Chapter 250: Chapter 249
As the assassination attempt through poisoning failed, the stripe on Chen Ye's wrist gradually dimmed and slowly returned to green.
"It seems that after a failed assassination attempt, there's a cooldown period before the next wave of attacks," Chen Ye murmured, frowning.
Not long after.
The police arrived at the hotel.
All the guests, except those related to the deceased, were cleared out.
The preliminary investigation confirmed that all the victims had died from poisoning.
They were poisoned by a potent neurotoxin, lethal enough to kill within seconds once it took effect.
Inevitably, Chen Ye was questioned.
"Sir, what is your relationship with this lady?"
The officer questioning him clearly harboring some ill intent to him.
Chen Ye frowned, "We're friends."
"Friends?" The officer asked, "Why did she die from poisoning, but you didn't?"
"Because I don't like eating cheese-baked shrimp. Is that a problem?"
"Of course, it's a problem!"
The cop pulled out a pair of handcuffs and said, "Sir, I suspect that you're involved in this poisoning incident. Please cooperate with us for further investigation."
Chen Ye remained calm, glancing at the hotel manager.
The hotel manager, however, pretended not to see anything...
"Suspect me? Do you have any evidence?"
"Sir, please come with us to the station to cooperate with our investigation!" the cop insisted.
"I don't think you have the authority to do that."
"Oh, we do!"
The cop sneered and suddenly drew his gun, pointing it at Chen Ye, "Sir, I now suspect you are a terrorist. Get on your knees immediately and keep your hands where I can see them!"
Chen Ye's eyes grew colder, and he instinctively glanced at the stripe on his wrist, noticing it turning red. He sighed softly.
"So that's how it is..."
He realized that this cop's aggression was influenced by Death.
The next moment.
A dinner knife silently flew into the hotel manager's hand. Before the manager could react, an invisible force pushed him toward the cop.
This was, of course, Chen Ye's psychic power at work!
Splat!
The dinner knife in the hotel manager's hand "accidentally" stabbed into the cop's neck.
Instantly!
Blood gushed from the cop's neck.
"Oh! My God..."
The hotel manager was utterly dumbfounded.
The cop's partner immediately drew his gun, aiming it at the hotel manager, "Drop the weapon!!"
Clang!
The knife clattered to the ground, and the hotel manager, on the verge of tears, pleaded, "Officer, please listen to me! I don't know what just happened. It felt like someone was pushing me. I swear I didn't do it on purpose..."
The cop didn't believe him and cursed viciously, "Shut up, you damn scumbag! Get on the ground, hands on your head, or I won't hesitate to put a bullet in you!"
Terrified, the hotel manager immediately lay flat on the ground.
But in the next moment...
Bang!
A gunshot rang out.
The hotel manager, who had just gotten on the ground, was instantly shot in the head.
The cop stared at his gun in disbelief, "What the hell? What did I just do?"
Before he could finish speaking.
Splat!
A middle-aged woman, standing behind the cop, suddenly stabbed him in the back of the head with a fork.
"Ah!!"
Seeing the cop collapse, blood pouring from his head, the woman screamed in terror before fainting.
...
Silence!
The entire restaurant was eerily quiet.
All the other guests and hotel staff were in shock.
They couldn't make sense of what had just happened.
First, Cop A threatened an Asian man without any evidence.
Then the hotel manager, using a knife, killed the cop!
Next, Cop B, the partner, shot and killed the hotel manager!
And then, a middle-aged woman suddenly went crazy and stabbed Cop B in the head with a fork…
What the hell?
Everyone was utterly confused about the relationships between these people and what kind of grudges could have led to such chaos.
Only Chen Ye remained calm and composed.
Everything that had just happened was orchestrated by him using his psychic power...
Chen Ye glanced at his wrist, seeing the stripe return to green once more.
With a faint smile, Chen Ye quietly left the scene.
He walked out of the hotel and into the street.
The hotel was no longer safe—two cops were dead, and the place would soon be completely surrounded by the authorities.
Chen Ye wasn't afraid, but he didn't see the need to stick around.
Shortly after.
Chen Ye hailed a taxi on the street.
"Where to, buddy?"
"The psychiatric hospital!"
The driver looked at Chen Ye for a moment, slightly puzzled, but didn't say anything.
Twenty minutes later.
The taxi was still en route to the destination.
It wasn't that the driver was intentionally taking a detour, but psychiatric hospitals were usually located in more remote areas.
Chen Ye suddenly frowned.
He noticed that the stripe on his wrist was starting to turn red again...
"Are the attacks this frequent? Is it because I avoided Death for five days, so now this damned thing is trying to make up for lost time all at once?" Chen Ye muttered, frowning as he asked the driver, "How much longer until we get there?"
"Buddy, the psychiatric hospital is over 25 kilometers away from where you started. I'm not trying to drag this out… If there's no traffic, we'll be there in about ten minutes!"
Chen Ye nodded, "I'd suggest you hurry. It's for your own good!"
The driver was left bewildered…
Five minutes later.
The stripe on Chen Ye's wrist had turned deep red.
Without hesitation, Chen Ye activated his Armament Haki, covering his entire body.
The driver was still leisurely humming along to an English song, completely unaware of what was about to happen…
Honk!!
As the driver approached an intersection, a large truck suddenly lost control and crashed directly into the taxi.
Boom!!
A loud crash resounded.
The truck, after hitting the taxi, didn't stop but continued to push it toward a nearby wall.
With another thunderous boom, the truck finally came to a halt.
By this time, the taxi had been completely crushed into a hunk of scrap metal.
Such a severe accident shocked the nearby citizens.
Everyone assumed that anyone inside the taxi would be dead for sure.
But to everyone's astonishment, a young Asian man crawled out of the wreckage.
Aside from his clothes being a bit torn, he was completely unscathed...
Seeing this, the crowd couldn't help but marvel.
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