342, January 15, 14:00.
Since all the main roads in City A were cleared at noon, Tang Li rented a truck from the exchange in the afternoon to replenish goods for the supermarket.
However, as Tang Li drove the truck towards a secluded corner, intending to find a deserted spot to replicate supplies from her space into the truck, she noticed a small car tailing her.
Initially, Tang Li paid it no mind.
It wasn't until she tried to shake off the car several times, only for it to persist in following, that Tang Li realized something was amiss.
Still, Tang Li was not flustered.
She drove the truck to an empty corner, stopped by the roadside, got out, and hid inside, waiting for the person to approach.
Before long, the small car drove up.
Tang Li heard the small car stop, the opening and closing of doors, and then the sound of heavy footsteps.
After the person got out, they saw the driver's seat of Tang Li's truck was empty and muttered in confusion, "Where did they go?"
Hearing this, Tang Li frowned.
She wondered, "Is this... Dai Fan? Shouldn't he be in the detention center?"
Despite her confusion, Tang Li kept a close watch on Dai Fan's movements.
Just as Dai Fan rounded the front of the car and came to Tang Li's side, Tang Li exerted her strength, grabbed him by the collar, slammed him hard against an ice wall, and pinned him securely.
Dai Fan hadn't expected Tang Li to possess such strength and had no chance to resist.
By the time he reacted, he was already pinned against the cold wall by Tang Li, unable to move.
"Bitch! Let go of me! You ruined everything for me! I'll kill you!"
Dai Fan was completely distraught, his rage only serving as impotent fury.
But with his face pressed against the wall by Tang Li, his words came out muffled.
"As you wish."
Tang Li took a step back and released him.
Dai Fan paused for a moment, then turned and charged at Tang Li.
*Thwack!*
A knife pierced Dai Fan's clothes and plunged into his heart.
Dai Fan belatedly looked down at the knife lodged in his chest, then looked up at the expressionless Tang Li in disbelief.
Tang Li's face was still as flawless and beautiful as when he had first seen her.
Yet, her face was devoid of any emotion.
There was no panic, excitement, hatred, unease, or guilt.
There was only a placid calm, as if she were merely chopping vegetables rather than taking a life.
Finally, the piercing pain in his chest spread, and Dai Fan felt all his strength drain away.
He raised a hand, pointed at Tang Li, and said in astonishment, "It was... you, it was you..."
Tang Li knew exactly what he meant.
But to a dying man, even if he knew something, no one would ever know.
Tang Li directly retracted the knife into her space.
The blood gushed from Dai Fan's chest, but it was absorbed by his thick cotton coat, and before it could drip to the ground, it froze.
Dai Fan's hand, which had been pointing at Tang Li, fell limply. His body sagged into Tang Li's arms, twitched a few times, and then lay still.
His eyes were wide open, filled with terror and surprise, his gaze fixed in death.
Tang Li immediately put his body into her space.
In her space, the more than one hundred corpses she had collected last time had yet to be dealt with.
Tang Li put the truck into her space, disguised herself as a fierce man again, and drove Dai Fan's car to a secluded corner.
She retrieved Dai Fan's body from her space, selected some from the more than one hundred corpses she had collected previously, and piled them with Dai Fan's body in the corner.
Then, she drove away.
Finding another deserted spot, she switched back to the truck and her original appearance, replicated some goods into the truck bed from her space, and drove the truck back to the supermarket.
Since the main entrance had been blocked, she had to drive the truck to the underground parking lot entrance, then have people unload the goods from the truck and transport them to the supermarket's warehouse.
After a long period of work, Tang Li drove the truck back to the exchange to return it.
At the exchange, she heard the news of Dai Fan's escape. She also heard about the discovery of the bodies of Dai Fan and some of Master Jiang's former subordinates, which confirmed the charges against the Dai father and son for embezzling official supplies for private profit and colluding with others to murder over a hundred lives.
Director Dai was also sentenced to death.