Chapter 491: Chapter 491 The Second Conclusion
Sang Ning no longer cared about whether the car was leaking oil; all she knew was that if she didn’t find a solution soon, she’d end up strangling herself.
Lu Yujing maintained her gaze on Sang Ning, unwilling to stop, while the System’s voice in her head grew agitated: "Don’t stop! If Sang Ning and her System aren’t eradicated now, both you and I are finished!"
"I know that already! Shut up, you’re so noisy!" Lu Yujing snapped back, equally irritable as the System, her eyes locked onto Sang Ning as she slowly rose from the ground and approached.
Watching Sang Ning’s face flush red, nearly suffocating, she felt immense satisfaction: "Just a little more, a little more, and I’ll succeed!"
She let out a maniacal laugh, but suddenly, a powerful force collided into her from behind. Lu Yujing didn’t even have time to react before she was knocked to the ground.
Freed from Lu Yujing’s hypnotic stare, Sang Ning released her grip and gasped for breath. Looking up, she saw Song Shiye pinning Lu Yujing to the ground from behind.
Seeing Lu Yujing struggling to get up, Sang Ning coughed violently and shouted with labored breath, "Cover her eyes!"
Song Shiye followed her order, placing his hands over Lu Yujing’s eyes. Lu Yujing reached out blindly, grabbing for whatever she could. Her fingers found a chunk of Song Shiye’s flesh, which she pinched mercilessly, forcing him to cry out in pain and let her go.
"Kill Sang Ning for me!" Lu Yujing’s eyes glowed a ghostly blue, commandeering Song Shiye.
Under control, Song Shiye got up and charged toward Sang Ning. Holding on to a sliver of consciousness, he screamed, "Sister Sangsang, dodge now!"
Xiao Ye, I’m sorry!
Sang Ning whispered in her heart, then delivered a sharp knife strike with her hand, taking down Song Shiye and dragging him to a shady spot.
Seeing Song Shiye subdued so effortlessly, Lu Yujing panicked and backed away, desperately attempting to control Sang Ning: "Don’t come any closer! Just die already!"
But Sang Ning already knew the key to Lu Yujing’s mind control was her eyes. To prevent their gazes from meeting, Sang Ning closed her own eyes entirely, relying only on sound to pinpoint Lu Yujing’s location.
Sang Ning moved like a nimble leopard sprinting across the desert. Lu Yujing had never encountered someone so terrifying; even with her eyes shut, Sang Ning’s movements were unnervingly precise.
"Stay back! Juezhou’s going to die—isn’t his life worth saving to you?" Lu Yujing shouted hysterically, but Sang Ning continued to close in.
"Enough, stop playing these distraction tactics," Sang Ning said, gripping Lu Yujing. She stripped off both their sun-protective clothing, using one piece as rope to bind Lu Yujing’s hands behind her back and the other as a blindfold to cover her eyes.
Let’s see how she plans to stir up chaos now.
But just as Sang Ning exhaled in relief, Song Shiye’s blood-curdling screams erupted: "Sister Sangsang! The car—the car’s on fire!"
Sang Ning whipped her head around to see the two overturned SUVs in the distance suddenly ablaze with raging flames. Song Shiye stumbled backward in terror, too afraid to approach.
"Juezhou!" Sang Ning cried out in horror, throwing caution to the wind as she sprinted toward the inferno.
Raising her arm to shield her nose, she peered through the glass to see Li Juezhou seemingly unconscious. No wonder he hadn’t made a sound for so long.
The fire hadn’t yet spread to the driver’s seat and passenger’s seat. Sang Ning circled to the passenger side and climbed into the vehicle. She reached out to pat Li Juezhou’s face, attempting to wake him, but his eyes remained tightly shut, his breathing faint to the point of imperceptibility. A sharp metallic smell hit her nose. Looking closer, Sang Ning realized his lower body was drenched in blood—he must have suffered severe injuries the moment the SUV flipped.
Sang Ning reached out her hands to pull him, but his legs were firmly wedged in place. She dared not exert too much force, fearing it would cost Li Juezhou his legs entirely.
Seeing Sang Ning dash into the flames, Song Shiye suddenly found his courage and ran closer, shouting anxiously through the car window, "Sister Sangsang, please come out now! The car won’t hold much longer—it’s going to explode!"
Under the scorching heat as fire tongues threatened to consume her, Sang Ning had mere seconds to escape. With her agility, she could still leap out from the passenger side, but instead, she resigned herself to fate. Sitting back in the passenger seat, she held Li Juezhou’s hand. From across the flames, she exchanged one final glance with Song Shiye and smiled serenely, leaving him a farewell look: "Xiao Ye, go back now. Don’t come any closer!"
In the mere instance of that spoken sentence, a thunderous explosion erupted with earth-shattering force. The overturned SUVs were lifted into the air by the massive shockwave, countless fragments scattering in every direction—a scene so harrowing it chilled the soul to its core. Song Shiye’s knees buckled, sending him tumbling to the ground, while the force flung him back several meters.
Flat on the ground, he propped up his bruised body and unleashed a heart-wrenching wail as never heard before: "Sister Sangsang!"
The sound seemed to erupt from the depths of his soul, shaking the hearts of all who heard it, stirring their own sorrows.
Though blindfolded, Lu Yujing gleaned the situation from the explosion and Song Shiye’s cries. Her distorted laughter burst forth uncontrollably: "Didn’t even cost me any effort! Dead, dead! This world belongs to me now; I’m its ruler from now on!"
Before she could revel for long, a piercing alarm resounded in her mind: "Mission failed. Mission failed. System 007 commencing Host detachment. System 007 commencing Host detachment..."
How could this be? How could this happen!
Feeling her mind being forcibly torn apart by some external force, Lu Yujing screamed in agony: "Help me! Don’t! No, no! Ah..."
Her final cry was a pitiful whimper, like the weak death wail of a dying cat scraping the air.
At the moment the detachment completed, Lu Yujing collapsed limp to the ground, consciousness fading. Before her eyes shut for good, her voice leaked one final bitter query: "Why..."
As the SUVs exploded, Sang Ning felt her body being ripped apart by an overwhelming force. The piercing pain enveloped her fully, and within moments her body flushed with adrenaline, forcing her into survival mode. A brilliant white light flashed before her eyes as a chiming voice echoed in her mind: "Congratulations, Host, for successfully achieving one billion followers on Weibo!"
And then, she blacked out, plunging into a boundless void of darkness.
Though Sang Ning felt she hadn’t completely died, her body seemed to drift endlessly in a vacuum. She tried to open her eyes, but her eyelids felt too heavy to lift. Raising a hand blindly into the air, she groped around, unable to grasp Li Juezhou’s hand.
She didn’t know how long she floated that way, but eventually, a blinding light pierced her vision. Her eyelid muscles trembled violently a few times before slowly opening.
As her eyes adjusted to the brightness, she looked down to see herself hovering above a massive transparent glass dome, within which researchers in lab coats bustled back and forth.
Her body felt as though it could float freely. Like swimming underwater, she moved closer to the glass dome, lying flat against its surface as she peered inside with focused attention.
High above the control station in the lab, lines of glowing blue text continuously flashed. Squinting to read them, Sang Ning saw the words "Space-Time Alliance Bureau."
