Hearing Feng Chengmin's words, Wang An's brow remained tightly furrowed, showing no sign of relaxing.
The main issue was that Mu Xueli and Wang Li were simply too young. To put it bluntly, the prime of their lives had only just fucking begun, and now, for fuck's sake, they had been brutally disfigured.
Wang An could already imagine what those two scars on their faces would look like once the wounds healed.
To be honest, Wang An wished he could go back right now and give those people a round of systematic beatings.
Seeing Wang An's worried expression, Wang Li grinned. However, the movement pulled at his wound, making him hiss in pain.
Seeing this, Wang An and Feng Chengmin were powerless; in this situation, there was nothing to do but grit one's teeth and bear it.
Once Wang Li had finished his hissing, he spoke to Wang An
"Fourth Brother, it's fine. It's good enough that I made it out alive. I really thought I was going to die in there."
Hearing Wang Li's words, Mu Xueli immediately chimed in
"Yeah, I felt like I could die at any moment. It hurt like hell."
Wang An and Feng Chengmin looked at each other upon hearing this. They opened their mouths, but didn't know how to comfort them.
After a while, seeing the two of them silently enduring the pain throughout their bodies, Wang An felt a profound sense of helplessness.
To distract them and make them feel less miserable, Wang An asked
"The two of you were together; how could you let them capture you both? Did neither of you react in time?"
Actually, Wang An knew how they had been captured—or rather, he guessed. After all, once you're hit with knockout drugs, you're just a piece of fatty meat on a cutting board; they can manipulate you however they want.
What made Wang An curious was how two young men, weighing nearly 300 jin combined, were carried away by a withered old bastard like that.
Mainly, the guesthouse had a main gate. At night, the only way in or out was a small door guarded by a security guard who didn't let unauthorized personnel in.
Furthermore, although the guesthouse wasn't far from the street-facing house, it was still three or four hundred meters away. Wang An recalled that carrying Mu Xueli back that distance hadn't been easy.
Therefore, the fact that Mu Xueli and Wang Li were knocked unconscious and carried away so silently felt somewhat unbelievable.
Most importantly, whether they were going to call Wu Dong and the others or go to the bathroom, they didn't need to leave the courtyard.
Hearing Wang An's question, Mu Xueli and Wang Li looked very embarrassed, but they couldn't avoid answering.
After hesitating for a long time, Mu Xueli steeled himself and said
"That old bastard is really a piece of shit. We saw him fall, so we thought we'd help him up. He said he couldn't get up and wanted us to help him get home. We figured it was just a small favor, so we didn't think much of it."
Hearing this, Wang An instinctively asked
"And you didn't ask where he lived? He asked for help, and you just helped?"
Wang Li followed up
"He said his house was right nearby, just a few steps away."
After Wang Li spoke, Feng Chengmin also became curious and asked in astonishment
"Then why didn't you two ask why he was staying at a guesthouse if he lived right nearby? Did he have too much money and nowhere to spend it?"
Hearing this, Mu Xueli said with great annoyance
"I didn't think that much at the time. I just thought it was a favor. I mean, he's that old and his legs aren't working right."
Wang Li added
"Before I started school, my teacher told me to be helpful to others. I thought I should..."
As he spoke, Wang Li trailed off.
Wang An looked at the two of them and asked in utter shock
"And then you two just carried that old bastard to his house?"
At this, Mu Xueli mumbled
"We didn't carry him... I... I carried him on my back."
After Mu Xueli finished, Wang An and Feng Chengmin were left completely dumbfounded, staring like wooden chickens. No matter how they tried to put it, they truly didn't know what to say.
Principally speaking, Mu Xueli and Wang Li hadn't done anything wrong; it was a form of human kindness.
But this kindness was a bit too much—it could be classified as stupidity!
After a moment, Feng Chengmin said with a complex expression
"So, you two were afraid he'd get tired, so you proactively delivered yourselves to his door?"
Hearing this, Mu Xueli and Wang Li looked at each other and fell silent.
Seeing them silent, Wang An interjected
"If he had died, would you two have arranged a proper funeral for him too?"
As Wang An finished, the eyes of Mu Xueli and Wang Li—which were reduced to mere slits due to the swelling—filled with regret and grievance.
Seeing their expressions, Feng Chengmin licked his lips and said, frustrated by their lack of resolve
"You two are something else, really something else. Do you have any fucking clue what kind of business we've been doing lately?"
The two remained silent.
Feng Chengmin grew angrier as he spoke, his expression becoming terrifyingly grim. He shouted furiously
"Are you two fucking idiots? If you saw him fall, you just give him a hand! Why the fuck carry him home? Are you escorting a Buddha? Sending him to the Western Paradise? There's a limit to being 'helpful,' isn't there? You trying to show off?"
After saying this, Feng Chengmin lowered his voice and roared separately at Mu Xueli and Wang Li
"If it weren't for your brother-in-law, if it weren't for your Fourth Brother, you two would be fucking finished. Your whole lives would be fucking over, do you understand?"
Pausing to take a deep breath, Feng Chengmin continued
"Didn't you see the people working in the big pit? They were just as fucking stupid as you two, also 'helpful to others.' Look at them—did they have a good end?"
By now, Feng Chengmin was beyond angry. After saying this, he glared fiercely at Mu Xueli and Wang Li and stopped bothering with them.
It had to be admitted that while Feng Chengmin's words were a bit severe and extreme, they weren't without merit.
After all, today's troubles were all caused by Mu Xueli and Wang Li's "helpfulness."
But it must also be said that this was incredibly ironic; it practically shattered Mu Xueli and Wang Li's worldview.
Just as Wang An and Feng Chengmin were hammering the lesson home to Mu Xueli and Wang Li, Wang Shuai, Wu Dong, and the others ran into a group of local security guards.
(End of Chapter)