Chapter 66 You Seize the Time!

Fatty and the others' car was parked at a fork in the road not far from the tunnel exit. Upon seeing Jiang Cheng's car emerge, Fatty's dim eyes lit up.

Strangely, their car had been following Jiang Cheng's, but in the tunnel, in the blink of an eye, the car in front vanished.

Even the taillights were gone.

Sitting in the passenger seat, Jiao Tailang immediately understood that something had happened.

After exiting the tunnel, Jiao Tailang had the driver stop nearby. They found the fork in the road and had been waiting ever since.

The driver beside him kept urging, saying that parking was not allowed there, and they would be fined if caught by the traffic police.

But after Jiao Tailang inadvertently revealed half of a large knife from his bag, the driver's complaints immediately disappeared.

Jiang Cheng's taxi pulled up beside them.

Xu Yi, who had been sitting in the back row, was gone.

No one asked the foolish question of where Xu Yi had gone. Everyone fell silent involuntarily.

Xu Yi was dead, killed by the ghost that had targeted her.

It was a very simple matter.

Chu Jiu, in the passenger seat, was crying her eyes out. Fatty finally took her out of the car. Looking at this pitiful girl, Fatty wanted to tell her some jokes to cheer her up.

But before he could open his mouth, his own eyes turned red. He saw a familiar shadow in Chu Jiu.

Compared to Chu Jiu, Jiang Cheng was much calmer. He opened the car door himself and got out. "Let's go back," he said to Fatty and Wan Yuanning beside him.

"Are you okay?" Hua Luo asked, seeing that Jiang Cheng's face didn't look good. He thought he was also injured or frightened.

Looking back at the dark tunnel, what appeared in Jiang Cheng's mind wasn't Xu Yi being bound by the ghost, or the last moment before she jumped out of the car.

Instead, it was a night many years ago, in the dimly lit private room of a bar, when the female police officer with a neat ponytail shouted something to him from behind.

"You seize the time!" she said loudly, pretending to be confident, staring at the men and women squatting in the corner. "I'll wait for you here."

......

"Cough cough... cough..."

Violent coughing aggravated her injuries. Her chest rose and fell, and Xu Yi, who was curled up, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

She slowly opened her eyes. All around was boundless darkness, without any sound.

Beneath her was cold and damp.

She勉强(mianqiang, barely) raised her hand, feeling sharp pain from time to time all over her body.

It seemed that she was seriously injured after jumping out of the car. Her left arm was twisted irregularly, and there were large abrasions on her legs.

She took a deep breath, then coughed violently again, bringing up a large amount of bloody foam.

Damn it.

The worst thing she worried about had happened. Several of her ribs were broken, and it looked like they had folded inward, piercing her lungs.

She tried to use her strong willpower to stand up, but ultimately succumbed to this broken body.

She knelt on the ground, panting heavily.

Blood dripped from the corner of her mouth onto the ground. She had rarely been so embarrassed.

But strangely, the pressure on her shoulders... had disappeared.

There was nothing to be thankful for. The darkness around her was still there, and all sounds were blocked. Clearly, this wouldn't be the tunnel.

At least... not the tunnel she had entered.

The ghost hadn't left.

It was hidden in the darkness beside her.

She could even sense its suppressed breathing.

Those terrifying fellows had the ability to distort reality. It wasn't the first time she had seen it, but thinking about it, it should be the last.

Now that things had come to this, she calmed down instead.

She tried her best to raise her head, looking in the direction she remembered. According to her guess, they... should have escaped.

She hoped they could all survive.

Fatty, Chu Jiu, and... that guy who called himself Hao Shuai.

The face flashed in her mind. Xu Yi tugged at the corners of her lips, forcing out an ugly smile.

He was really dishonest, not even willing to tell his real name before she died.

Perhaps he was just as he said, a bastard who only deceived women for money and sex.

But after seeing her open the car door, his originally smug and shameless eyes suddenly changed. He became panicked.

Like a child about to lose his toy.

That shouldn't be... what a bastard would look like.

A pair of cold hands reached out from behind, cupping her face, or rather, gripping her chin tightly.

Xu Yi didn't struggle. She had already heard the panting behind her, like a broken old bellows.

She slowly closed her eyes.

But the next moment, light appeared in front of her.

"Da."

"Da."

"Da."

The crisp footsteps grew closer and closer. The person wasn't in a hurry, with one hand in the pocket of a trench coat, and the other holding a huge black umbrella. They wore a pair of black leather shoes, and the heels hit the ground, splashing a little bit of water.

Because of the backlight, Xu Yi, whose consciousness was blurred, couldn't see the person's face clearly.

The person stopped in front of her, about 3 meters away.

"All those who want to hurt her can only die."

Taken aback, Xu Yi's vision immediately focused. This voice was somewhat familiar. Where had she heard it before? After a moment—

"It's you!" Xu Yi couldn't help but exclaim.

The black umbrella was raised slightly, revealing a pair of deep red eyes.

"Crack!"

The figure with the twisted neck swayed for a moment, and then fell into the pool of water in front of her.

......

At dusk, before the sky was completely dark, Jiang Cheng, Jiao Tailang, and the others in Building 1 finally awaited the arrival of their teammates from Building 3 in the lobby.

However, only 3 of the original 4 people remained.

Liu Guo, who was walking in front, had a gloomy face.

"Lu Huaxu is dead," he said straightforwardly as he walked forward.

As soon as he finished speaking, Wu, who was standing beside him, raised his eyes and scanned everyone. Chu Jiu was sitting on the side, her eyes dull, and Fatty was squatting beside her, constantly comforting her in a low voice.

Xu Yi... was gone.

"Something happened to Xu Yi too," Hua Luo explained to Wu in a low voice.

Liu Guo paused when he heard this, but Jiang Cheng looked at him and said calmly, "Tell us about your situation first."

"Through that Manager Zhao, we contacted the company where Li Maoshen used to work, but they weren't willing to contact us. They only gave us the phone number of a friend of Li Maoshen's."

"This friend used to be Li Maoshen's partner, mainly responsible for filming, but they broke up later because of disagreements about the direction of the videos."

"Li Maoshen wanted to shoot some eye-catching videos." Liu Guo looked at Jiang Cheng and introduced, "The kind about the supernatural."

"But this friend was timid and refused to agree to anything, so they separated. But according to him, Li Maoshen later found another photographer, but strangely, he heard that both of them died not long after, and they died very close in time."

"Because they were all in the same circle, he knew the photographer's background. His name was Qiao Yu, and he lived upstairs from a coffee shop not far from here."