Phantasmal Genesis - Chapter 22: The exiling darkness

It was common for casual words from the public to become the truth when it was spoken by many.

For the average person, it was hard to deny in such a situation.

But for Meng Ke?

…………

“How dare you accuse me? I’m going to beat you to death!”

A blur appeared in his vision. In a second, the muscled man saw Meng Ke, who was surrounded, suddenly appear at his side with a face laced with fury and a raised fist.

“Someone like you thinks he can beat me?”

The muscled man laughed unconcernedly, despite the fact that he didn’t understand how he had appeared next to him in the blind of an eye, and why the taunting woman had disappeared.

However, when faced with Meng Ke’s fist, the muscled man faced it head-on with confidence and took a left swing towards Meng Ke’s jaw.

Seemingly shocked, Meng Ke stood still there.

Bang.

With just one hit, Meng Ke was sent flying, rolling twice on the ground before stopping.

“Kill me if you can! If you can’t beat me to death, you’re a dog! Aren’t you afraid your father, I, will find someone to kill you?!” Meng Ke’s face was entirely swollen on the left as he crawled up without a shred of fear on his face, his furious face staring at the muscled man as he roared.

He charged forwards again, his swollen face resembling an injured beast, as his savage expression took after a whore on the streets.

“You did this to yourself!”

It was impossible for the muscled man to fear Meng Ke. Gathering his strength secretly, he threw another punch as Meng Ke approached him, treating his face as a sandbag as his fist connected.

Ka cha.

The onlookers heard a bone-splintering noise as blood and tears messed up Meng Ke’s face. They held their breaths and took a step back, watching the muscled man with a strange expression.

“How could he suddenly beat someone…”

“Fuck, wasn’t he saying that he’ll testify for the beauty…”

“A woman beater? Who dares to beat women? I really despise the men who beat women, even my small temper……sorry, it seems like I’ve bothered big brother, please continue…”

……

It was hard for the muscled man to hear clearly what the people were discussing, it seemed like some were awed at his physique, but some were also calling the police.

“Come! Don’t stop! Is this all you can do? Come and beat me to death!”

Meng Ke swayed as he held on to his bleeding face, but even so, he was still taunting the man with his life on the line.

Under the belittling gaze of the muscled man, Meng Ke charged forwards again, stumbling pathetically.

“Is everyone seeing this! It’s not that I wanted to beat him! It’s him who’s trying to beat me!”

The muscled man spoke gleefully and relaxedly towards the surrounding people. He was justified, it was this guy’s fault for risking his own life to beat him!

With a ‘Peng’ sound, the muscled man’s fist imprinted on the left of Meng Ke’s face, and he continued to land blows left and right with corresponding punches.

This time, even after the muscled man punched him, Meng Ke pounced on his body as if he had gone mad. His sharp nails scratched and dug as they made their way towards the man’s face.

“This bitch is going to fight you to the death!” Meng Ke shrieked, the tears filling his reddened eyes as they made its way down his swollen face.

“Fuck you! Damned sissy, are you really looking to die?!” The muscled man was furious now, his violent fists raining upon Meng Ke’s face.

Lin Chen Xi looked on with bewilderment. Why did these two start fighting? Weren’t they just talking about her fraud? So…what exactly is happening here?…

She thought that today was truly a strange day.

Next to her, the real Meng Ke was looking on with interest as the taunting woman and the muscled man rolled on the ground. The muscled man’s face was covered in red scratch marks as the taunting woman stripped his clothes.

The surrounding onlookers did not dare to jump into the fight to stop it. If they were punched by the muscled man, their medical bills would go up in the hundreds at least.

These two people were obviously seeing red.

It didn’t take long for a police car to come.

Four policemen rushed from the vehicle, heading towards them.

“Stop fighting! Can you hear me? I am the police!”

The muscled man turned his head and saw the four thugs headed his way shouting. In his fury, he punched the taunting woman’s face with all his force.

“You fucker! How dare you call for backup?!”

As the taunting woman’s nose suffered yet again, her vision went black and passed out.

The muscled man tossed the woman onto the ground and turned towards the four thugs, smiling viciously as he cracked his fist.

“Your father is going to show all of you my power!”

The crowd’s eyes widened, watching with disbelief as the muscled man madly charged towards the four policemen.

“He’s going to assault the police! He’s crazy!”

Someone in the crowd shouted in shock.

The four policemen were shocked as well, they had never seen a man caught up in a fight daring to fight the police.

As they were thinking, they pulled out their police-issued batons.

In a few minutes, the muscled man was cuffed to the steel railings, sitting on the floor with a look that seemed like he had lost his soul.

The woman was awake as well, but she was quickly sent to the hospital in an ambulance.

“This is the first time in my entire career that I’ve seen such arrogance!” A policeman rubbed his bruised temples as he complimented the man.

Meng Ke smiled as he looked at this sight, continuing to use his ability.

Suddenly, the muscled man and the taunting woman’s vision blurred as the world quietened down instantly.

The woman reached her hands out to touch the darkness, she thought that something black had covered her eyes.

But what was truly surprising, was that she couldn’t feel her body anymore.

She couldn’t feel her heartbeat, breathing, or the sense of her touch…

There was nothing!

Everything was dark. It was frighteningly quiet, there was nothing, and she was paralysed.

There were only her thoughts, it was as if…

“Did I die?”

No!

It’s impossible! I had clearly gone into the ambulance! It was only a fight, how could I just die from a beating!

Her heart was filled with horror, she wanted to scream for help.

However, not only could she not feel the existence of her mouth, this darkness had seemingly swallowed everything, there was no sound.

No! I’m still alive! I didn’t die!

She screamed in despair in her own mind.

This must be a dream, right! This is a dream, it’ll all be fine when I wake up!

The woman and the man comforted themselves in their despair.

It was a pity, Meng Ke laughed coldly as he read their thoughts.

He had robbed them of their senses, they would not see even in their dreams.

Unless someone could break his illusion, these two people would live like this for the rest of their lives.

In this state, they would not even be able to eat. They would have to rely on their family’s money to maintain their lives with IV nutrition therapy.

Meng Ke called this state: Exilement.

In this state, your mind was bound to break. It was more horrifying than death.

If it was the average mental breakdown, they could still hallucinate, but in this everlasting darkness, any sense would be a luxury.

However, going crazy in this darkness would only ruin their mind further, without the ability to hallucinate, nothing would ever appear for them.

This was a mute darkness.

After all of this, the crowd was now discussing the muscled man’s attack on the policemen. As for the fraud?

Sorry, who was frauding?

Most of the people gathered here, didn’t even see Meng Ke’s face…

Translator’s note

Hehe. Someone sent me a gift on Paypal, so I figured why not pay it back.

The translation quality for the previous chapters was good, so I didn’t start from chapter 1. If I need to, I will.