Chapter Twenty-Three: Deep Forest

  Lin Fang

  Lin Fang's nerves were startled by this sound and he immediately tensed up. He raised his head nervously, looking at the person in front of him who had made the noise.

  This man was Zhao Tianyu, he slightly raised his head, with a hint of disdain in his eyes, looking at Lin Fang, as if Lin Fang didn't deserve to be looked at directly by him at this moment.

  "Zhao Tianyu, what are you doing!"

  Lin Fang was like he had been driven mad by his own eyes, and he jumped up from the ground, pointing at Zhao Tianyu with his finger, his body covered in dry leaves, and at this moment, he really looked comical.

  "What's wrong, why so angry?" Zhao Tianyu tilted his head and playfully teased Lin Fang.

  "Lin Mu, you dragged me out of bed at midnight to come to this godforsaken forest, and then abandoned me halfway. Now you're asking why I'm so angry? I'd like to ask what's going on with you!" Lin was clearly furious, his breathing rapid with agitation, his entire body trembling.

  "There's nothing much, just wanted to chat with you about Ye Wei."

  Zhao Tianyu elegantly stretched out his left hand and waved it, accompanied by his nonchalant tone and disdainful gaze, clearly uninterested in why Lin Fang was so angry.

  Normally, a person would go mad if they were stimulated repeatedly in such a strange forest and treated this way, but Lin Fang didn't; instead, he felt his palms sweating.

  Because he noticed a detail, Zhao Tianyu's right hand had been behind his back since he appeared, and he hadn't seen his right hand at all. It seemed like he was holding something. The black shadow from earlier also held a rectangular object in its right hand.

  "What's wrong with Ye Mei?"

  Lin Fangqiang suppressed his anger, or rather, he couldn't muster up any anger at all. He lowered his head and stared at Zhao Tianyu, with half of his attention focused on the latter's right hand.

  "I want to say, let you... leave Ye Wei."

  When Zhao Tianyu said "let you", he took a slight step forward, but found that Lin Fang also took a slight step back, opening up the distance between them. This distance was enough for Lin Fang to cope with any sudden situation, and this discovery made Zhao Tianyu's mouth curve upwards, interesting.

  "What for?" Lin Fang didn't care what Zhao Tianyu said and replied casually.

  "You don't deserve such a good woman."

  "You're wrong, we're not even a couple. If you want to pursue her, then go ahead. The reason I intervened just now is because you made her unhappy." Lin Fang replied coldly.

  "No matter what, on this day, she will only notice you, and we won't have a chance. Don't waste words, how much money do you want to leave? 10,000 or 100,000?" Zhao Tianyu seemed impatient and directly launched a money attack.

  Lin Fang didn't say anything, just staring at Zhao Tianyu.

  "Don't believe me? Fine, take a look... This is a 100,000 yuan check." Zhao Tianyu saw that Lin Fang didn't say anything, thinking he didn't believe what he said, so he moved his right hand behind his back and then took out a piece of paper, which looked like a check.

  "Bring it over and take a look." Lin Fang finally spoke up, but there was a detail just now that Zhao Tianyu's line of sight shifted slightly and didn't notice.

  Lin Fang noticed that Zhao Tianyu's right arm first dropped down and then pulled up before taking out the check. When Zhao Tianyu handed over the check, Lin Fang's gaze subtly shifted towards the back of Zhao Tianyu, where there was a dense thicket of trees, like the depths of a forest, a deep woods.

  Lin Fang cautiously walked forward, the distance between them was only five or six steps, but he took every step with great care, constantly paying attention to Zhao Tianyu's movements, while Zhao Tianyu maintained a playful and mocking smile as he looked at Lin Fang.

  There were two more steps left, Lin Fang looked at Zhao Tianyu in front of him, his spirit highly concentrated.

  "Hsss." It was the sound of feet treading on dry leaves, and also Lin Fang's last step.

  He raised his right hand and reached for the slightly shaking check. The two were already very close, and Lin Fang was waiting for this moment.

  Due to the high concentration of his mind, Lin Fang's movement instructions from his brain to his body were transmitted exceptionally fast. With a sudden burst of force from his legs, his right hand quickly grabbed Zhao Tianyu's right hand and pulled it backwards towards his own back, using his body as leverage, combined with the power of his footsteps, allowing Lin Fang to swiftly move behind Zhao Tianyu. Meanwhile, Zhao Tianyu was also affected by this pulling force, causing him to lose balance and stumble, while Lin Fang subconsciously turned his head to glance at Zhao Tianyu.

  All of this happened in less than 2 seconds, and Lin Fang had already completed these actions. But when he turned his head back, what he saw was Zhao Tianyu's face.

  That gaze seemed even more disdainful, and the smile at the corner of his mouth was a kind of arrogance and mockery. Lin Fang didn't understand, but he knew immediately.

  "Thud." It was the sound of an object hitting the trunk of a tree, and it was loud, as if with great force.

  "Uh-uh." This was a sound emitted from a throat being choked.

  Lin Fang grasped Zhao Tianyu's right hand with both hands, struggling desperately because Zhao Tianyu's right hand was choking his throat and had lifted him up entirely, and what's more, Zhao Tianyu had done it single-handedly.

