Real-world emotional manipulation
There was a faint smell of blood in the air. Liu Xia had not expected that emotional manipulation would be so useful. This was the first time she had actively used this ability.
What she didn't expect was that this ability could be used in the real world. Could it be that the ability she gained in the wasteland world could be brought out?
"Xiao Xia..."
A weak voice calling to his ears made Liu Xia's heart tighten, and he quickly ran towards the sound.
In a dark and damp corner, Bai Fei was found, still as soft as if she had no bones. Her body was soft, as if all the bones in her body had been pulled out.
"Don't be afraid, Feifei..." Liu Xia reached out to help, but found the skin her palm touched was icy cold. It was obvious that Bai Fei had been lying on the cold concrete floor since she was tied here. "I'll take you out..."
"Bang!"
Sudden gunshots rang out again in the empty unfinished building. Liu Xia stopped talking abruptly. She turned her head suddenly and saw a flash of clarity in Chen Mingyuan's distracted eyes. He actually took the opportunity to point the gun at her, with wisps of green smoke coming out of the muzzle.
The bullet grazed Liu Xia's shoulder, and a burning pain spread instantly.
"Xiao Xia, you're bleeding..." Bai Fei watched a trail of blood sliding down Liu Xia's shoulder, her weak voice full of fear and worry. She wanted to reach out her hand but because she was too weak all over, she could only grab Liu Xia's hand.
Liu Xia's eyes suddenly turned cold, and there seemed to be frost in his voice: "Chen Mingyuan, it seems that I am too kind."
She stared at Chen Mingyuan's pupils, which had just regained a bit of clarity before blurring out again, and ordered word by word, "Now, point the gun at your temples."
"Don't let Xiao Xia go!" This command made Bai Fei, who was still worried about Liu Xia's injury, tremble all over. She struggled to stand up: "Is that Doctor Chen? Don't do this, I'm scared. This is murder!"
But Bai Fei's weak body made her only able to hold Liu Xia's hand tightly in vain, trying to stop her from doing anything stupid. She watched helplessly as Chen Mingyuan in the distance slowly raised his trembling hand and put the muzzle of the gun against her temple.
"It's okay, Feifei. Doctor Chen is just trash."
Liu Xia lowered her head and smiled at Bai Fei, who looked nervous. Her tense state made her expression twitch unnaturally. "As long as the garbage is recycled, it will be fine. There is a bigger piece of garbage. I will find it and recycle it together. Then no one will come to disturb our lives anymore."
Liu Xia's somewhat neurotic expression and words frightened Bai Fei. Bai Fei, who had regained some mobility, tried to sit up and grabbed Liu Xia's arm with all his strength and shook it.
"Xiao Xia... look at me..." Her voice was weak but firm, tinged with tears. "You've already taken the kidnapper under control. We just need to call the police and wait for them to arrest him. This is a society ruled by law. Don't lose your mind..."
Liu Xia's breathing suddenly stagnated, and she looked at Bai Fei in a daze.
The gun in Chen Mingyuan's hand fell to the ground with a clang. He knelt on the ground in a daze, gasping for breath as if he had just woken up from a dream.
In this split second, the cement blocks on the roof suddenly exploded with a loud bang, and the concrete poured down like a rainstorm, directly hitting Liu Xia's position.
"Be careful!" Liu Xia hugged Bai Fei and rolled on the ground, barely avoiding the attack. Her nerves were tense again, and she looked at the crack on the roof.
The huge floor slab hit the ground, raising a cloud of thick dust. Tu Wu, whose head had been smashed, was instantly smashed into a pool of flesh.
Liu Xia caught a glimpse of three people in camouflage uniforms rappelling down a tightrope. The leading man had a small blue badge on his chest, but the pattern on it was something she had never seen before; it looked like a whale.
"Blue Badge... you finally showed up!" Liu Xia gritted his teeth and spat out the word, protecting Bai Fei as he ran to the back of a bunker. "Fei Fei, hurry down the stairs and call the police immediately. I'll hold them back!"
Liu Xia thought very clearly that as long as he could delay for a while, there was a police station a few kilometers away from this location, and the police would arrive soon, and then these people would definitely retreat.
"Prioritize target recovery and eliminate all witnesses."
As expected, the captain was very urgent when giving the action order. The mechanical synthesized sound echoed coldly in the building. The weapon in his hand seemed to be equipped with a silencer, and he killed Chen Mingyuan silently in an instant before he recovered.
The Ultraman mask on Chen Mingyuan's face was shattered by a bullet, and plastic fragments fell from his face, revealing a stunned expression inside the mask. He died in the same way as Tu Wu, and he didn't know who killed him until his death.
The wound on his shoulder has healed. Although the recovery speed is not as fast as in the wasteland world, it is also the reason why Liu Xia dares to delay the three fully armed enemies.
In order to give Bai Fei some time to escape and call the police, Liu Xia jumped out of the cover at the risk of being shot to attract fire, and crouched on the ground and moved quickly to the pistol that Chen Mingyuan had dropped.
Just as his fingers felt a hint of coldness, accompanied by an almost inaudible sound of breaking through the air, he felt a sudden pain in his calf and almost fell off his feet. In this position, he rolled behind a stone pillar.
"No need to struggle. I've blocked the signal in the entire building."
The captain's gun was covered in smoke. He looked at Liu Xia's hiding place and sneered, "Your friend can't escape, and the police won't be coming to rescue you anytime soon. Handing over the 'Brain Source Code' is your only way out."
The other party's words made Liu Xia's mood, which had just calmed down a little, become a little anxious again. Blood slowly flowed down his calf, and the sticky blood slowly accumulated on the ground to form a small blood puddle.
The bullet embedded in her calf muscle was squeezed out of her body. Cold sweat slid down her temples, leaving a clear mark on her dusty face. She gasped involuntarily due to the pain.
"Who are you?"
Liu Xia checked the weapon he had obtained. It was a homemade pistol. He might have a chance of winning if he confronted an ordinary unarmed person, but in terms of lethality, he could not compare to the three people opposite him. He could only try to negotiate.
"If I give you the source code, can you let us go?"
The captain's laughter carried a hint of toying with the other party: "If your parents had been more sensible, perhaps so many troubles wouldn't have happened."
"What do you mean?" Liu Xia's nervous nerves tightened even more at these words. She suddenly stood up and walked out of the shelter, staring at the man's face, which was covered in a dark mask and only revealed his eyes. She angrily asked, "Are you responsible for my parents' deaths?!"
Three red dots fell on Liu Xia's body. Even the captain did not expect that this sickly-looking woman would suddenly be so brave and expose herself to the attack range.
"Your parents' death has nothing to do with us. We just didn't reach an agreement on the business."
The captain felt a little regretful for his outspokenness and began to suspect that Liu Xia did not have what they wanted, which was why he was so confident. He waved his hand to signal everyone not to shoot.
"I can make the decision. Just hand over the source code to me, and the 10 million yuan in royalties I promised your parents will be deposited into your card intact. No one will bother you anymore. How about that?"
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