Desperate people, accept the seed of my soul!

Those were eyes tempered in despair, burning with a dark silver, ghostly flame.

Xu Suyuan stood in the shadow of a trash can piled with miscellaneous items, staring intently at Li Wei's back.

There were no fancy moves, nor any shouts.

She simply uttered that curse-like command softly in her heart, facing that departing figure.

— [Imprisonment].

hum!

The air seemed to freeze for a moment.

Li Wei, who was holding up his phone and talking, suddenly froze.

An unprecedented feeling of terror instantly swept through my body.

That was immense pressure.

It was as if ten thousand tons of deep-sea water had been instantly poured into this narrow alley, completely enveloping him.

The spatial rules around him were distorted; the air was no longer a gas, but turned into transparent cement that solidified instantly.

Li Wei remained in that position, holding the phone to his ear, his expression frozen in a strange state of almost revealing a sinister smile, which suddenly turned into astonishment.

I can't move...

I can't move a single finger!

He couldn't even blink!

Only the eyeballs can move with extreme difficulty within their sockets, but it is precisely because of this that the indescribable fear is transmitted more clearly to the brain through the optic nerve.

What happened?

Are you poisoned?

Is it some kind of neurotoxin?

His thinking began to sluggish, like a rusty gear being forced to turn.

He tried to open his mouth to call for help, tried to shout, but his vocal cords seemed to be tightly gripped by an invisible hand, and not even a wisp of air could pass through.

Dead silence.

Absolute silence.

In the suffocating silence, a soft footstep sounded.

Sha, sha, sha.

That was the sound of shoes rubbing against the ground, very soft, but to Li Wei it sounded like a countdown to death.

From the shadows, the girl who should have looked like a frightened little rabbit emerged.

Xu Suyuan walked up to Li Wei with a blank expression.

With the help of the dim light, Li Wei finally saw her face clearly.

That's not the prey's face.

That was the face of a judge.

Xu Suyuan coldly stared at the man who was frozen in place, watching as the astonishment in his eyes gradually turned into extreme terror.

She didn't say anything, but simply reached out and gently took the phone, which was on a call, from Li Wei's stiff, stone-like hand.

The screen displayed "Iron Hand's" name, and the other end of the line was urgently asking, "Li Wei? Speak! Why are you silent? Feed him?"

Without any hesitation, Xu Suyuan hung up the phone and then turned it off.

Then, she bent down.

Her movements were slow, even somewhat sluggish, because maintaining the confinement was a great burden for her.

On the ground, there was a half-red brick covered in mud and moss, with sharp edges and a rough texture.

Her hands were thin, and her fingers were wrapped with black tape she had brought from the laboratory, yet she gripped the brick firmly.

Li Wei's eyes trembled wildly; if eyes could scream, the alley would have been shattered by now.

However, [Void Imprisonment] is an absolute rule.

He could only stand there like a sitting duck, watching helplessly as the girl straightened up.

Xu Suyuan looked at that face.

That face that had once been so gentle and kind to her in the coffee shop, promising her a future;

That face with a cold smile as it lured her into the car and sent her to hell.

"So you know fear now?"

"Do you know what it feels like to be unable to move, unable to shout, and just waiting to die?"

"This is what I felt every single second in that laboratory."

Xu Suyuan slowly raised the red brick in her hand.

Li Wei's pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints, and tears and snot flowed uncontrollably from his nose due to extreme fear, but he couldn't even close his eyes.

The distortion of spatial rules even "imprisoned" his eyelids.

He could only watch helplessly as the red brick, accompanied by the whistling wind, rapidly magnified in his field of vision.

"Bang!!!"

A dull, muffled thud echoed through the quiet alley.

Blood mixed with unidentified fragments splattered across Xu Suyuan's face instantly.

Li Wei's forehead caved in, but he still didn't fall down because [Void Imprisonment] was still maintaining his standing posture.

This caused him to endure a longer and clearer period of suffering.

Xu Suyuan did not stop.

"This is the medicine you tricked me into drinking at the coffee shop."

She raised the red brick again, her voice eerily calm.

"Bang!"

The second time.

It slammed hard into Li Wei's nose, the sound of bones shattering clearly audible.

"This is for all the suffering I endured in that box, in that laboratory."

Li Wei's face was completely rotten, and his consciousness was beginning to blur, but the oppressive feeling of being imprisoned made even falling into a coma a luxury.

Xu Suyuan took a deep breath and raised it for the third time.

At this moment, her tears finally flowed down, mingling with the blood on her face, sliding down her lips, tasting salty and fishy.

"This time...it's for my grandma."

"Bang!!!"

This time, she gripped the brick with both hands and used all her strength to smash it hard onto the top of Li Wei's head.

That power, filled with resolute hatred, utterly ended everything.

The light in Li Wei's eyes instantly faded.

As the life force disappeared, Xu Suyuan relaxed, and the power that maintained the [Void Imprisonment] also dissipated.

"Thump."

Li Weina's corpse, no longer recognizable as human, lay limp on the ground like a puddle of mud, making a dull thud.

The alleyway returned to deathly silence.

Only Xu Suyuan's rapid breathing echoed.

As the target died, the dark silver light that filled the depths of Xu Suyuan's soul began to slowly recede.

The strange feeling that I could knead space like mud was fading, replaced by a sharp pain deep in my brain.

As if she had strained her muscles from overexertion, her temples throbbed, and a faint smell of rust filled her nostrils.

This is the price to pay.

This was Xu Suyuan's first time truly using [Void Imprisonment], and her body's instinctive feedback gave her a clear "instruction manual":

Currently, she can only imprison one target at a time.

Without external interference, this force can only be maintained for about ten seconds.

Most importantly, this constraint is not absolutely unshakeable.

In those last few seconds, she could clearly feel Li Wei's frantic struggle for survival, a struggle that, when felt on her mental level, was like trying to hold down a slippery, violently writhing python with her bare hands.

If Li Wei were stronger or more determined, the duration of the restraints would probably be reduced to five seconds, or even less.

"I can't stay here any longer..."

Xu Suyuan suddenly woke up with a start.

The phone call Li Wei made before he died had already gone through.

The man called "Iron Hand" had already heard the commotion and knew the enemy was on their way.

She crouched down and quickly searched Li Wei's body.

At Li Wei's waist, she felt something hard—a black, portable tactical stun gun.

Xu Suyuan pulled it out and held it tightly in her hand.

The cold touch gave her a faint sense of security.

She stood up and glanced at both ends of the alley.

To the east, one can vaguely see the glow of streetlights on the main road outside, which leads to the light, but also means that the area may have been blocked off by that black sedan.

To the west lies a dark and deep shantytown.

The illegally constructed houses are stacked on top of each other, as intricate as the entrails of a monster, so dense that even the streetlights cannot penetrate them.

That was darkness, chaos, and the only way out.

Without the slightest hesitation, Xu Suyuan stuffed the stun gun into her pocket, turned around, and plunged headlong into the endless darkness to the west.