Chapter 874: Chapter 874

"Look, it’s your favorite, the strawberry rock candy skewer."

The man sitting in the driver’s seat, his hand on the steering wheel, turned his head towards the passenger side window, pointing to a small shop by the street through the hazy curtain of rain.

Lin Chichi, with a stern face, quickly reminded.

Then she shrank her head and leaned back against the seat, looking out the car window.

The rain was getting heavier.

The hazy curtain of rain almost covered the entire window, as if submerged in water, obscuring their view inside the car.

Only through the twisted, turbulent drops could one vaguely see the blurred sights outside, spotting the old store’s red sign and the straw rack beneath it brimming with skewers.

Lin Chichi leaned against the window, scrutinizing the appearance of those skewers.

The hawthorn skewers and the strawberry skewers looked similar, both red.

But the strawberries were pointy, and biting into the coated hawthorn revealed a sourness, slightly astringent if not well made, while the strawberries were crisply sour with a hint of sweetness and a distinctive strawberry fragrance.

Swallowing, Lin Chichi withdrew her gaze, sat up straight, listened to her rapidly beating heart, and raised her head to look forward.

The oscillating windshield wipers continually swept away the spreading rain, yet they still couldn’t see the road ahead clearly.

The rain from the sky intensified; all vehicles on the street moved slowly.

It seemed there was a traffic jam ahead, with the piercing sound of car horns alternating under the rain curtain.

The middle-aged man in the driver’s seat looked ahead, reached into his pocket, and pulled out a pack of cigarettes, shaking one out.

Then he paused, glancing at his daughter who was absentmindedly looking forward, slowly capped the cigarette and put it back into his pocket.

He glanced at his watch.

It was one o’clock in the afternoon, typically when the sun was at its fieriest, but he felt none of that heat at this moment.

The black clouds obscured the entire sky, and the surging rain distorted the dim light.

What should have been noon appeared almost as if dusk approached.

The vehicles ahead inched forward slowly; it was unclear what had happened.

The middle-aged man shifted into first gear, stepped on the clutch, and cautiously managed to follow the car ahead.

Meanwhile, the young girl in the passenger seat carefully observed their surroundings.

For some reason, her heartbeat accelerated, and the environment felt increasingly ’familiar.’

This wasn’t the familiarity of having traveled this road many times before; it was a type of familiarity filled with fear and strangeness.

This familiarity made her involuntarily shrink back, her whole body tensing up in the process.

The middle-aged man, noticing his daughter’s unusual behavior, asked softly.

The girl lowered her head, her black hair falling alongside her cheeks, "Dad, can we not take this road?"

"Haven’t we always taken this route?"

The middle-aged man was puzzled, but seeing his daughter’s nervous look, he quickly changed his tone and smiled, "Then let’s go around; there’s a bend up ahead, we’ll go around it."

Lin Chichi nodded lightly; her body still curled up on the seat, slightly shivering.

The vehicle signaled and slowly moved towards the right, following the congested traffic flow ahead.

After what seemed a long time, the middle-aged man turned the steering wheel, taking a turn into a relatively free side road.

"This road isn’t as congested,"

With the vehicle moving in, the middle-aged man stepped on the gas pedal and slowly accelerated, laughing heartily, "Maybe we can even get there faster."

At that instant, a flash of lightning streaked across the sky, momentarily illuminating the dim rainy night.

A dark glow vanished at the girl’s fingertips.

Overturned cars, flowing blood, bright yellow barriers, a series of images flashed through the girl’s mind.

Her body tensed abruptly, and without hesitation, she reached out and grabbed the steering wheel on the driver’s side.

"Chichi, what are you doing?"

The middle-aged man immediately pressed the brake and reached for the steering wheel.

But in that instant, the girl had already turned the steering wheel to the right.

The car, previously speeding, suddenly surged onto the adjacent sidewalk.

Before the middle-aged man could react, a massive truck suddenly burst out from the rear traffic, crushing car after car, coming directly towards them.

The middle-aged man, looking at the rearview mirror and spotting the truck, trembled in his voice.

