326: Chapter 326 I'm the boss, you're the underling

Yang Ningcong's miserable scream startled everyone. The very moment Zhou Kai opened his eyes, his two turbid eyeballs slowly rolled around once.

The embers of the bonfire cast flickering shadows on the cave wall, and several faces leaned in from all directions—far and near, familiar ones.

"He's awake... He's awake... That beast is awake!"

Zhou Kai's two eyeballs rolled around once more. This time, they rolled a bit slower, their focus lingering on face after face.

Lin Fan, Su Qingxue, Xu Zhixia, and Song Ya—they were all there.

Zhou Kai's lips moved slightly, and Lin Fan's wrist tightened by a fraction.

Then, Zhou Kai spoke.

"What the... "

Two words, weak as a gossamer thread, yet crystal clear.

It was genuine, authentic human speech.

Lin Fan did not put away his knife, but he moved it a bit farther away.

Zhou Kai's gaze returned to Lin Fan's face, staring for two seconds.

Then he swept his gaze across everyone else before returning it to Lin Fan's face.

Wasn't he dead?

Someone had sliced open his belly with a knife, and then it hurt—hurting to the point where his whole person felt like it was going to explode—and then it was black, followed by nothingness.

And then...

He saw Lin Fan.

In a blur of chaos, vaguely, there was a face—it was Lin Fan.

Then it went black again.

Now waking up, everyone was here.

Zhou Kai's Adam's apple bobbed with difficulty, and the expression on his face shifted from dullness to a bizarre sense of relief.

Then he laughed, tilting his head back and grinning widely, his chest heaving up and down. His mouth, missing three teeth, was a dark cavern, and his laughter was extremely creepy.

"Hahaha... "

Everyone in the Karst Cave froze simultaneously.

Although Lin Fan's knife wasn't brought closer, he gripped it even tighter.

Su Qingxue subconsciously took half a step back, while Xu Zhixia stared at Zhou Kai's eyes—they had a normal human structure.

But this laughter...

"That beast... Is he about to transform?" Yang Ningcong's voice drifted from the corner, carrying a cry-like tone.

Zhou Kai ignored him and laughed even more heartily. Lin Fan crouched in front of him, motionless.

Zhou Kai finally laughed enough, looking at Lin Fan, "Brother Fan."

Lin Fan didn't respond.

"You didn't manage to bring them along and survive?"

As soon as these words came out, the air in the entire Karst Cave twisted into a knot.

Lin Fan: "..."

Su Qingxue: "..."

Xu Zhixia raised an eyebrow.

Zhou Kai shifted his gaze away from Lin Fan and made another sweep around.

The firelight flickered twice, illuminating Yang Ningcong's face huddled in the corner in alternating light and shadow.

Zhou Kai saw him.

"Yang Ningcong is here too?"

Yang Ningcong shivered all over, gripping the wooden stick in his hand tightly, not daring to make a sound.

Zhou Kai turned his gaze back to Lin Fan.

"Lin Fan, tell me the truth."

Lin Fan's knife didn't move as he stared at him.

"I'm asking you, is this hell?"

After two seconds of silence, Xu Zhixia opened her mouth and closed it again.

Zhou Kai's logical chain, inside his newly revived brain, reconstructed itself in a bizarre manner.

He remembered that he was dead—one hundred percent dead.

His belly had been opened up, with his internal organs spilling out. If he hadn't died from that, he would have been a Superman.

Furthermore, he couldn't feel any pain now; it must be... because he had arrived in hell.

And since everyone else was here too, does that mean they all died together?

Reasonable, extremely reasonable.

"That shouldn't be..." Zhou Kai muttered to himself, his mouth missing three teeth opening and closing.

"Brother Fan, you ruined so many women, so I understand why you came down to hell."

Lin Fan: "..."

"That dog of a Yang Ningcong is no good either, so it's reasonable for him to come down too."

Yang Ningcong's lips trembled in the corner; he wanted to curse, but didn't dare to.

"President Su... President Su was a wicked capitalist before coming to the island, exploiting the bottom-tier working people. Coming down... coming down is also justifiable."

Su Qingxue's face also turned dark.

"But!" Zhou Kai's voice suddenly pitched up a notch, "Song Ya is a kind-hearted girl who has never harmed anyone!"

"Dr. Xu saves lives and cures the sick, accumulating good deeds and practicing charity her whole life!"

"And me! I died to protect you guys! What's this, a loyal and righteous man who died protecting his friends has to go to hell too?"

"Is King Yama blind?"

No one in the Karst Cave replied.

The bonfire crackled once.

Xu Zhixia gently pinched the bridge of her nose.

Song Ya stood to the side with her mouth open, her expression hovering somewhere between wanting to cry and wanting to laugh, momentarily unsure of which one to release.

Upon hearing "no good" and "it's reasonable for him to come down too," Yang Ningcong cursed Zhou Kai eight hundred times in his heart, but the moment he thought about how this guy could turn into a three-meter-tall werewolf at any time, he swallowed all eight hundred curses back down. He absolutely could not provoke him.

He chose to go along with it, "Right! Bro... Brother Kai, you are so right! I was just saying, I haven't done anything heaven-defying in my life, why am I here too?"

Hearing this, Zhou Kai's two eyeballs lit up instantly.

"Yang Ningcong! You think this is hell too?"

"Right! Hell! One hundred percent hell!" Yang Ningcong nodded frantically.

He was terrified, afraid that if Zhou Kai wasn't satisfied with the answer, he would transform right on the spot.

Just agree with him, agree with everything, and don't provoke him.

Having received verification, Zhou Kai became spirited.

He struggled against the rope on his wrist.

"Snap!"

The rope snapped. Zhou Kai glanced at his hand.

Ah, as expected, it's great to be dead—everyone gets a Superpower.

"Brother Fan!"

Lin Fan was still crouching in front of him.

"Brother Fan, since we've all arrived here, let me tell you something."

Excitement surfaced on Zhou Kai's face, and his mouth, missing three teeth, grinned wide.

"This time, I died first."

Lin Fan: "Mhm."

"I died first, so I arrived first."

Lin Fan: "... And then?"

"And then?" Zhou Kai lifted his chin, his nostrils pointing toward the sky, "Then I found this cave first."

"I claimed this spot first."

"Brother Fan, following your rules from up above, first come, first served."

Lin Fan's eyebrows twitched.

"This time, you have to listen to me." When Zhou Kai said this, his breath was full and vigorous, "I am the boss, you are the underling."