The whistling grew clearer as it swept closer.
Qin Ran grabbed the injured woman and the unconscious pursuer and rushed straight outside.
"What are you doing?"
"You..."
Boom!
Qin Ran's actions terrified the injured woman. Instinctively, she thought he had flown into a rage out of embarrassment and was about to do something to her.
But barely had her panicked cries left her mouth before a tremendous explosion drowned them out.
Before her eyes, the blast's shock wave demolished 99 Smallville Street. The roof flew more than ten meters into the air, and the flames that followed devoured what remained of the building. Within seconds, 99 Smallville Street was completely engulfed in fire.
The injured woman stared at it all, dumbstruck, muttering to herself.
"A rocket?!"
"Impossible. That's impossible."
"I only went to eavesdrop on some worthless information. How could it come to this?"
Clearly, she was frightened.
Qin Ran had no intention of comforting her.
He knew this was a good opportunity.
And Qin Ran had always been good at seizing opportunities like this.
"Eavesdrop on some worthless information?"
"That's what you think!"
"But they clearly disagree. First they sent a thug, and now there's a killer carrying heavy weapons. I'll admit I regret it. I shouldn't have played the Good Samaritan and brought you back here."
"Now!"
"Please leave. I'll stay right here and wait for the police, tell them everything that happened to me, and seek whatever compensation I can."
Qin Ran deliberately took a step back, as though trying to distance himself from her.
"No!"
"You can't do that!"
"You can help me!"
Though panicked, she had not forgotten how Qin Ran had seemingly "foreseen the future" just moments earlier. Coupled with how easily he had taken down the burly man pursuing her, she immediately saw