"Step on the gas! Dad, step on the gas!"

The girl sitting beside croakily shouted.

The middle-aged man stepped on the gas, but it seemed too late.

Accompanied by a booming noise, the rear of the car was struck by a large truck.

Accompanied by the sharp noise of tires scraping the ground, the sedan, along with the pouring rain, spun around on the sidewalk and suddenly crashed into the wall of the adjacent building.

The airbags instantly deployed, catching the two figures in the front seats.

After an unknown amount of time, Lin Chichi slowly opened her eyes from a daze, the storm outside still fiercely pouring, accompanied by the intense sounds of car horns.

She immediately turned her head to look beside her.

The middle-aged man’s head was covered in blood, his face smeared with shards of broken glass.

The girl reached her hand in front of the middle-aged man’s nose, feeling the warm breath brush against her fingertips.

Lin Chichi shook her father violently by the hand but received no response.

He seemed to have passed out.

The girl looked at the damaged wall in front of her, reached out for her phone, but its screen was completely shattered and wouldn’t turn on.

Tossing the broken phone back into the car, she fumbled to unbuckle her seatbelt and pushed open the deformed car door.

The violent wind and rain instantly swept across her face, wetting her strands of hair.

Only then did she feel a slight pain at the top of her head; she reached up to touch it and looked down to see her palm covered in blood.

She glanced at the shattered rear-view mirror; under the scattering light, between her black hair, some fresh blood was seeping out.

Her head seemed to have been cut by the flying glass.

A huge red truck was lying sideways behind her on the road, crushing several small cars.

Blood flowed from underneath the crushed vehicles, mixing with the torrential rainwater, slowly seeping into the roadside drains.

Her heart, which was still pounding loudly, continued to beat violently, yet, curiously, witnessing the horrifying scene before her, she was surprisingly calm.

She staggered around the car to the driver’s side and began to forcefully pull on the deformed car door.

The damage was worse on the left side front, making the door even more deformed.

At this moment, behind Lin Chichi, a blood-soaked figure climbed out of the truck’s driver’s seat, tore off the piece of clothing hooked on the window glass, raised its head, scanned the surroundings, and saw the girl pulling on the car door.

He curled up his lips into a vicious grin, slowly jumped down from the truck, stepping in the blood-soaked rainwater, drew a sharp knife from his waist, and started walking step by step towards her.

Sitting on the swaying boat, Li Cheng watched the shadows of bubbles around him, "Lin Chichi also seemed to have disappeared in this incident."

Standing at the bow, He Ao nodded lightly, "Because of her, I was able to detect the ’Blood Sun’ immediately."

"That little one is quite capable and has a strong will; at her age, she should be enjoying her playful and innocent times,"

Li Cheng sighed softly, "I’ve seen her records; her father was involved in and died in a chain car accident involving transcendent beings when she was very young. She and her mother didn’t go with him and escaped the accident.

"But since then, life became very tough for the mother and daughter, struggling to get by together until she grew up; this might also be why she is so ’precocious.’

"I wonder if she’s still alive."

He Ao responded softly and raised his head to look at the nearing bubbles, spoke calmly, "She’s still alive."

People more involved with the transcendent are more likely to be pulled into transcendent events.

Perhaps it was because of her father’s death in a transcendent-related incident that Lin Chichi encountered the Velora that day, which led to today’s events.

Fate sometimes is like a delicate web, intricately connecting everyone together.

Flashes of lightning pierced the sky, and the sudden downpour poured onto the land.

Lin Chichi, who was forcefully pulling the car door, finally managed to create a gap in the completely deformed door.

Just then, she heard footsteps behind her, stopped her actions, and turned to look.

Almost in an instant, the sharp blade cut through the falling raindrops, slashing towards her throat.

A flowing black gleam momentarily vanished beneath her fingertips.

She instinctively leaned back and withdrew.

But the sharp blade still grazed her nose, bringing with it an intense sting. She reached up to gently touch her nose.

Mixed with the water droplets, the fresh red seeped into her fingertips, quickly washed away by the rain.

She lifted her head, somewhat surprised as she looked at the blood-soaked man in front of her.

