Chapter 28: Clouds of Doubt

Chen Fengshi ran into the alley, rushing in the direction Little Family Beauty had just turned into, looking around while constantly asking about the situation on the other end of the phone.

“Don’t come…” On the other end of the phone came Little Family Beauty’s weak voice, and then the call was hung up.

Don’t go?

In the alley, Chen Fengshi looked at the narrow walkways between the old houses, frustrated that he did not know where Little Family Beauty lived.

Did her saying not to go mean that it was related to the Fungal Demon?

But could Chen Fengshi just quickly retreat and go home because of this?

Chen Fengshi did not hesitate at all, he just racked his brains for a way, and then he sent a message to Little An: ‘Tell me Little Family Beauty’s address, something happened to her.’

Just as the message was sent, in the dim alley, a figure quickly crossed the alley entrance in front of Chen Fengshi, and as it passed, Chen Fengshi smelled a faint scent of gunpowder.

Chen Fengshi leaped up, suddenly flying as light as a feather onto the roof of the old seven-story building, and when his feet stood firm, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He hadn’t thought that much when jumping, just feeling that this person was very suspicious and must be followed, and only during the jump did he remember the reality that he had no experience, until he really cleared the roof’s railing and stood steadily, his nervousness finally relaxed.

In this brief moment, Chen Fengshi looked down at the alley from above, and saw a dark shadow quickly pass by, he directly jumped across two buildings from the rooftop, and when he saw the dark shadow appear at one end below, he took a deep breath and jumped straight down!

Jumping up was stressful, and jumping down was of course even more stressful.

Fortunately, he had the experience of a trial jump, so when he landed, although there was a loud thud, the impact was not great.

Chen Fengshi suddenly dropped from the sky, blocking right in front of the dark shadow, the person was clearly stunned, and then quickly reached to their waist, grabbing a gun. At the same time, in Chen Fengshi’s eyes, he saw red mist quickly spilling out from this person’s skin, and a red mist thread extending from the top of their head!

This person was a Fungal Demon Parasite!

In the dimness, Chen Fengshi could not see at all whether the person was reaching for a knife or a gun from their waist, but no matter what it was, he directly kicked the person flying into the wall, and while the impact made them dizzy, Chen Fengshi grabbed the person’s wrist, pressed and twisted it, and a dark object fell to the ground, the dull metallic sound making Chen Fengshi secretly startled.

But he didn’t bother to pick it up to confirm the fallen object, directly pressing the person against the wall, and putting his other hand on top of the person’s head, he saw the red mist thread being quickly and continuously absorbed by the golden mist on his skin, and at the same time the golden mist covering his body rapidly thickened.

The man pressed against the wall had a strong body, but could not counter Chen Fengshi’s strength at all, for the first twenty-plus seconds he was in a dazed state, and then he started to struggle, his left hand seeming to feel for a weapon on his body, Chen Fengshi directly pulled his head back by pressing on it, and then pushed it against the wall, immediately making the person dizzy again from the impact.

During this time, Chen Fengshi twisted the person’s hands together, holding the person’s two overlapping middle fingers with one hand.

Chen Fengshi looked around, on both sides of the dim alley, he could not see anyone moving, nor could he hear any other sounds, only the breathing of him and that person, by comparison, his own breathing was surprisingly heavier.

Yes, he was very nervous, because of the suspected handgun weapon fallen on the ground; because of the weapons still hidden on the man pressed against the wall that he didn’t know what they were; and even more because of the unknown of whether there were still Fungal Demon Parasites around.

None!

No abnormalities were found around, Chen Fengshi reminded himself to calm down, in the quiet alley, his heavy breathing gradually became quieter, until it returned to a normal, steady pace.

He dragged that person, ducked into the nearest stairwell, and vanished into the darkness behind the first-floor stairs.

The red mist outside that person’s body had already disappeared, and the red mist thread extending from the top of his head had not stretched very far at all.

Chen Fengshi used the man’s own belt to tie his hands behind his back, and after his dazed state recovered a bit, he interrogated: “Where is the person?”

“I killed the person! Isn’t it just paying with my life? She arrested my brother, causing my parents to die from excessive grief triggering an acute illness! Caused my house to be foreclosed on, my brother’s business was gone, how many creditors came to the door to demand debts, my wife couldn’t take it and ran away with the kids! It’s all because of that damn female cop! Being able to kill her for revenge today, even if it’s a life for a life, I accept it!” The man had already given up struggling, and as Chen Fengshi listened to his words, his body involuntarily trembled!

Little Family Beauty… Little Family Beauty was killed by this guy?

“Where is the person!” These three words were squeezed out as if from between his teeth, and at the same time, he squeezed the man’s wrist with a little force, causing the man to cry out in pain repeatedly: “Building 34, Unit 3… it hurts, let go quickly!”

Chen Fengshi delivered a knife-hand strike to knock the murderer unconscious, not bothering to say any more nonsense to him, whether this memory was real, or an Illusory Memory created by the Fungal Demon, Chen Fengshi did not know. But even if it was true, it was clearly the misfortune caused by his brother’s crime, yet he could actually consider it the fault of the law enforcer Little Family Beauty?

Chen Fengshi wrapped his hand, tore the man’s clothes, tied up the man’s legs, and then tied and fixed them to his arms, making it so the man had no way to move his body no matter what, only then did he return to the alley, picking up the previously dropped metal weapon with a cloth wrapped around it.

