53: Ring of Fortune

"Are you alright?"

After the hummer vehicle stabilized, Qin Shou also sobered up from the dizziness and immediately asked Zhu Xinyao, who was in his arms, with concern.

"I... I'm fine, what about you? Are you injured anywhere?"

Zhu Xinyao shook her head, her face still pale, clearly quite startled by the rollover.

"That's good, as long as you're fine."

Qin Shou was relieved to hear Zhu Xinyao say she was fine.

"I'll go out and check the situation outside first. You hide in the hummer vehicle for now; it's safer that way. Don't move around."

Saying that, Qin Shou raised his hand and pushed open the door above his head, intending to climb out from there.

It was at this moment that Qin Shou suddenly felt a golden light flash across his left wrist. He subconsciously looked at his wrist and indeed saw an exquisite golden bracelet, securely worn on his left wrist. The bracelet was carved with ancient and mysterious patterns, emitting a faint golden glow.

"What the? This is real! I thought I hit my head and was hallucinating!"

Qin Shou saw the golden bracelet on his wrist and instinctively gasped in his mind, realizing that the girl who called herself Ling'er, who had appeared in his mind earlier, and what she had said, didn't seem to be a hallucination after all.

Then, Qin Shou saw the golden bracelet flash with light again, and he clearly saw a wisp of faint black smoke on his body, which was sucked into the bracelet, then flew out from it and drifted outside.

"What is this black smoke? Is it... bad luck?"

Qin Shou was full of questions at the moment, unsure of the current situation, but recalling the girl's introduction of the bracelet in his earlier hallucination, Qin Shou had some guesses.

At the same time, that wisp of black smoke that flew out from the golden bracelet drifted towards two members of the Blood God Cult who were approaching the hummer vehicle.

The two Men in Black jogged to the overturned hummer vehicle, intending to carefully check the situation inside, when they suddenly felt a jolt, as if a chill had invaded their bodies, making them shiver and giving them goosebumps all over.

"Damn it, Old Liu, what's going on? Why do I suddenly feel a chill, and my body is so cold?"

One of the Men in Black couldn't help but rub his arms and asked his companion.

"I feel it too, it's really strange. Damn it, the weather isn't cool today, so why do I suddenly feel cold?"

The other Man in Black also shivered, wondering why he suddenly felt a chill.

"Don't you two dare to dilly-dally! Quickly check the situation inside the hummer vehicle and see how that woman is!"

Li Zhengxi, from a distance, saw the two standing there dawdling, seemingly talking about something, and immediately urged them impatiently.

"Understood, Brother Li!"

Li Zhengxi was, after all, a small leader, and within the Blood God Cult, the hierarchy was strict, and his status was much higher than theirs. As soon as Li Zhengxi spoke, the two ordinary cult members immediately dared not delay further. They quickly turned, nodding and bowing repeatedly in response, and then walked towards the hummer vehicle again.

At the same time, Qin Shou inside the hummer vehicle also moved. Qin Shou grabbed the door handle above the hummer vehicle and pulled hard, intending to climb out from above.

Who would have thought that the hummer vehicle was already overturned, its center of gravity unstable, barely maintaining a state of balance? As soon as Qin Shou moved, the precarious balance was instantly broken. The overturned hummer vehicle suddenly shook violently, and then fell towards the direction where the two Men in Black were standing.

"Ah--!"

Qin Shou only heard two shrill screams from outside. Before he understood what had happened, he felt the hummer vehicle heavily smash onto something, emitting a "crack" sound of bones breaking.

Just like that, the overturned hummer vehicle, by chance, landed precisely on top of the two Men in Black.

Logically speaking, these two should have been able to react, but who knew, also by chance, it was their bad luck. Li Zhengxi suddenly spoke at this moment, distracting their attention, which led to a double kill by a hummer vehicle.

How heavy was the hummer vehicle? Even if the Blood God Cult's evil sorcery was powerful, it was impossible for someone to recover unscathed after being crushed by such a heavy object. Their chests were instantly crushed, they vomited blood, and their internal organs ruptured.

The two struggled for a moment in excruciating pain, then completely stopped breathing and died beyond revival.

"Damn it, these two useless idiots are only good for messing things up!"

Li Zhengxi saw his two subordinates actually being crushed to death by an overturned hummer vehicle and cursed. He raised the pistol in his hand, intending to directly shoot Qin Shou, who was about to climb out of the hummer vehicle.

Qin Shou's body hadn't fully emerged from the hummer vehicle yet; he was still curled up inside. In this situation, he couldn't make any effective dodging movements at all.

However, at this critical moment, Qin Shou once again clearly saw a wisp of faint black energy on his body, using the ring of fortune on his left wrist as a medium, quickly flying out and then drifting directly towards Li Zhengxi, who was aiming his gun at him.

"Bang!"

Almost at the same instant, Li Zhengxi pulled the trigger, and the gunshot rang out again.

Qin Shou was so scared that his body shivered violently. He couldn't help but grope himself for a long time, and only after confirming that there were no signs of injury on him did he relax and let out a long sigh.

Qin Shou was full of doubts at this moment, thinking, "Wasn't this guy's marksmanship quite accurate just now? How did it suddenly become so bad? This shot didn't even hit me?"

However, at the same time Qin Shou was full of questions, he suddenly heard a shrill scream coming from ahead.

Qin Shou looked in the direction of the sound and saw Li Zhengxi, who had just been aiming his gun at him, now painfully clutching his right hand, letting out screams.

His right hand was now bloody and mangled. The pistol he was holding had actually backfired, the barrel bursting open, fragments flying everywhere. His right hand was clearly injured by the explosion.

"Damn it, what kind of garbage are these idiots smuggling! The quality is so bad, I've really had the worst luck!"

Li Zhengxi clutched his bloody and mangled right hand, grimacing in pain, and continuously cursed.

Seeing this sudden turn of events, Qin Shou had basically confirmed that everything that had just happened must be related to the golden ring of fortune he was wearing on his wrist; it must have played a role in secret.

He carefully recalled the scene just now and realized that without this ring of fortune, it was very likely that he himself would have been crushed to death by the overturned hummer vehicle.

Or, even if he had miraculously not been crushed to death by the hummer vehicle, he might have been shot dead the moment Li Zhengxi fired the gun.

But now, because the bad luck on him had been transferred away by the ring of fortune, the misfortune that should have befallen him was transferred to Li Zhengxi in an unexpected way, causing the firearm in his hand to backfire directly, injuring him instead.