Great, It's the Pervy Neighbor. We're Doomed

Chapter 716: Zeng Yan and Xiao He

This person’s strength was absolutely monstrous. Compared to Xiao He’s strength, it was at a crushing level.Xiao He had no ability to resist whatsoever.

Xiao He was actually quite similar to Lei Xiaoman. Of course, she meant in terms of physical strength.

When it came to pure strength, she was definitely top-tier among people her age.

Lei Xiaoman had grown up castrating pigs, raising pigs, and doing all kinds of heavy farm work.

Xiao He, on the other hand, had grown up farming the land.

These days, plenty of young people had never set foot on a farm or planted a single thing in their lives.

But girls like Xiao He had to help their parents plant crops, harvest them, and do farm work ever since they were children.

That was how her strength had been slowly forged over time.

However, no matter how much she trained, it was nearly impossible to bridge the gap between a man and a woman.

This person who had suddenly attacked used one hand to restrain both of Xiao He’s hands, pinning them firmly against the wall, completely immobilizing her.

Then, with his other hand, he clamped down over Xiao He’s mouth.

At the same time, his voice came out extremely sharp and low. He was clearly forcing his voice to disguise it, making sure Xiao He couldn’t recognize his original tone:

“If you don’t want to die, don’t move.”

Xiao He didn’t listen. Instead, she struggled even harder and fought back with greater intensity.

This girl was wild. Even though she was terrified, her heart pounding wildly and her whole body trembling, she never stopped fighting.

She even bit directly down on the hand covering her mouth.

“I already told you! If you don’t want to die, don’t move!”

This person seemed to get angry. He abruptly let go of the hand covering Xiao He’s mouth and reached for his waist. Although this narrow path was very dark, the flash of reflected light from his waist caught her eye.

It was a knife.

An extremely sharp knife.

Now that Xiao He’s mouth was free, she screamed in terror at the top of her lungs:

“Help! Help!!! Help!!!!”

The person suddenly let out a cold laugh. “You’re asking for death!”

Then, he drove the knife straight into Xiao He’s stomach.

In an instant, Xiao He let out an even louder, agonized scream.

“Who’s there?! Who’s shouting for help?!”

A rush of hurried footsteps followed, accompanied by the beam of a flashlight shining directly at this person and the struggling Xiao He.

The person was blinded by the intense light. Seeing that someone was coming, he immediately turned around and fled back in the direction Xiao He had come from.

He was very fast.

The person who had heard the cry for help and rushed over quickly approached, originally intending to chase after the attacker.

But when he saw Xiao He slumped against the wall, he glanced at the figure that had already disappeared into the darkness.

He hastily pulled out his phone and dialed the police.

“I… am I going to die…”

Xiao He panted heavily. Her eyelids felt so heavy, and everything she saw was blurry, completely indistinct. She also felt her body growing incredibly cold, and her limbs had no strength left.

After saying those words, her head drooped down, and she lost consciousness.

……

Nancheng City First People’s Hospital.

Inside a single-patient ward.

Hospital wards were always filled with a bone-chilling, icy stillness.

“She’s awake.”

No one knew who said it.

Immediately after, the group gathered around the bedside and saw the girl on the bed slowly open her eyes.

Her gaze was unfocused.

After staring blankly for a while.

Her eyes began to gradually focus.

The first words that came out of the girl’s mouth were: “Huh? Does the afterlife also have police?”

“Hehe, little girl, you’re not dead. You’re alive and well.”

An older police officer in uniform standing by the bed chuckled.

“Not dead? Hiss…”

The girl on the bed was none other than Xiao He.

“Give her some time to recover.”

The older police officer looked at the other officers.

So, the people around the bed were all police officers.

Those who had been eager to rush in and ask her questions immediately held themselves back.

They all stepped back and started questioning a male student who had already been interrogated before.

“Young man, are you really sure you didn’t see the attacker’s face?”

The young man being questioned let out a deep sigh. “No. When I heard someone screaming for help, I rushed over. I used the flashlight function on my phone to shine a light over, and all I saw was someone dressed entirely in black. They had sunglasses and a black mask on. Then they ran off.”

“Mm… Can I ask again, why were you in that village-within-the-city?”

“I rent a place there, so I go back regularly, but I don’t actually live there.”

“So, where are you staying now?”

“I live at Alice Apartment.”

“Alright, I understand.”

The questioning ended.

The young man nodded.

He closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair. He thought to himself how unlucky he was. He had just been dumped after being cheated on, and on his way back home, he might have run into the serial rapist and murderer who had been all over the TV.

“Zeng Yan, oh, Zeng Yan, you’ve really pissed off the god of misfortune lately.”

The young man muttered to himself.

This young man was none other than Zeng Yan.

They let Xiao He rest for half an hour.

When a few officers saw that Xiao He’s spirits had improved somewhat.

They came over and took the initiative to ask, “How are you feeling? Better?”

Xiao He nodded.

“Then can we ask you a few questions about what happened to you?”

Xiao He nodded.

The older police officer was the one asking the questions. “What’s your name? Age, gender, workplace. And why were you in the village-within-the-city?”

Xiao He took a moment to compose herself. Normally, basic information like this would come out without even having to think about it.

But right now, even though she had been stabbed in the stomach, it felt more like someone had stabbed her brain.

Her thinking had become sluggish.

Maybe this was what Traditional Chinese Medicine meant when it said that all parts of the body and the five internal organs were interconnected and influenced each other.

“My name is Xiao He. I’m female. I’m from Yun Province. I came to Nancheng City to work, and I work at Fada Electronics Factory.”

“I’m… 21 years old.”

“I usually live in the dormitory building near Fada Electronics Factory, where a lot of factories share the same collective apartments for their workers.”

“But this time, after I got off work, I got a call from my best friend asking me to come to the village-within-the-city to pick her up and take her back to the dorm.”

“When I got to the village-within-the-city, I passed by that deserted alley. I saw someone walking toward me, but I didn’t think much of it. Then, when we got really close, he suddenly attacked me.”

“Oh! By the way, did you catch him?!”

The older police officer listened carefully while the other officers handled the note-taking and recording.

The older police officer answered, “We didn’t catch him.”

“So, we wanted to ask you, did you see what the attacker looked like?”

Xiao He clutched her head with both hands, her face twisted in pain. “I don’t know. His face was completely dark.”

The older police officer: “Can you tell if it was a man or a woman?”

Xiao He shook her head. “I’m not sure. He was disguising his voice. It sounded like a man, but it also sounded like a woman.”

Seeing that they couldn’t get any useful information, the older police officer felt somewhat deflated.

At that moment, Xiao He looked left and right and realized that her clothes were gone. She asked where her clothes were.

The older police officer replied that they had been taken for forensic testing, to see if any biological samples could be left behind, such as the attacker’s DNA.

Once the testing was done, they would be returned.

Xiao He had initially planned to tell the older police officer that she had bitten the attacker, but after thinking about it, the man had reacted too quickly and she hadn’t actually bitten him, so there was no point.

After that, the older police officer introduced Zeng Yan to Xiao He, saying that this young man had saved her.

Xiao He immediately tried to get up to thank him, but the moment she moved, the pain in her abdomen flared up.

So, she could only give a friendly smile and nod her thanks instead.