The Return of the Disaster-Class Hero

Chapter 15: Hello, it's been a while? (1)

Hearing a terrifying voice, Yang Wei immediately shivered.

'This voice...'

The voice sounded muffled as if the speaker had a mask on. Yang Wei quickly turned his head, but he didn't see anyone. The only things in his vision were the crumbling ceiling and the revolting sight of concrete squashing mannequins. The fire had left the crushed and broken mannequins charred black, and the overall atmosphere was creepy.

'Shit! Did I hear wrong?' Cold sweat ran down Yang Wei's face. Even though he was surrounded by fire, he felt cold. 'Yes! There's no way it's him!'

He had probably misheard things. That voice couldn't exist in this world anymore.

Lee Gun always used to wear a mask, so his voice sounded a bit muffled. Although his pronunciation was precise, that voice had always grated on Yang Wei's nerves. It was deep, powerful, and forceful.

'Shit! This worsened my mood.' In the past, Yang Wei hated hearing that voice, and now, he hated it even more.

Right now, the voice he had heard was like a child's laughter in an abandoned building. It was beyond creepy. Yang Wei blamed his skittishness on the media, which had been going overdrive since the previous day. 'They made a big issue out of nothing. They prematurely announced Lee Gun's return!'

Yang Wei thought that this was the reason he had become paranoid and heard the voice of a ghost. In the end, it didn't matter. "I have to quickly get out of this awful place." Just when Yang Wei intended to move—

"Hey!"

"Ahhhk!" Yang Wei screamed as a shadow suddenly approached him. In that split second, he thought he had seen Lee Gun's mask. However, when he realized that someone had thrown a mannequin with a similar-looking mask toward him, he yelled, "Who's doing this!"

Someone was trying to harm him. It was probably Korea's Lee Gun fanatics.

'If it isn't them...' After kicking away the creepy mannequin, Yang Wei climbed over the display stand in his way.

However, what he saw left him surprised. 'What the hell? Why is he here?' Yang Wei's face hardened at the sight of a familiar face. 'Isn't he supposed to be in England?'

The person Yang Wei had encountered inside the store was none other than the Archer, Hugo Otis. Yang Wei's nerves were on the edge, so he ground his teeth. Hugo's appearance in Korea explained a lot of things.

'Did he kill the Spider Queen that appeared inside this place?'

The other members of the twelve Zodiacs couldn't kill the Spider Queen, so Yang Wei had no idea how Hugo had done it. However, only one explanation could come out of this chain of events. The events surrounding the Devil's Tower, the disappearance of the constructs, and Lee Gun's voice that he had heard earlier, all of them made sense now.

'I get it!' It was all Hugo. He had the motivation to do this. Around twenty years ago, Hugo had severed all connections with the rest of the twelve Zodiacs. He blamed them for Lee Gun's death.

Hugo's appearance made Yang Wei shudder, but also gave him peace of mind at the same time. All the events that had occurred after the fall of the Devil's Tower were not orchestrated by Lee Gun; it was someone else. This thought gave him comfort. 'Yes! There's no way Lee Gun is alive...'

"Isn't it quite the view?"

"?!" Yang Wei collapsed on top of the display stand. He had once again heard the voice that he thought was an auditory hallucination. Moreover, the voice seemed to come from near him! He gulped.