Chapter 876: A Baffling Move
Chapter 876: A Baffling Move
Jiang Ran's face was smashed into a bloody mess, blood pooling all over the ground.It wasn't until more than twenty strikes had landed that Hou Mengji finally stopped.
He was breathing heavily, then let out a sinister chuckle. "When did you notice me?! And when did you investigate me so thoroughly?!"
Jiang Ran didn't make a sound.
Hou Mengji withdrew both hands.
"Oh, I almost forgot. After rubbing your face against the floor for that long, it's probably hard for you to speak casually anymore."
Immediately after, Hou Mengji ordered the Monkey King Mask Man to go to the library restroom and fetch some water for him.
The Monkey King Mask Man looked around but found no container. Then he suddenly noticed Jiang Ran's discarded anti-riot helmet on the ground.
So he picked up the anti-riot helmet, went to the library restroom, filled it with water, and brought it back to Hou Mengji.
Hou Mengji then dumped the entire helmet of water over Jiang Ran's head and face.
Under the rush of water, the blood covering Jiang Ran's face was washed away somewhat.
Hou Mengji then continued to order the Monkey King Mask Man to fetch more water.
Judging by his attitude, he intended to keep going until Jiang Ran spoke up.
But the Monkey King Mask Man wasn't Hou Mengji's subordinate, so he flat-out refused to fetch water again.
"If you want water, go get it yourself. I already did you a favor by fetching it once."
So Hou Mengji ordered Huang Kaiyu over there to fetch the water instead.
Huang Kaiyu didn't want to fetch water either, but given the current situation, he had no choice but to obediently go.
After roughly three more helmets of water, Jiang Ran finally spoke.
Except this time, he didn't answer the question of when he had noticed Hou Mengji or how he had investigated him so thoroughly.
Instead, he smiled with contempt: "Hou Mengji, you know about genetics, right?"
"Children inherit many things from their parents."
"Facial features, skin, height and build, blood type, personality, talent, intelligence, even genetic diseases."
"So tell me, do you think your son and daughter might really inherit your psychological freak tendencies, just as others have said?"
"When they grow up, will they become pedophiles and murderers just like their old man?"
Hou Mengji's face turned ashen.
Jiang Ran spoke as if provoking him: "I'm a bit curious now. Do you actually want your son and daughter to turn out like you? Speaking of which."
"Oh, of course, a child's development isn't something you can just dictate however you please."
Hou Mengji: "You've said all that, what exactly are you trying to get at?"
Jiang Ran stood up at this moment, and he rose very quickly.
As if he were a man completely uninjured, getting up was just a simple motion for him.
"What I'm trying to say is, your wife, and your pair of children, are dead meat."
"Heh heh heh heh heh—"
Jiang Ran let out that same demonic-sounding laugh as before.
Looking at Jiang Ran's blood-soaked face with its mangled patches right in front of him, Hou Mengji threw a punch straight at him.
That punch carried impatience, carried fury.
He thought his punch would hit Jiang Ran without hesitation—and that was true.
His fist struck Jiang Ran's right cheek directly. But to his surprise, his own left cheek was also hit by a punch that Jiang Ran had thrown at who-knows-when.
That punch sent him stumbling backward repeatedly, a trickle of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.
He wiped the blood from his lips with his hand, then rubbed it between his fingers.
Hou Mengji seemed to be enraged.
"I'll beat you to death with my bare hands, just like I killed that cripple."
He charged at Jiang Ran, his clenched fist representing the fury from moments ago.
Likewise, Jiang Ran stepped forward to meet him.
The two began trading blows.
You throw a punch, I throw a punch. You kick, I kick.
But what no one around them expected was that this fight would be decided in under three minutes.
The victor was not Hou Mengji, but Jiang Ran—the one who had already been beaten multiple rounds earlier and was carrying injuries.
Jiang Ran stood in place, his face a horror show, still letting out that same "heh heh heh" demonic laugh as before.
As for Hou Mengji, he had already collapsed to the ground, his face swollen and bruised, unconscious.
Bang!
At that moment—
The Monkey King Mask Man, who had been observing from behind Jiang Ran the whole time, saw Hou Mengji collapse unconscious. He immediately whipped out a spinning leg kick aimed at Jiang Ran.
But Jiang Ran seemed to have eyes in the back of his head. He darted forward a few quick steps and dodged it.
He dodged it.
However, the Monkey King Mask Man couldn't retract that leg kick, so it slammed into a nearby table instead, producing a loud bang.
The Monkey King Mask Man instantly clutched his foot, howling in pain.
"I really admire you. That moment of sneak attack—truly shameless, despicable, and treacherous."
Having dodged the kick, Jiang Ran slowly turned to face the Monkey King Mask Man.
He smiled faintly.
The moment those words left his mouth, he lunged forward in a single stride. At the same time, he coiled his right fist back, swung it behind him, then lashed it forward with explosive force.
The punch struck the Monkey King Mask Man square in the face.
Jiang Ran's movements were incredibly fast, clean, and decisive—not a trace of hesitation. On top of that, the Monkey King Mask Man was still clutching his foot with both hands, completely caught off guard, and so he took the hit.
Struck by that punch, the Monkey King Mask Man flew backward several meters through the air. The mask on his face was literally shattered by that single blow.
Even though the mask had absorbed some of the impact, the Monkey King Mask Man still felt intense pain in his face—it was burning, swollen, and his head was spinning.
In his final moment before losing consciousness, he struggled to lift his head and look toward Huang Kaiyu and the man in the female school uniform.
That was when he realized, with terror, that both Huang Kaiyu and the man in the female school uniform had already vanished without a trace. Who knew where they had run off to?
After knocking out the Monkey King Mask Man, Jiang Ran's gaze swept around like radar, searching for Huang Kaiyu and the man in the female school uniform who had been on the first floor earlier.
But neither of them was anywhere to be seen.
So he stopped bothering with them. With one hand grabbing Hou Mengji's foot and the other gripping the Monkey King Mask Man's foot, he dragged them out of the library like two dead dogs.
In the live stream room.
In the chat section.
Middle-aged Uncle: [Jiang Ran's alternate personality is really something in a fight, no joke.]
[He finished the fight with ease.]
Ultimate Rich Kid: [Yeah, he's absurdly strong.]
Fairy Sister: [But wait, Jiang Ran's alternate personality didn't kill those two. Where's he dragging them off to?]
Jiang Ran dragged the two men all the way back to Building No. 1 of Alice Apartment.
Then he dragged them back to his own home, Room 304.
After returning home, he used materials from his own place—cloth strips made from curtains, things like that—to bind the two men tightly.
Once they were securely bound, he left the building again.
And walked straight out of Alice Apartment.
This move was genuinely baffling to watch.
So the people in the live stream turned their attention to the other two locations instead.
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