I changed the world.

In his panic, Gu Haowen, who had rushed out of the company, naturally didn't wait for the elevator. He turned around and ran up the fire escape. He heard voices downstairs, but he didn't know if someone was blocking his way. So he had no choice but to run towards the top floor...

And then someone quickly caught up with him.

"Grab him!!! Grab him!!!"

"Damn it, this guy's still running!!! Catch him!!!"

"Beat him up!!! Beat him to death!!!"

"Pay back!!! Gu Haowen, pay back!!!!"

Behind him (a chaotic cacophony of shouts and yells, all sorts of things, O-q chase i-lung escape device, Q Guhaowen U was caught up and taken to the N rooftop... N

The Songjiang Financial Building is a 46-story super high-rise office building located in the heart of Songjiang Financial Street. The chase caused chaos throughout the building, and people from other companies also peeked out to see what was going on. After learning about the incident, some immediately retreated, while others sighed and lamented.

Most of the companies operating in this building are financial institutions or related businesses. There are quite a few companies like Gu Haowen's, but most aren't on the same scale. Seeing this, they mostly feel a sense of shared misfortune...

Gu Haowen had been chased to the rooftop, which was a huge observation deck where a press conference was being held. The star of the conference was a stylish sports car.

On the makeshift stage, the host was stroking the vehicle while introducing its specifications to the audience and reporters nearby when suddenly someone rushed over, shoved him aside, opened the car door, jumped in, and locked himself inside…

This man was none other than Gu Haowen; he truly had nowhere to hide...

At that moment, dozens of panting people rushed over from behind. The two security guards maintaining order only shouted a couple of times as a formality before being pushed aside...

Volume Two: The Truth Hidden Behind the History Books: Chapter 1050 The Flying Cars of Financial Street

These people surrounded Gu Haowen, who was hiding in the car, their faces filled with anger. They pounded on the car, shouting for him to come out, while others yelled slogans like "Pay up!" and "Give me back my hard-earned money!"

At that very moment, the media reporters who had come to attend the new car launch suddenly became incredibly excited. After a brief moment of bewilderment, they quickly raised their cameras and started snapping away at Gu Haowen, who was stuck in the car.

Some reporters even went up to interview the investors who had followed them. For reporters, nothing beats breaking social news like this. This kind of thing is obviously the big news that readers want to see!

Gu Haowen was huddled in the car, looking out the window at the investors who looked like they wanted to devour him alive. He didn't dare to go out, so he just locked the car door and refused to leave.

Police sirens could be heard below the building, indicating that the incident at the financial building had clearly attracted the attention of the police.

Meanwhile, the investors became increasingly impulsive, and some even brought over chairs and brooms to smash the car windows, trying to break them and pull Gu Haowen out.

After being repeatedly vandalized, the new car was quickly riddled with dents and scratches...

But then a burly man, whose name had been changed, suddenly appeared, his eyes wide with anger. He was holding a metal chair in his hand. He jumped up and, using his own weight, slammed it into the corner of the car window, cracking it...

The second time, the crack expanded radially...

At this moment, Gu Haowen swallowed hard, his eyes filled with panic and despair. He frantically pressed buttons on the unfamiliar car, and the next moment, the vehicle started...

The vehicle used for display was left with the key in the ignition after being driven onto the display stand, which allowed Gu Haowen to successfully start the vehicle.

Without a second thought, Gu Haowen stepped on the gas...

After a series of screams, the car slammed through two investors blocking its path, then knocked a reporter flying, and sped straight ahead...

However, it was only then that Gu Haowen realized that just over ten meters ahead was the railing at the edge of the rooftop...

He cried out in alarm and slammed on the brakes, but it was too late. The next moment, the car crashed through the metal guardrail, soared into the air, and flew into the sky...

The vehicle traced an arc before finally landing on the financial street below the building...

At that moment, a reporter quickly captured this scene that was destined to go down in history.

For decades afterward, this photo of the "Financial Street car chase" was considered one of the most iconic images of the 2016 financial crisis...

Seconds later, with a dull thud, the car crashed heavily onto the street on the side of Songjiang Financial Street. The only saving grace was that the falling car did not hit anyone, but caused a chain-reaction collision between two vehicles that were unable to avoid it.

The front of the vehicle hit the ground first, then quickly collapsed, eventually almost turning into a mass of severely crushed scrap metal...

Renowned investment fund manager Gu Haowen died on the spot, and even removing his body from the car was extremely difficult...

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Gu Haowen stared blankly at his surroundings. He stood in the middle of the road, next to a vehicle that had become a wreck. Police officers were walking back and forth around him, seemingly setting up a cordon.

He stood there all alone inside the cordon, watching vehicles being guided around it. Beside him, a policeman was on a walkie-talkie, seemingly communicating with headquarters: "...Dead on the spot, even if an ambulance comes, it's useless..."

His mind was a complete blank; he just stared blankly as the police used tools to break down the car next to him, and as the ambulance arrived…

The people around him seemed oblivious to him, each absorbed in their own tasks...

