Shen Xun touched her curly little hair. His pure black, placid eyes held no emotion whatsoever.
"Xiao Yi, your hair," the young man watched her, his tone flat yet carrying a bizarre sense of intimacy, "why is it this color?"
Sasa's eyelids twitched when she saw him walking over.
This boy felt just like frosted glass on a winter night.
A normal person would find it too cold to even touch, but Shen Yi instead leaned closer to Shen Xun, her green mushroom-cut hair almost brushing against his chest.
"Does it look good?" Shen Yi's tone was exceptionally brisk. "You can dye yours too, and we can give Grandpa a surprise together."
She blinked.
"Oh, just think about it. The old man has played by the rules for most of his life; he definitely hasn't seen such a bright color scheme before."
Shen Xun looked down at her and actually calmly agreed, "If I dye it the seven colors of the rainbow, would it look good?"
Shen Yi gave him a thumbs up: "I support you."
Shen Xun reached out and pressed her head against his front to carefully measure her height, the corners of his mouth lifting into a slight curve. "You've grown taller."
Shen Yi couldn't wait to say, "Of course. You've grown taller, so I definitely will too."
She glanced at Shen Xun's height and quickly gritted her teeth. "In the future, I must chop off the legs of everyone who is tall."
They were about the same height when they were around ten, who would have thought he would shoot up so fast now.
The conversation between the two was like ordinary siblings catching up.
If one ignored the fact that the three of them were currently in a bloodstained, smoke-filled underground corridor, it really did look quite cold yet heartwarming.
But paired with the scene, it was simply...
Too hellish.
Sasa watched the two of them numbly.
Since becoming friends with Shen Yi, her brain had endured too many rounds of information shock:
From "Shen Yi is a killer" to "the killer's brother is also a killer"
And then to "the killer's brothers might all be killers."
"Shen Yi, don't tell me," Sasa's voice was like a string that had been pulled taut for too long, exceptionally dry, "he is also your enemy?"
Do you city folks all call your brothers enemies?
"No," Shen Yi flatly denied, pulling Shen Xun over, eager to show her friend. "He is my brother! He's not my enemy, I didn't lie to you, I really don't have a fourth enemy."
"Hahaha." This time Sasa truly laughed, though the laugh carried a bit of bitterness.
The woman thought in a daze.
So it's a brother.
She thought he was a murderer.
Sasa felt that despite her young age, she had aged several years in this single moment. "By the way, your brother's voice sounds very familiar."
Shen Yi's brother...
Wasn't that the internet friend they had known for many years who was super awesome at playing games?
"You..." Sasa opened her mouth and tentatively asked, "Are you Shen Xun?"
She knew Shen Xun far less than she knew Shen Yi, because Shen Xun didn't chat with them often, and his personality was icy cold.
The moment Shen Xun heard this woman speak, he recognized her.
He was very good at distinguishing and categorizing the useless and useful information he absorbed every day.
Having known them for seven or eight years, Sasa and Chen Yu had always been categorized as "useless internet friends" in his mind.
Unlike Shen Yi, even after knowing them for many years, Shen Xun had never developed any extra feelings for these two voices and figures.
"Sasa." Shen Xun glanced at her. The young man pulled out a prepared gun, spun it around his fingertips, his expression inexplicably chilling. "Is it just you right now? Where is Chen Yu?"
If he hadn't mentioned Chen Yu, Shen Yi and Sasa would have almost forgotten about him.
"He was taken away by Li Jianwei." Sasa grew anxious. "Xiao Yi, do you think Chen Yu has already turned into a death box by now?"
Li Jianwei and the teacher had disappeared at the same time, and considering the contents of the note Li Jianwei left for Shen Yi, even a fool would know something was wrong.
"If worse comes to worst, why don't we just call the police." Sasa said this by some strange compulsion.
The moment the words left her mouth, even she felt it was absurd.
Shen Yi fell silent for two seconds and asked, "Are you crazy or am I crazy? With our identities, can we call the police?"
They weren't the righteous light like a protagonist group.
If they called the police, would the cops come to the scene to crack down on gangs and eliminate evil?
Sasa: "..."
But she felt that following Shen Yi was less safe than going to prison.
By Shen Yi's side, you never knew what would happen in the next second.
"Why must the two of you run away in such a hurry?"
Shen Xun held Shen Yi's hand and walked in front.
Wherever he passed, even those in a desperate hurry to flee for their lives would consciously make a wide enough path for him.
When it came to dispersing a crowd, a killer's intimidation factor was absolutely undeniable.
Sasa looked back, watching the intelligence elites of the Que organization, who were usually so impressive, now squeezed on both sides like a flock of penguins driven ashore, not even daring to breathe loudly. She only felt the impermanence of the world.
"Because many factions are capturing people." Shen Yi grabbed Sasa with her other hand. "I want to take her away first."
The young man glanced at this scene with a bit of displeasure, the corners of his mouth pressing down slightly, his voice even flatter. "This place has long been sealed off. You can't get out."
Shen Yi: "Of course I know that, but shouldn't I at least try? What if we can leave?"
Nothing is absolute.
One must always struggle a bit.
"Why didn't you leave with them?" Shen Xun stopped his steps and suddenly asked.
Shen Xun didn't understand.
In his calculations, the difficulty coefficient of "bringing Shen Yi home" should have been extremely low.
"Me, go with them? You didn't see the expressions they gave me at the time." Shen Yi's voice carried a world-weariness of "you don't know what I've been through." She said faintly, "If I fell into their hands, the three of them would definitely join forces to send me to school."
"Excuse me," Sasa laughed dryly. "I'd like to ask, who exactly are 'they' you're talking about?"
She stood to the side in a fog.
She was completely unable to understand what riddles these siblings were speaking in.
"They are..." Just as Shen Yi was about to explain that they were her enemies, the hurried footsteps of many people suddenly appeared up ahead.