  Just now, something happened that made Lin Fang unable to understand. He saw Zhao Tianyu's body unsteadily, with disdain in his eyes and a playful smile at the corner of his mouth. Then, Zhao Tianyu's body stopped stumbling with an impossible movement for a human, his waist and below twisted all the way around, moving his body along with it. He raised his right hand and instantly grabbed Lin Fang's neck. He couldn't see how Zhao Tianyu had moved at all.

  Zhao Tianyu's hand held immense power, and Lin Fang couldn't react in time. His entire body was smashed into a tree trunk, and he could feel the tree's bark seeming to split open behind him. A wave of counterforce surged through his body, and just as Lin Fang tried to cry out in pain, that hand, like the hand of death itself, clamped down on him, forcing a pained ** from his lips.

  The dark clouds above the forest slowly dispersed, a ray of moonlight spilled into the forest, and it happened to shine on this spot. Here, there was a person with his neck caught, his whole body lifted up, while the person holding him had an unusual excitement on his face, a kind of near-mad excitement that could drive people mad.

  This scene is not eerie but perilous, facing death, and being tormented by fear.

  "Do you think I don't know what you're thinking? Can't I see that little move of yours?"

  Lin Fang heard a sentence full of fear, and his own thoughts were guessed by him.

  "Ask you again, are you leaving with Ye Wei or not?" Zhao Tianyu's eyes seemed to have lost all rationality, only a dangerous excitement remained.

  Lin Fang couldn't react at all because of hypoxia, his consciousness had begun to get a bit fuzzy.

  "Since you can't speak, I'll take it as a refusal."

  Zhao Tianyu raised his left hand, and the check was still in his hand, as if there was a hint of regret. But when he turned his head back to Lin Fang, that hint of regret disappeared, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled up. The excitement in his eyes had become extremely intense, turning into a kind of madness.

  Zhao Tianyu slowly leaned in close to Lin Fang's ear and whispered: "Let's get going."

  Lin Fang's consciousness began to blur rapidly, he could no longer feel the existence of air, the suffocating feeling from his lungs and the dizzying dizziness in his brain slowly withdrew his remaining consciousness until it completely disappeared.

  Zhao Tianyu released his right hand, and Lin Fang fell straight to the ground, patting his hands. He looked around, and at this time, his crazy aura had slowly dissipated, and his eyes slowly regained their sanity. Until he appeared with disdain and mockery, he looked at Lin Fang, turned around and walked in one direction, until he completely entered the darkness.

  Lin Fang sat quietly leaning against the tree trunk, without breathing, without a heartbeat, without consciousness.

  (At this time I write out the grand finale, will it be very good?)

  In a deeper part of the forest, the trees here are denser, but the distance between the surrounding trees is relatively large. Zhao Tianyu was leaning against the trunk of a tree at this time.

  "This suggestion of yours is not bad." Zhao Tianyu said with his hands clasped together, but there was no one around him.

  "He's going to wake up." The voice came from an unknown place, somewhat low and husky. If Lin Fang heard this voice, he would definitely be startled, because he recognized the owner of this voice.

  "So fast." Zhao Tianyu twisted his body slightly, and a few cracking sounds came from the joints.

  Turned around and walked in one direction.

  There are many creatures in the forest, big and small, the big ones can be seen often, while the small ones may even be on your body without you knowing.

  An owl fell from the air onto a branch, at this moment it was staring at an organism that it had never seen before. This was a human-like organism lying motionless beside a tree, with dry leaves all over its body, and from time to time there were some faint sounds coming from around it.

  A withered leaf struggled to stay on the branch, but it couldn't defy the laws of nature and eventually fell onto the shoulder of a human-like creature, brushing against its cheek, and blending in with the surrounding leaves, making it impossible to distinguish which one had just fallen.

  In the eyes of the owl, this human-like creature seemed to have moved slightly when the leaves passed by him. Yes, he really did move, his right hand's five fingers suddenly clenched into a fist, but only for an instant, and then it was over.

  "Hmm."

  Lin Fang's throat suddenly made a sound, his body stretched forward, his hands also lifted up, and even his feet exerted some upward force. Then, a large amount of withered breath was inhaled into his throat.

  This is a natural reaction of breathing after being suffocated and suddenly regaining consciousness. Lin Fang did not become a corpse, at least not yet.

  Lin Fang did not get up, his head leaning against the tree, his head was still a bit dizzy, this is the reaction after suffocation.

  The figure of Zhao Tianyu was no longer visible around, and in Lin Fang's feeling, it seemed like a long time had passed. The surrounding environment had become much clearer, the trees were more distinct, and the ground was covered with a layer of dry leaves. Those forked tree branches could also be seen clearly.

  It's just dark, but the moonlight on top of my head is not covered by dark clouds, and it's shining with its due brightness.

  Lin Fang greedily inhaled the air, never having felt that air was so precious.

  "This guy wants to kill me."

  "I'm going to die, that guy won't be able to escape either. How can he pursue Ye Wei? Unless he has an alibi, but there are only a few of us in this villa, it's definitely easy to investigate, and someone will see him taking me out. He shouldn't have thought of these things, so why did he still do this?"

  Lin Fang's eyebrows were tightly locked, this matter was really too strange, the surrounding environment also became clear, giving Lin Fang time to think, rather than being held by this quiet atmosphere.

  Suddenly a figure appeared in his eyes, as if it had been squeezed into his line of sight without any warning. Along with that was the sound that made Lin Fang tense up again.

  "I'm back again, Lin Fang, hahaha."