The surroundings had become shrouded in mist, and everything seemed to move within it. Gu Haowen remained standing there, motionless and silent...

until……

A chain flew from the other end of the mist and bound him. Immediately, his body tensed, as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over his head, as if he had been awakened from the deepest nightmare. Gu Haowen was startled, feeling a great force coming from the other end of the chain. He stumbled and staggered forward...

Only then did he notice the car next to him, its fins crumpled into a ball; it seemed to be the same car he had been driving not long ago…

It seems that I... drove this car and flew into the air...

Then... he fell down...

He watched as the police lifted a mangled body from the broken-open car door. The bloodied and mangled body slumped limply as paramedics helped him onto a stretcher on the ground.

Gu Haowen's gaze swept over the blood-smeared face. It was a familiar face, the eyes still open...

No…that’s clearly my own face!!!

A face I've seen countless times in the mirror!!!

So, if the person on the stretcher is yourself, then who are you now?!

Amidst a thousand thoughts swirling in his mind, Gu Haowen was dragged along, stumbling and staggering forward...

"Who's dragging me?" He looked ahead in fear. There was a hazy fog in front of him, and he couldn't see anything for the time being. Around him, whether it was the medical staff, the police officers, or even the passersby who were pointing and watching, not a single person looked in his direction.

Why don't they look at me?

Didn't you see me?

A thought that filled Gu Haowen with dread began to creep into his mind...

Just as he was about to shout, he suddenly saw a familiar figure appear in front of him.

She was a beautiful woman with graceful figure and fashionable attire. At this moment, she was standing anxiously at the edge of the isolation zone, tiptoeing to look inside.

He recognized the woman at a glance; she was his girlfriend, Gu Qianqian, who also worked in the same building. Gu Qianqian was a trainee lawyer at Tianan Law Firm on the first floor of the building. Tianan and Gu Haowen's original company had many legal businesses, which was how he met Gu Qianqian. It took him a lot of effort to win her over.

It should be said that he was serious about love, and besides, he was already getting on in years. Therefore, he and Gu Qianqian had already been discussing marriage and planned to get married at the end of the year...

"Qianqian!"

"Qianqian! Qianqian...I'm here!!"

"Qianqian, it's me! I'm here!!!"

Volume Two: The Truth Hidden Behind History Books: Chapter 1051 Where Do People Go After They Die?

Upon seeing his girlfriend, Gu Haowen felt inexplicably more flustered. He repeatedly called out her name, but strangely, Gu Qianqian seemed not to see him at all. Her gaze clearly swept over his body but did not linger, as if she had just swept over thin air...

Just then, the medical staff brought over a stretcher, and Gu Qianqian's eyes widened suddenly, staring intently at the bloodied and mangled body on the stretcher.

Gu Haowen only heard her let out a desperate wail, a sound he had never heard from Gu Qianqian, this usually quiet and gentle girl...

He panicked even more, wanting to struggle, wanting to go and comfort his girlfriend, to tell her he was here...

However, the cold, hard chains gave him no chance to turn back; they simply dragged him forward with an irresistible force...

"No... let me go back... let me go back!!!" Gu Haowen tried to struggle, but the strength of the chains was completely beyond his ability to resist, and he could only watch helplessly as they continued to move forward.

Then, he suddenly saw a tall figure appear in the hazy distance ahead. As he moved forward, his girlfriend, the police officers, and the medical staff behind him began to blur... while the tall figure standing in the mist became clearer and clearer...

Gu Haowen walked among the passersby, and he could clearly see the various expressions on their faces, such as surprise, gossip, frowning and clicking his tongue, or even gloating. However, no one glanced at him.

Only a small black dog seemed to have seen him, barking and howling in his direction at the top of its lungs, prompting a woman dressed as a wealthy lady who was pulling on the leash behind it to shout at it repeatedly.

The figure ahead drew closer, and Gu Haowen finally saw the tall figure standing silently in the mist clearly. Then, the expression on his face turned horrified and desperate.

He clearly saw that just over ten meters in front of him stood a giant about three meters tall. His face was as white as paper, unlike that of an ordinary person. He wore a strangely styled cylindrical hat, had a burly build, and wore a simple black robe. Heavy iron chains were wrapped around his body, one end of which was dragging on the ground, while the other end was tied to Gu Haowen's body...

At this moment, Gu Haowen stared blankly at the words on the giant's tall hat: "We're catching you."

Suddenly, some myths and legends hidden deep in my memory overlapped with the reality before my eyes.

I vaguely remember it being a story my grandmother told me and my younger siblings when I was little, sitting on a bamboo recliner...

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"Grandma, Grandma, where do people go after they die?"

"After a person dies, the Black and White Impermanence will come to take them away. Then they will go to the underworld. Whether you did good or bad things in your life, a judge will come to judge you..."

"Grandma is lying! Grandma is lying!!!"

"Yes, Grandma is wrong. Dad said there are no gods in the world..."

"Hahaha, what a clever article! Grandma was wrong, Grandma was wrong..."

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Memories long buried deep within his mind suddenly resurfaced before his eyes. Gu Haowen's eyes widened, and he stammered, "You...you...you are..."

"No...don't grab me...I don't want to go with you!!!" He began to struggle violently...