Revelation of the Way of Heaven

Chapter 180 Car Accident

She kept her head down and apologized repeatedly, but the other person scrutinized her closely. When the other person didn't speak, she panicked even more and quickly said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. How about I pay for your medical expenses?"

The boy clutched his stomach, feigning pain, and said, "The medical bills will probably be a thousand or eight hundred."

"Huh?" Yang Yutong finally looked up at the boy in front of her. She didn't understand why he was clutching his stomach when she had bumped into his thigh. She could only say timidly, "I don't have that much money. I'm just a student."

"Then we can only compensate in other ways," the boy said nonchalantly.

"Wh...what way?" the girl asked timidly.

The boy deliberately paused to think for a moment before saying in a deep voice, "Be my girlfriend."

"Huh?" Yang Yutong was even more shocked this time, thinking she had misheard. "Because you look like my ex-girlfriend." The boy seemed a little embarrassed as well.

Yang Yutong blushed instantly. She lowered her head, not knowing how to reply. She felt that the other person's thinking was no longer that of an earthling, otherwise how could they make such an absurd request?

"Since you're not saying anything, I'll take that as a yes," the boy said happily. "I'll protect you from now on."

Her timidity kicked in again, and she couldn't say anything to refute it. All she wanted to do was escape the scene as soon as possible, but since she had hit someone, she didn't dare to actually run away from the accident. In the end, she could only lower her head and tug at the hem of her clothes.

The boy picked up the bicycle and pushed it in front of her. She took the bicycle, didn't say a word, and quickly pushed it forward.

"You seem to be going the wrong way," the boy said, scratching his head and laughing.

Yang Yutong felt even more embarrassed and quickly turned around to continue pushing her bicycle. It wasn't that she didn't want to ride, but she couldn't move freely when she felt someone was staring at her. She had never been watched like this before. In most cases, she was an inconspicuous, invisible person in other people's eyes.

After pushing her bicycle for a long distance, she dared to look back and discovered that the boy had been following her the whole time. She suddenly felt scared and quickened her pace. After walking a while longer, she got back on her bicycle and rode home as fast as she could.

When she got home and looked back, she finally saw that the boy was gone, and she felt relieved, but she couldn't help but mutter to herself, "There are still such weirdos in the world."

So when the boy appeared at her window that night, she realized that there was no limit to how bizarre things could get.

She stared in horror at the grinning boy outside the glass. She couldn't understand how he had gotten up there when her apartment was on the third floor. Although there was a stand for the air conditioner unit under the balcony, it was still two stories high. How had he gotten up there?

The boy knocked on the window, signaling her to open it, but she just stood there dumbly shaking her head.

The boy sighed in disappointment, then suddenly his hand slipped, and he disappeared from the window.

Yang Yutong gasped and her eyes widened. She felt as if her heart was about to jump out of her chest. She cautiously opened the window and took a deep breath before daring to look downstairs.

The downstairs area was completely empty.

Yang Yutong breathed a sigh of relief. Just as she was wondering what was going on, a beautiful rose suddenly appeared in front of her.

Yang Yutong then realized that the boy was hanging straight up by the window, one hand gripping the top edge of the window, and the other holding a red rose in front of her.

This is Qiu Jie, a boy who constantly challenges her perceptions.

Since then, Qiu Jie would appear at her window every night, and each time he would bring a small gift, sometimes a cake, sometimes a flower, and sometimes a cup of milk tea.

Gradually, Yang Yutong stopped rejecting him. From initially refusing to open the window no matter what, she would deliberately forget to close it. She found herself gradually looking forward to his appearance. She would chat with him and confide her feelings to him. Before, no one had ever listened to her seriously.

Qiu Jie noticed almost immediately that something was wrong with her today and slipped in through the window.

"What's wrong? Who bullied you?" Qiu Jie asked anxiously.

The girl buried her face in her arms on the table and sobbed. Qiu Jie was momentarily at a loss for what to do.

Not knowing what to do, he carefully placed his hand on the girl's head, gently stroked it, and said tenderly, "If there's anything bothering you, you can tell me. I'll definitely help you."

