Before reaching home, the rain started to fall.

When the first few drops hit his face, Lu Yuan knew it was going to be bad.

Sure enough, within seconds, the rain became fierce.

Bean-sized raindrops fell from the sky, as if someone was pouring basins of water from above in the middle of the night.

Lu Yuan quickly ran under the eaves of a shop along the street, shook the water droplets from his hair, and walked along the narrow shelter towards home.

After the heavy rain, there were even fewer people on the street.

Occasionally, one or two unfortunate office workers who worked overtime until this hour could be seen running wildly on the road, holding computer bags.

Electric bikes and cars with orange headlights sped past Lu Yuan from time to time through the rain curtain.

Suddenly, a minivan stopped at the entrance of an alley in front of Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan looked over casually as he walked.

He saw the door of the minivan open, and four or five men in black short sleeves rushed out. Two of them seemed to be carrying something.

Wrapped in black oilcloth, it was unclear what it was.

After the group got out of the car, two people quickly walked out of the alley to greet them.

As soon as the two groups met, they immediately walked into the alley, leaving only a young man in his twenties with dyed yellow hair standing at the entrance of the alley smoking.

The rain was too heavy.

Lu Yuan didn't understand why the young man chose to stand in the heavy rain to smoke.

“Can it even be lit?”

Lu Yuan thought silently.

As he passed by the young man, the latter seemed to glare at him and mumbled a few swear words.

He threw the cigarette on the ground and turned to walk into the alley.

Lu Yuan walked a few dozen meters forward, preparing to cross the road.

Looking at the flashing red light on the opposite side of the road, he unconsciously glanced at the alley entrance he had just passed.

“Three”

“Two”

“One.”

The red light turned green.

Lu Yuan stepped onto the crosswalk.

Even with his hand shielding his head, raindrops still rolled down his hair quickly.

He squinted, carefully avoiding the puddles on the road.

Halfway through.

Lu Yuan stopped.

He stared at the green figure walking quickly on the traffic light for a while, and a string in his heart was touched. He suddenly turned around and ran back the way he came.

“Hopefully… I'm just overthinking it.”

Lu Yuan ran to the entrance of the alley where the minivan was parked and glanced inside.

The heavy rain blurred his vision, and the alley was pitch black.

There was no light at all.

This was the oldest part of the city, and many of the houses inside were still in the style of the countryside before they were renovated. Almost no one lived there.

Lu Yuan took two steps inside.

Suddenly, he squatted down and reached out to pick up a pink hairpin from the waterlogged ground.

The color of the hairpin looked very new, the kind that only high school girls would wear.

Lu Yuan felt it was somewhat familiar no matter how he looked at it.

His mind flashed with broken images like a movie.

“… Recently, there have been multiple missing person cases in our city. The Municipal Public Security Bureau has established a special investigation team…”

“… Lu Hui, female, 28 years old, wearing a white… If you have any information, please call the following number. There will be a reward!”

“Lu Yuan, are you going back to class together? I want to compare answers with you for the math test yesterday afternoon.”

“What are you looking at, little brat! Get lost!”

“Click —”

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The lightning that flashed overhead suddenly illuminated everything in front of him.

Lu Yuan suddenly connected all the clues in his mind.

“Missing person case… kidnapping… Ling Yue?!”

He subconsciously wanted to take out his phone, but a faint whistling sound mixed with the heavy rain quickly approached his ears.

“Bang!”

The rusty steel pipe hit the concrete floor hard.

Lu Yuan half-squatted on the ground, his clothes and pants covered in mud due to rolling, looking a bit embarrassed.

“Yo, you can even dodge?”

The young man with yellow hair holding the steel pipe looked at Lu Yuan in surprise, the silver earring on his left ear flashing under the afterglow of the lightning.

Lu Yuan quickly stood up from the ground, his legs slightly tense, and he subconsciously wanted to rush towards the yellow-haired youth.

But in the next second, he stopped abruptly, turned around sharply, and ran out of the alley.

The adult soul in this body told him.

At this time, the most correct decision was to escape from danger as soon as possible and then call the police.

But before Lu Yuan could run out of the alley, the minivan parked at the entrance of the alley suddenly lit up with two orange lights, turned its head sharply, and rushed into the alley.

