.
I clearly saw blood gushing from the wolf's neck.
I instantly understood what Qu Le said that night.
Once it grows out, it needs to be polished.
Refers to Cheng Yi's fangs.
Cheng Yi raised his head with all his strength, biting the flesh that he had torn from the wolf's neck.
The wolf under him was in so much pain that it started to thrash around in a disorderly manner, trying to throw Cheng Yi off him.
But the thin boy seemed to be born on the wolf's body. He bit the wound on the wolf's neck again, and blood stained the entire lower half of his face.
The impact of that scene was so powerful that it completely overturned my concept of hand-to-hand combat.
That was the first time I knew that humans could fight like wild beasts.
Humans can kill beasts in the same way beasts kill beasts.”
"When the other two wolves smelled their companion's blood, they didn't retreat at all. Instead, their eyes became even more bloodthirsty.
Their extremely strong muscles rolled continuously with the movements, and their fangs made a clicking sound like guillotines.
But they still felt a little bit afraid of Cheng Yi. They kept walking around Cheng Yi, as if looking for his weakness.
But the moment they decided to pounce on Cheng Yifei.
Fate has already been decided."
“They’re all dead.
The thin boy was covered in scars, bleeding profusely, and was staggering. He looked like he had crawled out of hell.
Yet he stood among the corpses of these beasts, completely calm."
"Next, Cheng Yi made a move.
I will never forget that action in my life.
He slowly squatted in front of the three wolf corpses and covered their eyes one by one.
In front of them, he clenched his fists with trembling hands.
He was praying something.
It was like saying goodbye to three dead friends.”
"I finally came to my senses and pounded on the window pane, wanting to tell him I was going to take him away.
But he couldn't hear, and of course he couldn't leave.
Then my grandfather's men found me and kidnapped me.
My grandfather took me away from England, and I never went back or saw him again in the years since then."
"Later I found out that they were using Cheng Yi to test drugs at that time. They wanted to stimulate the wolf genes in Cheng Yi.
They want to know what the upper limit of what a person with wolf blood can endure is."
Lu Qian shivered and asked softly and carefully, "Did Lupinos's people capture him?"
Sui Tang shook his head, "It's a voluntary exchange."
Lu Qian's voice was choked: "He...exchanged what?"
Sui Tang slowly raised his eyes, met Lu Qian's big eyes which were already a little red, and spoke softly.
"Qu Le's life."
After hearing this, Lu Qian's heart skipped a beat and his breathing became heavier.
Sui Tang glanced at Lu Qian's trembling eyes and lowered his head.
"They used Qu Le's life as a bargaining chip, conducted drug experiments on Cheng Yi, and required him to undergo devilish special training.
Only in this way can Qu Le be retained by the Lupinos family and trained as the fresh blood of the underworld group.
They wanted to stimulate Cheng Yi's bloodline to fully awaken, hoping to use his blood as the mother plant to create a werewolf army.
Unfortunately, they miscalculated. The medicine made with Cheng Yi's blood as the blueprint had no effect on ordinary people.
In other words, their idea of using Cheng Yi to raise a werewolf army was shattered.
But they did not let go of Cheng Yi.
They threw Cheng Yi into the bloody prison."
Lu Qian's brows tightened even more, "Blood Prison?"
Sui Tang nodded.
"Italy's darkest and most violent underground duelling arena, housing the most heinous prisoners and the most desperate Death Eaters.
There is no law for killing there. It is a hell with only an entrance but no exit.
Everyone who enters will eventually die in a game of gambling.
We call it the Blood Prison."
"It was five years later that I saw Cheng Yi again.
During these five years, I also pestered my grandfather to take me to Lupinos Mansion to see him again.
But my grandfather said that the boy had been sent away a long time ago and was probably dead now.
Although I haven't seen him in these five years, I have never forgotten those eyes.
Cheng Yi is my benefactor, or my brother. No matter what, I always feel that I should find him.
So I've been checking his whereabouts.
Everything I know about the Lupinos bloodline was discovered within these five years."
“Later, I finally found out that he was sent to the Blood Prison by Lupinos’s men two years ago.
I used the excuse of Sui's business to secretly go to Italy to see him.
I saw him in the small cell in the Blood Prison. He was sixteen years old at that time, already very tall and much stronger.
He is still so handsome, so handsome that it makes me jealous.
And to be honest, I was a little disappointed that he didn't seem very excited when he saw me.
I thought he would burst into tears and hug me, saying he missed me so much or something like that.”
Sui Tang put down his wine glass and curled his lips in dissatisfaction, as if he was really complaining.
“He is much more talkative than he was five years ago and has learned to make jokes.
But he never laughs when he jokes.
Those golden brown eyes were still cold, so cold that it was frightening.
The place he lived in was very simple, only slightly better than the thatched house he lived in when he was eleven years old, but at least it could shelter him from the wind and rain.
I was talking to him, wanting to ask him what had happened in the past five years, when there was a knock on the cell door."
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