Time flowed like water. For a while, the room was completely silent. Breaking the silence, Feng Hui began laughing. Hearing his deep, celestial-like voice, the daughters also started chatting.
"Why are you at our home, mister uncle?" Lungyi asked with amusement, and her pretty eyes were curious.
"Yeah, mister uncle. Why is that?" Nodding fiercely, Tungmi studied the handsome young man.
"I've been searching for anything interesting that could help me." Listening to the daughter's goodwill, Feng Hui was honest as well.
"Help? Are you looking for a stronghold? If so, I know a safe place; it's small too." Hearing the strange man's goals, Father Li coldly inquired. As long as he could get this stranger out sooner, he would help a bit.
Not being straightforward, Feng Hui halfheartedly answered, "Truth be told, I don't know the exact thing I'm looking for either."
Promptly standing up, Father Li became fierce again, and his hands suddenly wielded two blades of golden lightning.
When the two sisters saw this, Lungyi hastily got up as well to stand in front of her father, "Stop, Dad!"
This stranger was too bizarre; furthermore, the man's answers were alarming too. Father Li could not allow his family's safety to be compromised. Facing his dumb daughter, he was about to slap her across the face.
If these kinds of naive actions continued with his daughters, their situation would definitely become hazardous sooner or later. Father Li was prepared to plant some common apocalyptic sense in his daughters. In this apocalypse that was becoming more dangerous than ever, he could no longer afford to be overprotective.
Lungyi saw her father becoming fierce, and her pretty face turned grim. When she saw her father's large palm nearing her face, she fearfully closed her eyes, "No… Daddy."
"Stop, Hubby!" Mother Li couldn't bear to watch her lovely daughter be ruthlessly slapped across the face, but her abilities were too slow compared to her mighty husband. To her surprise, the once-seated strange man instantaneously appeared in front of the large middle-aged man.
Catching the large middle-aged man's wrist, Feng Hui promptly released his hand a moment later. Looking at the shivering Lungyi, he sighed, "I'm sorry."
Prepared to leave the room, Feng Hui was about to step out, but his moving figure stopped when his shirt was grabbed by the pretty girl behind him.
"Don't leave, mister uncle." Lungyi was shocked when she had saw this strange uncle shield her from her father's slap. This was the first person the two sisters had seen in ages.
Rubbing his reddened wrist, Father Li confusedly watched the stranger and his daughter talk. In his mind, he thought, "I think… he's telling the truth."
Feeling that sudden burst of strength and dexterity from the handsome man, Father Li started to believe in the stranger's words. If this stranger wanted to harm his family, he would have done so long ago.
Beginning to have some trust in the stranger, Father Li allowed his daughter to chat with the stranger a few meters away.
"Do I look like an uncle?" Feng Hui lightheartedly laughed. This term 'uncle' amused him.
"Your eyes do." Thinking for a bit, Lungyi confidently nodded. The address she came up with arose from the first thing she saw which was undoubtedly the handsome stranger's deep eyes.
"Okay, I'm an uncle then." Inclining his upper body into a nice bow, Feng Hui chuckled.
Hearing this funny answer, Lungyi was also amused, and she giggled, "Are you saying that you're not an uncle, and I'm wrong? What is your age then, mister uncle? You're definitely older than me!"
"It depends." Feng Hui frankly answered. In his eyes, it indeed depended on the question itself.
Regarding the student Feng Hui, he was eighteen. In the case of Long Fengge, he was twenty-five. When combined, he was forty-three. However, he leaned toward the latter, and he considered himself an uncle.
"You're weird, mister uncle." When Lungyi heard the weird uncle's answer, she became curious, "How can your age not be certain?"
Mother Li smiled from seeing her daughter happily joke around. Since the apocalypse began, her daughters were unable to speak with other survivors due to her husband's overprotective nature.
"Let's leave that for later. We have some visitors." Closing his eyes, Feng Hui heard the thundering footsteps on the first floor.
"Come to father's side, Lungyi." Father Li's grand aura fluctuated, and his face was rigid. From the sound of the footsteps, he could discern at least fifty monsters. Opening the curtains, he saw numerous towering five-meter titans behind the spiked hotel fence. Regarding intelligence, these titans were not too bright.
Soon, the speedy footsteps promptly reached the second floor, and the vampires were merely seconds away. Walking back into the room, Feng Hui's face was calm.
Seeing the man's calmness, Father Li confirmed his suspicions, "Indeed, he's not normal. Is he on our side, however?"
The countless thundering footsteps terrified the two sisters. The danger was no longer limited to the orcs; instead, those creepy, intelligent vampires were mixed in now as well.
Seeing the large middle-aged man wield two dangerous bolts of golden lightning, Feng Hui watched him take the reins. Innocently standing in the back with Lungyi, he laughed, "Your father is very strong."
Lungyi was proud as well, "Yeah, Daddy is extremely powerful."
Swiftly, the monstrous footsteps arrived a few meters from their room. In front of the knocked-down door, the powerful couple stood side by side. Father Li snorted upon seeing the bloodthirsty vampires, and his two lightning blades swiftly extended.
