Bang!

His body hit the balcony railing. Wang Zhong had reached a point where there was no more retreat.

Suddenly, he let out a miserable laugh. "I thought I might die in Alice Apartment, but I never imagined I would die because of something that happened many years ago."

"What? Feeling wronged?"

The Armored Man sneered coldly. "There's a line in the movie 'Infernal Affairs'."

"Sooner or later, everyone pays for what they've done."

"You're now paying for the cause you sowed back then."

Wang Zhong said, "I should have fired a finishing shot back then."

The Armored Man said, "Unfortunately, there's no medicine for regret in this world."

Seeing the Armored Man was now only one and a half meters away from him.

Wang Zhong, with no retreat left, suddenly burst into loud laughter.

The Armored Man asked him what he was laughing about.

Wang Zhong said, "Laughing at myself. I'm so wealthy, yet I'm going to die at the hands of an ordinary person."

"If it weren't for Black Software, you wouldn't have this chance to kill me."

"If it weren't for Black Software and this damn game, you'd either have been executed by now or still rotting in prison."

"Black Software? What's that?"

The Armored Man clearly didn't know about Black Software's existence.

Wang Zhong said, "That's your daddy."

With that, Wang Zhong pushed with both hands, kicked off with his feet, and sat his butt right on the windowsill.

The Armored Man was confused by his action. "What are you doing? Don't tell me you're trying to escape through the window? This is the fifth floor!"

Wang Zhong's expression became calm and natural, no longer carrying the previous terror of death.

He said, "Rather than being slowly sawed to death by you, letting you savor the joy of revenge."

"It's better to end things with dignity, by my own hand."

"Just like the Chongzhen Emperor of the Ming Dynasty."

With that, something happened that perhaps no one watching this scene expected.

Wang Zhong leaned his body back and tumbled out from the balcony window.

The eyes beneath the Armored Man's helmet snapped wide open. He immediately took several quick steps forward, leaned over the windowsill, and looked down.

On the concrete ground directly below.

Within a pool of blood, Wang Zhong lay sprawled. His luck was terrible; he had landed on the back of his head.

It was precisely because he landed on the back of his head that his fallen body was still twitching and convulsing continuously.

His mouth gushed with large amounts of blood.

If he had been rushed to a hospital at this moment, it was hard to say whether his life could truly have slipped away.

But unfortunately, no one dialed 120 for him.

In the Far Neighbor game live stream room.

Middle-aged Uncle: [So tragic, truly unexpected. But I've experienced this kind of karma theory myself, just not fatally.]

Domineering Female CEO: [Is it that the world is just too small, or is it the wonder of fate and destiny?]

[After all, who could have imagined this guy wearing armor would run into his dad and his enemy in Alice Apartment?]

[Who could have thought the 'one man' among the one man and three women from his story to Jiang Ran would turn out to be Wang Zhong?]

Ultimate Rich Kid: [Isn't he one of The Artist's people?! By driving Wang Zhong to his death like this, I really want to see how The Artist handles him! Or doesn't handle him?!]

The Ultimate Rich Kid was speaking excitedly now. He originally thought Yang Kang was a sure thing.

But Wang Zhong's sudden move scared him. He was afraid Yang Kang might suddenly pop up with another enemy here, seeking revenge on the spot.

Fairy Sister: [Don't know how to handle it, but I'm wondering, why didn't Wang Zhong fight back?! Fighting back would have at least given him a sliver of hope! Give it a shot!!!!]

Evil Wolf: [Fight back? How could a pampered hospital director like him fight back?]

[Didn't you see even Jiang Ran was powerless before this armored guy, like a little chick?]

Fairy Sister: [So if you can't win, you don't even try? Not even a little attempt?]

Middle-aged Uncle: [Stop arguing, there's nothing to argue about with this kind of thing.]

[Look at the late Ming Dynasty. Some people, facing the Manchus, would rather die than submit.] 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

[Like Li Dingguo: 'Better to die in the wilderness than surrender to the Manchus.']

[Lu Xiangsheng, Shi Kefa, Zhang Huangyan, Zheng Chenggong, the list goes on.]

