Chapter 916: This Person Is Here to Save You

"Miss Cai."

A man's prompting voice did indeed sound from behind Cai Xiaotang.

She instantly regained her focus, knowing that it was likely impossible for her not to go in today, and could only continue walking forward.

Until she stood at the doorway.

The heavy stench of blood in the air already made her subconsciously hold her breath.

Then she gently pulled the door open.

What met her eyes was a staircase continuing downward.

Cai Xiaotang just lowered her eyes to stare at her own toes, walking down step by step.

Immediately after, she heard—

"You've arrived?"

Linke's slightly rising tone was exceptionally distinct.

"Yes."

Cai Xiaotang paused slightly, immediately raised her guard to the highest level, and gave a soft response.

Then she quickly adjusted the expression on her face, pretending to be nonchalant as she looked up and asked, "What did you want with me..."

Before she could finish her sentence, she suddenly widened her eyes in terror, her gaze fixed dead on the ground not far away.

She saw a man lying prone on the floor ahead.

He was wearing black clothes, half his face was soaked in dark red blood, and his feet were bent at unnatural angles, clearly broken.

Looking at the area beneath him, fresh blood, flowing from some unknown wound on his body, had already stained a large patch of the floor.

The heavy stench of blood was emanating from exactly that spot.

Looking further ahead, his two hands also seemed to have suffered varying degrees of injury; the palms were a mass of mangled flesh, and even the fingers were...

"Ugh!"

Looking at that mass of mangled flesh, Cai Xiaotang suddenly bent over violently, unable to control a dry heave, and her whole body began to tremble slightly.

That person...

That person's hands were really...

Never having felt the phrase "chopping off fingers" appear so concretely before her eyes, Cai Xiaotang just wanted to leave this place quickly.

This person really is a lunatic!

He really would kill someone!

It wasn't a joke!

Cai Xiaotang's back felt icy cold, and almost every hair on her body stood up in an instant.

The blade of death was almost hanging right over her head.

A moment of carelessness, and it would fall directly down!

So why did he call her over?

To kill the chicken to scare the monkey?

Cai Xiaotang wrapped her arms tightly around her body, not daring to look at the person on the ground again.

Immediately after, she heard—

"Tap—"

Footsteps suddenly sounded in the room.

Her whole body shuddered violently again; she subconsciously wanted to look up, but then suddenly realized and used all her strength to hold back.

No...

She didn't want to see that person again!

Just as she was thinking this, her chin was suddenly forcibly hooked by someone.

The force in Linke's hand was extremely heavy, causing Cai Xiaotang to knit her brows in pain almost instantly.

Her gaze was also forced to look at the person on the ground once more.

"So scared, huh..."

Linke's teasing voice sounded in her ear, full of the flavor of watching a show.

Seeing that Cai Xiaotang's eyes were red with tension, he suddenly hooked his lips into a smile, forcefully dragging her by the hand a few steps forward!

Then he asked in a tone that could almost be described as gentle: "Take a look, do you recognize this person?"

"I... I don't recognize him..."

Cai Xiaotang was forced to face the half of the person's face on the ground that could still be made out, her mind a complete blank.

This person...

She really didn't recognize him.

Was he sent by Li Xiao to save her?

But why was he the only one?

But fortunately...

Fortunately, it wasn't Laoqi and the others...

Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to be sure if she could still maintain the expression on her face right now.

"You really don't recognize him?"

Linke raised an eyebrow, his fingertips suddenly grazing the back of Cai Xiaotang's hand.

"You'd better look carefully; if you're lying..."

As he spoke, his fingertips had already touched her fingers.

"I said I don't know him!"

Cai Xiaotang screamed, almost driven mad by this tiny tactile sensation.

It felt as if in the next second, a knife would suddenly appear in the hand of the person grabbing her, and slice off her fingers!

"Uh..."

The man on the ground suddenly let out another muffled groan, and his gaze also looked toward Cai Xiaotang's direction.

Linke's voice followed.

"You don't know him, but he came to save you, after all..."

His trailing tone suddenly became somewhat gloomy, like an invisible giant hand, fiercely gripping Cai Xiaotang's throat.

Cai Xiaotang's heart skipped a beat instantly.

Although she had already thought of this possibility the moment she saw the other party, at this moment, she had to make a response.

A response...

To clear her relationship with the person on the ground.

"I..."

She opened her mouth, pondering how to answer, her eyes full of conflict.

How should she say it...

Was there any way to protect this person while ensuring her own safety!

A drop of cold sweat slid down Cai Xiaotang's forehead.

At such a tense moment, she actually felt like laughing.

She must be crazy...

At a time like this, she still wanted to protect Li Xiao's man...

But if she didn't find a way, was she just going to watch this person die right in front of her eyes?

Linke did not urge her, seemingly wanting to hear what she would say.

Time passed second by second.

It seemed like only a few minutes had passed.

Yet it also felt as long as several centuries.

Cai Xiaotang almost developed an urge to let the other party just shoot her dead!

Then, the very next second—

"Sir, everything is ready, we can go."

A man's voice suddenly appeared at the stairwell; it was Linke's trusted aide.

Cai Xiaotang was stunned, a flash of bewilderment quickly crossing her eyes.

Go?

Go where?

Where was he taking her?

As Cai Xiaotang was thinking, before she could react, she suddenly heard a soft sound by her ear.

A "Puff—" sound.

It sounded like something had been shot into something.

She turned her head instinctively—

And immediately saw that the man who had just been lying on the ground now had a bloody hole in the center of his forehead.

Yet his eyes were still staring straight in her direction.

He was dead.

Cai Xiaotang stared blankly at the scene before her, having forgotten to scream.

It seemed...

This was not the first time she had encountered such a situation.

But back then, there was someone who covered her eyes at the very first moment.

Telling her not to be afraid.

Now.

This devil wearing a fox mask, however, had displayed "death" in its most real and cruelest form before her.

Cai Xiaotang wanted to scream.

Wanted to cry bitterly.

But no matter the emotion, in the face of such immense fear, it all turned into numbness.

Until the man's pleasant yet shudder-inducing voice sounded by her ear again.

"Tsk... time is running out, otherwise I intended to let you try your hand at it yourself..."

Cai Xiaotang mechanically took every word into her ears, the numbness spreading from her calves to her spine.

What...

Try her hand at what...

Did he want her to... kill... kill someone?

This terrifying thought made Cai Xiaotang's whole body shudder violently in an instant!

Almost uncontrollably, she suddenly turned and walked toward the direction she had come from, with only one thought left in her mind!

Run!

Must run!

This man is a complete and utter madman!

A devil!

The next second—

Her arm was suddenly grabbed by someone!!!