I changed the world.

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The back door of the Zhang residence slowly opened, and a fat man tiptoed out from behind it. After looking around, a man who had been waiting not far from the door, looking somewhat restless, quickly walked over. Upon seeing the fat man, he made a gesture that signified that everything was alright.

Seeing this, the fat man waved behind him, and then the group of people filed out behind him.

"Seventh Brother, you've finally come out. Why did it take so long... This damn headset isn't working either. I was worried something might have happened to you."

"Maybe it's broken..." Zhu Qi, walking in the group, mumbled a reply, while casually asking, "Is there something wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong, I'm so bored I'm almost asleep..." the man laughed, then looked curiously at the person next to Zhu Qi: "Brother Qi, didn't you say you were going to kidnap a fat sheep? What... didn't you get the person out?"

"They weren't there, so we came up empty-handed..." Zhu Qi replied casually, then waved his hand and said, "Don't ask anymore, let's hurry up and go. It's almost dawn, and with so many of us, we shouldn't let anyone notice anything amiss."

He felt a chill run down his spine, realizing that the commotion he and his group had caused inside had gone completely unnoticed by those outside. This gave him a more direct understanding of the extraordinary abilities of the master of this place.

This is simply unbelievable...

Zhu Qi glanced again at his seemingly unharmed accomplices who were walking towards the car parked by the roadside not far away. He and the fat man next to him exchanged a look, and both of them saw deep fear in each other's eyes.

"Hey... Seventh Brother, isn't it weird? As soon as you guys came out, the headphones were working again..."

"Alright, alright, enough talk, hurry up and get in the car. Hey... Ah Ji? Come back from the front door quickly, we're out, get in the car and head back..."

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Chapter 371 A Coincidental Car Accident

The large van quickly turned out from the side road, the doors opened, and a group of people boarded one after another. Then the doors closed, and the vehicle quickly picked up speed and drove forward...

Sitting in the back seat, Zhu Qi and Fatty listened to Mudfish and the driver chatting casually in the front passenger seat, and silently fastened their seatbelts. The others sitting around them remained silent, staring blankly into space.

"Hey Rat, you're usually so talkative, why are you so quiet? Hey, did you get anything good this time? Show it to us..." Ah Ji, who was sitting in front of Zhu Qi, had been guarding the front gate and hadn't gone in with the others. He nudged his skinny companion with his elbow, speaking with a hint of envy.

"We didn't find anything. Seventh Brother was afraid of alerting the enemy, so he didn't let us touch anything inside," the skinny man he called "Rat" laughed. Because it was early morning and they were in the car, Ah Ji next to him didn't notice that his face had an eerie pale color.

"Damn, you're going to come back empty-handed? Don't try to fool me, show me..."

"Alright, Ah Ji, everyone's a bit tired after a busy night. Let's talk more when we get back." Zhu Qi, who was sitting in the back row, suddenly spoke up.

With his elder brother speaking, Ah Ji finally stopped talking. Although he was still a little curious and unwilling, he kept quiet.

The car had already picked up speed, and the driver turned on the stereo, immediately filling the car with rhythmic percussion music.

Just then, on the hillside not far from the van, a large, plump raccoon cat trotted nimbly down the slope and nimbly climbed up a large camphor tree with outstretched branches.

This large camphor tree is rooted on the hillside, its posture crooked. It is what ordinary people call a crooked-necked tree. A thick branch grows out at an angle, almost crossing most of the road.

The raccoon climbed along the branch that stretched out horizontally, until it reached the top of the road and stopped.

On the road below, a van with its headlights on was approaching steadily from a distance.

Just as the van was about to reach the base of the branches, the raccoon suddenly leaped down and pounced on the van below...

Inside the van where Zhu Qi was, the rhythmic sound of percussion music echoed throughout the vehicle. The driver nodded slightly in sync with the rhythm, appearing quite pleased with himself.

Just then, a loud "bang" was heard!

Something suddenly slammed into the windshield of the van, creating a series of radial cracks. The driver gasped and instinctively jerked the steering wheel.

Although he quickly realized what was happening and tried to straighten the vehicle, the excessive speed caused it to lose balance and sway violently, tracing an S-shape on the road before finally going out of control and tumbling off the side of the road...

Immediately following was a violent collision, a rollover, and screams. Due to the excessive speed earlier, and perhaps also the vehicle's age, the car deformed and twisted like a soda can during the rollover, finally coming to a stop at the bottom of a slope more than 20 meters away from the road. At this point, the vehicle was upside down, its body twisted...

Zhu Qi shook his head violently; the violent impact left his mind reeling. A warm stream trickled down his forehead, from where he had been injured, but he couldn't care less at that moment. He was hanging upside down in the car by the seatbelt, but thankfully, the seatbelt had protected him from fatal injuries during the rollover.

Someone beside him was wailing; the sound seemed to be that of a loach. But Zhu Qi couldn't care less at that moment; he had to save himself. He tried twice, but couldn't loosen the seatbelt buckle; it seemed to be stuck. And because he was hanging upside down, the seatbelt was under pressure, making it even harder to loosen.

"Seventh Brother, I have a knife here..."

Just then, a fat man crawled over, pulled out a small knife, and started cutting his seatbelt. Zhu Qi turned his head and saw that it was Er Pang, who had also been wearing a seatbelt. He was now out of danger before Zhu Qi.

After a flurry of activity, the two finally managed to cut the seatbelt. Zhu Qi, who had been hanging upside down, crashed down, hitting his ribs and nearly losing his breath from the pain. But it was an emergency, so he endured the pain and crawled out through the half-open car door.

Erpang also emerged from behind him, and only then did he see clearly that Erpang had a large bulge on his forehead, indicating that he had also been bumped.

The loach was still howling in pain inside the car. The two went back to rescue him, only to find that the loach's thigh had been pierced by a broken piece of iron, and blood was gushing out. They didn't know if the major artery had been damaged.

The two men dragged the loach out of the vehicle, and a strong smell of burning began to permeate the area around the car. Then, smoke started coming from under the car. Seeing this, the two men didn't bother to bandage the loach and carried him staggering away into the distance.

While theoretically, electric vehicles have a much lower chance of exploding than gasoline-powered vehicles, they chose an old car that had already reached its scrapping date and whose battery pack had long exceeded its design lifespan to cover their tracks. Their original plan was to dump the car in a lake and scrap it after this heist…

After running about fifty meters, Zhu Qi put the loach on the ground and was about to go back to rescue the people when Erpang grabbed him, saying, "Brother, the car is on fire! Don't go! They can't be saved!"

As he spoke, the fat man pointed to the loach beside him: "The loach also needs to be bandaged, otherwise it will bleed to death!"

Hearing what the fat man said, Mudfish, clutching his injured thigh, cried out loudly, "Seventh Brother, save me! Help me bandage this up..."