Even Hitting on Your Brother? Worse Than a Beast

Zhuang Hong arrived at Guihua Residential Area just in time to see a tall man escorting Wu Miaomiao back to the entrance.

The moment Wu Miaomiao saw Zhuang Hong, she jumped up excitedly, waving both hands as she ran toward him. "Zhuang Hong, you're back in Sha Ting City? Hahaha!"

Seeing how excited Wu Miaomiao was at the sight of Zhuang Hong, the man's expression stiffened. He forced out a smile and followed after her. "Miaomiao, is this your friend?"

Wu Miaomiao introduced him openly. "His name's Zhuang Hong. He's one of my best bros—the ride-or-die kind. We've drunk together, carried guns together, and... You wouldn't understand. Ahahaha!"

The man's face gradually darkened, and the way he looked at Zhuang Hong filled with hostility. He even raised his chin slightly. "Zhuang Hong? Hello, I'm also a very good friend of Wu Miaomiao's. My name is..."

Suddenly, Zhuang Hong felt an electric current shoot through every part of his body. It was like being pricked by needles, and his entire body tensed instinctively.

Danger!

Sensing the danger descending, Zhuang Hong instinctively shoved Wu Miaomiao into the shrubbery, then traversed space to evade it.

The instant he activated his ability, several flashes of light burst out around him in succession. His thigh jolted slightly, and an intense numbness surged through his whole body.

Tranquilizer guns. I've been ambushed!

The next moment, Zhuang Hong vanished into thin air from this world and appeared in another.

His legs gave way, and he could not help dropping to one knee. Barely supporting himself, he looked down and saw a transparent syringe embedded in the side of his thigh.

If he had not pushed Wu Miaomiao just then, the tranquilizer dart could never have hit him.

He casually pulled it out and tossed it to the ground. Using Dimensional Sight to look through the Space Barrier at Ji Ling Star, he frowned. "Have I been targeted by this world's official organization? Maybe it has something to do with the gold I traded..."

The numbness came quickly and faded just as fast. In only a few seconds, feeling returned to Zhuang Hong's legs. He rose from the ground, feeling somewhat speechless.

"The official organization in this advanced world is actually this overbearing and barbaric..."

The once ordinary world became extraordinary beneath the watchful eyes of many.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, Zhuang Hong had suddenly disappeared, leaving everyone rooted to the spot and at a loss.

The man who had escorted Wu Miaomiao back was introducing himself when his expression froze. "My name is Cheng Jiji... Where did he go?"

Wu Miaomiao poked her head out of the bushes, blinking in confusion. "What just happened?"

The next moment, more than a dozen soldiers in camouflage uniforms, armed with guns, surrounded them. Their muzzles were practically shoved into Wu Miaomiao and Cheng Jiji's faces.

Cheng Jiji's legs went weak, and he slowly collapsed to the ground. A stench immediately spread through the air—he had been scared pissless.

Wu Miaomiao roared inwardly, Holy shit, this is bad! Zhuang Hong's theft of the gold vault has been exposed!

Only after the soldiers surrounded them did they realize that the person they had encircled was an adorable little girl.

Clearly, this little girl was not their target.

Nor was the high-quality man sprawled on the ground in piss-soaked pants.

The soldiers: "???"

Where was the target?

Calls also came through their earpieces from the distant tranquilizer gunners. "The tranquilizer darts have hit the target with Precision. Every one of them is enough to instantly sedate a buffalo. The target has no ability to resist."

"Beautiful work!"

"I hit him in the neck. He's guaranteed to fall unconscious instantly."

"Another perfect mission."

The soldiers began searching the surrounding area, but they found no trace of Zhuang Hong. They fell directly into confusion. "Perfect? Perfect my ass."

The temporary command post for this operation was in a nearby building. Hou Jiajun, the frontline commander, slowly lost his confident expression as he stared at the monitor in shock. If he had not seen wrong, the target had abruptly vanished the instant he gave the order to act.

He turned to his assistant beside him. "Shu Dong, my eyes were a little blurry just now. Tell me, how did the operation go?"

Assistant Shu Dong was not much better off than Hou Jiajun. He stammered, "Reporting, Captain Hou, I didn't see it clearly either."

Hou Jiajun said displeasedly, "What are your eyes even for?"