“Boom —”

The car stopped, and the body of the car blocked the narrow alley tightly.

The direct headlights made Lu Yuan turn his face slightly.

Then he saw the door of the minivan open, and a middle-aged man of medium build and ordinary appearance walked out of the car with a blank expression.

“Damn it!”

Only then did Lu Yuan realize.

There was someone in the car all along.

His hesitation, his return, and everything he had done in the alley had been seen clearly by the person in the car.

“Ha —”

Lu Yuan heard someone laugh, and then the sound of a stick breaking through the air came from behind him again.

He tried his best to dodge to the side, and at the moment he turned around, he caught a glimpse of the figure behind him out of the corner of his eye. He immediately turned around and kicked the young man with yellow hair holding the steel pipe.

“Bang!”

This kick was solid enough.

The yellow-haired young man was kicked three or four meters away by Lu Yuan, staggered, and crashed into the wall, falling on his butt.

The steel pipe in his hand also fell to the ground.

“This kid knows martial arts!”

The yellow-haired youth clutched his chest and shouted.

The middle-aged man blocking the entrance of the alley changed his expression slightly and took the initiative to rush towards Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan held the hairpin tightly in his left hand, his cheeks burning, and he felt as if all the blood in his body was boiling at this moment.

Two lifetimes.

This could be considered his first real fight.

Basic boxing, basic leg techniques, basic footwork, basic grappling.

Jab, left hook, right roundhouse kick, forward slip step…

The fighting techniques he had practiced hard on weekdays rolled through his mind in a mess, but Lu Yuan couldn't grasp anything at once.

He could only follow his instincts, lower his body slightly, and then punch straight at the man's face.

The fist pierced through the heavy rain curtain, and before it could land, it was slapped away by the middle-aged man's palm.

The latter took the opportunity to raise a fist and punch.

Aimed at Lu Yuan's neck.

Lu Yuan could only turn sideways, but his shoulder was forced to take a hit…

The two quickly fought together, and the sound of fists and feet colliding in the heavy rain made a "pa pa" sound.

It was completely different from sparring with Cheng Peng.

There was no protective gear on his body, and the fists were hitting him hard.

However, his adrenaline was soaring now, and with the addition of ten points of constitution, he could hardly feel any pain.

The middle-aged man had obviously practiced, and his speed and strength were much stronger than Lu Yuan's.

Lu Yuan was far inferior to him in terms of actual combat experience.

Almost as soon as they met, he fell into a disadvantage and was passively beaten.

He was able to hold on until now only by fighting the opponent with his blood boiling.

“Hua hua —”

At this time, there was a sudden sound of footsteps wading through water behind him.

Lu Yuan punched away the middle-aged man's attack, quickly leaned against the wall, and then turned his head to look behind him.

He saw five or six figures wearing raincoats walking towards him.

They all had weapons in their hands, including sticks and shiny watermelon knives.

The yellow-haired young man who had been kicked away by him earlier also stood up.

He approached with these people, his eyes as vicious as a wild dog fighting for food on the side of the road.

“Brother Hei!”

Someone shouted.

The middle-aged man blocking the entrance of the alley and fighting with Lu Yuan smiled and replied in dialect.

As he spoke, his eyes glanced at Lu Yuan from time to time, with a hint of amusement in them.

Lu Yuan watched as the two groups got closer and closer, about to meet.

Under the pouring rain, the high concrete courtyard walls in the alley of the urban village seemed to be connected with the black sky.

An inexplicable sense of fear and despair arose from his heart.

Lu Yuan began to panic.

He could almost hear the sound of his heart pounding in his chest.

Raindrops fell on his face and body, bringing a slight chill.

“Hu — hu —”

His breathing became heavier and heavier.

At the moment when it was about to reach a certain critical point…

“Bang!”

Lu Yuan punched the wall behind him hard, and his whole body lunged at the nearby middle-aged man like a beast.

Under the heavy rain, the running teenager clenched his teeth tightly, his handsome face looking a little ferocious because of his effort.

A crazy flame ignited in his eyes.

What no one saw was.

A light blue virtual light screen quickly condensed.

On the light screen.

Two usable free attribute points instantly disappeared, and at the same time, the attribute in the strength column changed.

From the original 9…

It quietly changed to… 11!