Xu Lun was surrounded by an unusual darkness, as if he were riding in a long narrow tunnel.

  The street lamps at the end of the tunnel glowed and seemed so far away, almost unreachable, which instantly made him feel so weak and hopeless.

  Just then, the dark figure flew down from high above, easily landing and intending to block Lun's escape. The moment it stepped on the ground, the dark figure resumed its humanoid form.

  It was standing right there, in the middle of the road, like the Grim Reaper, ready to greet Xu Lun.

  However, in the next second, somewhere behind the dark figure, a pair of dazzling beams of light suddenly shot through the darkness and moved towards Xu Lun.

  It was a car that happened to turn at the next block and appeared, making its way on the road to pass. Because of the car, Xu Lun realized that there was a crossroad not far ahead.

  Without any hesitation, he immediately turned the scooter and rode it across the centerline, straight into the opposite lanes, heading forward to face the oncoming car's headlights.

  Before the dark figure could react, Xu Lun, taking advantage of the illumination from the car's headlights, quickly passed from the opposite lane, as the car stopped in a rush and warned him with the beep sound. Then he turned back to the right lanes and rushed to the crossroad ahead, turning into the other road from which the car had just come.

  As soon as he successfully made the turn, he felt a sudden sense of relief and regained hope.

  This road was very familiar to Xu Lun. There were many takeout restaurants on both sides of the street. As a courier, Xu Lun usually visited those restaurants many times a day for food delivery.

  Unfortunately, it wasn't summer now, otherwise there would be a lot of people setting up booths and selling all kinds of fast food and snacks.

  Even late in the night like now, this street would still be quite lively.

  On the other hand, the service center where Xu Lun registered as a courier was just two blocks away.

  As soon as he realized that it was nearby, he picked up the momentum once again and ignited the flame of hope in his mind.

  Thus, he rode straight through two crossroads, and then made a turn to a residential street. Following the familiar sideway, he passed a small slope and arrived in front of a row of street shops.

  He saw the manager sitting on the steps, smoking and looking at his smartphone.

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  But the next moment, the manager immediately looked up and spotted him.

  The manager was a middle-aged man wearing glasses.

  The moment he saw Xu Lun, he got up instantly and threw away the cigarette without any concern. He used the hand with the smartphone to point directly at Xu Lun as he said in a mad voice:

  "Dude! Where have you been? ! You didn't answer the call and you didn't reply by message. You don't care about your job, huh? ! I'm asking you, how many orders have you delivered so far? Huh? Only a few orders tonight, you made them overdue three times! Do you even know what the hell you're doing? !"

  But Xu Lun had no time to listen to the managers' trash talk and he shouted loudly:

  "Call the police! Now! "

  The manager was taken aback for a moment. Then he noticed that Lun's face was very pale and he seemed to be in panic.

  The manager, who was still mad at him a few seconds ago, suddenly had a bad feeling.

  "Hey, what's wrong with you? What happened? Did you crash somebody with the scooter? By the way, where's your helmet? Don't you realize that the cops could pull you over if you ride without a helmet?"

  "Call the police!"

  Xu Lun repeated, leaving the scooter outside and running up the steps in a hurry. Then he rushed into the service center.

  Once getting in, he fell down onto the sofa and felt like his body was almost exhausted. Lying on the sofa with the soft mattress underneath gave him a great sense of relief and he finally let out a long sigh of relaxation.

  At this moment, he could still feel his heart pounding rapidly in his chest, not easy to calm down.

  He covered his forehead with one hand. He couldn't tell which was colder, his forehead or the palm of his hand.

  A few seconds later, he came to his senses, and raised his other hand to look at the thing cuffed on his wrist.

  Previously he thought that it was a bracelet.

  But now under the lights, for the first time he could see this thing clearly.

  It was a metallic solid bangle with a luster somewhat like rose gold. Its surface was extremely smooth, without any engraving.

  Xu Lun turned his wrist round and round, checking the mysterious bangle.

  He noticed that on the ring-shaped structure of the bangle, each semi-circle part of it contained some material that was not made of metal.

  On the upper side where we usually checked for time if wearing a watch, a crystal-like material made a quarter circle of the bangle.

  While down on the lower side of the wrist, a stone-like material made another quarter circle of the bangle.

  Besides these two parts, the rest of the bangle was metal like rose gold.

  This mysterious bangle was supposed to be the target that those dark figures were coming for and also the reason why the girl with pink hair had to run away.

  Just simply wanting to find a scapegoat to draw the attention of those dark figures?

  But Lun's instinct told him that things were not that simple.

  If the girl just wanted to get away from the dark figures, she could simply throw the bangle away or leave it in a car on the move so that the dark figures would chase after that car instead of her.

  Besides, the action she made was to put the bangle right on his wrist, not secretly leaving it to Xu Lun. It seemed that once this thing was put on, it would not be easy to take it off.

  Even if she were trying to get rid of this bangle, she could have simply put the bangle in the tail box of the scooter, and then run away without being noticed.

  But instead, she chose to put the bangle on Lun's wrist in person, as if she had put a pair of handcuffs on him, making sure that the bangle and Xu Lun were bound together.

  Why did she make everything so complicated?

  Could it be that she didn't want this bangle to fall into the hands of those dark figures?

  ?

  Lun's mind was in a complete jumble. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

  He was so confused by these questions.

  When he opened his eyes again, he was stunned, and only to see that on the upper side of the bangle, the part which was made of a material similar to crystal, glowed in an ice-blue light.

  It was like a pulse signal, shining while beating like a heart.

  Xu Lun stared at the bangle for a few seconds and suddenly became aware of something.

  He quickly sat up and glanced towards the door.

  Outside, it was totally dark without any light in sight, and it was strangely quiet.

  "Mr Li? Manager?"

  Xu Lun tried to call the manager, but there was no response at all.

  He suddenly had a bad feeling and got up with an alert, moving back carefully and keeping an eye on the front door all the time.

  There was a chair beside him. Lun instinctively reached out and grabbed it, ready to wield it like a weapon at any moment.

  "Manager?"

  Xu Lun tried again. This time he received no response either.

  Fear seemed to spread out in such a silence.

  Lun's heart began to race. He had realized something and backed step by step while holding the chair as a weapon.

  The next second, the disturbing sound once again echoed around.

  At the same time, the lights on the ceiling began to flicker.