Kill, Grind His Bones to Dust!

At this moment, in the distance.

That man had just gotten onto a sightseeing cart and was slowly approaching along the path.

"Buzz—"

The silence continued, but Su Ze's phone vibrated.

As if sensing something, he picked it up and glanced at it, only to find an unfamiliar text message.

The message contained his personal information.

It ranged from his parents and relatives to the businesses he had once made money from. Though the investigation was far from exhaustive, it was still enough to convey the sender's arrogance.

—A little nobody at your level can be investigated thoroughly with a flick of my finger.

The silence continued.

Su Ze kept his eyes fixed on the man in the sightseeing cart.

Qin Yushi finally realized that Su Ze seemed to be staring at something, so she followed his gaze...

[Bai Zhimao?]

[This guy got here pretty quickly. No, he must have arrived at the park long ago. Is he some kind of lunatic...?]

Through Qin Yushi's thoughts, Su Ze confirmed the other man's identity.

He continued watching him without blinking, his expression calm.

Very soon.

The sightseeing cart stopped in a suitable spot.

But it did not stop near Su Ze and Qin Yushi. It stopped where Chen Keqing and the others were flying kites.

The distance was a little too great. Su Ze concentrated to the limit and barely managed to hear the voices over there using Father God's Listening...

"You're Chen Keqing, right?"

The man stopped before the group of high school girls, a gentle and refined smile on his face.

"Mm..."

Chen Keqing nodded foolishly, while her classmates beside her looked the man over curiously.

"The news of your parents' passing is regrettable. When I have time, I'll go pay my respects."

The smile on the man's face remained warm.

But after saying what he had come to say, he turned away with utter disdain.

He got back onto the sightseeing cart, patted the driver's shoulder, and the driver understood, turning back the way they had come.

As he headed back, the man continued gazing at Su Ze from afar...

"Heh."

Su Ze smiled faintly.

Now, he could be certain that Wang Zixin and Sun Bin being tied up and dragged into a car earlier had also been an accident arranged by this young master of the Bai family.

Just like how he had deliberately exposed the secret Chen Keqing had carefully kept hidden in front of her classmates.

His target was Su Ze. He wanted to tell Su Ze...

—I can not only crush you to death, but the people around you should watch themselves too.

"He just..."

Qin Yushi had also seen Bai Zhimao approach Chen Keqing.

Of course, she had no idea what Bai Zhimao had said to her.

All she could see now was Chen Keqing crying in the distance, while her two female classmates stood helplessly beside her, unsure whether they should comfort her or quietly stay put...

At that moment, Su Ze finally spoke.

His tone remained calm, with a faint smile on his face. "What were we talking about just now? Oh—I wanted to ask you something too. Do you like the Bai family's second young master?"

Qin Yushi shook her head and replied without hesitation, "No. Who would like a lunatic like that..."

She was not exaggerating in the slightest.

Because she could guess that Bai Zhimao had just hurt another innocent person.

And this might only be the beginning...

Just like how he had arranged for someone to beat up Su Ze last night. If Su Ze had taken the beating, backed down, and disappeared, there might not have been any follow-up today. But if Su Ze continued resisting...

"Since you don't like him." Su Ze looked toward the direction Bai Zhimao had left, his smile fading. "Then I'll kill him for you."

"What?" Qin Yushi froze, a flash of surprise reflecting in her beautiful eyes.

Whoosh—

A sinister gust of wind suddenly swept past.

Qin Yushi's hair was blown into disarray. She reached up to smooth it down, then heard Su Ze laugh again.

"I'm joking. If you want me to act because of you, you should first consider what price you're willing to pay."

As he spoke those meaningful words, Bai Zhimao returned to the camping area within Su Ze's line of sight. One side of the camping area had plenty of obstructions.

And Su Ze was waiting for the best opportunity.

Whoosh—

A fierce gale howled.

It was far more violent than the sinister gust from before.

Qin Yushi raised a hand to shield her eyes and protect her hair, afraid it would be blown into a mess again.

And in that moment, while she knew nothing of it.

In the distant camping area, an arrow struck Bai Zhimao in the head. Without making a sound, he fell to the ground, then was swiftly consumed by white flames.

Not even a speck of ash remained.

One of the people with him had merely turned away to prepare some ingredients. When he turned back, Bai Zhimao was gone.

But no one noticed anything strange, and they quickly looked away again...

"This wind is so strange."

When the sinister wind stopped, Qin Yushi muttered softly.

"It was a little noisy."

Su Ze replied blandly.

If this had been after Apocalypse's Arrival, perhaps someone would have been able to see the towering phantom formed by the Guardian God behind Su Ze.

That arrow had been fired with precision by the Guardian God.

The gust of wind was merely the aftershock Su Ze had deliberately released when drawing the bow and firing the arrow...

Now, he had given his answer.

But the answer had been given to that young master of the Bai family.

"What did you say just now? Oh... killing him. I think that'd be fine. I really do hate him." Qin Yushi resumed their earlier topic, joking with a smile.

She thought she had received Su Ze's answer too.

The earlier silence had been his answer.

Since that was the case, she naturally would not make things difficult for Su Ze any further. They could just let the matter pass...

"Sorry, I need to go comfort my girlfriend first."

Su Ze spoke at the right moment, parted ways with Qin Yushi, and headed straight toward Chen Keqing.

"What a pity."

Watching Su Ze leave, a trace of complicated emotion passed through Qin Yushi's eyes.

She had actually hoped that Su Ze would give an answer about facing the challenge head-on. Perhaps she would have stayed with him to the very end and fulfilled the promise she had made him last night...

What a pity...

With a subtle sigh, Qin Yushi picked up her phone again and looked at the message on it.

The earlier vibration had been a message from Bai Zhimao.

He had invited her over to sit and chat.

Qin Yushi went over now.

But.

When she arrived, she did not see Bai Zhimao anywhere.

When she asked the others, they were equally confused. They only said that he had been right there a moment ago...

"Kill him..." Su Ze's words suddenly surfaced in Qin Yushi's mind.

But she quickly shook her head, refusing to entertain such an unrealistic possibility.

Meanwhile.

Su Ze had arrived at Chen Keqing's side as well.

The girl was still shedding little pearls of tears, unable to stop crying.

The two female classmates stood beside her with their necks hunched, not daring to say a word.

They were sitting on pins and needles too.

Even if they had not understood at first, they should have understood by now.

Even friends as close to Chen Keqing as they were had not known what had happened to her family. That surely meant Chen Keqing herself did not want the people around her to know.

But now... because of a stranger, they knew too.

"Waaah..."

Already crying her heart out, Chen Keqing cried even harder when she saw Su Ze appear before her.

She just could not stop...

It was not because she felt wronged, nor was she afraid that more people would learn about the changes in her family.

She was simply overwhelmed by an indescribable sadness...

At eighteen, while preparing for her second attempt at the college entrance exams, she had suddenly lost both her parents. A blow like that—no matter how hard she cried—was only natural.

Su Ze thought Chen Keqing had already done very well.

No one at school had noticed her secret. That alone was enough to show how strong she had been during this time...

After thinking for a moment, Su Ze sat down in front of Chen Keqing.

Then he said, "Actually, my parents died when I was very young."