Chapter 260 Confused
Chapter 260 Confusion
It has to be said that Abyss has achieved most of its goals.

After the call was connected, Bai Yanliang contacted Li Mu immediately, but... the person who answered the phone was not Li Mu.

"Hey?"

Bai Yanliang was not unfamiliar with this voice.

"Mr. Ren, where is Li Mu?"

"died."

There was no emotion in Ren Wudao's tone. In fact, he and Li Mu did not have much friendship.

Bai Yanliang was silent for a moment and hung up the phone.

Xu Zhifei glanced at him and said nothing.

Soon, news came from the survivors of the three groups. After confirmation, the number of deaths this time... was exactly six. Another person was seriously injured, with his arm broken off at the shoulder - Du Shangjing.

Fifteen people set out, but only nine returned alive.

Li Mu, Ling Tao, Jiang Li, Lu Guo, Li Yuejun, Jiang Zhijie... Ling Tao and Jiang Zhijie had never met Bai Yanliang, but they were not newcomers either.

Each of the other four people had a friendship with Bai Yanliang.

Among them, Li Mu’s death is undoubtedly the most regrettable.

He shouldn't have died...

But Bai Yanliang had actually anticipated Li Mu's death. The moment he confirmed that this mission was the work of the people from the Abyss, Bai Yanliang knew that Li Mu was in danger this time.

Anyuan once lived in Li Mu's city, during which time he was troubled by Li Mu, a criminal policeman, and had many grudges with him.

Even the curse on Li Mu was cast by someone from the Abyss.

With this opportunity, they had no reason to let Li Mu go.

but……

Bai Yanliang looked down at his phone, but he was thinking of something else.

If Dark Abyss could really easily invade Mist Gathering and issue a false mission, they would have done so long ago, but in fact they have not.

This time, they did it, and succeeded.

Bai Yanliang couldn't help but suspect that this matter was related to that person - Ren Wudao.

No... perhaps it should be said that this matter is closely related to the siblings Yu Sheng and Ren Wudao.

Yu Sheng's behavior was very strange. Although Bai Yanliang didn't want to associate this tragic casualties with Yu Sheng emotionally, his reason told him that Yu Sheng was by no means innocent.

Xu Zhifei on the side looked at Bai Yanliang quietly. Although she could see that Bai Yanliang seemed very troubled, she was not a talkative person, nor was she someone who could comfort others.

For her, just sitting here quietly with him for a while was already a good deed.

After a long silence, Bai Yanliang suddenly exhaled and looked up at the sky.

There was a rare flash of confusion in his eyes.

So many things happened this time that caught him off guard.

Among them, the biggest one is undoubtedly the secret about himself.

Bai Yanliang never thought that Yanren’s death was really caused by him, although... that was also Yanren’s own choice.

But Bai Yanliang finds it hard to let go...

"You are so selfish...Brother..."

Bai Yanliang hugged his legs, rested his chin on his knees, and the black hair in front of his forehead quietly slid down in front of his eyes.

A hint of doubt flashed in Xu Zhifei's cold eyes. She had never seen Bai Yanliang like this before.

She is a profiler herself, so she knows exactly what this pose means.

Bai Yanliang... feels very insecure now.

sense of security?
This word seemed ridiculous to Bai Yanliang, because everyone was used to the fact that this man was not afraid of anything.

He was like a precise and delicate machine. Although he was trustworthy, he could never be regarded as a peer. It was not until this moment that Xu Zhifei realized that Bai Yanliang could also feel insecure and would have this defensive posture of always being on guard against the surroundings.

"Are you OK."

A slightly stiff female voice sounded in Bai Yanliang's ears.

Bai Yanliang tilted his head slightly, and the black hair in front of his forehead slid to the side, revealing a pair of slightly dim eyes.

Xu Zhifei sat upright beside her, looking straight ahead. If he wasn't the only one beside her, Bai Yanliang would even suspect that she was talking to someone else.

She was more reserved than usual. It was obvious that the four words just now seemed to have made Xu Zhifei make a great effort. Bai Yanliang could clearly feel her awkwardness and unfamiliarity.

However, although it was a bit clumsy, Bai Yanliang accepted her kindness.

"Xu Zhifei, have you been like this since childhood?"

Bai Yanliang seldom calls people by their names. In fact... his seemingly friendly and polite manners actually create a huge distance between them.

Xu Zhifei seemed to not understand what he meant, and a hint of doubt flashed in his cold eyes.

Bai Yanliang looked at her meticulously and said, "I mean, have you always been so cold since you were a child?"

Xu Zhifei's eyes moved. She wanted to get up and leave, but after carefully checking Bai Yanliang's eyes, she found that Bai Yanliang was not teasing her or joking with her.

After a moment's silence, Xu Zhifei nodded without saying anything.

"Me too." Bai Yanliang looked away and looked at the ground.

"I thought... this was a disease, a disease without emotions."

Xu Zhifei was attracted by his words and looked at him quietly.

"But... suddenly someone told me that this is not a disease..." Bai Yanliang murmured in a low voice, "It became like this because... I am a soul that returned from another world..."

The second half of his sentence was spoken so softly that Xu Zhifei couldn't hear it clearly at all.

But Xu Zhifei knew very well how Bai Yanliang felt at the moment.

There will always be one or two outliers in a group.

Xu Zhifei was certain at a very young age that he was the outlier.

She can see things that others cannot see and hear some inexplicable strange noises. She exudes an aura that keeps strangers away. People are often attracted by her beauty and want to get close to her and make friends with her, but they are always scared away by some inexplicable strange phenomena.

It seems... her birth date is unknown.

Not only others think so, she herself thinks so too.

Xu Zhifei had never seen his father, and his mother never mentioned him, only saying that he was missing.

Until graduation, his mother died mysteriously, leaving Xu Zhifei with only a strange key.

Since then, Xu Zhifei has become even more silent and colder.

She stopped trying to get to know anyone and even took the initiative to stay away from some friends so as not to bring disaster to them.

However, she never gave up the investigation. The reason why she worked for the police was to find clues about her parents through the police's huge database.

Until...she discovered the secret of the key.

Xu Zhifei doesn't know Bai Yanliang's past, but she knows his future.

Her key told her Bai Yanliang's future.

...To be precise, Bai Yanliang exists in her future.

From then on, Xu Zhifei began to notice him, and slowly, she discovered that Bai Yanliang... seemed as lonely as she was.

It's just that she took the initiative to distance herself.

But Bai Yanliang is naturally cold.

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