Through the rain, the sounds of fighting could be faintly heard. Cheng Shuang, her face frosty, hid by the window, patting a healing talisman on herself while looking down.
A light rain fell, and the bloodstains on the ground were swallowed up by the rain, soon masking the strong smell of blood.
Those who had been secretly spying on Qianli's movements engaged in fierce combat. The light from their different weapons flashed in the darkness, displaying a dazzling array of colors. In the distance, the faint sound of alarm sirens could be heard. The number of people lying in pools of blood increased from one to many.
The murky water is getting muddier and muddier.
Her eyes flickered slightly; now was the best time to leave.
Cheng Shuang didn't want to waste time getting entangled with these people. She wanted to kill Qing Lang with her own hands before the gates of hell opened, as she had promised Sister Juan!
The little girl quickly went up to the top floor, intending to fly away from there. However, two figures came running from around the corner. She cautiously hid behind the corner of the wall and saw that they were Qianli and Dujun, who looked anxious.
She popped her head out, immediately stopping the two in their tracks. Then she pointed directly to the rooftop, and the three of them immediately went up to the roof.
This private hospital only had four floors. Cheng Shuang's black tracksuit blended almost seamlessly into the night, diminishing her presence and thus preventing her from being easily spotted by the maintenance workers who were blocking the area around the building.
Du Jun looked at the little girl in the rain and was stunned. Her face was pale. Although she was not injured at all, she still gave people the impression that she was so weak that she might collapse at any moment.
Recalling the heavy smell of blood when she passed by Qianli's hospital room, Du Jun's lips tightened, and her eyes darkened slightly. Not killing was originally the bottom line for the young girl, but now, she was forced to take action...
A pang of tenderness rose in his heart. He was about to speak when he saw Cheng Shuang turn her head sharply and look downstairs.
"Everyone's dead?" A soft, sweet voice, tinged with the chill of the rain, rang out as the little girl gave a chilling laugh. "Human life is so cheap!"
Senri noticed that something was clearly wrong with his friend and wanted to rush over, but was stopped by the person next to him. "Ryusuke-nii?" Because of a magical medicine, his injury was healed, and his impression of Kawakami Ryusuke naturally improved. In addition, Ryusuke's expression changed drastically when he heard that Yuko was in trouble, which made him feel even more that he saw through Ryusuke's true feelings beneath his awkwardness.
Compared to that fake guy, Ryusuke's expression was genuine.
To Qianli's surprise, although Ryusuke, whom he thought was genuinely affectionate, stopped him, he hugged his friend instead. Looking at the brother and sister in the rain, Qianli felt that the feelings he had just developed for Ryusuke had completely collapsed...
Hu stroked the little girl's wet head, and Du Jun softened his voice for the first time ever, "Baby, it's okay to cry, your big brother is here!"
Cheng Shuang buried her face in the chest and stomach of her older brother, and mumbled, "I don't want to cry!" In the warm embrace, the feeling of unease and uncertainty immediately dissipated, and her dark and twisted mood turned from gloomy to sunny. Thinking about her previous behavior, she pushed her older brother away uncomfortably and muttered, "I'm not a crybaby!"
“It’s okay!” Du Jun stepped aside. He was also saddened by Liu Juan’s death, but compared to Cheng Shuang, who treated Liu Juan as family, his sadness was insignificant.
"I will find a way to save Sister Juan! There will always be a way. If it doesn't work right away, we can wait. Anyway, I'm still young!" The little girl wiped her face and shook off the water droplets on her hands. This shake seemed to shake off the daze of the past few days, as if she had come back to life.
“Together.” Du Jun smiled gently.
The chaos was caused by eight maintainers at five different rest stops. None of the station chiefs took the lead, and the surrounding residents had been woken up long ago but were too worried to go out. Now that the police have arrived to collect evidence, investigate, and provide rescue, these residents have become the best witnesses.
A crowd gathered around the hospital, pointing and whispering, including reporters who had rushed to the scene. The once quiet street was now bustling with noise.
The bodies that were carried away were rarely intact, and the police had rarely witnessed such a brutal fight. This serious and heinous incident has received attention from all sides.
"So what if the stationmaster doesn't show up!" A handsome blond-haired, blue-eyed foreigner walked up from the rooftop entrance and spoke in a clear voice. Of course, it was impossible to distinguish between a foreigner and a local from his accent.
Cheng Shuang looked over warily, then flipped her wrist, revealing a weapon card between her fingertips: "Maintainer?"
The blond, blue-eyed man lifted his top hat and chuckled, “In modern society, any contact inevitably leaves a trace. With the help of the police, if we put our minds to it, it won’t be hard to find where the station chiefs of those five rest stops are hiding.”
He looked at Cheng Shuang and said seriously, "If you want to kill, you must be prepared to be killed. Those who take the initiative to kill deserve to die. In this kind of world, don't set a bottom line for yourself that you won't kill; that's just making things difficult for yourself."
Cheng Shuang: "Uncle Hai?"
Sihai nodded. He was not as familiar with Liu Juan as he was with Cheng Shuang and the Du brothers, but he had also experienced the pain of losing a trusted companion. Therefore, he was very worried about the girl's ability to cope.
"Bao'er, are you alright?" Sihai asked.
Cheng Shuang did not answer. After a long while, she said bitterly, "I am too young and have poor self-control. What if I indulge myself... It is not terrible to stop killing with killing, but to think that killing can solve everything."
Sihai suddenly laughed, "Since you've already come to this realization, I don't need to worry anymore!"
Qianli, who hadn't had a chance to speak yet, scratched his head as if he understood, "Shouldn't we be discussing how to leave now?"
"Silly child, you don't need to leave!" Sihai rubbed the boy's head. He had been lying in wait at the hospital, and it was he who secretly stirred up the conflict between the eight protectors. If someone hadn't sneaked into the hospital and tried to threaten Cheng Shuang with Qianli, he wouldn't have taken the initiative to resolve the trouble.
"Oh right!" Qianli slapped his forehead. "I was already in the hospital! It would be harder to explain if I left."
"Okay, just say you were woken up by noise and got scared when you heard someone running upstairs, so you ran to the rooftop."
This gives you an excuse for the damage to the doors and windows; feigning ignorance is the best response.
Moreover, after what happened today, no one will likely focus their attention on Qianli for the foreseeable future. After all, the gates of hell are about to open, and no one knows what the situation will be like. No one can afford to suffer any losses.
July 15th is the grand Ghost Festival in R country, a day when the gates of hell are said to open wide, attracting a large influx of foreign tourists. Similar to China's Ghost Festival in August and Europe's Halloween, it is popular with people all over the world.
Once the overseas maintainers arrive, the hostile site administrators in the vicinity will likely be too busy to care about anything else.
Cheng Shuang took Du Jun and Si Hai back to the Saeki family home. She had been staying in the haunted house for the past few days, which was close to the private hospital, so she could keep an eye on the Akasaka family for any danger.
Recently, the private hospital has received many patients who have fainted due to heatstroke. Because they are children, the nearby residents are not on guard, which has allowed her to find out a lot of information.
If a person suffering from heatstroke wakes up on Ghost Festival, they will be free from worries for the rest of their life.
If they still don't open their eyes after the Ghost Festival, you can basically give up on treatment.
It must be said that the Ghost Festival is definitely an opportunity. On that day, based on the experience of the protectors, they will not let go of this world-renowned spectacle.
This is also why Cheng Shuang is not in a hurry to seek revenge on Qing Lang.
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