Chapter 931: Couldn’t get it

"Please...please let me go." Second Madam Lei was now truly terrified. She could see that the man in front of her was not willing to let her go. However, she did not want to die. So she could only beg the man in the hope that he would let go of her.

"Let you go? Do you even know what you did? You just tried to kill me!" Yuan Laosi snapped at the woman angrily. "And now you are begging me to let you go? Have you lost your mind? Who would let someone off when they just tried to kill them?" This woman was either a fool or she had lost her mind. Because how could she even say such shocking words? Let her go? He would never let her go.

He stood up and kicked the knife away, but before he could make a move, Second Madam Lei reached out and hugged his thighs. "Please...please...this is my first offence, and I have never harmed anyone. I am a poor woman whose husband was snatched by another woman, and I have no one to rely on other than my son. I made a poor judgment and decision, but I had no such intention. If not for the fact that my son and I were in a desperate situation, I would have never done such a thing. Please...please consider this my first offence, and please leave me alone."

Yuan Laosi studied the face of the woman; she genuinely looked worried and scared. What was more, he understood her actions somewhat. His mother, too, was an old woman whose husband left her early, and she had to raise her child on her own. Realising that Second Madam Lei did it because she had no choice, his heart could not help but inadvertently soften. "Fine, get up."

She remained on her knees. Second Madam Lei refused to get up, as she was worried that if she stood up, this man would snap her neck in half.

"Please..."

"I said get up!"

Hearing the harsh tone, Second Madam Lei went into autopilot mode and followed the command of the man without thinking anything through. She scrambled to her feet and looked at Yuan Laosi nervously.

Yuan Laosi studied her for a moment and then asked in a low voice, "Who was the one who told you that killing an ability user and stealing their core could help your son awaken? You better not lie to me or else I will change my mind and kill you right away."

The threats in his words were clear as day, and Second Madam Lei knew that she would not be able to escape if she lied. So she gulped and answered with some hesitation, "It was the professor."

"What, professor?"

"I don’t know him or what his name is. It was my son who ran into him. He told me that the professor understands the nature of the abilities of ability users better than anyone. He was the one who told my son that he could help him awaken if he could get his hands on the core of an ability user."

When Yuan Laosi heard her twisted logic, he could not help but narrow his eyes. He had heard rumours about some twisted people who were experimenting with the cores of ability users. But he never imagined that there was an even more twisted person who promised this woman that a core snatched from another ability user could help her son.

"Go home." Yuan Laosi waved his hand. He was no longer going to kill this woman, but that didn’t mean that he had forgiven him.

Second Madam Lei stared at him in shock and disbelief. "You are letting me go?" She thought that she was going to die tonight, but this man actually let her go? Don’t tell her that he was sending her away so that he could catch her, along with her son, and kill her and Lei Wu together?

"Do you want me to change my mind?" Yuan Laosi could not help but sneer when he saw her looking at him with suspicion. This woman was really something. She was the one who did such a terrible thing, such as trying to kill him, and yet she was the one who was looking at him with suspicion. Who was the killer here?

Second Madam Lei changed her mind and immediately said, "No! No! I am sorry; I will leave as soon as possible." She then turned around and ran away as fast as she could without waiting for the man behind her to chase his mind.

"Don’t thank me," The man shouted behind her. "If you ever raise a knife against anyone, then I promise that I will kill you. And if that professor comes looking for you, then you better come and tell us. Don’t let him look for another victim." Yuan Laosi did what he thought was correct; as for everything else, he did not care. Whether this woman was willing to listen to him or not, it depended on her. If she was learning her lesson, then she and her son could forget about living a good life.

Second Madam Lei stumbled but continued running without waiting for anyone; she did not stop until she reached past the boundary of the safe base. Lei Wu was already waiting for her behind the base of one of the watchtowers. As soon as he saw her, he rushed forward and took the wrist of his mother and pulled her to one side. There was a wild kind of excitement in his eyes as he said to her, "Did you get it? Were you able to get it? Give it to me. I will take it to the professor right away."

When Second Madam Lei did not take out the core, he could not help but frown.

"Where is it?" He asked with a darkened expression.

"I..I could not get it."