"Splash." The speed was unbelievably fast, and the closest vampires had no time to react. Being pierced through the skull, the vampires collapsed with fresh blood splattered on the other monsters.
A star-robed pure-blooded vampire was astounded. Looking at his unmoving brothers and sisters, the fine-looking vampire was confused, "What's going on with their regenerative abilities?"
To the large middle-aged man's side, the beautiful wife began covering his figure with a holy bright light. Sensing the danger, the vampires were becoming anxious even with their overwhelming numbers.
The supportive bright light began lifting Father Li's stamina to unbelievable heights, and there was even a thick, see-through barrier protecting him. In the room, Feng Hui and the two daughters were covered in the light as well.
Being shielded alongside the couple's daughters, Feng Hui was touched. As a weird stranger, this wife was still willing to protect him. Reaching this stage of the apocalypse, everyone was skeptical about others.
Moving toward the door, the two daughters also went to follow the weird uncle. Stepping outside, Feng Hui saw the tens of vampires lurking in the blood-filled hallway.
In the heat of the battle, Father Li roared while charging at the vampires with abundant power. With each step, he decimated the opposition. Snickering, he crushed the skulls of these disgusting monsters.
Smiling, Feng Hui enjoyed being around this family. Extending his spiritual sense, he discerned the numerous titans who were about to take down the hotel with their strong metal bodies.
With a few more seconds, these titans would have caused the five-story hotel to breakdown into pieces. Feng Hui unconcernedly cracked his knuckles as he disintegrated these titans in secret. In the eyes of the two sisters, the weird uncle was merely loosening his muscles.
Fighting the numerous monsters, two vampires managed to slip through Father Li's attacks. Spotting the middle-aged man's weak point, the star-robed vampire sprinted at the three youths to hold them hostage.
The two sisters shrieked when the vampires began to near them. Mother Li was stunned. Why did her children leave the safety of the room? Father Li's furious voice boomed, "Stop!"
The sharp, bloody nails of the star-robed vampire were awfully close. To his side, the two sisters were frozen from horror. Seeing this, Feng Hui swiftly caught the disgusting fingers of the closest vampire. Adding some force, he snapped the fingers clean off.
Deafeningly screaming, the star-robed vampire was in absolute disbelief. This handsome man who emitted a mild aura was a frightening beast as well?! Who were these humans?
This brief time allowed for Father Li to reach his daughters. With brimming fury, he repeatedly stabbed every vital point of the star-robed vampire with his top lightning ability. Seconds later, the vampire was brutalized into an indistinguishable blob of mess.
When the other vampire saw how his leader was being manhandled, he had stopped moving. Fearfully, he began backing away.
Narrowing his eyes, Father Li turned his attention to murder the other vampire who had dared to come near his beloved daughters. Swiftly, he took care of the menace.
The remaining vampires started scattering in panic. The sounds of battle continued to violently resound. Father Li did his best not to allow a single one to escape; however, five vampires had managed to jump out of the hotel's windows.
In secret, Feng Hui erased the trembling bodies of the five vampires who had escaped in silence. Furthermore, he covertly left some beneficial, essential resources in the family's room. Soon, he would clear Beijing of the portals, and it would become a much safer place for this family.
Looking at the smiling stranger, Father Li had a grateful look this time around. Bringing his shivering daughters into his shaken embrace, he sympathetically coaxed them to relax. Behind him, his wife wordlessly joined the tight squeezing. Time passed with this long embrace.
Seeing this beautiful sight, Feng Hui was becoming more certain of the route he was going to take to become an Immortal. It was rather fruitful. Deliberately arriving into the hotel as a dangerous enigma—unknown, he was interested to see how the powerful father, a man with enough strength to carry through with his will, would act in this strange scenario while being worried for his loved ones. If he was instantly recognized with his mask, it would have become meaningless.
Would the middle-aged man straightforwardly eliminate the enigma to erase all possible chance of a threat emerging? Furthermore, would he change his mind upon being stopped by his loved ones? In the face of a risk, should one be completely inflexible and persistent with their initial plan?
In comparison to himself, what would be the difference? Feng Hui had been contemplating numerous families over the last two days, not all were affectionate. There was no single correct option. In the end, everything came back to one's own strength and will.
Regarding one's will, countless decisions were made on the route of survival, but to achieve the will, one needed to have the sufficient strength to materialize the decisions made into the sole truth—the world's reality.
Coming out of her father's embrace, Lungyi tearfully thanked the weird uncle, "Thanks, mister uncle. I knew that uncle was a nice person."
To her surprise, the weird uncle was nowhere to be seen. Looking around, Father Li's face was appreciative. Unfortunately, the stranger had disappeared.
Lightly flicking his daughter's forehead, Father Li softly reprimanded her, "Hmph. You should be grateful that I'm not scolding such a dumb daughter. Lungyi, never run out like that again."
Rubbing her forehead, Lungyi cutely stared at her father, and she thought, "Thanks, mister uncle. I think things are going to get better from here on out. It's just a feeling."