The Reversal of Heaven Begins with The Smiling, Proud Wanderer

The man in the lead screamed as his leg was severed by a flying axe, and he fell into a pool of blood, howling in agony.

Pedestrians on the roadside hurriedly moved aside in fear, whispering among themselves.

"It's Chief Feng of the Crocodile Gang!"

"The Axe Gang is too ruthless; they're trying to wipe them out completely!"

"Where are the police? They're doing nothing about the fight right outside the police station?"

"Pah! What can those black-skinned dogs do besides collect money?"

……

Selena frowned slightly and looked at Lin Mu beside her: "Lin, it seems that your hometown is not peaceful either."

"This is just the darkness before dawn."

Lin Mu's gaze was fixed on the distance, his voice low but firm: "But the dawn will surely come."

In the arena, Fat Xue, the second-in-command of the Axe Gang, obsequiously handed over an axe.

The gang leader, Han Shen, took the weapon and, with strange and arrogant dance steps, approached the Crocodile Gang leader, who was struggling helplessly on the ground.

"Wait! Wait!"

The Crocodile Gang leader raised his hand in alarm: "Do you remember? I even treated you to a meal!"

Han Shen grinned, revealing a set of teeth blackened from opium smoking, his smile cruel and mocking.

Without the slightest hesitation, he swung the axe and brought it down hard!

However, his body had already been ravaged by opium, and after a few fierce strikes, he was drenched in sweat and panting heavily.

The Crocodile Gang leader quickly fell silent.

Fei Xue leaned forward and pointed to a rather attractive woman in a cheongsam next to her: "Brother Shen, what should we do with this woman?"

The woman, tears streaming down her face, pleaded tremblingly, "Brother...please, let me go..."

Han Shen waved his hand dismissively, feigning magnanimity: "Don't be silly, sister-in-law. I don't kill women, you can go now."

·· ···Requesting flowers· ·······

The woman felt as if she had been granted a pardon, and hurriedly thanked him, trembling as she tried to leave.

A mocking smirk flashed across Han Shen's face as he beckoned to his subordinate.

One of the henchmen immediately and respectfully handed over a loaded shotgun.

He skillfully raised the gun and aimed it at the woman's back.

Just as he pulled the trigger and the bullet left the barrel—

Lin Mu summoned his substitute world.

"Smash Varudo!"

In an instant, everything stopped, centered on him.

The colors faded, and the whole world fell into an absolute gray and silent void.

The noise, the gunshots, the crying... everything came to an abrupt halt.

The flying debris and dust froze in the air, the expressions on people's faces were frozen in place, and the bullets fired, along with the flames and smoke, seemed to be sealed in a huge piece of amber.

Time stood still.

　With Lin Mu's current mental strength, the world could maintain a state of time stop for three minutes.

..... ... ....

Lin Mu strolled into the still battlefield, as if walking through a bizarre oil painting.

He glanced at the deadly barrage that was about to tear the woman's body apart, then at the frozen, cruel smile on Han Shen's face, and at Fei Xue's fawning and ugly expression.

With a slight thought, the golden-armored stand-in "World" instantly teleported.

It precisely moved the terrified woman and the still-smirking Fatty Snow to their positions.

Having accomplished all this, Lin Mu flashed and silently landed on the roof of a nearby building, leisurely preparing to watch the show that was about to begin.

Time is flowing again!

"boom--!"

A deafening gunshot rang out.

However, the scene of the woman dying as expected did not occur.

Instead, Fei Xue's obese body was thrown backward as if struck by a giant hammer!

A dozen steel balls instantly embedded themselves in his chest, exploding into clusters of blood.

He didn't even have time to scream before he crashed to the ground and died instantly, his face still bearing the frozen trace of his fawning.

The woman stood blankly where Fei Xue was, as if she had just been in a daze and had no idea what had happened.

The whole place was dead silent!

The sinister smiles on the faces of all the Axe Gang members instantly shattered, replaced by utter horror and bewilderment.

They stared wide-eyed at the bizarrely deceased second-in-command and the unharmed woman who seemed to have teleported away, their minds blank.

Han Shen's smile froze completely, and the muzzle of the gun he was holding was still emitting smoke.

He glanced at Fei Xue's gruesome corpse in the distance, then at the bewildered woman close at hand, his pupils contracting sharply with shock and fear.

“W-what’s going on?!”

"Second-in-command!!"

"I've seen...a ghost?!"

"Just...just now..."

The unbelievable turn of events sent chills down the spines of these vicious criminals.

They looked around in terror, as if some unknown horror lurked in the darkness.

Chapter 122: Destroying the Axe Gang

Han Shen's facial muscles twitched violently, and veins bulged on his forehead.

He stared intently at Fei Xue's corpse, riddled with bloody holes and its eyes wide open in death. Crimson blood was gushing from the bullet holes, spreading into a glaring dark red pool on the gray cement floor.

He turned his head sharply, his bloodshot eyes glaring at the woman huddled in the corner, trembling all over, his gaze so fierce it seemed he wanted to devour her alive.

"Brother Shen... this, could this be... a ghost encounter!"

