After watching Qin Feng leave, Ning Wangshu immediately headed for Linchuan Thirteenth High School.
It was the high school he and his younger sister, Ning Ruoxuan, attended.
Ning Wangshu looked at the residential buildings near Linchuan Thirteenth High School, then immediately walked into one of the alleys...
He wandered through the alleys among the residential buildings for quite a while and asked plenty of people, but he never ran into his sister or managed to find out anything.
However, just as Ning Wangshu was about to turn into the alley ahead and ask around again,
a girl of about sixteen or seventeen, with fair skin and delicate features, dressed in very plain clothes, turned into the alley carrying a freshly packaged takeout meal.
When Ning Wangshu saw her, he froze for a moment. Then, a look of delight immediately crossed his face.
He was so overwhelmed that it felt as if something were caught in his throat. He took a deep breath before finally calling out, "Ruoxuan..."
At the sudden sound of Ning Wangshu's voice, the girl across from him froze. She instinctively looked up, and the moment she saw him, her expression went blank.
Then—
With a slap, the takeout meal in her hand fell straight to the ground.
She stared at Ning Wangshu, her eyes turning red in an instant!
Just as Ning Wangshu thought his sister would rush over to him in delight, Ning Ruoxuan did something he never could have expected.
She took a deep breath, glared fiercely at Ning Wangshu, then picked up the meal from the ground, turned around, and ran...
Ning Wangshu was stunned by the sight.
At a loss, he had no time to think. He hurried after her, calling, "Ruoxuan, why are you running? It's me, your brother—"
But Ning Ruoxuan didn't even look back. Her voice rang out, brimming with resentment: "I don't have a brother like you! Go away! Don't come looking for me again! I've considered you dead for a long time!"
Hearing his sister's words, Ning Wangshu froze. He couldn't understand why she resented him so much that she wouldn't even acknowledge him as her brother.
By Earth's reckoning, he had only been missing for a little over three months.
But that only made him more determined to find out what was going on.
Just as Ning Wangshu was about to speed up and catch up to her, he suddenly saw his sister stumble backward in a panic at the corner of the alley up ahead—
The next moment, two men with menacing faces stepped out from around the corner.
"You little brat, you're pretty good at hiding! But today, we finally caught you. Let's see where you can run now!"
One of the men fixed Ning Ruoxuan with a malicious stare and a sinister grin.
The other man chimed in with a sneer. "That's right! You'd better sign this Letter of Understanding right now."
"Otherwise... heh heh, don't blame us brothers for not treating a pretty girl gently. We'll just grab you, stuff you in the car, and then you really will be calling out to heaven and earth for help in vain!"
"You're still a virgin, aren't you? I've never had a virgin before. I'll give you one last warning: don't push your luck!"
At their words, Ning Ruoxuan's face filled with terror and panic. Her voice trembled as she cried, "W-what... what are you going to do?"
"I-I'm warning you! If you d-dare lay a finger on me, I'll call the police and have you all arrested!"
But Ning Ruoxuan's words did nothing to intimidate the two men.
One of them even chuckled. "Oh, you'll call the police and have me arrested? I'm so scared! I'm terrified! Ha ha! You probably don't know that the detention center's practically my second home."
"You really think people in our line of work are afraid of doing time? Hah... At worst, we spend a few years in prison. Once we get out, we'll still be living the high life."
"But what about you? Tsk, the best years of your life, your precious innocence as a young woman, taken by two lowlife thugs."
"Tell me, how are you supposed to live with that for the rest of your life? When you get a boyfriend and get married, and your boyfriend or husband asks why you weren't a virgin, what are you going to say?"
"Should you tell him two lowlife thugs took your first time? Ha ha..."
The man cackled smugly as he kept advancing toward Ning Ruoxuan...
Ning Ruoxuan's face had gone deathly pale. She retreated again and again, panic and helplessness filling her eyes!
Not far behind Ning Ruoxuan, Ning Wangshu heard the two men's words. Shock and anger surged through him!
"You're dead!!"
Ning Wangshu was furious.
The next moment, he appeared in front of Ning Ruoxuan.
The two men saw a blur before their eyes. Before they could react, a young man had appeared in front of them. They both froze.
Then they frowned.
"Hey, kid, who are you? If you don't want to die, get lost!"
One of the men barked coldly.
Ning Wangshu snarled, "I'm King of Hell, here to send you on your way!"
Then he turned his head and told his sister, "Ruoxuan, close your eyes!"
At Ning Wangshu's words, Ning Ruoxuan instinctively shut her eyes.
At the same time,
Ning Wangshu spread his arms.
The two men didn't even have time to react before an invisible force yanked them right in front of him.
Then Ning Wangshu planted one hand on each of their heads. A terrifying force surged from his palms...
Bang! Bang—
The two men didn't even have time to scream before Ning Wangshu crushed their heads like watermelons!
Blood mist burst outward!
But at the same time, True Fire flared in each of Ning Wangshu's palms.
In an instant, it burned the blood mist and both men's bodies to nothing, leaving only wisps of smoke drifting away, as if the two men had never existed...
Even though Ning Wangshu could only wield power at the peak of the Golden Core Stage now,
his True Fire could melt even pure gold in an instant, let alone two mere human bodies. The whole thing hadn't even taken a second!
The reason Ning Wangshu had chosen such a brutal method, crushing their heads instead of simply killing them with True Fire, was purely to vent the fury in his heart!
After all, he had only just found his sister, and already he'd seen her bullied like this, with her innocence used to threaten and intimidate her.
How could Ning Wangshu tolerate that?
If he hadn't been worried about making the scene too bloody and gruesome, he wouldn't have wanted to let them die so easily.
"W-where are they? You... what did you do to them?"
Just then, Ning Ruoxuan's voice sounded from behind him.
She had instinctively closed her eyes at Ning Wangshu's words, but quickly came to her senses. Why should she listen to him?
She immediately opened them again.
But although she'd only closed and reopened her eyes in an instant, by the time she looked, everything was already over. She hadn't seen a thing.
She had only heard two muffled sounds, as if something had been crushed.