TYMIMA Chapter 100.1

Li Bang looked at Chen Shun’an’s face filled with sorrow and anger, at his wrinkled eyes shedding mottled tears.

Li Bang couldn’t help but laugh.

A twisted pleasure surged in his heart, as if Chen Shun’an’s pain could please him more.

This happiness was like watching Chen Mingbi suffer tremendous torment from Abaddon sea snake poison and finally die in agony.

Among all the king’s supporters, Li Bang despised Chen Mingbi the most.

Because this person was simply too perfect—hatefully perfect.

Chen Mingbi’s father was friends with the king, so he could receive the best underwater education from childhood. And he wasn’t some worthless waste who couldn’t be helped—he had almost no weaknesses academically and was praised by all teachers as a once-in-a-lifetime genius.

Li Bang was the same age as Chen Mingbi. When he was huddled darkly underwater, secretly watching porn on his phone in a messy boat house, he accidentally glanced at the TV and saw fifteen-year-old Chen Mingbi representing Tasman in an international modeling competition, speaking eloquently and confidently when facing Federation researchers’ difficulties.

When asked if he worried about awakening at a low level in the future and tarnishing his genius reputation, Chen Mingbi said indifferently: “Compared to that kind of fate’s favor, I have something more precious.”

However, fate certainly didn’t forget to favor this heaven’s chosen one. Chen Mingbi awakened at S-level at sixteen, the earliest among all his peers.

From then on, what the public paid attention to about Chen Mingbi was no longer just his excellent grades.

Utopia’s racial genes gave him rare superior looks underwater. He had healthy wheat-colored skin, thick brown hair, and a pair of deep, steady, intelligent eyes.

Young omegas in Tasman were all crazy about him. They set Chen Mingbi’s photos as screensavers, focused on studying every interview and appearance of Chen Mingbi’s. Even photos of Chen Mingbi’s hands were enough to make them discuss frantically during breaks.

Compared to Li Bang cowering in dark corners, Chen Mingbi already had too much.

Li Bang’s favorite young omega at that time was Chen Mingbi’s loyal fan. She wrote Chen Mingbi’s words in her notebook to motivate herself to study hard and get into the same university as Chen Mingbi.

Li Bang cursed every day for the girl to fail her exams and miss her chance with Chen Mingbi.

However, things went against his wishes. The girl had excellent grades and really got into the same university as Chen Mingbi.

Li Bang entered society early. Due to having no skills, he could only cause trouble in Peach Blossom Spring Village and make some shady money.

Fortunately, not long after, he successfully awakened as S-level. He thought he would defy fate and reach the peak of life from then on, making that woman who looked down on him suddenly regret and beg him.

But he soon discovered that in Tasman, if an S-level had no other abilities and completely followed the king’s laws, his only way to change his life was to sell his physical strength and risk his life in underground cities.

And the omega he once liked still had her gaze chasing after Chen Mingbi, never remembering him at all.

Li Bang realized that once he threw the law behind him, his ability could satisfy many of his desires.

So he began a life of voyeurism and theft.

After seeing omegas more suited to his aesthetics, he would also leave his former crush behind. However, those omegas were also heaven’s chosen ones who wouldn’t possibly pay attention to him.

Finally, he still had an accident during one voyeurism session. Due to the fatal flaw in his ability—being unable to attack others while invisible—he was accidentally cut on the face by a mantis omega.

After that, he spent a year in underwater prison. When he came out, he was already skin and bones.

He accidentally discovered that the young omega he once liked had become Chen Mingbi’s girlfriend, and what he couldn’t believe was that the girl had also become a genius praised by everyone for designing the underwater public transportation system.

That wasn’t the case at all!

She had ordinary grades in middle school, was poor at sports, had average intelligence, and her hair wasn’t as lustrous as now. Everything was a fabricated persona!

Li Bang posted hundreds of truth-revealing posts online, but no one paid attention to his impotent rage. Everyone praised Chen Mingbi and the girl as a match made in heaven.

So Li Bang darkly prayed that Chen Mingbi was a well-dressed beast, as rotten inside as himself. After all, with Chen Mingbi’s achievements, he could completely possess more beautiful, petite omegas.

