Ren Yuanhao pushed the very thick notebook back to its original position before this woman returned.
Not long after, Yin Shili finally found the last bottle of Nai Baigan and walked out of the room with it.
She expertly fetched two cups, poured them one by one, and said, "Little brother, I have to toast you twice. Your words enlightened me!"
"Damn, she isn't planning to get me drunk and then kill me with a blade, is she?"
Ren Yuanhao's heart tightened, and at that moment, the two of them suddenly heard a series of tapping sounds from the ceiling. It seemed the person living upstairs was using a dance machine and having a blast.
"It looks like your upstairs neighbor is having a great time," Ren Yuanhao said, trying to change the subject, preferably to get rid of the wine.
"That's strange. The person living upstairs has congenital heart disease. How could they make such a loud noise?"
"Congenital heart disease? Zhang Jing?"
A flicker of panic crossed Ren Yuanhao's mind.
Yin Shili frowned, abruptly walked to the landline, and tried to call the property management, only to hear a busy signal, 'beep-beep,' from the receiver!
At the same time, the noise from upstairs grew louder and louder. Ren Yuanhao could no longer sit still and rushed towards the door! Da Feng Novel Network
"This is 505, which means Zhang Jing is in 605!"
Ren Yuanhao burst out the door and sprinted, reaching the sixth floor in just a moment.
605, within sight.
The occupancy rate on the sixth floor was even lower. The grey-black unfinished rooms exuded a heavy deathly aura. The empty corridor was filled with a chilling atmosphere. The dim light at the end of the hallway was like a gaping maw, and the further he walked, the closer he seemed to get to the abyss of a demon.
Ren Yuanhao took a deep breath, gathered his strength, and used some of his inch-force on his feet. The heavy dark red wooden door swung open with a bang!
"Mmm~ Hurry up and go!"
The scene before him froze Ren Yuanhao in place. A man holding a knife had his blade pressed against Zhang Jing's throbbing carotid artery. As soon as the words 'hurry up and go' left his lips, his mouth was sealed shut with tape by the man. Another girl, with a sallow complexion and deeply sunken cheeks, lowered her head, appearing to have fainted!
"Oh? Another prey has taken the bait?"
As the man spoke, he suddenly lifted his head.
Beneath the cloak, the man's face was like transparent window paper, with blue and green veins clearly visible. His pair of eerie green eyes were as gloomy as a wolf's.
But what Ren Yuanhao feared wasn't the voice, but that such facial features were very similar to Yin Shili's!
"Who exactly are you!"
"Why not ask the guy behind you, hehe~"
"Mmm, mmm!" Zhang Jing seemed agitated, clearly trying to warn Ren Yuanhao to be careful of what was behind him!
But just as Ren Yuanhao turned his head, he felt a sharp pain in the back of his head, followed by his vision becoming increasingly blurry, and everything in front of him slowly faded into a misty, impure white.
...
Ren Yuanhao had a dream. In the dream, two figures in cloaks were chasing him. He kept running and running, trees whizzing by, but he couldn't create any distance. Fortunately, stamina in dreams was infinite. He kept running, leaping over high mountains, crossing shallow streams, and wading through rivers. When he finally reached a barren plain, he stopped.
Because he saw dense wooden stakes in front of him. Each stake was stained with dark red blood. As his gaze shifted upwards, he was instantly startled awake—what met his eyes were severed heads, hanging high atop the stakes!
He shivered all over, and a dim green light gradually appeared in his eyes. The air in his nostrils was filled with the pungent smell of formaldehyde.
"You... you're awake?"
An extremely faint female voice came from his left.
"Zhang Jing~ Where are we?"
"I don't know either. My eyes were covered when we were moved here."
Ren Yuanhao shook his head. The injury on the back of his head hadn't healed properly, and now he'd taken another blow. As soon as he moved, he felt his brain sloshing around like scattered tofu dregs.
However, even so, it didn't disrupt the thoughts he had already organized in his mind.
"Holy crap, this is the first time I've been kidnapped by a client!"
Ren Yuanhao cursed inwardly. His memory was clear: before he was knocked unconscious, he had indeed seen a woman, and that woman was Yin Shili!
"Hey, hey, hey, System Sis, aren't you going to show yourself? I could have my skin peeled off and fed to dogs at any moment!"
"Didi, this is called haste makes waste. Learn from your mistakes, and may we strive to improve together in the future."
As the system's voice faded, Ren Yuanhao, thinking it was about to slip away again, sped up his speech and asked, "Hey, if I harm the client this time, will I be punished?"
"Theoretically, yes, as you would have violated the order conditions."
"Damn, she wants my life, and that's not a violation of the order? What kind of ridiculous logic is that?"
Just as Ren Yuanhao was about to explode, he heard the system's voice deepen.
"Think carefully. Does the client truly want to harm you? Or rather, did she ever consider warning you?"
Ren Yuanhao suddenly fell silent. His mind replayed like a silent film. At that moment, the scene of Yin Shili flipping through the notebook flashed into his mind!
"The moment I stepped through the door, it was destined that I would die by a woman's knife?"
This sentence immediately appeared in his mind. And didn't this very sentence explain that the client wanted to warn him in this way?
But why didn't she just say it directly? And why was he hit with that blow?
Ren Yuanhao pondered for a moment and figured out the key—the client must have been coerced by that man, or, that man was someone extremely important to her, and she couldn't defy him!
"Young Master Ren? What's wrong? Are you too scared to speak?" Zhang Jing lowered her head, her hands rubbing back and forth on the edge of the stool, trying to cut through the ropes in this way.
"No, I'm thinking that all of this is too strange. I feel like someone is pulling the strings from behind, leading us into a trap!"
Ren Yuanhao initially suspected Zhang Liangjiang City. However, no matter how vicious Zhang Liang was, he wouldn't play games with his own sister. Moreover, Jiang City and Zhang Liang knew nothing about him being a Didi dating service provider. Therefore, this trap couldn't possibly have been set by them!
"Could it really just be a coincidence?"
As he was lost in thought, a ghastly pale green light flashed by like a ghost, and a pair of eerie green eyes instantly appeared in the dim light!
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, what a pair of beauties. But alas, today you must serve as medicinal ingredients."
The pale-faced man raised a gleaming knife and slowly stepped forward, a cold, icy smile spreading across his lips.