Epilogue⑤
Looking at the increasingly strange and twisted shadow of the other party, Qin Liu narrowed her eyes slightly, and the stone that had been hanging in her heart finally fell back.
“What is it… it’s just some ghosts and monsters. I thought it was some salesman from who knows where.”
For someone like Qin Liu, who had been disconnected from society for a long time, those shameless salespeople who kept pushing products seemed more terrifying than ghosts and monsters. This was because Qin Liu really didn’t know how to refuse them.
Now, it was good. These things that were neither human nor ghost, and they still wanted to catch her? Wasn’t that like trying to pump up a cow with your mouth – bragging?
“Pretty girl, want to try?”
Three men in black hoodies walked over. One of them was wearing sunglasses and was sizing Qin Liu up with ill intentions. If anyone saw this scene, they might think it was a plot about thugs bullying a fallen girl. No one around noticed the abnormality here, but Qin Liu was not afraid. Instead, she focused her gaze on the brain-computer interface in the man’s hand.
“So cheap?”
The young girl showed a harmless and gentle smile. “But you guys don’t seem to have a business license, do you? Shall we go over there?”
The three of them didn’t expect Qin Liu’s reaction to take a 180-degree turn. This made them feel a bit strange, but thinking about the hard-won performance, they couldn’t help but show a smile.
“Okay.”
Led by the man in sunglasses, the group entered a more secluded area. There wasn’t even any decoration here, let alone lights. If it weren’t for the light from outside illuminating a part of it, this place could be described as frighteningly dark.
“But…”
The leader in sunglasses looked at the harmless lamb behind him, especially her completely unguarded expression, which made him involuntarily reveal an extremely cruel smile. They had already come to this place… Did she still want to buy? Heh heh~
The footsteps of the three stopped. Then, the two men behind them closed the door of the room and locked it completely from the inside. The leader in sunglasses stood with his back to Qin Liu, his hand gripping the box containing the brain-computer interface tightly. His breathing began to become more and more rapid.
“Pretty girl, cash on delivery.”
The urgent eyes of the man in sunglasses were gradually covered with bloodshot. He couldn’t wait to directly attach the brain-computer interface to this lamb’s head, turning this seemingly unguarded person into a sacrifice for the supreme lord. The soul delivered to the lord, the body left in reality…
“But since you’re already here, we also have technicians. How about trying it out here?”
The more he spoke, the more distorted the man in sunglasses’ expression became. He was already starting to think about how he could properly enjoy the body left behind by the other party after putting the brain-computer interface on them.
“I don’t have much money on me, only… 350 yuan.”
Qin Liu said, taking out her mobile phone, and placing the remaining dozens of yuan in change in her other hand.
“No need,” the man in sunglasses slowly turned around, “After all, you’re the first customer, so this brain-computer interface is free. But try wearing it first.”
“Of course, but I’m holding something, so it’s inconvenient. Can you help me?”
Under the seemingly harmless smile of the young girl, the man in sunglasses walked over step by step. As he got closer, to within half a meter of Qin Liu, an unspeakable fear instantly broke through the top of his head. Not only the man in sunglasses, but everyone else in the room couldn’t even breathe. They stared at the young girl in front of them in terror.
At this moment, they finally understood one thing. The young girl in front of them was not a lamb waiting to be slaughtered… She was a wild, formidable hunter who was good at disguise, disguising herself as prey!
“Hmm? Why have you stopped moving?”
The girl’s face still had that seemingly harmless expression. But the three of them couldn’t move at all, they could only stare with wide eyes as the smile on this girl’s face gradually lost its warmth. She was smiling, but that smile gave people a chilling and eerie feeling.
“Why have you stopped moving?”
“Don’t you… want to move?”
Qin Liu’s voice echoed constantly in the small space, like the whispers of countless people in the ears of the three. As she spoke, the mobile phone in the girl’s hand slowly transformed into a lantern radiating a faint blue light. The man in sunglasses’ legs trembled uncontrollably. He discovered in horror that his shadow on the ground was twisting and struggling, as if being torn by some invisible force, being stretched little by little, and gradually being drawn towards the lantern in the girl’s hand.
“Ahhhhhhh!!!”
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“La la la~”
After an unknown amount of time, the closed shop door suddenly opened, and a young girl hummed a song of unknown name as she walked out. The three men who had gone in with her had disappeared, as if they had been taken away by something. And in the girl’s hand was the brain-computer interface that the three had tried to sell.
“Hmm…”
Qin Liu looked at the thing in her hand. She had to admit that although the three of them were quite strange, this brain-computer interface seemed quite normal, and she didn’t feel any grudge from it.
“I’ll take it back for Liu Haoyu to research.”
Since she couldn’t figure out what it was, it was better to leave it to professionals. The Nai River Bridge had long been repaired, and she hadn’t been a guide for so many years. Many things had been completely forgotten. Now, she was just a carefree ordinary young girl.
After leaving the computer city and returning home, a broadcast popped up on her phone.
“Please note, citizens… a typhoon will land in Jiangliu City tonight…”
“Reminding citizens again, please close your doors and windows, and do not open the door for strangers…”
Seeing this broadcast, Qin Liu couldn’t help but start to worry a little.
“A typhoon is coming, could Liu Haoyu still be outside?”
Thinking of this, she prepared to make a call to Liu Haoyu. However, as soon as she picked up her phone, she suddenly realized that Liu Haoyu might be on a mission, and calling him rashly might disturb him. Therefore, she could only regretfully put down her phone. She prepared to change her clothes, then lie back on the bed, and give him a big scare.
As soon as she changed her clothes, a torrential rain started outside. The typhoon whistled past, emitting a sound like wailing ghosts.
“It’s raining so heavily…”
Qin Liu looked at the trees outside, which were almost bending and breaking from the wind, and felt a little worried. Just then, the doorbell rang inside the house. Hearing the doorbell, Qin Liu walked to the living room, a little puzzled. Who would be looking for her so late? Just as Qin Liu was about to open the door, Liu Haoyu’s voice sounded from outside the door.
“Qin Liu, it’s me, I’m back.”
