In fact, being captured and taken to this strange facility would normally cause most people to feel fear, panic, want to escape, and be at a loss—but Xia Yanle felt no fear. On the contrary, she derived a kind of excitement from this personal danger, and she was eager to understand everything inside.
His initial intention to simply get rid of Bai Weiran has changed.
She was curious about Bai Weiran's abilities, but even more curious about the reasons behind them.
And this huge, bizarre facility, conducting experiments related to people like her?
Who is conducting what kind of experiment?
And what do they want from people similar to themselves?
These questions, like wild grass growing wildly on the grassland in spring, stirred up an irresistible thirst for knowledge within her.
She lived a monotonous life, going back and forth between her rented apartment and the campus, producing mostly predictable data and conclusions, and moving in and out of the same interpersonal relationships. She always felt a sense of stagnation and boredom in her life.
Everything comes alive at this moment.
—It was this person who brought me here.
She stared intently at the back of Bai Weiran's head in the darkness, her eyes gradually losing their light, becoming cold, indifferent, and with a hint of pleasure, as if she wanted to dissect him. An involuntary smile crept onto her lips.
Perhaps I was wrong before; if we eliminate him, we will lose important experimental material.
We should keep him.
Bai Weiran suddenly felt a chill on the back of his head. He subconsciously turned around to look, and before he knew it, an ambush person pounced out from around the corner and pinned him to the ground. Bai Weiran's face was pressed against the cold ground, and he was suddenly caught in an awkward situation of being doubled over.
"The intruder has been caught, here..."
The burly man's voice stopped abruptly, and he released the clamp.
Bai Weiran was stunned for a moment, then saw Xia Yanle peek over the big man's shoulder.
"Are you alright?" she asked kindly.
Bai Weiran only noticed the long machete in her hand.
A yandere who specializes in martial arts, right?
"It's nothing, I hit him with the back of the knife," Xia Yanle explained with a smile, holding up the knife.
“I saw you had the knife embedded in the wall, and I thought it was a waste to keep it, so I took it with me when I left.”
Xia Yanle has the ability to penetrate objects, so taking the wood-chopping knife off the wall would be a piece of cake for him.
Bai Weiran broke out in a cold sweat.
Only now did he realize that Xia Yanle had been following him with a knife all along, hiding it on his person without making a sound—it was ridiculous. How could such a big wood-chopping knife be hidden so easily without leaving a trace?
Xia Yanle said she disliked him?
Would a yandere girl want to kill someone she hates?
Xia Yanle ignored the astonishment on his face and suddenly straightened up.
"Oh no, something's wrong!" she said, holding the knife in her hand.
"It seems we're surrounded."
A dozen or so pursuers blocked both sides of the corridor, ready to trap them like turtles in a jar.
Xx
The pursuers' leader, wearing a mask, emitted a synthesized electronic voice through it, issuing two commands—
"The girl must be captured alive; she must not be harmed."
“Kill the man on the spot, without mercy.”
They approached step by step. Bai Weiran hid his phone in his pocket, looking nonchalant, and quickly pressed the power button.
He doesn't need to check if the phone screen is lit up; the energy bar is enough.
But he adopted the spirit of a pro gamer, hitting twenty-four times in a second, pressing the phone so hard it almost caught fire, yet the energy bar still didn't appear.
What about Wu Ji?
We swore we'd be brothers for life, but if I die here, you'll be my dog in the afterlife!
Xia Yanle watched his little actions from behind and raised an eyebrow in response.
Just as the pursuers were five steps away and raised their dark gun barrels, Xia Yanle stepped forward and stood in front of Bai Weiran.
Both the pursuers and Bai Weiran were taken aback.
Am I not important?
"Then you mustn't kill him."
"If he dies, I'll die right now."
She held the machete horizontally in front of her fair and beautiful neck, a strange smile on her face.
First, they throw out a bombshell threat, then suddenly change the subject.
"Hey, he's a very important person—"
"If you don't want me to die now, listen to my advice."
"Since we can't run away anyway, how about this, everyone put down your weapons and have a good talk?"
"You're risking your lives for such a trivial matter. You're just working for the boss, after all, for money, not your lives. If you go too far and end up with another life on your hands, why bother?"
Bai Weiran: ...? I think I recognize that phrase.