The girl choked back tears as she recounted the grievances she had suffered that day. The boy listened to her story with a livid face, his clenched fists never loosening from beginning to end.

"I told you I would protect you," the boy said firmly, his gaze turning frighteningly dark as he spoke.

Qiu Jie did not appear at her window the next night, nor did he appear there afterward. It was only two days later that she heard about Jiang Yuyan's attack from rumors at school. She suspected that this incident might be related to Qiu Jie, and she couldn't help but worry about him.

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Qin Xiaochuan saw Yang Yutong walk out of the school gate. She was a girl who looked unremarkable. She even walked with her head down. The setting sun cast a long, lonely shadow behind her. If it weren't for the fact that school had already let out long ago and there were no other students at the school gate, she would probably have been hard to spot in the crowd.

Could this girl be related to that attack case? Qin Xiaochuan couldn't help but wonder to himself. He had already secretly opened his Heavenly Eye and found that the girl only had a weak level 1 spiritual power in her body, which was the spiritual power state of the most ordinary human.

Guo Shiyi and Si Chennan's furrowed brows indicated that they shared the same doubts. The three of them did not immediately step forward to investigate. Before making contact with the other side, they needed to observe more and perhaps find some clues.

A middle-aged man wearing glasses turned out from a side road and happened to meet Yang Yutong. Upon seeing him, Yang Yutong immediately stopped and softly greeted, "Hello, Teacher Zhou."

Teacher Zhou glanced at her, recognized her as one of her students, and smiled, saying, "Oh, it's Yang Yutong. Why do you come home so late every day?"

"I...I'm on duty today," Yang Yutong said softly.

Upon hearing this, Teacher Zhou frowned and said, "Didn't you also have duty the day before yesterday? And why were you the only one on duty?"

"I'm standing in for someone else today; the others have already gone home," Yang Yutong explained vaguely.

Teacher Zhou was clearly a little angry, but he didn't say much. He looked at the sky and said, "The roads around the school have been a bit unsafe lately, so I'll take you home."

"No...no need." Yang Yutong quickly declined.

"Let's go, I'm going that way too." Without waiting for her reply, Teacher Zhou took the lead and walked ahead, and Yang Yutong had no choice but to follow quickly.

The car suddenly appeared from a side road at that moment. Upon seeing the pedestrians about to cross the road, the driver quickly turned the steering wheel, and the car braked with a sharp screech. Just as it was about to hit the cypress tree by the roadside, the driver quickly turned the steering wheel all the way in the opposite direction. The car then drew a smooth S-shaped curve, successfully avoiding the pedestrians crossing the road, and finally crashed into the rear of a box truck that was turning. The truck then turned around and headed straight for Yang Yutong and Teacher Zhou.

Qin Xiaochuan was horrified and wanted to rush to the rescue, but it was too far away and too late. Just as a tragedy was about to happen, a figure suddenly appeared and crashed into the front of the truck from the side. The truck swerved, barely avoiding the two terrified people, and finally crashed into the guardrail by the roadside.

Screams and car horns rang out incessantly. People were running, and more and more of them were running. Their target was not the injured, but the figure that had suddenly appeared.

Qin Xiaochuan finally realized what was happening and quickly started running, with his two companions following suit.

The figure clearly realized its predicament and darted into an alley almost immediately.

"Who is that person?" Guo Shiyi asked Qin Xiaochuan as she ran.

"I don't know, but it's very likely the same person who attacked Jiang Yuyan," Qin Xiaochuan calmly analyzed.

"I didn't expect him to show up so quickly."

Qin Xiaochuan looked at the people chasing the figure on the other side of the street and frowned, saying, "Because we're not the only ones looking for him." Under his Heavenly Eye, Qin Xiaochuan could clearly see that all the chasers were people with superpowers.

"Qin Xiaochuan, let's have a contest and see who catches the other first," Si Chennan said beside him. Without waiting for him, he sped up and rushed into the alley.

"Hmph!" Qin Xiaochuan glanced at him disdainfully, but his pace quickened considerably.