The night was deep, and not many people were watching. A man in a black hat seemed to be calling the police, another seemed to be calling an ambulance, and a few others were trying to open the Audi car doors to rescue the occupants.
Danger was slowly brewing at the scene, along with the slight gasoline leak.
Ren Yuanhao, as an observer, saw all of this clearly. In fact, most of the time he didn't use his eyes but his ears, especially the dangerous sound of gasoline leaking, which at this moment was pouring into his ears like a lit fuse.
More and more people were gathering, yet not one of them realized that danger was approaching.
No, a German Shepherd seemed to be sniffing towards the leak, and the owner holding its leash was a young woman in a white dress, in her early twenties.
"Damn, if this huge tanker truck explodes, the consequences would be unimaginable!"
Ren Yuanhao practiced his breathing techniques, but after having just absorbed the鲛人泪 (Jiaoren Lei), he felt his body burning like fire at times and freezing like ice at others. The two forces seemed to have arrayed themselves within him, waiting for a fuse to ignite a conflict.
"This is so damn hard to control."
If he exerted a little more force, his body would sweat from the heat; if he exerted a little less, he would be assailed by the cold. Finding a balance between these two engines had stumped him.
At the opportune moment, he rolled down his car window, gathered his strength, and shouted at the woman being dragged by the German Shepherd towards the leak, "Miss, you can't go there."
The woman, holding her umbrella at an angle, looked towards Ren Yuanhao. Seeing a handsome man, her face instantly flushed. However, her body was still being dragged by the German Shepherd, inching closer to the leak, as if she had completely lost the struggle against the dog.
Just then, black gasoline, following the slightly tilted road, used the rainwater as a bridge, instantly drawing a twisted, fuse-like black trail. Under the flow of water, it had already reached beneath the Toyota parked by the roadside!
Even more dramatically, two drunk men suddenly burst out of the bar around the corner. They staggered as if they were bottles in a bartender's hands. They approached the overturned tanker truck, and perhaps due to the alcohol, they immediately threw away their umbrellas and lunged at the front of the truck like madmen, laughing heartily.
"Yo, bro, look, isn't this Optimus Prime? What's wrong, is he out of Energon?" The man pulled the man beside him, who was even more drunk, took out a cigarette from his pocket, stuffed it into the air intake grille at the front of the truck, and patted his pockets as if searching for something.
"Whoa! It really is Optimus Prime, old friend." The other guy, hanging from the position of the headlights, immediately vomited a large pool of murky filth. He collapsed to the ground, his expression a mix of laughter and tears. Seeing his friend awkwardly fumbling for something, he immediately understood and unhesitatingly reached into his pocket, tossing a lighter to the man.
The man's cerebellum was already numb, and he couldn't catch the lighter. The lighter fell into the water like a pebble, splashing ripples. The man immediately grabbed at the lighter being carried away by the water like a starved dog. After a few flails, regardless of his clothes, he firmly grasped the lighter.
"Let's see where you run, hehe." The man slowly stood up leaning against the front of the truck and walked towards the cigarette. He didn't notice the circles of black gasoline spreading beneath his feet. His alcohol-numbed mind mumbled, "Optimus Prime, the most wonderful things on this earth are, first, this wine, and second, this smoke. I guarantee, the moment you take a puff, you'll be instantly revived!"
*Click!*
The man foolishly pressed the lighter, but fortunately, the lighter had gotten some rainwater in it, so it didn't ignite.
Ren Yuanhao watched from afar, his heart in his throat, thinking, "Damn it, you two drunkards are trying to blow up this entire area for hundreds of meters!"
However, at this moment, he didn't have the strength to stop them. The two opposing energies were already enough for him to handle.
Seeing that the lighter wouldn't ignite, the man didn't seem foolish. He immediately wiped the water off his clothes and shook it dry, as if afraid the wind would blow out the flame. He held down the ignition switch with one hand and shielded the outer edge of the lighter with the other, clicking it twice more!
These sounds stimulated Ren Yuanhao's eardrums like death knells. Fortunately, the lighter seemed unwilling to become the culprit of a major disaster, stubbornly refusing to ignite.
But this situation didn't put Ren Yuanhao's mind at ease. Soon, the man patted his sides and, surprisingly, found his own lighter in his pocket!
"Hehe, you useless thing, you still need me~"
The man tossed aside the lighter he had retrieved from the rainwater, grabbed his own lighter with both hands, and stared intently at the ignition hole, completely oblivious to the black gasoline already filling the area around his feet!
*Click!*
Ren Yuanhao felt his heart stop the moment the flame ignited. Even more terrifyingly, because the man's hands were already greasy with oil, the flame, as if attracted by an invisible wire, instantly leaped onto the man's hand!
The burning pain was more effective than any sobering agent. The man jumped up, waving his flaming hand. The fire, like elves dancing in the air, was about to fall onto the gasoline-covered surface of the water!
—Damn it, am I going to die on the street just after getting my treasure? Burned to a crisp? My bones scattered to the wind?
Just then, those busy with rescue were also stunned by the drunkard. But when they realized the danger that could turn them into ashes, it was already too late. The beautiful woman holding the German Shepherd was so frightened that she collapsed to the ground.
The night wind howled, and the fine rain continued. The entire space seemed to freeze in that instant!
"Go, it's time for you to show your skills."
"Don't joke, I can barely stand right now!"
"You can try to block your dantian, which is like a deep valley, with the 'Star Absorption Technique,' and then use 'Azure Sea Tide' to solely activate the 鲛人泪 (Jiaoren Lei). This should prevent the two forces from clashing."
Ren Yuanhao suddenly remembered the incantation. The Shangyang and Shaocong meridians in his body immediately reversed their flow. Instantly, the qi flowing in his dantian seemed to be completely shielded by something invisible. The inner breath contained within the 鲛人泪 (Jiaoren Lei) surged out, and his entire body leaped out of the car like a dragon, faintly exuding a piercing white aura!
However, sparks scattered everywhere had heavily dripped into the water. The gasoline floating on the surface immediately, like monsters escaping from the Nine Netherworlds, frantically lunged towards the sparks. The two men, who had sobered up from the alcohol, reacted extremely quickly. Just as they turned their heads to lean towards the roadside, they felt a chill on their backs!
The two men felt a frost wind, as cold as ice, piercing them like sharp swords!