Wen Shu didn't understand what Qin Siyang meant, but she still nodded.
Qin Siyang nodded, stopped in his tracks, turned around, and pushed Wen Shu aside.
A few seconds later, five or six burly men holding knives and clubs came up.
The man leading the group had a small ponytail. Looking at Qin Siyang, he sneered, "Run! Why don't you run anymore? Weren't you good at running?"
Qin Siyang said disdainfully, "We've already reached the place. Why should I run?"
"Reached the place? What place?"
The burly men looked around and found that this was an old and deserted courtyard house. The wooden house and the pigsty had both collapsed, leaving only broken walls and ruins.
In the courtyard, besides the abandoned stone mill, there was also an old stone well, and it was unclear whether there was any water in it.
At first glance, it was obvious that no one had lived here for at least five or six years.
Upon closer inspection, the dust on the ground and the spider webs at the entrance of the courtyard indicated that not only was this place uninhabited, but no one had even visited it.
Perhaps it was a rural courtyard house that had been abandoned before the apocalypse, or perhaps the owner had fled to other places after the apocalypse.
The entire courtyard was pitch-black. They could only make out the general surroundings by the starlight shining through the air-raid glass.
Qin Siyang had also been carefully observing the surrounding environment while running and had deliberately chosen this location.
The man with the ponytail asked, "What's so special about this place?"
"Before answering your question, let me ask you first. You're Li Jingwen's uncle, right?"
The man with the ponytail sneered, "That's right, it's me. The matter between Jingwen and Zhou Yang is the hope of our family, and it can't be ruined by you, kid."
"You even lied to Jingwen, saying that you sent a timed email delayed by a week. In the end, I and my brothers took turns staking out the entrance of the nearby Internet café for a week, but we didn't even catch a glimpse of you."
"Oh, I thought the Internet café was too expensive, so I changed my mind when I went there and set the sending time to a month later. If you stop me, in a month, Zhou Yang will find out about the thing between me and Li Jingwen, and your family still won't have a chance to turn things around."
"What?! A month?! Are you playing tricks on me?!"
Qin Siyang smiled slightly, "Believe it or not, it's up to you."
All the people who had followed were left dumbfounded.
They hadn't expected that Qin Siyang would change his mind after going to the Internet café and delay the sending time of the email that had been agreed upon before.
Wen Shu, on the other hand, looked at Qin Siyang with a puzzled expression, not knowing what he was up to.
The man with the ponytail said, "Cancel the email, and we'll pretend that this never happened!"
"Do you think I'm stupid? If I cancel it, you'll still hunt down both of us, won't you?"
"Then what do you want?"
At this moment, a man beside the man with the ponytail said, "Brother Long, tie him up and force him to tell us the account password of the email. We can cancel his timed email ourselves!"
The man with the ponytail rolled his eyes and asked worriedly, "Are you sure you can get it out of him?"
"I used to be in debt collection. I've done this kind of thing a lot."
"Don't brag to me! This matter concerns our family! If it doesn't work out, I won't let you off!"
"Brother Long, with what you said, I don't know how to respond. There's no such thing as a 100% certain thing in the world. If you don't trust me, forget it. You can figure out a way yourself."
Seeing the group of people in a dilemma, Qin Siyang didn't want to wait any longer.
"Alright, I won't play tricks on you anymore. Actually, you're right. I really didn't send a timed email. As long as you kill me, the matter between Li Jingwen and Zhou Yang will be safe."
"What?!"
The group of people showed expressions of disbelief, not understanding why Qin Siyang would take the initiative to throw himself into trouble.
"Brother Long, this kid wants to die! Then let's grant his wish!"
"Right! Kill him first. As for that girl beside him, let us have some fun with her for a few days before killing her!"
The man with the ponytail was still a bit worried, "This kid wouldn't be trying to go down with us, would he? Maybe he really did set a timed email, but since he thought he couldn't escape, he wants to die quickly!"
