Chapter 437

"Hmm. Brother, look quickly!"

"Look at what? I'm counting money for you right now. We'll split it according to what we agreed, but the cost of the goods has to be deducted first."

"Brother, look, look quickly."

"What kind of madness are you... what is this?"

The original factory building was merely empty; aside from some damage to the windows on both sides of the roof, it could hardly be called dilapidated.

But at this moment, the corrupting traces of time were gradually spreading.

The cracks in the concrete floor were constantly widening, the slogans on the walls were peeling off incessantly, old moss on the roof was growing wantonly, and even the sunlight shining in after the rain stopped began to depreciate, gradually turning dim and yellow.

This scene made one subconsciously believe they were in a dream, yet they were very certain that since they could remember, they had never had such a realistic and detailed dream in their lives.

A girl wearing a white dress walked in slowly.

All the changes centered around her.

It is difficult to describe the girl's image in words; it was as if her entire being was so perfect that not a single flaw could be found.

If it were in the past, upon seeing such a girl alone, even if she were young, they would have been unable to resist harboring some crooked thoughts and approaching her, or simply following her; if they didn't do something, they would feel as if they had wronged themselves, leaving a great regret in their lives.

But right now, they didn't have the slightest such thought.

The fear drawn out by the eerie atmosphere was like a pot before boiling, currently brewing its final state.

The girl raised her head, her eyes devoid of any superfluous expression.

You could feel that she was looking at you, but at the same time, you could be certain that she didn't seem to be looking at a person.

This was not an intentional slight but a purely natural disregard, making you feel completely isolated from the surrounding environment; you began to doubt the value of your own existence, and even reflect on whether you still had the necessity to continue existing.

A Li did not rush to act, just watching them calmly like this.

An invisible pressure continuously accumulated in all directions; there was no targeting of them, they just happened to be two objects here.

Behind, Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan also stepped into the factory.

He didn't crowd to the front, but consciously kept his distance.

He wanted to lean against the wall, but because the wall was too dirty and covered in deep rust and dust, he simply rested the sole of his right shoe against the wall to support his body.

Not just the story of his own river-walking, Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan would tell A Li about some experiences in his life as well.

A Li had listened.

That is why she didn't make a move now.

She was waiting for the other party to strike first, then she would carry out legitimate self-defense.

Actually, with Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan's current accumulation, there was no need to be so calculating anymore; he had done plenty of things that violated taboos and deducted from his merit book.

The two thieves before them both had dark green auras circling their foreheads, meaning they were burdened with evil debts; they hadn't killed anyone directly, but surely people had died because of them, and more than one.

However, A Li wanted to do things perfectly, and Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan had no reason to say no; after all, this was also a kind of diligence and thrift.

And once they were on the river, this awareness of details and discipline would be incomparably important and precious.

The metal poker cards in his pocket began to heat up; it was the Talisman Armor.

Although there were no evil threats in Nantong, when Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan went out alone, he would still bring the two of them with him.

Right now, the two generals of increase and decrease were a bit unable to hold back, eager to apply for battle.

Bai He Master Master Master Master Master Master Master Master Tongzi had taken the first step and every step thereafter, having already occupied the high-ground ecological niche; no matter what they did, they would always be suppressed by the boy.

At this moment, they saw a good opportunity to overtake on a curve.

If the two of them could be valued by the mistress, wouldn't a mere little boy be directly handled?

On the other side, the two thieves finally could no longer continue to withstand this pressure, each letting out a loud cry, carrying a bit of madness and hysteria, as they rushed toward A Li.

The girl's fishing-style law enforcement had succeeded.

A Li raised her left hand and held up one finger.

She wasn't pointing at either of the two, but at the cigarette butts all over the floor around the broken sofa behind them.

"Sasa sa..."

Like flowers blooming, those cigarette butts covered in their saliva began to decompose, turning into thin, shredded strips of paper, quickly piecing together.

It pieced together a person, a bit rough, but generally, some features could be discerned:

It had a hunched figure, yet was extremely tall, its feet seeming to step on stilts, and one hand carrying a lantern.

