Bang.

The young boy groaned in pain after falling to the ground, then looked at Ye Qiu: "You saw it, right? It's not that I don't want to leave, but every time I get here, I can't get out. No matter where I try, it just won't work."

Slowly, the boy got up and said: "It seems like someone has surrounded the village with something."

He reached out and tried to push forward again, but almost fell to the ground from the force.

Thankfully, Ye Qiu caught him before he fell again.

After helping the young boy, Ye Qiu took a step forward to the spot where the boy couldn't pass, then slowly extended his foot, and he was able to move through instantly.

Then, Ye Qiu moved his entire body through and looked back at the boy: "See, how can I pass?"

But at this moment, the young boy seemed unable to see him, standing there shouting anxiously, looking extremely panicked.

"This is..."

Ye Qiu was taken aback, then took a step back to the boy's side.

As soon as the initially panicked boy saw Ye Qiu return, his face immediately lit up with joy.

"Couldn't you see me just now?"

Ye Qiu asked the young boy.

The boy nodded: "Yeah, as soon as you go out, I can't see you anymore."

Hiss.

Ye Qiu drew a sharp breath, then turned around, standing at the spot where the boy couldn't pass, moving his arm back and forth through, but he couldn't feel anything unusual.

"What's going on?"

Ye Qiu surveyed the surroundings and suddenly realized something was amiss. The spot the boy couldn't pass seemed like a wall, but the wall was transparent. The houses in the village seemed to be neatly lined against this wall.

To verify, Ye Qiu had the boy try pushing at several spots, and indeed, as he expected, there seemed to be a transparent wall surrounding the small village.

"But why can I get out but the boy can't? And once I get out, why can't he see me?"

Ye Qiu furrowed his brows, then looked at the boy, "Earlier you said those who took the villagers might be coming back, what's the deal with that?"

Not understanding the transparent wall, Ye Qiu decided to seek answers elsewhere.

The young boy pointed to the monsters Ye Qiu had killed around them, saying, "They said they're coming to take these people away."

"Oh, I see!" Ye Qiu nodded, and then asked the boy more questions, but the boy knew nothing else.

"What's your name?"

"My name is Xiao Long."

Ye Qiu nodded and then fell silent.

He could leave now, but he wanted to take Xiao Long with him. It felt heart-wrenching seeing him alone here. Ye Qiu wasn't a saint but he couldn't leave someone to die without help.

However, if he wanted to take Xiao Long with him, there was a big problem standing in his way: how to get Xiao Long out?

He could pass through the wall, but Xiao Long could not.

"What should I do?"

Ye Qiu paced back and forth, deep in thought, while Xiao Long looked at him with hopeful eyes.

In his heart, Ye Qiu was a powerful, omnipotent figure. He was thoroughly impressed when Ye Qiu dispatched those monsters earlier.

Ye Qiu said to Xiao Long: "Don't worry, I'll step outside for a moment."

Ye Qiu took out his phone and found there was no signal inside the village. It dawned on him: "No wonder the police haven't caught me yet, they can't find me."

Ye Qiu shook his head and walked through the transparent wall. Sure enough, as soon as he crossed that wall, his phone suddenly had a signal.

"Amazing."

Ye Qiu shook his head, then saw a flood of texts and calls come in, stunned.

He flipped through the messages; they were all from Lin Jie.

"Ye Qiu, where are you? You're so skilled, the police can't find you at all."

"Ye Qiu, where are you? You haven't run into trouble, have you? Xu Batian is wondering why you haven't delivered the goods yet."

"Ye Qiu, you haven't really gotten into trouble, have you? Xu Batian is a bit upset, said if you don't deliver the goods soon, don't bother coming back."

"Ye Qiu, are you okay? Hurry back...I'm worried about you."

This was a message from Xu Jiao. Ye Qiu hesitated for a moment, replied to Lin Jie and Xu Jiao, then started searching the web.

Aliens, transparent wall.

But all he found were fictional stories by netizens, some kind of web novels with transparent this and transparent that.

Ye Qiu closed his phone, rubbed his temples in frustration, and headed back behind the transparent wall.

He sat down beside the young boy, sighed in resignation, then lay on the car hood and asked the boy: "Tell me about your village's history."

Ye Qiu couldn't think of a solution for the moment, so he decided to relax his mind by chatting with the boy.

The young boy seemed to be very talkative or perhaps just hadn't spoken to anyone in a long time. Hearing Ye Qiu's question, he brightened up and enthusiastically began describing how wonderful his village used to be, how prosperous Zeyang was.

Listening to the young boy talk nonstop, and seeing the innocent excitement in his eyes, Ye Qiu couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

"Such a good child, such a nice village, what exactly are those aliens planning to do, and where have they taken the villagers? Why can't these aliens be more like Fle?"

"Fle, wait..."

Ye Qiu abruptly sat up, startling the young boy. Ye Qiu smiled and said, "It's nothing, keep going."

Watching the boy continue his story, Ye Qiu focused his thoughts and asked Fle, "Fle, Fle?"

But after calling for a while, Fle didn't respond at all.

"What's going on?"

Ye Qiu was dumbfounded. Fle was his strong card. As long as he had Fle, he would feel confident, and he dared to enter this village partly because of Fle.

But now, Fle didn't seem to respond, leaving Ye Qiu feeling anxious.

"Car God System."

Then Ye Qiu called out for the Car God System instead, but was dumbfounded when even the system didn't respond—it was as if it didn't exist in him.

"What's going on?"

Ye Qiu suddenly stood up, shouting angrily.

The boy was utterly scared by Ye Qiu at this moment, looking at him with a face full of fear and asking: "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

Hearing the boy's question, Ye Qiu paused, then saw the fear and panic written all over the boy's face. A hint of apology flashed in his heart: "Sorry, I'm fine."

"Oh." The boy nodded, then casually said: "In here, there is no cellphone signal or anything, maybe you'll have some outside."

The boy looked at Ye Qiu's phone in his hand, assuming it was due to the lack of signal, and took out his little phone to say.

Upon hearing the boy's words, Ye Qiu paused, then brightened up, smacking his forehead: "Oh, my brain! Let's try going out. Since there's no signal here, maybe Fle is being blocked too."

Thinking that, he jumped off the car, approached the young boy, not caring if the boy's face was dirty, kissed him on the cheek, and ran outside, leaving the boy sitting there in a daze.

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