Chapter 79: Unexpected Disaster "Is it fun?" Lin...
"Is it fun?"
Lin Xicai screamed and tried to come out, but someone blocked her exit with their feet and pushed her back roughly.
Then, in her astonished eyes, Li Ci squatted down, opened another cabinet door and got in. The moment he got in, he reached out and closed the door tightly, squeezing out the last bit of light inside.
The metal cabinet wasn't large, and Li Ci was tall, so the two of them squeezed face to face inside, forced to be very close. The narrow cabinet formed a nearly closed space with no gaps. They couldn't see each other, but they could smell each other's breath and the unique scent of each other with incredible clarity.
In the darkness, she couldn't see his face, but she could feel the burning and powerful gaze moving from the ends of her hair to her eyelashes, and from her eyelashes down to her nose, lips, and neck.
Lin Xicai felt suffocated and nauseous. She reached out to open the door of the metal cabinet, but her wrist was grabbed by another cold hand, which held it tightly and did not move at all.
"What are you going to do?"
Lin Xicai's voice was calm, barely maintaining her composure and decency.
Li Ci did not answer her question. The fingers holding her wrist gently stroked her arm twice in a soothing manner. He looked up to examine the space, and then looked at her through the overwhelming darkness.
"This is a nice place," he said. "It's like a coffin. It's as if we were buried together here after we die."
Lin Xicai struggled and tried to push open the cabinet door again. Her wrist ached, and Li Ci pushed her back roughly. His voice deepened, "Where are you going?"
"Go out, let's talk outside if you have anything to say." Lin Xicai said.
"Isn't this the place you chose?" Li Ci seemed confused. "I came here to accompany you, why are you going out again?"
A muffled thunder sounded outside, and Lin Xicai's body trembled suddenly.
Seeing this, Li Ci grabbed her hand and shook it slightly left and right, as if to comfort her.
"It's raining outside," Li Ci said, as if talking to himself. "I wish there was another earthquake."
He paused, his voice shimmering with the occasional rumble of thunder. "It would be best if we were buried deep underground, so we could be unearthed hundreds or thousands of years from now. Then, perhaps people in later generations would gather around us and say, 'These are the fossils of love.'"
Li Ci looked at her, his fingertips gently stroking her skin. "Is it beautiful? Are you looking forward to it?"
The stuffy and suffocating feeling fermented with his words, fermenting to a point that she could no longer bear it - a feeling of suffocation spread from her mind to her body. Lin Xicai began to have difficulty breathing. She looked up and suddenly felt as if she was really locked in a coffin.
"Let me out," she suddenly slammed the cabinet door, a rare hint of little girl fear in her voice, "Li Ci, let me out."
Li Ci seemed stunned for a moment, but his tone was indifferent.
"Why? Why are you in such a hurry to get out?" he demanded. "Don't you like it here? I really like it."
"I can't breathe, Li Ci, please let me out..."
Someone grabbed her neck and pulled Lin Xicai forward. Li Ci approached her and asked calmly and indifferently, "Are you going to hide in the closet again?"
"I'm not hiding anymore, I'm not hiding anymore, I'm not hiding anymore! Are you satisfied with me not hiding anymore?" Lin Xicai seemed to be furious, and the whole person was a little hysterical, "Let me out!"
It seemed that he finally got a satisfactory answer, so Li Ci opened the cabinet door and walked out, holding her hand tightly and pulling her out.
It was raining outside, and a flash of lightning struck, illuminating the pale faces of both people.
Lin Xicai shook off his hand and took a deep breath. "I'm tired, Li Ci. I'm really tired! What do you have to do to let me go?"
Li Ci did not make any sarcastic remarks upon hearing this. On the contrary, he seemed to be really thinking about the feasibility of this issue.
After a moment, those beautiful, misty eyes looked over and said, "Answer me a question."
Li Ci stared at her and pursed his lips. "Think before you answer. If your answer is what I like to hear, I will let you go and forgive you."
Lin Xicai suddenly looked over, half believing and half doubting, "...Really?"
"Really." Li Ci said, "When have I ever lied to you?"
"What's the problem?" Lin Xicai asked.
"Whose are you?" Li Ci asked.
