Mental Illness Evolution Manual - Chapter 5

The box containing the caramel apple was carefully placed by Yan Xianchuan on a relatively clean patch of concrete on the side of the road. Then she rolled up her sleeves, grabbed the hedgehog-haired man’s incoming fist and twisted it in the opposite direction. The sound of bone breaking was clear and deafening.

The hedgehog-haired man screamed, his eyes filled with hatred, his other metal arm swung towards her arm. Yan Xianchuan let go, took a step back and circled behind him, raised her leg and kicked straight out.

With a bang.

The hedgehog-haired man knocked over the trash can and fell unconscious into a pile of vegetable leaves and fish bones.

The other few people, seeing this, rushed over with knives, but they were also dealt with neatly by Yan Xianchuan, lying on the ground in a neat row.

She had deliberately restrained her strength, not wanting to cause any casualties.

The man who had been beaten up coughed up two mouthfuls of blood, leaned against the wall to stand up, his voice hoarse, “Thank you.”

“Don’t thank me, I wasn’t doing it for you.” Yan Xianchuan straightened her clothes and turned back to pick up the caramel apple.

She bypassed the obstacles on the ground and was about to continue towards the barbecue shop.

“Wait, wait!”

The man behind her wiped the blood off his face, limped over, and raised one of his messy eyebrows, “Don’t you know who they are?”

Yan Xianchuan’s face was cold, “Who they are is none of my business.”

The man slumped his face again, as if he owed millions, “They’re from the Black Claw Gang, you helped me, they’ll have their eyes on you, they’ll definitely come looking for trouble.”

“The Black Claw Gang is vindictive, they won’t let you go.”

Yan Xianchuan was not worried about this at all, she stopped, silently watched the sighing man for a while, suddenly had a little interest, and asked, “Why are they after you?”

“My name is Tan Yiyuan.” He said, took a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and offered it to Yan Xianchuan. Seeing that she didn’t move, he put it back in his hand, took one out himself, put it in his mouth, “I used to be in the Black Claw Gang, but I quit later.”

“Once you join the Black Claw Gang, there’s only death, there’s no such thing as quitting. After I left, they considered me a traitor and wanted to catch me and sentence me.”

“I moved four or five times, but they still found me.” Tan Yiyuan exhaled a puff of smoke, although he didn’t look old, his expression was exceptionally haggard, his eyes filled with melancholy.

“This time I dragged you down, they’re unreasonable, they’ll definitely come to retaliate against you.”

“Why did you quit?” Yan Xianchuan said.

Tan Yiyuan didn’t know what he thought of, his expression suddenly softened, “I used to think that fighting and killing was exciting, that being a bully was cool, shouting anti-chaebol slogans every day, like a big hero. Later I realized that living a good life is the real hero.”

He chuckled, “I know the owner of Reincarnation, I’ll ask her to talk to the leader of the Black Claw Gang, tell them not to bother you.”

Yan Xianchuan: “Can’t Zhu En solve your problem?”

Tan Yiyuan: “It’s different, the Black Claw Gang is very strict with traitors.”

Tan Yiyuan coughed twice more, put out his cigarette, and threw it into the overturned trash can, “Anyway, thank you.”

He said, limping back, heading towards the Reincarnation bar.

Yan Xianchuan wanted to call out to him, she wasn’t afraid of fighting, she could just deal with them all, but then she thought, if there were a few people looking for trouble every now and then, it would be really annoying.

Her interest in Tan Yiyuan wasn’t enough to support her getting involved in this, and she didn’t have any sudden whims or impulses at the moment.

Yan Xianchuan pondered for a while, decided to put this episode aside, and focus on eating her barbecue.

The grilled fish here was ranked among the top three signature dishes in the entire commercial district, it was definitely not to be missed.

Yan Xianchuan happily ate a barbecue, the heavily spiced, heavily salted, fragrant meat skewers, paired with the full-bodied, ice-cold beer, surrounded by the clinking of glass cups and the noise of loud laughter and conversation.

She refused several people who came to chat her up, ate the caramel apple as her final dessert, and on her way back, she randomly turned into a cake shop and bought a pudding to take away.

The next day, she went to the bar again, and saw the couple who had been arguing sitting together, kissing sweetly.

“What would you like to drink?” The owner, Zhu En, swayed over, her earrings hanging down to her collarbone, reflecting the light from the ceiling.

“Anything,” Yan Xianchuan said, “but it has to be good.”

“No problem.” Zhu En snapped her fingers, took a tall-necked bottle from the shelf, the pink liquid was too thick, clinging to the bottle wall, like a watercolor that had been smudged.

“I never thought you were tougher than you looked, you can knock people out without prosthetics.” Zhu En said as she mixed the drink, “But then again, you are an alpha.”

“How do you know?” Yan Xianchuan was a little surprised.

Most alphas are strong and muscular, this body looked ordinary, even a little thin, except for her height, there was nothing that looked like an alpha.

Zhu En snorted, “Only alphas don’t spray pheromone inhibitors.”

Pheromones, so that’s it.

Yan Xianchuan didn’t have a good understanding of having an invisible organ on her body, pheromones were automatically converted into perfume for her.