"There's a possibility of that..."
"Brother Long, what you said makes sense. But this is your family's business. In the end, it's up to you to decide what to do."
The group of people hesitated again.
Qin Siyang was helpless. People believed him when he told lies, but no one believed him when he told the truth. It was really ridiculous.
"I'm not lying to you. I didn't set the email. I just didn't set it."
"I don't believe you! Guys, tie him up and force the account password out of him. Whoever can do it, I'll give him a thousand copper coins!"
The man with the ponytail made up his mind and decided to spend a large sum of money. He had to get his hands on the email account of Qin Siyang that had the timed email set.
"Okay! Brother Long is straightforward!"
"Brother Long, we have a deal!"
"I really didn't set a timed email. Actually, the reason is very simple. If I had set a timed email, I wouldn't have led you here."
The man with the ponytail frowned, "You were just talking about what's so special about this place, but you still haven't made it clear. I think you're being mysterious on purpose to scare me!"
Qin Siyang shook his head and said seriously, "I'm not lying to you. This place is really special."
The group of people scanned the area again warily but didn't find anything unusual.
The man with the ponytail asked, "What's so special about it?"
"It's especially suitable for killing people."
The group of people were stunned for a moment, and then mocking smiles appeared on their faces.
"Are you stupid?!"
"I've never seen someone who's about to be killed choose their own suitable graveyard!"
"There's really something wrong with your head! No wonder you dared to provoke our Jingwen!"
However, just as the group of people were about to take action, Qin Siyang turned into a blur.
"What?!"
"Thud—"
Qin Siyang kicked out with a flying kick towards the chest of one of the men.
None of them saw clearly what had happened. They only saw Qin Siyang appear beside them, and the brother beside them suddenly flew out.
The group of people turned around in a panic and looked.
They saw that the man kicked by Qin Siyang had a chest that was as deflated as a punctured balloon, completely caved in.
His eyes bulged, his mouth opened, and he moved it slightly a couple of times, as if he wanted to say something. But in the end, he just spat out a mouthful of blood, and his head tilted to the side.
Before he died, his face was still filled with surprise and fear.
The dark environment blurred his facial features, making everyone feel an inexplicable sense of fear.
Seeing the state of their comrade, they immediately realized that Qin Siyang was a sequence ability user!
How was that possible? In a place like [Ju'an School], which was a dump, how could there be a student who had awakened their sequence ability?
Before they could react, Qin Siyang swung a punch, which hit the throat of one of the men like a cannonball.
That man fell backward, and his head swayed back and forth like a puppet with its strings cut.
"Sorry..."
Just as one man was about to plead for mercy, Qin Siyang punched him in the back. He was sent flying several meters and finally landed in front of Wen Shu. She let out a scream of fright and quickly jumped back a few steps.
However, Qin Siyang always felt that when Wen Shu screamed, she didn't seem that scared. Moreover, when an ordinary person was scared, they would usually just startle for a moment. How could someone jump back a few steps like her?
Qin Siyang didn't think about the strangeness of this matter anymore and looked at the corpse.
The man who had just been punched in the back by him lay motionless on the ground. On his back, there was a depression the size of a bowl.
Qin Siyang shook his head, "I still didn't control my strength well. I was already holding back, but I still sent him flying so far."
The man with the ponytail's pupils were shaking, cold sweat was pouring down from his head, and he stood there in a daze, as if he had lost his soul.
The two remaining survivors, apart from the man with the ponytail, saw Qin Siyang's skills and knew that they couldn't fight him and couldn't escape either. They immediately knelt down.
"Big brother, spare our lives! Spare our lives!"
"We didn't know what we were getting into. Please give us a chance! It was Kun Chenglong who told us to come! It has nothing to do with us!"
Qin Siyang ignored them and kicked the two men in the chin. The two men flew backward with their heads tilted back and finally landed on their heads first.
With two dull thuds, they also went to the afterlife together.