But the man just raised an eyebrow and lifted the downward-pointing dagger, stabbing towards the girl’s heart.

Instantly, the girl sidestepped and dodged the attack.

Lin Chichi looked down at her own body,

When did she acquire the ability to perform such movements? It was as if she had been trained by some special organization.

But she didn’t have much time to think, as the man’s blade swung toward her again.

She immediately rolled, her body rolling along the wet ground and raindrops, creating distance between herself and the man.

The man turned around, looking at the girl’s muddy clothes and her rain-soaked locks, displaying a trace of confusion and wonder.

She hadn’t expected a little girl to make such a ’dirty’ move.

Lin Chichi looked up at the man in front of her, seemingly never having seen this man before, nor having any animosity with him.

She turned her head to look behind her, hoping to borrow a phone from someone to call the police, but was shocked to find the street behind her silent, without a single passerby.

Where did this psychopathic Murderer suddenly come from?

"This is interesting, isn’t it?"

The man in the torrential rain twisted his neck slightly and balanced the dagger in his hand.

As he spoke, he leaped forward, instantly closing the distance with the girl.

Observing the increasingly close face, flickering images suddenly flashed through Lin Chichi’s mind.

She might not have never seen this person, but she couldn’t remember where she had seen him.

A headache, as if split by an axe, emerged from the depths of her brain, as if a barrier that confined everything was being torn apart.

She seemed to have forgotten many things.

However, at this moment, in the driving rain, the large man was getting closer, leaving her no time to ponder these bits of information. She immediately pulled back several steps and ran toward the side of the road.

Compared to her still capable of running, her father, who had already fainted, was in greater danger. She had to distract this crazy Murderer.

Disordered thoughts flashed through her mind, yet the man behind her was rapidly closing the distance.

Even though her reactions were quicker than normal girls, there was still an absolute gap in strength between her and the man before her.

The fact that she had dodged until now was solely because the man had initially been toying with her like a cat with a mouse.

It seemed now that the man had had his fill of the game.

The surrounding vehicles had already come to a halt, everything was eerily silent, no human voices to be heard, only the vivid red blood from some crushed vehicles being washed away by the rain.

Here seemed like reality, yet it resembled Hell even more.

Countless images kept echoing in her mind, accompanied by intense pain assaulting the girl’s spirit.

She struggled to knock on the doors of the surrounding stationary vehicles.

Some cars were empty, their passengers long gone, while those crushed by trucks contained only gruesomely mangled corpses.

Suppressing the deep nausea within her, Lin Chichi continuously ran between the gaps of vehicles, using her size advantage to turn and widen the distance.

Meanwhile, her pursuer behind was getting closer and closer, and up ahead was a truck fallen over, blocking most of the road, leaving her no more space to turn and widen the distance.

Just then, through the hazy curtain of rain, she saw a small item poking out of the pocket of a dead passenger in the wrecked vehicle ahead.

She sprinted toward it, pulled open the deformed car door, and grabbed the item from the bloodied corpse.

Just at that moment, the man chasing her had reached her side.

"It’s over, little girl,"

The man, through the open car door, smiled as he looked at the girl who had just picked up the item, lifting the dagger in his hand, "If we drag this out any longer, the boss will probably kill me."

In that instant, the girl suddenly exerted her strength against the open car door.

The door rebounded back, slamming into the man.

Caught unprepared, the man instinctively bent and stepped back.

In that moment, Lin Chichi brought out the item she had just picked up: a small lipstick-shaped pepper spray.

She extended the spray nozzle and at close range aimed it at the man’s face before pressing it hard.

In an instant, the intense pungent gas surged into the man’s eyes.

"My eyes, my eyes, you bloody b*tch, what did you spray!!!"

While the man reached to cover his eyes, Lin Chichi didn’t stop her movements; she closed the car door, and with a quick step, narrowed the distance to the man.

Then she centered her weight on her feet, tightened her abdomen and glutes, suddenly lifted her leg, and with the power of her waist, hips, and legs, thrust her foot upwards, directly kicking the man’s lower body.

