Chapter 39: Containment

Tongzi Lou, Room 302.

The Cavity Person's Murder Rule can only be formally triggered after the target experiences "mental collapse."

For a lunatic like Mo Zixuan who delights in fear, the word "collapse" simply does not exist in his mental world!

All of Zhou Xiaosheng's terrifying methods become ineffective performances before him.

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One—"

As Mo Zixuan finished his shout and was about to act, his mother's breathing grew ever weaker; Zhou Xiaosheng, hidden in the shadows, felt his raging fury replaced by an even stronger emotion—fear.

He was scared.

He feared his mother would truly die before his eyes.

After only a moment, all the surrounding anomalies vanished.

The handprints on the wall faded, and the sudden drop in temperature began to rise again.

A cold breath swept past Mo Zixuan's back, and a faint hoarse voice, laden with endless humiliation and anger, finally sounded:

"...... Let her go."

Mo Zixuan's mouth curled, and he released his grip.

Zhou's mother collapsed on the ground, gasping in large breaths like a fish out of water, and began coughing violently.

Mo Zixuan turned, pointed a finger toward the empty space as if commanding a pet dog, and ordered:

"Very good."

"From now on, I leave this place, but you must tell me you're still by my side with the sound of your heartbeat. Once per second, no stopping."

"If the sound stops, or I find you've fled......"

He pointed at Zhou's mother, still trembling on the ground, the threat obvious.

A suppressed, resentful "thump thump" heartbeat began to echo in the room with extreme regularity.

Mo Zixuan smiled with satisfaction.

Meanwhile.

On the western outskirts of Jiang Hai City, beneath another unfinished seven‑story abandoned building.

Under the night sky, countless spotlights illuminated the solitary structure as bright as day.

Qin Zhixia stared at the scene, silently startled.

The building's base had been completely hollowed out at an unknown time, and the whole structure rested on a massive steel platform, reinforced with alloy.

Around the platform, dozens of special steel cables thicker than arms stretched up into the darkness hundreds of meters above, where vague massive silhouettes hovered.

This handiwork is simply unfathomable!

Nie Yang's command convoy had already brought the final bait—Chairman Jiang Hand of the Hand Group—to the building's base.

Jiang Hand had gone completely mad, being held by two men in black, his trousers soaked in a large wet patch, crying and shouting incoherently, emitting a foul stench.

Nie Yang looked up at the building transformed into a "cage", and smiled at Qin Zhixia beside him:

"Team Leader Qin, this time, I will make it have no way to the heavens, no door to the earth!"

He returned to the command vehicle, and via the Communicator, issued a command that made everyone's scalp tingle:

"All units, note: once the 'Ghost Wall' rule is triggered, immediately activate the final protocol!"

"Yes!"

A uniform response came through the Communicator.

The two men in black ignored Jiang Hand's struggle, dragging him like a dead dog, and finally pushed him into the building's dark shaft.

As expected, it happened.

Jiang Hand's figure flickered once after entering the shaft, then vanished into thin air.

Inside the command vehicle, a technician immediately reported loudly:

"Report, leader! The target has entered an anomalous space! The fluctuations are exactly the same as before!"

Nie Yang's eyes flashed with a brilliant light, and he said without hesitation:

"Activate!"

"Buzz—!"

A massive roar instantly tore the silent night sky!

Dozens of heavy transport aircraft hovering in the air ignited simultaneously, their engines spitting blue exhaust, lighting the night sky brilliantly!

"Creak— creak—"

Amid the teeth‑gnawing metallic screech, those dozens of special steel cables snapped taut instantly!

Under the stunned gazes of everyone on the ground, the seven‑story, several‑thousand‑ton abandoned building was literally hoisted from the ground, rising slowly toward the sky hundreds of meters above with unmatched grandeur.

Below lay a sea of brilliant lights from countless homes; above stretched the boundless starry sky.

The scene, comparable to a sci‑fi film, was spectacular, absurd, and saturated with a suffocating violent aesthetic.

Soon, Jiang Hand's figure appeared at the edge of the rooftop terrace.

He fell to his death.

But this time, after Wang Kai of the "Ghost Wall" killed him, he was surprised to find the "building" he occupied was already floating hundreds of meters in the air!

All around was empty, only the howling night wind!

It could no longer escape underground nor connect to any other structure.

It was completely trapped in this "Sky City" tailor‑made for it!

Zhou Weiguo and the others, watching this sci‑fi‑level capture scene, felt not only shock but a deep awe for the bottomless power of the Ninth Division.