Before anyone knew it, I'd grabbed the folding stool beside me and brought it down hard on Hu Lai, who was bawling his eyes out, snot and tears all over his face!
"Thump!"
"Crash!"
"Bro—ugh!"
Hu Shuo stood behind me, stunned. Natalia's eye twitched in the distance, while Luo Yingxia had no idea how to react and just stared blankly at the scene.
The large group of soldiers outside the vehicle all shuddered and froze in place, too afraid to move.
After all... Hu Lai might be a total wild card, but that bearded man was still one of Jingzhou's top four mutants. And a mutant that powerful had just been taken out by a folding stool.
The soldiers were, of course, dumbfounded.
"Bro!"
The first to react was naturally Hu Shuo, who was closest to Hu Lai. As if afraid I'd hit his brother too hard and killed him with the stool, the kid hurried to his feet and ran over to haul Hu Lai up from where he'd landed flat on the ground.
"Bro!"
"Little bro~ Ugh~ What happened to me?"
Hu Lai had clearly been dazed by my blow. He opened his eyes in a hazy stupor and touched the red mark covering half his face, completely bewildered.
"Why... does it hurt so much?"
"Uh..."
Hu Shuo hesitated, glancing at me.
"It's nothing, bro. You slipped and fell."
"Oh!"
Hu Lai looked as if he'd suddenly understood everything.
I'd already given up all hope for these two brothers...
MMP, I hit him! I hit him!
What the hell was that about falling? And you actually believed him just like that?
How were you going to explain the half-circle-shaped red mark on your face?!
But Hu Lai really did believe him. Then he let out a wail and