This was a gun, a black handgun. But he did not understand handguns, and it was too dark to see the markings on it.

This gun made Chen Fengshi secretly fearful, fortunately that person did not have the chance to pull the trigger on him just now. And after feeling lucky, he was again burning with anxiety over Little Family Beauty’s situation.

Building 34, Unit 3!

Chen Fengshi found it quickly, he hadn’t even walked into the stairwell when he smelled the scent of blood. The voice-activated light in the stairwell was still working, and as he walked up the stairs, the orange light illuminated the situation on the stairs.

He saw Little Family Beauty, she was collapsed at the very end of the stairs leading to the first floor.

Blood, a large pool of it flowed on the stairs, flowing from the seventh step all the way to the fifth step, and was still slowly flowing down.

Because of anger, Chen Fengshi’s clenched fists were shaking, just as he was about to rush up, suddenly the door inside the first floor opened, and he quickly backed out of the stairwell, listening outside.

When the stainless steel metal door opened, a scream rang out in the stairwell, followed immediately by a woman’s voice shouting: “Husband, come quickly! Someone is dead! Come here someone, someone is dead—”

“Call the police quickly!” a man’s voice shouted from inside, yes, call the police, call an ambulance!

A resident had discovered Little Family Beauty, Chen Fengshi could only silently hope that she was still alive, that she could still be saved.

Chen Fengshi ran back quickly, dragged the still unconscious murderer outside the stairwell where Little Family Beauty was shot, stuffed the gun into the murderer’s pants, and wiped the positions on the belt that he remembered touching with a cloth.

By the time he finished doing this, he heard the voices in the stairwell getting noisier, clearly more and more residents were disturbed.

Suddenly a call came in, he had already turned off the ringtone just now, and seeing the number, it was Little An’s.

He answered the call, and quickly crossed the alley to leave the scene.

“Little Family Beauty…”

“Location, I’ll come find you.” Little An directly interrupted him, Chen Fengshi quickly realized, realizing that it might not be convenient to talk so much on the phone, to avoid potential trouble, so he said with a smile: “Just said you were Little Family Beauty, didn’t expect you to turn into a wild sexy lady, come on, I just finished a late-night snack on Hualin Road, waiting for you at the bus stop.”

Chen Fengshi left the Hualin community and hadn’t waited long at the bus stop before he saw a police car turn into the community at an intersection, closely followed by an ambulance, so he couldn’t help but raise hope in his heart, Little Family Beauty might still be alive, and if she was alive then there might be hope of saving her.

At this time there was no one else around, Chen Fengshi waited in front of the bus stop sign for about five minutes, a black car with an unfamiliar design drove over, stopping right in front of him with a sudden brake, and the passenger side door was within reach.

From the outside, the situation inside the car windows could not be seen, the privacy was very strong, Chen Fengshi guessed it should be, but still hesitated and didn’t open the car door right away, at this time the car window rolled down a crack, and Little An’s impatient voice came from inside. “Get in.”

Only then did Chen Fengshi open the door and get in, before he even fastened his seatbelt, the car directly started fast and sped out, even the sound of burning tires could be heard.

Chen Fengshi could tell this, he had tried it once with his family’s car, and then his mother felt very distressed and said it wasted tires. So he never played like that again, and he couldn’t help but sigh in his heart, what kind of experience is it to not have to care about wasting tires?

“Tell me the situation.” Little An didn’t have any extra nonsense either, Chen Fengshi saw a customized photo in the car’s ornament, but it wasn’t Little An. He briefly explained the situation, and at the end, asked Little An if she could find out about Little Family Beauty’s situation.

“…You shouldn’t have gone over.” Little An rejected Chen Fengshi’s approach, only her voice sounded much softer, and Chen Fengshi didn’t know if it was an illusion. At this time the car stopped at a red light intersection, Little An took out her phone and sent a voice message, asking someone to find out about Little Family Beauty’s situation.

“I had to go look, if there really were too many suspicious people, of course I wouldn’t recklessly expose myself. But how could I not even go look? What if she needed rescue?” Chen Fengshi didn’t think his approach was reckless, although to be honest, he now realized how dangerous it really was as a group possessing the Power of Life.

“The situation in Xuancheng is not optimistic—”

Suddenly, the car had just turned a corner, and a person pushing a cart full of scrap rushed out from the side of the dim road, Little An was already driving fast, going over sixty kilometers even through the turn, she hurriedly braked and turned the steering wheel, barely avoiding hitting that person, but the corner of the scrap cart scraped the car door, and was knocked flying and tumbling far away, the cardboard on it, the scrap in the snakeskin bags, scattered all over the ground.

Both Little An and Chen Fengshi were startled, but fortunately, the old man pushing the scrap cart was fine, just stunned from the shock, and then he quickly hurried over shouting: “Pay up! You have to pay…”

It was hard to say who was at fault in this situation, but even if the driver had no responsibility, they still had to bear some, not to mention scattering all the things the person had worked so hard to collect, Chen Fengshi was about to open the car door to go down and help clean up.

But unexpectedly, Little An suddenly rolled down the window, and shouted: “Sit still and don’t move!”, as she spoke, she casually pulled a stack of money from the armrest box, threw it out the car, and coldly said: “Keep the change!”, and then, directly started fast and accelerated away!