You had no intention of disturbing the Laifu brothers’ conversation and were about to stand up when Laifu happened to turn his head.
Since he called out to you, you could only turn around and respond, "Brother Laifu, long time no see."
As soon as you called out "Laifu," he couldn’t help but scratch the back of his head somewhat awkwardly, smiling as he said, "Brother Li, I go by Zang Ai Fulun now; I don’t use that old name anymore."
Amidst the onlookers’ gazes, as if they were looking through a peephole, you chatted casually with Laifu, oh no, Zang Ai Fulun, as well as his two brothers, Zang Ai (Chen) Penghao and Zang Ai (Yan) Pinxue.
Since the last time you parted, Laifu had changed quite a bit. Although his hair was getting more and more outrageous, his manner of speaking and behavior had improved somewhat compared to his days as a small-time rogue.
"By the way, Laifu, where are you working now?"
"Brother Li, I’m an apprentice at a hair salon."
"Yes." Laifu nodded firmly, obviously not feeling inferior because of such a status, "Though the apprentice’s wage isn’t high, I get to meet a lot of people every day, and I’ve also taken the salon’s best image designer as my mentor. Whenever I have time, I ask him for advice. Brother Li, I’ve already promised Three-wheel. As soon as I become a top-notch image designer, I’m going to marry her!"
"Go Fulun! We support you!" Chen Penghao and Yan Pinxue, the two small-time rogues, looked at Laifu with stars in their eyes.
Although you had no idea who the Three-wheel mentioned by Laifu was, as a true man of China, being able to marry a Yamato girl and make her a virtuous little wife was indeed a skill worth commending!
After a few more words with Laifu, you noticed it was past ten o’clock. You exchanged phone numbers and then stood up to leave.
At 10:13, you drove into the neighborhood and parked in the space below your building.
Getting out of the car, you habitually looked up at your home’s floor, and your eyelids twitched involuntarily, hmm?
Wasn’t it supposed to be empty at home? Why was the living room light still on?
Could it be that you forgot to turn it off when you left?
With doubts in mind, you went upstairs.
Upon opening the door, you were greeted with the sound of the TV from the living room!
Although you were mentally prepared when you entered, seeing a man wearing white clothes, whose appearance was so handsome that even normal women couldn’t compete, sitting in the living room still startled you.
Standing at the entrance, you frowned slightly, staring at him coldly.
The man slightly lifted his chin, speaking in an indifferent tone, "Are you Li Muyun?"
There was no point in denying it at this time.
Even though you felt a surge of anger in your chest, you exercised restraint in the face of this man who had barged into your home and was nonchalantly manipulating the furniture. After all, not to mention anything else, he was simply very powerful!
He was just sitting there doing nothing, yet he gave you an intense sense of danger.
"Do you know her well?"
A glint flashed in the man’s eyes as he spoke with an indescribable tone, "Childhood sweethearts."
Having just heard another interpretation of "childhood sweethearts," rage suddenly erupted within you. With a clap of your hands, four talismans swiftly flew from your pocket, turning into over a dozen wind ropes and quickly wrapping around the man!
"Humph, mere trifles."
The man simply snorted coldly, and the several wind ropes were swiftly shattered into nothingness!
His eyes widened, the Sen Luo Curse Mark flashing rapidly, and immediately eight orange talisman papers flew out of your pocket, whirling in front of you.
With another cold snort, the man suddenly made his move. He grabbed your neck from across the space, silencing your words before they could even be uttered.
The terrifying power he wielded seemed irresistible, slowly lifting your body off the ground!
The intense feeling of suffocation made your chest and throat extremely painful, and your normally clear eyes turned blood red!
The man seemed to realize something; he immediately flicked his wrist and threw you out of the house!
Your back slammed hard against the corridor wall!
A surge of blood rose to your throat, causing you to spit out a mouthful of fresh blood.
As you saw the man walking out, the speed of the Sen Luo Curse Mark spinning in your pupils increased!
"You do have some spunk," the man sneered coldly.
You spat out a mouthful of bloody sputum onto the ground and narrowed your eyes at the man.
Seeing the aura about you rising, the corners of the man’s mouth twitched, and he said coldly, "The Sen Luo Eye is wasted on you. Let me remove it and give it to someone who needs it!"
Before his words had finished, his hands were already stabbing towards you, less than ten centimeters from your eyes!
Your figure flashed instantaneously!
The sound of dull impact echoed as the man’s fingers pierced into the cement wall!
It took three consecutive breaths to calm your heaving chest.
As the man turned around, you didn’t have time to think; you knew you absolutely couldn’t fight here, or he might destroy the entire building!
An Orange Cinnabar Amulet flew out of your pocket, flashing a blinding cyan light behind you, quickly solidifying into a line.
You took a leap backward, and as the man watched in surprise, your feet landed on the cyan light, sliding rapidly downward at an angle!
While you were still midair, the man was already in pursuit!
His speed was incredible, like an arrow released from the bowstring, shooting straight at you!
In an instant, two Brown Vermilion Talismans attached to the soles of your left and right feet, and seeing the man speeding towards you from midair, you shouted again, "Fast Divine Transportation Curse!"
The moment before the man’s hands could touch you, you turned into a blur and ran off at high speed!
"Running away? Let’s see where you can run to!"
A cruel smile spread across the man’s face.
Fast Divine Transportation Curse could let you sprint with a marvelous range of tens or even dozens of meters but, from childhood to adulthood, you never had the habit of fleeing from a battle!
The reason you wanted to shift the battlefield was that—if there was going to be a fight, it might as well be a good one!
You, transformed into a blur, rapidly entered an alley and jumped high as soon as you were out of it, your right foot hitting the top of an off-road vehicle, flipping over the three-meter wall.
When the blur finally reconvened into your figure, you were standing on a wide playing field.
You were not unfamiliar with this place, as it was here that the first collective adventure of the supernatural detective society began.
Here, Wu Qiyi opened up her heart to you and you both were finally able to face each other frankly.
This place was the forbidden area of Old City of Yuhang, Seventh Central Primary School!