The intense pain made the man double over, forcing him to retreat several steps.

Lin Chichi seized the opportunity to move forward, grabbing the man’s wrist and biting down hard.

As the sharp teeth penetrated his skin, the man winced in pain, his wrist loosening and the dagger in his hand falling to the ground.

In that instant, the man forcefully flung the girl away, causing her to slam into a nearby vehicle.

The heavy strike made the girl’s body shudder violently, nearly suffocating her as she fell to her knees in the pouring rain.

From this angle, she raised her head to see the overturned truck’s door and a torn piece of fabric hanging from it.

She lowered her head, looking at the missing piece of fabric on the man’s clothing, and said softly, "So you did it on purpose."

"What on purpose, damn Bitch,"

The man was now crouching on the ground, groping the ground with his hands.

The flowing rain had significantly reduced the effectiveness of the pepper spray, and he could now see blurrily; he was searching for his small knife on the ground. "I’m going to kill you shortly, rip out your liver and lungs, and see how capable you really are."

With the girl’s hoarse question echoing in his ears, he felt his ankle grabbed and then violently pulled,

causing him to fall and be dragged backward.

He immediately turned around, kicking the girl’s hand away, and looked behind at the girl. "I’m going to kill you right now."

Staggering to his feet, he rushed towards the blurry figure in his field of view, aiming for the girl’s neck.

The girl swung her hand to deflect the move, and the two of them tumbled on the ground.

"Damn Bitch, trying to act tough, don’t you know the world has changed?"

At that moment, the man finally grasped the girl’s neck, pinning her firmly to the ground, "You people are just lowly scum, once I become a Transcendent, I’ll kill as many as I want."

And the girl just stared blankly at him, raindrops falling on her pure white face, like flowing tears.

Meanwhile, her hand, hidden from the man’s sight, was slowly moving along the bloody, watery ground, reaching for a blade that had fallen nearby.

"Go to Hell and ask."

The man tightened his grip, twisting the delicate, fair neck and looking at the dazed face, he exerted more force.

The sharp dagger sliced through the heavy raindrops, piercing the soft neck, and blood spewed, blending with the rain, to flow into the street’s sewer.

The girl, looking into the man’s widened eyes, pulled away the hand that clung to her neck, and flipped the man over.

Stumbling to her knees, she stared at the man’s corpse with her pale, rain-soaked face, "Why? Have we wronged you? Have we done something evil? Why should we suffer such a fate? Why?!"

The rain soaked through her hair, washing over her crystal-clear eyes and continuously sliding down her cheeks.

"It seems our young man has met with a little accident here,"

A hoarse chuckle came from down the street.

"Useless people who can’t keep up with the times end ,"

Another light laugh came from the other side.

The girl slowly raised her head, looking forward.

Between the crushed vehicles, two simply dressed men stood atop a bus.

The man on the left wore an orange coat, holding an SUV with one hand, and the man on the right wore a gray jacket, his hands stuffed in his pockets.

The girl raised her head, gazing at the newcomers.

The man with the orange coat holding the SUV gently jostled the vehicle in his hand and looked down at the girl in the rain, with a slight smile,

"Little girl, you did well, but you killed our companion, which is not good. You have two options, first, to kill yourself, so you can retain a whole corpse, second, I do it, but then I can’t guarantee what remains."

He paused briefly, still holding the SUV, his smile turning colder and more ferocious, "Think carefully, we are not the same as this trash."

"What about you guys,"

The girl reached out, plucked the dagger embedded in the ground near the corpse, and slowly stood up, "Stay here."

Rain washed over her delicate face, dripping from her damp hair to the ground.

An invisible call resonated in her mind.

’Sacrifice...Grace...’

Fleeting black light emerged from between her eyebrows and quickly disappeared.

The lifeless, flesh-and-blood corpse at her feet seemed to be stripped by some invisible force, rapidly decaying.

In the deepest part of these buildings, in the center of a park surrounded by green trees.

The torrential rain washed over a black coffin, its silent surface shimmering with streams of black and yellow light.

Accept the sacrifice, grant the Grace.