Headless Immortal

Chapter 40 Solving Others' Problems
"Is that Li Yi's father? He's so tall."

"So strong!"

"Li Yi's dad looks really sturdy."

Is he really his father?

"..."

"Whose parent is that?"

Whispers brushed past his ear, but Lu Xun ignored them and asked with a smile, "Xiao Yi, what grade are you in?"

The chubby kid at the next table had snot hanging from his nose and mouth. He and his dad were practically identical, except his dad looked much neater.

The child wiped his nose with his shiny sleeve and asked, "Are you Li Yi's father? How come you don't even know what grade he's in?"

Li Yi stood by the desk and lowered his voice: "Yesterday I lost a one-yuan coin from my pencil case. I had blackened one side of the coin, and I saw a coin with the blackened side there."

"Small……"

The father of the burly child wanted to glare and scold Li Yi, but seeing the imposing figure sitting to the side, he swallowed his words and said with a smile, "It's just kids joking around, I hope you don't mind. May I ask your name?"

"Li Gumeng."

"Chen Jianyuan".

Lu Xun glanced around and realized that it was no wonder Li Yi had paid someone to impersonate his father. It was probably because the rumors had upset the child, or perhaps he had been bullied but couldn't get his revenge and didn't want his grandparents, who were of advanced age, to come and make him look weak.

The homeroom teacher, Ms. Shi, went up to the podium and chased away the group of male and female elementary school students who were standing next to the desks.

……

The elementary school students crowded outside the windows to look into the classroom.

"Li Yi, your dad looks like a celebrity."

"..."

The students chattered excitedly about Li Yi's father, and Li Yi proudly raised his chin.

This infuriated the chubby boy, who blurted out, "Li Yi is lying! That person isn't his dad at all. His dad died a long time ago. I even saw him crying yesterday. He said he misses his mom and dad so much..."

Li Yi swung his fist at it.

"You dare hit me..."

The little girl next to them, who was jumping up and down in a panic, shouted: "Stop fighting! Zhou Zhe is going to tell the teacher!"

"Ouch, you bit me!"

The chubby boy's nose was bleeding profusely from the beating, and he was also bitten hard. He shook off Li Yi and started running away.

Li Yi chased after him like a mad bull. It wasn't that he was vengeful, but that he initially thought the chubby boy was friendly and would be a good friend in the new semester, which was why he revealed his secret. He never expected that one day the boy would become a knife that stabbed him, causing him so much pain.

Li Yi, who was chasing after the chubby boy, then barged into the old building that was under renovation.

hum!
A light mist rose from the corridor of the old building.

tick.

A drop of thick, murky water fell from the ceiling and shattered on the floor tiles, leaving the floor wet as if someone had mopped it.

The two disappeared into the fog.

……

"It's normal for kids to fight and roughhouse."

As Chen Jianyuan walked out of the classroom, he probably thought his son had won, so he pretended to be magnanimous and spoke first.

As he spoke, he glanced at the pale-faced giant not far away.

The burly man's expression was solemn, his brows furrowed into a deep frown.

Lu Xun had just felt an unusual chill. He raised his arm, and the hairs on his body stood on end. Without the slightest hesitation, he stepped forward to chase after him.

The old building and the new building are separated by a passageway. The old building has blue-gray floral floor tiles, while the new building has bright white tiles, making them clearly distinct.

"Hey, why are you walking so fast?" Chen Jianyuan caught up, panting.

Lu Xun squinted as he stared at the corridor.

The homeroom teacher, Ms. Shi, hurriedly asked the students where the two children had gone.

Male and female students give directions.

However, after searching around, they couldn't find him.

Finally, all the parents and students in Class 2 were mobilized to search together, but they still couldn't find the person.

At this point, Chen Jianyuan completely panicked.

"There's no playground either, and the gatekeeper has been guarding the gate the whole time. I haven't seen any students go out." Teacher Shi said in a panic.

These are two living, breathing children, not cats or dogs. They shouldn't have disappeared so easily, but now it's as if they've vanished into thin air.

Some parents hesitated: "Could it be that a hallucinatory world appeared and sucked the child in?"

"It's over, it's over..."

"..."

"Call the police."

"The police will send people to find the child."

"It's all your fault, you unlucky kid!" Chen Jianyuan's pent-up emotions turned into anger, and he swung his fist at the pale-faced man.

Lu Xun slapped the other person aside.

Ignoring Fatty's father, he grabbed a mop from the side, stomped on the end of the mop to break it off, revealing a sharp, spear-like tip, and said coldly, "Hand over the person!"

Lu Xuntou used the force of Jiang Liu's hundred-pound knife to chop the mop handle forward.

Boom!
A gray mist swirled through the gloomy corridor.

Teacher Shi and the other parents quickly protected the children.

Lu Xun strode forward, directly stepping over the oncoming fog.

……

Li Yi huddled tremblingly in the corner, while the little strong man was dragged to the ground by an unknown force.

