Chapter 73
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Lou Yan was collecting information when suddenly his eyelid twitched.
He touched his right eyelid, forgetting whether a twitching eyelid was good or bad, so he looked it up online. The internet said, “Left eye twitching brings wealth, right eye twitching brings disaster.”
Lou Yan sneered suddenly, clicked the X, “This is just a normal physiological condition due to lack of rest. What nonsense about wealth and disaster, superstitious nonsense.”
As the evening approached, Lou Yan stood up to stretch and walked to the window to look outside. He saw the city lights shining brightly like fallen stars all over the city.
But upon closer inspection, he realized that there were fewer lights in Chengjiang City at night than a month ago. When no one was paying attention, many homeowners had already been swallowed by darkness, and their lights had no chance to shine again.
Lou Yan looked at the night in Chengjiang City and thought of the silent city he had been trapped in in his past life.
In the mid to late stages of the monster’s resurgence, no humans dared to light up their lights at night. Once it got dark, everyone would hide in their homes, trying their best not to make any noise, to avoid attracting various terrifying anomalies.
Although the night now still seemed peaceful with lights, Lou Yan knew that every day there were fewer lights than the day before. Terror was already raging and growing in the dark, and every day, people died at the hands of the anomaly. Perhaps at this moment, someone was struggling and dying miserably in a corner of this city…
Lou Yan stood tall by the window, his eyes lowered, his face expressionless.
All the pain, contemplation, torment, and despair had already been felt by him in his past life. He had often wondered why anomalies appeared, why it had to be his world. Countless times, he had sunk into negative emotions while looking at the desolate and silent city and the dry and dark blood on the streets… But no matter how much he thought, he still had to face reality. It wouldn’t shift because of one person’s painful thoughts.
In this life, Lou Yan had already prepared to face the bizarre world again. His belief would not waver due to such scenes, leading to a loss of hope and feeling powerless like sinking in a quagmire. His only feeling was an even more determined desire to kill all the anomalies.
Time passed second by second, and Lou Yan glanced at his phone, it was almost 11 PM.
Everyone had returned to their rooms to sleep, and half an hour ago, he could still hear them talking. Now, there was no sound, only occasional creaks from the beds and snoring.
Lou Yan also returned to his room from the study.
Throughout the day, although Lou Yan was looking forward to Fu Xuezhou’s reaction when he saw the photo, he also secretly raised his vigilance.
He hadn’t forgotten Fu Xuezhou’s threat to him. Given Fu Xuezhou’s temper, he would definitely do something after seeing the ambiguous photo of him and Wen Jiu. However, Lou Yan didn’t expect that the whole day had passed and Fu Xuezhou hadn’t made a single move.
Lou Yan was somewhat surprised, feeling a restless anticipation that something was about to happen but hadn’t happened yet. He laid on the bed to calm himself down, turning on the bedside lamp to prepare for sleep.
However, not long after he closed his eyes, his phone rang loudly, the ringtone piercing in the late night. Lou Yan opened his eyes, picked up the phone, and saw that it was a call from Wen Yian.
Frowning, Lou Yan answered, before he could ask why Wen Yian was calling so late, he heard Wen Yian’s anxious and frightened trembling voice, “Lou Yan, help me! My brother has been killed!!!”
Lou Yan suddenly sat up, his eyes flashing, and asked knowingly, “Your brother is dead? Who killed him?”
“I don’t know!” Wen Yian’s usual elegance and composure were completely gone, her breathing rapid, and she sounded somewhat on the verge of collapse, “Wen Jiu has been killed! Killed in front of me! We didn’t even have the ability to resist, that person was too strong. I’m carrying Wen Jiu’s body and coming to you, Lou Yan. You have to save me! You must save me! I belong to you, I’m useful to you, you must save me!”
“Calm down!” Lou Yan coldly reprimanded, “Are you carrying Wen Jiu’s body and using your gifted ability to come to me?”
Wen Yian took a deep breath, her voice still trembling but at least coherent, “Yes. I’ve sneaked into the darkness with Wen Jiu and I’m heading towards you. I don’t know if I can evade that person’s pursuit, but I have no choice! I can’t beat him, only you can, perhaps!”
Lou Yan cursed softly, “F*ck.”
This was leading Fu Xuezhou to him.
He immediately said, “You can’t come to me. Here’s what you’ll do. Hide in the darkness and go to crowded places. The more people there are, the safer you’ll be. He won’t kill you in public.”
Wen Yian hesitated, “Are you sure?”
Lou Yan countered, “What does the person who killed your brother look like? Did you see him clearly?”
“I didn’t see his face,” the immense shock and grief of losing a loved one made Wen Yian’s voice hoarse and unpleasant, “But I saw that he was wearing a black hoodie! His face was hidden under the hood, he had silver hair. That person is definitely a semi-anomalous being fused with anomalies!”
“I know him,” Lou Yan smirked inwardly, satisfied with the faint resentment in Wen Yian’s tone, “This person has killed many cultists. He loathes cultists even more than I do. You and your brother are unlucky to have caught his attention… I’ve crossed paths with him before. Follow my instructions, run to crowded places, and he’ll back off.”
Fu Xuezhou wouldn’t show mercy to cultists, but Wen Yian still had some value to Lou Yan for now. Lou Yan wouldn’t let Wen Yian be killed so easily by Fu Xuezhou.
Normally, Wen Yian wouldn’t easily believe Lou Yan’s words, but in her current panicked state, she just wanted to escape for her life. She knew she could only trust Lou Yan’s words. Wen Yian gritted her teeth and could only hope that her value to Lou Yan would make him reluctant to let her die in vain, “Got it!”
The call was soon disconnected, but Lou Yan no longer felt sleepy.
He stood up and walked to the window, looking out into the darkness, a faint smile playing on his lips.
