Virtue is Abundant

"The balance is running out..."

Wu Xiaode looked at the balance display on the phone screen and couldn't help but sigh.

This is the money I saved for a semester!

But having said that, may the commission on the wall be completed.

I also survived safely, and also obtained the inheritance of the iron wire flow boxing method.

Be content.

Now it's time to go home and rest, think about how to get a living allowance, and think about what to do in the next few days to make yourself stronger.

After all, half a day has passed.

In six and a half days, I will be transported to the Devil's Nest of Death again.

Wu Xiaode walked while looking at the black book floating in front of him.

A question suddenly arose in his mind.

Since that ancestral spirit is so strong, why didn't he go to save Zhao Junyu himself, instead of entrusting me?

He seemed to know what he was thinking——

New icy prints appear on the Book of the Dead:

"Undead and heroic spirits cannot communicate with living people. Only extremely rare professional abilities can communicate with them, such as this book."

"In addition, no spirit can interfere with the fate of the real world. Only with the help of certain professional abilities or props can they achieve many things."

I see.

Wu Xiaode turned around the street corner, suddenly felt something in his heart, and slowly raised his head.

ahead.

The family members of the old community were upstairs, thick smoke was billowing, and the flames were soaring into the sky.

Almost at the same moment, the phone in his pocket vibrated and rang.

He took it out to have a look, and immediately connected.

"Sister Lan, where are you?" He asked nervously.

But the sound of sobbing came from the phone, followed by Xia Huilan's voice:

"Xiao Wu, run, don't come back!"

Wu Xiaode's face changed, and he hurriedly said: "Sister Lan? What's wrong with you? What happened?"

beep--

The phone hangs up.

Immediately afterwards, a message appeared on the phone screen:

"A large-scale fire broke out in the old district No. 361 in the south of the city."

There... isn't it my home?

Xia Huilan was trapped upstairs?

Wu Xiaode rushed out like lightning, in just a few breaths, he crossed the long street, climbed over the courtyard wall, and came to the downstairs of the family.

Looking up, the flames were constantly devouring the entire building.

Xia Huilan lives on the fifth floor.

The location of the fire was on the ninth floor. Although the fire was spreading, it was still some distance away from the fifth floor where Xia Huilan lived.

"fine……"

Wu Xiaode murmured, and rushed directly into the corridor of the unit building.

His body is extremely light, and his feet are full of strength. He can jump up a whole flight of stairs with just a push.

In less than a minute, he reached the fifth floor.

bang——

Wu Xiaode kicked the door open and looked inside.

"Sister Lan!"

He yelled.

no respond.

I saw Xia Huilan's numerous certificates of awards pasted on the wall since she was a child, and they were already blackened by smoke, and they seemed to be ruined.

This is her baby, and now she doesn't care.

Wu Xiaode rushed into the entrance and shouted: "Sister Lan, where are you?"

in the living room.

A woman was tied tightly to a chair with her head down, as if she had fallen into a coma.

Blood dripped down her arm.

——After a while, the fire will spread, and she will have no way out.

"Sister Lan!"

Wu Xiaode rushed forward, trying to save the woman, but suddenly realized something was wrong.

He knelt down to examine the woman's face carefully.

——Not Xia Huilan!

Wu Xiaode was startled, and stretched out his hand to feel the woman's pulse.

No pulse.

she died.

Why would a strange woman die in Xia Huilan's home?

And the fire is about to burn down!

Wu Xiaode suddenly remembered many things.

Xia Huilan said she wanted to resign.

She was pestered by a few gangsters, but those gangsters even brought knives.

That U disk.

and her last words.

Scenes of pictures flashed through his mind, so that Wu Xiaode suddenly realized something.

Perhaps this fire is not simple.

There was a sudden knock at the door.

Wu Xiaode turned around quickly, only to see a person standing at the door, looking at him jokingly.

"Should I say you are stupid, or that you are quite infatuated?" said the man.

He was wearing a flowered shirt, and the fruit knife in his hand had turned into a half-arm-length machete. He was looking at Wu Xiaode with his head tilted.

That bastard boss!

Wu Xiaode stood up and said in a deep voice, "What's going on? Why did you appear here?"

"Brat, you made me look ugly during the day." The gangster said.

"Make a fool of yourself? How could I remember that you wanted to stab me with that fruit knife?" Wu Xiaode said.

