Reborn through an arranged marriage, I awakened the Shennong farming system.

After waiting for almost twenty minutes, it was finally Su Bai's turn. Su Bai estimated that it would be at least half an hour before he could eat, so he ordered more: pork belly, roasted chicken skin, chicken wings, tofu skin... He ordered one of everything he wanted to eat, and finally ordered a bottle of beer.

Eating barbecue without beer is a complete waste!

Su Bai found a relatively inconspicuous spot to sit. Watching this group of carefree young men who still considered their studies their biggest pressure, Su Bai was somewhat infected by their spirit. The problem related to Hua Gengchen that had been bothering him seemed to have a solution.

He should have laid things out with Hua Gengchen. Although their marriage was arranged, they were the closest people to each other outside of family, but upon closer examination, they had never had a real conversation.

He should have a heart-to-heart talk with Hua Gengchen, express his thoughts, and discuss a way of getting along that they can both accept.

Su Bai truly didn't want his heart to be influenced by anyone anymore...

No one can predict whether an accident or tomorrow will come first. To avoid the impact of an accident, it is best to talk to Hua Gengchen as soon as possible!

Thinking this, Su Bai took out his phone and sent a message to Hua Gengchen: Let's talk when you get back!

After sending the message and waiting for a while without receiving a reply, Su Bai wasn't in a hurry. He put his phone back in his pocket and waited patiently for his barbecue to be delivered.

Just as Su Bai had anticipated, the barbecue was served after about half an hour, along with the beer he had ordered.

Su Bai opened the beer with a bottle opener, poured himself a glass, and slowly ate the barbecue with one hand in his and the beer in the other. Before he knew it, he had eaten most of the barbecue. When Su Bai was about to leave, he looked at the remaining food but decided not to pack it up.

After drinking two bottles of beer, Su Bai's face turned slightly red, and he walked a little unsteadily, but nothing serious happened.

Staggering towards the street corner, Su Bai seemed to hear some noise as he passed an alley mostly shrouded in shadow, which made him stop.

The voice sounded somewhat muffled, but also somewhat painful. Su Bai's drunken mind immediately thought of school bullying.

Ignoring his own fighting ability, Su Bai only wanted to rescue the person as quickly as possible. He even forgot to call for help and ran unsteadily into the alley.

Once inside the alley, Su Bai found it pitch black, a stark contrast to the brightly lit entrance. He closed his eyes for a moment, adjusting to the darkness before continuing deeper into the alley.

"Is anyone there?" Su Bai asked softly. Because the darkness blocked his vision, Su Bai couldn't see things clearly at all, and the sounds he had heard at the alley entrance seemed to have disappeared after he ran in.

Before he finished speaking, the voice Su Bai had heard before rang out again in the alley. The voice seemed to be very close, yet also seemed to be some distance away. Su Bai couldn't tell for a moment.

Su Bai listened intently, when suddenly his phone rang in his pocket. Only then did Su Bai remember that he could use his phone to light the way.

Cursing himself for being an idiot, Su Bai picked up his incessantly ringing phone and held it to his ear. "Hello? Who is this?"

"Madam! I only blinked for a second, where did you go?" The driver's anxious voice immediately came from the other end of the phone. The voice was particularly loud, and Su Bai couldn't help but hold the phone away from her ear. After the driver finished speaking, Su Bai slowly said, "I was in an alley, the one that came from between a milk tea shop and a clothing store."

While Su Bai was on the phone, through the faint light from the phone screen, it seemed as if the shadow behind Su Bai was gradually coalescing into a hand about half the height of a person, slowly closing in on Su Bai.

Talking to a brown bear that's become sentient about milk tea shops and clothing stores is like a straight man talking about lipstick shades—the driver has no idea where Su Bai is talking about. "Madam, how about we share a location?" Asking him to find an alley in this noisy, crowded street might take him until everyone has left.

But it was clear that he couldn't wait until then!

Su Bai thought for a moment and agreed, "Okay!" The driver was in good shape; if he really encountered school bullying, even if he couldn't beat him, the driver would be there! "Then hurry up!" After saying that, Su Bai opened WeChat and shared his location.

However, Su Bai was a little drunk and his vision was blurry. He didn't see clearly and sent the location, which was supposed to be shared separately with the driver, to the group chat, so that Hua Jueming, who was still on his way, also found out.

Upon seeing the messages in the group chat, Hua Jueming immediately guessed what had happened. He then instructed the driver to speed up and prayed in his heart: I hope my wife is alright!

The driver didn't answer Su Bai's question. After receiving the location Su Bai sent, he drove straight there without realizing that Su Bai had sent the wrong message.

After hanging up the phone, Su Bai didn't put the phone back. Instead, he held it in his hand and turned on the light.

The light suddenly became much brighter, and Su Bai rubbed his eyes uncomfortably. The hand that had been behind Su Bai was also startled by the light and disappeared from behind Su Bai with a 'boom,' disappearing into the darkness.

Using the light from his phone, Su Bai leaned against the wall and slowly walked inside. After taking about ten steps, Su Bai saw a boy in a gray short-sleeved shirt lying by the wall and quickly walked over.

"Hello? Hello? Wake up! Wake up!" Su Bai patted the boy's face, but the boy didn't react at all. Su Bai turned the phone around to look at the surroundings, but didn't find anyone else there.

