Playboy: Medical and Martial Master

Seeing Sun Zhe charge straight toward her, his stance riddled with openings, Yang Xue couldn’t help but feel amused. She calmly assumed a posture, preparing to take him down in a single move.

Unexpectedly, in the next moment, the approaching Sun Zhe vanished from her sight as if he had evaporated into thin air, leaving only a few flickers of electricity behind.

Yang Xue’s heart skipped a beat. She immediately looked around, trying to find him, but her vision suddenly went dark. Before she could react, the sole of a large shoe descended from the sky, stomping fiercely toward her face.

”AH—!”

She shrieked as Sun Zhe’s foot stomped her face, slamming her to the ground.

Using the momentum from the stomp, Sun Zhe backflipped into the air and landed behind the mercenaries. He swiftly took down the two men restraining Lv Xin, successfully rescuing her.

From the very beginning, his target was not Yang Xue, but Lv Xin.

Just then, Yang Xue climbed to her feet. A large shoe print was stamped on her face, and blood trickled from her nose and mouth. She looked both comically disheveled and pitifully miserable. Gritting her teeth, she shrieked, ”Shoot him! Kill him now!”

Hearing the order, the group of mercenaries raised their ”Truth” rifles. Strangely, before they could even pull their triggers, Sun Zhe and Lv Xin had vanished without a trace, as if they had evaporated.

On the other side, Bai Ran had also disappeared as if she had never been there.

”Damn it, how did they slip away so fast? They’re like ghosts, coming and going without a trace!”

Ye Fei gritted his teeth and cursed. He snatched a Desert Eagle from a mercenary’s waist and chambered a round as he furiously ordered, ”All of you, find them! They have to be nearby!”

”The moment you find them, shoot to kill!”

”To hell with it!”

”I don’t believe he’s the Fire Cloud Evil God! There’s no way he’s faster than a bullet!”

Yang Xue, covering her face, staggered over to Ye Fei and said with a grim expression, ”Be careful. This guy is no simpleton. He’s at the Golden Core Realm, at the very least.”

Hearing this, Ye Fei’s eyes widened in shock. He shuddered, and his bravado instantly deflated.

”Wha… Golden Core Realm? Miss Yang, are you serious?”

Yang Xue’s face was grim. Remembering the humiliating and painful stomp she had just received from Sun Zhe, her slender body trembled with rage. ”I let my guard down and didn’t dodge. But even if he is in the Golden Core Realm, he can’t withstand bullets!”

***

「On the other side.」

Sun Zhe dodged behind a massive, ancient tree that looked at least a thousand years old. He looked at Lv Xin in his arms and asked, ”Are you okay?”

Lv Xin wrapped her arms tightly around Sun Zhe’s neck like a frightened fledgling. Her voice trembled, ”Thank you… I’m okay.”

Sun Zhe set her down and asked, ”Are you the deputy leader of the herb-gathering team?”

Lv Xin stared at Sun Zhe in a daze and nodded gently. Her beautiful eyes shimmered, his handsome face the only thing reflected in her pupils.

”Yes, I am… My name is Lv Xin.”

Sun Zhe then asked, ”Where is Su Nanzhi?”

”President Su, she…”

At that moment, Bai Ran rushed over and hugged Lv Xin tightly. Before a single word could escape her lips, she burst into tears. Lv Xin was her best friend, as close as a sister.

Sun Zhe glanced at the two women and decided to ask about Su Nanzhi’s whereabouts later. ”You two stay here,” he said. ”I’ll take care of them.”

Hearing this, Bai Ran let go of Lv Xin, her expression full of worry. ”They all have guns. Shouldn’t we retreat first?”

Sun Zhe smiled calmly and turned to walk away. ”Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing. In a dense and complex forest like this, their guns are useless, even if they had cannons.”

Sun Zhe was completely confident in his True Qi Thunder Transformation and Witch’s Step. A 7.62 round, no matter how fast, could never outpace lightning. As long as he didn’t encounter an expert of Yao Rao’s caliber, he could practically run rampant in this primeval jungle, taking down anyone who got in his way.

Bai Ran watched his retreating figure, her heart filled with worry. She bit her lip and hesitated.

Oh, what the hell. Let him be.

Rather than living in fear, she chose to trust Sun Zhe.

「Not long after.」

Bai Ran began to hear the shrill screams of the mercenaries, punctuated by gunfire and the terrifying crackle of thunder.

