142 The City of Chaos (6)
A terrible self-introduction
"OK……"
The driver spoke in a hoarse voice, his eyes fixed on Qin Fu'an, while his hand, covered in moss and weeds, reached for the air conditioning button.
The next second, Xie Yunhuai found that a layer of foul-smelling, damp vapor seemed to be gradually spreading under his feet.
His hand, which was being held by Qin Fu'an, suddenly trembled.
"Don't be afraid." Qin Fu'an gripped his cold fingers tightly.
Then, as if she hadn't noticed anything, she continued chatting casually with the driver: "Sir, do you often drive this road?"
The driver's hoarse voice was like a cassette tape recorder, taking a long time to produce a single hoarse syllable, as if he hadn't spoken in a long time.
Qin Fu'an looked at the scenery rushing past the window and calmly said, "Then you must know where the river is on this road, right? How did you fall into the river? Was it drunk driving or driving while fatigued? It should be driving while fatigued, right? After all, how could a normal person still have such dark circles under their eyes after being dead for so long? Do you think my guess is accurate?"
This time, the driver didn't reply to him even once.
With just a push of the foot, the car took off in an instant.
Xie Yunhuai realized that the driver, after being exposed, was rushing towards the place of death with the intention of taking them with him to their deaths.
But this meant they didn't even have a chance to jump off the train.
If you jump off a vehicle traveling at such a high speed, you'll be severely injured, if not killed.
But once the driver gets into that river, as a supernatural entity, it can exert even greater power; perhaps that river is its domain of supernatural influence!
Xie Yunhuai was at a loss and could only cast anxious and worried glances at the person beside him.
For some reason, he just felt that the other party must have a way to solve the current predicament.
Just like... just like when I took his hand and led him out of the darkness.
"Master, do you still have a wife, daughters, and family members alive?" Qin Fu'an asked slowly, as if he had no idea where he was about to be taken.
But his questions were always so sharp, so sharp that Xie Yunhuai's body lurched forward with the sudden stop, and then crashed hard into a warm hand.
Qin Fu'an pressed his forehead against his and straightened him up, then shook his numb hand before finally managing to look at the bewildered driver.
"Don't you remember?" Qin Fu'an asked with a smile, guiding the conversation word by word: "If it weren't for earning money to support your family, why did you drive while fatigued and have an accident late at night? If so, after you died and were trapped here, didn't you really see your family crying and grieving for you?"
"Perhaps it's your parents? They are getting old after all, and it's always sad to see the elderly outlive their children."
"It could also be your wife. You met, fell in love, and finally formed a family, but suddenly lost your other half. She probably spends the rest of her life in remembrance."
"Of course, I suppose you probably had children too, um... let me guess, a lovely and beautiful daughter, right? How long have you been dead? Perhaps she's already of school age, and I wonder what she'll be like in school, writing essays on topics like 'My Father'—"
"Shut up!!" The driver suddenly turned and glared at him, his eyes bloodshot.
Under its almost predatory gaze, Qin Fu'an obediently shut his mouth. After a moment, he raised a harmless smile and said in the gentlest voice, word by word, "Perhaps, your parents, wife, daughter... someone died in your car? Those who survived, the grief they endured was not simply doubled, was it?"
As the driver's increasingly menacing death stare grew, Qin Fu'an, holding Xiao Yunduo's cold fingers, suddenly laughed and said, "In the Chaotic City, everyone fears the approach of strange creatures. You are fortunate enough to become one, yet instead of thinking of protecting your living relatives, you have become an accomplice in harming even more loved ones. If your relatives knew, they might regret the tears they shed for you."
"Who knows, among the people you've killed, might be your parents' old friends, your wife's friends, or your daughter's classmates and relatives?"
driver:"……"
Xie Yunhuai: "..."
The audience: "…………"
That hurts.
That's so heartbreaking.
With such a silver tongue, are you really courting death?
How could someone use such a gentle and light tone to say such terrifying and deadly things?
Was he really speaking human language, or was he spitting out a venomous snake's tongue?
Not to mention the driver, whose pupils dilated and who stood frozen in place, even the audience, as bystanders, were chilled by Qin Fu'an's words. Just thinking about that possibility... made them feel like they should die right away, the kind of death that never comes back to life.
Xie Yunhuai glanced cautiously at the driver's expression, then quickly looked away.
Although the driver looked ten times more terrifying than before, he inexplicably couldn't feel any fear anymore, and felt... the other person looked so pitiful.
It's truly tragic. He had elderly parents to care for, young children to raise, and a wife in the middle. One of them died with him, but he came back to life as a monster and started harming other people's elderly, children, wives, and husbands...
Xie Yunhuai kept his eyes down and tried his best not to mentally criticize the driver.
Qin Fu'an tapped the back of the driver's seat with his finger, tilted his head and smiled very kindly at the other person, and said in a gentle voice: "Master, let's go to the address we just went to. I'll trouble you to make one last trip. You can go and reunite with your family after get off work."
driver:"……"
It silently suppressed its fierce expression, turned around, restarted the car, and steadily drove in the opposite direction.
After the water-soaked car came to a stop, Qin Fu'an and Xie Yunhuai got out.
Qin Fu'an even paid the money out of humanitarian considerations.