"If you lay down your weapons and we surrender, the conflict will end peacefully. Wouldn't that be a win-win situation?"
"...Or do you want to see him die, me die, and everyone end up in a bad situation?"
She was buying herself time.
Bai Weiran breathed a sigh of relief, and felt grateful.
If it were Qin Ning, this suicide scenario might be genuine, but it certainly wasn't for Xia Yanle.
The pursuers looked at each other, hesitant to move because of the machete Xia Yanle had placed against his neck. Bai Weiran's fingers, which were tapping the power button, paused as the familiar notification sound from the system rang in his ears.
[System notification: Your friend, Passing By Hero, has initiated an assistance operation for you.]
[Basic Assistance Operation: Allows a friend to enter your mission world for one minute only; teleportation time is included.]
[The teleportation will begin within five seconds after receiving your permission.]
Bai Weiran closed his eyes, wanting to kneel down and thank the system for saving his life.
[With your permission, transmission proceeds. Five, four, three, two, one.]
Xx
The red light descended vertically with a loud bang, landing right in front of the two people and creating a crater in the ground.
Wu Ji stood up amidst the smoke and dust, his figure semi-transparent, the earring in his left ear no longer visible, and an ancient-looking spear shaft, intertwined with gold and red, radiating light, slung behind his back.
The gun is cool, the person is cool, and he even has bunny ears on his head, emitting colorful flashes and singing.
【I have a secret~ I'm not telling you~ I'm not telling you!】
Bai Weiran stared at the rabbit ears for two seconds in silence.
Yu Mengmeng recently asked him to play games, one-on-one competitions. Whoever loses has to wear bunny ears as punishment.
Bai Weiran doesn't want to die, so he always goes all out in battle and hasn't worn a weapon yet.
Wu Ji, you lost on your very first day here, didn't you?
This is a disgrace to our planning team.
Wu Ji raised his gun to block the attack of a pursuer, exclaiming "Holy crap!"
"What kind of place is this? It's so dark, it's making my skin crawl, and the interference is terrible! Young Master Bai, how did you manage to hold out for so long before agreeing to help? Are you even human?"
"My phone is malfunctioning; it wasn't working just now."
The scene was chaotic. At this moment, he didn't care that Xia Yanle knew his secret. Bai Weiran spoke frankly. As he spoke, he casually threw away the people who tried to grab Xia Yanle. He was struggling when he was alone, but with Wu Ji by his side, the pressure of energy consumption was greatly reduced.
After throwing the person away, he turned around, looking somewhat surprised.
Wu Ji was holding a gun in one hand and a cell phone in the other, typing in a voice message.
He didn't even look around, but with one shot he took down a pursuer. Rather than saying he was using the gun, it was more like the gun had its own consciousness and was using his hand to control itself.
So you've been a lazy bum who lives off your wife?
But I don't have time to worry about that now.
"Alright!" Wu Ji raised his phone and shouted at him.
"Gaga is handling it."
As soon as he finished speaking, the system voice rang in Bai Weiran's ears.
Because the phone was dying and interfering with the system, the audio became increasingly unclear.
[Detected... You are currently in a danger level of 5. A special teleportation channel will be provided to you...]
[A blue halo... surrounds you... within 100 meters...]
Wu Ji shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Young Master Bai, you should leave quickly, don't worry about me—"
"Holy crap, saying that makes me feel like I'm part of the main cast of a shonen manga! Young Master Bai, do you think I... wait, why are you running so fast??? You should hear about my most touching and memorable moments too!"
Bai Weiran had long since disappeared without a trace.
Wu Ji is protected by a yandere spirit, and there is a time limit for the assistance. He will be automatically teleported away after one minute, while I only have one minute to find a special teleportation channel to leave this place.
He was still listening to Wu Ji's nonsense. Once Wu Ji teleported back, he would have exhausted all his last tricks. He was truly doomed.
The light blue aperture indicated by customer service was within reach.
Bai Weiran paused in front of the aperture.
He turned his head and saw Xia Yanle following behind him. Seeing him stop, Xia Yanle understood. She looked at him, standing a step away, holding the knife, her eyes calm and her blue eyes deep.
"...I can't go there, right?"
“It’s okay, you go first! They need me, they won’t hurt me.” She even comforted Bai Weiran.
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