Unfortunately, Chen Mingbi was truly consistent inside and out, faithful and devoted, never having any scandals.

Later, Chen Mingbi naturally became the king’s right-hand man. Since Tasman urgently needed a finance minister responsible for external negotiations, Chen Mingbi gave up the technology field he had always cultivated and took control of financial power for the king.

This person was really very smart. When the king disappeared, he suspected this was just the beginning of a conspiracy. So when Selarl jumped out, rallying people’s hearts under the king’s banner, Chen Mingbi locked his suspicion on Selarl.

With him firmly controlling financial power, Selarl felt constrained everywhere and extremely uncomfortable.

So they planned to eliminate him.

Initially, Selarl planned to have Li Bang poison him while invisible. However, Chen Mingbi was a dolphin-form Awakened one with extremely powerful 【Echolocation】 ability. Once Li Bang approached, he would immediately be detected.

Li Bang was absolutely furious. Everything about him from childhood had been overshadowed by Chen Mingbi. Now even his proud ability was clearly countered by Chen Mingbi.

When one plan failed, they thought of another.

To clear their relationship, Selarl didn’t use underwater forces but requested external help from land.

Li Bang only knew Selarl called that person “messenger.” When they first met, they made a strange gesture to each other—fingers interlocked, thumbs forcefully extended outward, then raised high like a moth spreading its wings to fly.

This messenger was short, wore a long robe, had his face covered with a veil, rarely spoke, and looked somewhat gloomy.

That day Selarl only brought Li Bang and didn’t bring the white shark and bay crocodile Awakened ones to meet the messenger.

But this wasn’t because he had become Selarl’s only confidant, but because Selarl needed him to extract a tube of pheromones for the messenger.

Li Bang endured severe pain and fear as his pheromones were extracted. He saw the messenger pocket his pheromones in his robe like collecting samples.

Then the messenger demonstrated his ability.

From a hundred meters away, the messenger changed the structure of matter out of thin air, turning part of the milk powder in Chen Mingbi’s child’s bottle into Abaddon sea snake poison.

This poison would make the heart stop immediately, blood circulation cease, and all body tissues and organs fail due to lack of oxygen, causing complete brain death within minutes.

Abaddon sea snake and Moth Rong Weng belonged to the same type of toxin. Only by dissecting the corpse and examining the heart could one discover the deceased died of poisoning.

Li Bang’s first reaction was horror and trembling.

Because this was merely the messenger demonstrating his powerful ability, not a necessary step to eliminate Chen Mingbi. And the target the messenger chose to attack was even a newborn child.

This was a malice even he hadn’t thought of.

However, an accident happened at this moment.

Just as the nanny was about to feed the child with the bottle, Chen Mingbi returned from outside. They feared Chen Mingbi’s 【Echolocation】 and didn’t dare approach.

Sure enough, before long, the nanny’s screams came from the room.

Li Bang thought Chen Mingbi’s child had died. However, when he followed other guards rushing in, he found Chen Mingbi collapsed on the ground.

Chen Mingbi’s left hand fingers were still gently caressing the child’s cheek, while the bottle had shattered beside the small table. From the small table to the crib, a distance of several meters, Chen Mingbi’s painful crawling marks remained.

Li Bang could tell at a glance that Chen Mingbi had mistakenly consumed the milk powder.

He probably wanted to test the temperature before feeding and squeezed a drop onto his palm to taste, unexpectedly being poisoned before the child.

Abaddon sea snake poison acted quickly. Chen Mingbi probably knew he couldn’t be saved. To prevent others from mistakenly consuming it, he immediately smashed the bottle, then used his last strength to crawl to the crib and caress his child one final time.

When this happened, the radical faction led by Selarl all had perfect alibis, and surveillance showed no one except the nanny had visited that room.

So even though they suspected Selarl was behind it, the rational faction was powerless.

The messenger left after completing this task. Before departing, Selarl even gave the messenger a large sum of money, calling it a tribute to the elders.

Li Bang didn’t understand what elders, tribute, or messenger meant, but he vaguely felt that Selarl didn’t actually belong to the underwater world but to other forces. Selarl’s purpose might not just be to become the overlord of this sea area.

