The system's voice became extremely ethereal.
"I don't know, but I always feel that on such a quiet night, in some dirty place, something is happening, but I just can't guess what it is~"
"Relax, I've never seen such anxious emotions from you, an intelligent AI. Could it be that the system lady is also having her period?"
Ren Yuanhao lay on the bed, wanting to close his eyes and fall into a deep sleep, but his eyes were wide open like copper bells.
"If you keep speaking nonsense, beware of electrotherapy. I guess I might still be a little worried about that 'clairvoyant' girl's prophecy."
"Relax, it's absolutely a good thing if Ouyang Rui can completely forget about me."
"Let's hope so."
Just as the system's voice cut off, Ren Yuanhao's phone suddenly rang. Not many people knew his phone number in this place.
He quickly sat up from the bed. The caller ID showed Ouyang Shuo!
—Why is this old guy calling so late? Could it be that the medicine the system gave me isn't working?
Lost in thought, he answered the call, and Ouyang Shuo's voice shot towards his ears like a released gun.
"Brother Ren, is Ouyang Rui with you?"
Upon hearing this, a hint of ominous premonition flashed through Ren Yuanhao's mind.
"No, I sent her to a place one kilometer from home this afternoon. She insisted on walking, so I..."
"Afternoon? No, no," Ouyang Shuo on the other end of the line clearly panicked. "Ouyang Rui hasn't come back since she left. Even stranger, Ouyang Rui's mother is also missing!"
"What?"
"We mobilized various forces and searched for a long time without any news. Your phone was also unreachable."
After listening, Ren Yuanhao suddenly remembered that Ouyang Rui seemed to be a workaholic. He then looked at the wall clock. "Senior, could Ouyang Rui still be at the company? Given her personality..."
"No one, we checked long ago. Now, I have to suspect the Jiang family's deliberate revenge."
Ouyang Shuo uttered this sentence with great pain.
"Revenge? Senior, didn't you say your two families have always had a good relationship?" Ren Yuanhao continued to guess, "Even if Ouyang Rui rejected Jiang Li, there would be no need for revenge, right?"
Ouyang Shuo suddenly became hesitant. After a moment, he made up his mind and continued, "Brother Ren, you don't know, actually, there's a strange power in the Jiang family called 'Blood Frenzy'."
"Blood Frenzy?"
"Yes, Blood Frenzy only occurs when subjected to extreme blows. At that time, their personality completely changes, and they become uncontrollable. I remember that the third eldest among the Jiang family, who was the same generation as me, killed more than ten people in the Jiang family overnight under the instigation of Blood Frenzy. That massacre was completely erased by the Jiang family, and those who know about it now are basically dead. So I'm worried that Jiang Li also triggered Blood Frenzy!"
Ouyang Shuo seemed to be lost in the bloody memories of the past, and his tone became somewhat low.
"If that's the case, why didn't Senior send people to inquire at the Jiang family?"
"We just rejected the Jiang family's marriage proposal, and they refused to see the people we sent."
Ren Yuanhao jumped down from the bed abruptly, and then remembered the little girl's prophecy. His expression instantly darkened. "Alright, Senior, I'll go and find out."
"Okay, be careful. If you need anything, just call me."
Ren Yuanhao hung up the phone. As soon as he reached the ground floor, he heard a system sound slowly coming.
"Ren Yuanhao, I guess I know what I've been concerned about. It's not some clairvoyant prophecy. This situation has happened once before, but the sense wasn't strong that time."
"What exactly do you want to say? What's strong and what's not? And which time?"
"As your strength grows, as a system, I can naturally sense more things. What I want to say is, this inexplicable unease is actually very similar to that time with Cheng Li. This kind of unsettling tremor seems to only occur when the former employer is on the verge of death~"
Upon hearing Cheng Li's name, Ren Yuanhao felt as if he had been struck by a heavy hammer. His heart seemed to stop, and his breathing became choked!
"Damn it, Green Skin Worm, quick!"
"What's the use of the Green Skin Worm? Do you have any item that retains Ouyang Rui's scent? Without the owner's scent, the Green Skin Worm is like a headless fly!"
Ren Yuanhao pushed open the car door and searched around. Suddenly, he saw a half-finished bottle of orange juice on the door panel!
"This, this was drunk by Ouyang Rui. It must have her scent on it! Quick!"
Ren Yuanhao exchanged for the Green Skin Worm and then madly drove in the direction the Green Skin Worm flew.
The jeep traversed through Stone City at a speed of 120 miles per hour. Fortunately, it was close to 11 o'clock, and the traffic on the streets had become sparse. The night in Yunjin City was very different from that in Aishin City.
Here, the terrain was higher, and the city's neon lights could not hide the lonely and clear autumn night sky. The vast starry sky, like countless microorganisms in the ocean, emitted a faint light, inspiring a feeling of openness and vastness.
But Ren Yuanhao had no time to appreciate it. His mind was filled with the image of Cheng Li's tragic death. He unconsciously pressed the accelerator to the floor, his roaring engine shattering the silence of the night, perhaps waking many sleeping people.
As he drove, the maple trees flashing by on both sides gradually turned into a sky full of flying blood. Gradually, he could no longer see anything in his eyes, and he only stepped on the accelerator with instinct!
—Ren Yuanhao, oh Ren Yuanhao, you heard the little girl's prophecy, why didn't you believe it? Why couldn't you use your brain? If anything happened to her, could you forgive yourself?
You've never found so much sense of existence in a woman. She needs you so much. Every word and deed of yours, even if it's nonsense, she finds profound. She said as long as you are there, she can do anything, but you, you just so casually abandoned her?
Even if you abandoned her for safety reasons, couldn't you have ensured her safe return? At least met her mother before happily going home? If something happened to her for this reason, could you forgive yourself?
Ren Yuanhao's heart felt as if it were being pierced by needles. At this moment, the Green Skin Worm stopped on the red tiles on top of a grayish-blue building.
There was nothing else around the building; it looked like an isolated watchtower. The doors and windows were tightly closed, and it was airtight.
"Red roof."
Ren Yuanhao remembered the taboos Chen Tao had warned him about when he first arrived here. The first one was not to step into buildings with red roofs. As for the reason, he hadn't explained anything.
However, since he was sure Ouyang Rui was inside, even if it was a mountain of knives and a sea of fire, an inescapable hell, Ren Yuanhao would have to brace himself and barge in!