Lin Xicai's face turned a little embarrassed. After enduring for a while, she took a deep breath and said, "I...I am yours."
Li Ci looked at her, and his eyes, which had lost some luster, seemed to brighten up again. He seemed to smile, and a bit of self-deceiving happiness appeared on his handsome and haggard face.
Lin Xicai turned and walked towards the door, but someone grabbed her arm and pulled her into a cold embrace with a strong force. Li Ci held her in his arms.
Lin Xicai struggled, completely enraged by his inconsistency. "What are you going to do? Didn't you say you would let me go?"
"You'll leave if I tell you to?" Li Ci stared at her, a mad look in his brows, "You said you're mine, so you shouldn't be able to leave! You shouldn't leave even if I tell you to! You should stick to me all the time! Why do you want to leave? How can you leave?" As soon as he finished speaking, he was slapped hard on the face.
Li Ci took the slap and looked at her with his eyes dimly.
Li Ci looked over and saw the person in front of him looking at him hatefully, with so much disgust in her eyes that it was about to overflow. He closed his eyes, but could still see her disgust.
Lin Xicai struggled again and even shouted. The next moment, she felt a pain in her neck and fainted.
When she woke up again, she was in a car. She was sitting in the passenger seat, her hands and feet bound with yellow tape, while Li Ci was driving.
It was raining outside and the temperature in the car was a little low. Li Ci's black down jacket was covering her. She looked over and saw that his shirt seemed to be wet. The thin material stuck to his body, but he seemed unaware of it. Under his long bangs were a pair of sinister and irritable eyes.
She didn't know how long the car had been driving, and it seemed to have left the city. Lin Xicai looked outside, and it was raining all over. She couldn't see anything clearly because of the overwhelming rain.
Lin Xicai turned her head and looked at him, "Where are you taking me?"
Li Ci didn't look back. "There are too many people here who want to break us up. No one wants to see us get ahead. I'll take you to a place where no one can find us."
Where no one can find us?
Lin Xicai digested these words in a daze, her whole body cold, and then she suddenly couldn't suppress her emotions: "You lunatic! Li Ci, you lunatic! Why did you do this to me? Why did you take me with you when you were mad! What did I do wrong to be haunted by you like this! You want revenge on me, what right do you have to take revenge on me? Who was the first to attack me in the beginning? So I just do nothing and wait to be tortured by you, right? Li Ci, let me tell you, our accounts were settled from the moment I released you. You have no right to retaliate against me, you psychopath! Lunatic! People like you deserve to be abandoned by your family! You deserve to be abandoned by everyone today because of your own fault, you deserve it! You..."
Before he finished speaking, Li Ci suddenly turned his head and looked at him, his eyes sharp and sinister.
Then he closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and pulled another piece of tape from the console. In addition to her hands and feet, this time he also blocked her mouth.
Yellow tape was stuck to her mouth, almost covering half of her face. Li Ci drove with one hand, leaned forward, and gently kissed her lips through the tape: "Baby, I'm a little upset right now. Can you bear it for a while? You can scold me later if you want, okay?"
Lin Xicai froze there, her heart growing colder and number, and then desperate.
The rain outside was getting heavier, with lightning and thunder, as if the sky had opened its bloody mouth to swallow everything. It felt like the end of the world.
Lin Xicai suddenly felt extremely tired, a feeling of desperate exhaustion from the inside out.
She really hoped there would be a car accident, she thought, and kill them all here, so that they would all become ghosts under the heavy rain, never to see each other again, and never to be reborn.
The car didn't even turn on the navigation, it just kept driving forward, heading towards places with fewer people and small roads. Probably even he himself didn't know where he was going.
Lin Xicai had no idea where this road was. It was very narrow, and the cement road surface was badly damaged. It was even more muddy and bumpy because of the rain. Lin Xicai's mouth was glued shut, and he couldn't utter a word. A pair of eyes stared at him hatefully, full of desolation.
Li Ci drove slowly, his expression even a little distracted. "I didn't want to leave either, but there's no other way. This place can no longer accommodate us. You may not know this, but I originally made a home for us. You would have loved it. It's a pity that I didn't have the chance to show you..."
Li Ci's voice was calm. He didn't expect her to respond. He just muttered to himself lightly, which seemed a little strange amid the rain and thunder.