As for whether it was the underworld or Satan's hell, Qin Siyang didn't know.
In the end, only the man with the ponytail, who was trembling all over and couldn't speak, was left.
Qin Siyang patted him on the shoulder and said with great interest, "You should also know about the thing between me and Li Jingwen. Originally, I had a chance to call you uncle. What a pity."
Kun Chenglong immediately reacted and forced a twisted and flattering smile, "No! There's still a chance! It's not a pity! We can still become a family! That child Jingwen doesn't know any better. I'll teach her when I get back! I'll definitely make her be with you!"
Qin Siyang pretended to sigh helplessly, "What's done is done. As a sequence ability user, why should I humiliate myself and endure this humiliation? Didn't you say that Li Jingwen is the hope of your family?"
Kun Chenglong nodded blankly, not understanding what Qin Siyang meant.
"With me around, your family has no hope. I can show you a way out."
"You say it! You say it! We'll definitely do as you say!"
"Go to the other world and rebuild your family."
"Yes, yes, yes... Huh?"
Qin Siyang slapped Kun Chenglong in the face. His head spun a full 360 degrees and then fell to the side.
"Don't worry, you won't be alone on the way. After a while, when I have the time, I'll send your whole family down to keep you company."
After dealing with everyone, Qin Siyang let out a sigh of relief.
He had killed again.
How many was this?
He couldn't remember. And it didn't matter anymore.
He looked at Wen Shu, who was standing at the edge of the courtyard, and walked up to her.
Wen Shu was trembling all over and asked nervously, "So you're a sequence ability user?"
Qin Siyang smiled, "Yes."
"Then... Then have you thought about how to deal with the bodies here?"
Qin Siyang didn't expect Wen Shu to ask this question.
"Aren't you afraid that I'll kill you too?"
Wen Shu also seemed not to have expected Qin Siyang to ask this question. She looked up at him with a puzzled expression, "Why would you kill me..."
"Because you saw me kill people."
Wen Shu looked at Qin Siyang with an innocent expression, "If you wanted to kill me, you could just let me go home by myself... They would have done it. Why go to so much trouble?"
Qin Siyang nodded, "You're really smart. You can still be so calm the first time you see someone being killed."
Wen Shu lowered her head and didn't answer.
Qin Siyang threw all the bodies into the well and heard the dull sound of the bodies hitting the ground.
To avoid revealing anything, Qin Siyang didn't even search the pockets of the men for money.
This was a dry well.
He then moved a stone over and covered the dry well.
"Almost done. No one comes here anyway. Let's go."
Wen Shu said, "This way, you'll leave our scent here. If the police find out, they might find us."
"What do you want to do? Burn this place down? No one was here originally, so it won't attract attention. But if you burn it, won't it attract people instead?"
"To get rid of the scent, you don't have to burn this place down."
Qin Siyang was taken aback, "Then what else can we do?"
"The food in the cafeteria has a strong smell. You can sprinkle the food you brought from the cafeteria here and also some in the well. After a while, it will naturally cover up our smell."
Qin Siyang nodded and then looked at her in confusion, "How do you know all this?"
"I usually like reading books, and I read it in a book."
"There's even this in the book? What book did you read?"
"One Hundred Ways to Commit Crimes Without Being Discovered by Sequence Users."
"Why did you read that book?"
"I just like reading books. I read all kinds of books. Didn't it come in handy today?"
Qin Siyang took a new look at the delicate girl in front of him, whose head only reached his chin. He lamented that people couldn't be judged by their appearance.
After dealing with the scene according to Wen Shu's suggestion, he left the place with Wen Shu.
The two of them walked side by side in the dim alley.
"You're really amazing." Qin Siyang sincerely exclaimed.
"Thank you. I think you're even more amazing."
"Just so-so. What's it like to walk side by side with a murderer?"
"Actually, it's okay."
Wen Shu smiled at Qin Siyang, and the starlight was reflected in her bright eyes.
"After all, we have a common secret now."