Chapter 26: Chapter 2- Drive Them Out

Chapter 2- Drive Them Out

Qiu Chen opened his eyes. He was already in the body of Wen Quan. According to the plot, he should already have the space ability. He tried to feel it. Inside his mind he saw a vast space without any limit to the naked eye. Qiu Chen felt a bit confused. Feeling something abnormal he raised his left hand and motioned his index finger in a circle. There was a thin string of water created and guided by the notion of his finger. Qiu Chen wondered, the original had no water ability in the plot, it wasn’t there even in the original’s memory. Doubting himself, Qiu Chen raised his right hand and motioned his index finger in the same way. He was just trying to see if he could manipulate his water ability with both hands. But there was no water around his finger this time, but fire. Fire and water ability? Qiu Chen was really confused this time. He decided to ask the system, but it spoke first.

”The original only had the storage space. But the size of the storage is related to soul power. Your soul, due to your completing missions, is way powerful than him. Moreover, this world is still a lower class world. So there is no boundery on your space. And the other abilities are your own abilities, it’s not related to the original owner.”

“Why do I have any ability?” Qiu Chen asked. Even if his soul being powerful explains the space boundary, it’s ridiculous to believe that even fire and water ability comes from this.

“You are not that weak as you think,” System talked mysteriously and then turned silent.

Qiu Chen sighed. He did not dwell on it. The fever should have lasted two more days. Now that he was good, the first thing he decided to do was to get rid of the pests. But the problem is, he did not intend to disclose his ability to them, not now. But he was still a weak eighteen-year-old to them. In order to kick them out, he needed help.

Qiu Chen found the cell phone by the bed and dialed a number that original had not dialed for months. After it rang twice, the other party picked up the phone. A deep male voice sounded.

“Hello.”

“Hello, Uncle?” Qiu Chen spoke. The one he called was Major General An, An Zi. He was the younger brother of Mother Wen.

An Zi wanted to take Wen Quan away to their base after the Wen family’s death. But due to Jian Lin and Wen Han’s constant brainwash, Wen Quan believed that his Uncle wanted to control him by taking advantage of his deceased family. So Wen Quan threw a temper tantrum with his uncle and never contacted him again. An Zi was also busy dealing with zombies and other bases. This call from his nephew was really unexpected to him.

“What do you want to say?” An Zi asked. He was not quite free with this child. He grew up in a military environment. He knew nothing about children and how to deal with them. He could only ask this one sentence stiffily.

“Uncle, I am sorry. I should not have misbehaved with you….” Qiu Chen explained everything to his uncle and complanied about the people as not to go OOC. “……I don’t want them here, and I don’t want to be here either. I want to go to your base. Can you send people, please?”

An Zi pondered for a while, “There is a team that is near you. They are coming back to the base. I will tell them to take a detour.”

Qiu Chen felt somewhat uneasy. This was tough time. Although these people were bad to the original owner, they were nonetheless powerful. Not to use them is unfair to humanity at this time. He spoke his mind.

“Uncle, although I am not happy with them, they all have certain abilities. This is troubled times, you can appoint them in the base.” Qiu Chen tried to suggest.

“Do you know what we depend on when tough time comes?” An Zi’s deep but patient voice came through the speaker, “It’s not money, not power, well, these are important, but not the most important thing. The most important thing is humanity. You may have money and power, but it’s your humanity that makes you use them wisely. I am not going to keep such inhumane people under my wings.”

“Well, understood.”

“The team will take roughly two hours to reach you.” An Zi hung up after informing Qiu Chen.

After hanging up Qiu Chen got down from bed. He changed his dress, packed some pants and shirts that seemed more durable. He threw them n his space. He scanned the positioning of other people in the villa. Wen Han was playing another broken hearted drama. So, everyone was gathering around him. No one was at the storehouse. Qiu Chen sneered. That’s how considerate they were. For Wen Han’s sadness they could even risk their ration.

Using the system panel Qiu Chen went to Father Wen’s study on the third floor. He found out some wills which were left behind by his late father. He put them in a case. Now he was ready to confront the people downstairs.

“It was my fault, I sould have remembered that Xiao Quan is allergic to seafood. I made him this sick,” as Qiu Chen approached the staircase of second floor, he heard the pretentious sobbing of Wen Han.

There were ten people sitting around Wen Han and Jian Lin. These were the ability users Jian Lin collected. Among Those ten people nine were men and one was woman. Qiu Chen knew from the memory left behind by Wen Quan that this woman, Li Ran was the only one who treated him a little better than her other companions. Wen Quan also very close to her. What he did not know was the purpose of Li Ran’s treating him better was to manipulate his space ability. Yes, after the death of the original owner she robbed his space, but did not tell other members of the team. She had the sweetest mouth but the ugliest heart. Qiu Chen stopped paying attention to her hearing something else.