A Li hadn't brought talisman paper, and the improvised cigarette butt paper wasn't quite enough, so when it took shape, it only had a front and no back.

But, it was enough.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan recognized it; this was Yu Yu Popo.

It counted as one of the first batches of evil spirits Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan had drawn out from A Li's dreams.

In the long years past, it had persistently come to A Li's threshold to carry out various curses and mockery.

After being incinerated by his karmic fire, A Li had even drawn its ending to collect.

So, A Li's drawings were not just as simple as collecting.

From the moment A Li came to Zhang Shen's small shop to answer his phone call, Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan realized that his understanding of A Li was not that deep.

This was not the girl deliberately hiding things, but rather that before she could go out normally and participate in river-walking, many things had no meaning in being displayed.

The only thing Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan hadn't done well was that he knew the girl longed to follow him on the river and help him, but he still underestimated the degree of the girl's longing, and the efforts she had secretly made behind his back for this.

Every time he went out on the river, she, left at home, was not sitting in the room alone, wasting time waiting.

After "Yu Yu Popo" appeared, the lantern in its hand swung forward, lengthening like a fishing rod, and wrapped around a thief's neck.

The thief fell to the ground with a "bang," and was then quickly dragged backward.

"Hehehe... hehehe..."

"Yu Yu Popo" emitted a cold, sinister laugh; its body leaned forward, hanging down, and two fingers of one hand were inserted into the thief's eye sockets.

Just like the punishment it had meted out to those abducted, disobedient children when it existed back then.

"Ah!!!!!!"

The thief's eyeballs were not gouged out, and there wasn't even any bleeding, but his eyes gradually lost their luster, becoming dim and lightless; his world would also become pitch black from this moment on, never to see light again.

The other thief was still rushing toward A Li; his companion's screams made him slow down. He stopped, and when he wanted to turn back to see how his companion was, he discovered he couldn't move his neck.

A Li's gaze locked onto him.

The girl's hair swayed gently; above the thief's neck, blue veins were exposed, about to burst.

His heart's beating frequency began to intensify; he subconsciously opened his mouth as wide as possible, attempting to alleviate a bit of the pain.

At his chest, on his clothes, there seemed to be traces of a flood dragon darting; waves of terrifying air currents entered his body, and along with their revival, they gradually ran rampant.

Using the Qi of the Liu family to control the dragon of the Qin family.

It wasn't because A Li was the only young bloodline of the Qin and Liu families that she attracted the encirclement and intimidation of evil spirits; a mediocre person with average aptitude wasn't worth such a grand display by the evil spirits. It was precisely because A Li possessed terrifying talent that they swarmed together, attempting to strangle the hope of the Qin and Liu families' inheritance rising again.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan needed to learn, think, and comprehend the fundamental techniques of the Qin and Liu families, and finally, he had to constantly polish the methods of using them.

And A Li's existence was naturally compatible, as if the inheritance of Long Wang Qin and Long Wang Liu was naturally meant to serve her and follow her will.

Just like when Qin Shu was in a difficult situation, Liu Yu Popo could directly help him reach the goal in one step.

A Li alone could complete such a thing.

The dragon shape moved, and the thief knelt on the ground with a "thump"; the exposed blue veins continuously burst with blood, and soon the whole person was covered in blood.

His body changed from kneeling to leaning forward, his forehead pressed to the ground, his hands and feet turned outward, twitching constantly.

The hand and foot tendons were too broad; all the meridians in his body had already snapped under the rampant impact of the dragon shape.

From today on, he would be unable to control his own skin, his own muscles, his own joints, and even the simple action of closing his eyes completely would require someone to help him smooth them over to be able to do it.

Most importantly, as A Li's gaze moved away, the dragon shape left his body and dissipated on its own.

A Li did not kill him, letting him continue to live in this way.

A person who had been surrounded by countless evil spirits since childhood, whose very reality had been soaked to the point of distortion, how could she possibly be that kind of innocent, kind girl defined by secular tradition.

It wasn't that the boy had taught her bad habits or corrupted her; this was what she had seen day and night, and been influenced by, in the past.

In fact, only Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan could carry the true smiles and clarity in her eyes.