"Boy, it's because of your meat cleaver and fish knife that I have to retreat—"

The gangster waved the sharp machete in his hand, and said proudly: "Look, this is not a fruit knife. This time I want to find my way back."

As soon as his body sank, he rushed towards Wu Xiaode.

Wu Xiaode took out something from behind, held it flat and pointed at the gangster.

The gangster glanced at it, and lost his voice: "Gun!"

This is a narrow indoor environment, and it is almost impossible to escape from the gunpoint.

This is a gun, why does he have a gun?

The gangster's expression changed, he waved the machete, and shouted sharply: "Come on, if you have the guts, take out the knife and compare with me who is the best!"

bang——

Wu Xiaode pulled the trigger.

A bullet flew past the gangster's side and hit the wall.

The bastard froze.

Wu Xiaode pointed to the ground with the gun barrel.

The gangster obediently put down the machete, raised his hands, and knelt on the ground.

"Brother, spare my life." He begged.

Wu Xiaode asked: "Why are you here?"

"Little brother, I lost when I was right with you in the afternoon, and even turned around and ran away in front of the brothers, which made everyone no longer accept me-I want to compete with you again, just to see you come upstairs, so Follow up."

The gangster was covered in cold sweat, and his voice trembled a little.

Wu Xiaode thought for a while, shook his head and said: "No, if you really want to take revenge, at worst, just wait downstairs. If I was burned to death, wouldn't it be better?"

"This building is already on fire. Human instinct is to seek good luck and avoid bad luck. You will run away when you see my fish-cutting knife, let alone such a big fire?"

"You risk your life in the flames and come upstairs to fight me, unless there is any benefit in doing so."

"What are the benefits?"

Wu Xiaode paused.

Smoke billowed from the window.

The temperature starts to rise.

The fire is already burning.

Wu Xiaode frowned, and said: "The benefit of fighting here is fire."

He glanced back at the strange woman's body.

"If I die in the sea of ​​fire, and my flesh and bones are completely burned, no one will know how I died."

"in other words--"

"You actually came to kill me."

The gangster was shocked, with an incredible expression on his face.

Wu Xiaode went up and put a gun on his head, and said coldly: "Am I right?"

"I……"

The gangster muttered his lips twice, then suddenly turned his head to the side, let go of the gun, pulled out the fruit knife from his arms, and stabbed Wu Xiaode in the chest.

His movements were crisp and fast, as if he was a professional fighter.

If it was before, Wu Xiaode might not be able to react, but now——

Snapped!

With a crisp sound, the dagger in the gangster's hand was slapped away.

With a backhand punch, Wu Xiaode directly sent the gangster flying, hit the wall, and spat out a mouthful of blood.

"When I was in the alley, it was obviously just a fight, but you stabbed me with a knife. I felt something was wrong at the time, and now you appear here again—are you waiting for me to come back so that you can kill me?"

Wu Xiaode's eyes were full of anger.

He grabbed the gangster's neck, pressed it to the ground, and shouted: "What's going on, why do you have to kill me?"

The gangster just panted, but didn't speak.

Wu Xiaode nodded silently, dragged the gangster into the room, tore off the sheet on the bed, and tied the gangster to a chair.

With a light lift of one hand, he lifted the gangster and the chair, put them back in the living room, and placed them opposite the female corpse.

Thick smoke seeped into the room, and the flames intensified.

The surging red light was reflected on Wu Xiaode's expressionless face through the glass window, mixed with the noisy shouting and shouting outside.

"You're going to kill me and not tell me why—that's all right, I'll just keep you here."

After Wu Xiaode finished speaking, he tied the gangster's hands, feet and body to the chair.

When he finished all this, he walked outside without looking back.

Looking at the female corpse opposite, the gangster struggled desperately with his hands and feet, but found that he could not break free from the restraint of the chair at all.

The temperature is scorching hot.

The gangster seemed to be soaked in water, and the sweat all over his body couldn't stop flowing down.

"Wait a minute, I can tell you!" The gangster couldn't help shouting.

"Say." Wu Xiaode said without turning his head.

"We don't know about Xia Huilan. We accepted the reward and came to kill you," said the gangster.

(Thanks to the leaders of the two bosses, Lixiao Y Chenxi and Big Pineapple and Little Apple, for their generous rewards!)