After hearing Meng Ran's inner thoughts, I finally understood why, despite trying every method with the police for the past year, we couldn't find any clues about the serial killer.

It turned out she used the system to hide the traces of the serial killer.

Her purpose was to make me rely all my hopes on her as the sole survivor and thereby get closer to me.

Since that's the case, I must certainly fulfill her wish.

It was raining heavily that night, just like the day Ninging was killed.

I sat in the car, my phone continuously vibrating on the side, Meng Ran's name lighting up on the screen time after time.

And above that were the distress messages sent by Meng Ran.

But I just sat silently, looking ahead at the house, expressionless, listening to the cries for help from inside, drowned out by the rain.

How fortunate, Meng Ran, that you still have a chance to seek help from me.

What about my Ninging? Even her fingers were severed.

She couldn't make a call or send a message, and she couldn't even pick up her beloved paintbrush.

Soon, the cries for help from inside disappeared.

I picked up the tranquilizers and ropes from the passenger seat and slowly walked over, first knocking out the man who ran out of the villa.

It wasn't difficult to find the hiding place of the serial killer from Meng Ran's conversation with the system.

And it was even easier to lure the serial killer here.

After all, no serial killer can resist the temptation to kill another time the little fish that escaped from their own hands.

Wasn't Meng Ran proud of her means to erase Ninging?

Now, she finally gets to taste the same feeling.

I held the blood-stained axe and followed the trail of blood on the ground, imagining what Meng Ran must be feeling right now, whether it's as painful as my Ninging.

【It hurts so much!】

A sudden voice made me stop.

I pushed open the door and saw an unbelievable scene.

Meng Ran, who should have been dismembered by the serial killer, was sitting calmly in a pool of blood, with only a few non-lethal wounds on her body.

【Thank goodness for the system, otherwise I would have been killed by this psycho. But even if I can be reborn, the feeling of being dismembered alive is too horrifying!】

"Senior, you finally came to save me!" Meng Ran saw me and jumped into my arms.

"Does it hurt?" I looked at the back of Meng Ran's head, exposed in my line of sight, and asked softly.

Meng Ran thought I was concerned about her and, with joy, complained to me, "It hurts so much, Senior. If you had come a little later, I would never have seen you again."

Deceiver! I reached out and grabbed her neck, wanting to break this deceiver's throat.

"It's my fault." I looked at Ninging, who was a bloody mess next to us.

As long as this system exists, she won't die.

How could she understand your pain and despair in such a state?

Ninging...