Chapter 16 I'm Here to Demand the Price

Only Wang Defa had the key to the warehouse.

Only Wang Defa could access the computer that could view the surveillance footage.

The surveillance camera wasn't turned on when the police came that day.

When Qin Siyang didn't find the surveillance footage from the morning of January 3rd, he was already 99% sure that he could deal with Liu Dazhi.

But he still confirmed with Wang Defa repeatedly, just to ensure everything was foolproof.

He wanted to avoid any loopholes that might cause him to misjudge Liu Dazhi's trump card, thus exposing himself and getting into trouble.

In the end, all the evidence conveyed one piece of information to Qin Siyang.

Liu Dazhi was bluffing.

The so-called "surveillance screenshot" simply didn't exist.

Perhaps Liu Dazhi would never have dreamed that Qin Siyang would actually find a way to get information from Wang Defa and discover his loophole.

After all, in Liu Dazhi's eyes, Qin Siyang was just a desperate little lackey.

Qin Siyang looked at the stars and gods in the sky and walked on the dimly lit street, feeling relaxed and happy.

He could finally confidently pronounce Liu Dazhi's death sentence.

Although it had only been two days since he was threatened by Liu Dazhi,

Qin Siyang felt as if each day had dragged on like a year and couldn't wait any longer.

He ran at full speed, eager to reach Liu Dazhi's home as quickly as possible.

He quietly walked to the outside of Liu Dazhi's residence. It was a very shabby two-story wooden building, with four or five households on each floor.

Liu Dazhi's residence was the fourth door on the left on the second floor.

When Qin Siyang arrived, he saw a lot of garbage piled up at the entrance of Liu Dazhi's door.

The stinky garbage had attracted many flies. However, all these flies had three or four eyes, looking as if they had mutated after the apocalypse.

The scene in front of the door immediately made Qin Siyang think of Liu Dazhi's slovenly appearance.

Qin Siyang walked to the door and knocked on Liu Dazhi's door with his sleeve.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

"Who is it? What time is it? Knocking on the door so early."

Qin Siyang lowered his voice and pretended to be a man in his thirties: "I'm your neighbor. The garbage in front of your door stinks. Move it away quickly!"

Liu Dazhi's impatient voice came from inside the room: "Are you crazy? What's it to you? The garbage is there and it's not blocking the corridor. Just go around it!"

Seeing that Liu Dazhi refused to open the door, Qin Siyang shouted directly: "Damn it, open the door quickly! If you don't throw away the garbage, I'll burn your house down!"

"Burn it. We live on the same floor. If you burn my house down, your house will also be in trouble! I don't believe your house can grow legs and run away!"

Liu Dazhi's unruly attitude made it a bit difficult for Qin Siyang.

Of course, he could use his strength as a sequence ability user to break down the door directly.

But this would leave traces and tell the police that a sequence ability user had committed the crime. In this case, all the sequence ability users in the nearby area would definitely be closely monitored.

Such a situation was not conducive to his future disclosure of his identity as a sequence ability user, and he was likely to be noticed by the police station.

So, he wanted to create a scene of a burglary and murder.

"If you don't open the door, I'll block you at the door and keep you here. Let's see how long you can stay inside! I don't believe you don't have to go to work! When you go to work, I'll go and complain about you to your boss!"

In this poor area, it was not easy to find a job. Even being a small network administrator in an internet café was considered a good source of income.

Liu Dazhi might not care about other things, but he must care about this job.

It wasn't just about the salary.

More importantly, if he couldn't continue to work as a network administrator in the internet café, where else could he find Qin Siyang to ask for money?

The only place where the two of them could meet from beginning to end was the internet café.

Sure enough, Qin Siyang had hit Liu Dazhi's weak point.

The aura of Liu Dazhi inside the room immediately weakened.

"Okay, okay. I'm afraid of you. I'll throw away the garbage later."

"I'm giving you some face, and you still want to throw it away later! Now! Right now!"

"Okay, wait a moment. I'll put on my clothes and come out to throw it away."

There was a sound of getting dressed, and Liu Dazhi came to the door and unlocked it.

"I'll just..."

Before he could finish his words, he lost consciousness and fainted. Qin Siyang controlled his strength and gave Liu Dazhi an uppercut to the chin the moment the door opened, knocking him out.

