Luo Yingbai’s shirt sleeves were long, and while speaking, he used the sleeve to cover pushing a black obsidian bead hanging on a red thread from his wrist onto the girl’s, then mercilessly pinched her.
The old man and woman’s attention was completely drawn to this foolish youth. The old woman smiled and said, “Young man, you’ve misunderstood. My granddaughter is sick, and I’m taking her to rest at a shop.”
She spoke kindly, hoping to brush off the incident, expecting anyone sensible would leave. But this brat, as if he’d invested all his emotional intelligence in his looks, directly said, “Hmph, impossible. This girl is so pretty, how could she have such a dirty and ugly grandmother? You must be human traffickers!”
Luo Yingbai took advantage of her momentary daze to push her onto the old man, then grabbed the girl and ran towards the alley exit.
The girl had just regained her senses, with recent events still processing in her mind. After finally reacting, she panicked and ran with Luo Yingbai: “Big brother, they…”
She looked back and saw the elderly couple pursuing them at an inhuman speed, her heart nearly jumping out of her throat, stumbling as Luo Yingbai dragged her.
The previously reckless youth seemed transformed. The girl could feel his fingers firmly gripping her arm, pushing her forward and commanding in a low voice: “Don’t look back, hold onto the bead on your hand and run… Do as I say!”
His voice was calm and confident.
Luo Yingbai stuffed his phone into her school uniform pocket, shouting, “Don’t worry about me, go!”
He turned to face the pursuing elderly people, his face now masked with a resolute expression, showing no trace of his previous demeanor.
He spread his arms across the path, dramatically shouting: “I’ve already called the police, don’t come closer!”
The hunched old man cursed and struck a palm at his neck, and this passionate fool immediately collapsed.
The old woman sprouted wings from her back, and actually flew into the air, diving towards the stumbling girl.
The girl was so panicked she couldn’t think, even forgetting to be afraid, with only Luo Yingbai’s instructions to “not look back and run” in her mind. Hearing the sound above her head, she didn’t even look, just continued running.
