Luo Yingbai looked down and saw the knife Zhu Linya had used to threaten him earlier. He had dropped it during the fight after cutting the rope and didn’t know when this child had picked it up.
Looking at Xia Zhi’s serious little face, he suddenly thought of Xia Xianning, and his heart warmed. He smiled slightly and took the knife, saying lightly, “Okay, thank you.”
Zhu Linya on the ground was unconscious from the zombie’s impact and tightly bound by red thread, so Luo Yingbai wasn’t worried about her harming the children. He opened the door slightly and slipped out.
Outside, zombies were patrolling the hallway, seemingly searching for their whereabouts.
Luo Yingbai pressed his back against the wall, quickly dodging to the corner of the staircase. He observed the zombies, noticing they moved stiffly, with white eyes, apparently searching for humans by body heat.
These were very low-level zombies, indicating the limited magical power of their controller.
Luo Yingbai felt more confident.
He snapped his fingers and magically produced a stack of talismans, shouting towards the zombie group, “Go!”
The talismans multiplied in the air, covering the zombies. Those struck were frozen in place. Just as one talisman was about to hit a zombie, it suddenly stalled and spontaneously combusted into ash.
This was an unexpected reaction when talismans attacked non-zombies. Both Luo Yingbai and the person being attacked were stunned. The person suddenly looked up, and their eyes met.
After a brief standoff, Luo Yingbai suddenly shouted, “Peng Xuan!”
He was actually hiding here while avoiding the special investigation team’s pursuit!
Luo Yingbai rarely spoke so harshly. But hearing his senior’s shout, a sudden panic rose in his heart, and he immediately turned and ran.
Luo Yingbai followed, chasing through the dark hallway. Peng Xuan didn’t want to face Luo Yingbai but also didn’t seem to want to leave, running up and down like they were playing hide-and-seek.
After chasing for a while, Luo Yingbai suddenly stopped.
Looking around, he suddenly punched the nearby glass.
The glass shattered. Luo Yingbai leaned out the window frame, landing on the ground. When he looked up, the scene was exactly the same as before – still the abandoned building. When he turned his head, the window he had just broken was intact.
He broke another window and jumped out, only to return to the starting point again.
In this lifeless building filled with countless corpses, with two children waiting to be taken home, being trapped was incredibly frustrating.
Moonlight dimly illuminated half of Luo Yingbai’s profile, while the other half remained hidden in darkness, making him look even more stern.
He carefully reviewed the entire sequence of events.
First, Peng Xuan’s mysterious appearance suggested he had already explored and knew they were trapped by a boundary, which was why he had been circling around instead of trying to escape.
The problem was that Peng Xuan should have been reborn. Logically, if he knew what would happen, he wouldn’t have made such a commotion, running from the special investigation team to here.
Was he, like Luo Yingbai, unaware of these events after rebirth? Or was Peng Xuan deliberately planning something?
Luo Yingbai leaned towards the latter.
He remembered Xia Xianning was still searching for Peng Xuan, probably unaware they were all trapped here. With the boundary outside and no phone signal, they couldn’t even send a message. Suddenly, an idea struck him, and his gaze fell on his knife.
Luo Yingbai sent a message through the knife spirit to notify Xia Xianning about their situation.
Meanwhile, before Xia Xianning received Luo Yingbai’s message, he received a call from Old Master Xia.
Xia Xianning: “Grandfather?”
Old Master Xia got straight to the point: “Xianning, Xia Zhi and Xia Ning have gone missing.”
Xia Xianning was shocked, immediately asking, “What happened? How long have they been missing? Where did they disappear?”
Old Master Xia said, “We suspect Zhu Linya took the children. See if you can find a way to locate Yingbai – he might be with Zhu Linya.”
Hearing Luo Yingbai was involved made Xia Xianning even more worried. Fortunately, Old Master Xia quickly explained that Luo Yingbai had recently visited the Xia family and seemed somewhat strange.
When the children were first discovered to be missing, he came to investigate. The servants mentioned that Luo Yingbai had inquired about Zhu Linya’s whereabouts, though his purpose was unclear, and his phone was unreachable.
Old Master Xia wasn’t suspecting that Luo Mingbai had kidnapped the children but felt that these people might all be together now and was worried that something might have happened to Luo Mingbai as well.
“Senior brother definitely doesn’t know about the kidnapping.”
If he knew, he would have mentioned it when he returned home. However, Zhu Linya might indeed have some problems.
Xia Xianning asked, “Did the doorman say where she went?”
Old Master Xia said, “He said she went to Xia Zheng’s previous home. I’ve already sent someone there. Only Guangchen was at home, unconscious and sent to the hospital.”
Xia Xianning made a quick decision: “I’ll go take a look first. Don’t worry.”
After hanging up the phone and rushing towards Xia Zheng’s home, he saw a message from Gou Songze, who had been chasing Peng Xuan to near Lanze Street and suddenly lost sight of her.
This meant that Peng Xuan, Luo Mingbai, Zhu Linya, and Xia Zheng had all converged there, which was definitely not a mere coincidence.
While driving there urgently, Xia Xianning suddenly recalled Peng Xuan’s previous words about how in his last life, he died because Luo Mingbai had pulled him to block a dangerous situation for herself.
Could this critical situation be referring to this moment? Did Peng Xuan desperately escape to Luo Mingbai’s location to find this turning point and rewrite the ending before his rebirth?
As soon as this thought emerged, he couldn’t suppress it. Xia Xianning was suddenly startled and frantically stepped on the gas, speeding away.
After sending a message to Xia Xianning, Luo Mingbai didn’t wait in place but immediately returned to where he had hidden Xia Zhihe and Xia Ni.
The building was surrounded by a barrier that prevented people from leaving, but movement inside was unrestricted.
Luo Mingbai quickly descended two flights of stairs, turned the corner, and saw someone else climbing up to meet him.
They encountered each other on the same section of stairs, stopping simultaneously – one at the bottom step, the other at the top, looking at each other.
Their eyes met, and Luo Mingbai strode down the stairs. The person opposite was startled and tried to run, but in a flash, Luo Mingbai blocked his path.
Luo Mingbai grabbed the person’s collar without hesitation, lifting him directly in front of himself, and coldly asked, “Are you Xia Zheng?”
Xia Zheng was shorter, nearly half a head shorter than Luo Mingbai, almost entirely lifted off the ground with his toes barely touching.
He looked at Luo Mingbai in terror, stammering, “What do you want?”
Luo Mingbai flicked his forehead forcefully and sneered, “Still pretending?”
The flick caused a black shadow to float from Xia Zheng’s body.
The shadow moved elusively, about to escape, when Luo Mingbai unexpectedly drew his knife with his free hand and struck, instantly cutting down the shadow.
Luo Yingbai said: “So you already knew that Xia Zheng is not Zhu Linya’s biological son, and there are conflicts between them. Therefore, you deliberately designed to make him grasp Zhu Linya’s secret of murder, bought that watch, and planned to use Xia Zheng to take revenge on Zhu Linya?”
