Chapter 131

Half an hour ago, Yacheng, Longhai District.

The last trace of twilight faded into the darkness of the night, but a heart-shaking roar erupted from the viaduct.

In the violent tremors, a large amount of wreckage collapsed, fell, and smashed into the seawater, stirring up patches of turbid colors.

Flames burned fiercely, and strong winds spread.

In the chaos, the burning flames parted on both sides, revealing the figure walking out from the center of the explosion; the pure white suit was spotless, with only the slightly graying long hair fluttering in the gale.

"Brother Xing!"

The subordinates who had fallen into panic lit up, feeling fortunate or cheering; only a very few people had solemn expressions—to avoid assassination, the boss's whereabouts were absolutely confidential, and the decision to visit Lei Wuye at the hospital tonight was an impromptu one, known to only a few; so why did such a thing happen?

Several cold gazes swept back and forth through the crowd, and when they met each other's eyes, they made no effort to hide their suspicion and indifference.

Until Lei Yaoxing flicked his hand and threw the figure dragged from the center of the explosion onto the ground.

In the burning of the fire and the explosion, he was already shattered and on the verge of death, almost unrecognizable.

But at this moment, the young man did not show any gratitude, only straining his neck with difficulty, opening his mouth toward Lei Yaoxing.

Spit!

Bloody saliva landed on Lei Yaoxing's leather shoes, making his eyes even colder.

"Little Ye, I haven't treated you poorly; after your father passed away, I raised you to this size, provided for your schooling, took you to fight, and handed the company over to you..."

Lei Yaoxing sighed lightly: "Here, everyone has the qualification to be a traitor, except you."

"I don't?"

Little Ye choked and coughed, laughing hoarsely, his voice as sharp as a night owl: "Eleven years ago, how did that ship on the high seas capsize? Do I need to remind you?!

How did my father die? Do you dare tell me!"

Lei Yaoxing did not speak.

From the dead silence, he stared indifferently at that mocking face; after a long time, he shook his head with regret: "Wolf cubs, as expected, are impossible to tame."

Within Little Ye's broken body, spiritual quality erupted, his limbs burst, but his body suddenly sprang up from the ground; his broken left arm raised, pouring out more than a decade of hatred, the sharp bone fragments stabbing toward Lei Yaoxing's throat.

Unfortunately, it was still in vain.

Lei Yaoxing just waved his hand casually, and his body stalled in mid-air, as if frozen; immediately after, in the scorching wind, it disintegrated into thousands of strands, blood gushing out.

It was as if a thousand cuts of slow slicing in an instant, completely crushing the rebel into dust.

In the long dead silence, no one dared to speak again.

Everyone lowered their heads in silence, not even daring to make a sound while breathing.

"You tell me... why have I fallen to this point?"

In the sweltering wind, Lei Yaoxing stared at the flames before him and the city where neon lights flickered in the distance.

So strange.

Clearly, he had already occupied an absolute advantage in the dark struggles of Yacheng, and all opponents, even if they invited foreign aid at any cost, were nothing but motley crews.

Clearly, victory was already in his grasp...

But he suddenly felt that kind of powerlessness gradually seeping from his bone marrow.

The twists and turns that had occurred over the past few days, the life-and-death struggles before his eyes, the betrayals, alliances, mergers, and purges... all these things that exceeded his original expectations were like spider silk falling from the darkness, strand by strand, line by line, gradually falling upon him.

As of now, he actually had a feeling of being overwhelmed.

Everything should not have been like this.

Clearly, his foster father had gradually begun to hand over power to him over these years; clearly, everyone should have naturally respected him as the leader; clearly, he should have naturally stood at the very top of this wilderness... but from the moment his foster father became seriously ill and declined, everything began to spiral out of control?

The rules that should have been continued were shattered.

The ironclad principles that should have been followed were left behind by everyone.

And at this moment, investigating the reason, from behind these many chaotic scenes, amidst the entanglement of thousands of clues, it always circled back to the same one.

A glove used to launder money for the boss, an assistant casually picked by Lei Wuye, a stumbling block that was never anticipated, a player who had long since lost the qualification to compete, a chess player who had been ignored by everyone.

"Chen Xingzhou, is it you?"

At that moment, Lei Yaoxing whispered, his pitch-black pupils looking toward the distant Yacheng: "Where is he now?"

"Mercy Hospital."

The old man, who had remained calm from beginning to end, replied: "It is said that the rescue was successful, but he has not yet regained consciousness."

"Still alive, huh..."

Lei Yaoxing couldn't help but applaud, "Truly blessed with great luck."