The Talisman Armor in Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan's pocket, which had been heating up and creating a disturbance, suddenly calmed down and became quiet.

"Ah!!!"

The thief under "Yu Yu Popo" had his screams come to an abrupt end.

Unlike his companion who was covered in blood, he didn't have the slightest wound or a drop of blood on him, but his eyes were blind, his ears were deaf, his throat was mute, his nose lost its sense of smell, and his tongue lost its sense of taste...

He was also still alive; setting aside some insignificant little details, his body was still very healthy.

"Yu Yu Popo" straightened up, its figure dissipated, turning into cigarette paper on the floor.

The thief groped as he climbed up, his mouth continuously making hoarse sounds. After finally standing up, he began to grope around; when he approached his companion, his foot was tripped by his companion's body on the ground, and when he fell, his head hit the concrete floor, and he fainted.

This wasn't faked; facing such a thing, if one could still calmly fake a faint, such psychological quality wouldn't allow one to engage in petty theft.

The decaying traces in the surroundings gradually receded with A Li as the center.

After everything returned to normal, the girl turned around; upon seeing the boy, the indifference on her Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Face dissipated, and two cute little dimples appeared.

But as if thinking of something, she lowered her head silently.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan walked over, stood in front of the girl, and also lowered his head, letting their foreheads gently press together.

Those two thieves lying together became their background at this moment.

A Li's eyelashes flickered slightly; she carefully raised her eyes and saw the smile on the boy's Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Face.

The slight haze in the girl's eyes was swept away, returning to brightness.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan remembered that when he had once, in order to counterattack that pair of dwarf father and son, spared no effort to overdraw himself to the point of blindness, and when he returned home and shared this matter with A Li, A Li had squeezed his hand.

Although Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan couldn't see at the time, he knew that the girl was smiling then, happy that he had successfully counter-killed that pair of dwarf father and son.

It is precisely because we both know what we are like that we feel fortunate because the other party does not mind.

The bag filled with loose change was picked up by Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan; the boy took the girl's hand and walked out of the factory building, arriving at the tricycle.

He had "lost and regained" many things, but this tricycle was likely the cheapest one in history.

Arriving at the health academy, by the flower bed at the entrance, Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan saw a group of plainclothes officers assigning observation points.

The boy walked into the hospital and proceeded along the corridor in front of the wards.

The conversations of the medical staff reached his ears; they were talking about the money being stolen, and also mentioned a man from a while ago who had scraped together money to treat his mother's illness, only for that money to be stolen as well. When he went out to borrow money again, his mother, not wanting to continue dragging her son down, went to the hospital rooftop herself and jumped off.

The victim in this incident, with a haggard Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Face, sat on a bench in the corridor, eyes vacant.

The doctor who had paid the medical expenses for his own daughter had just finished his rounds and, with a smile, told him that his daughter's post-operative recovery was going very well; he had even bought a small toy for blowing bubbles for his daughter, to give to her once she woke up.

Some things, once they happen, are impossible to explain away; even if the woman tried her best to explain, many people would still think she was intentionally trying to dodge the debt, staging the whole thing herself.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan placed that bag silently on the bench beside the woman, with a note stuck to the top of it.

Those two thieves would ultimately still have to be handed over to the police officers to handle.

What awaited them would be the judgment of the law.

It was also to let them live a little longer, to properly savor the pain of this state; the longer they lived, the more it would be a fate worse than death for them.

This was fair, because they were the ones who had made others experience this feeling first.

While placing the bag, Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan also casually picked up the bubble-blowing toy and tucked it into his pocket.

A Li liked playing with this.

In the past, when he accompanied A Li to watch open-air movies, he would buy one from a street vendor to give to her.

There were also some for sale in the shop at the entrance of the health academy, but Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan had put the money from his own pocket into the bag as well.

Since they had already eaten fried skewers and weren't hungry, Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan wasn't in a rush to take A Li home for lunch; he simply rode the tricycle, taking the girl for a ride around Shigang Town, and the girl sitting on the vehicle rested her Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Face against the boy's back.

When passing the high school gate, Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan slowed down the tricycle.