Then he quickly slipped into the room and supported Liu Dazhi to prevent the sound of his bulky body falling to the ground from attracting the attention of the neighbors.

He closed the door behind him and dragged Liu Dazhi to the inner room in one smooth motion.

After tying Liu Dazhi up, Qin Siyang stuffed his stinky sock into Liu Dazhi's mouth and then started rummaging through the room.

There wasn't much property in Liu Dazhi's home, just a few hundred copper coins.

Qin Siyang put away the money to create the假象 (appearance) of a burglary.

After being busy for a while, a "woo-woo" sound came from behind Qin Siyang.

He turned around and saw that Liu Dazhi had woken up and was looking at him in horror.

Qin Siyang noticed that Liu Dazhi's chin seemed a bit distorted and shook his head.

It seemed that he still hadn't controlled his strength well and had broken Liu Dazhi's chin with one punch.

This wasn't very good.

He saw a baseball bat in Liu Dazhi's room, so he picked it up and then walked over to Liu Dazhi, aiming at his chin.

Liu Dazhi shook his head desperately, trying to beg for mercy, and then his eyes became fierce again, as if threatening Qin Siyang.

Qin Siyang said nonchalantly: "I had a chat with Wang Defa today. Guess what?"

Liu Dazhi was stunned, and the corners of his eyes kept twitching. Looking at Qin Siyang's smile, he seemed to have seen the King of Hell.

"Woo-woo!"

Liu Dazhi shook his head desperately, his face panicked. Even though his mouth was stuffed with a stinky sock, Qin Siyang could guess what he wanted to say.

It was nothing more than words like "I was wrong", "I won't dare again", "Spare my life", which were of little substance.

Qin Siyang took another look at Liu Dazhi's house, which was filled with all kinds of comic books and novels.

He shook his head and sighed: "You said you don't even have a computer at home, yet you still dared to brag to me like that."

After saying that, Qin Siyang ignored Liu Dazhi. Controlling his strength, he swung the baseball bat and struck Liu Dazhi's chin again.

This time, Liu Dazhi's chin was even more distorted, and the chin bone was broken into several pieces.

"Hmm, this should not be noticeable anymore."

Liu Dazhi was in so much pain that he almost fainted, and his two triangular eyes were filled with tears.

Qin Siyang walked to the kitchen and took out a bucket of cooking oil and a knife.

"If you're greedy, you should have the awareness to pay the price."

"I'm here to demand the price."

In order to avoid getting blood splattered on himself, Qin Siyang used a method that he had conceived for a long time.

He picked up a few books, sandwiched the knife between them, and stood it on the ground.

Then he measured the distance and pulled Liu Dazhi up.

"Woo-woo!"

Liu Dazhi was still begging for mercy.

Qin Siyang pressed against Liu Dazhi's feet and then pushed his back. The huge force made Liu Dazhi fall to the ground, and his heart was just pierced by the sharp knife standing on the ground.

"Woo-woo..."

Qin Siyang helped Liu Dazhi up again, poured cooking oil all over his body, and set the house on fire with a single match.

After seeing Liu Dazhi's body engulfed by the flames of the fire, and then piling all the books that had the knife stuck in them with blood on them, as well as the other books in the room, on his body and burning them, he finally let out a sigh of relief.

When the whole house was on fire, Qin Siyang left the room and then went downstairs, shouting loudly: "Fire! Run for your lives!"

Hearing his shout, someone immediately opened the door to check and found that Liu Dazhi's home was already surrounded by flames.

"There's a fire! There really is a fire! Put out the fire quickly!"

"Put out the fire? What the hell! How can you put out a fire in a wooden house! Grab your valuables and run!"

He hid in the dark. After seeing that everyone in all the rooms had run out, he left with peace of mind.

He silently recited in his heart: "To avoid the 'Scent Sniffer', I had to set the fire. There's no way around involving innocent people. It's the most I can do not to let you lose your lives here."

In order to avoid leaving too much of his scent there, he carried the bag filled with food, used the "Violence" skill and ran away with all his might, heading towards the school at the fastest speed.

He specifically chose to go through the alleys because he could avoid the attention of passers-by.