But immediately after, the old man heard Lei Yaoxing's words: "Take some men, finish him off; don't leave his younger brother alive either; kill everyone related to him, leave no one."

"But..."

The gaunt old man was slightly stunned, subconsciously wanting to dissuade him.

Too many 'buts.'

But Chen Xingzhou is no longer a threat, but that is in the Chongguang Society's hospital, but this is against the rules, but after killing him, who would still dare to trust your promises?

"To hell with the 'buts'!!!"

In his fury, Lei Yaoxing looked back, his pupils reflecting the firelight, a sea of scarlet.

But he could no longer hold back the smile on his face.

It was as if he had finally broken free from his shackles...

The moment he made the decision, he actually felt an incredible sense of lightness throughout his body, and even the wind blowing in his face felt so gentle.

To hell with the rules, to hell with 'it can't be done,' to hell with the threats!

The moment he was determined to break all of this, what he felt was a freedom he had never experienced before.

"Heh, hahaha, hahahahaha..."

He couldn't help but laugh at himself, almost leaning back and forth: "I didn't expect that the one who was double-dealing was actually me."

Clearly, he had already chosen to compete and slaughter, so why care about the rules?

When did the beasts in the wilderness ever care about shame?

Since when had he been bound by these invisible shackles?

In his trance, he seemed to see the fiercely rising firelight, the sky burned red, and the shadow of the White Deer looking down at this place from between the disturbed darkness and neon lights.

Eternally indifferent, eternally calm; that is the eternally lofty freedom.

But soon, that distant phantom dissipated silently.

In the dead silence, Lei Yaoxing regretfully withdrew his gaze, turned back, and asked one last time: "Do I need to say the order from just now again?"

"I, I'll go right now."

The sweating old man lowered his head, no longer questioning anything.

Thus, the shackles were completely opened from this moment on.

Not just here, and not just Chen Xingzhou.

Beishan, Longhai, Nanlu, Xihe...

At this moment, following Lei Yaoxing's order, the final rules were broken; the hungry beasts ran out, feasting greedily, enjoying the blood and the hunt, with no more scruples.

Blood and fire rose from the darkness along with the bright moon.

In this long night that seemed to have no end, it shrouded everything...

Under the same night sky, in the cliff villa on the edge of Yacheng, the lights were bright.

Different from the bloodiness and life-and-death struggles that had filled Yacheng these days, under the soft, warm lights, there was actually quite a bit of a peaceful atmosphere.

Just as Ji Jue was checking the signal tower and server signals again, the sound of water coming from the bathroom gradually stopped.

Soon, Xiao An, who had changed into a T-shirt and shorts, came out in slippers, wiping his wet hair with a bath towel, "Brother Ji Jue, I'm done washing."

"Oh, oh, okay."

Ji Jue yawned and got up to head toward the bathroom, but the moment they brushed past each other, his movements stopped for a second; he turned his head in confusion, his nose twitching slightly.

It was a scent different from the one in his memory.

Xiao An looked over in confusion; for a moment, Ji Jue inexplicably wanted to ask: Brother, did you change your body wash? Brother, you smell so good...

Brother, your hands look so small...

Brother, bro...

Snap!

Without thinking, he raised his hand and slapped himself in the face.

For the umpteenth time in the past few days, he told himself—men, they are all men, we all peed together in the Rift Realm! Ji Jue, you cannot go on like this!

But that confused face leaned in, examining him blankly.

"What's wrong, Brother Ji Jue?" Xiao An said: "It feels like something is weird."

Ji Jue was silent, stiff, holding his breath.

He tried hard to move back a little, and then a little more.

He suddenly felt that he had reached a life crisis he had never experienced before, as if he were standing on the edge of a cliff, and one careless step would lead to a mistake...

"Big brother is about to come out!!!"

On the windowsill outside the window, Gloria, who looked like a metal hummingbird, suddenly flew up and shouted at him loudly.

Ji Jue was shocked and waved his hands frantically: "I didn't! What are you talking about, you child!"

"There is! There clearly is!!!"

Gloria flapped her wings in a panic, screaming, "Little Nine saw it, there's something! Something very, very big, about to come out!

It's very bad, very terrible, very dan—"

She shouted anxiously and incoherently, but couldn't describe exactly what was happening. But before that, the moment he sensed her panic, Ji Jue had already raised his hand without thinking.

—【Mechanical Deification】!

Resonance begins, empathy activated!

The visual signal originating from Gloria instantly appeared in Ji Jue's mind, almost blowing his head apart.

He didn't know what preset module had been triggered, nor did he know how many ruthless tricks the Prophet had stuffed into her small body; the simple, ordinary light-sensing vision of the past was now changing at a terrifying speed.

