On the film set.
It's still the same bookstore, still the same old tree, but the people standing under the tree no longer have the same feelings as before.
Yin Lan stood under the tree, staring blankly at the young man in front of her. Her eyes were filled with pain, struggle, and sorrow. Before she could even utter a question, her eyes welled up with tears.
Yin Qi stood quietly at the courtyard gate, holding a box of new books. He seemed to have anticipated something, and the smile on his lips slowly faded.
"sister?"
"Was it you?"
Yin Lan asked in a hoarse voice.
"What?" Yin Qi tilted his head slightly, changing the subject. "Didn't my sister want to reopen the bookstore? So I had someone clean this place thoroughly. Look, these are the ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) books I specially found. Putting them in the store will attract more people!"
"You know that's not what I meant."
Yin Lan's emotions were churning, but she just tried to close her eyes and clear her mind.
"If you don't like it, I can also—"
"Yin Qi!"
As Yin Qi spoke, Yin Lan finally lost control of her anger and interrupted him sharply.
Yin Lan rarely loses her temper. She usually speaks very logically. Even when she is extremely angry, she will only beat people harder. She would never yell at people so loudly and directly unleash all the anger she has suppressed.
Yin Lan's voice startled the birds perched in the trees, and after the birds cried out in panic and fled, the entire courtyard suddenly fell silent.
There was no sound of wind, no birdsong, not even the sound of human breathing.
Yin Qi looked at Yin Lan, his handsome face seemingly wearing a heavy disguise. As usual, he moved his muscles to reveal a smile, but in this environment, it seemed a bit eerie.
Did you kill Lao Wu?
"Did you also kill Zhang Yiyu and his entire family?"
Where have all the pharmaceutical professionals overseas gone?
"What are you doing? Speak!"
As Yin Lan's voice rang out, a hint of sarcasm appeared on Yin Qi's face.
"Sis, what does this have to do with me?"
A gunshot pierced the sky, and then the books in Yin Qi's arms fell to the ground. He was forced to lean back due to being shot in the head and staggered back a few steps.
Yin Lan subconsciously reached out to help, but images of her companions dying flashed through her mind. In the end, she coldly lowered her hand and looked at the person who had been shot with a complicated expression.
However, Yin Qi did not fall down; he regained his footing after taking a few steps back.
Right between his eyebrows was a bullet hole, and bright red blood gushed out from it, instantly staining his eyes and trickling down his face to his chin, dripping down in a steady stream.
He was originally a sunny and cheerful young man, but when he put on blood-red eyes, his aura suddenly changed.
He smirked and looked at Wuwu and Evan running towards him.
Wu Wu stepped in front of Yin Lan and said in a serious tone, "Yin Lan, don't be fooled by him! He is the leader of that organization! The people who are chasing us have always been his subordinates! He wants to live forever!"
Evan, gun raised, warily watched Yin Qi: "Yin Lan, we'd better get out of here quickly! This guy has been lurking among us for so long, it's not safe here anymore! He'll definitely try to wipe us all out!"
Yin Lan didn't speak, but stared at the blood-soaked youth, her eyes filled with a myriad of thoughts.
Finally, she gently nudged Wuwu, signaling her to give way, and then stood in front of Yin Qi again, carefully observing this relative who had been with her for many years and with whom she shared blood ties.
On the lonely path to immortality, the existence of a fellow bloodline is a kind of psychological comfort.
However, perhaps she was wrong.
Yin Lan closed her eyes and remained silent for a long time before finally reaching out and opening her palm towards Yin Qi: "Give me your fragment."
Yin Qi blinked, letting the blood stream down his face, and stared intently at Yin Lan: "Sister, do you want me to die?"
After learning the secret of the fragments, they used instruments with relevant functions to confirm the location of the fragments on their bodies and then hid them again, essentially hiding their "Achilles' heel" so that no one else could find them.
Generally, if their "fatal weakness" is broken and their fragments are taken away, they will immediately lose their vitality and eventually turn into a pile of bones.
Yin Lan wants Yin Qi's fragments because she wants him dead.
“Yes,” Yin Lan said decisively, “all of this should have ended long ago.”
Yin Qi lowered his eyes, remained silent for a moment, and then chuckled, "Of course that's not good."
The last glimmer of hope in Yin Lan's eyes vanished completely.
"That's really... there's no other way..."
The woman murmured softly, "I can't let you continue making the same mistakes—"
The next moment, her fist struck Yin Qi's face, sending him flying and crashing into the courtyard wall behind him.
Wu Wu also threw out his twin swords and shouted, "Yin Lan, catch!"
Yin Lan raised her hand, but before her fingertips could touch the hilt of the knife, she felt an extremely fast gust of wind sweep past her—
Startled, Yin Lan looked up abruptly and saw Yin Qi appear out of thin air. He steadily snatched the two long swords with both hands, then nimbly flipped backward in the air, drawing a sharp and elegant arc. He then landed lightly behind Yin Lan and slashed horizontally, striking Wu Wu's neck.
The speed was so fast that Yin Lan only had time to see Yin Qi hover in the air for a second before being splattered with Wu Wu's blood the next second.
"Witch Crow!"
Evan raised his hand to fire, but in the blink of an eye, a sharp pain shot through his wrist. Yin Qi's other knife was firmly lodged in his wrist bone—if Evan hadn't been a special drug user, his hand would probably have been sent flying with that knife.
Meanwhile, Wu Wu was in a similar situation. The knife was stuck against her neck, but she managed to grab it in time to prevent Yin Qi from pulling it back, and shouted, "Yin Lan, run!"
It was only after just one meeting that they finally realized how vast the gap was between them and Yin Qi.
How ridiculous and naive they are to confront Yin Qi rashly!
Having already stolen several fragments, Yin Qi is now terrifyingly strong. Not to mention ordinary medicine people like them, even Yin Lan is no match for him!
They are doomed to die if they face Yin Qi!
Let's go!
As Wu Wu spoke, he was about to pounce on Yin Qi to stop him, but Evan was faster. He suddenly pulled the knife from his wrist, clenched his other hand into a fist, and punched Yin Qi in the chest.
However, Yin Qi reacted too quickly. He released his grip on the knife, shifted his body slightly to the side, and simultaneously used his other hand to violently pierce Evan's chest—
"puff--"
Evan coughed up blood, and his expression quickly turned ashen.
—In Yin Qi's hand, he was holding a bloodstained shard.
“This, how is this possible...” Wu Wu murmured, “How could you know—”
Before she could finish speaking, Yin Qi had already turned around, pulled the knife out of Evan's wrist, and swung it at Wu Wu—his target was the part where Wu Wu had hidden the fragment!
