Ren Yuanhao stumbled forward, rolling until his body hit a hard stalactite and stopped.
"Ren Yuanhao, Ren Yuanhao, your head is worth 1.2 million. This unexpected windfall, I, An Ji, will reluctantly accept it!"
An Ji, skilled with a short blade, was about to raise the blade and stab into Ren Yuanhao's chest when he was halted by a man on a stone bed on the platform above.
"Wait, how did he know we were here? There might be other helpers. Don't be rash. It's not too late to gather information before acting!"
"Flag Chief Li, you fear a mere Ren Yuanhao so much?"
Flag Chief Li snorted, "An Ji, has this mere 1.2 million clouded your judgment? Think about it. This guy managed to make that kid Zhang Liang keep raising the price. There must be a reason. What if there are more experts stationed outside this cave? If we kill him, are you absolutely sure you can break through the encirclement and get your 1.2 million?"
"I didn't expect the mighty Flag Chief Li to have moments of fear!" Big Wind Novel
As soon as An Ji finished speaking, he saw Ren Yuanhao, like a dead dog, stagger and crawl towards Cheng Li, who was lying in a pool of blood.
She was still wearing her pigtails today, her sky-blue dress stained with blood. The fatal knife wound on her neck had not yet healed. Perhaps, if he had arrived just two or three minutes earlier, he might have been able to help her escape.
"Stuttering Hao, you're late..."
"Yes, I'm late, Cheng Li, I'm late!" Ren Yuanhao cried hoarsely. He slowly crawled in front of Cheng Li, reached out to cover the still bleeding wound, and tears streamed down his face, just like the time he was bullied by older kids for not letting go of a big fish he caught.
Back then, Cheng Li had stepped forward to save you from a difficult situation. But now, you can only watch her body turn cold...
Even though you got the system, you're still that useless little guy. You could have driven Shen Lan Ni's Alfa Romeo, you could have floored the accelerator, you could have outrun time, but doubts and fears always lingered in your heart, making you forget that a woman might be enduring unspeakable torment!
Blood stained his hands, hot as lava. Cheng Li's face was the same as it was back then. You even remembered that evening, as the sun began to set, you were so close to him, watching the clouds drift across the sky, the setting sun dyeing the entire sky red. The river was shallow, the sunset hot like blood, the cicadas chirped noisily on the willow branches, frogs croaked incessantly, water weeds twisted and turned, fish hid among them, occasionally surfacing to release large bubbles.
If you had been fast enough, you could have held her hand and experienced it all again. You could have~
An Ji stepped on Ren Yuanhao's head, like stepping on a dead snake.
"Oh, I didn't expect you to be such a sentimental fellow, but it's no use. This little girl is dead. You don't even know how much she suffered when she died." An Ji squatted down, slapped Ren Yuanhao a few times with the back of his hand, and then brought his hand close to Ren Yuanhao's vacant eyes.
"Hey, trash, see the bloodstains on my hand? You think this is from her throat wound? No, this is her impure blood, ha ha ha!"
"Stop talking! Damn it, stop talking!"
Ren Yuanhao's lips were bleeding from his own biting. The sweetish taste mingled with tears and flowed down his throat. It was as if a force was roaring within him, like a lone wolf standing despairingly on a snowy mountain peak, crooning at the moon!
"Didi, system detected that the host's adrenaline levels are severely exceeding normal limits~"
"Didi, system detected that the host's strength attribute has surged!"
"Didi, system detected that the host's agility attribute has surged!"
"Didi, system detected that the host's magic power attribute has been activated!"
An Ji seemed to notice the subtle change in Ren Yuanhao and instinctively took two steps back, looking in disbelief at the dog-like Ren Yuanhao, who stood up from the blood pool in an extremely peculiar posture.
"Who did this."
Ren Yuanhao's voice was as cold as the flying snow of Han Mountain.
An Ji had never been threatened in such a chilling tone before. Just as he was about to speak, he was stunned by Ren Yuanhao's murderous gaze!
"Trash, if you dare say another word, I'll twist your head off right now!"
Ren Yuanhao merely glanced at An Ji dismissively, causing his hair to stand on end.
Flag Chief Li, staring at those bloodshot eyes, felt a chill run down his spine. His expression changed, but he didn't want to lose face in front of his subordinates. He could only respond in a deep voice, "I did it. Traitors naturally have their consequences!"
Ren Yuanhao paid no attention to An Ji behind him. He directly squatted down, picked up Cheng Li, and slowly stood up, as if talking to himself, "It hurt a lot, didn't it? Don't worry, I'll have them come and accompany you to the grave soon."
His voice seemed to be merely stating a fact, devoid of any emotional fluctuation!
Although An Ji stood behind Ren Yuanhao, he felt as if he were facing a true superior and dared not move. His knees even felt a desire to prostrate themselves. Flag Chief Li on the stone bed was not much better. If not for a stone platform beside him for support, he too would have collapsed.
"I will repay this debt of blood with blood. Who among you will go first?"
"Putting on an act, you're courting death!"
The blade in An Ji's hand seemed to finally give him the courage to resist. But as he lunged forward, gripping the blade to deliver a fatal blow to the man in front of him, Ren Yuanhao backhanded him across the face. The moment the force hit, his head spun 720 degrees clockwise, his neck twisted into a knot, and he fell to the ground, his eyes filled with unparalleled terror!
Ren Yuanhao kicked the man's abdomen. An Ji slid like a dead dog for more than ten meters on the ground before stopping, his death extremely gruesome.
"Next, it's your turn."
"Your highness has great magnanimity, spare me this once. I will definitely bury her properly. If she has elders at home, I will treat them as my own parents. I only beg you to spare my life!"
"When you put the knife to her throat back then, did you ever consider this outcome? When you coldly, without mercy, plunged the knife into her throat, did you ever think you would meet the same fate now?"
"Great Grandpa Ren, I was wrong, I was wrong!" Flag Chief Li was so scared that he lost control of his bowels and bladder, his saliva flying everywhere like he had polio.
In the blink of an eye, Ren Yuanhao flashed in front of Flag Chief Li and stepped on the back of Flag Chief Li's neck. "If you kowtow to Cheng Li nine times properly, I'll give you a quick death. If you dare to resist, I guarantee I'll twist your head off and use it as a ball to kick!"