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The streets are lit up with neon, and the bustling city center of the magic capital is even as bright as day. Even if a five-dollar coin falls on the ground, it can be easily recovered.

In the distance, on the exterior wall of the building, advertisements are playing on a huge glass curtain wall made up of countless transparent displays.

Since the government issued the "Regulations on the Restriction and Management of Virtual Idols" last year, the number of appearances of "virtual idols" that were originally favored by film and television companies and advertisers has been limited a lot, which has also given many second- and third-tier idols who were originally unpopular with them the opportunity to come out and make money.

Lin Jie held the wine bottle and sat on the road looking at the neon-lit and radiant city.

Even at night.

In such a downtown location, there is still a constant flow of cars and people.

But even though it was lively, Lin Jie could only feel a deep sense of loneliness enveloping him.

40 years old.

In a few hours, he will be forty years old.

And at this moment, he suddenly felt how a failure he had in this life.

Looking back......

Maybe there are only three words to describe nothing, alone, and lonely old age, right?

When I was a teenager, when I was young, when I was just entering my thirties, when I was thirty-five years old, I failed to do everything I wanted to do...... At the age of forty, he still lives in a cheap rental house in the magic capital, doing a business that has been gradually eliminated by the times, and he is downcast and lonely......

"Am I really wrong?" Lin Jie muttered, and the alcohol, which was no different from before, rushed to his brain.

"Am I really wrong?! Yes?!! He roared and threw away the bottle in his hand, and roared loudly at the night sky, which was reflected in the light of the city and not the stars.

"Oh my God! Tell me!? ”

"Is it wrong to stick to ideals?!"

"Is it wrong to want to protect the woman you like?!"

"Is it wrong to be an ordinary person?!"

Ahh!!hh

Under the surprised and disgusted gaze of others, Lin Jie roared as if no one was around, until two lines of burning tears flowed down the corners of his eyes.

Ahh

The woman's screams came from not far away.

The commotion was like a stone slamming into a puddle of water, setting off a wave that wanted to spread around.

"Murder!"

"Run!"

The crowd scattered and fled.

Such a commotion also made Lin Jie sober up a little, he walked a few steps against the direction of the crowd of people, and only then did he see clearly that it was several knife-wielding murderers in black who caused the commotion.

Although drinking alcohol has dulled his brain a bit.

But the bloody scene of the murderer frantically swinging his knife and slashing at innocent passers-by in front of him is obvious, as long as anyone who is not completely irrational, understands the danger.

Look at the thugs who chased the crowd, cut down the fleeing passers-by from behind, and brutally stabbed the passers-by in the neck with a knife.

One of the thugs closest to him was chasing a woman with a child in her arms.

The woman's skirt was already covered with her own blood, but she was still tightly hugging her child, a few years old, and ran with despair on her face......

This scene came into view, Lin Jie only felt that his chest, which had been burned by alcohol and pain, seemed to explode at this moment, and something that he couldn't understand, as if it had been cooling for many years, boiled again in an instant, and erupted!

"Stop !!"

He roared, met the blade, and rushed against the crowd.

The knife slashed down.

The top of his head was cold, and his face was full of blood, Lin Jie struggled to grab the other party's knife-holding hand, but because of his sluggish hands and feet, he was slashed several times, and he was covered in blood.

Maybe it's because of the drinking......

Lin Jie didn't feel too much pain.

However, the two murderers next to him also rushed up after seeing the fight between their accomplices and Lin Jie.

He's not much of a martial arts master.

In fact.

Even if the hand-to-hand fighting masters in the ring encounter armed sharp weapons, the plurality of murderers is extremely dangerous, and may even be easily killed.

Under the flanking attack of the three of them, the cold blade quickly pierced the body.

The wound to his internal organs completely drained Lin Jie's last bit of strength.

In the midst of blood red.

Lin Jie fell heavily to the ground.

The blade stabbed through his throat, slicing his throat and his last hope of survival.

"Is that all dead...... his eyes widened, his pupils reflecting the neon-lit city streets of the tumbling night and the figure of the woman holding the child who had fled with the help of other passers-by......

"Great......"

The last of the sights gradually turned into darkness.

Sound......

Pain......

Burning ...... in the chest

All of this gradually cooled down and turned into an endless silent darkness......