At that moment, the car seemed to be hit hard. A force suddenly hit it from the rear end, causing the car to slip. Almost in an instant, it drove to the side uncontrollably, and the front of the car hit a tree on the side of the road heavily.
The two people in the car were still in shock when three or five people got out of the van behind them and surrounded their car.
Li Ci frowned and looked at Lin Xicai: "Don't be afraid."
The people outside were obviously well prepared and had weapons in their hands. Before he could finish his words, a man standing at the front of the car suddenly smashed the window, sending glass shards flying everywhere. Almost at the same time, several knives came out of the window and were pressed against Li Ci's neck.
The people outside stared at Li Ci with extremely ferocious eyes, as if they were suppressing an unresolved hatred that had been accumulated for a long time.
The knife was on his neck, even scraping his flesh, but Li Ci didn't seem panicked. He looked over coldly and asked in a deep voice, "Who sent you here?"
"Who sent us?" The burly man in the front, with a scar on his chin, stared at him with a twisted smile and a sinister tone. "Who sent us? You'll know in a moment."
The next moment, the man opened the car door and pulled Li Ci out of the car. Almost at the same time, a man with a flat head and a black T-shirt suddenly pounced on Li Ci like a vicious dog and punched him. Li Ci had no time to defend himself and was hit in the face with blood oozing from the corner of his mouth.
Li Ci looked at them, poked his tongue against his cheek, and smiled coldly, his calmness somewhat inappropriate: "I will take this punch for now. Give me a reason."
"Reason?" The burly scarred man stared at him intently, then uttered a name word by word, "Remember Liu Yinxiang? Do you remember where he is now?"
Liu Yinxiang.
As soon as this name came out, Li Ci immediately understood which sect his enemy came from.
He seemed to smile, coldly and disdainfully: "Who are you to him?"
The scarred man gritted his teeth and said, "Nephew, son, and the one who avenged him."
"Revenge." Li Ci's smile grew colder, his eyes sinister and mocking. "You're avenging a kidnapper, and you still have the nerve to act so righteous?"
"What did you say! I'll kill you little bastard!"
The man with the flat head was about to rush over again with his fists raised, but before he got close to him, Li Ci's eyes were fierce and he returned the punch he had just received with interest. Li Ci was always the most ruthless and vicious. The man with the flat head was hit by that punch, and his face was covered in blood. He was knocked to the ground, covered in mud and looked very miserable.
Being at a disadvantage in his own place was a great shame and humiliation. The man with the flat head roared, picked up the weapon he had just used to smash the car, and was about to rush towards Li Ci. He was pulled back by the burly man and said in a grave tone: "Calm down, is this the place for a fight?"
The man paused, staring at Li Ci and said, "Invite the guests to our territory first, and then treat them well."
The men were tall and strong, with weapons in their hands. It was no surprise that Li Ci was subdued by them. When his eyes fell on Lin Xicai's face, Li Ci's eyes were complicated.
The man with the flat head also noticed Lin Xicai inside. His eyes lit up and he turned around and said, "Brother, there is another girl in the car."
The scarred man looked at Li Ci, "Who is she?"
Li Ci glanced over coldly, "Can't you tell? I tied him up for fun."
"Bah!" The man with the flat head spat at him and cursed, "You bastard! You've ruined so many young girls. Today, I, your grandfather, will enforce justice on your behalf."
The flat-headed man looked at the girl inside and lowered his voice, "Don't be afraid, sister. I will avenge you today."
Lin Xicai's body was stretched into a straight line. She didn't care about revenge at the moment, and she had no mood to watch. She just hoped they would let her go.
The man with the flat head leaned over to look at her, and seemed to feel a little sympathy. He looked at the man with the scar, "Brother Pi, what should we do with this girl? Let her go?"
The scarred man glanced at Lin Xicai, then at Li Ci, and said coldly, "Take him away."
The veins on Li Ci's forehead jumped. A smile still hung on the corner of his lips, but his eyes were unprecedentedly cold. "Why bring her along? She's just a burden."
The scarred man stared at the thick black down jacket on Lin Xicai and smiled meaningfully: "No, maybe it would be more fun to bring her along."
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