Cheng Jinyang suddenly woke up from a nightmare. It was around 6 o'clock in the afternoon, and he slowly got up from the sofa, feeling the lingering headache from the clash of thoughts still in his mind.
Ah Zhi hadn't come back yet, and he should be waiting for her at home.
However, the lesson from the last time warned him that when dreams and others' minds intersected, there was a chance they might sense his presence.
So, if Wang Wanrou was standing outside with bloodshot eyes staring through the peephole, he wouldn't have time to escape...
It was better to go to the Xing family's territory to find Ah Zhi now.
Cheng Jinyang quickly left, hailed a taxi, and headed straight to the Pukou District.
At the entrance of the Xing family's territory, Xing Yuanzhi, who had received the news, hurried out and asked him strangely, "Why didn't you wait for me at home? What happened?"
Cheng Jinyang motioned for her to come closer and whispered the events that occurred in his dream.
Although he tried to downplay the situation, Xing Yuanzhi was still shocked to the core when she heard about Wang Wanrou's eyes reflected in the mirror and saw Cheng Jinyang's face.
"You..."
She hastily looked around, then lowered her voice, questioning him with excitement, "How could you... Do you know what kind of person Wang Wanrou is!?"
"I don't know!"
Cheng Jinyang also helplessly said, "But this is not something I can control! Once I enter the dream, I'm already attached to her body, completely unable to control myself!"
"You wait here."
Xing Yuanzhi told him to wait at the door and hurried back to the clan.
After a few minutes, she ran out again, wearing two mechanical gauntlets wrapped in black cloth on her hands.
With her black straight hair and cold temperament, it was very reminiscent of Tifa, the female protagonist in Final Fantasy 7.
"What's this for?"
But Cheng Jinyang, at this moment, had no interest in admiring Ah Zhi's beauty, and asked in confusion.
"This is the Ten Thousand Clocks Fist, for self-defense," Xing Yuanzhi clapped her fists together, making a crisp sound of metal hitting metal, "I didn't bring the Peacock Feather Backpack, its destructive power is too great."
"Anyway, let's go back first. If she doesn't make any moves tonight, we'll visit her tomorrow."
"Why, do you think there will be danger tonight?" Cheng Jinyang was a little frightened.
"Initially, I made the decision that if you resisted, I would kill you," Xing Yuanzhi said with a cold laugh.
Cheng Jinyang: ...
Well, Xing Yuanzhi's secret is at most about her and her father's reputation.
But the secret broken by Wang Wanrou is even bigger:
Obviously, all members of the Taiyuan Wang family were imprinted with ideological seals during the ancestor worship ceremony at the age of 12, strictly ensuring "family interests first" and "not harming family interests," etc.
In this case, Wang Wanrou's use of the conflict loophole in the ideological seal and her own strong computational power to wear down and remove the ideological seal is undoubtedly a blatant challenge to this family system.
By analogy, it's like suddenly having a branch ninja from the Hyuga clan in Naruto who can unlock caged birds.
Once the secret is exposed, the next likely scenario is "the entire clan hunting down."
To avoid being "hunted down by the entire clan," it is only reasonable to eliminate Cheng Jinyang, the person in the know, isn't it?
So what kind of "golden finger" is this nightmare of mine!
It's causing me trouble all the time, and even a dumb system wouldn't have messed with me like you!
Cheng Jinyang couldn't help but complain while reluctantly following Ah Zhi towards Wujiang Town.
The two of them didn't choose to take a taxi but opted to ride a suburban bus instead.
On the way to the bus stop, Cheng Jinyang even imagined a scenario where a car would suddenly come out from ahead with three men in suits and sunglasses holding assault rifles, and then Ah Zhi would turn around and hug him, shielding him from all the bullets, and then sing a song of hope.
Well, or maybe the actual situation could be the opposite.
If his blood splattered on A Zhi's face, she would probably make a twisted expression of "getting dirty."
Surprisingly, Cheng Jinyang found himself not feeling nervous or scared at all with these random thoughts.
Or rather, compared to the intimidating monsters in his dreams, if Miss Wang only sent a car full of assassins... it wasn't really that terrifying, as long as he could find cover.
The journey to the bus stop went smoothly, and the two of them took a suburban bus.
Fifteen minutes later, they arrived at the center of Wujiang Town. They got off the bus and walked to the residential area. Sure enough, they were stopped by someone in a alley a few minutes later.
Cheng Jinyang's residential area was located in the southeast corner of Wujiang Town. To get from the bus stop to the residential area, they needed to pass through an alley connecting to the main road. The alley was not wide, just enough for two cars to pass side by side.
However, perhaps because no cars had passed by for a long time, the surrounding eateries had set up tables and chairs outside, allowing diners to enjoy their meals in the open air, making the whole alley lively yet with a touch of excitement.
At this moment, several burly men with unfriendly expressions surrounded the two, their eyes icy without speaking, seemingly unwilling to explain the reason for their confrontation.
Cheng Jinyang's gaze instinctively scanned the surroundings, but he didn't see any cars... only a few electric scooters casually parked on the roadside.
Well, electric scooters would have to do.
Using a pendulum bomb to clear a path was also an option.
As he pondered which direction to break through, he heard Xing Yuanzhi speak beside him:
"Don't use pendulum bombs; it wouldn't be good if someone got hurt... Let me handle this."
Cheng Jinyang suddenly realized that Miss Wang was using innocent people to provoke him, thus causing casualties and landing him in detention.
What a cunning plan!
Xing Yuanzhi suddenly leaped forward, utilizing her light-body technique to reduce her weight, allowing her legs to exert even faster speeds.
In the blink of an eye, she crossed a distance of two to three meters and charged towards the leader of the group.
Xing Family Fist - Tiger Roar!
She sank her body and punched the man in the abdomen. The burly man, nearly two meters tall, was sent flying over ten meters away by her punch—upon impact, he was rendered as limp as a shrimp, completely incapacitated.
Another thug beside him extended a palm like a fan (exaggerated rhetoric), reaching out to grab her.
Xing Yuanzhi responded with a high leg kick, a whirlwind kick!
The big man seemed to have trained in sanda as well, about to execute a leg-grabbing throw, but then stumbled suddenly as he stepped out with his right foot. As he did so, Xing Yuanzhi's chaotic body algorithm locked onto him.
His right side became significantly heavier while his left side rapidly lightened, causing his entire body's center of gravity to shift sharply to the right, making it impossible for him to maintain balance.
At the moment Xing Yuanzhi's whirlwind kick struck him, the mass of her leg also increased accordingly, so the big man felt as if he had been struck in the side of the face by a solid steel rod, his mouth bursting open with blood, unable to get up after falling to the ground.
While she was busy fighting in front, several other big men rushed towards him from behind, attempting to grab and subdue the isolated Cheng Jinyang.
Cheng Jinyang sighed, "So, Ah Zhi, you're having fun up there while not planning to help me deal with the guys sneaking up from behind?"
Relying on his keen intuition honed over many years of training, he quickly turned around and coldly asked the two big men charging at him from both sides, "How many floors can you carry with a bag of rice?"
Before they could respond, as if struck by an invisible force, the two men were forcefully propelled backward and sent flying.