Chapter 244: Soul Return

Get out of the car, lock the car, take the elevator, exit the elevator, change into slippers, walk into the living room, sit at the dining table and watch his girlfriend eat while scrolling through Douyin to look at exam points—everything was the same as last time.

"What's wrong? Staring at me the whole time." An Xiaoyu put down her chopsticks, looked up, and blinked innocently.

Lan Shiwen smiled and said: "You've been staying up late often recently, right? You have dark circles under your eyes."

"Hey... is it that obvious?" An Xiaoyu took out a small mirror from her pocket and looked at it. It was indeed very obvious, so she hurriedly put down the mirror, covered her face with both hands, and whispered: "Don't look, don't look. Dark circles are so ugly, you're not allowed to look!"

"If you say don't look, I won't. Who cares." Lan Shiwen still smiled and continued eating.

"Ah~ No, how can you say you won't look and then really not look." An Xiaoyu immediately got anxious, puffing out her cheeks and angrily saying he was a big pig's trotter. Her small face was full of grievance: "We're not even married yet and you're already starting to dislike me. If we get married and have children in the future and my figure goes out of shape, are you going to abandon your wife and children, and be fickle and abandon the old for the new? Hmph..."

Lan Shiwen was stunned for a moment. This time, An Xiaoyu didn't run behind him to turn his neck. Was it because he was the one who brought up the dark circles this time?

An Xiaoyu became more aggrieved as she spoke. Looking at his unhurried appearance, she was so anxious that tears were about to fall. With red eyes, she said: "Why aren't you saying anything? If you become fickle and abandon me in the future, I, I will... I will hold the child and go to your workplace to cry..."

Lan Shiwen couldn't help but laugh. He moved his chair to sit beside her and gently hugged An Xiaoyu's shoulders: "Why are you getting more and more outrageous? You're seeing a short sleeve and thinking of a white arm. You're talking about being fickle and abandoning me without rhyme or reason."

They say that pregnancy makes you stupid for three years. An Xiaoyu was this stupid without being pregnant; if she really had a child, that would be something.

Fortunately, An Xiaoyu's advantage was that she was easy to soothe. Lan Shiwen hugged her and comforted her for a while, and she broke into tears and smiled. She was very easy to coax.

Perhaps because she was thirsty from crying, An Xiaoyu, now soothed, stood up from the dining table and walked toward the refrigerator in the kitchen behind: "Big pig's trotter, do you want to drink milk? Or cola?"

"Milk is fine." Lan Shiwen said without looking back.

"Hey... there's only one box of milk left. I want to drink milk too." An Xiaoyu's voice came from the kitchen behind: "Then let's share the two of us. Can you go get two cups?"

"Sure." Lan Shiwen stood up, his expression turning gloomy without a sound.

—The small round table with the glasses was behind him.

"If I turn back to get the cups now, will it trigger that unknown instant-death rule?" Lan Shiwen thought for a moment and decided not to try.

"Xiao Lan?" An Xiaoyu walked out of the kitchen with a box of milk, looking at Lan Shiwen standing by the dining table, feeling a bit confused: "Didn't I ask you to get the cups? Why didn't you get them?"

"There are cups in the kitchen, right? You can just grab them while you're at it." Lan Shiwen said casually.

"Oh, those in the kitchen have been in the cupboard for a long time. If you want to use them, you have to wash them first. Isn't it better to just grab the ones on the table that we use normally?" An Xiaoyu said while walking to the small round table, nagging him: "You're not even willing to get a cup. You're lazy to death."

Lan Shiwen smiled apologetically, his left hand tucked in his pocket quietly pulling out a red thread.

The red thread was thin and long, its bright red color dripping, as if it had been soaked in fresh blood until it was pulled out just now, clinging to Lan Shiwen's fingers like glue.

*Thump. *

A lovely head with a gentle face fell to the ground. While the red thread wrapped around Lan Shiwen's fingers, it also appeared on An Xiaoyu's snow-white neck, separating the head from the body of this coquettish girl. Her soft body fell against the wall, and her head, with long hair disheveled, rolled to Lan Shiwen's feet.

She died.

Lan Shiwen, who witnessed this scene, felt cold all over.

He lowered his head stiffly and saw An Xiaoyu's pale face due to excessive blood loss. Her features were full of terror and confusion. The moment he saw this face, Lan Shiwen understood one thing: he had killed the wrong person.

"How... is it possible?" Lan Shiwen, with the red thread wrapped around his left hand, stepped back twice, his thigh hitting the edge of the dining table.

How could it be like this, how could it be like this? An Xiaoyu wasn't disguised by Yu Zi Qian, and he had just accidentally killed her.

"No, no, Xiaoyu, you won't die, I won't let you die, I'm sorry Xiaoyu, I'm sorry, I won't let you die, I won't be fickle and abandon you, you won't die, I won't let you cry alone holding the child..."

Lan Shiwen's eyes were vacant, murmuring as if in a daze. His hands wrapped in the red thread slowly raised to his neck. A thin, imperceptible red line tightened in the air, quietly cutting through Lan Shiwen's head.

He died.

11:10 AM. Lan Shiwen had just parked his car in the parking lot downstairs, preparing to go home for lunch.

A dead-leaf butterfly quietly landed on the green tree downstairs in the residential area, observing the car that had just parked in the parking lot. Through the anti-peeping glass, the inside of the car couldn't be seen clearly, and the tightly closed car door had remained motionless for a long time.

"Interesting." Ning Zhe glanced at the entrance of the residential area. The iron gate opened slowly, but the car door remained tightly closed: "How many times have you 'returned' now, Lan Shiwen?"

Ning Zhe was very curious about this question.

After receiving the news of Bai Fugui's death, Ning Zhe did one thing immediately—rushed to Yunzhou at the fastest speed to steal Lan Shiwen's identity and his ability to foresee the future.

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Fen Wu completed his cicada shedding its skin with Bai Fugui's death and hid in the shadows again. This was a very dangerous sign.

After this period of contact, Ning Zhe roughly understood some of Fen Wu's character and style of doing things. This person was extremely cautious. While never hawking without seeing the rabbit, he also paid extreme attention to preserving himself. Even when hunting Ning Zhe in prison, he let brainwashed puppets do it instead of doing it himself.

What could be determined was that Fen Wu was in his weak phase.

The defects of the original strange were intensifying, the countdown to life was about to reach its end, and the external strange that could compensate for this defect had not yet been harnessed. This was the most vulnerable time for a Gridder. Fen Wu always had sufficient patience to wait, waiting for the weak phase to arrive before making a move, harvesting enemies while ensuring he didn't get a drop of blood on himself and remained unscathed.

Such a terrifying person was watching from the shadows, quietly waiting for your weakness. Even someone as resilient as Ning Zhe would feel restless.

So what method could alleviate or even reverse this situation?

—Foreseeing the future.

So Ning Zhe came to Yundu. The Taiyi, complemented by Jueyuan, was finally completely liberated. He no longer had to worry about others' memories shaking his self, and could unscrupulously steal Lan Shiwen's identity from the cognition of a large number of informed personnel within the government, thereby stealing the strange of foreseeing the future.

Lan Shiwen was deeply bound to the government forces of Yundu. This was a good thing, and also a bad thing.

As a Gridder with a government background, Lan Shiwen could mobilize more resources than any lone wolf. But conversely, too many high-level government officials or internal informants knew of Lan Shiwen's existence and understood the rules of foreseeing the future he mastered, which provided great convenience for Taiyi's performance.

However, after stealing enough slices of Lan Shiwen's identity, Ning Zhe discovered...

He simply couldn't foresee the future.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 245 =====