At that moment, he didn’t know where he should go. However, he had 500 yuan in his pocket, which meant there were plenty of places he could go. Maybe he would head to an internet café first. He thought that even if he had no place to sleep at night, he could curl up on a sofa.

Just as he was pondering this, he suddenly heard a loud shout: “Stop!” Before he could react, he felt a gust of wind behind him. A person grabbed him by the collar from behind and yanked him out of the car. The bicycle lost control and crashed into the bushes by the roadside, while he was thrown onto the ground.

“Old man?” His first thought was, what’s going on? Did his father catch up to him? Could it be that his father was actually the Flash, and the argument with his mother was just to hide his identity?

Before Li Cu could figure it out, he was lifted up and dragged into a small alley by the roadside. At that moment, he realized something was wrong and struggled desperately. Although he usually played soccer, he wasn’t particularly strong. The assailant was incredibly strong; no matter how he struggled, it was useless, and soon he was dragged deep into the alley.

The alley was pitch dark, with only a single incandescent streetlight illuminating it. He was thrown against the wall, and immediately shouted, “I have 500 yuan! I’ll give it to you! Are you trying to rob me?”

“Don’t move!” A man’s voice came from the darkness.

Li Cu looked up but couldn’t see the man’s face due to the backlight. However, he clearly saw that the man was covered in blood. Almost simultaneously, the man collapsed to the ground, still tightly gripping Li Cu’s collar.

Seeing this scene, Li Cu surprisingly felt calm. His father often came home with a bleeding head after drinking, and at that moment, he felt a surge of disgust and desperately tried to pull away. But the man’s grip was like a vise; no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t break free. Frustrated, the man slapped him, causing Li Cu’s head to ring.

It’s a robbery! Li Cu thought. He often heard about robberies near his school, but since he usually wore ragged clothes and walked with Su Wan and the soccer team, he had never encountered such situations. He never expected that he would run into trouble after being alone just a few times. Thinking about the 500 yuan from Su Wan, he felt very unwilling. Why didn’t they rob him when he was broke? Now that he finally had some money, just a few hours later, they came to rob him. What kind of intelligence sensitivity was this? Were these robbers informants for the CIA?

With this thought, he yelled and bit down on the man’s hand as he swung at him. The man clearly felt the pain and screamed, loosening his grip. “Good opportunity,” Li Cu cursed inwardly and immediately got up to run. Almost instantly, he saw the man pick up a brick from the ground and smash it onto his head. Everything went black in front of him. Before he could even feel the intense pain in his head, he collapsed to the side. Before he could stand up, the man hit him with another brick, leaving him dazed.

Li Cu lay on the ground, feeling nothing. He didn’t know what was happening. His consciousness faded, and in a daze, he seemed to feel some pain, but it didn’t seem too unbearable.

Am I going to be killed? He thought regretfully before losing consciousness.

But, it seemed like this was how it was meant to be.

Li Cu completely lost his sense of awareness.

“Sorry, I didn’t want to involve you, but there’s really no other way.” The man who attacked him coughed a few times, wiped the blood that had flowed into his eyes, and tremblingly pulled out a dagger from his pocket, flipping Li Zu over.