69: Chapter 69 Forcibly stripped of his X-ray vision ability, the opportunist falls into a stinking ditch.
"Qin Yuan——!!!" accompanied by a cry of impotent rage so shrill it reached its limit.
Xiao Fan's mental defenses, already shattered by hallucinogens and successive blows, collapsed in that instant.
His eyes were bloodshot, and like a mad dog backed into a corner, he scrambled up from the shards of porcelain covering the ground, reckless and desperate.
He threw his hands out and lunged at Qin Yuan's mocking, half-smiling face!
He wanted to drag this devil who had ruined everything for him down to hell together!
"Bang!" However, he didn't even touch the hem of Qin Yuan's clothes.
A large foot, like an iron hammer, whistled through the air and kicked fiercely into Xiao Fan's chest.
"Crack!" His already broken ribs let out another crisp, mournful sound.
Xiao Fan flew through the air like a torn sack, tracing a pathetic parabola.
He slammed heavily outside the back door of the black market, landing beside a foul-smelling gutter filled with floating garbage.
"Ugh——" The intense pain caused his stomach to churn violently, and he even vomited up bile.
The crowd of onlookers in the black market had long since dispersed; no one wanted to cross Qin Yuan at a time like this.
In the dark, damp back alley, only Xiao Fan remained—bankrupt and abandoned by everyone.
He lay on the ground, a mixture of mud and filth, like a dead dog, barely clinging to life.
"Step... step... step..." Crisp, slow footsteps echoed from the back door of the black market.
Qin Yuan, wearing an immaculate high-fashion trench coat, descended slowly like a Grim Reaper harvesting lives.
He stopped one meter in front of Xiao Fan, his expensive custom leather shoes inches away from Xiao Fan's face.
"How is it? This 'big treasure' bought for five million—it tastes pretty good, right?"
Qin Yuan looked down at him from a position of superiority, his tone filled with the playfulness of a cat toying with a mouse.
"Qin Yuan... you... why are you doing this to me?!" Xiao Fan lifted his head with great difficulty.
His originally handsome face was now covered in mud, snot, and tears, twisted beyond recognition.
"I have no grudge against you! Why do you have to drive me to ruin?!"
He didn't understand. He only wanted to make a little money with his X-ray Vision and change his destiny. Why did he have to provoke this living Yama with sky-high connections and a ruthless heart?
"No grudge?" Qin Yuan chuckled softly, as if he had heard some grand joke.
"The innocent are guiltless, but holding a treasure is the crime."
"Your mistake is that you took something you shouldn't have, and then dared to jump around under my nose."
Qin Yuan crouched down, his gaze cold as a blade, piercing deep into Xiao Fan's soul.
"However, don't feel wronged. After all, I'm not the only one who sent you down this dead end."
Qin Yuan snapped his fingers. "Let your good brother come and say goodbye to you."
As Qin Yuan's voice fell, a fat figure walked tremblingly out from the shadows behind him. It was the fatty holding the briefcase filled with five million!
He kept his head down, not daring to look at Xiao Fan's wide-eyed, staring gaze.
"Fat... Fatty?!" Xiao Fan was struck by lightning; his brain buzzed, and his mind went blank.
"You... how could you be with him?!"
"Fan... Fanzi, I'm sorry..." The fatty held the briefcase tightly, his voice trembling.
"I... I was caught embezzling public funds to visit prostitutes... If I didn't do what they said, I would have to go to jail for ten years!"
"And... and he also gave me five million..."
Boom! The fatty's words were like a rusty iron saw, frantically tearing at Xiao Fan's already riddled heart.
"So..." Xiao Fan's purple lips trembled, and a layer of desperate gray filled his eyes.
"The weakness that my X-ray Vision can only be used three times a day... you told him?"
"The glass of water I drank this morning... was that also drugged by you?!"
The fatty lowered his head in shame, not daring to answer. But his tacit admission explained everything.
Betrayal! The most thorough betrayal!
To be sold out mercilessly by his most trusted childhood friend—who grew up wearing the same pair of pants—all for money and to avoid disaster! He even personally fed him poison!
"Ahhhhh——!!!" Xiao Fan let out a heart-wrenching, tragic, and shrill scream!
It was the wail of a soul after his worldview had completely collapsed and his faith had been ground into powder.
He suddenly leaped up from the mud, like a mad beast, hands outstretched, wanting to strangle the fatty who had betrayed him!