With her hair in disarray, Lv Xin peeked out from their hiding spot. The sight of flashing lightning and flying bullets scared her so much that she quickly ducked back.

”Ranran, who is he? A friend of yours?”

Bai Ran reached out and ruffled her hair. ”What, have you taken a fancy to him? He saves you once, and you’re already planning to devote your life to him?”

”I… Oh, don’t be ridiculous! I was just…”

Lv Xin lowered her head, her hands tightly clutching her sleeves as she trailed off.

Bai Ran couldn’t help but laugh. But just as she was about to speak again, her brow furrowed, and the smile on her face froze. Her expression turned extremely grim. It was because she had noticed white, dried liquid caked in Lv Xin’s hair, giving off a foul, fishy odor.

She had ingested that very substance at Sun Zhe’s place this morning, so she knew exactly what it was.

”Lv Xin, did they…”

Hearing Bai Ran’s question, Lv Xin’s expression changed. She suddenly covered her face and began to sob. ”Waaaah… Ranran, I’m too ashamed to face anyone!”

Bai Ran’s eyes welled with tears. She pulled Lv Xin into her arms, her voice choked with emotion. ”It’s alright, it’s alright. It’s all over now.”

Through Lv Xin’s story, Bai Ran learned that Lv Xin had been separated from the main group during a heavy downpour. She ended up wandering the jungle alone, where she ran into Ye Fei and his men. After capturing her, Ye Fei not only stole her list of herbal formulas, but he also allowed those burly mercenaries to defile her.

Those mercenaries seemed to have boundless energy and could never sit still. Whenever they had a spare moment, they would drag her into the woods. Sometimes it was one person, other times three or five of them together. They would force her to kneel on the ground, encircling her and pointing their ”guns” at her face.

After hearing Lv Xin’s story, Bai Ran was trembling with rage, wishing she could go up there and slice those animals to pieces herself.

”GET LOST!”

As Bai Ran was comforting Lv Xin, Sun Zhe’s furious roar echoed through the forest, as loud as rolling thunder.

Startled, the two women quickly got up and stepped out from their cover, only to find that Sun Zhe had already finished.

The mercenaries were a mess—some with broken arms, others with broken legs, and some even missing teeth. They had all dropped their ”Truths” and were now helping one another retreat, wailing in agony. It was a miserable sight.

Sun Zhe let out a long breath, enduring the waves of hot and cold pain coursing through his body as he turned to face the approaching Bai Ran and Lv Xin.

Lv Xin glanced at the pile of ”Truth” rifles on the ground. ”You’re just letting them go? They took the list of herbal formulas!”

Sun Zhe, however, was unconcerned. ”That list is just some medicinal herbs. It’s useless to them.”

Lv Xin gritted her teeth. ”Those animals deserve to die!”

Sun Zhe sighed softly and said honestly, ”You can laugh if you want, but I don’t dare to kill anyone. I’ve never done it before.”

Hearing this, Lv Xin’s eyes reddened. She suddenly ran forward, picked up an AK-47 from the ground, and screaming a stream of curses, she unloaded on the retreating mercenaries’ backs.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

The deafening gunfire echoed through the forest as the mercenaries fell one by one, their wails and screams filling the air. Terrified, Yang Xue grabbed Ye Fei and dove into the bushes to escape.

Sun Zhe and Bai Ran exchanged a look but did not try to stop Lv Xin.

”Let her vent,” Bai Ran said softly. ”Those animals deserve to die.”

”They all snuck into the country from abroad. Every single one of them has blood on their hands. Death is too good for them.”

「A short while later.」

After emptying a magazine of 7.62 rounds, Lv Xin suddenly squatted down, buried her head in her hands, and began to wail. The events of the past few days were a living nightmare. Even now that she was awake, the scenes were seared into her mind, impossible to erase.

With tears streaming down her face, Bai Ran walked over and gently patted Lv Xin’s shoulder, comforting her in a low voice.

Sun Zhe looked at the stained remnants on Lv Xin’s hair and clothes and could roughly guess what she had endured at the hands of Ye Fei and his men. He suddenly regretted letting Ye Fei go.

But considering he’s Ye Qiao’s biological father, I can’t really do anything to him, he thought.

「A moment later.」

After Lv Xin had cried her heart out and her emotions had stabilized, Sun Zhe walked up to her and asked directly, ”Miss Lv, where is Su Nanzhi?”