Chapter 26
Autumn has passed, and the cold wind has risen.
A champagne-colored sedan drove into a small service area.
A petite woman stepped off the bus. Her loose-fitting windbreaker, which allowed her to move around freely, could not hide her impressive figure.
The curtains in one of the only two rooms in the rest area moved slightly. The honest man's sticky gaze seemed to try to penetrate the clothes, and a disgusting smile, which he thought was handsome but was actually extremely lewd, appeared on his face.
The owner of the champagne-colored sedan turned around alertly, but found nothing. While refueling the car, he kept the wrench in hand, his eyes occasionally scanning several corners where people could easily hide. When he landed on the red sedan in the open space, he only glanced at it briefly because there was no one inside.
The honest man clicked his tongue and turned his head: "Go and lure that woman over here, or take that wrench when she's not looking."
Cheng Yuan, whose name was called, trembled. She suppressed her anger and tried to find a reason to refuse. Suddenly, a thought struck her: wasn't this a good opportunity to escape?
So she shrank back and pleaded weakly, "Please give me a complete set of clothes."
The honest man's eyes swept over her with mockery. He used to think that the goddess was perfect in every way, especially her figure. Now, however, he saw flaws everywhere, including excess fat around her waist.
He grabbed a dirty, sweaty jacket and threw it at her, urging, "Hurry up, or everyone will be gone."
Cheng Yuan forced herself to put on the clothes, looking down as she said, "Pants..."
The honest man clicked his tongue again: "Wait."
He went out and bumped into the owner of the champagne-colored sedan who was closing the trunk. He smiled innocently and saw her raising a wrench and trying to walk around him. He was indignant, but he cooperated by backing away and raising his hands to show that he was harmless.
The owner of the champagne-colored sedan waited for a while after the man went inside and left with a bag of things before driving the car to the convenience store entrance and starting to unload the supplies.
She was extremely vigilant, and the car door was facing the convenience store entrance so that she could escape quickly if anything went wrong.
The honest man returned to the room, unchained his feet, and threw the contents of the bag over: "Hurry up, don't even think about running away. Don't forget, I have quite a few videos of you."
Cheng Yuan's eyes instantly darkened.
She dressed quickly amidst the urging, and was momentarily dazed when she opened the door, but her eyes lit up when she saw the car parked in front of the convenience store.
You idiot, do you really think I'm afraid to keep this thing?!
When she arrived at the convenience store, the owner of the champagne-colored sedan was carrying a case of water. He glanced at it, paused when he noticed her clothes, and instinctively took two steps back as she walked straight towards him: "What's up?"
Cheng Yuan whispered quickly, "There's a beast behind you who wants to harm you. He sent me here to trick you into running away. Can you take me with you?"
!!
The owner of the champagne-colored sedan immediately decided: "Let's go!"
The honest man secretly followed behind, hiding on the side of the car to observe the situation. When he sensed something was wrong, he stepped forward and blocked the car door, his face still showing confusion: "Yuanyuan, what are you doing? We only had a couple of arguments, and you're going to go with someone else?"
The driver of the champagne-colored sedan's expression shifted, and he held up a wrench, saying to the honest man, "Step back, don't come any closer."
The honest man said helplessly, "I just had a fight with my girlfriend. I'm sorry, you're leaving, right? Go ahead." He then obediently stepped aside.
Cheng Yuan felt nauseous and trembled with anger, but she didn't want to argue with the scumbag. Afraid that the owner of the champagne-colored sedan would believe her, she quickly explained, "I'm not his girlfriend. He's lying."
The honest man remained expressionless, raised both hands, one of which gripped his phone, and said in a low voice, "Yes, yes, I'm not worthy, it's all my fault. It's normal for you to want to leave, I won't stop you."
He also said to the champagne-colored car, "I'm sorry, I made you laugh."
The owner of the champagne-colored sedan had seen many videos of similar scams and chose to believe Cheng Yuan, coldly saying, "She's coming with me too, so you should back away a bit more."
The honest man did indeed step back, saying repeatedly, "It's all my fault, please don't be angry. Hey, you better keep your hand steady. It's okay if you hurt me, but please don't accidentally hurt my Yuanyuan."
The champagne-colored sedan pursed its lips, backed around the honest man, and came to the car door, blocking Cheng Yuan behind it: "You get in first."
Cheng Yuan's face turned pale. She took the case of water from her hand, opened the back door, and squeezed in.
The owner of the champagne-colored sedan held a wrench in one hand towards the honest man, reached for the car door with the other, opened it, sat down, locked the door, and breathed a sigh of relief, only to find that the car wouldn't start.
Startled, I turned around to see the honest-looking man outside shaking his car keys and asking innocently, "Are you looking for this?"
Her heart sank.
The honest man chuckled, "Come down, Yuanyuan, aren't you going to do it?"