While running, he found a stinky ditch and threw all the copper coins he had searched out from Liu Dazhi's house into it. Only when he saw the copper coins buried in the sewage did he leave with peace of mind.

When he was almost at the school, he returned to the main road again and walked into the campus as if nothing had happened.

Because of his extremely strong physical fitness, coupled with the triple agility bonus of the "Violence" skill, it only took him five or six minutes to escape from Liu Dazhi's house to the vicinity of the school.

Moreover, Qin Siyang's expression remained unchanged, and there wasn't even any sweat on his forehead.

From leaving home to arriving at school, it had only been twenty minutes in total.

"I controlled the time quite well."

Qin Siyang smiled slightly.

Twenty minutes, although a bit slower than his usual time to go to school, was still acceptable. It was almost a perfect alibi.

He hoped that the people from the police station could quickly classify this case as a burglary.

In a few days, when the commotion subsided, he should go to the Sequence Ability User Administration Bureau to register.

"This feeling of being choked by someone is more painful than suffocation. I must be careful in the future and not let anyone catch me by the handle again."

When he arrived at school, he still maintained a calm expression.

No one could imagine that just over ten minutes ago, he had just killed someone.

Qin Siyang didn't go directly to the classroom but came to the library.

Teacher Zhu was already sitting in the library drinking hot water.

"Yo, Student Qin, why are you here so early again?"

"I came to take a look. Just sit there. There might be some students coming to borrow exercise books in the morning, and I'll help with the registration."

"That's not right! The most important thing for you now is to study! I don't need your help here. Hurry up and go to the morning self-study class!"

Qin Siyang grinned and said: "Teacher Zhu, you know my grades. What's the difference whether I study or not?"

"Rather than wasting time in the classroom, I might as well come to the library to help you clean. Don't you think so?"

"You child... Sigh."

Qin Siyang had already solved all the problems he needed to solve, and the rest was just waiting for things to develop.

In the classroom, the questions about the college entrance examination for sequence ability users that were asked yesterday no longer provided any useful information for him.

Sitting in the classroom in a daze wouldn't bring any sudden inspiration either.

It was better to help Teacher Zhu share some of the work burden.

Qin Siyang put down the bag containing the lunch box and stood at the position of the book borrowing administrator, waiting for the students who came to borrow exercise books.

"Hello, I want to borrow..."

Qin Siyang heard a vague female voice. He looked up and was surprised to find that it was Wen Shu.

However, her face seemed to be a bit more swollen than yesterday.

Qin Siyang frowned: This Li Jingwen still dares to do it? Does she really not want to be with Zhou Yang anymore?

But he took a closer look and found that Wen Shu's face was swollen because of some bruises, not new injuries.

Wen Shu was also a bit surprised to see Qin Siyang. She lowered her head and didn't look him in the eye.

Qin Siyang registered the exercise book she borrowed and then asked nonchalantly: "Your grandmother must be very worried, right?"

After hearing this, Wen Shu looked up at Qin Siyang. Qin Siyang didn't know what the meaning of this look was.

It seemed like she was looking at a strange person?

Wen Shu shook her head: "She doesn't know."

"Doesn't know?"

Wen Shu didn't answer his question anymore. She picked up the exercise book and left.

After she left, Teacher Zhu said: "Her grandmother is old. I heard that she became blind two years ago and can't see anything. She depends on Wen Shu for everything, so she might not know about Wen Shu's swollen face."

"Sigh, I don't know who was so cruel as to hit a good and obedient student like Wen Shu. This school is really getting worse and worse every year." Teacher Zhu complained to Qin Siyang for a while about the declining academic atmosphere of the school and felt quite emotional.

She had been teaching in this school before the apocalypse came and had dedicated most of her life to "Ju'an School". She had extremely deep feelings for the school.

So, seeing the students in the school becoming more and more self-destructive, she didn't feel good about it.

Qin Siyang comforted Teacher Zhu for a while. Thinking about the situation of Wen Shu's family that she had just mentioned, he sighed. He himself had a pretty miserable life, yet he still didn't want others to be unfortunate.

He also thought of the people who had been left homeless because of the house he had just burned down, and a sense of guilt suddenly filled his heart.

There was nothing he could do. People had to live for themselves after all.