After Ten Minutes

Wang Lanhua stared blankly at Zhu Yan, her cloudy eyes dazed and still somewhat in disbelief.

What? What was this strange little boy in front of her saying to her?!

Li Mei's face had lost all its color.

She couldn't help but step back, quickly activating her ability [To Each Their Own Fate], and cried out, "Mom!!"

Wang Lanhua did not answer, but the heaving of her chest grew increasingly violent.

Beside her, Xu Tongguang swayed groggily and collapsed onto the table with a thud.

Wang Lanhua suddenly broke down.

"Impossible! Impossible! You couldn't have killed my husband!"

She stood up, screaming shrilly, grabbed the half-empty glass of beverage Xu Tongguang had been drinking, and hurled it at Zhu Yan.

"These three sets of organs were sent back by my old man! I even saw him earlier!"

Zhu Yan ducked his head, and the glass crashed angrily onto the floor by the door, shattering to pieces.

"Where did you take him?!" Wang Lanhua's tone carried a broken, sobbing edge. "Where did you take him!"

Zhu Yan narrowed his eyes and smiled.

He really wanted to take out Feng Qiang's corpse right away, but he still had things to do.

Wang Lanhua wasn't going to live much longer anyway, so he could ignore her.

But there was still Li Mei.

In his mission, Li Mei was also someone who had to be killed.

Zhu Yan thought of the handgun stored in his ring.

Currently, the handgun was only a level-one item, while Li Mei had a level-three ability.

If he tricked Li Mei into firing the gun, helping him use up a bullet to activate the [All Things Arise from Three] attribute, what would happen?

Theoretically, a level-three ability could withstand a level-one item. Doing this would also help Zhu Yan test the efficacy of this level-three ability.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yan smiled even more brightly.

He bent down to dodge the cups, plates, and bowls Wang Lanhua threw at him, watching as she overturned a plate, spilling slices of cooked heart all over the floor.

With a wave of Zhu Yan's hand, a handgun appeared, dangling casually from his bent index finger.

The next second, the muzzle of the gun was carelessly aimed at Li Mei.

Wang Lanhua cried and shouted, having lost all her strength.

She slumped back into her chair, a weak, breathless sound escaping her chest, and then her head tilted to the side as she died, her face an ashen gray.

Li Mei pressed herself tightly against the wall, her jaw trembling constantly as she looked at Zhu Yan with tear-filled eyes.

"No..."

In this situation, she could only pray that the other party's level was below level three and that he couldn't do anything to her.

But was that possible?

Li Mei looked at her mother-in-law Wang Lanhua's slumped body in the chair. In just a short time, Wang Lanhua's skin had turned a grayish-white.

Could she really fight against this person who had killed her unrivaled father-in-law and her husband, who was known for his ruthless tactics?

"Let me go!" Li Mei cried out. "Don't kill me! I have no grudge against you, and I have never actively killed a single person! They did all the bad things, it was all them!"

"If you let me go, I absolutely won't say a word when I get out, not a single word!"

Zhu Yan burst into loud laughter.

Li Mei, this cowardly woman, didn't actively kill people, but she scrambled to eat the meat.

It just goes to show, this family was a nest of snakes and rats. Killing them could be considered ridding the people of an evil.

However, counting on this woman to actively snatch and fire the handgun wasn't going to work.

Zhu Yan tossed the gun over.

His aim was quite good; it landed precisely in Li Mei's arms. She shivered and caught it steadily.

"Kill yourself," Zhu Yan said mockingly, lightly flexing his hand hidden under the table.

He was going to use [Telekinesis] once.

This ability was already level 5. He didn't know how many more instances it would take to upgrade, but he would use it whenever he could to nurture it.

"The pain of suicide is much less than the pain of me killing you."

Li Mei looked at him, feeling like she couldn't breathe.

The gun was pressed against her chest with both hands, its cold, heavy weight resting on her heart.

This was a real firearm!

Use it to commit suicide?

Li Mei's body trembled; she didn't want to die yet.

This player wanted her to use this thing to commit suicide, which meant this thing had a level and could deal with other players.

Now that this weapon was in her hands, could she...

Could she point the muzzle... at him across the room?

Li Mei's legs felt a bit weak.

She slowly gripped the handle, tremblingly pointing the muzzle at her own temple.

She stared fixedly at the young man opposite her and clicked off the safety.

This was her only, her very only chance of survival.

The person in front of her was still smiling, his posture relaxed, seemingly caring nothing about her actions.

She didn't understand what his ability was, but he absolutely couldn't be as powerful as her father-in-law.

He couldn't possibly rip out her organs from a distance!

Li Mei took a deep breath and flipped the safety catch.

Zhu Yan watched her.

No way, she couldn't be this cowardly, right?

She wouldn't really shoot herself, would she?

Fortunately, Li Mei did not disappoint him.

At the last moment, she violently turned the gun, pulling the trigger with both hands—

Bang!

Zhu Yan didn't even see the bullet's trajectory.

A finger-sized hole appeared in the center of Li Mei's forehead, the edges of the hole faintly glowing with a dim blue light.

Blood flowed down from the hole, bringing a trace of a cold sensation.

She widened her eyes and raised her hand to touch the edge of the hole; the next second, a force pushed the bullet, making it slowly drop out from the hole bit by bit.

Holy shit, this ability!

Zhu Yan felt a burst of joy.

Li Mei realized something.

She looked down at the gun, then looked up at Zhu Yan.

"You—"

The young man in front of her did not speak.

He merely made a movement that somewhat shocked Li Mei. He gently raised his hand and grasped at the empty air.

Li Mei felt her heart being gripped.

The thing's temperature was low, the touch, the touch...

Zhu Yan gave a violent yank!

The next second, a bright red, beating heart appeared in his hand.

"You... Telekinesis?"

Li Mei asked.

She wanted to say something else, but a sudden change in internal pressure caused her entire chest cavity to cave in sharply, and intense agony instantly swept through her brain.

Li Mei's body arched backward, her mouth opening wide in agony as she soundlessly collapsed to the ground.

A few seconds later, she died.

At the same time, the female voice appeared again, announcing the outcome of the instance quite cheerfully.

"Wow, player!"

"Congratulations on clearing today's final instance [Family Feast]."

"This was a very spectacular little play!"

Unlike its usual mechanical tone, the female voice was somewhat distorted.

Zhu Yan walked over, bent down, and picked up the gun Li Mei had used.

Pleasure burned within him like fire.

He casually stored the gun in his ring, planning to take Li Mei and Wang Lanhua's corpses away together.

However, the female voice promptly stopped him.

"Don't do that, player."

"They still have ten minutes of last words time, and this time exists forever."

"If you directly complete the [Hunter] mission and place the corpses on Meiyuan Street, then they will resurrect on Meiyuan Street for ten minutes."

Fuck.

That's a thing?

That absolutely wouldn't do. Who knew where these things would run off blindly to?

If they got lost, his mission wouldn't be completed.

"Please lay their corpses out properly in the house and lock the door from the inside."

The female voice said happily.

"In ten minutes, you can return to collect the corpse. That way, the [Hunter] quest will be perfectly completed!"