The owner of the champagne-colored sedan looked incredulous, and the next second the wrench was snatched away by a hand from behind.
Cheng Yuan said softly, "I'm sorry." She got out of the car and walked behind the man.
The honest man glanced at her disdainfully, then said to the owner of the champagne-colored sedan, "Get out."
The owner of the champagne-colored sedan stiffened, gritted his teeth, and slowly pushed open the car door, getting out of the car hesitantly before suddenly stopping.
Taking advantage of the fact that the honest man's attention was on someone else, Cheng Yuan gritted her teeth, raised a wrench, and smashed it hard on his head from behind.
The honest man sensed an unusual gust of wind and instinctively raised his hand to block it, but the key in his hand was knocked away and thrown out.
His arm was in excruciating pain, his face was ashen, and he roared as he lunged forward to snatch the wrench from her.
While wrestling with him, Cheng Yuan took the opportunity to kick the key away, which landed near the owner of the champagne-colored sedan.
The owner of the champagne-colored sedan quickly picked up the keys. Without any weapon on her, she was at a loss and didn't know how to react. Finally, she held the key tip in front of her and looked around for an opportunity.
Before she could get close, the honest man grabbed Cheng Yuan by the neck with one hand and punched her on the head.
The sudden, intense pain almost made Cheng Yuan faint.
But she still clung tightly to the honest man's waist, gritting her teeth: "Let's go!"
The owner of the champagne-colored sedan shuddered and instinctively obeyed, turning around and jumping into the car.
The honest man let out a muffled roar, tugging at Cheng Yuan as he moved toward the car, his expression twisted as if he wanted to devour the owner of the champagne-colored sedan alive.
She was so frightened that she quickly locked the car doors and started the car with trembling hands.
The honest man had already shaken off Cheng Yuan and rushed to the car window, banging on it forcefully: "Get out! Get out of here! You can't escape!"
The driver of the champagne-colored sedan burst into tears. He stepped on the gas, and the tires grazed the honest man's foot as he sped away.
She had only driven off for a short while when she suddenly regained her senses. She cursed herself as she reversed back, but the service area was nowhere to be seen.
On the deserted highway, she pounded on the steering wheel.
"I'm a pig! I should have turned around and run into it sooner! Even if I didn't die, I'd be fine with just crippling it! Aaaaaah!"
Cheng Yuan was not beaten to death.
When she slowly awoke, the pain followed her awakening of consciousness.
Taking a deep breath, she realized that the trash cans on both sides were rapidly moving backward, and she was sitting in the car.
At first, a sliver of joy arose, thinking that he had been abandoned and rescued by others. But when he discovered that the car had a familiar interior and that the honest man was sitting next to him, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and even his breathing began to tremble.
"Li Ren, what will it take for you to let me go?"
The honest man named Li Ren grinned wickedly: "Dream on, you'll never get rid of me in your entire life, never."
"What good will it do you to help them? You might as well help me scam a few more people, so more people can take the fall for you, right?"
"Be more obedient in the future, cooperate well, and you'll get beaten less and suffer less."
"Maybe one day I'll be in a good mood and let you go?"
Cheng Yuan gave a cold laugh.
Wearing only underwear, passing cars either whistled at her or avoided her gaze; her hands and feet were bound, and she saw no hope for the future…
The sunlight outside was bright and warm, but she felt as if she were sinking into a quagmire, with black mud slowly enveloping her from the soles of her feet, swallowing and submerging her.
Li Ren was driving, humming a tune, when suddenly a shadowy figure crashed into him, causing the car to veer and lose control instantly.
He was horrified and desperately struggled to regain control of the steering wheel while slamming on the brakes, yelling, "Are you crazy?!"
Cheng Yuan, her upper body practically hanging on the steering wheel, laughed maniacally: "If you won't let me live, then let's die together!"
The red car spun 360 degrees on the narrow lane.
Boom!
The sound of a fist hitting bone.
ah!
The scream of agony as someone bites your flesh.
squeak--
The four tires rubbed rapidly against the ground.
Bang!
The car crashed into the wall and finally came to a stop.
Cheng Yuan, feeling dizzy and disoriented, climbed out of the car. Seeing the stone steps beside her, she chuckled to herself, "Heh, heh heh—"
She couldn't stand it anymore and just wanted to get away from all the filth behind her.
Instead of going to the nearest road, they would rather climb over a nine-lane road to reach the stone steps on the other side of the road.
After climbing only three lanes, a wall appeared in the air, separating her from the rest of the space.
Cheng Yuan was incredulous. She leaned forward, and the empty space in front of her seemed to be blocked by a real wall—cold, hard, and inhuman.
What's this?
Why can't we leave?!
Why put her next to that pile of rubble behind her?!
Li Ren woke up in a rage, grabbed his head and got out of the car, only to see that damned woman lying on the roadside, blood on her head, crying, laughing and screaming, just like she had really gone mad.
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