Death in the face of death
“That’s impossible.” Xu Bo was stunned, his brain refusing to accept the statement. “I’ll apply again.”
"My intuition tells me he's not here." Yu Zou clutched the back of his neck, his fingers pressing hard on the protruding bone. Someone was taking Du Pianjian's place in jail here. "His plan?"
"I don't know." Xu Bo exhaled softly, his breath shallow and hurried. "It's possible that you won't tell me."
How many possibilities are there?
"A little bit."
Yu Zou smiled slightly. Actually, he'd had this feeling for a long time: Xu Bo seemed like a child, all grown up in a big way. As the two walked out of the prison gates, Yu Zou looked into the depths of the asphalt road. His heart ached, and the discomfort throughout his body intensified with time, urging him to reach the end of the road. He turned and walked to the driver's side door, but couldn't open it; the car was locked.
Xu Bo immediately responded, "I'll drive."
Yu Zou still gripped the handle and said, "I'm not feeling well because Du Pianjian isn't feeling well. He might be in danger, so we must find him as soon as possible."
Xu Bo stopped arguing and handed him the key.
Yu Zou cleared his mind, relying solely on his intuition to turn left and right at the forks in the road. The trees grew denser and more somber, watching the two drive deeper into the distance.
Startled birds took flight, and the pine trees reached their end. A sudden stop crushed the rotting pine needles, and the detached villa, enclosed by fine iron railings, stood silently, only its pointed roof visible piercing the gray sky.
Xu Bo put on his baseball cap and pulled the brim down: "Here?"
The marker sensor acts like a constantly plucked string, clearly pointing in that direction.
Everything he can do for Du Pianjian right now is wrong.
Hacking into the security system to view internal surveillance footage.
From dizziness to pain in the back of his neck, there was no time for him to hesitate about whether the method he used to save a life was right or wrong.
Besides, it was a piece of Du Fu's writing paper.
"Wait fifteen minutes."
Yu Zou turned on the light screen, entered his account and password, calculated the kilometers to determine the coordinates, and the map showed that this was a forest, with no houses marked.
It was a secret place, not to be seen by others, much like a prisoner's hideout.
A progress bar appeared on the screen; the higher the number, the slower the progress. When it reached the bottom, a black screen appeared. Yu Zou manually switched back, but the screen remained black.
All surveillance cameras have been compromised.
Once a person begins a sinful path and feels no pain, they will fall into endless depravity.
After illegally hacking in, he tried to illegally intrude again.
Yu Zou kept telling himself that the person who did these things was a criminal, and criminals have no human rights.
Xu Bo didn't understand these things and could only judge by Yu Zou's expression; the situation seemed to be not good.
Yu Zou licked his dry lips: "I can only disable the alarm system. There are people inside, but I can't see the specific situation."
"I'll go scout." Xu Bo immediately pushed open the door and went out, his figure quickly disappearing between the iron bars and bushes.
Yu Zou got out of the car. Unlike Xu Bo, he had neither a hat nor a mask. A peculiar belief in his mind prevented him from both wanting to and being able to cover his face as he was about to commit the following act. In other words, he secretly hoped for a just punishment to correct his twisted mind regarding the mistake he was about to make.
The neatly cut stone path leads to the black backdrop, and the vines on the iron railings are interspersed with fine electric fences.
Xu Bo appeared from the other side, standing next to Yu Zou, and recounted everything he had seen and heard. All around them was an endless pine forest, with no other passageways.
But for Xu Bo, this didn't bother him at all. He could also break through head-on.
Xu Bo put on his gloves, took a few steps back, and a sharp light flashed in his usually calm eyes, as if he were measuring with a ruler. He took a running start, pushed off the ground, touched the wall with his right foot, gripped the fence with his left hand, and his body was lifted up lightly, flipping over in an instant. When he landed, only a swirl of dust remained.
Looking at the nearly three-meter-high iron railing, Yu Zou instantly understood Tong Tangming's words.
The door was opened, leaving only enough space for one person to walk. Yu Zou could only see a black mask under the black brim of a hat. Xu Bo said, "You're behind me."
Contrary to expectations, no one swarmed in to fight to the death. The two seemed like eager guests, and the villa door was already ajar.
The red carpet on the ground was disheveled and covered in dust, its tattered and wrinkled body continuing to absorb the footsteps that trod upon it, swallowing all the pain and unspoken thoughts in the room.
A golden harp sat in the corner, its strings broken, the wind blowing through the window and across the strings, carrying a hollow murmur. An open bottle of red wine sat on the cabinet by the bedroom door, and a wine glass lay sprawled on the floor.
It seems like the place is deserted.
Yu Zou stopped at the door of the study, lowered the bracelet, and the Omega pheromones finally found their home, swirling and entering his body, forming an image in his mind that did not exist in his memory.
He slowly walked over, his palms heavily resting on the dark edge of the table, his knuckles drained of color from the force, his left hand gripping the back of the high-backed chair, his wrist straining as he slowly pulled outwards.
The chair legs scraped against the floor, making a slight sound, and came to a precise stop in one position.
Yu Zou did not sit down, but remained in this position, making it look as if someone was sitting in the chair, and the two were reading together.
On the open book on the table, a pencil heavily underlined the Spanish text, the force so great it pierced the back of the paper.
My clothes are clean, and my conscience is clear; that's enough.
There is unfamiliar handwriting nearby:
From dawn till daybreak, from daybreak to dusk. For you, I hope for sleep deprivation, excessive reading, a drained mind, and a loss of reason.