“You cooked it for me. Blame him for not seeing his own good. He knew he was allergic, he still ate. I bet it was to make you feel bad.” It was Jian Lin.

“Yes, how can you be at fault, A-Han?” others hurriedly echoed.

Qiu Chen sneered listening to them. He spoke before he reached them, “Are you done with your drama?”

“Wen Quan! How can you talk to your big brother like that! Apologise to him!” Jian Lin roared.

“Oh?” Qiu Chen said like he heard the best joke in his life. “Is your sweetheart sad because he accidentally made me sick? Isn’t he just making a scene?”

“You bastard! It was so kind of A-Han to cook for everyone. Should he always abide by your young master’s temper!” He Xue, Wen Han’s admirer scolded Qiu Chen.

“When it became your turn to scold me! And ‘bastard’? I guess you are quite unclear of who is the real bastard here. You all are feeding on my food, and you dare curse me?” Qiu Chen mocked He Xue.

Wen Han’s face looked hurt listening to Qiu Chen.

“You-“ He Xue was about to curse back when he saw Wen Han’s reaction, but Qiu Chen did not give him any chance. He looked directly into Wen Han’s eyes and continued.

“You are here pretending to care about me. Let me ask you, are you not a healing ability user? Was it so hard for you to heal me? Let’s not talk about healing me. I was sick since last evening, and it’s almost evening again. In last twenty-four hours have you ever checked on me?”

Wen Han was silent. He did not think Wen Quan would suddenly snap back. He continued to play victim. His eyes filled with water.

He Xue again came up to speak for him, “Do you know how many works he gets to do everyday? You are a waste anyway! Even if you die, it won’t matter.”

“How dare you call Hanhan bastard! He is still older than you! If it had not been your father throwing him out when he was born and marrying your mother for her family background, there would be no you!” Jian Lin also snapped back.

Qiu Chen looked at Jian Lin in astonishment, then turned to Wen Han. Jian Lin thought he poked his sore spot, so he continued to curse Qiu Chen.

“We are feeding on your food? Hanhan is the eldest son of the Wens. These all belongs to him. Even if we are feeding on the Wens, it still belongs to him, not you!”

“Bah! Now even a cheating man can curse others!” Qiu Chen sneered at Jian Lin.

“Who cheated!” Jian Lin subconsciously retorted.

Qiu Chen smirked and turned to Wen Han. He applied his hypnotism charm on his voice and asked Wen Han, “When did Jian Lin and I break up?”

“Four months ago,” Wen Han replied.

“And when did the two of you start seeing each other?”

“Six months back,” Wen Han was dumbfounded, he felt like someone made him answer the questions. This was not the thing that was known to others. He was a bit afraid of Qiu Chen now.

“Heh! You guys went out behind my back. A cheater and a liar! What a combination!” Qiu Chen laughed mockingly.

“We are not!” Wen Han shouted.

“What are you not? Is he not a cheater? See, he can’t date you in front of others! He only dared because my parents died. You are just like your mother. You go where you don’t belong,” Qiu Chen’s words represented Wen Han’s darkest thoughts. He subconsciously stood up to refute. Jian Lin hugged him and scolded Qiu Chen.

“His mother came first. You are not qualified to talk about auntie.”

Qiu Chen did not bother with him but looked at Wen Han, “You can make me a villain in front of the world. I never said anything about it. Don’t be too surprised,” Qiu Chen said seeing Wen Han being genuinely astonished. “I have always known. But I thought you were reluctant to share my brotherhood with others. Who knew that your heart was so black!”

People who thought about refuting stopped seeing Wen Han’s reaction. Qiu Chen drew a breath and continued, “But how can you do the same with my father? Did he have to take you back? He did not! But he did take you back anyway. He told me to treat you the best, and I always have. You told these people so many things, did you tell them how my father died? He died saving you, the white-eyed wolf, from a zombie!” Qiu Chen was shouting now. The original’s grievance was piling up inside him.

Qiu Chen suddenly laughed, “Do you know who I pity the most? My uncle. He lost his inheritance of Wens because of you. He lost his life trying to get you back. And in return, you don’t even acknowledge his existence.”

He turned to others in the room, “He, Wen Han, is an illegitimate child of the family, but we don’t share the same father. He is my uncle’s son.”

Finishing this sentence Qiu Chen turned to Jian Lin, “His mother did not come first. His mother took advantage of my drunken uncle and climbed his bed. Do you know what she did after she could not get to be Mrs. Wen using him? She threw him in an orphanage and feld overseas. Uncle never gave up searching for him. When he finally got the news, he rushed to get there. But the plane crashed. Your sweetheart knows it all.”

Qiu Chen opened the case and took out some document, “If you don’t believe me, check these DNA reports. They all have the dates on them.” He shoved the documents into Jian Lin’s hands.

