Apocalypse: My Apartment Has Traits - Chapter 45 - 41: Confession
Chapter 45: Chapter 41: Confession
Outside the door, voices clamored, but inside the Su Family hall, the atmosphere was heavy.
After Liu Jun, Zheng Weimin, and the others dispersed, Zhao Yaxin patted her daughter’s little head, signaling her to go play with her little cousin.
Su Yingying darted out of the kitchen like a little cannonball, rushing to Su Lin with her arms raised, and shouted crisply:
“Little cousin, you came to play with me again!”
She opened her arms, asking for a hug.
The meat that little cousin brought last time left a lingering taste for her—even though she didn’t know that the “generous” cousin took five pounds of meat from her house afterward, letting her miss a few good meals.
Su Lin conveniently picked her up, and the little one giggled gleefully.
Su Qi’s gaze swept over with a barely perceptible gentleness, but it quickly returned to its usual sternness.
“Is the meat all gone?” Su Qi asked straightforwardly, “The household is tight right now, we’ll have to wait a few days.”
His nephew had ambition, naturally, he wouldn’t be stingy.
But reality was pressing.
No one would leave even a copper coin before the Night of Survival, or they might face the tragedy of dying without having spent the money.
Even for someone as capable as the Su Family, the recent increase in support for Su Lin left them stretched thin.
At the beginning of the month, his old wound flared up, and he hadn’t been able to go hunting to earn more.
“Uncle, I also want to go out.” Su Lin spoke simply, setting down the Su Yingying in his arms, “I want to hunt the Mutant Beasts, to try my luck and see if I can make a haul.”
“No way!” Old Man Su Can’s face immediately stiffened, refusing decisively, “Do you not know what’s going on outside? Others are trying to avoid the Mutant Beasts at all costs, and you want to get close? Did the Shadow Beast from last night chew up your brain?”
“Exactly!” Su Qi immediately echoed, his attitude firm and decisive, “The Chang Family was just wiped out last night! Going out now would be walking right into a trap! Don’t even think about it!”
Su Lin had anticipated this reaction and was not in a hurry to argue.
He glanced around, striding to the front door, and with a muscular exertion, there was a loud “bang” as the heavy iron door closed with a sound.
Then he turned to close the back door.
The room suddenly dimmed, leaving only a few beams of light streaming through the observation ports, adding to the oppressive feeling.
The members of the Su Family looked at each other, puzzled.
After doing all this, Su Lin returned to the hall and slammed the two hand crossbows from his back onto the table.
His gaze was sharp, and his voice was low and clear:
“The massacre of the Chang Family was done by me.”
“…”
A dead silence fell.
Su Can, Su Qi, and Zhao Yaxin stared at him like he was crazy.
The only one not understanding was Su Yingying, who cooperated with a “Wow—” her little mouth opening wide, an emoji of “shock” if there ever was one.
“I’m telling the truth!” Su Lin said, half amused and half helpless, “I really went to wipe out the Chang Family last night!”
He knew outsiders would never suspect him, but he didn’t expect that even when confiding in his closest relatives, no one would believe him.
“Linzi…” Su Can opened his mouth with difficulty, his tone full of worry, “How about… you rest for a couple of days? I’m afraid you… are getting too exhausted…”
The implication was a fear that his grandson’s training was leading him into a dangerous frenzy.
Su Qi nodded seriously in agreement.
“Damn!” Su Lin rolled his eyes.
Trained his mind to collapse?
This was the second time today he felt lost for words, the first being Hou Yong, that joker.
It seemed that words alone wouldn’t suffice; he needed to rely on tangible skill!
“Grandpa, Uncle, Sis, do you see that little pit on the kitchen floor?”
Su Lin pointed to a corner where Su Yingying had dug a thumb-sized hole to tease ants.
“Hmm?” The three looked over, puzzled.
Su Lin grabbed the hand crossbow from the table, drawing a slender crossbow arrow from the quiver on the outside of his thigh and, with a clean motion, cocked it into place.
He didn’t even bother to aim directly, holding the crossbow in one hand, and casually pulled the trigger toward the kitchen.
“Buzz—Bang!”
The echo of the thrumming bowstring was alarmingly sharp in the sudden quiet of the room!