The driver looked gloomy and wanted to refuse, but he stopped him from saying "Take some fruit and gifts home to visit."
After the car disappeared into the darkness, Xie Yunhuai felt a sense of lingering fear and relief at having survived the ordeal.
Having experienced two strange encounters tonight, his body was already exhausted, and he was only holding on by sheer willpower.
He looked at the man in front of him, his curiosity finally overcoming his apprehension, and asked in a low voice, "How do you know about his family situation?"
And that's exactly what the audience wants to know.
Why was Qin Fu'an still at the hotel before going to sleep, but then suddenly appeared in front of Xiao Yunduo when he went live again? How did he meet Xiao Yunduo? Did he sneak out in the middle of the night to have an affair?
Of course, what we want to know most now is why Qin Fu'an was able to pinpoint the driver's family situation so quickly.
Could it be that all of them who are monsters are so good at divination?
Monsters certainly can't predict the future, and Qin Fu'an certainly can't.
Meeting the curious gaze of the little cloud, he first pondered mysteriously for a moment before shaking his head and explaining with a smile, "I figured it out."
You could tell?
Xie Yunhuai was even more puzzled, and his expectant expression with wide eyes became even more adorable.
Qin Fu'an couldn't help but raise his hand to ruffle his hair before casually saying, "That driver isn't very old, around thirty years old. At that age, unless it's an accident, he probably wouldn't have lost both his parents."
“A man in his thirties is at the age when he should be settling down and starting a family. At the very least, there were women’s items in his car. We also had a child’s vest in the back seat and children’s stickers on the front passenger seat. So he probably has a wife and daughter. It’s not hard to guess.”
"As for the guess that someone died with him, it's quite simple. There are visible cracks in the passenger side window, indicating that it was knocked on. If there was no one in the passenger side, he would have knocked on the driver's side window at most. But it's clear that the cracks in the passenger side window are more numerous and larger than those in the driver's side window, which means that the person sitting in his car at the time must have been a close relative whom he risked his life to ensure the other person's escape."
"Of course, it doesn't matter if you guess wrong. At worst, he'll just drag you into the river. Isn't the result the same if you don't guess? It won't be any worse than the original result."
The audience at Xie Yunhuai River fell silent after hearing his words.
...In that situation, who would bother to observe what's inside the car or analyze the driver's family situation?
He moved his lips, wanting to thank Qin Fu'an, but when he looked up, he met those bright, beautiful green eyes...
Too close.
But for some inexplicable reason, he didn't back down.
So, as if tacitly agreeing, the person in front of me took advantage of me again with a smile in their eyes.
"My name is Qin Fu'an."
A familiar and pleasant voice, warm and gentle, reached his ears and slowly said to him, "Qin of the Qin Dynasty, Fu of punishing evil and eliminating wickedness, and An of peace and tranquility."
"..." A terrible self-introduction.
Xie Yunhuai pursed his lips, took a step back, and belatedly realized that his hand was still being held by the other party, so he pulled it away with a little force.
He didn't leave, but stood there and muttered his name: "Xie Yunhuai".
"I know."
Qin Fu'an smiled and her eyes crinkled as she spoke for him, "Thank you for saving my Xie, Qin Fu'an, as in 'Little Cloud,' and as in 'Huai,' you don't want to talk to me anymore, right?"
Xie Yunhuai: "..."
He was really angry.
Suppressing the urge to punch this person, Xie Yunhuai turned and left with a cold face.
He's just staying a little longer than necessary.
Qin Fu'an watched him stride into the building with a gentle smile. He had already sensed the building with his spiritual energy and found that there were no powerful monsters hidden inside.
After Xie Yunhuai disappeared, Qin Fu'an blocked the live broadcast room he had specially brought, and his figure slowly disappeared from the spot.
After his figure disappeared, the boy's slender figure slowly emerged from the darkness, staring blankly at the spot where he had just stood. After a long while, his brow furrowed slightly.
Is it a human or a monster?
If he really is a monster...
Xie Yunhuai didn't know why his mind was in such a mess, but he knew that the other party had saved him twice, which meant that the other party's abilities were definitely not to be underestimated.
So, will we meet again?
Can those beautiful, clear green eyes still reflect her image with a smile?
Xie Yunhuai closed his eyes, clearing away the chaotic thoughts in his mind, and slowly walked back into the darkness with weak hands and feet.
No matter how chaotic the world is, as long as tomorrow isn't the end of the world, we still have to go to work and live our lives.
So even though he faced two life-or-death crises tonight, all Xie Yunhuai can do now is get some rest and sleep, and then go back to the company tomorrow to work like a slave for his boss.
Interns who haven't been officially hired yet are like this, and even if they are hired, things won't be much better.
unless……
Xie Yunhuai closed the door and reached into his pocket, revealing something that Qin Fu'an had somehow slipped into his pocket again.
It's that containment badge.
Unless he also becomes a containment agent.
However, his strength was far too weak compared to Qin Fu'an's.
Holding the badge again, Xie Yunhuai carefully placed it in the bedside table drawer before going to wash up and go to sleep.
[Author's Note]
Ahhhh, I'm done writing! Now I'm going to stay up all night to write another book! I often feel like a spinning top~
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