Chapter 554: The Best Business Card Is

The moment the artillery fire descended, the entire world turned orange-red.

The old man's withered arms clamped around Feng Yuhuai like iron tongs, using her as a human meat shield in front of him, though this did not even let him live another three seconds.

But Feng Yuhuai once again escaped death.

Feng Yuhuai's consciousness was shattered in the explosion, and gradually cleared during the fall.

Her body was blown into fragments, spinning as it fell from the sky, the landing spot exactly blown into a pit by the artillery fire, with an abandoned sewer exposed at the bottom of the pit.

Shredded flesh and bone fragments dripped into the darkness.

Immediately after, countless crimson silk threads surged out of the corpse like living things, intertwining, entwining, reorganizing. In the blink of an eye, a brand new body condensed into form again.

Feng Yuhuai stroked her arm, intact as before, the corner of her mouth curling into a sickly arc:

"As expected... Fate has protected me once again, even the artillery fire is guiding me!"

The firepower net that could kill the old man couldn't kill her, and the old man who could kill her was killed by the firepower net, how wonderful!

The artillery fire shattered the fist,

The fist crushed the Curse of the Evil Sacrifice,

But the Curse of the Evil Sacrifice was reborn in the artillery fire?

Feng Yuhuai seemed to realize something: Martial Dao, technology, Curse of the Evil Sacrifice—there seemed to be some kind of mutually restraining closed-loop relationship between these three.

Feng Yuhuai could not be certain; she lacked a systematic understanding of all this, and had no teacher to instruct her, so she could only figure it out on her own.

These fragmented realizations were like blind men touching an elephant in the dark; she didn't even know if what she realized was right or wrong.

She shook her head and looked around, her expression complex and unclear:

"The sewer again... I suppose I'm destined to have a connection with sewers?"

Feng Yuhuai's fingertips suddenly stabbed into her own right eye socket, accompanied by a sticky sound, a complete eyeball was gouged out alive.

The adhered optic nerve was like the silk thread of a kite, slowly extending in the air.

The moment the eyeball rose from the ground, it happened to capture the blood flower exploding on the old man's chest, as he fell straight forward.

"Grandpa~"

She suddenly bloomed with a sweet smile, and flicked her finger.

A nearly transparent red thread shot out from her fingertip, passing through the rubble at the edge of the crater like a poisonous snake, precisely stabbing into the bruise on the old man's brow.

"It's time to go home."

Her index finger elegantly drew a circle, and the red thread suddenly tightened.

Although Grandpa didn't want her and almost beat her to death, Feng Yuhuai repaid evil with kindness, never leaving or abandoning him, and still wanted to reunite with Grandpa.

She really... I'm crying to death.

Then the old man's corpse suddenly twitched, and immediately scurried along the ground like a lizard.

Pfft pfft pfft pfft!

A string of bullets swept in from behind, which he avoided without looking back, then slid backward at lightning speed toward the hole not far behind him.

When he was alive, he couldn't look behind him.

After being reborn, he could run backward recklessly, because his granddaughter's eyes helped him overlook the "Small Map".

Accompanying Grandpa's return were also four or five newly pieced-together family members, Ge Qingming among them, though their arms or legs were not original.

But it didn't matter, as long as the head was still original.

Feng Yuhuai counted them; the originally mighty "family members" now only had these five or six left.

Her nose turned sour, tears dropped one by one, but upon thinking of the newly joined "Grandpa," she couldn't help but laugh through tears.

"Not bad."

She wiped her tears and muttered,

"Trading dozens of ordinary family members for a premium grandpa—this deal can be made."

From this moment on, Feng Yuhuai's standard for "family members" quietly rose.

She gently stroked the old man's bluish-gray cheek, her face full of filial piety as she said:

"Family members value quality over quantity!"

Unfortunately, the newly arrived "Grandpa" couldn't be of much use for the time being; the Rengui body still needed to undergo precise "Family Modification" before it could unleash the terrifying power it had in life.

And now, obviously it was not the best time for "Parent-Child Activity"; they had to escape first!

