Chapter 186 - Meeting with Chu Tiankuo Again

Chapter 186 Meeting with Chu Tiankuo Again

Ye Yifan’s words reminded Tang Xia that her task was “to survive”. If the murderer’s goal was just to kill someone, then it didn’t matter to him who it was. That was why she and Ye Yifan’s task was “to survive”.

Looking at Tang Xia, who had sunk into thinking, Ye Yifan smiled slightly because Tang Xia’s manner had a special charm.

Tang Xia thought deeper, “If the murderer was killing for no reason, Fang Yan wouldn’t pass the buck for Zhang Yaoyao’s death and Dabing getting injured. But there remain so many doubts.”

Tang Xia looked at Ye Yifan and asked him about her confusion, “But why? What’s his motivation? Why would Fang Yan do this? And who killed Fang Yan? Why didn’t the killer who killed Fang Yan let go of Song Sisi?”

She did not quite understand why the time-travel plot was so much like a detective plot, while their only task was to survive. But she was not suitable to handle a case! She would have begged the murderer to kill her directly had it not been for the task.

Ye Yifan was also puzzled. He said, “Is there any relationship between Fang Yan and the man who killed him?”

But that did not make sense. There was no evidence for that at all!

Looking at Ye Yifan, Tang Xia easily said out loud what Ye Yifan failed to express, “Do you mean that Fang Yan had been in cooperation with the man who killed him?”

Tang Xia shook her head instantly after she had finished her words. “No, if Fang Yan had been engaged in murdering people just to kill for no reason, he couldn’t have cooperated with anyone. But who is this murderer that popped out? What does he want?”

An idea occurred to Ye Yifan, and he said, “Are they both lunatic murderers?”

Tang Xia shivered after hearing Ye Yifan’s words, though they might be true according to psychology.

Some mentally ill lunatics always killed people as a way of provoking the police and society. But this was f*cking horrible. And men with such mentality had to be extremists.

Tang Xia denied Ye Yifan’s assumption. “No, if Fang Yan were a murderous lunatic, why didn’t he set off killing before he arrived here? And there was no such force that could drive him to be a murderous lunatic.”

Generally, criminals with the mentality of taking revenge on society were those who hadn’t gotten enough love and who had been abandoned by society when they were children. In their mind, they were the law, and they took revenge on society to uphold justice.

Ye Yifan said exhaustedly and worriedly, “When will such things stop happening to us? Now Fang Yan is dead, but it doesn’t seem to be over. It feels like we are stuck in a thick mist.”

He had encountered events more bizarre than this one but never felt so exhausted at that time, so what happened to him this time? Before, he had never cared about the lives of the people living in the worlds that he had to conquer, but he felt quite different this time.

At this point, the sound of clapping came from the dark. A man walked out and applauded them. “You got it. But I don’t mean that you seem to have gotten it, I mean that you’ve got it absolutely. It’s not over here yet, and it won’t be over unless I allow it to be!”

Having lost her mind, Song Sisi rushed to the corner, screaming on seeing that man and kept muttering, “Don’t kill me! Don’t kill me! Don’t kill me!”

She seemed to have gone mad. But what drew Tang Xia’s and Ye Yifan’s attention was that man walking out from the dark. They hardly had time to think about how Song Sisi felt.

They wouldn’t have cared about her feelings even if they had noticed her.

Gazing at the man coming from the dark, Ye Yifan tightly furrowed his brow. “Who is this man? Did he kill Fang Yan? Why would he kill Fang Yan?”

Tang Xia was startled the instant that man walked out of the dark. She gazed at him, although she was neither as terrified as Song Sisi nor as puzzled as Ye Yifan.

“It’s him! He’s shown up again!”

The man looked at Tang Xia in a strange way. He smiled slightly and said gently, “We are predestined to meet. This is the fourth time that we have met, Tang Xia.”

This time, instead of calling Tang Xia a base servant washing others’ feet, Chu Tiankuo called her by her name.

Tang Xia said incredulously, “Chu Tiankuo? Are you Chu Tiankuo?”

Since Chu Tiankuo’s last disappearance from her previous live show, she had been worrying about him. Now she met him again at last. Indeed, this was the fourth time that they had met with each other. Almost every time, this man would help her. Would he offer a helping hand this time?

Ye Yifan’s eyes seem trying to dig a hole into Chu Tiankuo’s body. “Is this the broadcast room’s bug, Chu Tiankuo, who had entangled with Tang Xia four times and who had helped Tang Xia out three times?”

Under such a strained condition, Chu Tiankuo should have the mood to tease Tang Xia and joke with her. He said, “Could there be a second bug named Chu Tiankuo in your broadcast room? Xiaxia, who else would it be apart from me?”

In Tang Xia’s eyes, this was merely a joke, but to Ye Yifan, it was a provocation, which showed Chu Tiankuo’s scorn for the broadcast room.

