Lu Ning stood silently in the middle of the road.
"Brother."
A trace of worry had appeared beneath Zhou Pan's originally panicked expression.
She sensed that something she could not understand at all was rapidly unfolding. Yet she simply could not comprehend it.
Hiss. A faint whirlwind slowly blew into the scene, circling endlessly around Lu Ning.
The person reaching out to grab him immediately shuddered. A sense of foreboding rose in his heart, and he did not dare move again.
"This guy!!" Gu Heng also sensed that something was off and gestured to one of the men beside him. The man swiftly drew the pistol from the back of his waistband, raised it, and aimed at Lu Ning.
The muzzle pointed straight at him. Lu Ning saw it as well, but he merely cast it an indifferent glance before no longer paying it any attention. The look in his eyes was like one directed at wildflowers and weeds by the roadside—without hatred, without pity, nothing but disregard.
"What happened?" Seizing the gap, Liu Ye quietly helped Liu Chenyun up from the ground.
Liu Chenyun tightly gripped his sister's hand and looked toward Lu Ning. He vaguely felt that something immensely important was about to happen.
No matter how he looked at Lu Ning, he was nothing more than an utterly ordinary person with utterly ordinary aptitude. What exactly was going on!? Liu Chenyun unconsciously tightened his grip on his sister, staring tensely at the scene.
Liu Ye was equally tense as she clung to her brother's arm, her breathing growing slightly hurried.
"You pretentious fraud! Take him down!!" Gu Heng faintly sensed that something was wrong and shouted fiercely.
Several subordinates quickly drew their guns and aimed them at Lu Ning.
Whoosh.
A pitch-black figure suddenly appeared at Lu