Chapter 89
Chapter 89
“Husband, let go! Now!”
Yun Jianyue’s decisive shout startled Mo Chen so badly that he jolted.
“Are you sick?” Mo Chen cursed viciously, but his body obediently released the two Lin brothers.
They crashed heavily to the ground, and Mo Chen suddenly realized that he must be sick too.
Why did he do whatever Yun Jianyue told him to? Had that bitch put some kind of parasitic curse on him? Was there even a parasite in this world that could affect him?
“You’ve known I was sick for ages. What’s there to make such a fuss about?” Yun Jianyue admitted it with terrifying frankness.
So what if she was sick? She could live with that.
Being a pervert counted as a kind of illness sometimes, right? Surely it did!
Once again, Mo Chen gained a whole new appreciation for just how shameless Yun Jianyue could be.
“Answer the questions I just asked,” Yun Jianyue said, turning to Lin Fengting.
Lin Fengting glanced at his eldest brother again. When his brother remained silent, he gritted his teeth and answered, “Lord Evil God altered all four of our bodies. Lord Evil God is also the mastermind behind this. We worship Lord Evil God because he approached us first. We stole the classified information because Lord Evil God ordered us to.”
Excellent. Those words successfully enraged Lord Evil God himself.
The killing intent pouring off Mo Chen was almost tangible. When had he ever done any of that? These damned humans actually dared to lie right in front of him. They were asking to die!
Sensing Mo Chen’s fury, Yun Jianyue darted forward and slapped him hard across the face.
Mo Chen fell silent for a moment before exploding. “Yun Jianyue, are you fucking sick?!”
What had driven the noble Evil God to profanity? The corruption of human nature, or the collapse of morality?
“Calmed down yet?” Yun Jianyue asked. “I haven’t gotten everything out of them, so you’re not allowed to kill them.”
The Four Lin Brothers wondered if they were hallucinating.
What sane person dared to give the Evil God a resounding slap across the face? And the Evil God still wasn’t killing her? Was this Evil God a fake?
Veins bulged on Mo Chen’s forehead.
Couldn’t she have simply opened her mouth and told him to calm down? Was her mouth just there for decoration? That woman had clearly only wanted an excuse to hit him!
“Did you fucking… use that as another excuse to hit me?” Mo Chen now understood perfectly why humans said profanity was what remained when language failed them.
It was extremely difficult not to curse at Yun Jianyue.
Yun Jianyue looked utterly astonished. “Oh my, you caught me.”
Her Nominal Husband seemed much smarter than before. It looked like she could no longer make up random excuses to hit him in the future. She would just have to hit him directly.
Mo Chen’s fists clenched.
“Just look at that expression. You’re always walking around with such a gloomy face. Can’t you learn from the respectable gods and immortals who smile every day?” Yun Jianyue reached out to poke Mo Chen’s dimple.
Mo Chen’s fists could not possibly have clenched any tighter.
Seeing that he was at the end of his patience and about to drag them both down together, Yun Jianyue wisely withdrew her hand.
She could always step right up to the precise boundary where Mo Chen would explode. In Yun Jianyue’s own words, she was a genius!
Yun Jianyue looked at the dumbstruck Four Lin Brothers and asked, “You said my husband approached you first. When did he contact you, and how?”
Lin Sicheng asked blankly, “Lord Evil God really is your husband?”
“Idiot! Is that the point?!” Lin Fengting could not take it anymore. He slapped the idiot across the face, then answered Yun Jianyue’s question. “Lord Evil God approached the four of us ten years ago.”
Back then, the Four Lin Brothers had been running scams in Dongwu. But because they had no one powerful backing them, the local factions constantly pushed them around.
Once, when the four of them nearly lost their lives, a black-robed man appeared, claiming to be an Evil God’s Envoy. He used the Evil God’s Power to alter their bodies, then continued helping the four brothers from behind the scenes.
In just three years, the four brothers had built their corporation into one of the largest in Dongwu.
After listening to Lin Fengting’s concise account, Yun Jianyue clicked her tongue. “So from beginning to end, you’ve only ever met the Evil God’s Envoy. You’ve never seen the Evil God himself.”
“Lord Evil God attends to countless affairs every day and has innumerable followers. How could he possibly have time to meet the likes of us? The envoy serves directly under Lord Evil God. We were already incredibly fortunate just to meet him.”
Lin Chunshu hurriedly proclaimed his loyalty, but the moment he finished, even he realized something was wrong.
If the Evil God was truly so busy, why did he appear the instant Yun Jianyue summoned him?
Yun Jianyue looked at Mo Chen in astonishment. “You do someone called Wanji every day? Who is that? Are you cheating on me?”
Although the Evil God had recently become obsessed with his phone, he was still completely clueless when it came to certain suggestive human jokes. “What are you talking about?”
Seeing that her terrible joke had fallen flat, Yun Jianyue decisively changed the subject. “You have an envoy? And lots of followers?”
“I have no need of followers, so why would I have an envoy?” Mo Chen countered.
Yun Jianyue spread her hands toward the Four Lin Brothers. “See? Your Lord Evil God has denied it himself. So what kind of Evil God have you actually been worshiping? Sounds like you fell for a fake.”
“It can’t be a fake!” As a fanatically devoted follower of the Evil God, Lin Sicheng anxiously kowtowed to Mo Chen again and again. “Lord Evil God, do you have so many followers that you’ve forgotten about us? We worship you every single day!”
Mo Chen was speechless.
This idiot… How many times did he have to say that he neither needed nor had followers? Was there something wrong with this human’s brain? Was that why he couldn’t understand?
He had always thought humans were idiots. Now he was certain: all humans were idiots. And perverts.
Mo Chen wasn’t the only one at a loss for words. Even Yun Jianyue was speechless. Was Lin Sicheng’s brain a little too single-celled?
“But the faint trace of the Evil God’s aura on them really is identical to yours,” Yun Jianyue said to Mo Chen.
Mo Chen took a deep breath. “You already know I’m being framed, so why are you still asking? If I wanted to target a person or a country, would I need to resort to such underhanded methods?”
He could create any number of natural and man-made disasters with a wave of his hand. Why would he need to recruit human followers and go through such convoluted schemes?
Yun Jianyue replied with perfect confidence, “I’m just reminding you that ten years ago, I hadn’t cut off your hair yet. So how did the Evil God’s Power leak out back then? Have you considered that maybe you’re so incompetent someone managed to steal from you?”
“I’m incompetent?” Mo Chen successfully fixated on the wrong point.
“The point is whether anything was stolen from you, not whether you’re incompetent,” Yun Jianyue corrected him.
Mo Chen frowned and thought for a moment before shaking his head uncertainly. “I don’t remember. I have many residences and even more treasures.”
Yun Jianyue snapped her fingers. “Okay, I get it. You’re a useless fool who can’t even keep track of his own homes. You reckless spendthrift. Hand all your treasures over to me later. I’ll keep them safe for you.”
Barring any surprises, this hopelessly naive and useless Evil God had probably had something stolen from one of his homes years ago without even realizing it.
But the Evil God owned so many homes that even he had no idea whether anything was missing.
Mo Chen looked utterly bewildered. “You’re trying to swindle me out of my fortune, aren’t you?”