“The fourth one.”
Before the words had even finished, a quite robust figure crashed heavily to the ground.
【Ding!】
【Points +2, Current Points: 44, Current Rank 1/147】
Lu Bai glanced at the corridor outside the house door, confirmed there was no movement, then locked the house door again and dragged this fourth corpse toward the living room.
In just half an hour, four corpses had piled up in the living room, and he was starting to worry that after a bit more time, the living room might not have space left.
So far, he hadn’t encountered any death fighters coming in groups.
If they came one by one, the threat was still within controllable scope.
He just needed to quietly wait for death fighters to knock on the door, then repeat the same trick, with no difficulty at all.
In fact, his sleep time had been severely insufficient these past few days.
Unfortunately, he knew tonight was still very long, so he could only catch a quick nap at most and couldn’t sleep too deeply.
However, before he could rest for long, a sharp phone ringtone suddenly rang out.
Lu Bai picked up his mobile phone and saw the caller ID was Xu Qiang.
He pressed to answer: “Why are you calling me at this hour?”
The expected voice didn’t come, but instead there was silence, accompanied by heavy breathing.
“Why aren’t you speaking?” Lu Bai frowned slightly.
“……Look at your phone yourself.”
Xu Qiang’s tone carried a bit of stiff detachment, and after speaking, he hung up the phone.
In the time he’d known Bureau Chief Xu, this was the first time he had proactively ended the call.
The big one has come?
Listening to the busy tone coming into his ears, Lu Bai realized it was probably the mayor’s side making a move, so he needed to check the situation first.
He opened the news software on his mobile phone, and immediately a large number of pop-ups appeared, not sure if it was because too many people were accessing at the same time, exceeding the server’s load, causing the software to lag.
《Victim Close-Up》
《Special Affairs Bureau Team Leader Who Betrayed Humanity》
《Third External Affairs Team Members Jointly Request Punishment for Lu Bai》
《Full Process of Killing Innocent Citizens | Supplemental Footage》
The titles were each more shocking than the last.
Saying the popularity exploded was not exaggerated at all.
The videos and photographs circulating online didn’t have high clarity.
But after looking at a few more, Lu Bai could recognize when this had happened.
And this angle seemed to have been taken by that caregiver brother?
He didn’t feel angry about this backstab, nor did he have any idea of wanting revenge on the caregiver brother.
He just felt this matter was a bit troublesome, and it was certain it couldn’t be whitewashed.
It also served as a reminder to him.
In the end, Lu Bai himself wasn’t an extreme personality, and combined with the special influence of his body, subtly, it made him want to help others many times, so being backstabbed was just a matter of time.
“Death fighters really can’t be trusted.”
He smiled unconsciously.
Even a tourist like the caregiver brother knew to secretly install a camera on himself in advance.
As for the indignation and shock in the comment sections, they were still okay; his online reputation was already very poor, and it couldn’t get much worse.
What he should consider now was probably how to deal with the upcoming pursuit.
Yes, pursuit.
If unaware of the existence of death fighters, just seeing Lu Bai killing ordinary civilians and then letting the parasitic organism transform their corpses, saying it was anti-humanity was not exaggerated at all.
Without accident, the police should already be searching everywhere for him.
Just relying on the police, they definitely couldn’t find him in a short time; it depended on how the death fighters cooperating with the mayor reasonably revealed his position.
They probably wouldn’t drag it out too long.
Probably knowing Lu Bai had seen the news online, Xu Qiang’s call came again.
“You know now, right?”
This time Xu Qiang spoke quickly, but his tone was even colder, feeling like trust had been given to the wrong person.
“Not willing to believe me anymore?”
Lu Bai’s tone was as usual, vaguely carrying a bit of laziness.
“I know your behavior at the school was improper, but I truly never expected you would do such a thing.”
Xu Qiang felt himself a bit ridiculous: “You’ve probably been laughing at me in your heart for being stupid all along, right?”
He became more and more excited: “No wonder it was always receiving corpses of parasitic organisms; I thought you just hated those monsters too much.”
Lu Bai stood up and walked to the window to look out, confirming no police had rushed over yet.
After thinking, he still gave a simple explanation: “I never laughed at you; there are just some hidden reasons here.”
“I showed the video to the expert team; there are no signs of synthesis. You still want to deny it? Since you dared to do it, you don’t dare admit it?”
Xu Qiang’s voice became a bit hoarse: “Come to the Special Affairs Bureau and turn yourself in. For the sake of having worked together before, I’ll try to get you to cut in line on the execution list.”
“I said there are hidden reasons; do you think I’d have any need to do that? If I really wanted to be anti-humanity, no one could accept it.”
“How could I possibly know why you did such a thing? Such anti-humanity behavior is even more vile than those perverted murderers who kill for fun!”
“Looks like just talking isn’t enough.”
Lu Bai smiled lazily: “Then I’ll find an opportunity to prove it.”
“You still want to kill innocent citizens?!”
Xu Qiang directly interpreted it as him deciding to go all in.
“Not to that extent; wait and see.”
Lu Bai hung up the phone and, to avoid further harassment, simply blocked Xu Qiang.
He turned to pull up the navigation and checked the surrounding routes.
He had to guard against police or even special affairs people coming to the door; after all, modernized weapons were no joke.
【Flash Time】 wasn’t true complete control of time; if police really rushed over, he’d still need to find a way to escape.
But he couldn’t just run straight to the wilderness; staying in the urban area could at least restrict the use of large-scale destructive weapons.
Bang~ Bang~ Bang~
Lu Bai was focused on studying the escape route when the house door was knocked on inappropriately.
He got up to open the door, activated 【Flash Time】, twisted his body and swung the knife, clean and without hesitation.
That death fighter squatting by the house door didn’t even see Lu Bai’s face before perishing under Long Fang’s blade.
【Flash Time】 was this domineering right from the first encounter.
From that death fighter’s perspective, he had just knocked on the door and hidden when the next second he exited the deathmatch arena.
【Ding!】
【Points +2, Current Points: 46, Current Rank 1/145】
Although Lu Bai hadn’t produced any negative emotions from this series of just-occurred events, he still decided to vent a little, otherwise after a long time he worried he’d forget what anger felt like.
Too lazy to drag this corpse back into the house, he stepped toward the corridor.
“Probably enough death fighters gathered nearby.”
He guessed correctly; it was true that death fighters came one by one each time, but in reality, there weren’t few death fighters paying attention to the situation here.
For death fighters, the more competitors died the better; they didn’t swarm because they didn’t have enough grasp yet and hoped a few hotheads would probe first.