Betrayal. Alex had heard about that before. Seen them in many movies and television series. He even made sure to remember not to get tricked when his master had taught him different things.
Yet he never understood what it felt like to be betrayed. Well… now he had.
Multitudes of emotions were running across Alex. Shock, surprise, pain, anger, and disbelief. He couldn't believe that the person he saved today had not only tried to steal his food, but also tried to kill him.
"A criminal, huh?" Alex said. "I should have known about this. You guys aren't good people. Some, maybe… but definitely not all of you. Haha"
Alex laughed at himself. " I was too gullible to have helped you in such an environment. Not only did I helped you, but I also did more than I needed to do, and for that I got back-stabbed. Well, that is a good learning lesson. Thank you for that," Alex said as he stood up which still holding the cloth to his chest.
"Now, if you would be so kind as to return my food back to me, I might consider letting you go with simple bruises for what you did to me," Alex said.
"Wha-What? Do you think you can take this from me? Keep dreaming," Zheng Min said as he turned around and ran as fast as he could.
Alex simply shook his head and dashed forward. With his incredible strength, he crossed a great distance in an instance. In less than 3 instances, he reached Zheng Min and tried to grab him.
Zheng Min blocked with his left hand, and Alex accidentally grabbed the black bag of food. Alex decided to pull the bag out of Zheng Min's hands, but he had a surprisingly good grip.
Unfortunately, the bag wasn't as strong as either of their grips. Right through the middle of the bag, a tear opened up that slowly traveled all over the bag, and before either of them could do anything, the contents of the bag got thrown all over the grasslands.
Alex was scared to see the food get thrown all over the place. This was his only food for the next 2 days and he had now wasted it.
"No, the food," Zheng Min cried out in shock. He was more horrified at the sight of the foot getting thrown away than Alex was. After all, Zheng Min had to stay here until his punishment was complete, while Alex could leave anytime he wanted.
Alex got angry at the situation. "You not only betrayed me and tried to kill me, and now you ruin my only supply of food too," he said angrily through his gnashing teeth. He immediately jumped forward and dropped Zheng Min to the ground.
"You are here for punishment for some crime you committed, right? Let me punish you then," he said as he stepped on Zheng Min's arm.
"ARRRHHHHH,' loud, painful sound came from Zheng Min's mouth as Alex pressed down on his arm. "Stop, please stop. NO. I'm sorry, I won't do it again, stop," he started crying, but Alex didn't lift his leg. Instead, he pressed more.
"AHHHH." A more painful sound came out of Zheng Min's mouth as the pain started to become unbearable.
"Wasn't this the arm you tried to kill me with? Don't worry, I won't kill you for trying to kill me. I'm not as petty as you," Alex said.
"Ahhh, then stop. Stop hurting me," Zheng Min shouted.
Alex, however, just said, "I said I'm not as petty as you. That doesn't mean I'm not petty at all."
CRACK
Suddenly, the sound of a broken bone rang out from Zheng Min's arm after Alex finally crushed it beneath his feet. The sound that left Zheng Min's mouth after that couldn't be put into words.
The sound was so painful and loud that even Alex winced a little. He lifted his leg to look at the nearly flattened arm.
"That is for trying to kill me," Alex said. Zheng Min continued to wail, listening to nothing Alex was saying. "As for betraying me and stealing and ruining my food…," he trailed off as he moved his leg up the arm to his shoulders and placed it there.
"You really deserve to be punished." Without a single ounce of hesitation, he crushed his shoulder too. Audible cracks could be heard even through the wails of Zheng Min as the shoulder plates and collar bones broke in succession.
Even Alex felt a little shiver when he heard that. He decided to leave him there and looked for his dropped food. He found a few, but due to being unable to use spiritual sense, he could not find any others. It didn't matter, he was sure they were dirty now.
He didn't even have anything to carry, as even the robes he was wearing were in tatters. 'Sigh, now all the food is gone and I feel horrible,' he thought.
He left the place soon after there were no more cries in the air as Zheng Min was already unconscious from all the pain. Alex first wanted to destroy both his arm in anger but decided to let him a way to live. He didn't want to get on the level of a criminal like him and kill people.
He ate what food was remaining along the way, while still holding his wounds. He looked at the wound that was still bleeding a little and said, "Dammit, why has it not healed yet? Does healing has to do with Qi too?" he wondered.
All the other times he had healed quickly from the cuts, he had assumed that it was because of his body, but it turned out it was because of his Qi. The pain wasn't unbearable, but it also wasn't something he wanted to stay with.
Soon, he stopped walking. He looked at the dark sky and sat down there. He wanted to do nothing more after how sh*tty the night had been. So, he decided to search for the Yang Jades tomorrow morning, and for today he simply logged out.