The clarity magnified endlessly; distance, size, length, weight, and material all fell into his eyes, and then, material penetration, infrared spectrum, and the trajectory of spiritual quality flow; finally, what was reflected in his eyes was a vast, void web!

That inexplicable power and disturbance turned into a dense and complex grid in his vision, covering the sky, the earth, and even the entire world.

But at this moment, right in the villa's courtyard, the originally peaceful network was now bulging strangely, constantly wriggling, gradually becoming sharp...

It was as if something in the void behind the grid was slowly exerting force, tearing at the grid here, about to break through!

And around the 'bulge,' various changing values had already turned scarlet.

And in the very center was an emblem of Supreme Good that Ji Jue was extremely familiar with.

At that moment, Ji Jue took a deep breath, experiencing a realization that made his hair stand on end.

He finally knew what this was...

This was an observation of the power of Supreme Good, or more precisely, an observation device completed by Mercury in the past to achieve his goal—used to convert changes that are difficult for ordinary people's perception to detect into visual perception—and its object of observation was the Supreme Good · Eternal Gate, which holds the power of time and space!!!

After discarding the absurd speculation that 【In the future, after Chen Xingzhou dies, Chen Yubo will fall into darkness and become a great demon king, committing all kinds of evil, causing the people to complain and suffer, and at this time, the resistance army uses a time machine to send a mechanical warrior to the past to kill the culprit】, only one possibility remained—

—【Someone is about to slap a teleportation gate in their faces】!!!

In an instant, a shrill alarm sounded throughout the villa, waking everyone from their serene and peaceful illusions, looking around blankly, not knowing what had happened.

"An attack is coming!"

Ji Jue's voice sounded from the broadcast: "Everyone, prepare! The enemy is about to teleport—"

The moment before the words were finished, an unprecedented explosion erupted, shrouding the entire cliff and shaking the ocean.

? co

Gravity seemed to disappear for a moment.

In the magnificent and solemn courtyard, everything that was once beautiful was instantly crushed into powder; an invisible mouth bit down, outlining a perfect circle from the void.

Immediately after, in the distorted 'grid,' a cross-shaped crack appeared from the center, opening on all four sides!

One figure after another walked out from within.

"Kill them all."

The gaunt old man raised his eyes, a fierce light bursting from his pure white pupils: "Leave no one!"

The gate opened with a bang, and in the darkness behind the gate, beasts surged!

Surging over—

And then stepped on a landmine.

Ding—

Mercy Hospital, in the lobby of the inpatient building that was still busy late at night, the elevator door slowly opened.

"Excuse me, let me through, thanks."

Old Lin, carrying a late-night snack, squeezed into the packed elevator, nodding warmly to the hospitalized patients and their families wearing hospital gowns.

Under the pale lights, everything appeared withered and cold, and even the most lively and spirited eyes were soaked into fatigue and numbness by the smell of disinfectant.

But the moment the elevator door closed, in the crowded elevator, one pair of eyes after another turned scarlet.

Darkness surged like a tide.

Swallowing everything.

Inpatient building, 16th floor, the door to the intensive care unit slowly closed.

The nurse, still pushing the cart, arrived in front of the hospital bed, staring down at the dying patient; her face was pale, and a weak breath was struggling to continue.

Colorless liquid was drawn into the syringe; facing the light, the nurse flicked the needle tube, squeezed out the air inside the syringe, and then rolled up Chen Xingzhou's sleeve, finding the location of the indwelling needle.

The steady needle tip slowly moved toward the indwelling needle.

But then, it stopped abruptly.

Her wrist was gripped by the patient's palm, like iron pincers, with such force.

Under the oxygen mask, Chen Xingzhou's eyes struggled to open a slit, staring at the assassin before him, without any fear or wavering, so calm.

He gripped her wrist tightly, keeping his life in his own hands.

Until the 'nurse' let out a sigh of helplessness.

She let go of her hand.

"Isn't it better to find relief in a dream?"

She shook her head slowly, "Originally, I wanted to give you a quick end..."

The dagger under the white clothes was pulled out.

It was mercilessly stabbed into his abdomen, blood gushing out.

Beep—!!!

The instrument in the corner suddenly sounded an alarm, startling the guards outside, but immediately after, the sounds of slaughter and struggle echoed through the thick door.

The world behind the door remained calm.

In the echoing alarm, there was only the subtle sound of blood dripping onto the floor.

The nurse pulled out the knife expressionlessly and stabbed it in again.

One stab, and then another!

Blood flowed, reflecting the flickering pale lights.

Outside the window, the night was long.

A firelight rose abruptly, and then, another.

The world was in chaos.