A few days later, Carloberland Island.
It was already late at night on the island, but a faint red light shone on one side of the path through the woods, as if something was burning fiercely.
A sports car lay overturned on the side of the road, its headlights blazing red.
Zhu Penglin's head was covered in blood, and his body was trapped under the car seat. He struggled to reach for his phone, which had fallen under the passenger seat, while groaning in pain.
My fingers missed the phone on the ground several times. Finally, as the sports car swayed, the phone slipped out of the window and fell into the dark jungle, disappearing without a trace.
Zhu Penglin was utterly desperate.
"Help! Help!"
He shouted at the top of his lungs, trying to get the other rich kids participating in the race to notice him, but in the deep darkness, no one answered his cries for help.
With no hope of saving Zhu Penglin, and almost all his strength draining away with the blood on his body, he could only lean helplessly against the car, staring blankly out the window.
"What... what exactly is going on?!"
Since Shu Yuxiu wasn't there today, Zhu Penglin naturally wouldn't participate in the race. He had already told these people in advance that he would only drive around and not participate in racing. However, he didn't expect that they would suddenly start questioning the authenticity of his driving skills and even mocking him, doubting that the person who was driving before was actually him.
Zhu Penglin was a proud man; otherwise, he wouldn't have come up with the idea of having Shu Yuxiu race in his place. Now, provoked by these people, he got carried away and decided to participate in the race himself.
However, Zhu Penglin had a good plan. Halfway down the mountain, he deliberately made an excuse to leave, saying that there was an emergency at home. Anyway, with Shu Yuxiu around, he could always regain the face he lost today. It was just a little embarrassing today...
However, to everyone's surprise, just as Zhu Penglin was driving to the intersection of Huanshan Road and Xiashan Road, preparing to slow down and turn around to go down the mountain, his sports car suddenly went out of control and the brakes failed.
In a panic, Zhu Penglin and his vehicle veered off the intersection and crashed into the woods beside the road.
Coincidentally, the location of the car accident would not have been noticed by those rich kids if they had been speeding around the mountains as usual.
Only when they finish their competition and come down the mountain together will they have a chance to find the car accident marks by the roadside and thus locate Zhu Penglin in the woods.
But this group of people are usually bored and just go out racing to kill time and seek thrills. They usually won't leave until four or five in the morning.
By the time Zhu Penglin is discovered, his body will probably already be stiff.
Sure enough, Zhu Penglin never saw anyone discover him until the very end.
His breathing gradually became weaker.
In the last moment before all consciousness was about to fade away, Zhu Penglin seemed to hear a noise behind him.
An unknown force compelled him to utter a final sound, however faint it was, like the chirping of an insect.
"Help--"
However, the footsteps stopped abruptly.
The entire forest returned to silence.
Zhu Penglin tried to open his eyes, but he still stopped breathing.
He never received any rescue before he died.
What Zhu Penglin didn't know was that not far behind his overturned sports car, a familiar figure was standing quietly.
Shu Yuxiu raised his wrist, looked at the time on his watch, glanced up at the night sky, and finally slowly lowered his arm, covering his watch with his sleeve.
No one knows exactly how long he has been standing there.
He stood there calmly, using the ticking hands of his watch to measure his good brother's "time of death," like the Grim Reaper in hell, silently counting down the death of the dying.
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