The Bird-Beak Man glanced behind him in horror.
Seeing that Fulan was about to catch him, his heart jumped into his throat.
He gritted his teeth and sped up his escape.
A manhole cover appeared in the road ahead, and the face behind the Bird-Beak Man's mask immediately lit up with joy.
He lunged at the manhole cover, quickly opened it, and fell right in.
"Damn, is it really that serious?!"
Seeing that the other party had actually crawled into the sewer to escape, Fulan's lips twitched, and he followed suit.
He flew into the sewer, stepped on the air intake, and carefully observed his surroundings.
But there was no one inside, and not even a trace of blood on the ground.
Fulan hissed and flew around again to examine the surroundings carefully.
But still, not a single person was seen.
"Did they escape through a secret passage?"
Fulan scratched his head, thinking that this was the only possibility.
"Oh well, whatever, we don't have any deep-seated grudges against each other, so let's just let it go."
He shrugged, deciding to stop searching, and flew out of the sewer using the sword energy.
Before leaving, they put the manhole cover back on.
Inside a secret passage beneath the water in the sewer.
The Bird-Beak Man felt a sense of relief as he heard the manhole cover close.
He suddenly released his breath through his nose and mouth, inhaling deeply the surrounding air.
The air, which was Mingming quite smelly, suddenly tasted incredibly sweet.
He slumped weakly against the wall of the secret passage and sat down.
He used a scalpel to tear open his clothes to check his injuries.
"Why do you look so disheveled..."
A hoarse voice came from the darkness of the secret passage.
The sound was like the last sigh of a dying person before death.
The Bird-Beak Man shuddered upon hearing the sound, his previously relaxed state of mind rising again.
Despite the pain in his abdomen, he struggled to his feet and bowed his head respectfully.
"I'm sorry, boss..."
As he apologized, a figure resembling a zombie slowly emerged from the shadows in front of him.
The man was hunched over, his body covered in stitches.
His skin was patchy, with some parts smooth and others dry and shriveled, making him look as if he were stitched together from different pieces of flesh.
"Why apologize? We're both going to die anyway, why not just yell at me a couple of times..."
The man walked up to the Bird-Beak Man with a half-smile and gently placed his hand on his head.
The Bird-Beak Man seemed to have been electrocuted; his body trembled, and he collapsed to his knees with a thud, dropping the scalpel he had been holding.
"Boss, please! Give me another chance, please!"
I, I, I will definitely do my best and complete the task you gave me!
As he spoke, the Bird-Beak Man kept kowtowing.
The masked face kept colliding with the concrete ground, and trickles of blood seeped from the mask's surface.
But the boss he spoke of showed no sympathy whatsoever, looking at him as if he were an animal.
"Complete my tasks properly? But none of the tasks I assigned you have been completed..."
"Tell me, what use are you all to me...?"
As he spoke, wisps of black energy, resembling locusts, enveloped his right hand and gradually reached towards the Bird-Beak Man.
"I'm sorry... I'm so sorry..."
The Bird-Beak Man knelt on the ground, his head pressed against the ground, trembling so much he couldn't lift it.
Just as the black hand was about to touch the Bird-Beak Man, it suddenly stopped.
Then, his gloomy eyes widened slightly, and he picked up the scalpel that the Bird-Beak Man had just dropped.
"This... how did you do this...?"
He placed the scalpel in front of him, wiped away the bloodstains with his fingers, and stained his fingers with the blood, examining it carefully.
Then, he licked the blood away with his tongue, and his eyes, which had been as lifeless as a dead man's, suddenly began to tremble.
"Haha... Haha! That's right, that's right, it's Him!"
Tell me quickly, where did you get this?
He grinned, laughed excitedly, and grabbed the Crow Man by the neck, lifting him up.
His eyes were filled with madness and excitement.
The Crow Man, though slightly out of breath from being choked, still managed to recount the events with difficulty.
He released the Bird-Beak Man, covered his face with his hands, and burst into laughter.
Hahaha--! I never expected this! I never expected this!
More than ten years have passed, and I was the one who found it first!
[Life]! Let's return to 'our' embrace once more!
Haha! Haha, hahaha--!"
Maniacal laughter echoed incessantly through the sewers.
On the film set.
Hela parked the car in a parking lot around the film set.
After showing his ID to the security guard, he entered the film set.
As soon as Yamada entered the film set, he noticed Hela, who was calmly eating his lunchbox.
His originally gloomy face forced a smile as he waved to Hela.
"Hi! Miss Hela."
Hela noticed the other person and walked over to her side.
Yamada enthusiastically brought out a small stool for Hela to sit on, and then awkwardly sat down himself.
"Hey, didn't Aidan come?"
She looked around Hela and found that Aidan was not there.
"He's not filming."
Hela didn't want to reveal the news of Aidan's disappearance to anyone, so she gave Yamada a perfunctory answer.
Yamada was a little surprised when he heard this.
"Hey, isn't he your boyfriend? You're here filming, doesn't he take care of you at all?"
"He's not, he's just a friend."
Hela replied to her without batting an eye.
Fortunately, Aidan wasn't there, otherwise she would have been mortified by such a misunderstanding.
But then Yamada's face suddenly turned as red as his bottom.
"Huh?! You two aren't a couple!"
Yamada's hands flailed helplessly in the air; he just wanted to disappear into the ground.
"Yes, yes, I'm sorry, I... I didn't know, I'm sorry!"
After saying this, he stood up and bowed deeply to Hela.
Hela: ⚆_⚆?
Hela was genuinely taken aback by Yamada's enormous reaction.
But her attention was soon drawn to Yamada's lunchbox.
Yamada also keenly noticed Hela's gaze and quickly took out a larger lunchbox from a bag beside him, handing it to Hela with both hands.
"Uh, you haven't eaten yet, have you? Here!"
"Thanks."
Hela took the lunchbox and started eating it with her hands.
Seeing Hela's wild way of eating, Yamada was shocked but also understanding.
After a while, she sat back down on the stool and began to eat in small bites.
Just as Hela was finishing her meal, her phone suddenly rang.
Hela swallowed the last chicken leg, bone and all, in one gulp. After casually wiping her clothes a couple of times, she took out her phone and walked to the side.
Seeing that the call screen looked a bit different from usual, Hela quickly found the answer button and pressed it.
On the phone screen, a beautiful girl with pigtails, wearing a sundress, and lying on the bed appears.
"Hi~! Hela, did you miss me?"
In the video, Diyana waves and greets Hela warmly when she sees her answering the phone.
Hela simply stared at the screen on her phone, and at herself in the top left corner, feeling a sense of novelty.
Seeing this, Diyana smiled wryly. "You've never made a video call before, have you?"
She sat up in bed and showed Hela where she was.
"Look, I'm in the company's private dormitory now. This is my room, isn't it nice?"
She walked around the room with her phone, showing off the entire luxurious and beautiful space.
But Hela was drawn to the black work card on his bed and to her bare neck.
A wicked plan was instantly conceived in Hela's mind.
"Hey, what's wrong?"
Seeing Hela lost in thought, Diyana sat down on the edge of the bed and tilted her head cutely at Hela.
Hela calmly shook her head. "Nothing, I was just thinking about what to eat later."
"Hehe, so you're a little foodie too."
Oh, by the way, where are you now?