He had seen similar words before. On the bookshelf in Wangyuan, he had randomly picked up a book to pass the time. There were many similar handwritings on it. Before he could figure out what those crooked words meant, Du Pianjian came over, took the book from his hand, and carefully put it back on the bookshelf, saying that these books were his father's treasures and no one was allowed to touch them.
Yu Zou didn't know why he suddenly remembered this, and he uncontrollably fell into memories. He didn't notice Xu Bo walking in behind him, taking a book off the shelf, turning the pages precisely, and looking serious.
"Yu Zou." Xu Bo put the book back untouched. "Look."
Following Xu Bo's direction, Yu Zou scanned the bookshelf. The spines of the books were only two colors, light and dark, which he subconsciously converted into binary code in his mind.
LUO
"Luo?" Luo Zangrui? Yu Zou frowned and asked, "Why does Du Pianjian insist on getting involved with Luo Zangrui?"
"He always wanted the complete list of people. He said he wouldn't let any of them slip by."
"Call the police. You wait here and explain the situation to the police station. I'll go find him."
"where you go?"
"I don't know, but I will find him."
The clock hand points to 6:20 PM.
While the minute and hour hands were not exchanging positions, Du Pianjian sat quietly on the bed, her elbows resting on her knees, the glucose dripping from the IV drip bottle very slowly.
The table had been moved, and the bloodstains on the floor only smelled of blood; even if he didn't look at them, he still felt disgusted.
I feel nauseous.
The three betas outside looked at each other, none of them daring to rush forward, focusing only on rescuing their companion who had broken his leg on the ground.
Du Pianjian forced herself to stay awake, watching them intently as she swiftly pulled the needle from the back of her hand and held it tightly. The nurse, who had returned, quietly slipped her hand into her uniform pocket. A flash of cold light appeared between her fingers, and a pre-filled anesthetic syringe slid into her palm like a fish. The anesthetic wipe tucked between her left fingers was precisely placed over the mouth and nose of the doctor beside her; the doctor's terrified eyes widened instantly, then became empty.
She walked towards Du Pianjian, wearing a mask, her eyes unfocused, holding a projector in her hands, standing a meter away from the foot of the bed.
An elderly man appeared between the two, his monocle gleaming with a cloudy light. After looking them up and down, he said, "Go with her!"
Kong Jiaoheng.
Du Pianjian frowned and remained silent and still, his finger tendons trembling slightly from the exertion.
“If you don’t leave now, you will soon become Luo Zangrui’s plaything, and your fate will be a thousand times worse than that of the sanatorium.”
Du Pianjian expressed his disdain with a sneer.
"If I hadn't been protecting you all this time, you would have been raped back in the sanatorium, and you would have been involved in all those experiments! Go with her now!"
Du Pianjian tore off the title page of a book from the bedside table and casually drew nine people on it. Four on top and five on the bottom. He pointed to the second one from the left in the bottom row, then moved the pen to the first one from the right in the top row.
Kong Jiaoheng's expression changed, his eyes behind his glasses becoming sharp as thorns. After ten seconds of silence, he asked hesitantly, "How did you know?"
"Does that matter?" The paper slipped from his fingers and fell to the ground. "You leaked Mom's pheromones to Luo Zangqi, causing her tragic death and making me suffer, and you still have the nerve to say these things? Save me? Why didn't you save me before I was marked?!"
"You still dare to say that? Which lowly thing marked you? You should be matched with a more powerful Alpha, why aren't you with A11101?"
"dislike."
Kong Jiaoheng clenched his jaw, which was particularly noticeable on his loose skin.
"You're angry that Mom chose Dad, aren't you? She picked and chose, and in the end, she chose someone who has absolutely no pheromones." Du Pianjian's words were venomous, as if she wanted to be even more venomous. "How can you comfort yourself that she didn't choose you because your level was too low?"
“She’s wasting her talent! And you’re wasting yours!” Kong Jiaoheng gritted his teeth, coughing incessantly. “Du Junchang, he can’t influence the True Scripture, he’s nothing! That’s why you look like this. If she were with a highly compatible Alpha, if you were Luo Zangqi’s son, you would be much stronger and more beautiful.”
"Those are her things and mine, it has nothing to do with you!"
"To burn out in a dark corner for some insignificant person? You'd be better off with a candle! Foolish! Utterly foolish!"
"Waste is the privilege of the owner, something you can never attain in your lifetime."
Kong Jiaoheng's figure broke off, and the signal became abnormal.
A gunshot rang out, and the nurse fell into a pool of blood.
The gun was pointed downwards, waving at Du Pianjian's head.
Du Pianjian got out of bed and walked unsteadily to the muzzle of the gun. Looking at the gauze around Du Pianjian's neck, Luo Zangrui smiled happily: "Very good, very obedient."
The tires screeched on the muddy country road, and the vehicle lurched onto a side road, leaving the distant sirens behind.
Tree branches scraped against the car body, threatening to penetrate the glass and scratch people's faces.
Du Pianjian's face turned deathly pale, and he felt dizzy, gripping the handrail tightly.
Luo Zangrui's bloodshot eyes stared intently through the car window at the only bright spot on the hilltop ahead against the gray sky—a rural church with a pointed roof and a faint candlelight.
"We're here."
His parched lips uttered hoarse murmurs as he floored the accelerator. Like a wild beast out of control, the car crashed through the low wooden fence of the church and came to a stop beside the silent cemetery.
With the gun pressed against Du Pianjian's lower back, the two arrived at the only tombstone.
On the tombstone
Luo Zangrui said, "True Scripture, I have come to see you. This is the last time I will see you."
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