Just then, reports came back from the soldiers. "Reporting, Captain Hou, the target disappeared. It seems we've encountered a ghost."

"Ghost my ass!"

Hou Jiajun's face was full of fury, concealing a trace of puzzlement in his eyes. "Come on. Let's go down and take a look."

Meanwhile, inside the massive Underground Base, Yao Wenshu and Qu Wei wore expressions of astonishment.

Qu Wei said, "Boss, that Zhuang Hong disappeared again out of nowhere. He's escaped the All-Seeing Eye's lock."

Yao Wenshu knitted her brows tightly. "Replay it."

Yet no matter how much they slowed it down, the result remained the same. The man had simply vanished abruptly, while the stunned expressions of the soldiers were clearly visible.

Qu Wei said, "Boss, I'm a little scared. Could it be some unclean thing..."

Yao Wenshu rolled her eyes at him. "You're a grown man. Stop making a spectacle of yourself."

It was not only Yao Wenshu who replayed the footage. The operation team in distant Sha Ting City was also reviewing the recording.

After slowing it down several hundred times, they finally saw what had happened. A total of six shots had been fired, aimed respectively at Zhuang Hong's limbs, torso, and neck. Only one shot struck Zhuang Hong's right leg; all the other tranquilizer darts had passed straight through his body.

The instant the darts passed through him, Zhuang Hong abruptly vanished.

"They passed through him?"

"More accurately, one shot did hit."

"Anyone who takes even one shot will be paralyzed within three seconds. Perhaps a careful search of the area will reveal something."

"We've turned the place upside down. There's nothing."

"Judging from the subtle changes in his expression, he had already noticed something the instant before the shots were fired. He seemed to activate some kind of power and evade them. And he even had time to push that girl away. That isn't something an ordinary person could do."

"Some kind of power?"

"Ahem. The kind of power described in science-fiction movies—spatial transfer."

Everyone looked at one another.

Commander Hou Jiajun roared, "Are you making science-fiction jokes with me? Think with those shit-filled brains of yours. Is that even possible? Huh?"

But no matter how furious he was, the fact remained that the target had been lost.

He quickly calmed down, glanced at Wu Miaomiao and Cheng Jiji, and said, "Take these two back first. Withdraw!"

The moment Cheng Jiji heard that, he nearly fainted. He insisted that he was innocent and knew nothing. He had only escorted Wu Miaomiao back because he wanted to hit on her...

Wu Miaomiao rolled her eyes and slapped him. "What nonsense are you spouting? We're bros. You're even hitting on your brother? Worse than a beast."

Zhuang Hong had been observing what was happening in Sha Ting City from the adjacent space. Seeing that Wu Miaomiao was not in any immediate danger, he was instantly relieved.

But now he had to face a new problem: how to obtain the two injections needed to treat Chen Yuanfei.

Taking things from Ji Ling Star was simple for him. He only needed to extend a few strands of Fine Silk, wrap them around the items, and pull them back. He did not even need to set foot in the world of Ji Ling Star himself.

Unfortunately, there were many medicines in the hospital, and he did not know which two injections belonged to Chen Yuanfei.

No matter what, he would have to personally return to Ji Ling Star and ask for the medication serial numbers.

However, Ji Ling Star surely had surveillance capable of tracking his movements, so he needed to change his appearance.

At a thought from Zhuang Hong, armor began forming all over his body and changing color. His figure grew taller, stronger, and fatter. His facial contours filled out, his eyes narrowed, his lips thickened, and his nose widened...

In the blink of an eye, he had become a fair, plump, happy shut-in.

Zhuang Hong looked at his new appearance with satisfaction, confident that even the most powerful computer would not be able to recognize him.

He took off his now ill-fitting clothes, borrowed a fitted set from a clothing store, and then swaggered out of a restroom with no surveillance cameras.

After wandering the streets for two hours and confirming that no one could recognize him, he headed straight for the hospital.

When the attending physician saw Zhuang Hong, his brows furrowed. He did not remember ever receiving this patient.

Zhuang Hong removed the armor mask from his face and smiled faintly at the doctor with his original appearance.

The doctor was shocked. "It hasn't been long since we last met. How did you get this fat?"

"Where's the medicine?"

"Sorry. Though it goes against procedure, Sky Eye transferred your medicine away as soon as it was ready. There's nothing I can do."