When Ryan Bennett returned home and lay down on his bed, he tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. This was because the two things he had just experienced had left him deeply shaken. What happened in the restroom was extremely bizarre, and the car accident that followed was a terror that had come so close!

The shock of facing a runaway dump truck head-on, the cruelty and helplessness of life being destroyed in an instant, made Ryan Bennett feel the impermanence and disillusionment of life so profoundly! His mind kept replaying the details of what had happened before.

Suddenly, Ryan Bennett thought of something truly terrifying, and immediately felt the hair on his back stand on end, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar! Because after carefully thinking it through, he realized that if he had paid normally and left, and the supermarket machine alarm hadn’t gone off, then without a doubt, that out-of-control heavy truck would have crashed right into him!!!

He took a couple of deep breaths to calm himself, and his thoughts immediately focused on a key point.

That was: why did the supermarket machine suddenly sound the alarm?

There is a chance of a machine malfunction, but it’s very small, so Ryan Bennett dismissed it right away.

So... the most likely possibility was that he really did have an item on him that hadn’t been scanned!!

And verifying this was simple—just check right away.

First, Ryan Bennett dumped out everything from the supermarket shopping bag and began to count the items one by one. In just over ten seconds, he was basically sure nothing was missing.

Next was his own body. Out of habit, Ryan Bennett first put his hand into his right pants pocket, and immediately a look of confusion appeared on his face. Yes, he actually felt something hard and square inside.

When Ryan Bennett took it out, he discovered it was, surprisingly, a cell phone!

Yes, it was one of those old, almost obsolete Nokia 100 bar phones. Young people basically have no use for these anymore, but because they’re loud, durable, have amazing battery life, and are cheap, they’re still favored by many elderly people. That’s why you can still see them in the supermarket’s big retail section.

Looking at the brand-new phone in his hand, Ryan Bennett was truly baffled. He never would have thought that he’d somehow end up with such a thing on him. He remembered very clearly that he hadn’t even gone near the phone section, let alone stolen a phone and put it on himself.

Besides, to be honest, Ryan Bennett was using a Huawei or Oppo smartphone—if he were to steal, he wouldn’t steal an old person’s phone!

At this moment, Ryan Bennett suddenly noticed that the phone in his hand was actually turned on. Driven by a strange impulse, he tapped into it and found there were three unread text messages. The sender was shown as “Unknown.” When he opened the messages, his pupils suddenly contracted, because what he saw next was utterly bizarre!!

“You were never meant to see this message. You should know very clearly what I’m talking about. Yes, your normal fate should have ended abruptly tonight at 9:47:32 PM, the cause of death being a car accident—one so severe that even your body would be hard to recover.”

This kind of old phone only allows a limited number of characters per message, so the content cut off here. He had to check the next message. Ryan Bennett didn’t rush to open the next one; his heart was pounding, and his entire worldview was shaken, because he knew every word in that message was true!

At this moment, Ryan Bennett felt waves of darkness before his eyes, knowing that his weak body simply couldn’t handle such emotional turmoil—he might faint at any second. So he took a few deep breaths, quickly grabbed a handful of glucose powder and stuffed it into his mouth, then closed his eyes and forced his mind to go blank, thinking of nothing. Only then did he gradually recover.

It took more than ten minutes before Ryan Bennett finally regained his composure. Once calm, he opened the second message.

“I know you must have a lot of questions right now, but it’s not time to give you the answers yet. Knowing you have terminal cancer and can only wait quietly for death doesn’t feel good, does it? Have you ever thought about changing this damned fate?”

After seeing this question, Ryan Bennett suddenly clenched his fists tightly! His whole body began to tremble violently.

Yes, after learning the bad news, what he thought about most was fighting back! But after researching a lot of information, he realized that so-called cancer resistance could really only be described as “leaving it to fate.” That sense of helplessness and powerlessness was the most despairing thing of all.

In fact, if fate really had a throat, Ryan Bennett would definitely go crazy and pounce on it, trying to strangle it with all his might. If he couldn’t strangle it, he’d bite it; if he couldn’t bite it, he’d smash it with his head! As long as he had one breath left, he would never give up!!!

“Of course... I want to!” These three words were squeezed out from between Ryan Bennett’s clenched teeth, completely involuntarily.