Swallowing the Seas

Chapter 24

"ah--"

When Wu Yu walked to the alley, he seemed to hear something and stopped.

The narrow alley is long and winding, and the skewed courtyard walls are close together. At the narrowest point, only one person can pass sideways. The gaps between the uneven stone slabs are covered with moss. Moths cast hovering shadows in the halo of street lights. The distant night wind blows through the grass, and mice make a slight rustling sound when they swarm around.

"Ah...ah..."

The heart-rending wails of a baby in an unknown house started again, the lights of several houses were turned on one after another, and impatient scoldings could be faintly heard.

...No, that was not the cry just now, Wu Yu thought.

It was a scream just now.

He looked behind him, his eyebrows were slender and his brow bones were straight, his eye sockets were deep and bright, and his pupils were slightly pressed inconspicuously. Treetops, grass, courtyards, people's houses, bored scoldings, tired coaxing, shouts and curses from farther away...all the sounds in the darkness are filtered layer by layer, and twelve years of vigilance hanging on the tip of a knife are like The steel wire was thrown into the sky, and then a clue suddenly appeared--

There was obviously no sound, but the most sensitive intuition deep in his subconscious suddenly moved.

"Liu Li," Wu Yu quickly walked through the narrow alley, stepped over the puddle, and knocked on the door: "It's me. I left my lighter in the bag. Open the door!"

There was no movement.

"Liu Li!"

The door buzzed for a moment, and finally an unclear voice came out: "...Ah, what?"

"I dropped my lighter in my bag, take it out for me!"

"...Uh, uh..." Liu Li was trembling, her eyes almost bulging out of her sockets with fear. A hand behind her tightly covered her mouth, and a series of blood drops rolled down her neck under the tip of the knife.

Boom, boom, boom! The door was knocked a few more times, and Wu Yu began to urge impatiently: "Hurry up! Are you asleep?"

The hand moved away slightly, and then shook the bloody blade menacingly, which was reflected in her violently trembling pupils.

"... I have... gone to bed, you... you can come back tomorrow to get it..."

Outside the door, Wu Yu's movements froze slightly. After only half a second, he said "Ah" without any reaction and said, "Okay, see you tomorrow."

The movement outside the door disappeared, and the person holding the knife behind him didn't say a word. The air in the darkness seemed to solidify for an instant, and Liu Li's heart stopped beating at that moment--

Wu Yu turned around.

The next second he kicked suddenly, and the entire door panel flew into the air!

"Ah--!" "Ah!" "Fuck!!"

Screams, roars, and dull and ferocious impacts all sounded at the same second. Liu Li screamed and rolled around. She couldn't even see Wu Yu's figure clearly. She could only feel the strong wind in the air. The next second the gangster was already there. He was hit head-on and flew out, slamming into the sofa in the corner. The wooden sofa frame collapsed into several pieces!

Wu Yu landed on the ground, turned around, and rubbed his body forward. His ghost-like speed could not even make the slightest sound of wind. The gangster swung the bloody spring knife forward like crazy, but Wu Yu grabbed his hand before the blade fell. Immediately, "Dang!" there was a loud metal impact, and the blade was knocked off the ground and spinning. It passed by the feet of the screaming Liu Li.