Su Can and the others’ pupils shrank violently, and their faces quickly shifted from looking at him like a fool to intensely staring toward the corner of the kitchen.
“Huh?!” Su Can exclaimed in shock and doubt, the first to jump up and stride over.
Su Qi and Zhao Yaxin followed closely behind.
The three crowded by the wall, peering closer, finally seeing the small ant pit was now a bottomless black hole!
The opening was only as wide as the arrow shaft.
Su Qi reached in to scrape, his fingernails sunk a bit but only brought out some dirt crumbs.
It seemed the arrow had sunk deeply into the brick and earth, reaching unfathomed depths!
Just how terrifying was this power?!
Su Can’s face turned solemn, his sharp gaze turned to the weapon in Su Lin’s hand: “Where did this crossbow come from?”
“I picked up a blueprint for a rare hand crossbow at the market last time,” Su Lin half-truthfully explained, “Made it myself.”
Su Qi couldn’t hide his astonishment: “A rare hand crossbow with such power?”
“High-quality blueprint, I guess,” Su Lin replied nonchalantly, half-lying, “I tested it, it can easily pierce through a thirty-centimeter thick stone block and still embed half a foot into the ground.”
Hearing this, the three were even more shaken.
“So,” Su Lin reiterated, his gaze sweeping over his closest family, “the massacre of the Chang Family last night was truly my doing.”
He didn’t want to play the foolish-wolf game with the Su Family, who had always treated him well, causing a mess later on.
Nor did he want his family’s worries because of his actions.
Moreover, he had no choice but to reveal his strength.
Without proving his ability, Uncle would never agree to let him venture out.
And without Uncle leading the way, even if he wanted to go out, handling the dangers wasn’t the only issue; mainly, he didn’t know the way.
“Really you?!” Su Qi pressed, his tone now one of doubt.
“Absolutely true!” Su Lin said resolutely.
Su Qi furrowed his brows, pondering the crux: “Now that you’re also a Skin Lock Martial Artist, you should understand that within a hundred meters, warriors sense any gun or crossbow locking onto them.”
“That’s why I scouted ahead,” Su Lin replied calmly, “I hid on a big tree two hundred meters away from the Chang Family’s entrance. I waited until it was nearly midnight, when Chang Sanheng was entangled by the Shadow Beast to the point of being overwhelmed and unable to pay attention elsewhere, before I took action.”
“Two hundred meters away?!”
This distance made the three gasp again.
This meant that Su Lin was not only ambushing but performing a precise long-range assassination!
“I admit my talent in martial arts is average,” Su Lin confessed his disadvantage, then shifted to confidence, “but in shooting, I can hit the mark within three hundred meters! Even on unclear nights, I hit two out of three arrows. If you still don’t believe it, I can demonstrate it right before you.”
The hall fell silent again, only the heavy breaths of the people could be heard.
So, was it really Su Lin… who killed thirteen people of the Chang Family?!
The impact of this event on them far exceeded any previous “surprise” or “shock.”
Their inner shock was beyond expression.
Even if Su Lin went to turn himself in, no one would believe it!
The contrast was too absurd, too earth-shattering.
“Uncle,” Su Lin seized the moment of his family’s wavering, clarifying his goal again, “I need to go out and hunt Mutant Beasts to get meat. The family can’t run out of ’supplies.’ External circumstances are pressing, the Shadow Beast of Black Scale Village looms over the village, I need to grow stronger, faster!”
Su Qi stared intently into his nephew’s eyes, where he saw a determination he’d never seen before, imbued with a hint of heroism.
The change was too great, too unfamiliar, yet, in this chaotic world, it inexplicably gave a sense of reliability.
He took a long breath, his chest heaving with weight.
No matter what, the facts lay before him: the crossbow, the killing ability from two hundred meters away… and that transformed, glowing aura.
In the end, he chose to believe.
“…He’s changed,” Su Qi sighed to himself, “Changed so thoroughly…”
That feeling was unfamiliar, yet it compelled belief.
He calmed himself, his voice low and solemn as he instructed:
“This matter must not be known to a fifth person! The Chang Family’s massacre, this hand crossbow, and your so-called ’hitting one hundred percent within three hundred meters,’ all must stay buried!”
Source: Webnovel.com, updated by novlove.com
