Great, It's the Pervy Neighbor. We're Doomed

Based on Gates's current state, he was indeed a methodical serial killer.

Every step was calculated precisely. First came the large pit, making Jiang Ran fall into it.

Under normal circumstances, trapped in a ten-meter-deep pit, unless you had wings, how could an ordinary person possibly climb out?

Especially when there were five deranged criminals and a serial killer guarding the pit's edge. It was a complete dead end.

But even so, Gates had prepared a contingency plan.

That contingency plan was the central road of the abandoned steel mill, the death-dealing kite string stretched taut between two trees.

The entire sequence of plans was as follows.

First, whether Jiang Ran would fall into the pit.

Let's start with the scenario where he didn't fall into the pit.

If he didn't fall into the pit, he would be targeted by the five deranged criminals and five serial killers stationed there, as well as Manager Xiao Zhang.

Either Jiang Ran would take out all of them, or they would kill him. If Jiang Ran was killed, everyone would be happy.

If Jiang Ran eliminated all of them.

Then his next step would be to either leave the abandoned steel mill directly, or head to the brightly lit factory. Because at that time, only that factory had its lights on.

Once inside the factory, he would encounter those people. They wouldn't fight Jiang Ran one-on-one; they'd immediately escape on motorcycles.

As for the motorcycles, Gates had arranged those in advance too. He had calculated that among the five motorcycles parked there, there would definitely be one available.

After that, things would unfold according to plan: those people would ride off first, Jiang Ran would chase after them on a motorcycle. Then Jiang Ran would be killed by the kite string.

As for why Gates was certain they would take this specific route, that was also part of his planning. He had arranged this escape route through the steel mill for them in advance.

Now let's talk about the scenario where Jiang Ran fell into the pit.

It wasn't much different from the scenario where he didn't fall in.

In reality, Jiang Ran climbed out of the pit, killed five people, went to the factory and killed Manager Xiao Zhang, chased after those people, and then got killed by the kite string.

Of course, the one thing that surprised and miscalculated Gates was that he believed if Jiang Ran fell into the pit, there was a 99% chance he would die.

Therefore, he thought this contingency plan wouldn't be needed. But he never expected Jiang Ran to actually climb out.

"You just stay here and wait for others to find you. Then the cops from this small town can collect your corpse for burial. I'll be going now."

"Bye bye!"

After saying all that, Gates waved at Jiang Ran's head on the ground, then turned around and walked away without any hesitation. To him, Jiang Ran was just a slightly harder lab rat to kill.

And he had encountered such hard-to-kill lab rats before, though they were rare.

"Hmm, let me think. There are two left now. That lab rat named Juliet is quite pretty, and she's practically my fellow townsman."

He muttered to himself as he walked, but after taking less than five meters, he suddenly stopped. Then, frowning with confusion, he said:

"What's that sound?"

He slowly turned his head to look behind him.

And then, he witnessed a scene that would be etched in his memory forever.

Under the silvery moonlight, on this utterly silent central road of the abandoned steel mill.

A headless corpse walked with soft footsteps, appearing right behind him. But its target wasn't him; it was heading farther back.

The headless corpse walked slowly, unsteadily, and tremblingly toward the spot behind him. Its gait was extremely clumsy and awkward.

When it reached the vicinity of Jiang Ran's head, it sat down on the ground, supporting itself with its hands and feet.

Then, freeing its hands, it reached for Jiang Ran's head.

Currently, the headless body had its back facing Gates.

The headless corpse lifted Jiang Ran's head with both hands, then slowly placed it back in its proper position.

But maybe it was a mistake.

The head was put on backward.

The face should have been facing the stomach side, but instead, it was aligned with the back.

Yet even with the head on backward, Jiang Ran's face came alive. Earlier, it had shown only the shock and disbelief of death.

But now, all his features began to twist. The shock disappeared, his eyes regained their luster, and were replaced by a bizarre, chillingly sinister smile.

The corners of his mouth stretched almost to his ears.

Then, this Jiang Ran, who should have been dead for quite a while, actually spoke.

"Oops, I accidentally put it on backward."

A very light and cheerful sentence.

But it nearly made Gates's soul leave his body.

Gates's entire face was now extremely twisted and deformed.

His expression at that moment was more shocked and terrified than if he had seen a ghost. Goosebumps erupted all over his body, and he couldn't stop trembling slightly.

He stood there, frozen, for a very, very long time.

Only when he saw Jiang Ran start to rotate his own head with his hands, trying to set it back correctly, did he snap back to reality. His eyes darted around until he found the motorcycle Jiang Ran had been riding earlier.

Then his legs sprinted toward it.

But perhaps the scene he had just witnessed was too horrifying, causing his legs to feel like they had just grown back. He couldn't walk properly and almost fell. He could only dig his fingers into the flesh of his own thighs to awaken his sense of pain.

After struggling to right the motorcycle and climb onto it, he glanced back at Jiang Ran. He saw that Jiang Ran's head was now back in place, and his body was beginning to turn toward him.

Without wasting any time on other things, he immediately revved the motorcycle and sped away in a flash.

Of course, as he fled, his face was still completely twisted and deformed from the earlier shock.

By now, Jiang Ran's body had fully returned to normal. The massive wound on his neck, caused by the kite string's deep cut, was visibly healing at an astonishing speed.

Flesh and blood intertwined, forming fresh, new skin.

Only when the wound on his neck had healed completely, as if it had never existed at all, did he stop.

All the cameras in the abandoned steel mill returned to normal as well. Clearly, the earlier surveillance malfunction had been orchestrated by the Danger Warning System.

The purpose might have been to prevent others from witnessing Jiang Ran's resurrection.

Special Live Stream, Live Stream Room.

Most people had been waiting out of boredom, or had started clicking into other live streams. But suddenly, the stream returned to normal.

Overjoyed, they quickly shifted their attention back to the live stream screen. On the screen, they saw the same abandoned steel mill. But strangely, they only saw Jiang Ran standing alone in the cold, bitter night.

As for the other people in the scene, they weren't there. And Jiang Ran wasn't riding the motorcycle either.

Because of this, Jiang Ran's action of slamming on the brakes just before the live stream had cut out.

Had become a complete mystery.