Although the firepower net on the ground couldn't kill Feng Yuhuai, she had not the slightest thought of confronting it head-on.

Technology is too terrifying, our Curse of the Evil Sacrifice's advantage isn't in direct confrontation.

Whether the Curse of the Evil Sacrifice can confront technology head-on is hard to say, anyway Feng Yuhuai felt that she—no, that the Puppet Mother probably couldn't.

Puppet Mother: "......"

On the ground, the artillery fire gradually subsided.

Inside the command vehicle, Zhou Jian's brow furrowed into knots, coldly laughing again and again as he said:

"Interesting, actually daring to steal corpses in front of me? Send a few people, dig out the rats underground for me."

He suddenly kicked the vehicle wall, his roar shaking the communicator until it buzzed:

"And 【Destiny】's accomplices are escaping, the whole team disperse! Turn this broken town upside down for me, I want to see every corner cleaned spotless."

The armored vehicle's door hydraulic system hissed open, fully armed Investigation Corps soldiers surged out like a tide.

They dispersed into the ruins in tactical formation, every pair of electronic eyepieces glowing crimson in the darkness.

At the same time, several Special Warriors had already jumped into the Underground Shaft.

The Vector Thrusters under their feet lit up with a faint blue glow, like ghostly fire that takes lives, speeding toward the direction Feng Yuhuai fled.

"Give up resistance, die immediately!"

The loudspeaker on top of the armored vehicle endlessly looped this command, the entire Transfer Town plunged into a severe cold that the artillery fire couldn't warm.

Zhou Jian glanced at the communications soldier, and the Deputy Captain's electronic prosthetic eye immediately captured this signal; he at once gave the order:

"You go too."

The communications soldier hurriedly removed his headset, picked up his rifle, and rushed out of the command vehicle.

"A complete idiot!"

The instant the bulletproof door closed, the communications soldier heard the Deputy Captain's cold laugh.

When the Deputy Captain turned toward Zhou Jian, his tone instantly became fawning:

"Captain, please don't be angry; the main reason is that last time the camp suffered a 【Destiny】 attack, our battalion lost one-third of its veteran brothers. These new recruits, we haven't yet had time to complete their ideological education work."

Zhou Jian frowned and waved his hand, letting out a hmph:

"Truly don't know why — the higher-ups don't allow implanting Loyalty Crystal Yuan in soldiers, yet Upper City's children have Crystal Yuan implanted in their skulls from birth; where is ideological education as simple and reliable as an ideological steel stamp, truly……"

The Deputy Captain didn't dare touch this sensitive topic at all; cold sweat seeped from his temples, and he hurriedly changed the subject:

"However, still congratulations to the Captain for clearing out another 【Destiny】 nest and earning another great merit; the Corps Commander will certainly be proud of you."

Zhou Jian smiled faintly:

"My old man? Hehe — actually, merit or no merit doesn't matter; what's important is that clearing out this Transfer Town means for the next half year, the goods shipped out by the Hidden Gate can rise in price by at least thirty percent."

The Deputy Captain feigned a look of sudden realization, gave the Captain a fierce thumbs-up, and earned Zhou Jian's hearty laughter.

The Investigation Corps garrisoned the Hidden Gate, living off the world behind the Hidden Gate.

Behind the Hidden Gate there are also ruins; although they differ from the Old Ruins, they are all called ruins in the end, and those forbidden constructs excavated from underground share seven or eight parts similarity in function.

So, behind the cleansing is normal commercial competition behavior!

Bullets are commerce's best business card!

Suddenly, a piercing braking sound abruptly tore through the gunpowder smoke!

A diagonally speeding rental car came to a sudden stop at the crater's edge in a near-drift posture; the instant the car door was violently kicked open, a figure shrouded in pitch-blackness walked out.

The vehicle-mounted remote-controlled firepower, as well as the surrounding soldiers, all raised their muzzles in unison, aiming in perfect alignment.

"That is? Hold fire!"

Zhou Jian's pupils sharply contracted; the Deputy Captain urgently grabbed the microphone, his voice seeming to crack……

(End of Chapter)