Fu Xuezhou had actually killed Wen Jiu so directly. The decisiveness of this action was even more ruthless than Lou Yan had imagined, but it wasn’t beyond his expectations.
After releasing the ambiguous photo with Wen Jiu, Lou Yan knew that Fu Xuezhou would give him a profound lesson. If Wen Jiu were just an ordinary person, it would be one thing, but Wen Jiu was a cultist.
And Fu Xuezhou wouldn’t let cultists off the hook.
In both lifetimes, countless cultists died at the hands of Fu Xuezhou.
Lou Yan remembered the famous “Light Hider,” Wen Yian, from his previous life, but he didn’t have many memories of Wen Jiu. However, from Wen Yian’s “friendly reminder” and the Wen Jiu he had seen with his own eyes, it was clear that Wen Jiu wasn’t a good person either.
Lou Yan didn’t have a good impression of Wen Jiu, and while Wen Yian seemed to at least have a conscience, whether it was genuine or not, she still felt guilty and compensatory towards Little Yu. But with Wen Jiu, Lou Yan could only see a standard cultist.
Although Lou Yan verbally forgave Wen Jiu to Wen Yian, he didn’t hesitate to use Wen Jiu.
Wen Jiu’s death was fine, Lou Yan thought indifferently.
The disgusting things that cultists did in the previous life were deeply engraved in Lou Yan’s mind, never to be forgotten. For Lou Yan, every dead cultist was one less, especially someone like Wen Jiu who he felt was dangerous.
Even towards Wen Yian, he often harbored thoughts of killing her.
Lou Yan didn’t feel any sympathy or guilt towards Wen Jiu’s death, but he wouldn’t show it in front of Wen Yian. Because Lou Yan sensed that this was an opportunity, a good opportunity to win over Wen Yian, who would eventually become the “Light Hider,” and let Wen Yian and him stand on the same front to deal with their common enemy—Fu Xuezhou.
Although there was a surgical thread planted in Wen Yian’s mind by Li Sanxin, given the woman’s cunning, she might agree to act as their undercover agent among the fanatics to provide secret information. However, Wen Yian would absolutely not risk her life to join forces with them against Fu Xuezhou.
Li Sanxin’s surgical thread could only control some of Wen Yian’s physical movements, and such control couldn’t compare to the lethality of Wen Yian genuinely viewing Fu Xuezhou as an enemy and actively standing with them.
The enemy of the enemy is a friend. In order to kill Fu Xuezhou, Lou Yan was willing to be temporary “friends” with Wen Yian.
“Fu Xuezhou…” Lou Yan’s shallow smile flickered at the corners of his eyes and eyebrows, his beautiful smile seemingly tainted with venom reflected on the glass window, “You’ve really given me a great gift.”
So you see, saying that a twitching right eyelid indicates disaster is completely unscientific; it’s wealth that it signifies.
“Ding dong,” the phone rang, reminding of a new email received.
Lou Yan lowered his head and opened his mailbox, seeing a video sent by an unknown account.
Who could have sent the video?
Lou Yan pondered for a moment, then lightly tapped his finger, instantly enlarging and playing the video.
The scene showed a dimly lit room, with a messy floor, shattered teacups, scattered items on the table, and dark blood stains absorbed by the carpet…
Suddenly, the camera shook violently, startling Lou Yan. He saw Wen Jiu in the video.
Wen Jiu laid motionless on the ground, bloodstains covering his body, golden hair stuck to his blood-stained face, his pale chin, and the tattoo patterns on his neck seemed lifeless, completely devoid of the seductiveness and charm of yesterday. He looked lifeless, as if a lifeless corpse.
Fu Xuezhou’s voice sounded from the video, the young man’s tone neither urgent nor slow, with a hint of mockery, “Your ambiguous partner, a cultist?”
The video ended there, lasting less than five seconds.
Lou Yan’s face darkened for a moment, but soon a smile appeared on his face. He raised an eyebrow, clicked his tongue lightly, and directly closed the video and blocked the email account.
Fu Xuezhou seemed quite angry.
Lou Yan felt extremely relieved, about to turn around and go back to bed when he suddenly caught sight of a dark shadow approaching outside the window.
He immediately stopped, quickly turned his head to look outside, and saw the dark shadow rapidly approaching, getting larger and larger. With a fierce screech, a fierce eagle suddenly pounced on the glass window in front of Lou Yan.
The eagle’s beak hit the glass window directly, cracking it open wide. The eagle outside flapped its wings, its yellow eyes staring fiercely at Lou Yan, full of hostility.
Lou Yan stared back at the eagle through the thin layer of glass, his face darkening.
This eagle had a slightly strange movement when flapping its wings, obviously injured—it hadn’t died, this beast was really lucky.
Wait a minute—
This eagle appeared here, made a noise after discovering his residence, which means—
Fu Xuezhou is coming here.
Lou Yan glanced deeply at the eagle, took two steps back, cleanly turned around and left the bedroom, quickly waking up everyone in the house and pushing them out, “I’ve prepared a very safe villa in the suburbs. Don’t sleep, follow me!”
Lou Yan didn’t want to confront Fu Xuezhou right now.
Even though Fu Xuezhou had been seriously injured by him before, no one knew how many anomalies he had devoured these days, and his strength had recovered to what extent. Seeing that the amusement park was scheduled for tomorrow night, Lou Yan had to accumulate strength for the amusement park.
Fortunately, he had been prepared since his rebirth, and with money, he could do whatever he wanted. Lou Yan had prepared quite a few safe houses.
Fu Xuezhou was doomed to miss him tonight.
Lou Yan led everyone into the car, stepped on the accelerator pedal and rushed onto the road.
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Wen Jiu: … I don’t believe it
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