After briefly examining the boy's injuries, Su Bai breathed a sigh of relief. Apart from what appeared to be a bump on his forehead, there were no other wounds on his exposed skin.

The effects of the alcohol began to take hold, and Su Bai couldn't help but sit down next to the boy, leaning against the wall to cool off. He couldn't get the boy out like this, but luckily he had already called a driver.

Su Bai hadn't expected his alcohol tolerance to become so low after his rebirth. Just two bottles of beer felt like a whole bottle of baijiu to him, his head throbbing terribly. Suppressing the urge to vomit, Su Bai turned his head to the side; he couldn't vomit on anyone else.

Su Bai tilted his head, and the phone's light naturally followed suit, causing the dark shadow to begin to stir again.

It surged out from under the boy, condensing into a pair of dark hands in mid-air, slowly approaching Su Bai.

Su Bai barely managed to suppress the urge to vomit. Just as she turned her head back, something grabbed her neck tightly, choking her and causing her to struggle instinctively.

His hands flailed wildly in the air, but he caught nothing. As the grip on his neck tightened, Su Bai's face turned red, and he lost track of where his phone had gone.

Suddenly, the driver's voice came from the alley entrance, "Madam!"

Because his neck was being choked, Su Bai was unable to speak or turn his head. He could only look at the alleyway with hopeful eyes. But the thing choking him seemed to have sensed that someone was coming. Afraid of failing, it choked his neck even harder. Su Bai felt that he was about to pass out in the next second.

As soon as the driver entered the alley, he noticed a smell that he instinctively disliked, so he quickened his pace and walked further in.

The darkness in the alley meant nothing to the driver, this little devil, so his steps were unhindered. But what he saw as he entered the alley brought tears to his eyes!

Su Bai was grabbed by the neck by the black energy and almost died!

Without a second thought, the driver transformed into his original form and attacked the black mist. He slapped away the two hands that were gripping Su Bai with a single palm strike, and then became entangled with the black mist.

Su Bai was rescued, coughing and gasping for breath several times before realizing he was still alive. His vision was a little blurry, but he still saw the driver's miraculous transformation clearly. He wanted to watch more, but his body wouldn't allow it, and like the boy he had seen before, he fell into a coma.

The driver was a brown bear spirit, and was quite skilled in combat. However, the night was their domain, and dark energy would gather there. The driver could only barely hold them off. If they wanted to rescue Su Bai and the others, they would need to find someone to help them.

But Su Bai is unconscious, and he's currently too busy to call for help!

The driver was prepared to fight the black energy until dawn. This thing was afraid of sunlight, and as soon as the sun came out, its fighting power would be greatly reduced, at which point he would be able to rescue Su Bai.

Just then, a voice came from the alley entrance again, "Is anyone home?"

The driver was locked in a fierce battle with the black mist when he heard this voice and almost cried tears of joy. "Butler Hua, Madam is inside!" The person who came was none other than Hua Jueming, who was afraid that Su Bai had been murdered.

Upon hearing the driver's voice, Hua Jueming immediately rushed in. Seeing the black energy fighting with the driver, and then seeing Su Bai lying by the wall, barely alive, he was instantly enraged. "Damn filthy thing! I'll send you to the eighteenth level of hell!"

Before he could finish speaking, Hua Jueming joined the battle. Although his combat strength was not high, he had enough branches to gather the black energy together and tie it up so that the drivers could beat them one by one.

With help from others, the driver felt much more relaxed and became increasingly fierce in his fight against the black smoke, wishing he could completely obliterate them.

But in reality, he didn't have the ability to shatter the black energy; he could only beat him until he curled up in a ball, trembling and cowering in the corner.

Hua Jueming used branches to form a circle to trap the black energy, and then went forward with the driver to check on Su Bai's injuries.

Things were more complicated than they had anticipated. There was a pair of very obvious black handprints on Su Bai's neck. If they were not removed in time, the black energy would find an opportunity to take root and sprout in Su Bai's body, eventually affecting Su Bai's mind.

There was only one person who could save Su Bai now. Hua Jueming and the driver exchanged a glance, and then Hua Jueming took out his phone from his pocket, found the familiar number, and dialed it.

After a long wait, the call was finally answered. "It's me." Hua Gengchen's voice on the other end of the phone was colder than usual. Hua Jueming and the driver felt their blood slow down just by listening to it.

Hua Jueming said, "Master, Madam has been injured by the black energy..." Before he could finish speaking, Hua Jueming felt a cold air coming from the phone, causing the surrounding air to drop several degrees.

"I've only been gone for a day!" Hua Gengchen was furious, not only because his cooling-off period had been interrupted, but also because Su Bai had gotten into trouble less than a day after he left.

Neither Hua Jueming nor the driver dared to speak; it was indeed their oversight!

"I'll be right back. Give me the address," Hua Gengchen said coldly. The ice on his body fell off at a visible speed, and soon Hua Gengchen was free.

(Dark Qi: Something bred by demons specifically designed to corrupt the mind. It often appears at night, has no concrete form, and can parasitize humans, amplifying the evil thoughts within them, thus causing humans to commit illegal and criminal acts. Only those with the power of merit can completely eliminate it.)