"I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill all of you!"
"Bang!" Tan Lang, standing to the side, had long been guarding against this move. A large, fan-like hand, like an iron pincer, pressed firmly onto the back of Xiao Fan's head!
With a "boom," he pressed his whole body back into that foul-smelling gutter!
Muddy water poured into his nose and mouth, making him almost suffocate. He struggled desperately, but in the face of the absolute power of an Ancient Martial Arts Master, his weak resistance was ridiculous to the extreme.
"Alright, Fatty, you can go." Qin Yuan stood up and waved his hand impatiently.
"This five million is yours. Don't let me see you again."
As if granted amnesty, the fatty scrambled away, clutching the briefcase, and disappeared into the depths of the dark alley.
In the alley, only Qin Yuan, Tan Lang, and Xiao Fan, who was being pressed into the gutter and unable to move, remained.
"The game is over, Treasure-Hunting King." Qin Yuan looked down at him, his eyes devoid of even a shred of warmth.
"Since you like using these eyes to look at things that don't belong to you so much."
"Then today, I will take these eyes, along with your pathetic fortune, away."
Qin Yuan muttered in his heart. "System, activate highest authority. Execute the [Fate Deprivation] procedure on the No. 3 Child of Destiny, Xiao Fan!"
[Ding! Command confirmed! Forcibly stripping the target's core fate carrier—[God-level X-ray System]!]
"Hum——!" With the system's prompt sound, Qin Yuan slowly raised his right hand, fingers forming a claw, aiming at Xiao Fan's head from a distance.
An invisible, terrifying suction force carrying the aura of the laws of destruction instantly enveloped Xiao Fan!
"Ah——!!!" Xiao Fan, pressed into the gutter, suddenly let out a scream ten times more shrill than before!
He felt something deep within his soul being forcibly torn out by an irresistible force! That pain was a hundred times more intense than being sliced by a thousand knives!
"No... don't! My X-ray Vision! My system!"
Xiao Fan twisted his body frantically, his fingernails scratching bloody marks onto the mud bricks. But he could only watch helplessly.
Two extremely faint, almost invisible golden lights. Like two small snakes forced to leave their host, they were forcibly extracted from his eyes!
"Whoosh!" The two golden lights converged into a sphere of light in mid-air and sank directly into Qin Yuan's palm, disappearing.
[Ding! Deprivation successful! The God-level X-ray System has been converted into high-level energy, becoming nourishment for upgrading the System Store!]
[Congratulations to the host! Successfully eliminated the No. 3 Child of Destiny, gained 30,000 Fate Points!] The system's mechanical voice sounded in Qin Yuan's mind.
Qin Yuan squeezed his fist with satisfaction, feeling the strength in his body surging again. Meanwhile, in the gutter, Xiao Fan, having lost his X-ray Vision, lay limp like a dead fish with its spine removed.
He stopped struggling. His eyes, which were once able to see through everything in the world, were now dull and lifeless, turning into two dead glass beads.
Two rows of crimson blood, mixed with the filth of the sewer, flowed slowly down from his empty eyes. He was blind.
Not only had he lost his X-ray Vision, but even his normal eyesight had been completely destroyed by that violent extraction force.
"I... I can't see..." Xiao Fan grabbed and fumbled in the air with his hands, his voice as weak as the buzzing of a mosquito.
"My eyes... my five hundred million... Chuchu..."
He had become a true blind man. A blind man burdened with a sky-high usury debt of fifteen million, abandoned by everyone, and left with nothing.
Qin Yuan watched him writhing in pain in the gutter like a real maggot. There was no sympathy, nor did he say another word.
He turned around and, taking Tan Lang and Gu Qianqian, walked toward the Maybach parked at the entrance of the alley.
This was the most perfect ending for a villain dealing with a Child of Destiny. Kill him? That would be too cheap.
Strip away all his hope, and let him spend the rest of his life in endless darkness and despair, wishing for death but unable to die. This was the true meaning of destroying someone's heart.
The car door closed, and the engine roared. The Maybach disappeared into the night of the capital like a ghost.
In the back seat, Gu Qianqian was licking a lollipop while watching the data jumping wildly on her tablet. Suddenly, her big eyes lit up.
"Boss! Boss!" Gu Qianqian excitedly patted Qin Yuan's arm. "Guess what good stuff I just scanned in the upgraded system store using these 30,000 Fate Points?"