The clerk, who always wore gold-rimmed glasses and was known for his calm and cunning, was now trembling, his face as pale as paper, and his fingers unconsciously pushing up the frame of his glasses, but he couldn't stop shaking.

He had been involved in gangs for many years, rising to the top through his intellect, and had never seen such a bizarre and terrifying scene.

"Fuck your mother's fart!"

Han Shen forced himself to remain calm and shouted angrily, but his slightly trembling voice betrayed the turmoil in his heart.

He has been involved in the underworld for more than ten years, from street slashing to now leading the Axe Gang. He has committed all kinds of evil deeds, including murder, arson, smuggling and drug trafficking. He believes that he is full of murderous aura and that no demon or monster would dare to get close to him.

But the scene before him, which was completely inexplicable by common sense, replaced the stubbornness in his heart with a chilling coldness that crept up his spine.

Han Shen refused to believe it. He pulled hard on his shotgun, cocked it with a click, and pointed the gun menacingly at the woman who was almost unconscious: "It was you! It must have been you, you bitch, who did this! I refuse to believe it!"

As he spoke, Han Shen's face contorted with rage, and he pulled the trigger again with a fierce tug.

　"867" "Za Warudo!"

On the rooftop, Lin Mu's lips curled into a cold and mocking smile as he silently activated his Stand ability once again.

Time and spacetime froze once again.

The whole world instantly faded, plunging into a deathly gray-white silence.

The noise, the fear, the flames about to burst from the gun barrels—everything was put on pause.

Only Lin Mu and his imposing and powerful stand-in "World" are the only colors.

"The World" descended like a golden lightning bolt, its movements light and precise, silently swapping the positions of the terrified woman and the panicked advisor.

Time resumes its flow.

"boom!"

"Ugh—!"

The clerk let out a short, shrill scream as a bullet blasted a huge hole in his chest at close range. He looked down in disbelief, then his body was thrown away like a tattered sack by the immense impact, crashing heavily onto several stacked wooden crates before rolling to the ground and dying instantly.

"Master! The master is dead!"

"A ghost! There really is a ghost!"

"Brother Shen! Don't...don't shoot! Or...try...use an axe?"

The top henchman, whose voice trembled, offered his opinion. He was one of the most ruthless characters in the gang, but at this moment his face turned pale.

He was genuinely afraid, afraid that Han Shen would go berserk and shoot him out of nowhere!

Han Shen's scalp tingled and his heart pounded wildly.

If all his men hadn't witnessed this bizarre and terrifying scene, he would have almost thought he had overdosed on marijuana and was experiencing a collective hallucination.

He was panting heavily, his gaze sweeping over his pale-faced subordinates before finally pointing at the top thug who had made the suggestion: "You! Damn it, you talk too much! Go! Use an axe and chop her to death!"

"I?"

The top-notch thug pointed his finger at his own nose, looking bewildered and regretful, wishing he could slap himself a few times.

I should have just shut up and pretended to be dead!

He steeled himself, drew a gleaming short-handled axe from his waist, and looked at the pitiful woman not far away, his heart filled with fear and trepidation.

But the boss said that with so many brothers watching, if they backed down now, they wouldn't be able to stay in the Axe Gang or even the whole of Shanghai anymore.

He gritted his teeth, let out a roar to bolster his courage, and charged forward, axe in hand.

This time, Lin Mu on the roof did not use time stop again.

With just a slight thought, "The World" appeared beside the woman like a ghost, poised to strike.

"Muda!"

Just as the axe swung down by the top thug was about to touch the woman's scalp and she let out a desperate scream, "The World's" destructive fist arrived first, striking the top thug's head with precision and ferocity at a speed beyond visual perception.

"Pfft!"

Like a watermelon smashed by a heavy hammer, the top thug's head exploded instantly.

Red blood, white brain matter, and shattered bone fragments splattered outwards in a radial pattern, splashing onto the nearby ground, boxes, and the woman.

Warm, foul-smelling liquid smeared her face and even splashed into her mouth, which opened as she screamed.

The woman shuddered violently, glanced around at the Axe Gang members who were already terrified and retreating in fear, and muttered incoherently:

"Divine punishment! This is divine punishment! Did you see it? You bastards! Scum! You have angered the gods! And I... I am the chosen one! Hahahaha... I am the chosen one! You cannot hurt me! Hahahahaha..."

Perhaps it was her repeated miraculous survivals in seemingly hopeless situations that gave her the illusion that she was destined for greatness.

It's also possible that extreme fear destroyed her reason, leading to her hysterical madness.

She began to laugh hysterically, the sound echoing eerily through the blood-soaked street.

But her words, and the way she died suddenly with her head exploding, were indeed the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The Axe Gang members couldn't see the "world"; they only saw the top-notch thugs rushing in to attack. The moment they got close to the woman, their heads exploded on their own!

The series of inexplicable and bizarre deaths finally shattered the last psychological defenses of this group of thugs who had committed countless atrocities and believed in violence.

They were not afraid of swords and guns, or even death, but no one was unafraid of this completely unknown and incomprehensible power.

"Ghost!!"

"Mom! Run!"

"Help! Don't kill me!"

Someone shouted first, and the remaining henchmen were instantly terrified and completely collapsed.