Chapter 199
Hearing Lin Yi's words, Zhang Jiankai couldn't help sighing, then glanced at Lin Xiujuan, who was cooking in the kitchen.
Only then did he lower his voice and explain.
"Actually... not many people know about this. Your parents should have told you what the Air-Raid Siren means, right?"
"Three blasts are normal, five are an exception, and nine have only sounded once," Zhang Jiankai said quietly. "It was that one time that a handful of people noticed something."
"Noticed what?" Blind Cheng immediately perked up.
"The final rule: those who kill shall be killed!"
Zhang Jiankai looked at Lin Yi with a complicated expression and said after a moment's thought, "The next time offerings are made to the stone statue, a special rule will appear. And that rule will target you alone."
Lin Yi's expression darkened, and he frowned. "Those who kill shall be killed... does that mean everyone has to come and kill me?"
He couldn't think of any other explanation.
"Exactly!"
Zhang Jiankai sighed. "Last time, someone was singled out by this rule, and every Sequence Transcendent in the city hunted him. Whoever killed him would get a chance to leave Cool City. I heard it was a woman who left last time, but I don't know who she was. Your father apparently didn't take part in the hunt, so he probably doesn't know much."
They sucked in a breath.
A woman left. Could that have been Yuan Yu?
Lin Yi, Blind Cheng, and Zhang Xu all knew that Yuan Yu had successfully made it out of Cool City.
But no one knew how she had done it.
Now it seemed likely that she had killed the last person marked by the "those who kill shall be killed" rule.
Only by killing that person could someone