Chapter 195
Chapter 195
The Driver stared at him.
Of course it was chilly. The Second Master’s killing intent was practically dripping from him, and his blade was already resting against the man’s neck.
The Driver wanted to salvage the situation, but the Second Master silenced him with another glare. All he could do was hold his tongue. Watching the man persistently court death left him in unbearable agony.
“Therefore, your future will be just like Liu Bei’s. You will meet a miserable end after entrusting yourself to the wrong person…”
The moment he finished speaking, there was a loud crack. A pendant around Immortal Chu’s neck suddenly exploded.
And it wasn’t only his pendant. Buddhist prayer beads, jade amulets, and various other objects worn by the surrounding crowd began exploding and snapping apart one after another.
Everyone present was stunned.
Immortal Chu stared at his shattered jade amulet in panic. His master had left it to him, saying it could block a disaster on his behalf. Why had it suddenly broken?
“Master, is there any way to change my fate?” Liu Ye hurriedly urged.
“You…”
Immortal Chu raised his head to speak and saw a giant over six meters tall standing behind Liu Ye.
The giant had phoenix eyes, silkworm-shaped brows, and a face the deep red of a jujube. Who else could it be but Lord Guan?
Immortal Chu’s eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. He looked at Liu Ye, then at Lord Guan.
Had he just made a fatal mistake?
“Your fate…”
He had barely spoken those words when Lord Guan plucked out one of his own whiskers and blew it across the blade. The whisker instantly split in two.
Then Lord Guan looked at him again.
Immortal Chu fell silent.
“Master, how am I supposed to change my fate?” Liu Ye asked anxiously. Why did this man keep leaving his sentences hanging?
“Your destiny is noble beyond measure!” Immortal Chu suddenly slammed the table and roared.
The onlookers stared at him.
“But didn’t you just say my fate was bad?”
“That applies to ordinary people!”
Immortal Chu hurriedly cut him off.
“If an ordinary person possessed your fate, it would be exactly as I described. But you are different. In your hands, such a destiny becomes noble beyond measure! As the saying goes, Guan Yu flooded seven armies and captured Yu Jin, shaking all the Xia lands and guarding the Nine Provinces! Yours is the finest destiny imaginable.”
“But things really haven’t gone well for me lately…”
“Liu Xuande wandered for half his life before ascending the throne in middle age. Temporary difficulties mean nothing to you. All you need to know is that your fate is the greatest under heaven!”
With that, Immortal Chu cupped his hands toward the crowd.
“Everyone, I have just received a sudden premonition that my wife is about to give birth. I must take my leave. Farewell!”
He hurried away.
Everyone around them was baffled. Was he truly so miraculous that he could sense his wife going into labor?
“Hmph. Useless.”
Another master from the fortune-telling shop approached. He was also one of its three founders. This one was a monk who had supposedly studied abroad in Japan.
He sat down and was about to speak when he saw the Second Master standing behind Liu Ye.
The monk fell silent.
“My apologies. My wife is giving birth as well. I must go!”
He stood, immediately tripped with a crash, then scrambled to his feet and fled.
Liu Ye stared after him.
Could monks marry?
“Heh. Two useless fools. I’ll do it!”
This time, a Daoist priest stepped forward. The instant he sat down, he too saw the Second Master.
Silence descended once more.
“Daoist, don’t tell me your wife is also giving birth,” Liu Ye said flatly.
The Daoist said nothing.
“M-my mother is giving birth.”
Liu Ye stared at him.
“Your mother and his wife are giving birth on the same day?”
“No. My mother is his wife.”
Liu Ye fell silent.
Was this the decay of morality or the corruption of human nature?
Pfft!
The Old Man and Yellow Hair burst out laughing.
The Driver glared at them.
“What? Is this funny?”
The two Fiends instantly stopped laughing and adopted solemn expressions.
“Not at all. Anyway… didn’t we win? Whatever else happened, you achieved your goal.”
“We did. The problem is, that shop went out of business too.”
“Why?” the Old Man asked in confusion.
“After the Second Master chased the three of them away, they each went to seek comfort from their lovers. They arrived one after another and ran into each other. The three started fighting, then all fell from the building when no one was paying attention. Once all three were dead, the shop couldn’t stay open.”
The Old Man had nothing to say.
What miserable luck.
“And I don’t know what malicious bastard exposed Liu Ye’s work history, but now he can’t find legitimate work, much less tell fortunes. Do you know what people call him these days?”
“What?”
“The Human Nuclear Warhead. Wherever he goes, something explodes. Fortune-Telling Street used to thrive, and now the entire place has gone under.”
“Enough. I never thought this plan was reliable in the first place. Could that kid really tell anyone’s fortune? Taking their life is more like it. Count how many people have fallen because of him in the few months since he came here. How many prominent Fiends in Huicheng has he ruined? Never mind the Fiends-even when it comes to humans, members of his own species, you’ve never seen him hold back.”
The Old Man sighed.
“I say we leave it at that and find him a proper job again. Once he’s finished wrecking Huicheng, there are other cities. If that fails, he can always expand overseas. Perhaps he’ll even bring about world peace or something.”
Yellow Hair fell silent.
With Liu Ye’s current reputation, no legitimate employer would take him!
The Driver lay on the bed and nodded.
“I’ve accepted it too. If I ever accompany him to tell fortunes again, I’m a dog!”
Ring, ring!
The moment he finished, his phone rang. He immediately answered.
“Hello? What? You want Master Liu to tell your fortune? Yes, yes, yes, we’re available. Of course we are. What? You want us to come to your place? Certainly! Absolutely! All right, all right. We’ll speak again.”
The Driver cradled the phone in both hands, stars shining in his eyes.
The Old Man and the other Fiends watched him in silence.
Look at that pathetic eagerness.
“Didn’t you just say you’d be a dog if you accompanied Liu Ye to tell fortunes again?”
“Woof! Woof! Woof!”
The Old Man said nothing.
Early the next morning, Liu Ye and the Driver dressed neatly and set out for the client’s villa.
The client was another of the Driver’s friends. Ever since meeting Liu Ye, the Driver had frequently attended banquets, parties, and other social events to expand his connections. The man who called this time was someone he had met twice at a banquet. They had gotten along well and exchanged contact information.
Before leaving, the Driver solemnly told Liu Ye, “Little Liu, you have to do this properly. Whether you can afford a home depends on this job.”
Liu Ye grew nervous.
“Big Brother, why don’t we forget it? I think running a stall is fine. I can make fifty or sixty yuan a day.”
Without a job after the fortune-telling venture, Liu Ye had made a few things to sell from a stall. To his surprise, business had been quite good.
“No!”
The Driver cut him off.
“Why waste time with a stall? What century is this? How many years would it take you to afford a home that way? Fortune-telling is different. We only need one successful job, and we’ll have money!”
When his own survival was at stake, the Driver refused to compromise.