Chapter 550 - Stupid Guardian (2/2)

“Kid, I’m afraid that you will have to protect me the next time we meet. Hehe, I hope that you won’t mind your big brother who will only be a drag to you by then.”

Du Zhanpeng leaned against the nutrition tank; his lazy and tired posture matched his smile, and it looked just like a scroll depicting a resting Childe.

Kid? Why does this voice sound so familiar? Du Peng’s sleeping finger shook slightly, Du Zhanpeng! Brother! Where am I?

That’s right, I was seriously injured by Sleepwalker God. I might have heard his voice at that time. That’s right! It was Qin Fen. It must be Qin Fen imitating his voice to try to wake me up.

“Kid, don’t push yourself too hard sometimes. Who can live forever in this world? People will always die, it’s just a matter of time. You’ll only trap yourself if you can’t think through it. By that time, other people will call your brother a useless man, and you won’t even have a chance to prove yourself to me because you’ve trapped yourself and not being strong enough.”

People will always die, but you died because of me. If you didn’t save me at that time, then you would be the one staying alive…

“Don’t blame yourself too much and be happier. Having more smiles on your face will make your friends around you happy too.”

Oh. Why are you not talking? Say something more! Qin Fen, even if it’s you who is faking his voice, say something more. I really want to hear more of his voice.

Du Zhanpeng moved his heavy steps and stood in front of Qin Fen once again, “This time, take good care of him for me.”

“En.” Qin Fen nodded lightly, real promises didn’t need any pretty words.

Du Zhanpeng patted Qin Fen’s shoulder. He raised his head and walked passed him, towards Chen Zhi’s direction, “This time, I left some messages to the kid. He should be more mature mentally after going through life-or-death situations twice.”

Five hours later…

The solution in the nutrition tank moved slightly. Du Peng suddenly opened his eyes, sat up straight away, looked around in confusion, and looked at his hands, “Is this…?”

Lin Liqiang said as he stretched, “In short, you got beaten half dead by God of Night, and then you died immediately after eating Old Enz’s life-or-death pill. Later, because of some things that happened, we’ve made you into what you are now.”

“Then…” Du Peng looked at Lin Liqiang, “Am I considered dead or alive?”

Lin Liqiang shrugged his shoulders, “Theoretically, you are considered alive. Fortunately, you have completed the Nirvana Marrow Transformation Great Inborn stage and had become a fifteen-star martial dao master. Otherwise, you would have had no chance at all this time. We have calculated that this method is not applicable to just anyone. The basic condition is that one must be a fifteen-star martial dao master, and each person has only one chance in their lifetime. Okay, that’s it, I will tell you later about your condition. Old Qin is waiting for you there.”

Du Peng walked towards Qin Fen and looked at his own body, feeling weird. Why do I feel so different after waking up?

“Follow me, I’ll show you something.” Qin Fen turned and walked into a room in the corridor.

Du Peng was checking the differences in his body while walking into the room with Qin Fen.

The room lights suddenly dimmed, and a beam of projection was projected in the air in front of Du Peng. Du Zhanpeng’s pale and tired face appeared in the air.

“You…” Du Peng forgot to check his body. He was dazed, looking at Du Zhanpeng in the air. He had not seen him for years and he was surprised to find that Du Zhanpeng, who was supposed to be dead, had grown mature too.

“Yes, I am not dead.” As soon as Du Peng heard Du Zhanpeng’s voice, his body went a little stiff, and his mind was echoing with the voice he had been hearing while he was asleep.

“Simply said, I saved you once again, kid. Also, for this reason, I may be very tired for the time being and need to rest for a long time.”

“Don’t ask your friends where I am, just listen to me first.” Du Zhanpeng leaned back in the chair, “I know you hate the Du family. If you have enough power, my guess would be that you would want to destroy the Du family straight away? Well! Maybe you don’t want to destroy it anymore now, but you don’t want to have anything to do with them either. However, you succeeded the blood of Du family after all… cough… cough…”

Du Zhanpeng coughed a few times, and his face looked even paler and weaker; his self-deprecating smile at his lips looked sickly yet beautiful, “Well, I am really feeling weak now. Let’s keep it short. Please help me to protect the Du family no matter how much you hate them before I come back. Just do it for my sake. Grandpa is old now…”

“And, don’t be in a hurry to find me.” Du Zhanpeng smiled, tired, “Honestly, what will you do when you see me? Crying hard while hugging me? It’ll be gross!”

Du Zhanpeng’s smile was weakening, but he still kept the calm attitude of a Childe, “Or you want to beat me up when you see me? If you want to beat me up, then I can’t let you find me.”

“Soon there’ll be the Ensemble of Heroes happening. To be honest, I wanted to participate, but now…” Du Zhanpeng looked at his weak body, “I won’t be able to go on this stage which is a dream to every martial artist for the time being. However, how can the Du family’s sons be absent from this stage? So, my brother, you will go on the stage for me and tell everyone! There’s not only a Du Zhanpeng in the Du family, but we also have a Du Peng too! You will not let my name down. That’s right, at least you’ll have to win over Qin Fen! I have been participating for so many years, and I still can’t win over his brother. It’s really a sad case. You have to win over Qin Fen, okay? Make your brother proud. We’ll let Qin Zhan know that I, Du Zhanpeng can’t beat him, but my brother can beat his brother! That’s it for now…”

Du Zhanpeng put his hands on the arms of the chair, and he stood up shakily and weakly, “I am leaving now. If you can enter the quarter-final in the Ensemble of Heroes, I will come and meet you. Don’t worry, I won’t die, I still want to hear you calling me brother.”

Du Peng looked quietly at the last scene on the projection screen. Pale cheeks, shaky, weak body, but Du Zhanpeng’s expression was very calm and peaceful.

“Qin Fen, why is he so weak?”

“The blood in your body, and he used a lot of his elemental energy to help you…”

“What’s his current star-level strength?”

“Seventeen-star true aura shield…”

“What about previously?”

“Eighteen-star level. Maybe, it wouldn’t have taken long for him to get the Ground Aura Shield…”

Du Peng closed his eyes and breathed deeply, his body was slightly shaky; he opened his eyes suddenly and looked at Du Zhanpeng in the projection and said, “Stupid!”

Du Zhanpeng was still smiling in the frozen projection, the smile seemed to be responding to Du Peng: I am happy to do so.

“So the quarter-final?”

Du Peng muttered in his mouth, and he turned to walk out of the room. After a while, Qin Fen heard Du Peng’s voice coming from another room, “Caesar, do you have time? Brooks, do you have time?”

“Du Peng…”

Lin Liqiang’s voice could be heard outside the door, “I just checked, your biochemical beast is not very good. If you had had a better biochemical beast at that time, you may not have been in this condition after you faced God of Night. I have another one here. You just have to use it and it can swallow the biochemical beast in your body. There’ll be absolutely no side effects.”

“Exchanging my biochemical beast? Thank you, but no. My biochemical beast was a birthday present from my brother.” Du Peng sounded extremely proud; his depressing feeling from the past was cleared once and for all!