Online: I Can See Health Bars Chapter 5 You Really Deserve to Die

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Previously on Online: I Can See Health Bars...
Fang Yu resisted the temptation to assault the shopkeeper's wife and shouted to stop the thugs, just as her son Li Baigu burst in wielding a sword. The casino henchmen overpowered and beat Li Baigu mercilessly, his thousand-point health bar shrugging off their feeble blows. Despite Fang Yu's warnings that Li Baigu was biding his time, the thugs chopped off his arms, but Li Baigu's piercing glare fixed on Fang Yu, sensing something deeply amiss.

Damn!!

You are truly suspicious!!

Fang Yu refused to linger a moment longer. He spun on his heels and bolted without hesitation!

The entrance loomed right in front of him. Fang Yu leaped forward and vaulted across it in one swift motion.

Right then, a savage beast-like bellow exploded from behind him.

Fang Yu barely had time to process what occurred...

Swoosh—

A head soaked in blood soared by him.

[Zhao Tian: 0/0.]

That belonged to... Zhao Tian’s head.

Shock and confusion lingered on his expression.

In that moment, Fang Yu’s eyes widened sharply, his heart racing furiously.

The moment his feet touched down, he whipped his head around and drew in a sharp breath.

Nearly seven or eight chunks of the visible health bar inside had vanished.

You Mu, among the four guys tasked with restraining the white-clad youth, lay with his torso flung onto the central large table. Guts and innards sprawled across it, while blood smeared the floor and walls.

The white-robed young man had one foot planted on Wang Er’s head, fangs sunk into the shopkeeper’s wife’s neck vein. Detecting a gaze, he swiveled his head, eyes locking onto Fang Yu by the door.

A faint curl tugged at his lips, exposing the signature twisted grin of the Dragon King!

Crack!

Instantly after, the youth chomped clean through the wife’s neck, crimson spraying across his features.

"Help, he... help..."

Wang Er’s shaky words hadn’t fully escaped...

Boom!!

His skull exploded beneath the young man’s stomp.

-111!

Huge damage figures erupted from Wang Er’s health bar, wiping it out entirely and sending chills racing over Fang Yu at the entrance.

Fang Yu couldn’t afford to stop even briefly, pivoting to dash off right away!

"Sari Lang!! Help! Murder! Murder!!"

Fang Yu yelled his lungs raw while fleeing.

Luckily, a main road with few passersby lay just beyond the pharmacy.

Fang Yu wouldn’t pause for a split second, bolting and hollering. Oddly, the white-clad man from inside hadn’t chased him down yet.

All at once, Fang Yu recalled the youth slaughtering Wang Er’s mother, those health bars unmoved by a sliver, and realization struck.

He aimed to eliminate all witnesses!

Not a soul in the pharmacy could survive!

Inside, he was still mopping up the survivors!

Yet why? What drove this madness? What secret did he bury?

While Fang Yu mulled it over, a shadow zipped by him, bellowing louder still.

"Murder! Diao Deyi murdered someone!! Diao Deyi murdered someone!!!"

What the heck?! Who?!

The bad guy cries foul first??

He glanced back, spotting that cursed white-robed youth, blood-soaked and armless!

Fuck! This setup is total nonsense! I’m blameless!!

"Sari Lang! Sari Lang!! Li Baigu has murdered someone!!"

"Murder! Diao Deyi murdered someone!! Diao Deyi murdered someone!!!"

What in the world are you up to?! Ouch!!

Fang Yu panicked so hard his legs nearly turned to jelly.

A double-armless youth gushing blood nonstop points the finger at him for murder—anyone witnessing would swear he’s the hunter, not the hunted!

Insane! Pure madness!

Kills then pins it on another? Why not just finish me off clean!

Hold on!

He fears killing me?

More precisely, he won’t strike me publicly—what’s that mean? This fiend has weaknesses! Fears something himself!

Stop fleeing!

Head back to the scene!

Prove I’m clean, and this bastard’s toast?

That idea hit, Fang Yu slammed to a halt and wheeled back toward the pharmacy!

The sudden reversal stunned the 'fleeing' white-robed youth up ahead.

Yet moments later, he tailed Fang Yu once more.

"Murder! Diao Deyi has committed murder!"

"Keep yelling! Keep yelling! Yell again! I’m telling you, Diao Deyi is solid as iron! But you, not a bit!"

The white-robed youth ignored him and persisted in crying that Diao Deyi committed murder.

Fang Yu tuned it out, roaring back to outshout him.

Their dueling "murder" shouts merged, pulling every eye on the street.

"Holy crap! What’s going on?"

"I heard someone was murdered, in broad daylight! That Diao Deyi killed more than a dozen people in the pharmacy, and only the pharmacy shopkeeper’s son escaped!"

"That brutal?!"

"Absolutely! I heard that Diao Deyi just joined the Black Tiger Casino yesterday, and now he’s committed such a big crime. If we don’t catch and execute him, how can we live in the future?"

"Ruthless and evil! Is no one going to deal with him?"

"Aren’t they waiting for the constables to come and arrest the guy?"

In the buzz of talk, Fang Yu stood fully branded as the perp.

That defies logic!

I’m the true victim!

The story’s twisted!

Sure, the severed-hand chaser looks pitiful, but reality ain’t your assumption!

"You’ve got it wrong! He’s the murderer! He’s the villain!!"

Fang Yu charged the throng to clarify, but faces blanched and shrieks erupted.

"Don’t come over here!!"

"Murder! Diao Deyi is going to kill someone!!"

"Run!!"

The front crowd burst apart chaotically, save for a conical-hatted man rooted in place, silently eyeing Fang Yu.

At last! Proof someone’s on my side!

Mid-thought, the man mumbled oddly to himself.

"Aren’t you scared?"

"Why should I be scared?"

"That’s a murderous madman!"

"It doesn’t matter, I’ll make a move."

What sort of self-talk is this...

And ’I’ll make a move’—gamer lingo, huh? You a player?

Eyes on the man’s health bar.

[Butcher Eggy: 8/8.]

Hold up, just eight HP, what big shot act is this!

While Fang Yu eyed the bar, the man spasmed with an 'A-da' grunt, yanked a battered cleaver, and flailed it madly through empty air.

Halting his chops, he cocked his head at Fang Yu and spoke coolly.

"This move, called Blade Twenty-Three, can you... take it?"

What’s with the ice-cold vibe?

Man, chill out, it’s a game, not an asylum trip!

Posing all invincible and eternal, eh?

Fang Yu had enough. Freaks everywhere! He faced forward and raced pharmacy-ward, hotly pursued still.

"Where do you think you’re running! All evil shall ultimately face justice!"

Damn! The real baddie trails you—hack him instead!

The white-robed youth tailed too, hamming it up with flowing tears.

"Benevolent Sir! If you can execute Diao Deyi on the spot and avenge my parents, I swear to serve you as my master for life, to serve you eternally!"

Fanning the flames!

Fang Yu peeked back fast, seeing... crap, Butcher Eggy faltered at the youth’s sight.

He! Faltered! Damn, he truly did!

You holding back ’cause he ain’t female, so skipping me too?

You both earn death and dodge it!

Fang Yu gnashed his teeth when a whistling noise pierced from ahead.

Next blink, an object whooshed by him.

"Ah!!"

Butcher Eggy’s agonized yell rang out right after.

"Who dares to commit violence in the streets! Foolish Underworld investigates! Everyone, step back ten paces!"