I Want to Live

"Wang Shao?!" Li Yifei and the other two shouted in unison upon hearing the familiar voice.

The three exchanged glances and immediately sprinted towards the alley Wang Shao had disappeared into.

Lin Qiye stood alone, his brow furrowed as he gazed into the dark alley, his expression grave.

Though he didn't know what had happened, he had a bad feeling about this.

The outskirts of the old city, a perverted murderer, a strange stench, screams...

Something was wrong.

He hesitated for a long time, and after a mental struggle, he sighed in resignation. Finally, he picked up his white cane and rushed into the alley.

If it were any other time, Lin Qiye would never have gotten involved. Instead, he would have run in the opposite direction as fast as he could!

Since someone was screaming, it definitely wasn't good news.

Not good news meant trouble.

A robbery, a murder, or witnessing a crime scene... whichever it was, Lin Qiye didn't want anything to do with it.

He didn't have an overactive curiosity to know what was happening, nor did he have an excess of sympathy to play the hero.

Most importantly, he couldn't fight. What if he lost his life there?

But the current situation was different.

If they hadn't escorted him home, Wang Shao might have taken a different route or left a few minutes earlier and wouldn't have encountered this.

He disliked meddling, but he disliked owing favors even more.

No matter what, he had to at least go and see what happened. It was the least he could do. If he encountered danger, he'd just run.

Lin Qiye's eyes were covered, but his speed was not at all slow. The closer he got to the source of the screams, the tighter his brow furrowed.

The stench grew stronger.

"Aaaaaah!!!"

A second scream came from around the corner ahead, but this time it was a woman's voice.

Jiang Qian!

Lin Qiye stopped abruptly at the alley's turn. The figures of Jiang Qian and the other two appeared within his mental perception range.

Not far in front of him, Jiang Qian was slumped on the ground, her mouth agape in terror as she stared ahead, trembling all over!

In front of her, Liu Yuan and Li Yifei were frozen like statues, their eyes fixed on something ahead, also trembling!

Further beyond... Lin Qiye couldn't sense anything.

He couldn't open his eyes yet and couldn't see the world with his own vision. His mental perception range was only ten meters, creating an extremely awkward situation.

Within ten meters, he perceived everything. Beyond ten meters, he was truly blind.

What had Jiang Qian and the other two seen to be so terrified?

Although he couldn't see, his hearing was extremely sharp. He could clearly hear rustling sounds not far away.

It sounded like someone was chewing on something, chewing wildly and with great relish.

Hmm... it sounded like Xiao Hei Lai gnawing on a bone.

"What happened?" Lin Qiye asked in a low voice.

Jiang Qian seemed startled by Lin Qiye's appearance, grabbing his clothes frantically with her hands, her teeth chattering!

"Monster... a monster is eating Wang Shao's face!"

Lin Qiye's expression changed instantly!

"Run!!"

Lin Qiye and Li Yifei roared simultaneously!

As the word left their mouths, Liu Yuan, like a rabid dog, turned and bolted backward. After being bumped by Lin Qiye's shoulder, he quickly got up and ran for his life!

"Monster... Help! Someone! Monster!" he screamed as he ran.

Lin Qiye, caught off guard by the collision, stumbled. Just as he regained his balance, a dull thudding sound echoed from the distance.

It sounded like a brown bear stomping the ground and charging towards him.

Jiang Qian's pupils contracted sharply. With a burst of strength she didn't know she had, she sprang up from the ground like lightning and ran away screaming.

As for Li Yifei... he had already fled after shouting the word "run," his speed even faster than Liu Yuan, who had pushed Lin Qiye.

If Liu Yuan hadn't made Lin Qiye stumble just now, he would have been much farther away.

But in that split second of delay, he had fallen behind, just like Jiang Qian.

At this moment, it seemed everyone had forgotten Lin Qiye's "disabled" status. The classmates who had just vowed to escort him home had completely abandoned him.

Faced with such a gruesome and terrifying scene, fear consumed everyone's minds.

As Lin Qiye ran a few steps, something entered his ten-meter mental perception range.

It looked like a person, but not quite.

It was said to be like a human because it had limbs and a head like a person, but unlike a human because it was currently running on all fours like a hyena, its body as stout as a brown bear!

Most importantly, a ghastly face grew on its head.

Pale and distorted.

Its long, sharp, scarlet tongue extended half a meter from its mouth, wriggling flexibly.

Lin Qiye's expression immediately turned grim.

Its speed was too fast; in just a few steps, it had gone from ten meters away to within his mental perception range, and it was still rapidly closing in on him!

He could already feel a gust of wind sweeping in from behind him.

Jiang Qian, standing beside him, felt the same. Her face instantly turned deathly pale, her heart filled with terror and panic. She stiffly turned her head little by little, wanting to see how far the monster was from her.

It should... still be quite far, right?

"Don't look back!" Lin Qiye's voice suddenly rang out from beside her.

But it was too late. Jiang Qian's pupils contracted sharply. The terrifying, monstrous face was almost pressed against her own. She could feel the strong smell of blood emanating from it!

"Aaaaaah!!!"

A scream once again echoed through the alley. She abruptly closed her eyes, turning to try and grab her schoolbag to throw at the ghost-faced man.

She had completely panicked.

A schoolbag was not a weapon, and she was not a well-trained warrior.

In such a life-or-death moment, whoever lost their composure first lost their chance to live.

The ghost-faced man grabbed the strap of the schoolbag, and its brute force transferred to Jiang Qian, causing her to suddenly lose her balance and stumble to the ground!

A heavy shadow suddenly fell, crushing down on her...

The next moment, blood stained the night a scarlet red.