Ye Yifan said suddenly, “Chu Tiankuo, mark my words, the broadcast room will destroy you sooner or later, you bug.”

Chu Tiankuo did not cast his eyes at Ye Yifan until he heard Ye Yifan’s words. He said indifferently, “Has that day come now?”

When Chu Tiankuo said this, he was telling Ye Yifan not to talk about what would happen in the future because the future was always filled with changes and no one was able to make it clear.

Chu Tiankuo’s words left Ye Yifan speechless.

Ye Yifan caught sight of Song Sisi, who had lost her mind, hiding in the corner. An idea came to him and he questioned him. “Why would you kill Fang Yan?”

Hearing Ye Yifan’s words, Tang Xia asked, “You killed Fang Yan?”

Even if Tang Xia used all her intelligence, she could not believe that it was Chu Tiankuo who had killed Fang Yan.

Chu Tiankuo tittered, looking indifferent to this, and asked, “So what? You feel miserable over him just because Fang Yan is your boyfriend in this place?”

Tang Xia shook her head with determination. “I won’t fall in love with a man in order to conquer in a task, much less that Fang Yan is a scumbag.”

She was kind-hearted, but that did not mean that she was naive. She did not belong to this world. She would go back where had she lived once she accomplished the task. Falling in love with someone in this place would lead her to a dead end. But now, there seemed to be an exception.

Tang Xia glanced at Chu Tiankuo with hesitation.

But Chu Tiankuo did not see this. He kept thinking, “Won’t she fall in love with a man in order to conquer her task? What about me?”

Chu Tiankuo’s simple question made Tang Xia abandon the plan to ask him if he had killed Fang Yan. But unlike Tang Xia, Ye Yifan kept holding tightly onto the clues.

Ye Yifan questioned him again. “Chu Tiankuo, why did you kill Fang Yan? Fang Yan was innocent.”

Chu Tiankuo replied indifferently, “Innocent? Fang Yan was innocent? He killed Zhang Yaoyao. A life for a life, isn’t it?”

Tang Xia shivered for no reason. Why did she feel that his argument sounded so similar to that of extremists and lunatics?

Ye Yifan said coldly, “A life for a life. That’s right, but that’s what the police do. It’s none of your business.”

Chu Tiankuo said contemptuously, “People in your broadcast room never care about the people’s lives in the worlds that you travel to, do they? Why have you become so righteous today?”

Ye Yifan felt awful in his heart when hearing these words, but he did not know how to rebut. He couldn’t help thinking, “Are people in their broadcast room really so ruthless? No! They are just reasonable!”

Chu Tiankuo glanced at Ye Yifan again, and then said to Tang Xia, “Is this your boyfriend?”

Was this the man living in the same world as Tang Xia? Was he the man who was able to live with Tang Xia? But he did not think him reliable at all. He would not allow Tang Xia to be with such a man even if he failed to get her.

There was no change in his look and tone as he said this, thus, Tang Xia couldn’t guess what he meant.

Tang Xia cast her eyes at Ye Yifan and then said, “No.”

He was not, was he? It was merely an unrequited love between her and Ye Yifan. Maybe it was not even an unrequited love at all, but just adoration.

Ye Yifan said nothing after hearing Tang Xia’s answer since she was telling truth.

Who would rebut the truth?

But seeing Tang Xia’s look, Chu Tiankuo felt sick. Even if this man was not her boyfriend, Tang Xia had to have special feelings for him, otherwise why would there have been sorrow in her eyes when she said “no”?

Tang Xia seemed to have realized something all of a sudden and asked hurriedly, “Chu Tiankuo, why did you disappear suddenly from my last live show?”

Tang Xia should not have mentioned this because Chu Tiankuo’s eyes seemed to have been lit with fire once he heard this. He went mad instantly and pushed Tang Xia against the wall, saying irritably, “Don’t you know?”

“Last live show! Last live show! How dare Tang Xia mention to me the last live show!”

Pushed against the wall by Chu Tiankuo, Tang Xia felt it hard to breathe, but she still asked, “What do I know?”

She did not know anything about Chu Tiankuo’s sudden disappearance, did she?

Chu Tiankuo was pushing Tang Xia with more and more strength, which made her feel suffocated. Was she dying? Would she fail to finish her task? Would Chu Tiankuo really kill her?

Until this point, Tang Xia still did not believe that Chu Tiankuo, the man who had helped her out three times, would really kill her.

There was still hope in Tang Xia’s eyes.

There appeared compassion in Chu Tiankuo’s eyes as he saw Tang Xia being pushed like this. He was struggling in his mind—One voice suggested that should he kill her since she would not really die, while the other asked him not to kill her or her task would fail.

On seeing this, Ye Yifan became flurried in his heart. He removed Chu Tiankuo’s hands from Tang Xia and said in anger, “Just come at me if you want. Only a coward dares to bully a mere woman.”

Chu Tiankuo cruelly knocked down Ye Yifan and responded coldly, “Of course.”