A blurry figure stood at the end of the black fog.

He was terrified.

The figure slightly raised its head, then sprinted forward.

Li Yi felt as if his heart had suddenly stopped at that moment. Although his mouth and nose were not blocked, he could not breathe. His weak body froze. Just as the figure dragged the little strong boy to his front and raised his black palm, a large hand tore through the fog and reached in, grabbing Li Yi's shoulder.

Li Yi jumped in fright, then turned around to look and exclaimed in surprise, "Uncle!"

Lu Xun grabbed Li Yi and tucked him under his arm, clenching his right fist. A faint glow emanated from his internal energy as he shouted, "Get out of my way!"

With a punch, the black mist was swept away by the strong wind, and the black figure swayed in the wind.

"Uncle, don't hit him!" Li Yi hurriedly shouted. Lu Xun's eyes flashed with a sharp light as he withdrew his fist.

"Uncle, take Chen Yuanqiang with you."

Lu Xun strode forward and scooped up the unconscious Xiao Zhuangdun from the ground with his left hand.

"He was very quiet before, but I don't know what happened to him today that caused him to suddenly go berserk." Li Yi looked at the elusive black figure at the end of the corridor.

Lu Xun said seriously, "He is a ghost."

"He is also my friend."

The black figure, frightened, stopped advancing, its bright red eyes fixed on Li Yi.

Lu Xun sighed, "Alas, they are all pitiful people."

After saying that, he turned around and led the two children out of the fog.

……

The fog is surging.

Amidst the surprised, anxious, and fearful gazes of the parents and Teacher Shi, a burly, pale-faced man, carrying a child in each hand, emerged from the swirling mist at the boundary between the new and old buildings.

The fog behind them disappeared as quickly as the receding tide.

Chen Jianyuan rushed over and hugged his child.

A glass of cold water was splashed on Xiao Zhuangdun's face, immediately waking him from his slumber.

"Thank you, thank you!"

Chen Jianyuan bowed deeply, bending his knees.

Lu Xun helped the other person up and said calmly, "There's no need. Let's educate the child properly."

"Li Yi's father is really capable."

"Could it be that Li Yi's father is a Phantom Walker?"

"Impressive skill!"

"No wonder we rarely see Li Yi's parents."

"..."

Praise and compliments were overflowing, and the way the parents looked at 'Li Gumeng' changed completely. The way the boys and girls looked at Li Yi also changed drastically.

I used to just think Li Yi was a good student, but now I feel a mix of envy and admiration.

After the parents' meeting ended, Teacher Shi approached Lu Xun as she was leaving.

"Xiao Yi, wait for me over there."

Teacher Shi said sincerely, "Thank you."

"You're too kind, Teacher Shi."

"Thank you for saving the two children, and thank you for coming to help."

Lu Xun was slightly taken aback, then nodded.

……

As Lu Xun walked out of the school gate, he took out a helmet and put it on Li Yi.

"Let's go home!"

Twist the accelerator and it speeds off in a cloud of gasoline smoke.

The child, who had just dismounted from the motorcycle, reluctantly took off his helmet at the intersection of the long street, refusing to move an inch.

"Let me take you up."

Li Yi jumped up with joy.

While walking, he suddenly asked, "Aren't you angry with me?"

"What's your fault?"

"Make friends with ghosts."

"There's nothing wrong with protecting your friends. Since they're one of our own, we should be tolerant of their background and identity, no matter if they're demons or monsters or humans, as long as they don't do anything immoral."

Walking up the stairs to the iron gate, Lu Xun smiled and said, "Study hard and become..."

Be yourself!

Why do you have to become some great person? Just be yourself.

Crunch!

The iron door slowly opened.

A surge of ghostly energy rushed towards us, instantly engulfing the corridor.

Lu Xun's expression suddenly changed.

The faint internal energy was suppressed to the point of being unusable.

He reached out to protect Li Yi.

He is ready to replace the head of Wutongshan Jun at any time.

"Xiao Yi is back?"

"grandfather!"

A gaunt old man, as thin as a withered tree, walked to the door and said with a smile, "Uncle, his grandma went out to buy groceries. Why don't you come and have a meal together?"

"No, I have some urgent business to attend to."

This wasn't Lu Xun refusing; his time was indeed precious.

Not knowing when he would return to that strange world, after 'saving someone from disaster,' he still had to track down the masked man's whereabouts and the location of his own head.

Come visit often when you have time.

"Bye, Dad."

"goodbye!"

Lu Xun hurriedly went downstairs.

I stood in front of the building and looked back.

[Whether to use gifts from the employer]

"no."

Although he vaguely felt that he had not fulfilled 'Chen Sheng's' wish and therefore could not unlock all the power, this was still an opportunity to strengthen his head, so he had to be careful.

The three-legged cat head was a gift from the employer that allowed the magic cat to 'enter the house'.

So he planned to return to the general store, put on the head of Wutongshanjun, and then use the gift.

(End of this chapter)