People with pheromones were people who sprayed perfume, people without pheromones were people who didn’t spray perfume, and if someone had both, she would have to wait a while to tell which was natural pheromones and which was artificial fragrance.

In Yan Xianchuan’s eyes, there were only two genders, suddenly becoming six, she still couldn’t get used to it.

However, with the help of mechanical prosthetics, the natural physical differences between genders were not that obvious.

No matter how strong a person’s body is, they can’t withstand bullets, one shot, whether it’s an alpha or a beta, what’s the difference?

Pheromones are more often used in flirting.

Thinking about this, Yan Xianchuan suddenly realized that her previous behavior of wandering around was like running naked, no wonder people kept coming up to her, and then rolling their eyes at her when she refused.

She didn’t think much of it, after all, the local customs were simple, and having a bad temper was normal.

The chair under her butt suddenly became uncomfortable, “Do you sell inhibitors here?” Yan Xianchuan asked.

“Huh?” Zhu En picked up an ice cube and threw it into the glass, raising her eyebrows to look at her.

Yan Xianchuan’s expression was serious, she said solemnly, “I really need it.”

“I really don’t understand you guys.” Zhu En shook her head, bent down and took a pill from the drawer and threw it over, “Two hundred credit points, lasts a week.”

“I’ve already told the Black Claw Gang, don’t worry, they won’t come looking for trouble.”

Zhu En wiped the bar counter, suddenly sighed, “Speaking of Lao Tan, he’s a pitiful guy, it’s a pity, I don’t know if I’ll ever see him again.”

Yan Xianchuan: “Tell me about it?”

Zhu En was also in the mood to chat, she leaned against the bar counter, poured herself a glass of wine, “Don’t look at him now, he used to be a famous figure, he was the second-in-command of the Black Claw Gang, but later he had a falling out with the boss, I don’t know the specifics, he wanted to go out on his own, not be in the Black Claw Gang anymore, the gang boss didn’t agree, so he sent people to kill him.”

“What a bunch of bullshit rules!” Zhu En spat, “I’ve always thought that that scorpion wasn’t a good guy, if he hadn’t ambushed and killed the last boss, who knows who would be the boss now.”

“Lao Tan moved several times, with his wife and children, now he just makes a living by repairing prosthetics for people, and he has to do some bounty hunting from time to time to make extra money to support his family.”

“I didn’t expect his peaceful days to be over.” Zhu En picked up her glass and drank it down, angrily, “I really want to wipe out this trash gang!”

Yan Xianchuan nodded, noncommittally, “It’s pretty pitiful.”

Zhu En looked worried, “I don’t know where he’s going this time.”

Yan Xianchuan asked, “You seem to care about him a lot?”

The bar owner was silent for a moment, half-contemplative, half-complaining, “After all, in this world, there aren’t many people who are loyal and righteous.”

Another regular customer called Zhu En away, Yan Xianchuan finished her drink, suddenly felt bored, even the couple arguing again was not interesting, so she paid and went out.

As luck would have it, she was carrying the caramel pear and passed by the same intersection again, and she saw Tan Yiyuan being beaten up again, he was struggling, clearly at a disadvantage.

The people attacking him didn’t use guns, they probably didn’t want to make a big deal, afraid of attracting the mobile force, they didn’t use knives either, it looked like they wanted to capture him alive, they probably would have a disciplinary meeting after they caught him.

Yan Xianchuan sealed the opening of the caramel pear bag, and placed it in the same place as last time.

This time no one cursed at her, but she took the initiative, blocking the fist that was about to hit Tan Yiyuan’s head, grabbed his arm and kicked him to the side, while the other person was unstable, she kicked him in the lower back.

The leader had ordered that the traitor be captured alive, but he didn’t say that the troublemaker should also be captured alive, the other two grabbed their daggers and stabbed at her, Yan Xianchuan grabbed one person’s wrist and stabbed him in the throat with the back of her hand, the gurgling sound of his throat being cut, she pulled out the weapon, blocked the white blade, used her brute force to knock the person over, then stepped forward and cut the other person’s neck as well.

The whole process was extremely fast, not relying on technique, but on brute force.

She even had time to jump back and avoid the splashing blood.

The remaining people saw that the situation was not good and scattered, Tan Yiyuan supported himself on his knees, gasping for breath, wiped the blood from his mouth with the back of his hand, and said in a broken voice, “Why, didn’t I tell you not to get involved?”

“It’s over now, you killed someone from the Black Claw Gang, you can’t get away with it.”

Yan Xianchuan didn’t mean to help him up, she casually threw the dagger to the ground, took back the caramel pear, and said calmly, “Do you know about adventure games?”

As Tan Yiyuan looked at her with a bewildered expression, she said to herself, “The same thing happens twice, you can’t hide.”

Yan Xianchuan ignored the hidden excitement in her heart, attributing her rambling to the natural emotional changes in her brain when she found something interesting.

Whether it was a whim or a sudden impulse, she had suddenly found a short-term goal, wasn’t that worth being happy about?

So this gradually emerging joy was a perfectly normal reaction.

Yan Xianchuan moved her gaze from the splashed wall to Tan Yiyuan, who was shocked and confused, her eyes calm.

” I’ll help you deal with the Black Claw Gang.”