Automatic reflection made Jian Lin hold the papers. He involunteerily glanced at the papers, first one look, then another.

“Don’t look at them!” Wen Han suddenly shouted, “He forged them! He hates me!”

Wen Han’s reaction was too big to ignore. The mocking smile was still hanging on Qiu Chen’s lips, “No more acting? Are you afraid now? Whether it is forged or not anyone can see in a glance.”

Jian Lin did not speak, the documents were not forged he could see. He Xue was about to speak up but Qiu Chen looked at him. He Xue did not know what was in his eyes, but it scared him. He forgot the words he was about to speak.

Li Ran came forward to talk, “We are sorry, A-Quan. We all misunderstood you. It’s troubled time. Let’s not make this simple thing a big issue.” She spoke in a calm unhurried tone. If Qiu Chen did not know beforehands, he would have been fooled by her.

“Simple thing? When all of you bullied me, it did not occcure to you that you were doing too much. Now your precious white lotus is ‘wronged’, so everything became s’simple’? And am I making it a big issue? When he slandered me and my father, where were you?” Qiu Chen put pressure on every word he uttered, his eyes turned red from hatred.

“We…we….” Li Ran never saw this little fool like this. She was at loss of words. All other members were silent at this moment. They did not say anything. They also knew that now their food and habitation depended on this waste. On the other hand, their security depended on Jian Lin, who was the strongest among them, a level two fire ability user.

Qiu Chen took out few more documents from his case and threw them on Wen Han’s face, “These are the papers of property uncle left behind. My father took care of them all these years. He did not move a penny. All those companies and malls were transferred under your name when you turned eighteen. Father thought of handing them over to you once you graduate. Take those and leave.” Qiu Chen scanned the surrounding people and said, “Take your dogs with you when you leave.”

Not waiting for Wen Han to reply, others panicked, they started talking all together. Jian Lin saw that situation was getting out of hands, he decided to step down.

“A-Quan, what are you talking about? We are altogether in this. How can you drive them away? Are they not your friends? What about I break up with him for you?” Jian Lin’s tone was soft, way softer than the tone he uses with Wen Han.

Wen Han looked at Jian Lin in disbelief but did not dare say anyhing. Qiu Chen’s next words entered his ears, “See, he can only make you an underground lover.” Then he told Jian Lin, “I don’t dare accept such grace. And they are my bullies not my friends.” There was strong hatred in his voice.

He Xue could not tolerate anymore, he snapped, “Have you forgotten that you are a waste? If we leave, who is going to protect you? Your rotten property?”

Qiu Chen looked at him, he smiled but his eyes cold, “I’d rather die than being protected by you. But you are right. My family property, including the ration must be rotten to you. Otherwise how there is no one guarding the store house?” He chuckled, “Let me guess, your ‘apple of the eyes’ was sad, so his mood became even more important than ration?”

“Do we need to answer your call!” He Xue lost all his reasons.

“He is right. Although these might belong to you, this is the time where ability speaks. You can’t call the shots,” another member echoed.

“Am I not powerful enough? Let me tell you, I still hold more power than all of you together.” As if to prove his statement a harsh brake sounded outside the villa.

All twelve people other than Qiu Chen got alert. They hurriedly gathered to the sealed door. But their sealed door could not hold on the military attack from outside. Soon the door broke and nearly thirty people in military uniform entered.

The leader of them greeted Qiu Chen, “Commander Xiao is here under the command from Major General An to rescue Young Master Wen.”

“You bitch! You called your uncle!” Jian Lin was no longer polite he rushed to strike Qiu Chen with fire. Commander Xiao was way faster and swifter than him. He flashed water at Jian Lin making him wet head to toe.

“Your ability is powerful, but you don’t even practice,” a soldier mocked Jian Lin.

Soon all twelve people were restrained by the soldiers. Commander Xiao looked at Qiu Chen in askance.

Qiu Chen handed him over a list, “Take them to the warehouse. Give them the products listed here, these are from my Uncle’s companies. Jian Lin brought two cars here. Give them those two cars and drive all of them out.”

Those people tried to resist. But no one paid any head to them. They were new ability users, compared to the soldires who were under the rough weather all year around, they had little control over their power.

Within an hour they were driven out. Commander Xiao was about to be back to the main house but Qiu Chen coming into the warehouse. Qiu Chen did not plan to hide his space ability from his uncle or his people. So he just wandered around in the warehouse and swiped all the goods in his space.

The soldires were dumfounded. They heard that this Young Master Wen is troublesome and had no ability. But now it seems that the little boy from their Major Generals mouth grew up. They consciously did not ask any question.

“Let’s go to the base. I wan to meet my uncle.” Qiu Chen said and walked forward. He told Commander Xiao while leaving, “Seal the villa.”