Chapter 192: Chapter 169: Fighting Evil with Evil, the Path to Redemption (2)
"Suddenly excited, huh, haha, looks like I have a chance."
As the fans in the live stream were chattering away, a clear voice laughed:
"Yo, haven’t seen my blockhead senior brother for a few days, and he’s made progress. His sexual orientation jumped directly from heterosexual to homosexual, impressive~"
Just hearing this voice, Ning An knew that his junior sister, Lin Yanke, was back.
Before the fans in the live stream could react, Ning An swiftly turned off the stream.
The last outing at the park was stimulating enough; he didn’t want to do it again.
"Huh?"
Ning An looked up, then found himself lost in the scenery.
Her hair was styled elegantly, dressed in a snow-white gauzy top. Her slim neck glowed with a faint blush, and her slightly revealed collarbone was flawless as white jade.
Below, she wore a knee-length pale yellow pleated skirt, paired with pink and white transparent stockings, and a pair of brown ankle boots.
With her head tilted, she looked at Ning An, her eyes reflecting the entire summer.
"It seems, there’s something different." Ning An touched his nose, awkwardly looking away.
The junior sister from his childhood was dark-skinned and thin, always following him with a runny nose, calling him ’senior brother’ endlessly, like a kid who’d never grow up.
Later, around twelve or thirteen, Lin Yanke started developing, not only growing taller, but her skin turning fair and smooth, and her figure becoming what numerous men longed for.
"Uh, why are you back again..."
Ning An was a bit skeptical; logically, she should be practicing her divine skills and then come back to subdue him, right?
Surely she hasn’t mastered her divine skills in just a few short days?
Even Dugu Bubai didn’t master the Sunflower Manual that fast!
"Hehe, I’m not telling you yet, come with me tomorrow, I’ll give you a surprise then."
Lin Yanke smiled slyly, a curve forming on her lips.
"..."
Looking at Lin Yanke’s adorable appearance, Ning An was silent, then smiled.
Well, she’s still as cute as when she was younger.
"Alright, we’ll set off tomorrow morning, go rest for now."
Ning An sat cross-legged in the room, practicing the Five Ghosts Transport Skill, not feeling a bit tired.
The night was peaceful, except from Lin Yanke’s room, strange noises always came, like laughing yet crying, stopping only when dawn was breaking.
Ning An vaguely felt that this was probably due to her cultivation technique.
Once it was about time, Ning An also began his cultivating.
Early the next morning, Ning An posted a notice of his journey at the Daoist Temple gate and online, then hurriedly left the mountain with his junior sister.
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Liaodong, Pixian County.
This county was a strategic battleground in ancient times, densely populated, and therefore always given special attention by the city.
Today happened to be the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, also the liveliest day in the county.
Not only would the market be opened, but opera experts from the province would also perform, creating a festive scene.
In contrast to the lively atmosphere was the heavy air in the police station.
The city’s relevant leaders were all gathered there, with even the deputy director of the provincial police department personally overseeing, urgently holding a meeting.
He began with a stern command: "Comrades, we are tight on time and heavy on tasks, I strive not to waste any time."
"Today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, many people are outdoors, everyone must maintain order well to prevent any malicious events from happening..."
Pausing slightly, he continued, "According to reliable intelligence, there are two suspicious individuals in the mountains near Pixian County, suspected of being related to several malignant cases. So starting now, Pixian County urgently enters a state of lockdown, setting checkpoints at all exits of the surrounding mountains, do not let them escape!"
Wow!
Hearing this, the leaders from the city more or less knew some inside information, thus silently agreeing.
However, the county’s leaders exchanged glances, a bit hesitant, as it’s quite drastic to make such a big scene over just a suspicion, isn’t it?
Immediately, the county police chief raised his head, cautiously asking, "Director Li, can you tell us what case they’re involved with? Or when we’re capturing the suspects, what measures should we take, and to what extent can we take the capture?"
"Why bother with that, just execute!"
Director Li was annoyed, but he held his temper, setting the tone: "You don’t need to worry about which case it’s related to, just catch them, ensure the two suspects remain unharmed, and you control the extent yourself!"
Subsequently, the emergency meeting specifically arranged the police force deployment, and all police informants were activated, making the entire Pixian County more lively.
After the meeting, once the city and provincial leaders left, the county leaders looked at each other in dismay:
"What’s been going on in Y City recently? After the murder case a few days ago, first there was a demand for lockdown in each county district, and now, it’s directly at a level two alert."
"Yes, this is bound to cause panic, making it difficult to carry out work."
"Hey, I did hear some whispers, it seems it’s related to the murder case from a few days ago."
"Could it be that the murderer has been found?"
"Even if those two suspects are the murderers, drifting here, they still shouldn’t leave us completely uninformed, right? Just giving a vague surveillance video screenshot, what’s that about!"
The guy saying this was wearing a checkered shirt, pale-faced with dark circles, slammed the table hard, then gritted his teeth and adjusted the screenshot sent from above to the highest clarity, barely showing a blurry face:
With rather delicate features, a mole between his eyebrows, looking distressed, seemingly in his early twenties.
If it weren’t for the fact that this was a screenshot from above, at first glance, one might think this was the boy-next-door from a neighbor’s house.
"Stop complaining, let’s work."
"Come on, let’s work, if I catch him, I’ll have to interrogate him carefully. Life was going well, so why lick blood from the tip of a knife?"
When Pixian County was laying out an inescapable net, the mountains were not peaceful either, everywhere was full of fully armed combat personnel.
Fortunately, the wild forest was vast enough and deep enough, preventing the police from finding Quan Xiaobai all this time.
Desolate and silent, with an occasional crow call, besides thrill-seeking ’cooks’ and ’ingredients,’ basically no one would venture here.
However, Quan Xiaobai quite liked it here, compared to the human world filled with smoke, this place seemed more suitable for him.
At sunset, he found a place rich in yin energy in a shady spot on the mountain, then commanded the zombie to dig a pit for itself and lay down inside.
He hastily covered it with a layer of soil, then some dead branches and leaves, trying to make the place look inconspicuous.
In the past days, each time the zombie replenished yin energy, he would stare blankly for a while, then eat some bought bread, drink some mineral water, then find a cave to sleep till dawn.
In the mountain nest these days, that’s mostly how he passed his days.
But today, after dealing with the zombie, instead of going blank, he cautiously checked the surroundings, planned his escape route, and then uneasily sat on the ground.
He ate the bread, his face calm, but his hands slightly trembling.
Since the day before yesterday, after he drained energy in Xiaowang Village, an inexplicable sense of crisis had suddenly emerged in his heart, indescribable.
It was like a web being tightened in the hands of a hunter, shrinking tighter and tighter.
He naturally knew, leaving Zhao Jie alive at that time was extremely unfavorable for him. It would’ve been better to kill him directly and divert the police’s attention, but he managed to restrain the negative influence of the zombie on him.
He was still a human, even if he killed some bad guys, his inner self was roaring, telling him: You’re still a human, damn it, you’re still a human!!!
He couldn’t guess what action the police would take against him, but he understood, without a breakthrough, the time left for him was really not much.
"Tear!"
Stuffing the last piece of bread down, shoving the bread bag into his backpack, Quan Xiaobai stared into space, then suddenly burst out laughing.
Sourly shaking his head, he fished out a shabby blanket, found a random cave, and lay down like a homeless person.
Sigh!
What was he thinking so much for!
What choices did he have? He knew well that murder wasn’t the best solution, but what could he do, what was he supposed to do?
The biggest task at hand now was to quickly get some sleep, then swiftly break through the police encirclement.
