Capítulo 149: Chapter 148

"Fuck the government! Hurrah!"

That was what Xiu Ye heard come out of Tang Wulin's mouth as he stepped out of the backdoor of the Blacksmith Association.

Tang Wulin froze as his friends stared at him with different expressions, mostly disbelief and shock.

"Everyone, restrain him." Xiu Ye ordered, his friends nodded and went surrounding Tang Wulin.

"Eh? Wait. Guys?! No, wait, let's talk about this! It's not what you think!" Too late. He was immediately tied up and dragged into the building of the Blacksmith Association.

Three people noticed the commotion they were making and one of them, a security guard, came towards them with his left hand on his gun at the ready while the other two were taking out their soul communicators to call for reinforcement.

As Xie Xie, Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, Ye Xinglan, Xu Lizhi and Wu Siduo stared at them, they shared a glance with each other, not knowing what to do. Sure they could handle fighting off bad guys but handling civilians? Even with all of their achievements and experience, they were still kids.

What are they gonna do now?

While this was going on. Xiu Ye dragged Tang Wulin up to his side and gagging him with a handkerchief. "You stay quiet for a moment there little buddy. We need to interrogate you for a moment because of what you said."

"Hmmhh?" Tang Wulin muttered out through the gag, his head tilted in confusion.

"After all, there's no way in hell Tang Wulin ever say something like that. So," Xiu Ye chuckled evilly as he projected out a menacing dagger radiating with a dark miasma.

"HMMMMPH!!" Tang Wulin's reaction was expected.

"Uh, Ye?" Wu Siduo interrupted him, grabbing his shirt nervously. Normally she was a cool and silent person but even she wouldn't have a straight face right now. After all, this was the first she's ever been in this type of situation. "Sorry if I'm interrupting your fun and all but, what, what are we supposed to do here?"

She was just going along with the flow!

"Hey! You kids aren't supposed to be-"

Snapping his fingers and a wave of spiritual power washed over the security guard and the other two employees of the association–their eyes blank.

"You saw nothing and will continue standing there like statues for half an hour." Xiu Ye ordered, hypnotizing them, as his eyes glowed with an ethereal red glow.

"We saw nothing." They said before falling silent and stood frozen like statues.

"Good." Xiu Ye nodded his head.

Wu Siduo stared incredulously while Xie Xie, Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi shook their heads with "Yup, as expected" expression.

"Don't worry about it Wu Siduo. As long as I'm here, no one can hurt any of you guys." Xiu Ye gave her a thumbs up to reassure her and her lips twitched.

'No. I'm more worried of the trouble you're dragging us in.' Wu Siduo and her friends stared at the heterochromia boy with dead eyes.

Wu Siduo blinked her eyes and narrowed, noticing something about Xiu Ye.

'Huh. Is it just me or does he have more white hair than usual?'

"HMMMMPPHH!" Tang Wulin cried out once more as Xiu Ye turned towards him with a wide smile and the dagger raised to stab him.

Wu Siduo was about to say something when a male's voice sharply cut through the atmosphere with a powerful pressure descending down on them all.

"What's going on here?" A tall and muscular gorilla of a man walked through the hypnotized employees with slow and calm steps and stopped just a couple feet away from Xiu Ye's group. He had thick black hair that was combed back and his sideburns was white.

He was Zhen Hua, the president of the Douluo Continent Blacksmith's Association and the only Divine Blacksmith in the entire world.

He was just in a meeting with his board members when he suddenly felt a powerful fluctuation of spiritual power, outclassing his own, in the ground floor.

At first, he thought a Hyper Douluo or perhaps even a Limit Douluo had came so to commission him for a Four-word Battle Armor but that line of thinking went out of the window when he saw a group of children, the oldest looking to be at seventeen, and his nephew disciple Tang Wulin gagged and tied up.

Honestly, he didn't what was going on!

But he knew that the red/white haired boy holding Tang Wulin was the one who released that surge of spiritual power. He was hiding it well but Zhen Hua managed to sense the culprit at the last second before the spiritual power disappeared.

His first impression of the boy was; 'He's young.'

'He looks to be a year or two older than Tang Wulin yet, his spiritual power is an entire league above my own and I'm a Titled Douluo! That should be impossible... unless.' He narrowed his eyes, eyeing Xiu Ye with caution and suspicion. He knew that those with a high cultivation base could control their physical age and could make themselves look as young as when they were a child. Hell, he also had the capability to do it as well.

So he was on guard at the mysterious teen with a powerful spiritual power. The latter had reinforced that assumption because for someone to have a higher spiritual power than him–was a Limit Douluo.

'This old monster... What does he want with these kids?' Zhen Hua placed his hands behind his back and puffed his chest out, looking noble and elegant but in truth had both of his hands covered in his Four-word Battle Armor gauntlets.

At the slightest aggressive move on the kids and especially on Tang Wulin, if that dagger of his comes dangerously close to stabbing him, Zhen Hua didn't care if his opponent was a Limit Douluo or not. He would charge in and attack.

'Don't worry kids.' Zhen Hua's eyes softened for a moment as he looked at the fear filled eyes of Wu Siduo, Xu Xiaoyan and Xu Lizhi. 'I'll save you.' His eyes hardened into cold determination as he saw the blank dead eyes of Xie Xie, Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan, and he proclaimed.

"My name is Zhen Hua, President of the Douluo Continent's Blacksmith Association. May I know your excellency's name?"

"..."

"...What?" Xiu Ye stared at him, surprised and confused. He did not expect that.

"Eh?" The others were also feeling the same, including Tang Wulin who tilted his head at Zhen Hua. 'What is master uncle saying?'

Zhen Hua frowned at the strange reaction of the kids and the old monster in front of him.

'Is he making fun of me?'

He was man known for many things, and being emotional was one of them. Although he knew the old monster is someone powerful, still, he was the only Divine Blacksmith in the entire world! Being disrespected like this wasn't something his pride could take. He wanted to yell in indignation at the young looking monster but Zhen Hua clenched his anger, hammered it, and forged it into a cold steel of calm and patience.

As much as he wanted to punch that old monster for touching those kids, they're in danger around him.

'Dammit! I knew I should've had a emergency button around my belt to call for Mu Ye.'

"I humbly request for your name, your excellency." Zhen Hua asked.

"Ah, uh, Emiya. Title, Wrought Iron." Xiu Ye replied subconsciously, Tang Wulin and the others turned to stare at him incredulously, 'What is this idiot doing?!' He only realized a moment later and twitched. 'What the fuck did I just say?!'

"Emiya... Wrought Iron..." Zhen Hua furrowed his brows in thought. He never heard of such a strange name before, especially that Wrought Iron titled name. It was a known fact that most Titled Douluos are known for their titles than their real names.

"Alright. Your excellency, Wrought Iron Douluo. May I ask of what kind of demands are you going to bring up in exchange for these children? Money? Rare materials? Or a Four-word Battle Armor? Tell me, and I shall–" He didn't get to finish when he was suddenly interrupted by the man he was talking to.

"Pfft–"

"Huh?" Zhen Hua raised an eyebrow then raised another as he stared in confusion.

"Ah, master uncle?" Tang Wulin raised a hand, his lips twitching. The binds that had tied him up and gag were gone. Xiu Ye, behind him, was covering his mouth with his hand and was trying so hard as to not burst out laughing.

"Sorry, I, pfft–haha. Can't handle it anymore..." Xiu Ye couldn't take it anymore and let out a gut busting laugh, the rest of his friends also followed.

Tang Wulin smile was strained.

"There's a, huge misunderstanding..."