This is a dead forest, with hardly any living plants.
Lin Yiran leaned against a big tree. The effects of the anesthesia hadn't worn off yet, but she could already move her wrist. She quietly picked out one of the many scalpel blades the man had treasured, held it in her hand, and waited for him to approach.
The man's face was filled with excitement, like the behavior of someone addicted to something, as if he had been parasitized.
He approached Lin Yiran with a wicked grin, completely unprepared.
Lin Yiran waited for him to get closer, and then when the man was about an arm's length away from her, she suddenly turned to the side and lay down. Using the momentum, she slashed the man's neck with the blade in her hand, and blood spurted out with a "plop," which was impossible to stop.
Before the man could speak, he clutched his neck and collapsed.
His eyes were wide open, as if questioning Lin Yiran about why she had woken up.
But now is not the time to get entangled with them. Lin Yiran's strength has not yet recovered, and she still feels a little weak when she moves around. She needs to find a place to hide quickly.
Lin Yiran hurriedly grabbed the tree and tried to run in another direction, but the surrounding trees were all dead, so the fallen branches were very brittle, and each step made a 'crunch' sound.
Oh no.
Without thinking twice, Lin Yiran quickly took off running in one direction.
The two men behind him, who had been urinating, seemed to have heard something and turned around, calling out, "Third brother?"
No one answered, and they felt a chill run down their spines, knowing roughly what had happened.
As I ran over, I did see the third brother lying on the ground, lifeless. Then I saw Lin Yiran running ahead, looking very weak.
"Chase them!" one of them said.
Another person disagreed: "Why bother chasing? Just use your mental energy!" As he spoke, he released his mental energy, which formed the shape of a hand and reached out towards Lin Yiran's location.
Lin Yiran: "System, block this for me!"
System 101: "Okay!"
Then the man heard a "clang," and his mental energy seemed to be blocked by a wall. Intrigued, he looked at Lin Yiran with excitement in his eyes: "Third Brother was right! This little girl has some skills; she really does have a secret!"
"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and chase after her! Don't let her get away."
"Run? She can't escape. With those tiny, quick steps, why would she need to run?" With that, he jumped a few steps, blocking Lin Yiran's path.
Lin Yiran turned around and prepared to run in another direction, but then that person suddenly appeared opposite her.
The two were incredibly fast.
With Lin Yiran's current physical strength, she is no match for them at all.
Lin Yiran's heart tightened.
I'm a little worried.
In her current state, even if the system seals their mental power, it won't help, because the two of them are obviously battle-hardened mercenaries with considerable combat skills. Dealing with Lin Yiran now would be more than enough for them; they could crush her with a single finger!
Lin Yiran kept backing away, and back again...
*
At the Sky Tower, all the construction workers Jin Shuo had found had arrived, and they were just waiting for Lin Yiran to come so they could start work. But at this crucial moment, they couldn't get in touch with Lin Yiran at all.
Jin Shuo sat on the newly moved stool in the restaurant, getting impatient, so he simply threw down the sunflower seeds in his hand and contacted Lin Fu.
Lin Fu should be in the store at this moment.
"Where's your boss?" Jin Shuo asked impatiently as soon as the call connected.
Lin Fu was completely bewildered by his question: "I didn't see her. Didn't she go to your place? I didn't see her this morning. I thought she had left a long time ago or that she didn't come back at all last night. I was the one who opened the shop this morning."
Jin Shuo realized something was wrong, so he told him to go upstairs to look for him.
Lin Fu: "I just went upstairs, there's only one man lying there, the boss's room is empty."
Jin Shuo: "Okay, I understand. You go ahead with your work, leave the rest to me."
Then Jin Shuo contacted a few more people and asked them to retrieve the CCTV footage from near Lin Yiran's house last night.
It was confirmed that Lin Yiran had returned home last night. Then, at 3 a.m., three men disguised themselves and climbed into Lin Yiran's house through a second-floor window. They then left in the same manner with a human-shaped package.
The last time, it disappeared at the edge of the Forest of Hope.
Once inside the Forest of Hope, it's a place beyond the reach of the Sky Eye surveillance system, and nobody knows where Lin Yiran is.
After thinking for a moment, Jin Shuo dialed Zhou Ye's video call. He had to call three times before Zhou Ye answered, which infuriated him.
"Hello? Zhou Ye? Lin Yiran has gone missing. Do you have any way of finding out her current location?"
Zhou Ye: "What?"
Jin Shuo: "I said... Lin Yiran is missing! You... beep beep beep"
Zhou Ye hung up the phone before he could finish speaking, and then Jin Shuo received a message: "Take a few people and meet up at the edge of the Forest of Hope."
He was arranged in a very clear and straightforward manner.
Forget it, saving lives is the priority, so I won't argue with him.
When Jin Shuo arrived at the Forest of Hope, he saw that Zhou Ye had already arrived, holding a device in his hand as if searching for some signal.
He leaned closer to take a look and asked, "What is this?"
Zhou Ye replied to him with a rare compliment: "The locator can determine Lin Yiran's location by searching for her starcomputer model."
It's a good product, but Jin Shuo has one question: "There are many of the same model of Star Brain, and there are so many mercenaries in this Forest of Hope, how can you be so sure that you can find Lin Yiran?"
Zhou Ye glanced at him as if he were an idiot: "Her star brain is the oldest model. There are no more than ten people in our interstellar space using this kind of star brain that is about to be phased out."
Jin Shuo was stunned by Zhou Ye's words, seemingly not quite understanding what he was saying. When he looked up again, he saw that Zhou Ye had already gone inside, so he followed him in.
She kept complaining as she walked: "Seriously, how can a big boss like her be so stingy as to use a StarBrain that's about to be obsolete? What's she thinking? Her thought process is so different from everyone else's."
"You're so stingy! If you don't have money, just say so! I'll give her one, or even have one custom-made for her. We're business partners, and we have such a good relationship. Besides, it won't cost much, less than a fifth of her daily revenue. She could easily buy ten or eight of them, okay?"
"What were you thinking?"
"No, I have to have a serious talk with her when I get back. We can't be this frugal. Life is about experiencing things; what's the point of living so stingily?"
He kept chattering away the whole way.
Zhou Ye wished he could plug his ears.
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