Chapter 1746: Dark Night Killing Game

His mother's voice echoed in the empty night.

In the shadows on the side of the house, Li Laide pursed his lips slightly, his usually calm and steady eyes already turning red...

He held the diary he had just stolen from the house in his hands, silent.

This diary recorded his past at school and his motives for killing. If the people from the Chengtian Prefecture found this, they would probably interrogate his mother again, or even monitor her long-term, affecting her daily life... If that happened, he wouldn't be able to send money to his mother regularly.

So, it was best not to leave this thing behind.

At the same time, his mother's voice sounded again:

"Laide, come out and let Mom see you... okay?"

"If the people from the Chengtian Prefecture ask, I won't say I've seen you, and I definitely won't put you in danger... I just want to see you from afar and know that you're still alive and well."

"Laide..."

"Laide, are you there?"

In the darkness, a flicker of hesitation crossed Li Laide's eyes.

He didn't come out immediately, but stood in the shadows, listening to his mother's calls in the distance becoming increasingly anxious... She seemed afraid that Li Laide would leave again and she would never have the chance to see her child, or perhaps that her child simply didn't want to see her anymore.

His mother pushed the wheelchair forward with trembling hands. Perhaps because she was too anxious, she lost her balance and fell heavily to the ground.

Hearing the abrupt stop of the calls and the dull sound of the fall, Li Laide's pupils contracted slightly.

He didn't hide his figure anymore and ran toward the front door!

However, the moment he appeared, a flash of cold light erupted from the blind spot at the door. The aura of a sixth-rank soldier of the Path of the God of Soldiers was like a bone-chilling blade, stabbing fiercely into Li Laide's body!

Pfft—!!

Li Laide never expected an ambush here. Even though he had reacted quickly to twist his body, the cold light still pierced below his chest, and blood sprayed out instantly!

Everything happened too suddenly. When Li Laide fell to the ground like a dead dog, horror finally appeared in his deep blue eyes!

Damn it...

His home had already been targeted?!

Li Laide looked up with difficulty, only to see his mother still fallen on the ground, struggling to crawl up... At the same time, puppet threads appeared from the void, extending from her body all the way to the roof!

On the roof, a tall, thin figure draped in a silver-cloud robe was squinting down at Li Laide in the pool of blood:

"Finally waited for him to return... It wasn't in vain that we've been squatting here for half a month."

A middle-aged figure with a beard, carrying a jagged hunting knife, walked out of the house unhurriedly... The knife that had just ambushed Li Laide was the one he had swung.

"Although this brat isn't old, he's more cunning than other followers of the Path of the God of Thieves of the same rank. If we didn't use some extraordinary means, we really wouldn't have been able to catch him..."

"Who's to say? But if you ask me, this kid's temperament is steady enough. I even had his mom call out like that, and he still didn't come out. If she hadn't tripped, I'm afraid our half-month of squatting would have been in vain."

As he spoke, puppet threads dropped from the air, binding the heavily injured Li Laide and completely sealing his ability to move.

Li Laide was only at the fifth rank, after all. Even with all his skills and means, facing the ambush and restraint of two sixth-rankers, he couldn't break free. He could only glare with bloodshot eyes, his gaze toward them wishing he could tear them to pieces!

"What did you do to my mom?!!!" the youth roared hysterically.

"Rest assured... she just fainted," the figure on the roof said quietly. "I am, after all, from the Esoteric Sect. In the old days, that was called... oh, a righteous sect. I wouldn't go so far as to attack a civilian."

"Bullshit righteous sect!" the youth sneered while coughing up blood. "You bunch of hypocritical trash, acting all high and mighty while using ordinary people to set traps and ambush... You're truly shameless."

"Heh, don't slander me. This method was his idea," the figure on the roof smiled and pointed at the bearded man. "By the way... he's not from an official organization, just a registered freelance divine path practitioner."

The bearded man glanced at him coldly:

"Passing the buck to me now? Then the bounty is 70% for me, 30% for you."

"Just kidding, don't be so distant..."

The bearded man couldn't be bothered to talk nonsense with him. He walked straight to Li Laide, squatted down in the pool of blood, grabbed Li Laide's face with one hand, and lifted his head.

"Hmph, a white heretic indeed," the bearded man's eyes flashed with disdain. "Just a foreign refugee who was living under someone else's roof three hundred years ago. Since you want others' protection, you should have been a good dog... Stealing and killing at such a young age?"

"These heretics are truly base in their bones. If you ask me, the Chengtian Prefecture should order them all to be eliminated to prevent future trouble."

Hearing the word "heretic," Li Laide's bloodshot eyes exploded with rage. He was like a madman whose scar had been fiercely poked. Regardless of the blood gushing from his torn wounds, he struggled and roared:

"You're the heretics... your whole family are heretics!"

"What did we do wrong?! We didn't do anything! We just wanted to live well!! Why should we be base just because we look different from you?! Why should we be heretics?!!"

Slap—!!

The bearded man slapped Li Laide fiercely, and Li Laide's roar came to an abrupt end.

This slap was very heavy. The already heavily injured Li Laide felt his head buzzing, and he was close to losing consciousness. His forehead knocked weakly into the pool of blood, and blood flowed along the wound...

"Alright, stop talking nonsense with him," the figure on the roof said calmly. "Kill him quickly and take his head to the Chengtian Prefecture to claim the bounty."

"I don't need you to teach me."

The bearded man snorted coldly, lifted the jagged hunting knife, and a chilling cold light flashed in the air. His blade aimed at Li Laide, who was like a dead dog in the pool of blood, and he slowly raised it...

The aura of a sixth-rank soldier of the Path of the God of Soldiers spread continuously. He took a deep breath and swung the hunting knife down with all his might!

The blade of the hunting knife tore through the air, making a sharp explosion. The bearded man didn't hold back; he knew this brat had many tricks, and even at the last moment, he had to go all out.

Li Laide, his consciousness blurring, knew he probably couldn't escape this disaster, and a sense of bitterness welled up in his heart.

He never expected that after finally escaping from Chen Ling, what awaited him was an even more terrifying dead end...

Then, just as the hunting knife was about to touch Li Laide's neck, a pair of slender, fair fingers suddenly reached out from the void, lightly catching the bearded man's full-force strike.

The bearded man froze in place.