Su Ying confirmed that Wen Bai had taken the keys and the car.
His phone rang with a short, sharp tone.
Just like last time, Su Ying received another anonymous text message, brief and urging him to find Wen Bai quickly.
Remembering the situation from the last time he received a text, he wasted no more time.
Su Ying went to the hall; no one had left yet.
Su Ying borrowed a car from Ji Tianle, who lent it to him without a second thought.
After all, Wen Bai, in a way, was the matchmaker for him and Shuang Shuang.
Su Ying drove, watching the pinpointed location that hadn't moved for more than ten seconds, and stepped on the accelerator.
The distance between them rapidly closed.
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Wen Bai closed his eyes, and System 001 suddenly spoke, "He's dragging Aunt Wang..."
The man with a contorted face dragged his biological mother over.
Yu Yang's brow was already deeply furrowed.
Aunt Wang was missing a hand, and it was still bleeding, leaving a trail of blood on the ground as she was dragged along.
Aunt Wang seemed unable to even whimper now, only her half-open, still-moving eyelids indicated she was still alive.
The man threw Aunt Wang on the ground, holding an axe, and walked towards Yu Yang and Wen Bai, then squatted beside Wen Bai.
The man fumbled for something in his pocket and, without looking, struck Wen Bai.
Yu Yang recognized the syringe, the same kind used on him and Wen Bai, but it was already empty.
Wen Bai slowly opened his eyes.
The man's face, which had returned to a neutral expression, now became animated.
"Hehehehe~" He started to laugh.
He picked up the axe beside him and cut the rope binding Wen Bai's legs.
Wen Bai: "001, what did you mean by 'not right'?"
System 001 paused, "The data here is off. There should be over ten people, but there are only four of you."
Wen Bai's gaze grew colder.
The man moved behind Wen Bai, intending to cut the ropes binding his hands.
As soon as he reached behind Wen Bai, he froze.
Then his face contorted even more severely.
He moved towards where his mother lay, his back seemingly radiating excitement.
Wen Bai moved his hands weakly, leaning against the tree.
Seeing Wen Bai's treatment, Yu Yang questioned his own existence.
Furthermore, he couldn't understand if this man was insane. What was he so excited about?
But he soon understood.
Because the man walked up to the woman and, brandishing the axe, struck Aunt Wang. Blood splattered.
Then the man glanced in Wen Bai's direction.
Wen Bai watched everything before him coldly.
As if seeing Wen Bai's lack of reaction, the man's contorted face momentarily returned to normal.
He raised the axe and struck again, and again...
Then, as if he couldn't stop, he muttered, "I... I'm not crazy... I'm not... you... you for... a man... with him..."
The woman, who had still had some life in her, after the frenzied chopping, had her face mangled by an axe strike and pull, and was no longer moving.
The man didn't stop, and after a while, seeming to calm down, he dropped the axe.
Yu Yang remained frozen, his pupils dilated, his posture unchanged.
His body trembled slightly, a primal instinct of fear triggered by the overwhelming visual impact.
In fact, Yu Yang's reaction was much stronger than that of most normal people.
For any normal person in peacetime, their legs wouldn't be able to stand.
The man's hands and body were now covered in blood, a stark sight, and his face was splattered with bloodstains.
What was he going to do?
System 001 was a little flustered now, seeing this happening just as the world's resources were within reach. It tried to comfort Wen Bai, "Host, don't be afraid, I've called for reinforcements!"
The comfort felt pale and weak at this moment.
The man squatted down, suddenly reached out, and smeared the blood from his hands onto Wen Bai's face, seeming satisfied.
Wen Bai felt nauseous and quickly turned his head, but some blood still got on him.
The man's expression returned to normal, and he tilted his head, looking at Wen Bai: "Why? You... not call? Not... run?"
Wen Bai raised his hand, clenched it into a fist, and then let it go.
The man simply watched Wen Bai, not moving.
Then Wen Bai took off his jacket, wiped his face first, and then wrapped his right hand.
The man seemed curious about what Wen Bai intended to do, and perhaps also filled with anticipation.
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Su Ying parked the car and looked at the GPS on his phone. Two dots, about to overlap.
He got out and walked into an alley. After a short distance, the view suddenly opened up.
He saw it, the black car, his car.
There was no one in the car, but Wen Bai's phone was inside.
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Wen Bai, his hand wrapped in clothing, punched the man in the eye.
Wen Bai used all his strength at that moment, but it was less than thirty percent of his usual power.
As if surprised by the strength Wen Bai still possessed, the man was thrown back, falling onto the ground, and then: "Hahahaha... fun... again..."
Yu Yang watched the scene with a strange expression. At first, he thought the man was crazy, then he realized he was a murderer, and now he suddenly understood that this was likely a crazy, psychopathic killer...
As if responding to Yu Yang's thoughts, the psychopathic killer's face suddenly contorted, and he looked over.
Then he abandoned Wen Bai and walked over to Yu Yang, squatting down.
Yu Yang remained still.
The man glanced at the restraint on Yu Yang's injured foot, and his face twisted for a moment.
Then the man, with a normal expression, said to Yu Yang, "You... not fun... not fun..."
The man then stood up and went back into the house.
Although Yu Yang didn't know what the man intended to do, it didn't stop him from running for his life.
Wen Bai felt the same.
Seeing this, the two of them, with perfect synchronization, immediately ran.
Yu Yang removed the makeshift bindings on his hands and feet and scrambled away in the opposite direction of the house and car.
He ran ahead, with Wen Bai following about a meter behind.
They hadn't run far when a voice filled with extreme excitement rang out from behind them: "Run... run! Chase!"
Then came the sound of pursuit.
Fate was truly unfair, so unfair.
In this situation, someone who had never experienced a cramp felt their leg seize up, but Wen Bai could endure it.
He continued to run at the same speed, and then he was forced to fall on flat ground.
There was nothing in front of him, yet his legs below the knee were blocked by something unseen.
Due to inertia, Wen Bai pitched forward. He reacted quickly, extending his hand to brace himself, thus avoiding landing on his face, and rolled to his side.
The man caught up, running fast with an axe.
Yu Yang heard the commotion and looked back: "Damn it!"
He then ran back and pulled Wen Bai up. Wen Bai used the leverage to get away from where he had fallen.
Immediately, an axe was fiercely driven into the soil precisely where Wen Bai had been lying.
This time, Wen Bai and Yu Yang ran side by side, though Yu Yang was starting to run out of strength.
He glanced back. The man, without the axe, was now holding a very large syringe.
Yu Yang, panting, collapsed onto the ground. He tried to get up from his kneeling position but couldn't, feeling despair.
He resolutely looked up: "You go. I... I've had bad luck. I can't go..."
System 001 suddenly exclaimed, "If the male lead dies, this world will collapse."
The man closed in, only a few meters away.
Wen Bai acted as if he hadn't heard System 001. The man who had once desperately wanted to kill the male and female leads was no longer him.
He frowned deeply and then grabbed Yu Yang: "Go!"
Yu Yang looked up, surprised.
Wen Bai said coldly and quickly, "I don't owe you."
If System 001 were human, it would probably have choked, passing out from shock.
It now understood firsthand the feelings of the systems that Wen Bai had gone through.
In an instant, the man with an excited, contorted face arrived, syringe in hand.