*Bzz~ Bzz~ Bzz!*
Feeling the vibration of the phone in his bosom, Tao Bai opened his eyes from his meditation.
He took out Yu Qiong's phone and glanced at the message.
It was a reply from Ba Ye.
He had replied with just two words:
[For real?]
The message Tao Bai had sent earlier was:
[Ba Ye, do you still have any powder? Give me some, and we'll be even. You won't need to send me money every month anymore.]
Humans are often untrustworthy, but the soul bodies in the Blood-Link Mill could not lie.
Yu Qiong evidently contacted Ba Ye every month to make him send her five thousand yuan.
However, she would always delete the call logs and text messages after contacting him.
Over seven years, Ba Ye had already sent her over four hundred thousand.
The feeling that a single secret was being milked for a lifetime made Ba Ye very unhappy.
Tao Bai replied immediately:
[Really.]
[Meet at the old place?]
Tao Bai summoned the Blood-Link Mill and asked Yu Qiong's soul where the "old place" was.
He learned that the meeting place was actually in Lanling City, over 300 kilometers away.
[Same time, old place.]
[I'm not in the country. Give it a few days!]
[Okay, contact me via SMS then.]
After replying to the message, Tao Bai continued to meditate on the tree branch.
Although the spiritual energy in this area was somewhat thin, it was better than nothing...
At that moment, on a construction site a kilometer away, more than a dozen workers began their work one after another.
Waves of noise drifted into his ears, but Tao Bai remained undistracted, his absorption of spiritual energy remaining steady.
Suddenly, Tao Bai's ears twitched.
It turned out a conflict had arisen over there.
Sounds of vulgar cursing drifted over, followed by the sounds of punching, kicking, and screams of pain.
Sigh, I suppose I'll go take a look.
Unable to meditate in peace, he jumped down from the five-meter-high tree branch.
He removed the yellow wooden hairpin, and his black hair cascaded down smoothly, drifting in the wind.
With a thought, the strands of hair shortened, eventually retracting into a short cut that gave him the dashing demeanor of a certain Hong Kong male star at the peak of his looks.
At the construction site.
"Trying to teach me how to do things? Keep talking! Fuck your mother!"
A burly, bald man had a worker pinned to the ground, threatening him.
"Let me tell you, I can afford the compensation even if I beat you to death!"
The worker didn't speak, but the bald man only hit him with more enthusiasm.
The worker glanced at a broken half-brick lying near his hand.
Steeling his heart, he grabbed it!
But suddenly, he thought of his beloved woman and how they were about to walk down the aisle.
His heart suddenly softened.
The brick stopped abruptly just a few centimeters from the bald man's temple.
The bald man broke out in a cold sweat.
After slapping the brick away with his left hand, he punched the worker's head viciously.
By now, many workers were standing around watching.
A coquettishly dressed woman also stepped down from a dump truck, watching coldly as the bald man beat the worker.
Time rewinds to ten minutes ago.
"Ahhh..."
The bald man held the steering wheel, yawning deeply.
He nodded off, and when his head hit the steering wheel, he suddenly jolted awake.
"Xiao Yao, help me clear my head!"
The bald man looked at the woman in the passenger seat.
The woman looked at him and immediately understood.
She tied her hair up.
Burying her head in the bald man's crotch.
…
The bald man was soon sent floating on clouds of pleasure.
Unknowingly, he turned the steering wheel slightly, and then the car seemed to hit something.
Then came the bang of a car door being slammed, followed by a voice:
"Drive a bit more safely, will you, master!"
The bald man instantly lost his mood.
He pushed the woman away, zipped up his fly, and kicked the car door open with a bang.
He jumped out and immediately kicked the worker, cursing,
"Fuck your mother! Slapping my door... don't you know you scared me?"
"You hit me and now you're beating me!"
Sitting on the ground, the worker took out his phone and quickly snapped a few photos, intending to call the police.
Just as he was about to dial, the bald man lunged to snatch the phone.
The worker was quick and shoved the phone into his trouser pocket, trying to reason with the bald man.
But the bald man spewed profanities, clearly having no intention of being reasonable.
From shoving to striking took only the blink of an eye.
The worker didn't resist too violently, which the bald man interpreted as fear.
He beat and cursed him simultaneously, his punches becoming increasingly reckless.
He beat the worker for nearly ten minutes until he himself was panting with exhaustion.
The worker was now half-dead.
At this moment, Tao Bai was approaching slowly from a hundred paces away.
Since many people were watching, they only gave him a fleeting glance before turning their attention back to the fight.
No one stopped him from getting closer.
They just assumed another spectator had arrived.
"Ptui!"
The bald man spat a mouthful of phlegm onto the worker's face and cursed,
"Fuck your mother, my hands hurt from hitting you!"
Seeing the worker covered in injuries and likely having lost the ability to fight back, the bald man stood up from his body.
He turned to walk back to his vehicle, intending to get some tissues to wipe his hands.
Unexpectedly, a sound came from behind him, and the back of his neck suddenly felt cold!
"Youli!!"
Just as the worker was about to headbutt the back of the bald man's head, he was stopped in time by two onlookers—
His fellow workers.
They held him tightly!
Just a little bit more!
Just a little bit...
Damn it!
Just a little bit more!!!
"Let go of me!!!"
Chen Youli roared like a wild beast.
The bald man, realizing it was a false alarm, turned his head.
He looked at Chen Youli and gave a grotesque smile.
"Ptui!"
Chen Youli spat a mouthful of bloody water onto the bald man's face!
*Bang!*
The bald man delivered a straight rear punch, striking Chen Youli directly in the face.
The bridge of his nose fractured.
One tooth fell out, and several others were loosened!
Chen Youli's blood sprayed onto the construction site like rain.
The bald man got into his car, wiped his face with a tissue, then wiped his hands.
He then took out fifty thousand yuan in cash from the glove compartment.
After getting out of the car, he raised his right hand and smashed the money viciously onto Chen Youli's bloody, mangled face, scoffing,
"Fifty thousand. Is that enough!"
"Let... go... of... me..."
Chen Youli mumbled indistinctly.
A large bump had also swelled on the back of his head.
His consciousness was fading.
He felt a sweetness in his throat, and blood bubbles were welling up:
"Hrrk... hrrk... even if I become a ghost... I won't let you go..."
The blow to the back of the head was the fatal one...
By the time Tao Bai saw this scene, Chen Youli was already gasping his last breaths, beyond saving.
"Youli, this money is yours now. Pick it up quickly..."
One of the workers holding him whispered.
"Yeah, pick it up quickly, then go to the hospital for a check-up.
After medical expenses, you should still have twenty or thirty thousand left.
You can pay for the wedding banquet..."
Another worker chimed in.
Chen Youli's head gradually drooped, and his eyes slowly lost their light.
Feeling the weight in his hands increase, one of the workers buried his head low.
When he looked up, he suddenly stumbled back!
It was the most terrifying scene he had ever seen in his life.
The light in Chen Youli's eyes had vanished, replaced by a monstrous hatred!
If an ordinary person were to look directly into those eyes, having nightmares for a few nights would be getting off lightly.
"Ah!!"
The other worker couldn't hold onto Chen Youli's corpse.
The body fell to the ground, eyes staring upward.
The coquettish woman took one look at Chen Youli's eyes and screamed in terror!
"Quick, cover his eyes! I don't want to look at his eyes!!"
The bald man hurriedly took off his black jacket and threw it over Chen Youli's face, covering his entire head!
Tao Bai took a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and pulled one out.
*Ding~!*