After a while, Yin Chen also smiled, murmuring, “No wonder he likes you so much. You’re very much like your mother—so upright and unyielding that one can’t help wanting to reach out and bend you, to watch you struggle.”
You Mingxu felt alarmed—his reaction suggested a kind of danger. But another thought surfaced: Yin Chen’s tone when speaking of her mother was full of desire for control and destruction. Could it be… that his earlier talk of admiration and love was completely fabricated? All false. His relationship with her mother wasn’t like that at all; he said those things just to provoke her and Xing Jifu.
Could it even be possible that he was… the real culprit behind her mother’s death? Back then, the serial killer identified by the police had been found dead in an apartment and died horribly.
But Yin Chen’s attitude when speaking of her mother, that hint of madness, made her sense something was wrong.
Suppressing her doubts, You Mingxu fell silent, not wanting to further provoke this psychopath’s interest. Yin Chen seemed lost in thought, turning to stare at the night outside, his expression gloomy.
Only then did You Mingxu feel the person beside her, who had been quiet all along, move closer and whisper in her ear: “Stop talking to him. His target was originally me.”
You Mingxu looked up, first seeing Xing Jifu’s graying temples, his concerned expression, and unexpectedly clear eyes. She said coolly, “I know what I’m doing.”
“If you get a chance, run. I’ll hold them back,” Xing Jifu whispered again, his voice barely audible.
You Mingxu remained silent.
She had never thought she would want to ask this man anything. Now suddenly she had the urge, but ultimately, she kept quiet.
The van fell silent.
The mountain road wound on without a single light. The night had deepened, and they drove deeper into the mountains. Occasional passing cars wouldn’t notice anything unusual about their two vans. You Mingxu knew they were getting further from police jurisdiction, possibly losing the tracking signal again.
Could Yin Feng, Jing Ping, and Xu Mengshan find her? Would they catch up?
With the current situation so tense and police fully mobilized, the Punishers had intercepted the Xing father and son, and from what Yin Chen had revealed, they would hide in the deep mountains for a while.
If Yin Feng couldn’t find her today…
Perhaps he never would.
Yet inexplicably, You Mingxu felt courage well up, somehow believing he would come.
Just like every time before.
And even if he didn’t come, she would find a way to deal with these heinous criminals!
She looked up at the three armed Punishers across from her. Including Yin Chen, there were five of them in this van. She noticed that no matter how deep the grudges and private matters discussed between her, Xing Jifu and Yin Chen got, these three men hadn’t even furrowed their brows. They simply remained dutiful, keeping their guns trained on her and Xing Jifu. This was why she hadn’t dared act rashly. These three alone had callused hands from gun practice, solid builds, with muscles harboring strength. They seemed even more threatening than the gang members and drug dealers. Considering Gu Tiancheng and Wei Lan’s combat abilities, You Mingxu wasn’t confident she could escape under their gunpoint.
It was clear they were deeply loyal to Yin Chen, almost blindly so. You Mingxu believed they had been brainwashed, ready to die pursuing Yin Chen’s doctrine of “all good is dead, pursue all evil.”
This was tricky.
She could only wait for an opportunity.
The van holding Xing Yanjun was in front, while You Mingxu and Xing Jifu were in the second one.
The night grew deeper, the mountains eerily silent.
The change happened in an instant.
Suddenly, You Mingxu sensed two bright beams of light from ahead. She immediately looked up, as did everyone else in the van. Yin Chen’s expression changed as he turned—
Two blindingly bright headlights suddenly blazed from the roadside ahead—a large SUV had somehow stopped there silently, suddenly starting up just as the first van was about to pass!
You Mingxu could almost imagine the driver and occupants of the first van being blinded by the suddenly intense light in the darkness, temporarily losing their vision. The powerful engine roared to life, the SUV charging like a fierce tiger, instantly accelerating toward the first van!
Yin Chen’s face changed drastically.
The people in the first van couldn’t see clearly! There was only a thunderous crash as the two vehicles collided violently! The first van, already at high speed, combined with the SUV’s reckless charge, completely flipped over and slammed heavily into the roadside cliff face, stopping dead. The SUV’s entire front end was crushed, almost embedded in the first van’s body, and also crashed against the cliff.
It all happened in an instant, with both vehicles falling silent. They blocked more than half the mountain road.
You Mingxu’s van approached in the blink of an eye, with no time to brake. The driver made a sharp turn, barely scraping past the SUV’s rear end, nearly becoming part of the wreck.
But this move…
This life-risking, vehicle-ramming tactic was all too familiar to You Mingxu! The SUV’s driver, fearless of death, had single-handedly taken out a van full of Punishers!
As they scraped past that vehicle, You Mingxu whipped around, looking through the window, and sure enough saw a familiar, muscular figure pinned by the airbag in the SUV’s driver’s seat, covered in blood, eyes tightly shut, his fate unknown.
Tu Ya!!