[Some just surrendered directly.]

[Kong Youde, Wu Sangui, Hong Chengchou, Qian Qianyi.]

[Of course, there was another type of person who chose to commit suicide for their country.]

[So, Wang Zhong choosing suicide, not fighting back at all, is also a choice made due to his personal character. Nothing to argue about.]

[If it were someone else, they might be crying and begging for mercy, only to be chainsawed to death by the Armored Man in the end.]

Little Dragon Girl: [Strange, why is the topic of the late Ming Dynasty so hot recently?]

Little Aunt: [The Ming Dynasty's popularity, especially the late Ming, has always been quite high.]

[Recently, though, it seems to have exploded completely on TikTok.]

[Of course, Dream of the Red Chamber exploded too. The two are linked.]

Little Dragon Girl: [Dream of the Red Chamber? How are those two linked?]

Little Aunt: [Dream of the Red Chamber wasn't written by Cao Xueqin, but by Ming Dynasty loyalists after its fall.]

[In the book, Lin Daiyu is Chongzhen, Jia Baoyu is the Imperial Seal (symbol of imperial power), Xue Baochai is the Manchu Qing. Others all have corresponding counterparts.]

[One of the videos I scrolled through said this.]

[As everyone knows, Jia Baoyu is a childhood name. Why does the entire book of Dream of the Red Chamber never mention Jia Baoyu's formal name?]

[Because the Great Ming (Da Ming, sounds like 'big name') is gone.]

Little Dragon Girl: [Damn!]

Little Aunt: [But this theory, online, has many supporters, but also many opponents.]

...

Over there, the blue-haired Jiang Ran, after parting ways with the Armored Man wearing Western plate armor.

Intended to leave Alice Apartment.

His bag of tricks was empty.

Staying here with this extremely exhausted body would just be delivering himself as a kill.

So, he prepared to leave this place, go outside to sleep, recover his energy, and then come back.

To leave Alice Apartment, he first had to leave Building No. 2.

Building No. 2 had two doors, front and back.

Looking down from the hallway windows on the upper floors, the blue-haired Jiang Ran could see several White Ghost Face Mask Persons guarding the main entrance.

So he looked at the back door.

From the hallway windows on the other side, he could still see the back door also had White Ghost Face Mask Persons guarding it.

Since both the front and back doors were impassable, he'd just climb out a window from the middle section.

He went up to the rooftop, wanting to check the situation around Building No. 2.

He discovered that the entire building was surrounded by White Ghost Face Mask Persons.

It was essentially a siege.

Climbing out of any apartment window would quickly get him spotted, and then he'd be waiting for them to call in reinforcements.

"Kao..."

The blue-haired Jiang Ran felt he had eaten enough humiliation for one day.

How to fight this?

He wasn't afraid of the enemy's numbers.

It was just that the other side also had crossbows for ranged attacks and people wearing ancient armor.

That thing... if he kicked it, the other side would take no damage, okay?

"Unless..."

He narrowed his eyes. Unless he could be like the main personality and spend ten thousand points to restore his pre-transmigration physical condition.

Otherwise, this was basically a dead end.

He believed that, given the current situation, his exhausted body couldn't solve this.

Besides, he also believed that, given the current situation, aside from the main personality, the other alternate personalities probably couldn't solve it either.

Just as he was thinking this.

A mature man's voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Finally found you, Jiang Ran."

The blue-haired Jiang Ran turned to look.

When he saw the person behind him, his two eyebrows practically wanted to pull themselves out.

This... how was there another person wearing armor?

The blue-haired Jiang Ran turned his head, looking at the person before him.

Although he wasn't wearing Western plate armor.

He was wearing ancient Cherry Blossom Country armor.

Unlike the previous set of Western plate armor, which was silver and shiny from head to toe.

This set of ancient Cherry Blossom Country armor before him was almost entirely a deep, thick red from head to toe.

This armor had a professional name: Gusoku.

Compared to the Western plate armor, this set of Cherry Blossom Country Gusoku before him was clearly not on the same level in terms of defensive capability.