Although Li Bang hated the laws the king established, he still had a sense of belonging to Tasman. He was unwilling to accept that Selarl was actually a poisonous thorn planted in Tasman by external forces, but he had no choice.

Following Selarl, he could at least become superior to others, but following the king, he would forever be a stinking bug in the gutter.

After Chen Mingbi’s death, the rational faction quickly became leaderless and fell apart. Only then could Selarl gradually expand his influence.

Li Bang vaguely saw Chen Mingbi’s shadow in Chen Shun’an’s face. He laughed tremblingly, laughed madly. If his hands and feet weren’t bound, he would point at Chen Shun’an’s useless tears and laugh at his stupidity.

“You’re all so naive! Hahahaha!” Li Bang hung his head, rolled his triangular eyes, and swept his venomous gaze over everyone. “Do you think that by kidnapping me, I’ll cooperate with you to slander Prince Selarl?”

“You!” Chen Shun’an was furious, his cheeks twitching.

He couldn’t believe Li Bang could so righteously say “slander.”

Wu Peng raised his fist, muscles bulging: “I’m so angry! I’m going to beat him to death!”

Mudeli stopped him: “Calm down.”

Fulunla said sternly: “I advise you to recognize the situation! Now you’re in our hands. We have a hundred ways to make you wish you were dead! Right?”

After speaking, she looked at Lan Qi next door.

She couldn’t think of a hundred torture methods even if she scratched her head bald, but she believed High Tower’s talents could definitely do it.

Li Bang sneered contemptuously: “Go ahead and kill me then. If you kill me, Prince Selarl will immediately detect your conspiracy. You’re still on the Manxing Sea now—I bet you won’t make it out of this sea area!”

“Oh, I forgot.” Li Bang suddenly raised his tone triumphantly. “Your purpose should be to save the king, right? Too bad you’ve all been deceived by this old fool Chen Shun’an. The king personally expelled him from the underwater world. I heard when he left, he even cursed angrily with his daughter-in-law. On the contrary, Prince Selarl is the king’s husband, and I’m the king’s right-hand man. You trusted this old guy—the king would be heartbroken to know.”

“Li Bang, my relationship with the king is a cover! You’re the real culprits causing chaos underwater!” Chen Shun’an trembled with rage, his eyes bloodshot.

“Oh, getting desperate? If you have guts, let’s confront the king publicly and see whether he sides with you, this treacherous subject, or with his future husband.”

Li Bang deliberately twisted the truth to disgust everyone.

Having mingled in Tasman’s lower levels, he had learned all kinds of cunning tricks. He knew these people wanted to take advantage of his isolation to make him leave evidence and become a breakthrough to bring down Selarl.

Unfortunately, Li Bang thought very clearly—he only had one way out, which was to permanently bind himself to Selarl.

He had done too many evil deeds. Even if he betrayed Selarl out of fear of death, the king wouldn’t spare him in the future.

Hearing this, Adrian’s gaze completely darkened. He was obviously disgusted by Li Bang’s shamelessness. If it weren’t inappropriate to alert the enemy now, he would have taken Li Bang’s life long ago.

Li Bang observed their expressions. Seeing these people looking angry but still not attacking him, he became even more certain they didn’t dare kill him without getting what they wanted.

Li Bang was wildly triumphant. The scar on his face was completely exposed. When he smiled, the scar writhed like a maggot.

“I don’t know why you two guilds are meddling in Tasman’s affairs, but unfortunately, the moment you kidnapped me, you were doomed to fail.”

Wu Peng was furious, his pheromones fluctuating, causing several purple lightning bolts to suddenly flash in the sky: “I fucking have to kill this beast!”

Just then, the soft red-haired omega nestled in the alpha’s arms suddenly laughed.

Unlike the others who were furious, he had remained very calm throughout. When Li Bang deliberately said those disgusting things, his emotions hadn’t wavered at all.

“What are you laughing at?” Li Bang stared at this omega with sinister eyes.

Lance straightened up, extended two pale fingers from his wide sleeves, adjusted Zhan Pingchuan’s coat, and said casually: “Who said we need your cooperation?”

Wu Peng was startled. The lightning instantly disappeared, and outside was once again a clear starry sky.

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