Inside a private room of a bar.
Melodious music echoed.
The brilliant lights overhead intertwined, forming a dreamlike scene.
The Gold wallpaper reflected a soft glow, and the rhombic crystal chandelier cast fragmented and hazy light and shadow.
In the center of the sofa sat a slender, well-dressed, languid young man.
The young man had an ordinary appearance and was over thirty in actual age, but he was extremely well-preserved, with delicate and smooth skin.
He looked no different from a young man in his twenties.
On his wrist was a million-dollar watch, its diamond-encrusted dial emitting a faint glow under the refraction of the lights.
On the coffee table in front of him were several bottles of top-tier champagne, each worth hundreds of thousands.
This made his otherwise ordinary appearance suddenly gain a different kind of attraction in the eyes of some women.
This could be seen from the fervent glances, as if they wanted to cling to him, frequently cast by the four or five young, fair-skinned, beautiful women with charming smiles sitting on either side of him.
"Lu Shao, who are you talking to on the phone? Come, I'll toast you!"
At this moment, beside the young man, seeing him put down his phone, a woman smiled charmingly and spoke, picking up a glass of champagne from the table, pouring it, and presenting it to the young man.
The woman wore a long red dress, its perfectly draped folds resembling blooming roses.
As she slightly leaned forward and bent, she revealed her delicate collarbone and slender neck.
Her crescent-shaped eyes looked at the man in front of her with a beaming smile.
This kind of gaze, coupled with her beautiful face, was something almost no man could resist.
"Heh heh, you really want to know? It's about your little simp!"
Lu Shi chuckled softly.
He took the wine glass with one hand, while the other directly wrapped around the red-dressed woman's shoulder, his palm restlessly caressing her.
Upon hearing this.
Jiang Yuyan's face flushed with a hint of shyness.
She leaned into Lu Shi's shoulder.
Her tone was like a spoiled child's as she said.
"Lu Shao, you're joking again. My heart has always only belonged to you."
"Oh, really? Let me see if that's true."
Lu Shi reached out, lifted the red-dressed woman's chin, and lowered his head to kiss her directly.
...
Cold wind, mixed with cold rain, howled past.
There were few pedestrians on the street; occasionally, one or two cars with headlights on drove by, their wheels splashing water as they rolled over puddles.
The two could only follow Hu Qi from a distance, to avoid him noticing anything unusual, while also waiting for news from their boss, Wu Shan.
Suddenly.
They noticed Hu Qi ahead suddenly turn into an alleyway.
"This guy couldn't have discovered us, could he!"
The two exchanged glances.
They quickened their pace forward.
Upon reaching the alley entrance, they looked inside.
The alley wasn't deep, but it had other branching paths.
Hu Qi's figure disappeared, only the corner of an umbrella fleetingly visible around the bend.
At the same time.
One of their phones vibrated slightly.
Opening it.
It was a message from Wu Shan.
"Quick, don't let him run!"
After seeing the message content, a ferocious look flashed across their faces.
They quickly dashed towards the alley entrance ahead, giving chase.
Inside the dim alleyway.
Their footsteps were hurried, like dense drumbeats, their echoes intertwining with the falling rain, reverberating through the narrow alley.
However, when the two reached the corner.
They suddenly saw a black, elongated object appear before them.
Then, it stabbed towards the two at an extremely fast speed.
The speed was too fast; the two had no time to dodge.
They didn't even let out a scream.
They just felt a jolt of numbness throughout their bodies, directly collapsing to the ground, falling heavily.
One person even hit the ground face-first due to the speed, directly splitting his head open and bleeding.
Looking at the two unconscious individuals.
Hu Qi wasn't entirely at ease, and poked them again with the electric baton.
Blue and white electric arcs flickered.
Upon touching the current, the two convulsed violently and uncontrollably, foaming at the mouth.
Seeing this.
Hu Qi finally relaxed completely.
The quality of this electric baton was indeed good.
He'd give the boss a good review when he got back.
He scanned the surroundings.
This alleyway was extremely secluded; even during the day, few people normally passed through here.
The reason Hu Qi knew this was because the original owner was familiar with the roads here from delivering takeout and usually liked to take this shortcut.
Then, he lowered his head and picked up a phone that had fallen to the ground.
The phone screen glowed, stained with muddy water, and its edges had some cracks from hitting the ground.
The screen wasn't locked, and the chat box was still visible.
The most recent message was sent a minute ago.
The general content was a person, noted as Brother Shan, telling these two to catch him, and that he would arrive soon.
"Interesting! Are these the people who beat the original owner into the hospital?"
Hu Qi's eyes narrowed slightly.
Although there wasn't much content in the message.
This wasn't difficult to guess.
After all, according to the original owner's memory, the original body was an honest, law-abiding ordinary person.
It was impossible for him to offend anyone.
Furthermore, his loan had not yet reached its repayment date, and it was from a federal government platform.
Even if he didn't repay it, they would call him to repay first.
So.
There was only this one conclusion.
As for these people, to be honest.
He temporarily had no intention of seeking revenge on them.
After all, it was the original owner who got beaten, not himself. In other words, if these people hadn't beaten the original owner to death, it was uncertain whether he could have successfully completed the Possession.
But now it was different.
Now, the one using this body was Hu Qi.
The other party had come for him.
It seemed they wanted to repeat their old tricks.
"These bastards, do they really think I'm as easy to bully as the original body?"
A surge of hostility rose in Hu Qi's heart.
Thinking of this, he looked at the last chat box on the screen in his hand.
A cold expression appeared on his face.
...
Xiao Feng: Brother Shan, come quickly! We've got that kid cornered! We're on Dongting Road, in the alley opposite the Night Whisper Internet Cafe.
Wu Shan looked at the message on his phone.
A look of joy flashed across his face.
"Good, good, wait for me, I'll be right there!"
For him, the streets and alleys of this place were very familiar, and he quickly found his way there.
"Xiao Feng, Ah Zai!"
Wu Shan arrived in the alleyway, saw no one, and turned to call out twice.
But he didn't get the expected response.
The rain fell harder; all around was only the patter of raindrops hitting the ground. Besides that, there was silence.
Seeing this.
A trace of vigilance rose in Wu Shan's heart. He pulled a silver object from his pants pocket and flicked it forcefully.
It transformed into a half-meter-long telescopic baton.
His eyes darted left and right as he reached the fork in the alleyway.
He slowly walked forward.
At the same time, he took out his phone and started dialing the other party's number.
Suddenly.
A crisp ringing sound came from the front right.
Seeing this, he quickly stepped forward.
At this moment.
Above the sky, a searing bolt of lightning flashed across.
This instant illuminated the entire scene inside the alleyway; he saw two motionless figures lying beside a gray-white utility pole at the corner to his right.