Chapter 862: Huang Kaiyu, Let’s Leave Alice Apartment!

The late night air was still quite chilly, so Ling Feng wore a short-sleeve shirt underneath with a black hoodie on top.

He walked with his hands in his pockets, passing by the Green-haired Guy.

Then, after walking a short distance, he was about to pass by Jiang Ran.

Jiang Ran stood still in place.

Just as the two were about to brush past each other, Jiang Ran suddenly lurched violently to the left, scrambling backward.

When he had retreated a sufficient distance,

Jiang Ran suddenly lifted his head.

He was ready to lay into Ling Feng.

Because, in the moment Ling Feng was about to pass him by, the Danger Warning in his mind had abruptly shifted to an imminent danger alert.

That meant Ling Feng was about to make a move on him!!!

Therefore, Jiang Ran had lurched wildly to the left and scrambled backward.

At the same time, he felt incredibly exasperated inside.

Seriously, why does everyone and their mother want to take a shot at me?

As he raised his head, ready to angrily interrogate Ling Feng, he discovered something that caught him completely off guard. Ling Feng was just standing there, hands in his pockets.

There was absolutely no sign of him intending to make a move.

The Green-haired Guy on the other side saw Jiang Ran's little stunt and craned his neck in confusion:

"Jiang Ran, what the hell are you doing?!"

Jiang Ran's face flushed red.

How was he supposed to explain this situation? That he thought Ling Feng wanted to kill him, so he frantically retreated backward to dodge. But when he looked up at Ling Feng, the man was still standing there with his hands in his pockets, showing absolutely no intention of attacking.

Jiang Ran suddenly began to wonder if the System was malfunctioning? No, that shouldn't be it.

Could it be that he'd been brain-bombarded by the System's Danger Warning so many times that he was starting to have auditory hallucinations, and he'd just misheard?

Jiang Ran always had a habit of blaming himself.

What he didn't notice was that Ling Feng, whose eyes had been calm before, now still appeared calm on the surface, but beneath that calm lurked a turbulent shock like crashing waves.

Ling Feng had indeed been about to strike.

In the left pocket of his hoodie, his hand was gripping a palm-sized miniature dagger, one that had claimed many lives.

It was razor sharp.

The moment he was about to brush past Jiang Ran, he had been ready to make his move, to slash that dagger straight across Jiang Ran's throat.

But Jiang Ran, right as he was about to strike, had already started retreating backward.

As if he had predicted it in advance.

So how could this not fill him with shock?

He hadn't even made a move yet! He was only thinking about it, so how did the other guy know what was going through his mind?

Could he read minds or something?

Ling Feng pretended nothing was wrong and walked away.

But his hands hidden in his hoodie pockets were trembling slightly.

"Looks like privilege level 50 isn't so easy to earn after all."

...

"Damn! Jiang Ran, we need to get to the library right now!"

At this moment, after Ling Feng had left,

the Green-haired Guy rushed over to Jiang Ran in a panic.

Jiang Ran asked what was wrong.

The Green-haired Guy said, "Lin Yu just messaged me, saying they ran into a psycho killer at the library! They want us to come for backup!"

Jiang Ran frowned. "Psycho... killer?"

Staring at the phone in his hand.

The Green-haired Guy said, "Yeah, a psycho killer! He also said if we don't get there soon, they're going to die in the library!!!"

The Green-haired Guy looked like his eyebrows were on fire.

Jiang Ran was about to blurt out, let's go, let's hurry and help, and all that.

But when he snapped back to his senses,

he kept his mouth shut.

Backup?

Wait a minute, he was just an assistant manager. What backup was he supposed to provide?

Wasn't that the security guard's job?

"Tell you what, let's split up. You go provide backup first, and I'll go round up more people. The more people we bring, the safer it'll be."

Jiang Ran said to the Green-haired Guy.

The Green-haired Guy stammered a few times, then said, "It's useless if I go alone. How about I just go with you to round up people instead?"

Jiang Ran raised an eyebrow in confusion. "But I thought you were in a hurry just now?"

The Green-haired Guy played dumb. "Was I?"

Inner Landscape World.

"Hilarious. This kind-memory main personality, I remember a few days ago when he was watching the Nancheng City serial rape-murder case coverage, he said, 'If I ever run into this killer continuing his crimes, I'd definitely step in to save people.' And now? He's making excuses to go find people instead of rushing to the rescue right away."

Blue-haired Jiang Ran sat on a small chair, looking up at the outside situation.

Smoky Makeup Jiang Ran glanced at him. "He's not wrong though. He said he'd step in if he saw the rape-murder killer continuing his crimes. This isn't that situation."

Judge Jiang Ran said, "Smoky Makeup, let's be real here. Everyone knows that this kind-memory main personality has already changed. He can't do the whole self-sacrificing-for-others thing anymore, especially when he knows damn well there's a tiger on the mountain."

...

Library.

The library had become a sealed-off space.

This was presumably the work of the man in his thirties and the Monkey King Mask Man.

Once the five-minute countdown ended, they went straight to the second floor. No idea why they didn't search the first floor first.

After reaching the second floor, the two split up again. One stayed on the second floor, the other went to the third.

The first floor fell silent.

With the silence settling in, Huo Yun and Huang Kaiyu, who were still hiding in their original spots, suddenly found themselves at a loss.

They hadn't managed to catch any lab rats to begin with. The Pimply Guy was just bait, disguised as a lab rat to lure out the person who wrote the white paper.

But now, the fake lab rat had also run off.

The deadline was 2:30 AM, and it was almost midnight now. Only a few hours remained.

Huang Kaiyu reached his right hand to the injury on the back of his head.

He couldn't feel the wound itself, only the bandages and gauze wrapped around his head.

The texture of the bandages and gauze was a bit rough, and touching them somehow helped calm him down.

Thinking back to that night, the silent hands that came out of nowhere, and that blow to the head.

Huang Kaiyu still had lingering fear.

Honestly, he wasn't afraid of dying.

What he was afraid of was that his death would leave the stray cats and dogs he cared for out on the streets, starving to death, dying of thirst, or being snatched up by cat abusers.

Huo Yun turned his head, seemingly reading Huang Kaiyu's worries.

He said, "If it comes down to it, let's just leave Alice Apartment!"

"This place is like a madhouse, full of lunatics trying to kill people. I mean seriously, killing for fun, what the hell is wrong with these people? Even The Artist isn't as crazy as they are!

You heard those guys just now too, the two psycho killers they ran into. That's way too dangerous.

And they're even playing manhunt. Do they think they're in a damn movie?!"

Huang Kaiyu clearly wasn't in the mood for ranting. The only thing he cared about was Huo Yun's first sentence: "Leave? If I leave, where can I find a place that pays 10,000 a day?"

"Forget 10,000, even 5,000 a day or 1,000 a day, I can't earn that anywhere outside!!!!"

Huo Yun said, "Money's hard to come by these days. 1,000 a day is like climbing to heaven."

"But have you thought about it? If you die here, your cats and dogs will have no one to take care of them."

"But if you leave here with me, that's one more day you can care for them."

"A long pain is better than a short one."

Huang Kaiyu shook his head. "There's no chance."

He stared straight at Huo Yun, his expression grave:

"Huo Yun, do you know why I came to Alice Apartment in the first place?"